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The depth of Anarcho-Capitalist or strong Libertarian pessimism astounds me.

I'm not sure how you concluded that the Anarcho-Capitalist position is a pessimistic one. I'd say it's exactly the opposite! We are the ones who are optimistic enough to believe that we don't need a huge government apparatus, collecting tax dollars at the end of a gun barrel, and using that money to fund aggressive use of force, in order to have a peaceful, just, and fair society.

From where I'm sitting, it looks like it's the bastardised modern-day "liberalism" that is so full of pessimism. These people think that we need widespread use of coercive force in order to have peace and justice. It's exactly what Bastiat was saying when he spoke about the law becoming a perversion of itself.

Obviously there are things that I'd rather our government not do, but, when it comes to living in a Democratic Republic, sometimes you have to accept the will of the majority even if you don't agree with it.

Well yeah, if you're outnumbered and outgunned and the majority show a propensity for violence. I'm reminded of the old saw:

"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote".
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but taking away the freedom of movement (among others) of 76 people (potentially many more now) without proof is severe.

I believe it to be a good sign for the republic that the government has not resorted to do so.
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Good points. To follow up on them a bit:

1) There's obviously a lot more separation here, but it's worth noting that there is a lot of data out there available to broadcasters that doesn't come from Nielsen, such as broadcasters licensing data that comes initially from cable providers. The number of set top boxes here dwarfs the size of the Nielsen data set.

2) You can get more precise if you want. At a basic level, you can look at a lot more options than just changing the channel. You can also train models based on the overlap with something like Nielsen where you have more information about when they are watching. If you can match up comcast data to Nielsen data, you can build a model for active vs. inactive boxes on the comcast data.

3) To backtrack a bit, the fact that Nielsen is a "very small subset" as you said a couple of comments ago is relevant for some things but not others. For the broadcast network prime time shows, it's certainly a big enough sample to see which shows are popular among what demographics without having the level of detailed information that Netflix or cable operators have.

All in all, I agree with you that there is more separation and it is harder to use, but there's still a key distinction between Nielsen, which is in something like <~0.1% of homes and the other data sources which are many times larger. They don't all seek it out, but it's possible for broadcasters to acquire the sort of data necessary to answer questions about content popularity like Netflix can consider.
Thanks! I didn't know Glide, but I'm in love at first sight!
I guess the Laurent should have given that away, but I figured "Landowski" sounded a bit Polish.
That "feminist crowd" is just as guilty of harassment, doxxing and threats.

Like mailing syringes filled with unknown chemicals.
Or threatening ten year old "comedians" with "a shanking".

The fact is that you cannot attribute such things to the majority for any side in such matters. It's intellectually dishonest.
Named parameters on their own are not all that helpful. (see Obj-C, where the verbosity often outweighs the potential benefits.) But when accompanied with having default parameter values allowing named parameters to be optional (as in Python), they can be very useful, allowing a whole family of functions to be consolidated into one fully general function that can nevertheless be called succinctly in a variety of ways.
At least in computer science, the universities aren't very involved. What is key is the reviewers; and in order to attract the good reviewers (which will attract the good content), usually that means it is the reviewers themselves setting up the new journal (e.g. as happened with the JMLR in Machine Learning). If you are a nobody, you have very little chance in starting a new successful journal; but if you are an accomplished researcher with a few good accomplished researcher friends...no problem.

In any case, these journals are run mostly by donations (donated time to review and edit, donated resources, paypal accounts, etc...). What is really interesting here are intentions: a platform to build fame and gain tenure, to disseminate results, or to nurture a fledgling field?
The default netizen position has always been "don't feed the trolls".
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So it seems like this map only includes Class B (SFO) & C (OAK) airports. I get that the smaller class D's (HWD, PAO, SQL) are much more numerous and don't have the same restrictions. BUT, flying your little Phantom near one of those small airports could still cause a major catastrophe. Try to be 5 miles from any active airport and always under 500' AGL.
To make up the lost revenue from eliminating corporate taxes, you would need to raise the long term capital gains tax rate six-fold, to 90%.

Or we could just cut spending...
A study of code abstraction [pdf]
Optional named parameters with default values can make nice clean calls in the common case while still allowing for the uncommon case.

As far as the IDE goes, for the sort of code I write, reading is more important than writing. When I read the code I'd rather see what it does than what I think it does.
Nope, but while a currency is designed to devalue BTC if doesn't crash IMHO is highly unlikely to devalue since it's a finite non-controlled currency.

USD on the other hand devalues over time by design. So these two currencies are designed in totally different style and both wouldn't exist if they hadn't been designed that way (USD to devalue over time and BTC to increase value over time).
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Yeap since the US is big on public spending anyway.
But you don't have to buy anything? You can just download alien blue and get the pro upgrade for free. And you're not being downvoted by people who love iAlien, just by people who don't think you're adding much to the conversation.
I have never met a true Scotsman* who doesn't where a kilt everyday.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
I wonder how the iPhone's barometer accuracy compares to that of an android device?
I'm a mechanical engineer, but I largely feel the same way. I have one higher quality screen in front of me dedicated to Solidworks and a second screen dedicated to everything else; usually a task list/ McMaster-Carr/ Excel and Soundcloud or whatever music and task manager (need to know if Chrome + solidworks are eating ALL of the RAM).
I'm rather surprised you don't charge more. Do you do much consulting work?
On the app's first screenshot, I'd put pictures that tell someone's story instead of sunsets and clouds (and definitely not any stock photos). If people are to download the app to peek into one's life, that life should be worth peeking into.

Kind of like Secret. Most people download it to read someone else's secrets, not to share their own.
I always read about people hating Finder, and I never understand why.

There are some things that I can't live without: being able to drag a file or folder into a file open/save dialog (try doing this in Windows! HOHO), and the column view. It really makes file management a breeze, and I rarely drop into the Terminal, unless I'm doing some heavy-duty renaming, or stuff like that.

Could you elaborate on the Finder problems you're encountering?
The idea seems very cool, but I wonder if there is anything like this that could have more language specific stuff like "in JS (or Ruby, or ...) format your hashes/object literals/arrays/constants/... like so."

I like this, but the list of supported properties seems pretty short. I can see there might be some difficulties making it language-aware since the file formats are simple globs, but maybe you could say something like:

[*.js]
language_style = javascript

and somewhere describe that language_style in more detail.
When you subscribe to the framework that the laws should reflect moral values, inevitably your law reflects your religion.

The law's stance that alcohol is okay is silly to an empiricist, but not surprising.
Why oh why do we need some parameters be positional and others be named. At the very least, it should just be one or the other style. Not some mix and match.
Subreddit communities. Particularly the small to mid-size ones. I honestly think knowing how to use subreddits as a resource is essential to being a functional user of the Internet. It's a crowd-curated feed of all things relevant to any particular topic, presented in a way that is consistent and meaningful.

For example, I'm debating between Android and iPhone for my next upgrade. I really only want to use iOS if it's jailbroken. So what's the latest jailbreak news? There are probably some forums or tech blog primers that could give me the answers I need, but the easiest way to get that info, is to go to r/jailbreak. Chances are, the sidebar will have everything I need.

You want to get your dad a nice shaving kit for father's day? r/wicked_edge. Interested in owning a noisy keyboard? r/mechanicalkeyboards. Why doesn't the guy next to you wash his jeans? r/rawdenim. Just experience your first panic attack? r/anxiety. What are the essential hip-hop albums I should listen to? r/hiphopheads. Classical? r/classicalmusic. Jazz? You guessed it, r/jazz.

There are thousands of medium-sized subreddits that cater specifically to one thing, and the content of those subreddits has all been curated, critiqued, and discussed by an organic, self-motivated user base. I may only be interested in the subject-matter for a short time and narrow purpose, but the community of that subreddit is interested in that subject-matter all the time, and they've done all the leg-work for me. I know the information I get will have undergone more review and rigor than almost any other source on the Internet. As a bonus, the organization of that information is always presented in the same familiar way, so I don't have to learn a new UI or workflow.

And that's just for using subreddits as one-time information repositories. You've also got the power of reddit as a newsfeed. Again, I can follow a subreddit for daily updates on whatever topic I want. This is so incredibly advantageous to those following sports, TV shows, or news events. ESPN is fine if I want general sports news, but what if I only want news about my local NFL team (the Seahawks)? I could follow a Seahawks blog, but then that's just a few people generating content. Instead, I can go to r/seahawks. There I've got all the content distilled, updated, and sorted for me: blogs, Twitter posts, articles from beat journalists, plus all the user discussion in response to this content.
In 2000 I visited a company that designs and produces car parts. They had some SGI workstations running as far as I remember CATIA v4 (3D CAD) with big CRT monitors showing a blue background, and some big tower PCs running WinNT 4 or 2000 with CATIA v5. They told me that the car manufacturer BMW used still the older CATIA v4, so for compatibility reasons they used both software versions.
http://ironframework.io/
and
http://nickel.rs/
for anyone not wanting to search and then find the links.
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I can't understand your position in this day and age, after the 2008 crisis and all the tax breaks that went on.
Wow, this is great. This book is my goto reference when I was trying to make my first Rails app. Definitely helps a lot. Kudos!
Which is more feature rich and/or mature? They both seem really interesting and I've been enjoying Rust a lot.
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I like my X220 off of ebay. It's a 12" machine, but it's fast enough for me and pretty cheap. The screen isn't great, though...
No, marijuana is not actually “as addictive as heroin”
I'm Irish (although I live in the US now) and I thought this scheme was a hideous national embarrassment. I don't care for my home country to be associated with accounting shenanigans. If corporations who find the US tax regime unfair spent as much energy on lobbying for an alternative as they do in playing financial find-the-lady then we might enjoy a simpler and fairer tax code in the US.

Also, I think your arguments about it being some sort of moral alternative to supporting the evil US government with tax dollars is patent nonsense. Ireland's motivations in offering this tax structure were purely mercenary; handing out subsidies in the form overly-generous tax treatment is an old-fashioned tactic that Irish governments have used many times in the past to attract foreign employers. On past form quite a few of those jobs will evaporate along with the expiration of the favorable tax treatment.
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Give over. Internet Explorer didn't hurt innovation at all. It was more innovative than Netscape by a country mile. IE was the first to pioneer CSS! And DHTML! Netscape pioneered, erm, cookies, I guess? There was no other web browser worth using other than IE or Netscape back in those wild west days of the Web.

Yes there was a period of a year or two when Netscape entered the abyss and it took a while for a new competitor to IE to spring up. But that happened (Firefox) and shortly after Microsoft resumed development on IE too.

You seem to have selective memory. IE brought A LOT of good to the Web. A LOT of good.
My recommendation to you would be to get the Moto X 2nd generation. You'll get the second purest android experience after the Nexus 5 and now the 6. Phone size is almost identical to Nexus 5 or iPhone 6 (just about right in my opinion). OS updates are typically available within a month, and the phone build is very solid.

I had Nexus 5 for a little less than a year, then the iPhone 6 came out with its larger screen so I decided to give it a second chance, and kinda wish I didn't. Once you get used to Android, it becomes very difficult to use (or go back to iOS). I put the iPhone on eBay, and currently waiting for my Moto X to arrive on Friday.
> func(5, 0, 0, NULL, 0, true, true, false, NULL, true);

a Windows programmer by any chance? :)
related strange fact: SGI sold Cray Research's business division to SUN, Oracle bought Sun and now Facebook's headquarter is the old campus of SUN.
After playing with them both I'd say at this stage they are very close. I ended up going with Nickel because it felt more comfortable. Both are actively worked on, I'd suggest writing a quick prototype in both and seeing which you prefer.
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Read the link I posted, it explains it all.

Also 20/20 is not only not perfect vision, it's not even average [1]. So using that as the baseline is stupid, it's the low end not the high end.

Second the human eye does not have a fixed arc resolution, different specific detail scenarios have different degrees of accuracy. But if you're going to use this shortcut, you better go with a number on the upper end of things instead of the lower end, so more like .4 arcminute.

The net result is there is real, technical merit in going all the way up to 600 PPI assuming it's held 12 inches away. There's still arguably value to be had beyond that, but it starts getting more into just being a pointless spec war. Right now, though, we are very firmly well inside technical worth.

1: http://precision-vision.com/Introduction-to-Visual-Acuity-Me...
38 or larger? That sounds huge. I don't have any numbers to quote but my guess is that the average for adult men here in scandinavia would be 34. I guess I have to gain some weight so that I can buy new pants for my phone, if it just barely fits in 38 maybe 42 is a good size to aim for.
You'll be fine in Silicon Valley
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This comments section has lots of people saying "x was when things got really bad" followed by people saying "actually x was the pinnacle." (And some then following up with "it was actually y when it got bad.")

This has been the pattern in The Comments since I started using Apple stuff 15 years ago. Likewise, "Apple used to innovate and now they're out of ideas."

Which isn't to say that things haven't perhaps taken a downturn lately: there have unquestionably been an unusually large number of publicized missteps in the last couple of months. Some technical, some social, some real, and some media-hyped. But an apparent clustering at one moment doesn't assure or even imply a long-term trend. Five and ten years from now I feel confident the same comments will be being made.

People get annoyed at the un-Steve-like-ness of Cook's apparent focus on quantifiable things like "CustSat". But, when you're serving literally hundreds of millions of customers in a blog-driven media world, it's hard to know what would be a better way to measure these things. If customers are becoming less satisfied, you can be certain the executive team knows it.

Still, it seems apparent that there's an immediate PR issue. (And simultaneously, it should be noted, iPhones are flying off the shelves in unprecedented numbers and at likely higher ASPs than ever.) If I were Cook, I'd do what I could to make really sure we got our act together in the short term, look for some opportunities to buy back some goodwill, and then I'd probably keep doing roughly what we'd been doing for the last decade or so while weighing the feasibility of some of the commmon suggestions, such as decoupling OS releases from hardware releases.
Should we ban cars too? Babies die in there as well. Also alcohol. And music/movies - those can distract from a baby.

What's missing from your story is any sense of scale. For pretty much any human activity I can find you a dead baby, including over-zealous baby care. The question is how common is that compared to other activities, and weighted for the benefit of said activity.
So if I understand you correctly, the nexus 6 will NOT be able to take slow motion video?
Small town, big ideas, no one to talk to
I'm a junior software developer from a small town in Nova Scotia. I've always had great ambition, but most of my ideas were either too grand or too fanciful to pursue.

Lately I've been developing an idea for a startup. It's very exciting but I don't know how to proceed. The technical feasibility is good, the market seems available, and the potential value seems enormous. It's a perfect fit for my personality, and it's something I would love to see exist.

The catch is that I live in a bubble, don't have any professional connections, and don't know who to talk to. Somehow I ended up living like a recluse. My coworkers smirk when I talk about the future. I believe in my ideas, and want to act on them, but "Silicon Valley" is a foggy and faraway land.

How do people proceed from this position? Would you focus on networking and save your ideas until you felt like you were part of the world? Would you focus on saving money, and plan to move and get a foothold in California? Would you ask for time off work and develop a prototype in private? What would you do when you had a working prototype?

These questions may be difficult to answer, but I am looking to decide whether to continue, or whether to let it go.
You should check out http://ux.designreview.co :)
Just a note... Don't go to Stockholm to see that fancy "wall of knowledge". That image description is so deceiving. As a Stockholmer I instinctively thought to myself: WTF. Turns out it's a CG concept.
What do you do when labels are not available? (e.g. eating out)
"Noticing" is one thing and being proportionally useful is quite another. After 350dpi, the marginal utility of further increase has diminishing returns. Very likely apps you are using isn't even taking advantage of that resolution. Even if it does, you are very likely not going to notice the difference when lighting and your environment itself produces so much noise.
Haha, yeah, reading through the article (so interesting!) I just kept wondering why they stuck so closely to high end workstations, although these days that is what I'm more interested in.

Growing up I was one of those bored boys. I grew up on Nintendo and started getting into the Quake series when my family got a Windows 95 PC with a Diamond graphics card (that or RIVA TNT...I know we at least had the Diamond card later on). The release of the Quake III demo was the beginning of intense gaming addictions for me that trailed into MMOs. Also ironically, my Dad got us the @Home cable internet (from the article I learned the former SGI CEO Jermoluk was involved with!) which definitely helped foster my addictions.

Another interesting tidbit, one of the main reasons I chose the university I went to was that I heard about people doing internships at Nvidia. I was lucky enough to do mine there (was/am studying computer engineering) and even more irony, I worked on a technical marketing team (benchmarking workstation graphics) with a bunch of former SGI employees! I remembered hearing a lot about their former glory but never knew nearly as much as I have found out in this article and the comments! Fascinating.

These days I have actually moved on to doing research on high performance computing, and I might be looking for a job with close ties to Intel (IMFT~), haha. If only I could just acquire more motivation. Growing up as a bored boy playing video games has ruined me xD
In all fairness, Microsoft breaks abi in the standard library with every single release. They do so deliberately to reserve the right to improve implementations over time.

For some evidence:

See an interesting reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/13zex3/can_vs2010_c_lib...

And a link to a msvc blog post which lists the sizes of various containers under various versions of MSVC:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2011/09/12/10209291.a...

Note that vector<int> on x64 shrunk from 48 to 24 bytes between VC9 SP1 and VC11. That's not an ABI, it's source compatibility.
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You can answer anonymously, that's the whole reason they're not letting the time machine index their site--so you can go anon later if you want to. You can also answer the question initially as anonymous.
Well, my point was about trying to choose a good reddit client, making the (wrong) choice of iAlien (and why that choice ended up being wrong), ending up with Blue Alien and being happy with it in the end only to find out that I need to be on high alert to ensure I'm not charged (again) to get the same functionality that I've paid for twice.

I understand that the scam that was iAlien isn't really anything to do with Alien Blue (I've mentioned numerous times that I'm now happy with Alien Blue), but that the quote:

"Our whole philosphy has been to give our users choice. We’ve got the reddit AMA app, and alienblue coming out… but we really want users to use whatever they want."

means that it is hard to find the right client for iOS. The point being that I'm someone who seeks an informed opinion, not making a reddit client (or any other client) decision lightly, but still got burned. I get the "freedom to choose", but the fact that iAlien was a scam means that more visibility on the "bad" actors here would be useful for users.

Apparently I wasn't 100% clear on the issue I was trying to present, and instead of starting a positive dialog, it turned into "downvote the anti-choice guy". I just wish that a downvote would require a reason for the downvote instead of just a "shut that guy down."
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