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I can't remember everything I've written, but I don't see that anything's been deleted.

I'm sorry if I can't accept it as an axiom that all rape is equally bad...

Are you. seriously. saying. that just because something falls under the broadest and most pedantic definition of rape, that that means it must automatically be violent, bloody, sadistic?

If you fuck someone awake in the morning, that fits that very same definition of rape, therefore it _is_ rape, but it's obviously not a bad thing.

If one such counterexample exists I don't see why a few more shouldn't.

Are you even AWARE that I'm talking about the WOMAN initiating here?
E. W. Dijkstra Archive: “Why is software so expensive?” (2009)
Good guess :) But I am from Cracow, so I don't know about Erlang positions in Warsaw. I know couple of positions in Cracow, though.
Perhaps the story explains why so many people succeed greatly that don't finish college?
Try out a vpn, like hola. (note: only have hola active while you are using it, there are some security risks using it.)
There is something very wrong when buying a movie on iTunes costs more than buying it on Bluray.
Tech for Good: The rise of a movement
I would pay about 15$ and two bowls of ramen.

But this is not the price resellers are asking for...

http://dnpric.es/stats/stats-by-length/?sl=4
Definitely not written by someone living in Japan. Here:

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/japan/inflation-cpi

You can say they have had net inflation if you pick your time range correctly, but the graph shows spurts of deflation followed by spurts of deparate inflation via QE that doesn't solve the deflation.

Google "Japan deflation" today and you'll get articles from yesterday describing how they are still trying to fight this problem.
I pimp this quote from Alan Kay regularly:

"Computing spread out much, much faster than educating unsophisticated people can happen. In the last 25 years or so, we actually got something like a pop culture, similar to what happened when television came on the scene and some of its inventors thought it would be a way of getting Shakespeare to the masses. But they forgot that you have to be more sophisticated and have more perspective to understand Shakespeare. What television was able to do was to capture people as they were. So I think the lack of a real computer science today, and the lack of real software engineering today, is partly due to this pop culture." [1]

[1] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523
Did Microsoft put a final nail in the coffin of its mobile developers?
Have you seen JanOS from JSConf.eu? [Home page here](http://janos.io/)

Long story short. Mozilla are making dirt cheap phones, Buy their motherboard direct from china that goes into the phone and put a headless build of firefoxOS on it. All the hardware interfacing has been done for you.

I've no idea how this project is going. Still hard to get those phones in the UK so I've not bothered to look more than the talk and the site.
VoltDB, like MySQL Cluster and several other in-memory system, uses snapshot checkpoints and logging to maintain power-loss protection. VoltDB is a bit different because of how it uses determinism + logical logging, but the point is that most of these systems don't have to lose data on power loss.
"Equities (in general, as a class), are negatively correlated with interest rates."

We're not disagreeing, although I was less clear than your line above.
Breaking ToC is not the same as breaking the law.
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How does liability work, and do Airbus have access to the source code? I assume that if a "bug" was found in the architectural blueprint for a plane it would be the manufacturer who in the end is responsible for not finding it, but they would naturally have full access to the blueprint when making the plane. Is the same true when developing the custom software for the plane?
Extended Events to the Rescue
Only 2 major sellers does not make a market perfectly competitive by any stretch of the imagination, but I digress.

The classification point is interesting though. If there's forced lock-in to only Uber or Lyft, then I can't see there not being mass lawsuits about misclassification of workers. The status quo is already almost 50/50 in terms of the IRS classification checklist.
I honestly do not believe that the movie studios are motivated to improve the current system. Perhaps they feel that the current, fractured delivery system serves their interest more than something central and comprehensive. It certainly encourages the customer to subscribe to a service like Netflix, perhaps also to rent a new release on iTunes and eventually possibly buying that same release when its price drops. That's getting paid three times for the same content!
I don't think so. There is a website, so you can explore through. this will help prevent facing no content. of course it makes I still feel the need to facebook-type commnities
I don't think so. There is a website, so you can explore through. this will help prevent feeling like there is no content. of course it makes me still feel the need to facebook-type commnities
If the price of a movie were composed out of the cost of the materials for the DVD, this argument would be correct. But the price is needed to compensate the people who made the movie. (I don't say that current movie pricing is equitable.)

Content creators deserve to be paid for their work. Taking it without payment and without their agreement is stealing.
Netflix has a very limited, poor selection of content. Every single movie I've tried to watch on Netflix in the past month hasn't been available for streaming.
My dad collected a ton of these, thinking they'd have value someday. I thought he was nuts. I'll ask him if he still has any.
Exactly. In this case, just abstain from internet access until it makes its way to your part of the world in a few years or decades. Just ignore that your neighbors have access.
By that logic, if you know that the prices of houses will rise, you shouldn't add them to the baskets of goods, otherwise it'll make inflation seem more than it really is.
I am sure plenty of people have.
Yes. Nothing last forever.
My dad is an asshole.

And yeah, race track conditions are very different. A drag race is a straight line over more or less flat and smooth asphalt, that can easily be kept clean. The hard part is the vehicles are so fast that even keeping them straight over the width of a two-lane road is a challenge (especially when the front wheels may not be touching the ground for the first hundred feet or more).

I saw a guy get killed racing once, when I was a kid. It was a mixed car/motorcycle event, and the motorcyclists were arguing with the NHRA to get haybales put up around the guard rails at the end of the track. It didn't get done, and a top fuel bike (~7.8 second quarter mile those days) lost control and went into the rail at close to 200mph. That was sobering.

I don't ride motorcycles anymore. Too much sense of my own mortality.
> If people don’t have disposable income, how could it be profitable to advertise to them?

That is what credit cards are for..To buy things you don't really need, with money you don't really have...
This is the coolest thing I've seen in a while when it comes to conference. As someone with a young family, I cringe when I have to think about going to another city for a conference, which is all the time because I live in Cleveland. Its not the travel, I rather like traveling: its leaving the wife with the kids and just up and going. This allows me to take the kids and wife, and not feel too bad about abandoning them to fend for themselves for a week.
I'm afraid it's a real thing.
7 Minutes of Pharo Smalltalk for Rubyists
I remember that the PC my parents got in 1996 couldn't even hold one CD of data. (~500 MB, but Encarta 95 that came with it was >600 MB) My parents were and still are cheapskates.
What exactly can Hollywood learn here?

When Popcorn Time produces it's own content and distributes it in a consumer friendly way, then I think Hollywood has something to learn. Until then, this is just theft.
Logical XOR in JavaScript
By tracking the location history of the object. That's actually how much of the art world protects against forgery. Forgers are very good at copying art works, but artists' estates keep a record of what an artist actually produced.
Life's not fair, and I don't believe in giving everyone a trophy just for participating. There really are some genres that are - in fact if not of necessity - more or less devoid of intellectually stimulating content. That's not the same as saying they cause some sort of mind-rot, which is an important difference between my rejection of the OP's thesis and your rejection of mine. Another important difference is that I made an actual counterargument instead of just complaining. If you want to argue that (a) comics-based movies are no more escapist than SF generally, or (b) romantic comedies as they actually exist in theatres are something other than fluff, then you just go ahead. That's the way we learn from each other. Complaining about "fairness" instead of about the facts won't get anyone anywhere.
"And can be used by software on your personal device to give you extra functionality without again you having to do anything."

Without you having to do anything but pay for and power a dedicated chip. If the utility of having a tiny amount of BTC on device is so high, and the cost so low, why not just have the device manufacturer pre-load a lifetime supply on the device (purchased or mined in a giant wind powered data center)? Seems the cost of this buying this chip is much higher than just buying the BTC outright for the user.
That's a nice looking CV! :)

2 things I'd change layout wise: remove your home address. It's probably not a great idea to share it with the world. Also, job title in bold, company in blue and the description in regular text, I just find it hard to focus on reading it. Maybe make the company name regular or both bold?
Google goes open source with a Google App Engine clone
Serious Questions Every Startup Should Ask Now
Don't get stuck in a rut of trying to find work in the same ways all the time. Internet job boards are enticing because they are easy, but they are really low-value; it typically takes a lot of repeated effort to even get contacts out of them.

Networking in person--by attending meetups and conferences in your potential customers' market (don't waste your time on tech meetups if you're just looking for work)--is slower and emotionally harder, but has a much, much higher yield.

It takes effort either way. I personally like the in person approach. I feel I do better in person than on paper. People get to see my enthusiasm, whereas trying to write enthusiasm into things often comes off as just fake.

Go to where your customers are. My wife has given up advertising her sci-fi novel online. We now go to book fairs. Bam--pre-filtered group of customers looking to buy now. I don't advertise my services online anymore, I now stick to meeting people at conferences. Best set of contacts I got from a conference was one at which I had spoke on a discussion panel.

Spend the small amount of money on a booth. Setup a few demos of your work. It's a lot easier than you think, and it doesn't have to be perfect; some people like the "I'm just starting out and don't know much about these booth things yet" story.

I've never gotten anything but run-around and bad deals out of recruiters.
This is exactly why I'm organizing it. I have two kids (and a husband who likes to have me around), and it's always a bit of chaos when I leave for a conference.
subsidised $30, but you can get it unlocked anyway usually
You still need a debit/credit card for that country.
Why the world is addicted to debt?
How do you explain Apple?
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Google didn't come up with that first. I'm aware of a number companies with multiple data enters (my last co had 14 around the world) and coordinated logs or time sensitive services that used this technique.

I personally implemented it 12 years ago, to support (a) a kind of geo-balancing based on time coordinated spoofed DNS responses, and (b) time stamped URL token expiration validation, sensitive to seconds, across distributed datacenters. I got the idea from Microsoft Windows' ability to drift the clock back into sync.

Google has adopted or reinvented a lot, and gets credit because they have extra time and resources to publish.

// TBC, they also invented a lot. But not this one. Sibling comments point out other implementations predating Google as well.
I think I still have a clear DVD-sized thin case from about 2001, and a AOL tin that conveniently holds a CPU.
>If you can tell me why, really why

big photodiodes = longer pulses the closer you are to base station
>“Yes, we will help them, but there is no more something for nothing. They must give back to their community too.”

Well, unless you're a banker or a high net worth individual looking to avoid tax, of course. Then you are under no such obligation to give back to the community.

This is bad for you even if you aren't earning minimum wage or jobless. The minimum wage has a ripple effect on the labor market. Raise the minimum wage and it increases the wage of those earning just above it, and those earning just above just above it and so on.

The effect is of course, muted the further up the wage ladder you go, but the effects of raising the minimum wage propagate up a lot further than you'd imagine.

Of course, if you lower the minimum wage the ripple effect works in the opposite direction.
Aww, that's a shame. I was really hoping that this was a clever use of websockets like http://webtorrent.io is.
Then stick with a news agency rather than journalists. The information from somewhere like Reuters is carefully presented as pure content, no opinion, and probably has a greater chance of being true.
My german architect clients say: “Ze lowest bidder wins to start ze project with ze highest bidder’s plans.” Which is funny when you squint enough to ignore the tragedy.
ah, Jeri mentioned standalone tracker diodes available, you could put them all around your house and use Castar just for pose/location estimation.
> So, obviously they've found something they're concerned about, but it seems to me to be a bit early to say as Spiegel Online do that software caused the crash.

I would assume the Spiegel report is based on more sources than just Airbus' public statement. At least most of the time, Der Spiegel is a real newspaper, not just some blog spouting stuff based on conjecture from a single source. They mention internal sources in multiple places in the article.
Image Recognition for Mobile Game Testing
I can confirm similar situations for other EU IT projects. Currently, I am a contractor working on the IT side for the Galileo Satellite System. Although the IT consulting company that I work for pays significantly better then the 18K mentioned (25K-30K range) the quality of the work that is delivered is terrible. The mentioned salary is for graduate engineers.

The attrition rate is terrible and its impossible to keep people who have knowledge of the program on board.

I would guess that 30-50% of our team are inexperienced java software engineers with less then 5 years of working experience. Around 100 people work on our project but there are probably 3-5 people who still have a clear picture of how everything is working / supposed to work.
Iowa Spent $50M to Lure IBM. Then the Firings Started
Wow, I wish there was something like this for JS
Netflix, Amazon Instant (both Prime and the store), Steam, GoG, etc., are all slippery services. If they have a particular piece of content available, it's easier to consume it on their services than it is to pirate. That's really what Hollywood needs to focus on.
Facebook provides messaging, so internet.org will eat into SMS revenue. Carriers might be able to keep call revenue if they don't allow Facebooks' messenger app.
Interesting. I'll have to give both of those a try.
it isn't just plane crashes where that applies, tbh pretty much every subject
This is sort of veering off topic, but it does seem appropriate to mention in this context..

They have similar nonsense in Mexico, Carlos Slim (incidentally the majority shareholder of the NY Times) make billions off of the backs of the poor in Mexico. The cell phone costs in Mexico are more expensive than in the US. So when adjusted by purchasing power, cell phones represent a huge financial burden on those least able to afford it but most likely to need it (due to decayed or non-existent telecom infrastructure in many parts of the country.)

If you want to see the effects of limiting competition (especially on the poor), Mexico is a case study. Before the Downvote Brigade starts naming Telcel competitors, one must remember that Carlos had an over 5 year monopoly on telecoms in Mexico before other market entrants were allowed to join the market, so essentially Carlos Slim and Co. were able to own the market before they had to compete, however by the time competition happened, they had a massive head start. Slim also owns/controls Telmex giving him almost total control of the internet infrastructure (and land lines) as well as cellular infrastructure. Mexico is a place where your cell phone plan might include "5 SMS messages a month" as part of your plan. That's right, 5. There's a reason WhatsApp just went nuts down there.
Uber is only greatly cheaper during this initial period of VC-funded expansion in order to gain market share. There should be no expectation that it will remain this way after it has beaten soundly its competition and established itself.
There is also less regulation. And there are also lots lots of people. And their economies grow much faster than the first world's. And they haven't yet maxed all their credit cards.

The ammount of money that can be made in the thirld world is staggering. Another case of shlep blindness?
I will wait for the episode to air on NG.
Why are you attacking mortgages in the same paragraph as payday loans?! They're substantially different things.

Owning your house isn't a bad thing if you can afford it and its value doesn't tank. The buyer is largely responsible for those things. Further, most homeowners treat their homes as an investment. They do what they can and trade up when they can afford [to mortgage] something better. When they retire, they trade down and release 50 years of equity.

Yeah pensioners with money. That sounds horrid.

The UK's housing issues are far more to do with the inadequacy of rents. Soaring rates (underpinned by flat welfare rates). Unfair terms. Agents that lump on their own hidden fees and arbitrary terms. In more than one case in my past, my rent has been substantially more than the equivalent mortgage would have been.
I don't know the transit situation in the UK but in the areas I've lived in the US a huge portion of their "benefits" would be eaten up by transit costs just to get to "work".
I know. But there was no MongoDB bashing -- at least in the comment ;)
Way to put words in my mouth.
Eying Bitcoin-Like Stock, Overstock Invests in Trading Firm
I will venture a guess - it's a nice and refurbished (or newly built) apartment, unlike majority sub-standard quality accommodation in London, thus the price. I am paying more or less the same for a studio in zone 1.
I went thru the process (a long time ago) and if you worked in pr0n (although I did not) an excellent way to fail a security check would be trying something like hiding your past employment from a hard core evang fundamentalist C.O. or something similar to that. Theoretically leading to an enemy agent blackmailing you to keep your past quiet if only you'll give him a photocopy of some document or a password or whatever. But if you already told security you were a sysadmin at nude-hackernews-posters.com or whatever then it would be REALLY hard to blackmail you about something that's already public knowledge...

If this line applies to the issue, you're OK: "The behavior no longer serves as a basis for coercion, exploitation, or duress."
Couldn't one write a chain macro instead ? That way you don't have to rely on the library to return self.

chain!(dialog, set_title("blah"), set_size_piels(100, 100));
> It's very easy to find safe investments with greater returns than inflation and it always has been, has it caused a hoarding problem?

Great returns come with great risk.
Safeguarding the Open Internet
Rr – lightweight tool for recording and replaying execution of applications
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The only new thing is command line. There are plenty of sites that offer this; see filestream.me, btcloud.io, zbigz.com, boxopus.com
Perfect only exists in models.

Also, you might think of it as thousands of sellers but only two buyers. In any case, competitiveness has to do with more than the number of actors. Switching costs are pretty low and information is very available. That counts for a good amount. Two buyers/sellers can be still create a competitive market in the right circumstances, with collusion being the biggest danger.

Also, drivers still have the option of getting business in other ways.

Generally though I agree that the market needs more players, for the employee vs sole trader debate and for competitiveness reasons.
I wouldn't suggest diving into contracting straight away then, if you can find a good perm job with a great team to learn from and mentor you would reap dividends in your future career. Then with a couple of years under your belt you'll be able to pick and work with much better clients and command better rates.

It's tempting to see the contracting rates and just think of the $$ but a lot of the time it'll be cleaning up awful codebases.
Never call yourself a hacker. To non-tech people "hacker" has the meaning of "illegally hacks into computers".
New retina 15-inch MBP and cheaper retina iMac
Tesla’s New Strategy Is Over 100 Years Old
Today is IBD day, why should you care?
I have done a quick and rough translation of the German article into English. Hopefully this is better than the Google Translate version: https://gist.github.com/alexcoplan/0018e3320f99a612c737
At least with iTunes for Windows, the experience is pretty horrid. I've found iTunes to be extremely hard to navigate, and generally difficult to use. Aesthetically, the app looks like a mix between an OSX app and a website, very out of place on a Windows machine. The UI is slow and unresponsive. It seems like every time I open the app, it wants to update, with a new EULA for me to read. They used to bundle the installer with unwanted crap. Somehow whenever I want to buy a movie, I need to click through 3 or 4 dialog boxes to confirm the purchase. The download I finally get is DRMed, and wont play on my devices.

In general iTunes manages to be bad in almost all ways software can be bad. In my mind, it's one of the worst applications I've had to deal with in recent years.

Imagine a world where content providers made content available for purchase over an open protocol, and allowed anyone to build apps to buy content on top of it. With real competition on the app side of things, non-piracy apps would be more usable than Popcorn Time, and things like iTunes would die in a heart beat.
New study suggests people use “constructive noncompliance” to enact change