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That's a great quote from Jon Evans, and it fits well with Steve Yegge's perspective on Jeff Bezos:

"I mean, imagine what it would be like to start off as an incredibly smart person, arguably a first-class genius, and then somehow wind up in a situation where you have a general’s view of the industry battlefield for ten years. Not only do you have more time than anyone else, and access to more information than anyone else, you also have this long-term eagle-eye perspective that only a handful of people in the world enjoy."

Jeff Bezos is playing chess simultaneously with a number of industries and so far he seems to be winning.
What I've found is that as you try to make a grid that is robust and works for a huge middle-ground of use cases, it really is tough. Bootstrap has a lot of strange nuance, but a lot of the time it's "one of the only ways" to make it work "almost every time" with CSS and HTML shortcomings and browser oddnesses.

There are smaller grids, simpler grids, etc, but none are as robust and generalized as Bootstrap/Foundation. These have to be as close to "one size fits all" as they can.
Being able to import from the ios Podcasts app would be useful. Who knows the RSS urls for podcasts any more?
Is this a football match? Would it be a more interesting game if more Israelis died? That is the implication. It would be far better if no one died. Given that Hamas is trying to kill Israelis, per their own statements, it is very good that Israel is managing to defend itself pretty well. Meanwhile, as the Israeli airforce has made over 1000 aerial sorties against Gaza, either they are striving mightily to avoid killing people they shouldn't, or they are massively incompetent at their job.
Awesome that there's a category called "Turns Out" in the Add Podcast list.
In the US, many libraries have a system called Overdrive that offers ebooks (and audiobooks) for borrowing. It's essentially a free version of this service, but with better selection.
I think Safari Books Online has been doing well
Jason I am father of 12r old daughter, hang in there. It does not have to be like described in the article, try to show her that being liked is not important and know the families of her friends, those are the keys. It's tough, not 100%, but worth it, good luck.
I love it, although one thing bothers me a bit: this whole concept of "my biggest enemies are other teenagers" doesn't just apply to girls, yet the article kind of makes it sound like it does. This man must either have forgotten large parts of his own childhood, or have had an unusually carefree one. I mean, yes, the "flavour" of nasty, backstabbing social politics is different accross gender roles and cultures, but it's everywhere.

Having said that, it's a worthy subject to build a game around and hope it will tackle the subject in a proper way.
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Why would you care how much amazon charges for a monthly subscription? Firstly, you don't need to sign up your book to be part of the program. Secondly, it doesn't matter how much amazon charges for the service, it matters how much money you make. Unless you don't care about that, in which case why did you write this post?
I was thinking this sounds strangely like a library card you pay $120 a year for.
Crony capitalism is bad, and so is Marxist claptrap.
I think it is much more likely that businesses are readjusting for the new reality of customer expectations regarding media: cheap, on demand, and cheap. Customers don't care about how much royalties an artistic creator might get, and if they did they wouldn't have supported the music or book publishing industries, which gave authors tiny royalties for each book sold. Customers only care about price. And if piracy and large abundance of media is any indicator, the sheer volume of work being created along with a greater entitled feeling among customers is the primary downwards force for price.

While your frustration is understandable and disappointing, the customers are far more to blame than any one company.
It's actually more likely that your battery will be properly disposed of today than it was a decade ago. Its being integrated into the phone means it is handled in the entire "decommissioning" of the phone (when you recycle it, trade it in or even throw it away where it is fished out by garbage processing companies who make money by salvaging electronics out of garbage and preventing it from going to landfills.
The behavior described was either unethical or (more likely) incompetent, either way he sounds like a Bad Actor.

> What should my next actions be?

Send a cease & desist letter. If he's with an agency, address it the owner & principals. Given how important reputations are in the recruiting business, his boss should be informed.

Here's a good read, with ideas for scripting your letter> http://corcodilos.com/blog/317/let-the-resume-wars-begin
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'It can absolutely be worthwhile to write an appreciable portion of a program in assembly if these "features" make the code significantly faster or even easier to express.'

Strictly speaking, yes. I would urge some hesitancy in concluding that is the case, though.

WRT the first, you take some portability penalty for using GNU extensions, but that is probably significantly less than you take by writing in assembly. Unless you're targeting an architecture GCC does not target and your alternative compilers don't have a similar extension, you should still not be writing assembly for this reason alone.

"Directly accessing status flags like the carry flag (necessary for efficiently implementing bignum arithmetic and CPU emulators)"

This falls under both "hardware access" and speed. It certainly is a reason to occasionally break out the inline assembly.

"and optimizing register allocation across complicated control flow (like language interpreters or emulators)"

This is a very bad reason until it actually proves strictly necessary (at which point it falls back under speed and/or size). Modern compilers are quite good at register allocation and getting better, and chip architectures are complicated enough that you're likely to be wrong about what's fastest and/or best. The ability to rapidly try new things will probably get you faster results faster - compare the time taken tweaking optimization flags and rebuilding, versus working out an alternative register allocation and threading it through all the relevant code. Moreover, a small change in requirements can entirely invalidate all of that work. An understanding of assembly and your target architecture sufficient to allow you to allocate registers by hand is still highly valuable when you get into that space, though, so you understand what you're looking for when comparing generated code and benchmark results.
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Personally, I'm not convinced that risk capital is really that beneficial for writers. The vast majority of aspiring writers either don't finish or don't write something people want to read. (I don't mean that to be harsh, it's just that good writing is very hard and since there's so much of it already out there, competition for the reader's time is fierce.)

At the same time, the capital needed to write is virtually nothing. All it takes is time. Editing, proofreading, and cover design are legitimate, important costs, too, but even those aren't that huge. And they only come into play once the book is written, which means most won't reach that threshold.

I, of course, want great writers to be able to devote all of their time to that and not have to work a day job. But I think having to write your first book or two in your "spare" time is an acceptable way to separating the wheat from the chaff.

In other words, write a book or two in your free time. The money you get from those will be your risk capital for your next work.
Apple agrees to conditional $450 million e-books antitrust accord
Google IBM design group.
How would motivation be proven in a court?
>Only if you make it hard for bullies to bully it stops.

One way of doing that, that many people have found successful, is to not let them bother you. If you're no longer interesting to bully, they'll ignore you for someone who is.
Edward Snowden should not face trial, says UN human rights commissioner
No kidding. The implication seems to be that boys play video games with zombies is because the biggest thing boys are afraid of is zombies. Or wild pokemon. Or what have you.
So then how would I have been able to help my dad on the farm driving wheat truck to the elevator when i was licensed at 14? (Drove tractor from the age of 12.)
It's only a win to the degree that authors get paid enough for how much they're read. The pricing structure is fine, but the actual constant factors -- how much money authors get -- is critical.
This is a good idea and one I have done a bit-- IMO, it is the best of both worlds, though I hadn't thought of using a silent class (did not know there were silent classes, in fact).

Personally, if I am working quickly, I like having what amounts to a grid api exposed to my html and use it a lot, but I agree that it is better if it doesn't have to be baked into the markup.
True, O'Reilly books has had a successful, expensive, subscription service for years. All reference titles, and more enterprise customers.
Anyone else notice the 'incident number' in the URL?
And the approval process for changing one line in the polling interval in version 19.64.101 of a back-end server that converts from one file format to another file format takes WEEKS.

I'm just pointing out that all of your anecdotal stories were related to practice, not device development.
University of Toronto seems a likely candidate. A classmate of mine, Mark Ruddock, is a serial entrepreneur who has been CEO of three companies, two of them acquired.
UN commissioner criticises decision to fast-track emergency surveillance bill
> 2) At least one or two podcasts I deleted a long time ago got imported. I haven't examined the opml file but Downcast doesn't show them anymore. So either Downcast is doing something wrong or the import is.

Would you care to hazard a guess as to how Overcast could be getting that data if it's not in the Downcast export :p
I've noticed a sort of nascent movement amongst the tumblrati (and other groups) agitating for what I can only think of as "the right to not be offended."

Does this concept fit into that category? I have a hard time telling, perhaps because I was raised a few generations ago when coddling kids was considered to be leaving them ill-prepared for the real world - a sort of "behold, I send you out as sheep amongst the wolves" theory of human interaction.

I feel like there's an aim to produce a society of sensitive sheep. Maybe I'm misreading things, again, I'm a relic. I'm honestly curious what the goal is, though.
Iron.io releases high-memory workers
There are also a lot of security concerns about Authy that were raised a while back. If you read the comments, it doesn't instill a lot of confidence in the team to implement a secure platform of this sort[0].

Unfortunately, security is one of the few areas in which 90% isn't "good enough" - all you need is one point of failure for an entire system to get compromised.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4921684
I dunno, I had a good "Whoa" moment in Bioshock Infinite.

Maybe it wasn't the pinnacle of storytelling, but games have to juggle a lot more than books.
I don't see IBM as a big player in Health IT. I think they desire to be a big player which is why there's all sorts of noise about Watson and healthcare. It's marketing aimed at the C-suite.

Epic systems is probably the IBM or Microsoft equivalent in health IT. McKesson, Siemens, and Cerner are also no slouches.
"Many" is a weasel word, and informationally useless. How many of us, and what percentage of us, are the relevant questions.
There are no iron-clad definitions here, but this is about stuff beyond the category of "I'm offended."
I understand the optical fiber version, but the fractal version went flying right over my head. Can anyone give a simpler explanation?
How to use public PCs safely with Linux
You can't get a device UUID anymore I don't think.

There is also a web view/player I think.
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Angel investors and incubators provide basically the same service, but rarely for books. I wonder why that is? There have been a number of books/series that I can think of that have spawned $100M+ valuations - Harry Potter, Hunger Games, 50 shades of gray, Jurassic Park, Song of Ice and Fire. If you include comics, then the list just goes on: Superman, Spiderman, Batman, X-men, Watchmen, etc.
>Then again, maybe games shouldn't be purveyors of morality lessons.

I don't see why not. Video games are no different from any other form of information delivery method, except that they're more interactive. Actually, I think this would make them even better tools for helping to teach morality. While you can pick up some morality from books or movies, those are other people's stories in which you're simply an observer. In a game, (especially more modern ones) you typically have more control over the character's actions.

Take, for example, a game which gives you a choice to steal from somebody and, if you do, it shows you the repercussions of your choice. Maybe you come back to that town later and the person is a beggar who pleads with you to give him some coin so he can feed his kids. Or maybe you come back and the entire town is like that because you stole everything that wasn't nailed down. Written well, I don't see why dialog and visual cues like these can't be powerful morality lessons- more powerful than any other teaching method we have except perhaps for real-life experiences.

Of course, the idea is to teach our kids those lessons before they learn them in real life, with real life repercussions.
Someone did a study recently using Kindle public highlights as a proxy for reading progress - not many books were finished :)
Where can I buy one of these? Would love it on my backyard!
You can actually enable a CSS-only hack[1] to avoid using the comments.

Using `display: inline-block;` allows you to manipulate grids with text-level properties (e.g. `text-align: center;` to cause grid items to fill out from the center of the row), and also allows you to use `vertical-align: [top|middle|bottom];` to cause columns to start from different, well, alignments.

[1] https://github.com/csswizardry/csswizardry-grids/blob/master...
I like the implementation of CJK fonts in Noto, which was just released this week. I particularly like that I can illustrate that the various Sinitic languages ("Chinese dialects") do NOT all use the same written characters, so that Chinese people who travel to different dialect regions sometimes find written signs that they cannot read, even if they are literate in Modern Standard Chinese. (I have seen this regional illiteracy on the part of native speakers of Chinese in several contexts.)

How you might write the conversation

"Does he know how to speak Mandarin?

"No, he doesn't."

他會說普通話嗎？

他不會。

in Modern Standard Chinese characters contrasts with how you would write

"Does he know how to speak Cantonese?

"No, he doesn't."

佢識唔識講廣東話？

佢唔識。

in the Chinese characters used to write Cantonese. As will readily appear even to readers who don't know Chinese characters (if you have a good Unicode implementation enabled as you read Hacker News), many more words than "Mandarin" and "Cantonese" differ between those sentences in Chinese characters.
Take it from someone who has gone down that path, it's a support nightmare, especially when you want to allow cross-device sync. Much easier to just require the account up-front.
When I lived in rural Canada I taught my 11 year old son to drive as a safety precaution in case I or another adult with him would become incapacitated for some reason. It's a very strange feeling to see your child in control of a ton and a half of steel, to trust him with both your lives and he's doing a great job of it. After my initial worries that he'd do something crazy faded I realized that I'm under-estimating my childs abilities consistently. He drove us around the area where we lived for a while until he asked me if I was satisfied with his driving skills. Amazed was more like it.

Letting kids drive in traffic is dangerous, no doubt about it and here in NL I would have probably not done this. It's much denser populated here (where we lived was extremely sparse) and help from other adults or ambulance service is a (cell-) phone call away. But in the sticks that's not the case and such skills can be life savers.
Well, even if you don't pay anything for a library card up front, most people pay taxes that support their local libraries, so it isn't necessarily free.
At least in modern usage, "They" is flawed. For starters its plurality is ambiguous.
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No, it doesn't. Teenage boys are bullied physically, not emotionally -- and you can't ignore physical damage the way you can trivially ignore some mean words.
Except for the part where they did. In the Statute of Westminster, 1931. And we do not know how a non-violence independence movement would have gone.
Of course it would be unoriginal! Do it anyway, it's a good way to explain usage.
These things used to rub me the wrong way in the 90's, but I've learned to take it in stride. I think it's great that people are rediscovering and trying out old ideas in new systems, and perhaps the understandable belief that something's never been done before isn't so bad, if it motivates them to keep trying out different ideas in new contexts, and leads to even more great stuff that's never been done before, or even just re-implementations of old ideas that aren't as ugly as they used to be the first time around.

So many "modern" user interfaces are such cargo cult carbon copies of each other (like tabs along just the top edge, or that way "flat" is such a big fad these days), that it's easy to get the impression that anything slightly different is actually original.

Back in the day, we had no choice but to draw "flat" user interfaces, because all we had was black and white, and moving the cursor across the screen was uphill both ways!
I'm aware of that (my father had quite an extensive 'wall' of vinyl, and I've had bookshelves of CDs in the past, too) but I don't think music-as-display-item was quite in the same league. It was more for real enthusiasts whereas pretty much everyone displayed books, and for a much longer period of history.
This is the attitude of a bullying victim. Bullies leave you alone if you fit in, they don't leave you alone if you don't. It's not about being awesome or resilient, it's about conformity.
I don't understand what other people are complaining for.

Is this price too cheap? WHAT? too cheap? WHAT?

Is this price too expensive? So just don't buy it.

I don't understand.
I find text is essential. How else can you quickly skim to what you want or reference something you saw?
>Are you willing to see them suffer for your anarchist pipe dreams? If you are then how are you any better than the privacy violators?

What complete and utter nonsense. Someone willing to pay a price now for a better future tomorrow is the same as corrupted governments prying into the private lives of their citizens. What a brilliant comparison you've drawn.

It's this fear of change and desire to protect the status quo that has our societies in the rotting state that they're in, by the way, so while you may take comfort in knowing your parents and grandparents are ok now, and that your pockets are moderately protected, that it's your choices in protecting this status quo that is making the future look very bleak for our children.
ISTR someone building a site out there that let you play with Google Authenticator on your own without messing with your Google account. Did I imagine that?
ChatOps: Communicating at the Speed of DevOps
The inability sell/market/present yourself to potential buyers (employers) will undermine your talents & skills every time. It's a shame more techies don't get that.
Do you mean a minority of alpha males and females? The environment and economics have changed, which might mean metrosexuals, beta males, and other groups have become desirable by some segments of society.
I'm glad you brought this up, because this kind of thing happens precisely never on a financial exchange.

If you go to a store, the store owner sees you take your apples up to the counter, and so he can theoretically change his price before you get there (although in practice, if he ever did that he would soon be out of business).

On a financial exchange, the market maker doesn't even find out that you wanted to buy until the trade has already happened. It is literally impossible for the market maker to change his price, because he doesn't find out about your order until it's already occurred.

What is possible is that the market maker is also quoting on another, totally separate exchange, and he decides to change his prices there, in reaction to seeing a big order on the first exchange.

It's like an apple seller who owns two carts in different parts of town. When you come to his first cart and buy all his apples for $2, he guesses that maybe you are going to go over to his second cart and buy all the apples there as well, so he calls his business partner who's running that cart, and tells him to raise his prices to $2.50 - which makes perfect sense as a business strategy, because demand has gone up.

Note that he only raised his prices because you bought all the apples at his first cart. If you just bought one apple out of the hundreds he has (because you're a small investor, not a giant investment bank) then he wouldn't bother to raise his prices.
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I'm a digital nomad with no fixed address (currently staying with my brother in IL, soon on to Florida to live with family down there).

I can't get a library card, because I don't have mail show up at any residence I stay at. $120 for all I can eat books? Take My Money.
I appreciated you sharing a link with a differing perspective (and correspondingly upvoted your comment). I'm wondering if the verdict of history and actual experience will be as kind to the position advocated in that writing as I think it will ultimately be to the writings on the Albert Einstein Institution website, which are based on some real-world cases that are quite amazing.