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> you can make voice calls from Hangouts on Android, iOS and the web.

How do I get to google hangouts on the web, and use it to make free calls? I can't even find a google hangouts on the web, googling for it just sends me to things suggesting I download an app.
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It'd be interesting to compare this to code running on the JVM. It's not enormously surprising that D's garbage collector can be a performance bottleneck, given the incredible amount of effort and manpower that has gone into making the Java GC's fast and scalable. It's just a really hard problem.

Does D expose any kind of GC stats? I'd imagine that with D a lot of heap pressure could be removed by stack allocating as much as possible, as you'd do in a C++ program. Part of the reason Java needs such beastly GCs is because it generates lots of tiny short lived objects. Although HotSpot can stack allocate these days if a function is hot enough, with D the programmer should be able to do it manually.
That's an artifact of google's weird link stuffing, if you search 'site:http://www.google.com//search' by hand it still works
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Well, today the entire traffic in a (supposedly) main thoroughfare in Montevideo in which I was driving was slowed to a crawl due to a horse-drawn carriage.

Not to mention they're a huge source of accidents (including mortal ones), when the horse freaks out.

Yes, they're a huge problem.

http://www.bluechannel24.com/?p=23885

http://www.pulsamerica.co.uk/2012/07/02/uruguay-crusade-to-f...
I agree it's sensationalist:

"Not only was she awarded an exceptionally high mark of 85 per cent"

In most PhD programs (at least in the USA), a B is the absolute minimum grade you can get to receive credit for a course. An 85% on a major class project would have basically been a "B for effort" - you did SOMETHING, but it had major flaws.
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In that case this system would have to be much more than 11 pounds to have enough fuel and thrust for the added weight.
Apparently wood got very bouncy and lost a lot of friction since last time I played this in real.
Edison IoT module ships with Atom/Quark combo SoC
Does not work on FireFox 33. Game shows but I can't grab pieces.
A Google product looks ground-breakingly great when it comes out, but then gets more-or-less abandoned with few subsequent releases, and slowly disintegrates?

Yeah, that's what they do.
i realized the same thing today as i noticed a brand road in town that was just widened to add bike lanes... traffic was certainly going faster, because around the turns, drivers would drift into the bike lanes to widen turn, allowing them to drive faster around the turn.

i'm sure everyone was looking for bikers, but having people routinely wander into a lane that a bike rider might feel extra confident in, and not as likely to watch out for traffic behind them.
Road users come in many types. At one point cities were full of horse shit and now they are full of smog from vehicle fumes. No matter your preferred choice of ride, other people's choices may interfere with your day, but it is your choice if you let that get you angry.

Personally, I think people who become dangerously enraged from having to deal with other forms of transport, should probably not be operating a motorised vehicle on the public roads in the first place.
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The Pirate Bay founders in prison. To cheer them up, send a postcard
Too bad, doesn't work without cookies/localstorage enabled.
Start calling yourself one. Then work on a prominent enough project that people start believing you. If this doesn't work, write / speak / comment / manage your way to credibility and higher visibility. If a great programmer programs by himself in the forest and no one notices, then no one cares.
If you write programs that allocate memory dynamically it is no surprise that memory allocation and garbage collection are a big deal.
> At least where I am from you can buy 100+ really obscure magazines at larger railway stations

That's because magazine publishers are responding to widespread decline in sales with more and more titles, trying to capture every possible niche under the sun.

> seem to be self sustaining

That's less and less true every year.

Try googling "Linux Voice"; read up on their background, what they are doing and why. You'll see how things are really going. The "magazine" format is dying a slow death, in the same way generalist TV is; their death will be slower than the one of newspapers, but it's written in stone in the same way.
Your service looks very cool. I love the approach you took more on tweets you make and then building a blog from them.

I see a lot of synergy with what we are both doing and perhaps we can chat more on how to work together.

Feel free to email me contact [at] favatron [dot] com
We really need an alternative. Somehow we need to make sure that all communications are encrypted. I understand that there needs to be a cost to prove your identity, since the CA needs to invest time in validating the identity of the person or organisation applying.

We have a situation currently where encrypted transport is tied to an SSL cert, which in nearly all cases is tied to a cost (because of the CA identity issue). Therefore SSL isn't prevalent enough.

I'd like to have SSL on my personal blog and my webmail, but I don't want to pay for a couple of hundred dollars for a wildcard subdomain cert that lasts one year.

The NSA stuff shows that we need to switch to a secure transport. It's the only way to hinder the dragnetting.
ha, and there's a little phone icon, indeed!

Very nice. There are times I have wifi but no phone, and need to make a quick US phone call.

I'm not sure most people know the sidebar of gmail as "Google Hangouts for the web", rather than "the contacts list in the sidebar of gmail", but okay then!
My list of pet peeves

As a cyclist: motorists

As a motorist: cyclists

And MSBuild.

But yeah, studies have found that when it comes to cyclists, there are three categories: Die-hard fearless ninjas that would bike through an active firefight, bike-haters that would never bike in a million years, and casual cyclists who would bike if they felt it were safe.

Protected bike lanes are they key to getting #3 on the road.
Very nice comment, I agree with it 100%. Being able to apply good software desgin at a RTL design is a killer feature of MyHDL in my opinion.

The possibility to mix RTL and high level software is a very nice feature, for exemple: To make a FFT in Python in few lines and compare the output to your RTL FFT with asserts. And script it so you can loop through a different number of fixed bits width and check the TVE at each bit width.

To do this in Python I used ~50 lines, in VHDL it would be a headache and I probably would end up needing to use matlab to compare the results.
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I lived in Shanghai for a brief period a few years ago, and there were protected lanes everywhere. It was utilized by both bikers as well as scooters. When it comes to managing loads of people, I'd imagine the Chinese have quite a bit of insight.
most of your post is basically speculation, except for the unfortunate reality of cars hitting pets.

Fact-wise:

>There's no one walking into your house saying "there's too many pets in the world" and shooting Lassie.

that is actually what happens when your violate your local pets per household limit. As i said, human civilization policies toward cats and dogs is a circus of arbitrary speculations.
Exactly. Someone told me I should "avoid using the GC completely". I answered that this was basically a way of saying that I should implement my own application specific GC. It's shifting the burden onto the application developer. What I'm saying is that the D GC could probably be several times faster. That much should be obvious.
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Sorry, but John Forester was wrong - not about the mechanics of vehicular cycling, but the psychology. I'm a year-round, go-anywhere cyclist who rides in mixed traffic on side streets and major arterials alike, and I understand that this puts me in an extreme minority: more than 99% of people simply will not ride a bike unless they have a safe-looking, physically protected space in which to do it.

North America spent the past four decades telling people it's safe to ride a bike in car traffic. Several European cities spent that time building continuous networks of dedicated, physically protected cycle tracks. All you need to do is compare how the modal splits have changed over that time to know which approach was more successful.
This comes from simple fluid dynamics. When a fluid is forced into a narrower pipe, it goes faster. (Venturi also tells us there is a drop in pressure, but it's not clear how this advanced aspect is applicable here.)
Stories hit the frontpage when they have 3 upvotes, and sometimes stories get a second run at it.
I'm not entirely sure why this is being downvoted. It would make a pretty cool clock widget.
TIL what sideloading means.

"Installation from arbitrary locations, like we've done for most of computing history".
Wow, that's awesome. Reminds me of Timely Alarm Clock[1] which I use every day and still tout as probably the single most beautiful Android app ever.

However, for this Bézier clock, it would be more practical if the animation was finished before it had to change again, so that we could read the numbers.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.bitspin.tim...
Wasn't iOS8 going to support extensions for mobile Safari, i.e. move in the direction of more openness?
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> The police tend to look at cyclists the way you do, and many times don't find fault with drivers even if cyclists are KILLED much less injured or have their bikes destroyed.

I mostly drive these days, but I'm no friend of cars in general or police for that matter. However it's important to keep in mind that injustices occur both ways, and forming blanket statements is a great way to end up just talking past one another.

Many drivers do stupid things (eg right turns, doors), many bikers do stupid things (eg ride on wrong side of road, sidewalks). That doesn't indict either group.

If 'bane is worried about being wrongfully found at fault for an accident with an irresponsible biker, I would say the best approach would be to get a dash cam (or five).
I don't understand the surface branding either. When I hear Microsoft Surface I still think of those table tops.
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Do you keep an eye on the stock market? Tip'd Off is the new social network for all trading enthusiasts.

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I'm the CEO of a med-tech non-profit startup. I need help getting over the angular learning curve (I think I'm almost there, and just want to talk over my thoughts with someone who knows what they're doing). We have no money... maybe you would be willing to hop on a 1 hour skype call and just make sure I'm thinking about Angular the right way?
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It is unfortunately difficult to reason about. For instance, I use D's associative arrays in my program. I know that dynamic allocations must occur inside this, but I don't know what algorithm is being used and how it allocates memory.
I love the idea (one of many listed in my evernote), but I really don't like the tag line. "Your personal Twitter favorite automaton" doesn't explain the awesome value this provides in curating and organizing my twitter favs. Good luck!
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No, not really. There are many reasons. One, the outcomes for quantum theory computations have counterintuitive properties, like entanglement and the observer effect. Two, computations to predict quantum outcomes for aspects we do understand are very difficult. As one example, we can model a hydrogen atom and predict its spectral lines, but any more complex atoms are beyond computational prediction. This is true in spite of the fact that, in principle, we can say what rules and equations should be applied.

The tl;dr: quantum theory computations are very complex and become more complex very quickly.
> The biggest possible problem is that as the auto driver you become responsible for any bike rider you come into contact with because they are unprotected regardless of the circumstances of the contact. I didn't ask them to get on the road with me, but I'll sure as hell be held responsible for their decision if something happens.

If there were only cyclists on the road, the worst accident would be a few broken bones. You chose to bring a potentially lethal device onto the roads, of course it's your responsibility. If I juggle chainsaws in a crowded plaza, I don't get to blame the guy who bumped into me for flinging chainsaws into people.

> More importantly, as a tax payer, I've helped fund literally dozens of miles of really nice dedicated paved and marked bike only trails, complete with parking and overpasses, tunnels and signals at busy intersections. There is literally no excuse for them to play "Tour de France" on the same road I'm trying to get to work on.

Try it. You might be surprised that these bike lanes have dead ends or obstacles or just astonishingly crappy terrain.

And don't give me the "taxpayer" line, an astronomical amount of cash is spent on roadways and expressways over and above any gas taxes or fees. Complaining about the small amount spent on bikes just makes you seem extremely petty.
I didn't consider this thought until reading your comment, but this is a potential example of Bastiat's "Seen and Unseen."[1] By re-engineering the roads with bikers in mind, they have created slightly faster roads for cars apparently by accident. But all of engineering is about tradeoffs, so presumably there would have been some way to make traffic even better if they didn't have to consider the fate of bicyclists at all. The authors seem to be portraying this as if it's something of a free lunch (although obviously reengineering the road has some monetary cost), but it's not. If they had spent that same money on an engineering effort directed solely at automobile traffic, they could have done better by drivers (again, presumably).

Of course, if they had actually drawn a lot of people to use bikes instead of cars thus reducing traffic, then it could be argued that engineering for bicyclists advantages drivers directly, but that doesn't seem to have happened.

1: The Seen is the result of the engineering effort that they undertook. The Unseen is the result of an alternative engineering effort with different goals.
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Businesses don't have conversations, people do.
Reminds me of the "forgotten" employee. A lengthy but a very interested read:

https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/
See also peg.js: http://pegjs.majda.cz/. The theory of parsing and compiling has some really nice concrete applications all over the place. In general, if you want to properly model a specific domain computationally you will almost surely travel through parsers and compilers. Here's a nice talk on the topic: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/tools-language-workbench.
I rolled my eyes every time someone linked to the “publications” you’ve mentioned: readwrite, thenextweb, techcrunch, mashable… add venturebeat, buzzfeed, cnet, business insider, the street, and many more……

It is all in the name of page hit, no longer about useful information.
As a cyclist: motorists, pedestrians, motorcycle riders(You are motorized you don't go in the bike lane)

As a motorist: cyclists, motorcycle riders (If your mode of transport requires my windows to shake for safety stop using it)

As a computer user: Stupid ui decisions
At least for ebay and google, these names held no previous definition. Live, bing and amazon are all words that meant something before they became brand names.
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well, you know, it is a scale but perhaps not an interval scale. Probably ordinal.

UK grading at undergrad is 40% pass, then anything over 75% is Class 1.
> releasing work under the BSD, Apache or a copyleft license that you created on your free time is like playing charity for large corporations.

I agree with you, but "copyleft" is the concept that keeps software from becoming proprietary. Apache-style licenses are permissive, GPL-style licenses are copyleft.
I love the way the utterly iconic X-wing shape has been "hidden" under tarpaulins - and looks like nothing but a blue X wing fighter. Can't hide greatness.

Great to see real props on a set. Despite myself, I am just a smidgen excited.
Rats, I thought this meant that this book:

http://www.amazon.ca/Jim-Blinns-Corner-Graphics-Pipeline/dp/...

was being freely released:(

Great book, for those who did graphics programming in the 90s, Jim Blinn and Michael Abrash had some of the best graphics related writing to consume.

Since I've already derailed this thread, I might as well mention another Jim Blinn book as being a good read.

http://www.amazon.ca/Jim-Blinns-Corner-Dixty-Pixels/dp/15586...

Not very relevant today, but a good read all the same!
And a while before that, everything was "Active"...
Yes, it will, as far as I know. That's a tangential discussion though. This article deals with the crippling of the native <input type="file"> element and File API support in iOS.
To diagnose a mental disorder, there must be impairments to normal living. A person who is able to function constructively in society might have tendencies, habits, leanings, personality traits, or whatever word you want to use to describe the differences between people. But if they are functioning and not in distress, by definition they do not have a disorder.

That does not stop people from using disorder names as shorthand. "OMG I'm so OCD about checking that my back door is locked!" "I'm pretty Aspberger at parties." Etc. But it's important to remember that these are a casual shorthand, not actual diagnoses. People with actual Obsessive Compulsive Disorder do not laugh about it; they are in deep distress about it.

So: while we can talk about psychopathic tendencies, or use "psychopath" as a shorthand, people who operate normally or successfully over a long term in business are likely not afflicted with a psychopathic disorder. They might be ruthless, they might be hard headed, they might have lower empathy than average. That doesn't necessarily mean they need to weeded out, excluded, treated, etc.

The hard question is: at what point is not a normal and adaptive difference in personality, vs. a disorder that must be weeded out? And who is in that position to do so?

It's tempting to look at something like the 2008 financial meltdown and chalk it up to a bunch of psychopathic banking CEOs. I think that's a bad idea for two reasons.

First, it can inhibit a more detailed and nuanced understanding of the root causes of problems. We run the risk of not addressing the real causes, stuff blowing up again, and then just blaming it on psychopaths again. Cycle, cycle.

Second, it runs the risk of demonizing skills or personality traits that might actually be valuable in business.

When you're making decisions by numbers, you might sometimes have to set aside or reduce the emotional content of your decisions.

When leaders try to give people everything they ask for, they create unsustainable systems, because there are not infinite resources in the world. And things change; innovation eats old products and business models. And then when the system collapses into bankruptyc or mass layoffs, the leaders left holding the bag are accused of making psychopathic decisions.

Whereas as less empathetic leader (or more disciplined, if you want to put a positive spin on it) might have made more economically sustainable decisions in the first place.
The nice thing with D: Use a GC to develop quickly. If GC becomes a bottleneck, rewrite into C style where necessary.

The author considers this too much work for the benefit.

Nevertheless, everybody agrees that the D GC needs to improve.
>readers are not idiots.

The wild success of such social justice warfare proves that you are incorrect. Most people are too stupid to read, comprehend and / or care about legitimate news, and so the industry adapted in order to increase revenue. This adaptation started over 100 years ago, and now the transformation is almost complete.

There are still some excellent journalists out there, but they are outnumbered.
Don't forget Metro and the trademark issues.
So you think your particular mode of transport should have exclusive use of a public right of way that everyone owns and everyone's tax dollars pay to build and maintain, but it's cyclists that have the shitty entitled attitude?
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I remember from personal experience sending money multiple times instead of requesting.

On top of this, sending money is a destructive default setting, because it does not need to be confirmed by the other party for the transaction to take place
> Die-hard fearless ninjas that would bike through an active firefight, bike-haters that would never bike in a million years, and casual cyclists who would bike if they felt it were safe.

And casual cyclists who are fearless/clueless. I'm talking the about the flip-flop wearing soccer moms pedaling their beach cruisers without helmet or lights down the PCH at night. Truly nuts.
Apple Watch.

'nuf said.
Your comments in this thread strongly suggest you are unsuitable for driving cars on public roads. The law rightfully places significant burdens on those operating multi-ton vehicles in the close proximity of pedestrians and cyclists. It also recognizes bicycles as proper vehicles, giving them the right to ride on roads, at the speed and position the situation calls for.

I sincerely hope you won't ever hit anyone. This kind of attitude will do you no favors.
So, now it'll be even easier to confuse Windows (the desktop OS) with Windows (the touch-based OS) even though, in theory, they have nothing to do with one another?

Apple has two different names (OS X and iOS) despite similar APIs and no one seems to have any trouble differentiating those. Maybe Microsoft could at least steal that idea.
> Doesn't Big Banana invest in GMO stuff to make them resistant to a well known disease?

It's very hard to genetically modify a plant that doesn't produce any seeds! Can bananas produce seeds? Yes, apparently:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_disease#The_response

It is an ongoing research project. The Gros Michel itself is not gone; there are a number of plants still living, but currently they are trying to deal with the strange banana chromosomes: bananas have three chromosomes -- an odd number!
I _love_ timely. It's the first app I install if I ever need to reinstall my Android OS.

So pretty.
Calling 2 different things the same thing does not change that they are different things.
>Bikes aren't automobiles no matter how much we debate about it

The road isn't just for cars. Its more dangerous for us to ride on the sidewalk and put pedestrians in danger. The road isn't for just bikes or cars, its for us to share. Its just how it is. For every entitled bicyclist you see on the road, we've seen plenty of awful drivers. I live in one of the most bike friendly cities in the country and still get yelled at by passing trucks or have people swerve at me because they think its funny.

There are horrible people out there on all different types of modes of transit. Even if you are irritated be kind to us. There are a lot of us out there who obey traffic laws and use signal when we ride. In the words of the great philosophers, "Be excellent to each other."