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While I can understand how part of his post is about the way women are portrayed physically in those comics. I'm not so sure on his examples he picked in reference to his children and their unsuitability. I already commented on how I wasn't sure if Batman was suitable for his 5 year old, given the nature of some lines, but some examples he picked in reference to his 7 year old daughter were a stretch.

Power Girl: Haven't fully checked but appears to be part of a line rated T for Teen.

Harley Quinn (Batman Detective Comics): Rated T for Teen.
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFg5MDA=/z/axsAAOSwD0lUlJHV/$_...

Perhaps comic book stores should designate areas for different ratings of comics. Or comic companies should agree to make the rating larger. Or some parents need to become more aware that comics are just for kids, the same way that computer games aren't either.
Read up on the history of the Comics Code Authority[1]; I suspect that after the Comics Code was introduced, the remaining comic publishers were over-eager to prove their products were the exact opposite of the content prohibited by the Code, setting the thematic pendulum forever swinging toward and away from that content, instead of exploring broader themes.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority
Are you implying consumers should not have their voices somehow heard (no matter how stupid their requests are) by private companies? I think your comment underestimate the power of consumers and customers of products -- and ultimately of boycotts. If this petition had been signed by 1.5 millions instead of just 1.5 thousand I wonder if you would consider it more... valued? Let them speak out if that is what they want.
I looked in this online Belgian strip store and for the Dutch language market (quite small demographic), I could find 5 (five) titles for girls! And I'm pretty sure there's more (Noortje, Tina...)

http://www.stripweb.be/R-stripverhalen-mooie-navels-bestelle...
http://www.stripweb.be/R-stripverhalen-girlz-bestellen.asp
http://www.stripweb.be/R-stripverhalen-kathys-kat-bestellen....
http://www.stripweb.be/R-stripverhalen-dance-academy-bestell...
http://www.stripweb.be/R-stripverhalen-claire-bestellen.asp
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Interesting! I stand corrected.

Next thing I don't understand with that document is what is "earned" income. Are app store sales "earned?" I'd say so... constantly having to update the software -- I'm earning it.
Is it going to lead to greater fulfillment in their personal lives?

It certainly did for me. Reading Bill Watterson, Quino, André Franquin, Frank Giroud and a few others had a great impact in my childhood.
"There have been markets for plenty of things that we decided as a society aren't morally right to sell anymore."

You want to argue that comics with sexualized women (or men, it doesn't matter who) aren't morally right to sell? Are you out of your mind? Let's go back to the fig leaf, shall we? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig_leaf
Our society is becoming more and more prude again.
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That, in a nutshell, is one of Photoshop's great strengths. It's not that you can save undo data, but that most things don't need to be undone if you take advantage of smart objects (decomposable composites, more or less) and adjustment layers. Even deformation meshes (warps, liquify, etc.) can be stored, changed and re-applied (to multiple things, including masks). I'm not really committed to anything in Ps until I export, and then the PSD is still there if the client wants a change. I know that colour management and bit depth have been at the top of a lot of lists (and rightly so), but if anyone wants to step up and challenge Ps as the professional tool, then non-destructive editing is not optional.
Opera Mini, Modest (email client), Vim, SSH, QCPUFreq

Odd list, perhaps. Still ploughing away with the N900, overclocking it on every reboot. Notes with Vim are synced to laptop and raspberry pi via Syncthing.

Websites for everything else. Trying to move off Gmail (already have for work, self-hosting now, was sending as my personal domain for years via Gmail/Apps) and the Google ecosystem. Already out of Facebook for a good while now. Still tweeting, but only work-related. Would like to play with Slack, but an N900 client is probably not in the works :)

Side-note, while explaining, I'm holding out for a decent (open, free) alternative to Maemo. That looks to me like Ubuntu Touch/Phone, especially with their convergence plans, but the dust might need to settle on that first. None of the Jolla/Sailfish/Firefox offers look quite like what I'm after yet, for various reasons. A nice polished Ubuntu phone would bring me up to date and out of the 5 years-ago past.

If that all comes to pass then the top-5 apps list might look something like:

Firefox/Iceweasel, email client, translation tools, Vim, SSH
Or print it at a kiosk upon check-in?
Or True Data Whip
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As a software person at NASA, one caveat to note is that this is in part due to the intricacies of the federal civil servant system. Frankly, it is very hard to punish or fire government employees or some prime contractors, so most often (even in non-software contexts) accountability is applied to a process rather than to an individual because it's a path of less resistance for management. Even when an individual approach would be more appropriate.
Thanks for sharing this! PopSlate looks cool but I was a little sad that this would be difficult to pull off for Android due to fragmentation.
You are right, I was saying how things ought to be, not how they often are.

In this case, many people were being killed due to the doctors' actions. Despite the very good evidence, the doctors preferred to play politics, and continue to kill/murder their patients rather than lose face.

A most extreme example of the triumph of self-interest over reason and honesty.
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+1 - the loved one does a lot of digital painting and generally uses MyPaint. Though Krita is pretty good too, and has specialised from being KDE's "me too!" for GIMP to being specifically tweaked for artists.
OpenBSD uses ChaCha20 since 5.5, as can be seen in the man page:

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=arc4random&apro...
Is it sadder than people dying?
This is insulting to everyone who fights for actual free speech rights.

Another clickbait from eff.
Of course, this is not as simple as it seems.

1 - Some tools and libraries (like GTK - yeah) like to throw unfixable warnings. "Yeah, this platform is missing this feature so let's throw a warning"

2 - Sometimes fixing a warning results in something much more complicated than the original code. (see for example half of PyLint warnings)

So, for that to work it's important the tool warnings are good (and at least with GCC on C they usually are)
People are motivated by different things. This guy was motivated by quantitative value tracking with defined goals ('scores', 'winning'). Some people's brains increase levels of serotonin in response to situations where they perceive they've done something good - you have a physical neural response to a psychological event. Other people's brains don't (or they release less serotonin, or there's serotonin uptake inhibitor at work somewhere). People like that doesn't feel 'good' in response to 'winning' so classical gamification doesn't work.

The key to motivation is to make a psychological bridge between things that you don't want to do and the emotional state that releases neurological chemicals that in turn make you feel happy.
For those who honestly believe that women will never want to read comics - look into webcomics. A huge proportion of the reader base for a good, PG-13(-ish) webcomic will likely be female, and there's a number of webcomics that are targeted towards women. A number of these comics will eventually be printed and sold, usually via the Internet, sometimes at conventions.

I went to the Thoughtbubble Comic Convention last year in the UK, and returned with a hefty bag full of comics that do not exaggerate sexual characteristics (or, in fact, mention sex at all in most cases), focusing on good art and a compelling storyline. Some of these are webcomics, some were designed to be sold as graphic novels and serial comics.

The comic book store is a remarkably poor selection of what's out there, and I think they might've got themselves into a recursive image problem - they stock primarily comics for a certain audience, so only that audience go there, so any change is not welcomed.
Most of the shops I frequent have a young readers section. Diamond (the only North American comic book distributor) even has a young readers section of their release list. The author of the article clearly thinks comics are intended for children, when only a small portion are.
> He advocates a maximum of 4-5 lines per function to ensure readable code

Yeah, and you end up with myriad of functions which are used once and only once and it becomes impossible to actually find code which does something useful.
It is also known as kaizen, with the Toyota Production System[1] as the best known example.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Production_System
This is pretty much what Adobe did to Quark: they didn't interrupt their competitor when they were making a mistake.
>This article should feature a bunch of blank photos representing the comics that don't exist. Those are the problem. It's ok to have super sexed-up comics in the store, but it's really sad that's all they have.

It's a vicious cycle. Comic book stores sell products that appeal to adolescent men, because their customers are adolescent men, because comic book stores sell products that appeal to adolescent men.

You can easily find English-language translations of the kind of Manga you describe, or of Franco-Belgian comics, but most American comic book stores won't make any effort to stock them, because they don't expect to sell them.

Here in Europe the comics market is more diverse, but that's as much an accident of history as anything else. For "normal" comic shops to exist, you need both a tradition of "normal" comics and a market for them, neither of which really exists in the US. You had Stan Lee and Siegel & Shuster, we had Hergé, Franquin and Peyo, and from there we diverged.
Can give us some examples. I personally feel fairly powerless, and feel that regulation at government / global level is the only way that we are likely to solve these sort of problems.

Likewise with climate change. I can avoid flying, but if the flight still goes and the airline reduces the ticket price, someone else will likely take my place. Meanwhile our government proposes building another airport. I am sacrificing my own convenience, but making no difference to the bigger picture.
I don't think that beginning your question with "I cannot begin to imagine how fucktarded you'd need to be to do this" is going to encourage people to answer that question…

That aside, my approach with Linux/Docker is to have a "fat" host system that is open to the outside world, terminates SSL, load balances and proxies the containers' services (nginx), and provides global services are either shared between containers (Postfix smarthosting to Sendgrid, DNS cache, rsyslog), or services that can manage user/service isolation well enough on their own (PostgreSQL). Containers run mostly applications, or services that I need in multiple instances or versions.

I do containerize Redis, as it can't be safely shared across multiple services (no privilege isolation, too easy for one service to DoS the other with a blocking operation), but then I don't consider Redis to be a database – it's rather a "shared state server", kind of a more sophisticated memcached.

However, I understand the approach of CoreOS, which minimizes role of the host OS. In this model, host's only role is to support containers, and every other process needs to be containerized. From this point of view, Postgres is an application. This way, I can flexibly run multiple version of Postgres, try to upgrade it without needing to set up separate host service, and so on. Personally, I wouldn't feel comfortable with that, but I understand how it could be useful.

Regarding storage performance, database's data directory would need to be a volume anyway (to be able to upgrade database without trowing away the data). A volume is just a `mount --bind`, without any aufs layers, to any point of the filesystem, so it doesn't seem to me that i/o performance hit would be noticeable…
I think the other reply covers it a lot, but I find posts like yours to be very demeaning. You're essentially doing the same as someone who doesn't understand programming making declarations of how programs should be made. There is a lot going on behind the scenes and modern medicine is based on evidence, so please take the arm-chair commentary away
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That's the typical conflict between liberals and left wings in politics. The conflict between freedom and "good". In this case freedom of artistic expression on one side, and anti-sexualism of women (unisex) on other side.
This is like saying "TLS is easy if you just let GoDaddy manage your keys for you".
In London, Parker said: "The history of space exploration is marked by both success and failure."

Obvious but so true. Just finding out that Beagle 2 landed after all has to be a nice consolation. It's a shame they're saying they can't recover any data from it, it would be interesting to see if it failed outright or sat there collecting data without the chance to ever transmit it to Earth.
I suspect the cost had more to do with the switch than the product itself but it's a bit mystifying to me while a school focused on art and image editing wouldn't teach Photoshop to their students since there's a 100% chance they will have to work with it on their job.
Yeah, he can be "upset" as much as he wants, he doesn't build robots that go to other planets.

How about we stop blindly accepting whatever UB says, most of what this man says is crap, really
This is the standard in manufacturing techniques. A failure in quality control is considered failure of the system for allowing it happen in the first place, not the person making the mistake.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poka-yoke

If a bug got through, and you don't test. Then obviously its because you don't test. Not because the programmer isn't superhuman, and doesn't make mistakes.

Everybody makes mistakes, design the system to handle it.
I used to work at a college and had experience of this firsthand. When Adobe launched the Creative Cloud suite, they switched to a SaaS model in the guise of being able to offer updates more often, along with providing some small features like storage of files in their cloud. Basically, they wanted to charge yearly since users would generally skip a version or two before seeing enough of a motivating feature improvement. (Prior to this Adobe tried x.5 upgrades) The cost of licenses varies depending upon an institution's bargaining ability.

For the "benefit" of getting SaaS we could either pay an extraordinary amount over our previous license in order to get the same number of licenses, or we could get a site license for only a fairly large amount more than our previous license. Mind you that we had little warning about this change, and academic budgets tend not to follow the typical business cycle.

Now the benefit of the site license is that all your users can become dependent upon Adobe, so when they raise the cost in the future you'll be more than obligated to agree.

Upon hearing about this changes, which brought _no real benefit to users_, one local school actually had Adobe's salesperson ejected from campus. :)

In terms of support, CC had a special enterprise edition with its own installer that generated CC packages for deployment. It was not the smoothest deployment for many institutions, it was difficult to maintain, and when I ran into a problem with licensing it took running into a higher level Adobe rep at a conference before I could make progress (our own rep eventually stopped helping). Also, there was some software included in Enterprise CC -- software that could actually benefit from "the cloud" in creating websites -- that would not work out in a mult-user environment unless you wanted your users to erase each other's Adobe cloud hosted websites. Yes, this behavior was documented, but being that it was one of the few useful "cloud" features CC offered, it was pretty disappointing for it to be unusable with our site license.

Entrepreneurs, listen. I know education is a tough nut to crack. But I'm sure it's not just education that is fed up with Adobe. Remember that Quark was once one of the big guys, but their licensing and support was so bad that InDesign took over. Yes, I had teachers complaining about Quark's licensing -- not the cost, but the horrible, broken license server. These kinds of things can destroy your business.

PS: You would not believe how many users ask for Adobe Acrobat just to save Word files as PDFs. Office has (or at least had) a built-in plugin to do this, and OS X supports exporting to PDFs natively via print.
In my opinion, it is all about training. At school I was trained to use Photoshop, so now everything I have to do with this software seems natural. But it wasn't. It is the same feeling for people who switch from MS Office to Open Office. MS and Adobe did a great job of setting standards.
On that IRS page it says:

"For this purpose, foreign earned income is income you receive for services you perform in a foreign country during a period your tax home is in a foreign country and during which you meet either the bona fide residence test or the physical presence test."

It sounds like one must also be tax resident in the foreign country for this to work?
I'd mirror sentiments I see elsewhere, but add some things...

"javascript and all its major libraries": bullshit. You may have good experience with JS, but anybody that claims they know everything is going to have a bad time. And on that subject, which technologies you've used is a little bit less interesting than how many large scale projects you've done. 100 websites? How many of those were of any substance? This is an important question because what you think is a big project may be different than what an employer thinks.

Senior level is going to be reserved for people with degrees (at LEAST a bachelor's) and is very unlikely to fall into a young person's hands. You could probably find a place that just needs a web developer but does not have a large IT shop that will take a chance, but in my experience, it's not the kind of job that will take you anywhere. Go to college. It'll do you good, and you can freelance while you're there to get the leg up/not be as poor. What you find with what you have now will likely amount to an internship. This isn't just because you lack experience in a workplace (freelancing is different), but also just because you are a great risk at your age. Beginning employees are risky because the employer has to sink a lot of money in training and adjustment, and the employee can then flutter off to a job that the employer was not prepared to match in terms of pay and benefits.
The problem is that it's still normal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Headings_and_public...

>As regards publication titles it is, however, a common typographic practice among both British and U.S. publishers to capitalise significant words (and in the United States, this is often applied to headings, too). This family of typographic conventions is usually called title case. For example, R. M. Ritter's Oxford Manual of Style (2002) suggests capitalising "the first word and all nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs, but generally not articles, conjunctions and short prepositions"
I've played with LiveCode and have to admit that it still seems a lot more complex than HC/SC. Maybe I'm biased or nostalgic because HC had a really profound influence on how I develop software. I was ready to give up on programming the Apple Mac (possibly on programming altogether, and I thought that I was a good programmer) when along came HC.

The challenge for LiveCode is that in the intervening years, of course the complexity of the system has gone through the roof. I think HC represented a conscious choice to limit its own feature set in order to make it presentable to novices, which opened it up to criticism from commercial programmers who thought it was a toy.

I honestly don't know how to create a tool that satisfies the pro's without blowing away beginners and hobbyists. Possibly the magic of Python is that the basic package simply doesn't come with any advanced features (they are installed as packages), allowing for an uncluttered learning environment.

Oh, I didn't know that they went open source. That's cool.
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No article claimed that DNSSEC was limited to RSA-1024, and you clearly haven't looked at the roots recently.
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Oh god, jaywalking tourists on bike paths! It's totally fine to cross the bike path, but you really should watch before you cross. Pedestrians can behave very erratically, and it can be incredibly hard for a cyclist to predict what you're going to do (though I've gotten pretty good at it over the years). Fortunately such collissions are rarely serious.
On the point of 2 radiologists checking, as a routine that would be too uneconomical, so if you wanted 2 people check you'd have to get a second opinion. Most likely on your own cash, since (as far as I am aware) everywhere medicine is in more demand than supply.

However you can be assured before an actual surgery, the same films will be reviewed by many doctors. Meaning that a mistake falling through everyone's mind is less likely.

I do agree with your point that sometimes a mistake can have a large impact on people. It's one of the challenges of medicine I'm not sure anyone has a solution to. On the flip side there would be many who are properly told the correct analysis, but i guess sometimes you get unlucky and a human error is made.
And MySpace happened before Facebook.
Ok I up voted, but couldn't some of these points be made stronger? For example the security updates, what exactly is being proposed, that patches should be able to go into the App Store without review and Apple's static analysis checks? Or are they just saying there should be a checkbox during submission for "Security related, please expedite"?