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That might have been true in 2006 but we now have reasonable support cross-browser for Flexbox[1] (especially if you reduce the pain with autoprefixer[2]), and CSS Grid Layout[3] is coming.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-flexbox/

[2] https://github.com/postcss/autoprefixer

[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-grid-layout/
The problem is that the "trolls" are quite often not, in fact, kicked off. Their death and rape threats are called "humor" and people often protest the kicking-off as censorship. And that's not even mentioning the effect on the victims. Have you ever had to deal with a constant stream of people describing how they're going to torture and kill you in graphic detail? They are VERY MUCH poisoning the discussion, and we often let them.

And I really, really don't see any difference whatsoever between the two things you mention in your last paragraph. Definitely none.
So, because it's first time, but in contrast with their other teams and with other companies, I should be satisfied? You guys are a bunch of low-standards fanboys, especially those who take pleasure in downvoting every single comment I made here as a punitive action against daring to state the obvious. Android prerelease process should improve, I'm not satisfied and I don't care that some people are okay with everything and don't bother to demand more! Even Play Store now has the concept of prelease software that autoupdates! And they have a completely separate static build for Android Fit. Just ridiculous!
Be very careful with n.4 though
> Each suicide costs society about $1 million in medical and lost-work expenses and emotionally victimizes an average of 10 other people.

So... the 10 other people emotionally victimized is an average figure, but the $1 million in medical costs isn't? How does finding a dead body rack up any medical expenses?
Isn't that a contradiction?

If they're a bunch of professional game developers sitting in an office run by one of the industry's most famous developers/publishers and developing games, then how can they be said to be doing "independent" games?

From my experience of the game industry, it would be quite hard to do something that very much looks like a game project at a place like that, without also involving the normal planning/financing/sales/marketing requirements.

If it looks like a game project, in those circles it's probably going to be a game project, and there are rules for those. Just my thoughts.
Linkage and FFI are described (to some degree, at least) in the FFI guide. http://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/guide-ffi.html

Do you prefer reading benchmarks over the textual documentation? (genuine question)
Thanks for clarifying. I understand your concern.
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The laser physic of software
Is that really a CSS issue?
YES

Thanks to French Labour Laws, nobody hires anymore, except those consulting companies.
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Should we still take the Nobel Peace Prize seriously? Obama winning it was a bit of a stretch in my opinion, though the Pax Americana is a real thing.
http://www.textteaser.com/ - Chrome extension. Generated for this article (pretty rubbish, tbf):

One morning late last year, not long after Guillaume, a developer at Ubisoft Montreal, had finished working on his newest game, he was told he'd be moving offices.

Guillaumewho asked that I not use his real name for this storysoon found himself on the third floor of one of Ubisoft's buildings in downtown Montreal.

For the days, weeks, or maybe even months to come, they were in "limbo," as Guillaume put it.

Call it Video Game Developer Purgatory.

But as each person finishes his or her role on a game, there won't always be new positions or projects open just yet.

So instead of just laying off the ones who can't be placed on new teams, Ubisoft sends them to limbo.

Though I wasn't able to talk to anyone who had a positive experience in Ubisoft's game developer limbo, it certainly seems better for employees than mass layoffs.
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The demographic of "people dying by suicide variously defined" may shift, but that won't have any effect on the leading causes of death for ages 15-34. It's a safe world out there now; young people generally don't die.
If you haven't seen it, it's worth checking out his PrinceXML browser. It's basically an entire web browser that implements many of the CSS working drafts way before any of the mainstream browsers. It's designed for turning html/css into professional quality PDFs, so it implements a lot of the very early print media related working drafts, e.g. the one for running headers and footers, and the one for generating a table of contents automatically from page numbers. Turning analytics data into PDF reports is something pretty much every big company asks for at some point, and if you're willing to spend the time learning all the w3c specs then it's actually pretty viable.
This is a very thoughtful article, which I see is part of a series from the same publication about suicide. There is good information here.

One paragraph jumped out at me: "Some states allow for court-ordered treatment plans. No studies have been done on whether this could prevent suicides, another example of gaps in knowledge, Caine says. Such ideas, he says, lie 'at the edge of what we know and what we don't know.'" Ugh, so even rather basic research on what might help hasn't been tried yet. We need to know more to do more.

The article also included some inspiring examples, including an Army officer who had come close to suicide himself about seven years ago during a combat deployment. "Today, he cannot recover from colon cancer diagnosed in 2012 that doctors declared terminal last year. In June, they said he had only months left. Faced with his own mortality, Fitch consulted his wife, Samantha Wolk, and reflected on the 22 veteran suicides occurring each day. He chose to devote his remaining time to prevent others from committing suicide.

"'I've always wanted to focus on trying to leave the world a better place,' he says."

Martin E. P. Seligman, in his book The Optimistic Child,[1] reviews some of the research current to about a decade ago about "self-esteem" programs in schools. They have long been known to be dangerous. The rising suicide rate compared to earlier birth cohorts in the United States suggests that young people in my generation and younger were not exposed in childhood to "optimism" as Seligman defines it but rather to "self-esteem" thinking, which doesn't leave people with enough inner strength to face a lot of challenges in life. Changing our thinking about what kind of thinking builds resilience in young people would help prevent suicide (and help everyone enjoy life better). There is already research on this, and we should apply it more.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Optimistic-Child-Depression-Resili...
He is very much correct in this -- but do note that without the bad parts he dislikes we wouldn't have responsive design today.

It could have been implemented better, but the underlying thinking that users agents should try to programmatically position elements where possible is sound.
I wonder if this will hurt snapchat. $10bil valuation and this breach hits at the heart of their product. Maybe yahoo can withdraw their $20mil if they have not actually handed it over.
Exactly this

This type of law is only good to make people misreport things.

Accidents/Misadventures/Suspected murder etc
That guy is a piece of shit for actually posting some of the pics. Can we find out who he does business with. Who hires him?
But, again, why? this can still have many reasons: not willing because of technological obstacles? complexity? because they shown in fact to be somehow worse? (e.g. pure text easier to read, mold, and more universal?) because of some social obstacles? (if yes, of what kind?) what else could that be? (those are just a few of my random quick theories, have I described all possibilities?)

edit: the comment by zorbo seems an interesting answer to my question, but I'm still not 100% convinced; also, I must still ask how can we be sure we're not victims of a text-mode "Stockholm Syndrome" in this regard?
as far as food itself go, a picture is what describes it best (worth a thousand words they say).

Have you seen those food related adverts? And then you actually go buy the product and it never looks the same as the adverts?

A good photographer with low/mid range Photoshop skills can make a poor product into an appealing one.
It's blocked by Eset Nod32, I suppose it's a false positive ?
Pretty good.

I should try this. Thank you.
I know that may sound stupid but none of those nice effects work on IE8 :-)
And here is something that may sound even more stupid - there are still some companies out there that are pretty limiting their employees to use old versions of ie (yay!)
Closed-source DRM-based spyware-browser from Google still required.
Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play...

Downvote me, I couldn't help it.
> Because many seem to be willing to go back to the 70's (vi/sh) instead of embracing the progress you mention.

Just because it's old, doesn't mean it's only about nostalgia.

Besides, I for one can't have this kind of nostalgia because in the '70, my fingers were a bit too short.

There is something extremely convenient to be able to use the same environment everywhere, with minimum prerequisites, because terminal emulation software is very common (probably as common as Web browsers).

I also find it more natural to deal with the system with a CLI when you spend your time editing source code or doing sysadmin stuff; it doesn't break the flow. Of course it's totally different if you're a graphic artist or a Web developer.

Sometimes CLI makes more sense, sometimes GUI makes more sense. But accusing people of being stuck in the past, that makes no sense.
Exactly. Having few weeks you can spend learning about technologies you had no time for while at project and catching up the news is beneficial thing. I would consider it a perk.

Too much time in limbo would be bad thing, just like unemployment. However, paid limbo while you can look for job still beats being really unemployed, so again, perk.
Tempescope: ambient physical display that visualizes the weather
We should not. It's nation branding and it's politicized (I'm Norwegian btw). The members of the committee are appointed by the Norwegian parliment and are mainly former politicians. We all knew they would never have the balls to give it to Snowden. To me, that proves the impotence of the prize.
One of the differences that jumps out at me about Lithuania and Greece is climate. I first learned about the importance of daylight for preventing depression (and thus suicide) from an Internet comment about twenty years ago when I wondered why Canada's rate of completed suicide is as high as it is, even though I would have guessed that its access to guns for young people might be a little less than in the United States. The answer, given to me by a Canadian scientist, is that Canada is nearer to the North Pole and farther from the Equator, and so it has a long winter season with little daylight.

In the old days, before United Nations statistics were on the World Wide Web, I actually went to a university library and looked up thick physical volumes of World Health Organisation statistics. The general relationship between polar latitude and high suicide rate, and equatorial latitude and lower suicide rate, holds up worldwide, with some exceptional-looking cases mostly explained by cloudiness. Low exposure to outdoor light is a suicide risk, and high exposure to cheery sunshine is a protective factor against suicide (but can lead to mania, known as "running amok" in some equatorial places). The author of the poem "Home on the Range" knew this: a place "Where seldom is heard a discouraging word / And the sky is not cloudy all day" like the Great Plains is protective against depression and suicide.
The problem isn't that a company has a monopoly per se, assuming that the monopoly was achieved by outperforming its competitors fairly and legally.

The problem arises when a company abuses its monopoly position or, far more commonly, when an oligopoly engages in implicit collusion. As a general rule, such situations result in the suppression of competition, which leads to higher prices and a poorer product/service for the consumer.
While there is a huge benefit in running as much computation as possible out of the CPU and on more specialized chips, the two leading high end consoles use x86 CPUs to run a fairly large part of the overall processing. ARM is no magic and its price advantage came mostly from being simple and good enough at a time even the lowest end x86 would be overkill. Today there are some very low power x86 solutions that can compete with ARM solutions in both price and processing/watt.
Hmm..classifying a motorised skateboard as a possible solution to public transportation's last mile problem is a far stretch.

The folks that could really benefit from a solution are the elderly, physically disabled and young kids. For the life of me, I would find it difficult to see the majority of these folks riding a skateboard.
I thought about this, but you know why this doesn't happen?

I don't get the motivation at working at Ubisoft. They're about blockbusters, about series, etc

Sure, Assassin's Creed is very interesting, but it's more of a movie production than a game.

Looks like you would get a lot of crunch time and work on very hard things for a (slight) financial gain and your name on the credits.
It's another oversold thing that will only create extra work for app developers who just finished catching up with KitKat design guidelines, I'm sure. The switch to bright is making a huge leap backwards!
We already have a very solid business model, so licensing / royalties is not something we are looking for. And we would love to internationalize next year.
There are a couple of competitors in this space in other countries, for example http://staff-finder.jobs/ and https://goworkabit.com/
If you like this business model, feel free to copy it ;) In what country are you based? I am more than glad to help you, except for giving you our code base of course.
As I'm sure you're aware, there is some room between "completely law abiding" and "totally above the law", where corporations find themselves quite comfortable.

Corporations are amoral, and so conform to local laws only because it is economically efficient to do so, not out of ideological adherence to principles of justice.
That's why I have more than one phone. Besides, I want to know how what I build works on more than one device.
There is a global syncthing discovery service. Nodes can locate each other by ID using that service. The code for that server is open source and you can run your own on your own network. Individual nodes on the same subnet can discover each other without the discover service.

You do need to know the node ID and repository ID, and the nodes both need to establish that relationship. But the mutual acceptance of the node ID is how trust is established so I don't see how that could be made optional. They could allow for UI improvements where the user is prompted to add a repository that has been published from another node rather than requiring that to be manually added, but that's just a ui change.

I haven't used btsync so I'm unclear on what specifically is missing on syncthing in this respect. It seems to be pretty good with respect to discovery.
I've always felt they should give it out like the science prizes, wait 10-20 years before awarding it to see what/who really mattered.
These seem to be still around. Sometimes I'm looking for specialized info on non-technical software and there is usually a really ugly but highly informative page from an enthusiast around (who only got into basic html). (See bonsai care for example)
It's fair to say ASLR is about 4 billion times better with a 64 bit processor.
A few things actually. I only do my day job to pay for my lifestyle and hobbies. I would be happy to take a pay cut if it meant i could do something of significance. For me that is something that would have a positive impact in others lives as cliche as that sounds. It makes me get up in the morning, and makes my body tingle. For instance a recent ted talk on drones aiding aid/medicine drops to remote places off the world. That just excites me! Or i would love to work on games, which is my side project, that my day job pays for.

In terms of physical env, i don't care much. As long as i'm comfortable and i can do my work. Preferably i'd like to work at home, with little to no interaction with anyone. Working in the IT/Banking industry for over 14 years, has made be cynical on human interaction.
That is because men are seen as disposable, throughout the Western World.

~80% of those 40,000 suicides were men. I've a feeling if it were 80% female there would be a lot more attention given to it.
Footage of the announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ6lZJWL_Xk
Is it's birthday really today? I had heard December 17, 1996 which is 17 years ago... ?
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If Google 'should' pay taxes and have not, why haven't they been taken to court? That's tax evasion. Tax avoidance is what sensible people do. You look at the rules, follow them and minimize your tax bill. Google's shareholders also expect no less.

No one can stop them (Google)? Of course they can. It's up to countries to change their tax laws if they think they are not fit for the job.
I highly doubt that. If you're:

* Vexed by crippling anxiety about whether you're going to be laid off

* Your schedule for next week is perpetually "well, I MIGHT be on a project and will no longer have time to complete my half finished game".

* Ubisoft would own the IP to your game anyway.

Then what's the point?

Added to which, this type of atmosphere sounds like the very last place that would be conducive to being creative.
As an American, it's conversationally idiomatic, but not generally considered "correct." You'd expect to hear someone speak it, but you would not typically expect to read it in an essay.
It's just a prize, an award. It's not supposed to be the unique trademark given to the greatest humans on Earth. It doesn't matter if you take it seriously, it may be an important milestone and encouragement for the laureates, though.
>I'm surprised employees on "Interproject" (also known as being on the Bench pretty much every consulting company out there) don't just treat this as vacation and let Ubisoft know they'll check their voicemail every couple days to see if they any new gigs coming up.

That behavior sounds like it would lead you into getting laid off as often as not.
So - what are the odds that this is yet another spoof?
> I believe that the CSS code we write today will be readable by computers 500 years from now.

Well, good luck with that one! I wonder if he seriously believe computers in 500 years time will actually resemble our computers in any way? Or was it a throwaway comment? I hope for the sake of his sanity it's the latter!
I'm pretty sure this is a fake. This Kenny Withers guy - (NSFW) http://kennywithers.com/featured-online-marketing-articles/t... seems to be posting it to a bunch of different news sites who are all reporting it now.

Tineye some of the images that are purportedly from the "leak", the few that I've checked have been around for a long time.
It’s amazingly well written/designed.
I'm betting it's fake. I tineyed a few of those pics from the "leak" and they've been around for ages.
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Alternatively, we could stop the total semantic dilution of terms like "beta" and "prerelease" that is prevalent among users who expect "beta" to mean "actually it's done completely now, there's nothing left anymore to be built."

Your approach sounds like a crappy manager who insists that because you sent something to QA, that means it's shippable RIGHT NOW LET'S GO ALREADY THE SHAREHOLDERS ARE DEMANDING IT
I am in the same industry and am looking for a change. But I have to define what would make me happy in a day job. My hobby is programming. My job is programming. But there's something soul-crushing about programming at a bank.
>I'm surprised employees on "Interproject" (also known as being on the Bench pretty much every consulting company out there) don't just treat this as vacation and let Ubisoft know they'll check their voicemail every couple days to see if they any new gigs coming up.

That behavior sounds like it would lead you into getting laid off as often as not. Ubisoft clearly expects you to be proactive in finding projects.
I'm actually not sure whether this is a joke or not, some of these practices like #1, #4 and even #5 reek of amateurish programming practices - maybe this is fine for your own pet projects, but if you're working with teams or on open source then have fun!
Which would be why, in my original post, I used the phrase "indie-style"...
I produced a 46 minute dive into on Meteor for beginners, it's a couple months old now, but most of the content is still relative. I talk about many of the same areas. It's free: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWOwgptSFZ6SyW3D4KsuA...
I hate to be negative, but really I expect a little better from the BBC on a story as serious as this. Do we really need an interactive photo of someone in an “ebola suit” with such informative labels you can click on that say things like “boots” or “goggles”?
How much does the US spend on anti-terrorism activities[1] (which is, finger in the air, maybe 5000 people killed in 15 years?) compared to their mental health system (6500 people dead every -two months-)?

[1] It's about $40bn. http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/factsheet_department_homeland/
Impressive...I wonder how effective these "autopilot" features are in snow and ice road conditions? Does the autopilot and traction control work together?

California doesn't have to worry about these things but a lot of northern markets (Canada/Norway) do.
The interesting thing is that, based on my experience with the cruise control/driver assist on the 5 Series, it's far better at responding quickly to changing road situations, like when somebody in front of you just jumps hard on the breaks. The car will take it all the way down to a stop in just a few seconds - quite often before the driver would have even realized something was happening, and way before they could have reacted to prevent an accident.

I'm guessing once the technology is widespread, we'll see almost total elimination of rear-end accidents on the freeway - the technology really is quite amazing.
I'm behind a corporate firewall that (for some reason) blocks firebaseio.com - with the result that I get a blank page.

It would be worth at least letting users know why they don't get any data displayed.
I guess I am wondering more: what sort of work would make you say "hey, I want to go work there!"

I guess I'm trying to figure this out in reverse. I know I'd leave whatever I'm doing to work for, say, Google because Google (really: I needn't say more, right?).

But what makes Google so attractive? Some of it is the bragging rights but a lot of is that they work on cool things and give you free reign to do cool things.
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-4">
What do you mean tables produced ugly html?
</div>
<div class="col-xs-3">
Looks totes modern to me ...
</div>
</div>
</div>
> As I'm sure you're aware, there is some room between "completely law abiding" and "totally above the law", where corporations find themselves quite comfortable.

Great, so don't write "above the law". Hyperbole is annoying and distracts from real, important discussions about these kinds of things.
Medical and lost work. 10 people who may take days of leave, 10+ person days lost for funeral, 1 person a company needs to replace.