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Nobody seems to mention that these guys aren't patent trolls. It might be a stupid patent, you might think patent law needs an overhaul (I'm with you on both counts) but PA are the people who "invented" the patented material. A patent troll is an organisation who buys up patents other people are granted for the purpose of suing people.
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You'll have to control for a major confounding factor: the number of people per unit area.

I would hate to take a walk in a forest that has a population density equal to a train station. On the other hand, a train station with a population density equal to a quiet forest might come across as creepy/unsafe.
Yeah, Wingo is a great GNU contributor. I am genuinely sad to hear that any of my fellow GNU hackers would be like this, and it makes me think twice about going to a GNU Hackers Meeting outside of the US, as it might just not be worth the time and trouble to go and deal with something like this.

At least in the US there'd be a reasonable chance the FSF would be involved. When I was at the FSF I organized a GHM at one of the FSF annual conferences and it was pretty decent. RMS came of course, which helped.
You're assuming the providers are allowed to see what you post. They don't even need to see the destination. The sensible way to do message routing is: You encrypt a message to your provider which contains the destination's provider and a message encrypted to the destination's provider, which itself contains the destination and a message encrypted to the destination. If the providers aren't colluding they won't even be able to tell who is communicating.
Protocols are created by the first implementer, as usual.

Should it ever grow big enough IETF, W3C, ECMA, ITU, ISO and the likes might be appropriate maintainers (depending on the details).

See SMTP, XMPP which are both federated.
IETF? Mozilla? Who is creating and maintaining TCP/IP or HTTP or DNS?
Taking guns away from average citizens is an efficient way to reduce shootings. Taking privacy away from average citizens may prove to be even more effective in reducing all forms of crime. Just think of all the children we'll save!
When a Facebook connected app or site has access to "your profile" that includes your friends list.

Anyway as I can see that you failed to read for comprehension I must reiterate that allowing next-door to read your Facebook profile in no way authenticates you to the site, nor does it provide them with your profile picture.
If this were just about buying houses I understand that reasoning, but if its an investor visa, I imagine you need to actually put that money into something "productive".
"Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon" is evidently also known as frequency illusion. Wikipedia defines it as: illusion in which a word, a name or other thing that has recently come to one's attention suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency shortly afterwards

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Freque...
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I don't think the source of patents is what qualifys patent trolls, its what they do with them.

If this company generates 90% of their income from lawsuits and settlements, then they're a troll.
What were these corner cases and special considerations you ran into?

I wouldn't call Herb Sutter's _Exceptional C++_ a huge tome and it seems to be the standard treatment of exception safety.
Went thru an e-mail yesterday from Amazon that my wish-list book by Seneca:Letters from Stoic was on discount, but couldnt buy it on time. BM Phenomenon again!
Just to put the number of 1,000 to 28,000 birds per year in perspective. If you do the math for birds killed by house-cats (1.3-4 billion birds a year in US) into the square miles of the united states. You end up with house-cats killing 350 to 1078 birds per square mile per year. Of course this is a silly approximation, but large numbers are harder to grasp than small ones without mental tools like this.

Anyway, while killing birds with solar death beams is bad, I don't think it's bad enough to halt the progress. I mean, at least build a solar death array that can outdo mittens.
For what it's worth I was hoping that my post would give substance to my following two feelings, but based on your response I am not sure if I succeeded.

1. Working to be more inclusive is a worthy goal that should be pursued.

2. Looking exclusively outwards from failures to make progress on this goal is tempting because it can allow for the seductive feeling of moral superiority, but throwing one's hands up and saying that you don't want to bother is not a good thing, and neither is blaming everyone else while not thinking about your own actions.

That said, you have obviously put your money where your mouth is when it comes to contributing to the community, so maybe I am misreading you. I was more reacting to a trend I see that upsets me, wherein those working for inclusivity use the worthiness of their goal to avoid criticism of the way they work towards this goal while placing all blame for failures on external groups. I think that this will ultimately cultivate much greater pushback and much slower progress than could be achieved otherwise. And that would be a tragedy.
Yeah, I'm learning German and in Italian we call it Te.Ca.Mo.Lo. To remember the order:

- Time (TEmpo)
- Causality (CAusalitá)
- MOde (MOdo)
- Location (LOcazione)
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The font property in CSS requires me to say "italic large serif" instead of "large italic serif" which sounds wrong too.

Now I know why.
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I've never been able to really grasp an algorithm without seeing a visualization or stepping through it myself - this is awesome ^^
Could Carolla publish the findings of his attorneys’ discovery work, so that future defendants can use it? If so, that would serve as a pretty good deterrent to future litigation. Right?
interesting, a hospital I'm a student at is trialing a similar paper-free service like this.

So far its a disaster and the staff are just writing paper notes anyways. Apparently the actual paper will soon be phased out, which in that case the notes will be handwritten and then sent off to the intern/medical student to transcribe into the computer.

That and patients all react in different ways to doctors/students on their phones.

Edit: and I spent 10 minutes writing up some points and the comment system just ate it. So im going to tl;dr it instead:
The only effective solution ive seen is 1 standing desk-style computer per bed, next to the bed. This is so cost prohibitive it's not even funny and is only present in the ICU. Otherwise ipads and iphones arent good enough to replace paper.
and to highlight the computers: pentium 4's running windows xp.
The 4S is an order of magnitude larger, uses complicated flow, and has significant materials issues left to prove out.

You're absolutely right- this is completely different than high school dropouts coding.

How can a startup disrupt a large, established, stodgy industry?

For example, I studied automotive engineering before MIT nuclear grad school and worked in marketing for almost every auto manufacturer: how did Tesla do what the Big guys didn't?

It always starts with a simple, proven product and a niche market in need/willing to pay a premium.

That being said our team does have wide ranging experience. Our CEO worked at GE on their revolutionary reactor they more or less shelved years ago and are now restarting. He served on the board of directors of the American Nuclear Society and has a PhD from MIT. He has seen and worked in the industry from operations of a real reactor to fuel sales to weapons design at national labs to naval reactor design to big industry since high school.

The other good news is that the old dudes approve. We will probably soon publish our advisory board including retired regulatory high ups, industry folk who have successfully licensed, and retired high ranking army energy people. We are leveraging the decades of experience of fuel makers and materials experts... It's fun to see the gleam in their eye when they get excited to really build something.

Ultimately the question of why hasn't this been done before and wasnt possible before has several clear answers, but no answers for those convinced only large, established, old companies can be in these big spaces ripe for disruption. Maybe they are right, maybe not us, maybe not now. It's not easy but it seems inevitable at some point.
It actually reinforces the rule, which is why linguistics requires a large number of languages for any sort of fundamental rules to emerge. Working from a single language, or from a very small set of languages that seem somehow to fit together if you apply enough force (like Latin and English), you wind up with those silly sentence diagrams I used to have to do in elementary school. (You know — the system that blew a fuse if you tried to use it on anything a human being would actually say in ordinary conversation.)

In French it becomes easier both to see that "big" modifies the composite entity "red plane", and that there is a difference in kind between the two "adjectives" (which now looks like too broad a term to be really useful). It's not just a matter of word order (syntax), there's a semantic hierarchy in play as well.
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Sorry amigo, I gotta get to work. Here's my code I wrote last night, hope it makes sense:

http://pastebin.com/79rmjmKr

Typical result:

494644 results in rooms less than 10: 449838 had 10 rooms (90.9%), 44806 had 100 rooms 9.1%

Note that anyone who finds themselves in a high-numbered room can draw the obvious conclusion. The question is, what can you infer about the situation if you find yourself in a low-numbered room?

To hammer the point, let say the coin toss decides between 1 room and ten million. If you find yourself in room One, do you still think the chance the coin has come up heads is 50%? If you do, don't tell me, write a letter to Monty Hall.

My vague ponderings about the actual doomsday problem is that it holds up, i.e. it's a reasonable argument that it makes eventual populations of say 10^400 simulated souls using the whole universe as a computer highly unlikely. But the sheer bigness of the possible-but-unlikely population leaves plenty of room for astronomical-sized future populations and doom isn't necessarily imminent in human terms.
Thanks. I only just saw this, and it's too late to make a difference now. Maybe someone can post this url in its own right.
Thanks for the feedback. There's actually an opt-out on the survey itself. Although we strongly encourage you to take the brief survey because every coffee drinker really is different, and we can only match you with coffee you'll love if you tell us a bit about yourself.
Yaml is more for humans to read than json is, and doesn't have native functions in any browser.
As a non-native English speaker, I find this to be a precious suggestion. I'm going to try and use it for those situations of uncertainty between two forms. I usually resort to some specific google search, but that's often ineffective, especially if the "wrong version" is pretty common among a subset of international speakers.
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Just as example, how many forms one word can take:
http://depressingfinland.tumblr.com/post/65222506844/what-do...

Sometimes when I write keywords in Finnish and English, people have asked me why the list for Finnish is 10x longer, that's one of the reasons. There can easily be 10 relevant forms for the one word. But I don't naturally list the more uncommon forms.
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Horrible web page.

Currently the top article is "The 5 Traits of Entrepreneurs Famous for Making All the Right Moves".

It's one of those infinite scroll pages, so presumably the Steve Jobs stuff must be there somewhere. Just keep scrolling down and down and down. I gave up. This is one of the stupidest websites I've ever seen.

It's so stupid that I wish my browser had an easy way to blackhole www.entrepreneur.com so I'd never wind up there again, even by accident.

Morons.
UTF-32 means each code point takes up one char32_t. There are no surrogate pairs. However, it is true that you still have to deal with combining characters, normalization, etc. So it doesn't solve all of your problems, but it does avoid simple goofiness ( http://blog.coverity.com/2014/04/09/why-utf-16/ ). You still have to use libraries to do anything non-trivial.
I have worked with few startups of different degrees. I really think CTO doesn't need to code but should know what code does.

One of our CTO (where I am a developer with) is good at MySQL, PHP and other stuff, he just checks our DB schema or does pull data by himself for any data points or how our recent conversion does affect our sales etc., this really helps so we can still do and focus on our consumer changes rather than pulling data which ofcourse is important but not something relevant to development.

On one weekend one of my code created an issue with cron job and halted sales and he just aware of what might be causing it and just altered a DB value and it run off smoothly and I fixed it over Monday. So it probably helps as a team. But he doesn't do any single code commit. I am very happy with him and love to work with him.

So I really think a CTO need not code but definitely need to know what code does.
If it still survives 5) terrorist plane crash on the core, 6) Meteor impact, maybe people will feel a little less paranoid about nuclear energy :)

I agree with your comment, I'm constantly baffled by people who claim Nuclear Power is not safe.
Given the Mesa/Cedar system a Xerox PARC, Oberon at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and Modula-3/SPIN at Olivetti, doing OS work in GC enabled systems programming languages is quite possible.

The problem is how to move OS vendors away from C's influence.
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> Rust, Go, and others will be there to fill in the gap in a much better, saner, safer, maintainable

For business applications? Sure.

For system programming?

Only if they get an OS vendor godfather that pushes the language into their SDK, like any other systems programming language that got widespread use.
Hey. Thanks for the feedback. We really appreciate it. I think you're right about the contact info. We just want to be able to tell people when we add their request. But it should be optional. Re: the coffee list, I'm sorry that felt alienating. We do include all the most popular coffee companies in the country, but also hundreds of independents and adding more weekly. We think the service works great for any coffee drinker -- you can customize by roast, price, quantity and frequency, and our coffees all come fresh-roasted from independent roasters. So we've got you covered pretty much any way you can imagine.
They talk at the end of the article about monetisation. This kind of network really has the possibility of disrupting Craig Craigslist. Proof of identity and local neighbours would hopefully reduce the kind of scams you see on craigslist.
Good. I was about to write that this parent is unenforceable.
These are not the torrents you are looking for. IIRC, there are no torrents for Sci Mag.
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Don't trust atoms, they make up everything. ;)
> Still I agree with you that it is very likely that Rust will follow a parabolic trajectory. The advantages as perceived by the industry compared with C++11/14 will be too few.

Rust is memory- and type-safe (as in: the compiler will not let you write a dangling reference, invalidate an iterator, or write exception-unsafe code without opting into an unsafe dialect). The security benefits alone of that are enough to justify the language for our use cases, and, from what we've seen, for many others. Safe zero-cost abstractions are a niche to its own.
For folks in the UK theres http://streetlife.com which also is a local social network.

You can verify your address to prove you are local and subscribe to local area conversations and news etc... Just like in life the communities are mixed - some more involved than others but I've found it a great resource so far.
I would guess it's a 'street' whose only outlet is halfway point, while both ends are cul-de-sacs (more or less the shape of a letter T, with the ends of the top part being the cul-de-sacs and the lower part giving access to other streets, etc).
Yup. A ~2017 year old Seneca would probably laugh at the kid he was when he wrote this. People don't like to be reminded that aging is going to stop being a thing. It's too scary because all of us are going to miss the ultimate boat.
Surprised I was down-voted for pointing out something that's mildly racist. Do we ignore all the back-scratching that's been happening in the California high-tech sector (and one that's lacking in diversity too)?
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The same for Italians. We do not use nouns as modifiers, except for some specific situations.
You can easily spot an Italian (or some other romance-language native speaker) for his/her resistance to adjectivization.
That, and the over-abundant use of terms derived from Latin (wouldn't have "latin-derived terms" sounded more anglosaxon?).
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Not adding much value here, but it is a lot worse. You get 5+ implementations everything, and every project is different just because.
> Both have had compiler and standard library issues.

What are the compiler/standard library issues with Rust? Sure, it's taken time to get to a high level of quality, but no language compiler and library is going to spring out of thin air fully complete. In particular, I'm confident that the Rust compiler is of high quality for its age, especially in the quality of the generated code.
Apartment buildings kill birds because they fly into them.

http://www.abcbirds.org/abcprograms/policy/collisions/glass....

If you place non-natural objects into the path of creatures that are (just like many humans) unable to appreciate the dangers of those objects then carnage will ensue.

It's almost impossible to do anything on a large scale without affecting flora and fauna in some way, the mental image generated by 'birds bursting into flames' is quite gruesome (which I suppose was the intention). But it's not that much different than radar installations, large scale deforestation and building houses in its eventual result.
I was confused by this too. It said 'Or Login With Facebook' but when I clicked that it only turned into 'Facebook connected' and I still had to enter an email and password.

That was confusing and I considered stopping. I went through with it anyway, but that part was strange. Why do you do that?
The PDP-11/70 in Surge IV at UC Davis had purple toggle switches. Looked just like this [1]

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>patented axe handle

If like others have alluded to, that this is far from new. Should they have a patent on it?
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What happens if somebody wants to join, but the Leads refuse?

If a small minority of Leads can prevent people they don't like from joining, it seems like it risks reinforcing bigotry and intolerance.
you can hire a very very good patent litigator for $700 an hour. Some big names charge as much as $1000 but I know of no one who charges anything close to $2000. my rate as a fifth year associate at a 'top' firm varies a little by case and client but is generally around $500.
Distance from the Mediterranean sounds about right. Americans inherit our sense of personal space from the English, more or less. Some cultures are even more extreme: http://i.imgur.com/g2DQgr5.jpg
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> Its latest composite bat, the Avenge L140B, has special construction that allows the hitting side to flex like a spring.

I'm not familiar with baseball (Belgian here) and was wondering how these things are regulated? Does each player have its own bat? So one team can already be at a technological disadvantage when the game starts?
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While a bit harsh sounding, this is actually spot on. What I write nowadays vs 5 years ago: hard to believe it is the same laguage.
hey, I updated the post (though I didn't lower the polemic attitude!)

I just added links to several of Herb Sutters articles (e.g., http://herbsutter.com/2013/08/12/gotw-94-solution-aaa-style-... ) and Scott Meyers talk (http://vimeo.com/channels/ndc2014/97318797 )

They say it better than I really could, and they say it very emphatically. I think the general consensus amongst the C++ leadership is to use auto when possible, for more reasons than I had considered.

edit: I notice you also object to 'appeals to authority'. In this case I am not saying do it because all of the known C++ authority tell you to do it, but indicating that they /also/ recommend it, hopefully adding more weight to the argument

Also, what's wrong with appealing to authority on difficult subject matter? Whats the point of attending Scott Meyers' lectures at all if you aren't going to heed his advice???
I am currently reading Letters from a Stoic, somehow the style resembles except the fact that it is not written to Lucilius