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Processing _is_ Java. If you learn Processing, the only things holding you back from writing "real" programs in Java are making a main() entrypoint, learning a few new APIs (depending on what you're making) and applying a few more access modifiers than you're used to. I use it regularly to ease beginners into programming with Java and the transition has always been a snap.
I could be wrong, but weren't X-Men, Spiderman and the like always in the trash department of comics? From a European perspective it always seemed so. Sure they have a lot of fans, but they are not really representative of quality comics. (and by trash I mean silly stereotypes and exaggerations are basically implied).
Saying that quantum mechanics is an inherently statistical theory is a blatant misrepresentation. Precisely the point that makes QM so weird is that it is not caused by statistics. In a (properly set up) double slit experiment, a single electron is simultaneously travelling through both slits and causing an interference pattern.
Of course, you're right. That's just a joke we have, that people at the french king's court and the king itself used perfume instead of washing, which helped make perfume popular and fashionable.
The flip side of romances, if there is one, isn't comic books. More like letters to penthouse. Romances are supposed to be for adults, and are meant to be sensual or erotic.

Like I said, different topic.
Nice work but I'd recommend name spacing this library - you are throwing a lot of functions and variables in the global namespace.
I think we will work around problems for as long as we can - honeybees were a prime example. We have eliminated most pollinating species, so we should have felt the effects of that already. Out food production should be fucked. But it's not - instead pollinating was turned into a business and now farmers rely on "renting" bees from people who raise them controlled environments - in pollinating season whole hives are brought in on trucks and then taken somewhere else afterwards.

Effect? A regular customer has absolutely no idea that this is happening. Zero. And I imagine we will keep doing that with everything else, working around the issues for as long as we can. It won't be 30 years before we realize how fucked we are.
I'm surprised at the number of comments in this thread excusing it because of the market. The fact that nearly everyone who has made that point felt the need to create a new account to do so is very telling.

The market is influenced heavily by human beings. And no human being is morally perfect. There are lots of comics that sexualise women because there are lots of guys who, for some reason, enjoy seeing sexual cartoons. The people who draw comics, for some reason, also seem to enjoy drawing comics like this. That doesn't excuse the problem. There have been markets for plenty of things that we decided as a society aren't morally right to sell anymore.
Actually, 0-day refers to the time since public disclosure.
Male superheroes are portrayed as powerful, older, athletic, and rich. Those attributes are also the exact same attributes that dating services announce as the stereotypical attributes women look for in men.

When comic want to side-kick people should laugh at, they often reverse those attributes. A meek, young, unathletic and poor male is the steriotypical joke for a superhero.

So I find male superheroes are exaggerated portrayed in a sexually suggestive manner in comic books, maybe even more than Female superheroes. At least they don't try to reverse the female stereotype so people can laugh at it.
It's funny I live two minutes from this place [1]. It's now no longer a hospital but a campus for the University of Vienna, and houses many nice restaurants.

1: http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2015/01/08/aakh-1784_enl-453...
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>He publicly berated people who disagreed with him and made some influential enemies.

This piqued my curiosity. Managed to dig up this quote attributed to him by "Forgotten Ideas, Neglected Pioneers"

>In this massacre you, Herr Professor, have participated. The homicide must cease, and with the object of bringing this homicide to an end, I shall keep watch, and every man who dares to spread dangerious errors regarding puerperal fever will find me an active opponent. For me there is no other means for checking the murder than to unsparingly unmask my opponents.

I can kind of see why people didn't like him.
> You'll country after country where the most popular comics have little to no sexualized content.

First of all, you're making the assumption that our popular comics are popular because of sexualized content (i.e., no MJ with big tits = no one is gonna read Spiderman; doubtful).

Second: Japanese Manga. When you put it in perspective, a couple scantily-clad women, eh... could be a lot worse!

> There's been a drastic change in them to in the last 20 years or so. They used to target boys, not men.

You might want to dig up some of your old comics. The women were always drawn "sexy", it's just that the boundaries of good taste have shifted. You can get away with things in terms of sex and violence that you never could decades ago.

And is it really puzzling why comics are targeting men more? It's because they're the only ones left reading comic books! Kids don't read them and don't care.
Are you saying you want quotas for comic shops?

Why shouldn't they be allowed to just sell the things their customers actually buy?

If somebody has a vision for a better comic shop, why not create one, instead of calling for rules and regulations?

I suppose you could even apply to YC with the idea of launching a better comic book chain.

Edit: since HN prevents me from commenting atm - sure, write more articles about it. But writing articles about there being a market for x doesn't make it true. Buying better comics would make it true. What if some poor soul reads the articles, pours their savings into a fancy comic shop and then goes bankrupt because nobody is buying? Also, I suspect a lot of comic creators scratch their own itch - they make comics they want, not comics that other people want.
Did you have a look at the older posts ? I found some really bad ones of paris 8, which doesn?t surprise me. I would be shocked to hear that germans accept this level of dirt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_attack

> It is called a "zero-day" because the programmer has had zero days to fix the flaw
Apple, Your Developer Agreement Tramples on Free Speech and Innovation
What about Facebook or television? Or McDonalds? Once you feel that you have to moralize and keep people from doing things that you think are bad for them, where do you stop?
"Do you know Inkscape?"

I've been using it on and off since it was Sodiwopi or whatever it was called.

"Inkscape has free-hand and raster tools"

Yes, and Gimp has 'vector tools', so what? GP says "If you count inkscape as a 'photoshop replacement', it does many of the things photoshop/illustrator does" which makes no sense on all levels except the most abstract, like saying a pair of Nikes is like a Mercedes because you can use both to go from point A to point B.
His daughter.
Not as pretty as OPs but I made this little game: http://extigy.github.io/primes/

I didn't really think about game theory or anything. I just had an idea and wondered how it would play.
You are throwing the baby out with the bath water, with respect to financial modelling. Yes, there are failures, and, yes, the models are severely imperfect.

We reduced the risk on a portfolio of 2 billion Euro, from a about a billion Euro to a risk of about 50 million Euro using hedging. The remaining 50 million was mostly basis risk, i.e., the mismatch between the underlying instruments in the liabilities and the hedge assets.

Using a similar logic to yours, senior management argued that we introduced a new risk called basis risk by trading derivatives.
I would gladly print that PDF and stick it in every office. Maybe an alternative would be to make it work, and then to make it readable.
Yes, and then they ask people to sit on them longer when it's their ass on the line, something they won't do for Microsoft: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8873898
Yeah, you'd have lots of angry men sending the woman cartoonists death threats, like the Gamergate domestic terrorists. Where's the profit in that?
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I don't feel like reading yet another cicada article that in the end has no new information. Is there anything new in this article that wasn't in the last 1/2 dozen cicada articles?
When I was a kid, comics were for all ages. When my parents were kids, comics were for kids. That seems to have changed.
>and struck against piracy

A known torrent site begs to differ!
This is something we have been working in our free time for last several months. The instrumentation support in Ruby seems to be coming together at last and ko1 (Koichi Sasada) has done lot of work in that regard.

For those interested in quickly finding out, what rbkit can do , check http://rbkit.codemancers.com/v0.1.10/docs/using-rbkit-deskto...
> Comic book authors don't consider that women might want to read their books, and so they unwittingly cut women out of their audience.

I'm guessing Marvel, DC et al have done a lot of research over the years and found out yep, it's pretty much only males that read comic books. They've attempted female-targeted comic books over the years and they don't sell. Not really worth spinning your wheels on something that's not going to happen.

> A book store will have many types of books including romance novels, but comic book stores may have just one type of comic, and it's usually for men.

Men and women shop at book stores, so there's that. Comic book stores (are there more than a couple hundred left in the US anyway? Who cares) are really only frequented by men because WOMEN DON'T CARE ABOUT COMICS. No amount of hand-wringing over this issue is going to change it. Sometimes it really just is "men do this, women do that". It doesn't need to be over-analyzed.
the comic market isn't a fixed thing and it can and will change over time.

nobody but the small population of fathers of daughters who think boys and girls, on average, should behave identically and have identical interests.

I have no idea what comment you are replying to here but it doesn't appear to be mine. I was explicitly saying that boys, girls and grown men and women have different interests.
Dont see why u couldnt get a job with a big and decent portfolio. Although i would not state that you are " I'm a UI expert I use github I'm good at Photoshop and illustrator " . Whoever states being an expert is an idiot: let people find out ur an expert or a pro no need to advertise it.
This. I think there's a big space between cheap-fast (crap) and good-expensive (or just "good"). In my experience, we seem to be way more toward the crap side of things. I think we can make a correction without going too far the other way. You can make sacrifices for speed that don't always mean crap in the end. I'm willing to sacrifice perfect architecture in order to get something out the door, for instance.
Thanks for the tip. Its is mostly used within an iframe, since it was developed for banners and such so it wasn't an issue but will work on that thanks :)
That feels weird to me because I like comics (I am from Europe, so "european comics" is a weird name for what I'd roughly translate to `Drawn stories` or `graphic novels`) and there are a lot of interesting indie or ya comics out there (edit: I mean, in the US too).

I suppose comics bookstore are just dump ground for Marvel/DC/Images/DH production of the week ?

For a 8-12 years-old, of the top of my mind: http://www.mouseguard.net/ and lmgt.

There are also the translated comics from Europe.

But I understand these are not weekly `updated` and that might not appeal to an american audience (cultural heritage).
I think you might argue that comics are really "meant for adults" these days as they're the only people reading them anymore.
There seems to be a tendency on HN to pre-judge the outcome of trials and speak beyond the level of one's legal expertise.

Your first words are very prejudicial - "an interesting tactic". It's not a 'tactic', it's part of his defence. It might even be true. And your second paragraph is frankly fairly ridiculous - no trained lawyer talks about "a 99.9% chance of conviction".
The entire US superhero genre, with some notable exceptions, were in the "trash department of comics". You are right they are not representative of quality comics, but they were and are representative of a large segment of what sells.

Though especially in Europe there's a wider segment of non-superhero comics that sells well (and often outsells Marvel/DC titles by a wide margin), and that is not nearly as sexualised - see my comment elsewhere. But these are very poorly represented in most comic stores in English speaking countries.

The high brow stuff, even in Europe, sold - and sells - in far smaller quantities.
>>something that's unheard of in India.

Maybe not if you're in the 'upper middle class'. If you're from the lower income classes (maids, drivers, helpers), it's very likely that health issues can bankrupt you.

I personally know an entire family that has sunk into debt that they couldn't possibly pay-off, due to health related expenses for someone in the family.
The way things are, it's worth the time if your time is worthless. I find it hard to get out of that rabbit hole while my weekly budget could feed a family for a year on the other side of the globe. So all the DIY projects I undertake, I cannot justify them with economic efficiency.
Paul Graham Is Wrong: Or Where to Find the Best “Bad Idea”
North Miami Beach Police Use Mug Shots of African-Americans for Target Practice
This paper also explains each rule. They use code analysis tools a lot, and do not like stuff which makes analysis harder (recursion, unbounded loops..)
The selection targeting women is smaller because it's been tried. Over. And. Over. And women just don't care about comic books.
I use perl one-liners, thanks to the power of -n, -i and -p switches.

perl -n -e <expression> <file>

runs the expression on each and every line of <file> (can be STDIN of course).

perl -p -e <expression> <file>

prints out every line for which the expression returns true.
The -i option allows treating files in place. Add -i<extension> to create a <file>.<extension> backup, just in case.

examples:

perl -p -e '/admin/' file
perl -p -e '^/admin/' file

behaves exactly like the basic awk examples. We can also replace stuff :

perl -p -e 's/admin/bozo/g' file

print all lines matching 'admin', replacing 'admin' with 'bozo'.

Now if you just want to replace all occurrences of 'admin' with 'bozo' in the file:

perl -pi -e 's/admin/bozo/g' file

For instance perl allows you to use a different separator than / for regexps, very useful when manipulating paths:

perl -pi -e 's#/some/path/#/different/path/#g' file

Of course instead of a simple awk/sed substitute, you can run more elaborate code, and even use perl modules in your one liners with the -M switch:

perl -MData::Dumper -n -e 'print Dumper $1 if m/^(admin .w+)/' file

Lastly, perl allows you to use q(string) instead of 'string' and qq(string) instead of "string", that avoids lots of escaping when typing in oneliners, so instead of:

perl -n -e 'print \'found\' if m/admin/' file

Use

perl -n -e 'print q(found) if m/admin/' file
I use git for that, works great.
ISIS attacks US Centcom – hacktivism or a nation state?
>Converting RGB to CMYK worked, but turned out to be not the best choice because you cannot get pure black that way, ever. //

Using black point compensation? Is it that you don't want to use rich black but want pure black (100% key)?
Google’s Modular Project Ara Smartphone to Be Released First in Puerto Rico
I'm definitely not advocating throwing out agile and embracing waterfall. I like the ability to iterate quickly. I just think we seem to be taking "move fast and break things" a little too seriously in terms of breaking all the things. Everything in moderation.
If that would be the case then we would have another term for the thing I just described, because that's the worst case scenario.

Anyhow, the Wikipedia article disagrees with you, too. Got any sources for your definition?
I don't know what to say about Google glass, but the women at 3:57 of the BBC video is IDDG, intellectually drop dead gorgeous. Capturing her smile with $1500 glasses would be worth it.
I guess it is less about pricing alone. Many universities have trouble [1] with Adobe's Creative Cloud licensing which is mandatory for new licensing agreements.
Adobe apparently did not consider educational institutions in its licensing conditions.
For example, licenses need to be bought per user (individual persons) now, no longer per seat.
This makes it impossible to install Adobe software in labs.
Furthermore, storing student data in the Cloud is not (easily) compatible with data protection regulations at universities.

LRZ - the central computing center for all universities in Munich - had actually spent months drafting an acceptable licensing contract together with Adobe Germany.
In November 2014, Adobe USA told LRZ that they would not agree to this contract, essentially giving them the finger [1].

LRZ now recommends all universities to switch away from Adobe software where possible.

Given that Krita is 'good enough' for most courses, it remains to be seen whether that was the right decision for Adobe.

[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=h...
I know what you mean about habit forming - I have a G Watch and the battery lasts 36 hours, at first it was a case of charging it at home, seeing it not moaning about low battery at night, then having it die at work the next day. I've had it nigh on 6 months, but have only just adapted to putting it on to charge every night with my phone.
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Because kids don't read comics. When your demographic changes you have to adapt or die.
It sounds like what he "gets" is how hard it is to notice a lot of the sexualization when you don't get to see it from their side.

It's easy to e.g. dismiss the way female superheroes (and villains) are being dismissed with references to how the men are also in tight outfits (as you can find examples of in this thread). It's harder to dismiss the difference between your son having no problems finding something he likes vs. your daughter being put off by the depictions of women in the same series.
There are definitely jobs out there for you if you have the portfolio. But I hardly think college is a waste of time.
So like … better than a hundred years ago?
> All code must be compiled, from the first day of development, with all compiler warnings enabled at the compiler’s most pedantic setting. All code must compile with these setting without any warnings. All code must be checked daily with at least one, but preferably more than one, state-of-the-art static source code analyzer and should pass the analyses with zero warnings.

Wow, am I ever frustrated by the summary ignoring of warnings I see going on around me. I spend my spare time at work making warnings go away and deleting uncommented @SupressWarnings from our codebase.

In a word, KISS. Another engineer designing critical systems for the US government coined that one, apparently [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle
All sexual material sold legally in Japan is censored by law.

Many people in this thread are talking about how 'the market should adapt' or 'the market doesn't need to adapt', but I think a more interesting corraly is that 'the market' is the primary force acting on the culture of this niche. Japan is lucky to have a diverse comic market, but I think there's an interesting case to be made for non-market forces to encourage a broader set of creativity in the comic world, if not for the young girls at the very least countering the incessant duldrum I find myself stepped in as a consumer.
The Gimp has certain, err, noteworthy notions about user interface design.

Nevertheless, single-window mode has been around for years (I think): Select 'Windows'->'Single-Window Mode'.
The distinction between Save and Export is one of those measures to gently remove the user's feet from below the barrel, I imagine (only the native xcf-format stores certain information, like layers).
I wasn't around then, and I doubt you were either. So that's fairly irrelevant.
i hear this quite often

>considering how much they've contributed to the industry.

SEO is single most hated online discipline and Moz is the market leader.
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Archie, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Asterix, Tintin... Old comics, from the 1980's or earlier are pretty safe. These days the audience is 15+ guys. Soft porn and hardcore violence. Why would he take his 7 year old daughter and 5 year old son to look at that?

For kids that young seeing is believing. My nephew at 6 watched Star Wars over Christmas. You explain that it isn't real, they are actors in a play, playing characters - he's been in several plays himself - and then later on he says 'but it must be real, because how could they make a whole planet?'.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Creep_shaming ?

> *Obviously there are some good comics which I've read (Akira is a good example) but, in my experience, the soaring heights of the greatest writing in comics would be seen as mediocre in another domain.

There's lots of genres like that. Soap operas. Romance novels.
Steam manages game installation and updates; those games are themselves separate applications. That's what I was referring to.
Thanks! Noted, and it was my attempt to explain that i'm pretty good at graphic design as well. Anyways thanks for the tip. Also is a senior web developer position possible with this portfolio and with my age?
What I don't understand is how this would ease the export of this now-generic drug to other countries.

Surely each of them has a patent office, doesn't it?
The way the post was phrased with the quotes made it clear that antome felt it was a shaky equivalence. I'd guess they were hooked in with the talk of in-place text editing as being a top differentiator for a _raster_ package (if PS does text manipulation using raster techniques I'll be shocked).

Just consider it to have an implicit "for me" and I'll bet you'll find it hard to find a genuine objection that's worth making.

[PS: SodiPodi, me too]
1) no

2) they can, and I'm also free to make commentary about it

3) they can, and nowhere did I mention rules or regulations

4) You're right, I could.

The only suggestion I made was that people should write more articles pointing out that there's a lot of potential for more types of comics. The medium is underused. I get the feeling you're replying to what others have said more than what I said.
is it true that javascript was designed in 10 days ?
What is wrong with financial modeling, in my opinion, is not only that models cannot grasp too complex "reality", but that it is changing while you are finishing your model, so no statistical "snapshot" or data-set is even close to be correct.

Also, so-called Black swans could occur only within such models. There is no chance that one day c or even g could change (no matter what "scientists" used to say in journals).

Btw, finance is a business, not science.)
Why don't you just put both on the charger every night then?