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I mostly agree - it's habit to charge my iPhone every day at the office.

But, I really get killed on long weekends or vacations. My usual routine is broken, and I frequently find my iPhone running out of charge. Hardly the end of the world, just a minor annoyance.

As noted elsewhere, having the juice to get through a full day, even with heavier than normal usage, would mostly alleviate the problem. Of course, if that's going to cost me another $100 or turn my phone into a phablet, then I'm not intereted. :)
Here's an app version! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fall-in-love/id957054500?ls=...
> -why offend someone in the first place?

To this, there is a simple historical explanation: because that's, in practice, how France gained its freedom. Sure, there was the French Revolution, but it took more than one century before the Catholic Church stopped being the main power in France, before it became acceptable to be agnostic, atheist, protestant, muslim or jew in France. The main fight took place in the written press, largely through caricatures, by showing irreverence to the Catholic Church. It is only through this that France eventually became a non-religious republic, in 1905.

In other words, this kind of Free Speech and irreverence is deeply ingrained in French history, political correctness be damned. Charlie was created in part in defiance to the hero worship towards General De Gaulle, and has been irreverent towards every power figure ever since.
Funny statement. Where was Christianity in year 1,500?
> They have a great selection of software

The Debian repositories are great, but don't kid yourself: unless you're a developer, it's very likely that there are at least a handful of mission-critical apps missing from the Linux ecosystem.
I agree. In fact, this is a recurrent piece of criticism that also appeared on an MIT Tech review, which I commented here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8866253
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I'm not really interested TBH, had my fill of Christianity when I was a kid and now don't want anything to do with any religion.

I'm just trying to say that someone saying 'this is not true Islam' is about as useful as the Southern Baptists saying Catholics aren't Christian - it doesn't really mean anything, there is no 'one true way' to any of this stuff.

Mostly because gods are a fantasy.
Mate he kept saying Allah, Muhammed, Jihad in silly ways. What more you want? I've seen Book of Mormon. I thought it was funny in the same level. It wasn't really attacking christianity, but the dumb followers of it.
I don't think you actually read my post before your fingers got going. Monadic comprehension with Try[A] is effectively an Either[A, E], where E is any exception thrown within that context. Mapping over a Try[A] returns a Try[B]; if the first Try failed, it likewise failes, becoming an Either[B, E].

I am thinking about my error case. I am explicitly acknowledging that I am doing so; heck, scalac will fail to compile if you haven't folded across both the failure case and the success case. I'm just not writing the same (stupid, wordy, potentially failure-prone) boilerplate code every time I make a method call into a library.
What exactly do you see as Sacco's proposal? Maybe it's over my head, but as far as I can see his comic basically says that in response to the murders we should focus on not offending muslims.
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You do realize that they were actually mocking the representation of Muslims by western media, right?
This is basically the argument that Raymond Tallis[1] makes in his books. Whilst starting from an atheist/humanist origin, he posits that whilst science (in particular neuroscience) has brought humanity so far, the stockpile of knowledge gathered thus far is not enough to satisfactorily describe and understand the human experience, conciousness etc, and certainly not enough to justify the smug, dismissive and combative sects of atheism practised by Dawkins, Hitchens et al.

He's also has a wonderful playful style of writing, well worth a read.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Tallis
I'm not going to lie, that does sound similar to my experience with iTunes on OS X (though I do remember it somehow being even worse on Windows).
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Hey! Someone has to point what the good and the bad things about a product. Otherwise, we will never know unless we try them first hand. And not everyone gets that chance.
The tradeoff is complexity. You need to define a maybe for your return value, which needs generics. Whereas Go gets 80% of the functionality with multiple returns which are like 10% odd the complexity (and are useful in other ways).
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The story ends with an awful lot of assumptions.
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You should have put a trigger warning - "Point of view disagreeing with the majority media narrative - could cause compulsive downvoting behaviour".

;).
Islam starts at Tauheed, which is to believe in "One God".

As a Muslim I have only 2 things to say to you:

Do you condemn the attacks? I do.

Do you condemn over-the-top caricatures of our Prophet? I do.
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There are already plenty of laws in France and most (perhaps all) other countries that restrict freedom of speech.

Examples of censured expression include but are not limited to: Holocaust denial, hate speech, some forms of pornography, leaking state secrets, harassing communication, copyright infringement, libel and slander.

I don't think that freedom of expression is absolutely permitted anywhere. There are so many exceptions to it - many of which are necessary for a cohesive society - that it's pretty much an invalid concept in real terms.
"A religion is not just a set of texts but the living beliefs and practices of its adherents. Islam today includes a substantial minority of believers who countenance, if they don’t actually carry out, a degree of violence in the application of their convictions that is currently unique."

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/blame-for-charlie-he...
Islam and Christianity promote peace. But, pretending that everyone is ready to stand hand in hand and do a sing along is just ridiculous.

Don't forget Islam and Christianity along with many other religions also actively promotes violence. In the west we tend to whitewash things, but for a less controversial example if you look at say Peter Pain or fairy tales there very different pre Disneyfication.

PS: Remember when a faith says it's ok or even expected to kill {ex: witch} then all it takes is for someone to be convinced that X in on that list and people feel justified. Consider, many people have little to no problem with killing a mass murder.
Unless SteamOS and Steam Boxes becomes a thing releasing native games on Linux doesn't really make sense unfortunately, cost of customer support alone would be prohibitive, and the negative backslash from the Linux community if Linux distro X on hardware Y is not supported would do the rest to drive devs away. The most realistic distribution platform for games on Linux (unless SteamOS takes off) would actually be HTML5 games using WebGL for 3D rendering. In this case the browser vendors do all the hard work to provide a unified platform wrapper (not that I ever got WebGL support working on Linux in a VM though).
database: maste-slave

uploads: rsync

there's a ruby gem called backup (https://meskyanichi.github.io/backup/v4/) ;)
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Ha! Slot machines are real sluts! Need I say more? But forget about luck as long as you want to have fun and willing to pay the price
I agree with your sentiment that mocking should have its limits, but I subscribe to the view that "if you cross the limits of good taste, you're just being an asshole", and definitely not to the idea of shooting such people instead. People should have right to express their opinions safely, even when those opinions aren't in good taste.
I agree. My primary point is just that it's not "the others" that threaten our freedom of expression its ourselves.
For possession of marijuana it depends on where you are. In Philadelphia where I am in college, possession up to an ounce of marijuana is now just a $25 fine. However in the suburbs where I am from they have zero tolerance and you will go through a lot of crap. So it depends on where you are and what drug you have.
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The only non-violent religions I know of are Jainism and Theravāda Buddhism. The holy books of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all contain passages encouraging their followers to torture, kill, and otherwise harm non-believers. Mainstream adherents followed these directives for millennia. It's taken centuries of conflict with enlightenment values to relegate such views to extremists.

After September 11th, I read the Qur'an[1] to see what the fuss was about. I encourage others to do the same. Unlike the Bible, it is not a long text. Even if you take notes while reading, you can finish it in a few days. Unless you're indoctrinated in the faith, it will be obvious that the Qur'an preaches violence toward the infidel much more than nonviolence.

1. Or more correctly, an English translation of the Qur'an.
>> I think you're pretty free to criticize the more extremist aspects of Judaism, such as circumcision (yes, they scream "antisemitism", but nobody takes them seriously),

Well I don't think many jews, or muslims for that matter (muslims do it too) would be offended by a reasoned criticism of circumcision. It is usually the hot topics like Israeli actions, or depiction of Prophet Muhammad that seems to trigger passions.
> You can choose your religion

Often you cannot.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/05/28/which-countr...
This is great news! Except that the rate payers pay for upgrade costs. I hope the government looks into this and help defray costs.
Yep. Big hat to them, and shame on the NYT imho. In the UK, the Independent also published the cover in full.

Edit: it look like Buzzfeed went through a couple of sites:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/austinhunt/heres-who-is-and-isnt-pub...
But auto tune isn't always used as a "special effect" ala "Love After Loss" robo-voice. Most autotune is subtle enhancement to vocal tracks that really don't need it. It will give any singer laser like accuracy, at the expense of removing all character from their voice. How does that not contribute to homogeneity?

Granted, every decade has had its recording trends. I agree that the article misunderstands the pop business.
I don't know the answer to your specific question, but where is Christianity today COMPARED to 1500? Where is Islam today COMPARED to 1500?

That is the real question in my mind, at least.
I agree with you that your religion is not necessarily something you can choose, but because of another bullet point:

- You sincerely believe it to be true.

If you don't have a doubt in your mind that something is true (e.g. that torture is never morally justifiable, or that God doesn't exist because of Epicurus' trilemma, or that an unborn baby has a right to life, or that objective truths exist) then to say that you could "choose" to believe something else is not quite accurate.

And since a religion is, fundamentally, a collection of truth assertions, it's not necessarily true that you can "choose" it intellectually.

Whether you are free to choose it socially or legally is another story. In many places, converting to another religion can be a very dangerous thing to do.
> But if it is not illegal, immoral, or unethical in its implementation or in its consequences then why not try? All you risk is failure. So what?

I think maybe it's the tendency when bad things happen for people to go "why? who's fault was this?". And if they can find something that feels to them like it could have been avoided in hindsight, they're going to lash out.

Even in the nerd world, think of when a non-technical friend or relative goes and installs some random free program off the Internet that they thought would help them with their job. And as usual these things come loaded with miscellaneous adware and other garbage. They were just trying to take the initiative to solve a problem that they had on their own by downloading this tool, but it's very frustrating to have to go and clean up their mess when they did something that feels "obviously stupid" even though they didn't know better.

I guess I just feel that while we live in a world where anybody can go "I told you so" when you mess up, and then get a whole lot of other people to agree that your failures were more that a mere mistake but instead negligence, we're going to be stuck with this burden of process and approval committee any time someone shows initiative.
Or http://regexper.com/.
Because there are too many people and people need to feed themselves and their families.

For example, consider if your job was made obsolete in 20-30 years. That there was no longer a need to program or manage computers any longer. All of a sudden all of this knowledge in your head is now basically useless and you have not likely developed any other meaningful skillset.

What do you do and what does society do for you?

THAT is why eliminating jobs is a problem. At some point the jobs simply aren't replaced by other things, or the other things are menial tasks, not meaningful tasks. If you eliminate enough jobs there isn't enough money to keep the consumer based economy afloat, and then the companies that own the robots go out of business because people who buy their products no longer have jobs or money to afford their product.

There are no clear solutions to this problem either.
> I think no religion preaches violence, including Islam.

Have you read the Book of Revelation?
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Obligatory links: http://blog.metaobject.com/2014/04/cc-osmartass.html, http://robertoconcerto.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/strict-aliasin... (I post these every time this subject crops up. TL;DR - stand up for yourself, and don't let your C compiler treat you like shit.)
I would say, "Amen" but I'm afraid of offending anyone.
Why move your startup to Cebu City, Philippines?
I would prefer if I knew which sections were links without having to hover over everything.
In that case I expressed myself badly (possibly due to systemd-induced gritting of teeth). Sorry.

I think it doesn't have to be political. The tiniest bit of ill will towards linux, a bit of windows-like behaviour (tar xf, rm -rf), and a bit of badly-supported hardware is quite enough to end up with an unworkable system and difficult-to-diagnode problems.
If we look at someone who is born into a religion, lives their life holding those religious beliefs, and dies as a member of that same religion - is it valid to assume that they could have separated themselves from their beliefs?

Exercise — of both body and brain — is work. Not having done it does not mean one is unable to.

Many live entire lives without a taut muscle. Yet we know they could have lived differently.
Aren't mental health, drug addiction, and crime issues also symptoms of some disease?
Yes! So broken! Must fix now!

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21578665-nearly-1-bill...
I'm glad someone is finally addressing this, what with a major advance in artificial intelligence being only five or ten years away.
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Keeping track of hypotheses, experiments and goals in startups
What do you use to keep track and share information about your hypotheses, experiments, associated features etc. in your projects / startups?

I feel like it becomes very complicated over time to keep track of all the information your startup receive through those tests and customer interviews and to share this with co-founders and employees. How do you deal with this?
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Adobe creates the most user-hostile software that is not pure malware.

I have always had a problem with adobe, and I used to say it was because 'they specialize in non-standards', but I think you have a much better point. It just feels like you're getting screwed every time you see that A.
A pixel is a unit on a 2D grid and a voxel is the counterpart in 3D. What makes voxels interesting is that you can build worlds out of them the palyer can shape, like Minecraft. The smaller your voxels, the better your world might be. The main benefit of voxels over terrain made of textured polygons is that deformation looks better in voxels, because the terrain isn't warping but actually disappearing.
Oracle makes $billions per year. There's no reason to bundle Ask. Despicable.
It is not about Islam but about a school of thought which is not only 100% certain in its beliefs (Quran is the literal word of God) but also likes to impose it on others under the banner of "don't hurt our feelings". I've seen examples coming from Budhism (Burma-Sri Lanka), Hinduism (India), Sikhism (India), Christianity (UK-middle age Europe-African countries). People from even non-islamic religions regularly kill each other for hurting 'religious feelings'.

When someone 'hurts' your religious sentiments, you can't be sure whether it was done deliberately or for deeper reasons. I can see deep reasons in why those cartoons were published.

Anyone against free expression is kinda against science itself. Certain religions will never grow (the word of god is limited to Quran/Bible/Whatever) but science will keep growing. What happens when science ends up infringing on religious feelings? Will we be allowed to publish potential treatment for HIV found in a pig's liver in a sharia state? Even saying that "Charlie Hebdo" did something wrong is taking a step towards a world where science starts becoming bound. This sentiment can easily go out of hand in a matter of 100 years. A perfect example would be Pakistan. A supposedly liberal place 100 years ago ended up forcing its only nobel prize winning physicist into exile, defacing his grave and making sure more awesome scientists are not created. Because apparently, Dr. Abdus Salam (the nobel laureate) wasn't Muslim enough!! I wouldn't take even one step towards intolerance for the sake of our great-great grandchildren.
The idea of work, money and paying for things is obsolete and becoming dangerous. It needs replacing with a non-awful allocation economy.
A voxel is a small piece of an object, that's modelled physically. The idea is that we can start having worlds where objects are made of particles, like the real world, and so rather than e.g. a wall being modelled as this rectangle that, at best, can explode in a scripted-set piece into some premodelled pieces, we can have worlds where whole houses are just an arrangement of particles of different substances, and you can interact with them physically in arbitrary ways - maybe you can build your own house by nailing beams together, and then drop a weight on it and see what happens (there have long been dedicated physics simulation games that can do this to some extent, like bridge builder, but the idea of having a physicsy world just as a setting for a normal game is pretty new).

Minecraft is such a game to a certain extent - you can build structures from blocks that will then obey minecraft-block physics - although that physics is rather simple (e.g. gravity works... interestingly on minecraft blocks) and there are a lot of objects that have special-case support (e.g. tables, furnaces are "primitives" in the minecraft world, whereas in a more seriously voxely game you might be able to e.g. smelt anywhere that the physics decided was hot enough to melt certain materials).
Money is not the only problem. Unemployment leads to loneliness, demotivation, social stigma. This is not only caused by social pressure to have a job. Even rich people work. We need some form of Minimal Activity.

The letter will have no effect. Similarly, you can sing a letter to stop drugs.
For games you don't care about the window system, what's critical is a 3D API, input and sound. MS got this right early with D3D, DirectInput and DirectSound. And MS forced hardware vendors to commit to these APIs which was a good thing.

The problem with Linux (above the kernel) is that everyone is pulling into a different direction.
I stopped trusting Microsoft installers when Windows Update listed the Bing Desktop as a Critical Update.
This is truly one of the coolest things I've seen in a while. I can't help but think of the little Atari Portfolio John Connor has in Terminator 2.
> Whose fault exactly is it?

People who think that software should be free, as in beer.

Developers have to be paid. When people paid for software with dollars, this exchange was much more straightforward. But now people think that software should be free as in beer, which means it comes with ad software or "sponsored software" that in turns sells ads, or spies on everything you do, or something to pay the bills.
> I fail to see how the attacks have anything to do with racism. Islamophobia is not racism.

Muslims, particularly those in the US and Western Europe (i.e. we're not talking about Chechens), tend to be darker skinned on average. It may not be an entirely racist prejudice, but there's certainly often a racist element to it.

See also the term "urban", which in the US is frequently a dog-whistle term for "black people" despite there being plenty of whites in city downtowns.
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In this context, the term "Artificial Intelligence" refers to a man-built emulation of the physical process that allows humans to reason and shape the world around us in pursuit of our goals. This hasn't been achieved yet, but humans are proof that it is physically possible. (And through evolution, which is not a strongly guided process).

Unless you believe there is something inherently special and unique about humans that make it impossible for this physical phenomenon to be replicated artificially, there is absolutely something to worry about here.
That's super neat, thanks for posting.
Can verify this. I was working for a client who was located in an area that had maybe 1 or 2 bars of LTE service - my phone was below 20% at the end of the day if I didn't charge it. Now that I'm in a big building with AT&T microcells, I get 5 bars LTE so my phone is at over 50% by the end of the work day.
You do a great job, thanks.
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I find Conduit on so many computers I get called to touch.. and the person can't even recall their actions to how such things got there.
No, that was part of the experiment, but they concluded that the primary route was through skin absorption:

"These findings indicate that the primary route of BPA exposure was not via gastrointestinal absorption after eating the BPA-contaminated French fries"
I would love to get feedbacks on this idea. Is there a better way to easily communicate from Ruby with a Go application ?
It really depends what you are controlling. With a PID loop generally more accurate timing is the battle cry for moving them off board. As implementing a PID in a time-shared OS is rough as you don't get timing guarantees. So your Delta-T is always off. Generally by a margin of 1% which is large enough to throw off a correctly tuned system.

Faster updates are nice, but not always needed.
- I use heavily google spreadsheets. However after a month of customer development, it becomes messy. Still the best solution I tried.
- I tried trello but I ended up spending more time organizing cards.
- communication: slack. It's sick!
Possible easy DIY fix: line your bottles with a clean plastic bag, the clear transparent type. That will almost certainly be polyethylene, which doesn't contain any plasticizers like BPA or BPS.
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