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This made me well up inside. Being from a country that considers homosexuality to be illegal (India) and having a close friend who left that country as well as his religion (Islam) solely due to being gay, I applaud this man's spirit.
It is not only the government that must accept equality of different ways, but so must society. Religion, culture and political climates are no reason to deny fundamental human freedoms - the right to have consensual sex with the people of your choice being one of them. Amazing that the one thing that we hold up as a pinnacle of political theory - democracy - is the one that keeps many minorities from exercising their rights. I am sure, for example, that a referendum on Article 377 would fail in most small Indian towns. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
I hope that prominent Indians take this up as well (there are at least a couple of Bollywood directors who are rumoured to be gay as well as at least one business tycoon) and come out of the closet.
The Federal Reserve voted yesterday to end quantitative easing (QE3). i.e. They will no longer be buying up instruments to prop up the economy.

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/10/29/end-of-qe3-means-f...
Like the idea. Does it alert me who scored the goals, who got carded and who got injured ? Good info for fantasy players :)
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I have just finished reading the Command and Control book about nuclear weapons development in the US. The differences in technology are even more striking than the space race. That until quite recently nuclear weapons had less security than the lock screen on a smart phone. That the early warning/firing systems had less communication reliability than sending an email. So much of the modern world seems to be derived in significant part from the cold war arms race.
There seems to have been a cultural shift in the United States as of lately. Just a few years back most companies was afraid of "choosing" side, and kept things pretty neutral. But look at recent Disney movies and Coca-Cola commercials. They all give the impression that from a marketing perspective it's better to take a stand.
Sure, isn't that what every believer does, picks out the parts they like and ignore the ones they don't, showing once more they are their own moral guide and they know better than their god what is good and what is not. I wouldn't go as far as call it sophisticated. Sophisticated would be seeing the bronze age ramblings for bullshit that it is and devoting your life to learning what we actually do know of the universe we live in.

But of course this is USA, where pandering to the religious is a must for any public figure, even if they don't agree with it themselves.
FB owns it, FB makes the rules. Maybe they think you are impersonating someone else.
Thank you for restoring my faith in humanity. MSFT, FB, IBM, SAP, HP all seem to be down.
> The main criterium is: use what you know how to use. So if you're comfortable using the MS stack then go for it, otherwise, probably better to avoid it.

So, would it be fair to say "So if you're comfortable using the Linux stack then go for it, otherwise, probably better to avoid it", or was that your parting jab against MS?
Oh, that Bible that god wrote. Right.
Shouldn't be a story in this day and age. What's next Tim Cook has blood group O?
If they won't buy Apple products because the CEO is gay, they probably shouldn't buy any computers at all, seeing as the entire field is built on the work of a gay man.
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Looks like they did work on it. Working now, including a download for Mac and Windows.
Wagtail (our open-source Django CMS [1]) can generate a static HTML export of your site to the filesystem, Amazon S3 or Google App Engine, piggy-backing on the excellent django-medusa library [2]. This feature was commissioned by a security company who didn't want to risk an embarrassing exposure to new vulnerabilities in Drupal, Rails, Django etc.

Search is an issue for static HTML sites. Swiftype [3] and Algolia [4] look like solid options - has anyone used these in production?

[1] https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail

[2] https://github.com/mtigas/django-medusa

[3] https://swiftype.com/

[4] https://www.algolia.com
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Correct: the only way to know for sure is to test it. I think a few minor extensions could make that a lot easier – e.g. a CSS :visible selector and support for background-image: attr(…)
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Felix Salmon outed it on the very day of Tim Cook's appointment as the CEO.

I'm surprised that a story that was on Techmeme at that time, did not get broader attention, until now.

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/08/25/dont-ignore...
On W7/FF33 - yes, the get.webgl.org works as do other WebGL'd sites.
Is there a video showing the product somewhere?
This clarification is very much appreciated, thank you :)
I've been following this for a while, and it looks like an awesome way to roll your own cloud!
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Buy two, obviously.
That is not the bible god wrote. That is a book written by people. And written far later than the year 0.
There are two big production deployments of Rust, and a number of smaller ones. The two are OpenDNS and Skylight.io.

That said, yes, doing so before 1.0 takes a special kind of organization.
> (4/25) We needed to support working offline should the user go out of range of wi-fi.

> (8/25) When offline, any actions that require a GET to the server results in an error message to the user.

I would argue right there that you failed to deliver a product that met the user's requirements, and this sort of limitation is why I have to write native code when writing a web app would be much easier.

> (21/25) Development team consisted of 5 developers, 1 business analyst, 1 tester, and 1 project manager (times 2 years for development time)

> (21/25) Production code is 20K LOC of Java, 10K javascript.

I'm not sure on what planet that is considered a reasonable level of output, but it must be nice there.
Steal attention from Microsoft Band? :-)
Isn't that what we have been told through the centuries that every word in the bible is inspired by god himself, and even (if you buy into the bullshit) god himself (i.e. Jesus) saying how every word of the law must be fulfilled.
> Is it compatible with C/C++ libraries (I mean in practice, not that they should work)?

Rust has zero-cost FFI into C, but cannot call into C++ (without it doing an extern "c" of its own) due to lack of a stable ABI.
Of course those are factors , but qbotix has raised investment, has managed to get some commitments for solar projects, and there's even a company using their system in the UK offering to finance projects on a long term electricity purchase basis, claiming it's much cheaper than current providers:

http://castillium.co.uk/tracking-solar/tracking-250kw/

So qbotix might have good solutions for the issues you mention. And that is of course without having concentrated solar power, which makes a qbotix a more attractive offer.
Clock skew in that the clocks used by the participant may or may not have been synchronized. There are, effectively, no details about how the timing is done on the news side and there is allusion to some use of EDGAR posting timestamps which are from an entirely different clock.

Even more concerning, is that they map news events to market data using non-synchronized market data timestamps. It appears to be TAQ data. The timing aspect of the entire article is very poorly described but yet is fundamental to the claim they are making.
Konrad Zuse was not gay.
Its true that a separate machine is one more thing that can fail, but if its purpose is so different, as with the "active CMS" - "static hosting service", then it becomes easier to create a replacement.

E.g. the frontend can be replicated (if needed), S3 can be used, while the backend CMS remains intact. Or the backend CMS can be implemented in a HA setup and the static hosting in the cloud.
No, since Linux & FreeBSD are license free they have intrinsic advantages over Microsoft.
>There are undoubtedly many people who will no longer purchase Apple products because of this

I disagree. First, I think it was widely assumed that he was gay, and if it wasn't, he was accidentally outed during a live TV broadcast a few months ago by a CNBC reporter [1]. Second, the people that think this way probably already avoid Apple products, as both Tim Cook and Apple have been vocal on gay rights for quite some time. Finally, the one thing that these kinds of people hate more than those that disagree with their worldview is being personally inconvenienced. If they're already invested in the Apple ecosystem and are used to the iOS UX, they're going to keep paying Tim Cook for a new device every year.

[1] http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000288253 - about one minute in
We don't know what the user's requirements were. It's possible that they minimized the required GET actions but that some actions required GETs because the data needed to be real time accurate.

In-memory and offline storage are possible in web apps.
http://incompetech.com/music/

I used this music for my iPad game[1] and was very happy with it.

[1] http://oceancmotion.com
If there is a standard distribution of gay men and women in the population, wouldn't that be true of any product? Sure, it could be higher in tech fields however there is a high probability of a gay man or woman building most the products we use.
Of course not. I'm an atheist, anti-theist in fact, and I know perfectly well the history of the bible how it was written, and that it is not the word of imaginary god etc.

I am just saying what the religious people say it is. And this is the irony.
Some useful extensions like LastPass, Adguard, Pocket and Evernote are packaged (but not enabled) by default. Functionally it's Yandexified Chromium (vs Googlized Chromium aka Chrome—and modulo UI chrome of course).
Is it OK to be proud to be a gay man?

Is it OK to be proud to be a gay white man?

If you answer one question with yes and one with no, there might be a problem.
Raising investment is not typically a sign of technological excellence. It could be but it's certainly not a reliable indicator. Long term reliability of such systems can only be determined in the long term. So far the score does not look good for trackers.
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> if you add the cost of lenses+tracking system you could buy more panels. That increased number of (passive) panels will be more reliable and will produce roughly about as much power as a non-tracking system would.

How did you get to that conclusion? Arrays of plastic (and even glass) lenses are ridiculously cheap.

So are the motors and parts for tracking.

Panels, inverters and labor are still the expensive parts.

http://greenzone.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Soft-and-hard...
Fair points re: the SIP. However, that submission is the benchmark for fairness is unfortunate. There is no reason it needs to be that way, and fixing it and distributing the SIP (i.e., removing the centralized processor) has numerous advantages that put to rest the latency, fairness and SPOF issue.

In that regime, measuring "same" becomes simple. Measure at the source the venue specific SIP feed (which contains the venue's view of NBBO) and the depth of book feed delta. Over the course of a day, that delta should effectively be 0.

You're absolutely right about the SEC website issue. It's silly to get upset about this since the "web" aspect of the distribution has so many layers.
I see Hebrew in the Arabic column.

Pretty inflammatory that :-)
And make the "Apple" brand away from PRISM, NSA and others not to mention that they want to keep the "cool" and "open" words attached to the "Apple" brand as well.

Of course with all due respect to Tim Cook which opened for the first time and will probably inspire other people.

But to me everything is connected.

EDIT: For those who downvoted please explain what's wrong in this comment.
The "skin of a rhinoceros" - I liked that the most, as it reflects the development one makes when being part of a minority, no matter if it is sexual, financial ethnical or political nature.
I feel the same way anytime anyone launches a new product.

I guess Canada is too far away to get shiny new things.
If you want to take the statistical approach, then you could also say that there exists a nonzero probability that it is not the case :)
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Judging from the article alone? I really think so. The article being published under Java umbrella, which is not exactly known for gathering good engineers, does not help here either.
You're not. The "problems" this article suggests for MWI are actually only problems for people who don't fully understand it. Attempting to count worlds, for example, is a mistake right from the start; perhaps MWI is badly named, but decoherence doesn't produce fully disjoint worlds. They always overlap with their neighbours.

For an analogy, trying to count MWI worlds is like trying to measure the length of Norway's coastline. It depends on how you count, but "worlds" also aren't a fundamental building block; it doesn't affect the predictions of the theory.
>With fields of over 1,000 of these devices, utilities would produce electricity at less than 5 cents per kilowatt-hour. That is even cheaper than today’s least expensive option: a new natural gas plant.

Ummm...

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/xcel-energy-buy...

Natural Gas is ALSO in the midst of an unsustainable boom built with insane levels of debt: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-30/shale-drillers-feas...

Anybody who thinks natural gas is going to stay cheap forever, or even for more than a couple of years is kidding themselves. It's an awful long term investment even if you don't account for the environmental damage.
need some variant of robohash for SSH fingerprints.
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Those latencies aren't well defined, and likely representing input to output side processing. Also, they are in the .50ms range, which is 500us, not 50us. What isn't captured here is the significant added transit delay due to the forcing of a centralized processor. They are also averages, which are largely useless when dealing with market data. Let's talk about 95 and 99th percentiles. It's the bursts that kill you.

The perception of fairness as it relates to the SIP will always be an issue (even if it isn't a practical issue) as long as there are "two highways" if you will for market data. There is no reason it needs to be this way. Decomposing the SIP solves all issues and embraces the facts that already exists today: the SIP is a leaky lock on a distributed market that can by passed with ISOs and that there is no such thing as the NBBO because NBBO is entirely relative to point of observation.

Doing so, however, would require the venues to give up a major selling point for their lucrative direct data feeds. Not likely to happen.
That jarred me too.

I recently spoke to some gay religious people and it struck me as very odd. I'm biased, of course. I tend to think religion gets far more forgiveness than it deserves in a huge number of contexts. It was interesting though, in a bunch of ways.

When I hear a statement like this it makes me think of Africans converting to Mormonism or Jews joining European far right movements. I realize that there are perspectives through which this is not contradictory. Mormonism had views of Africans that only lagged behind mainstream opinions by a decade or two. The far right parties are more interested in Islam or African migration these days…

Still, I can't help it. It give me the heebie jeebies.
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I think he is talking about Alan Turing.
I don't see anything about any Gods hating gays. Levictus compares men having sex with other men being as big of a sin as cursing your parents or having sex with a woman during her periods, and later in Sodom God decides to murder a town for their lack of charity.

I guess you could reach and say that God hates sinners and homosexuals are committing a sin, but that's pretty silly at least in Christianity everyone is a sinner.
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People believe in more than one God. Sometimes, even the same person believes in more than one God.
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I just got my first iPhone (5s) and I still use my android phone every day: as my alarm clock. There isn't a good way to turn off the vibrate part of the alarm on the iPhone, and my wife can sleep through the alarm sound, but not the vibration noise, so it doesn't work for us.

If it wasn't for that I would recycle it.
Not a recent cultural shift, but one that has been steadily making headway over a very long time. A recent tipping point, perhaps.
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Or where such announcements aren't even necessary...
> I wouldn't go as far as call it sophisticated. Sophisticated would be seeing the bronze age ramblings for bullshit that it is and devoting your life to learning what we actually do know of the universe we live in.

I don't know about you super_mario, but it looks like Tim is doing a pretty good job with respect to learning about the universe we live in. On the face of it, certainly better than me.

Also, I don't have a dog in this fight, but it may not be a matter of 'knowing better than their god'. It may be that his interpretation of whatever holy books he has read has given him whatever his beliefs are, like every other Christian. Those beliefs however, may well not be at odds with what you assume. We can't say his beliefs are bronze age bullshit - we don't know what they are so we're particularly badly placed to judge, even if judging in this situation was somehow valuable. We would just be adding another belief to the stack which helps no-one.
I'm in agreement. I really like the way this looks.
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Indeed, the mark of a well thought out and carefully crafted message that's not just personal, but also about necessary PR.

If that's what it takes to get people on-board this generation, I don't mind. But I hope lines like that can be omitted one day. Doesn't it just look incredibly silly?
You shouldn't assume that bigots are rational.
hmm ,i guess he is talking about Alan Turing who was literaly sentenced to a horrible treatment for being gay.

That's one of the greatest shame of UK,it symbolizes bigotery in its purest form.
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Which of those other usages applies in this case?

The listed other usages consist of:
* Trading against a party who is legally required to publish their intent to trade in a security in advance.
* Detecting large orders in the market and trading against them.
* A financial advisor producing its own report and trading on that information before disclosing it to its clients.
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Where the homesexual agenda in Disney movies?

I'd prefer specific examples rather than just handwavey nonsense.
This is a pretty interesting approach, and it doesn't seem to be tied to any particular database implementation.

Would it be possible to factor this up into a JSON -> SQL translation function, which could than be used by various backends (effectively consume the JSON and spit out the CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements)?
Stacey 3.0 allows you to reverse the order of arrays with a twig filter:

https://github.com/kolber/stacey/wiki/Templating-Language#fi...
Output should be measured by saving costs or new revenue, not lines of code written.
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i wonder how much being stuck on a 2d plane would matter. otherwise, how many degrees of freedom do we need in the vertical axis?

also, it assumes you can only continuously walk through the space right? what about standing still and swaying your head sub-2cm?
Big question: why did you pin your hopes, dreams, and identity on working for a XXXX major tech firm? It's not fully within your control, and at the end of the day, it's just a job.
I can't really offer you much help other than this. Ask yourself, at your funeral, what do you want people to remember you for. Will it be your character, or the fact you worked at Google?
> I don't have to go and manually edit the xorg.conf

The 90s called, they want their complaints about Linux back.
(Assuming you're talking about in the Western world)

Do you not see a difference between being gay and being white? Really? Is it not obvious that one group has been historically repressed, attacked, discriminated against, etc. by its 'counter group', whilst the other has been the oppressor? These are about the most simplistic facts in social history, so I find it very difficult to believe you unaware of them; it seems more likely that you're choosing to ignore them in order to push some bizarre agenda. Just be honest and state the point you're actually trying to make.
To be honest, I for one know very little about the important persons in <enter orthogonal branch of science here>, gay or not. We might all know about the terrible fate of Alan Turing, but I don't expect non-cs people to know.

(Thanks to gpvos for the correction of faith->fate. )
No, it's more like choosing to always fly in a single craft with a small-but-not-insignificant chance of a fatal crash, versus choosing to fly on other crafts which have a negligible chance of crashing, and are guaranteed to preserve your life if they do.

I'll leave the sex analogy to your imagination.