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The main thing I want from Microsoft is for .NET to be fully cross platform.

There have been some significant strides, but what I would love is for Microsoft to effectively come out and say "In x years time, .NET and Visual Studio will both run on Windows, Mac, and Linux".

Naturally, ports aren't really possible, but enough of Visual Studio could be ported with a Mac/Linux custom UI; just enough for there to be some kind of native-feeling experience across each platform.

I'm a .NET dev by day, and I absolutely love the ecosystem, but I dislike the idea that all C# developers work in enterprise, or on huge projects. So far, as a .NET dev, I've worked in one startup and two small agencies. I could probably spend the next decade working as a .NET dev in small companies without ever touching an enterprise code-base.

Building in Windows is fine, but you often feel like an imposter for working on a completely different OS to everyone else. Ultimately, if .NET was fully cross-platform I'd probably move to Linux, but I feel that if other OS's were embraced Windows would improve tremendously.
Saying "I didn't use any browser-specific hacks" with HTML4 is a strange statement, seeing as how many non-trivial layouts in html4 (and I'm assuming the older CSS standards that would typically go along with it) require browser-specific hacks to work.

But honestly, I can't know because he's not naming anything specific anyway, just an anecdote about how IE8 was great at being standards-compliant and safari wasn't. Which is such an extraordinary claim (and is so contrary to established precedent) that without any extraordinary evidence, I have a lot of trouble accepting it.

(And it's amazing how many people think "I'm not doing any browser hacks" while they're using something like jQuery, which is a library 100% devoted to doing browser hacks for you while abstracting you from that fact.)
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Yeah, I was a big believer in "screw it we'll just use tables" back then. When CSS finally caught on it basically was the end of dynamic-width websites for a few years.
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Klack and Möller (the curators of this) just recently did great visualization with D3 for Morgenpost in Berlin:

"Mapping population dynamics in Europe" http://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/europakarte/#7/48.738/10.569...
I doubt it will ever be as good as Safari, but Google is working on this: http://www.macrumors.com/2015/06/12/chrome-os-x-performance-...
It's possible, but unfortunately a bit obtuse in this language (you might want to just use photoshop for something like that...).

One way you could do it is as follows:

OPERATE SET R = (IN[COL,ROW-1].R + IN[COL-1,ROW] + ...)/8;

Unfortunately, that's just the R channel. I should find a way to consider COLOR that would be smart enough to just have it apply the operation across all channels. (right now, the COLOR keyword is nice for simple "set color to this" type of things)
At least with OpenSSL you can implement your own BIO objects and do the I/O yourself if you want/need to. It's not the cleanest or best-documented interface in the world, but it's certainly usable.
Oh goodey... Annother Amy's Baking Company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy's_Baking_Company) in the making

grabs popcorn
Here's the full transcript of the Alan Watts lecture

http://thinkyhead.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/alan-watts-philosop...
This might be crazy, but... Maybe Apple is working on a new browser? Maybe that's why they're not working on Safari any more?
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Won't Somebody Please Think of the Data?
Good enough reason, I'll certainly be using your resource, thanks :)
that is definitely some sort of trolling.
I sincerely hope that Cisco keeps the OpenDNS Home free offering around, as it's by far the best filtering service for families I've used. Sign up, block inappropriate categories through the service, and point your router to the DNS IPs and you're done. (Oh, and grab the IP autoupdater.) Keeping the kids (and adults) safe is my favorite aspect of OpenDNS.

From the "we just got acquired" FAQ:

> The free service will continue to operate. It’s part of who we are, and Cisco loves who we are. We wouldn’t have entered into this agreement if we believed our free service would be in jeopardy. On contrary, Cisco’s commitment back to you is to maintain OpenDNS’s DNS services exactly as it is today. In their words: “This level of service for all users is a priority.”
They overspent. Their economy is dysfunctional. They share a big part of the blame.

But they have been following the Troika's plan for over 7 years now, they have reduced spending, they have done a huge effort, and still their GDP has collapsed. It seems that the Troika's plan is not working.

That is what Tsipras is saying: we can not continue doing this, and the rest of Europe/Troika has to recognize part of the blame. Not only that: it seems it has the support of his people (we'll see on Sunday)

If Greece had defaulted (or restructured the debt) at the beginning of this crisis, as Iceland did, the situation would be much better. But nobody was interested, since big banks where holding big chunks of high-paying Greek debt, and they needed some time to unload it.

I still remember how the Iceland success story was completely ignored by European media - and still is.
(not to mention correcting for gamma depending on exactly what you want to do with your blur... again, pixQL probably isn't the right tool for this as it currently stands hah)
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But that argument can justify any deficiency in Safari, so it's unconvincing. Eventually you're just saying, "Apple don't care about all these new web things." Which is the point of TFA.
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Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9804774.
See also: https://code.google.com/p/vimcolorschemetest/

Aside: The pages are also a good browser stress test with the large number of iframes.
You can't give them the fish, you have to teach them fishing.
Quaternion Julia Set Shape Optimization
How many employees had 0.1% equity?
Greeks has not much to buy bitcoins with.
Thanks man. I have one remaining question before I buy it.

I noticed from reading the material provided that you've said we're in a complex from start to finish, and it looks quite story based. This is great, I love lore like in Uplink. But more than that I love replayability in games. I like procedural generation such as ADOMs Unremarkable Cave (http://ancardia.wikia.com/wiki/Unremarkable_Dungeon), as this allows each game to be fresh.

So, how much of the game is procedurally generated? and how much replayability is there? I see that you can evolve and change your play type and that seems cool but what about the environment, is there some randomness there?
It's a nice thought ... but €3 each covers the immediate payment needed.

Total Greek debt is €323 B [1] and there are 503 million inhabitants in the EU, making 'pay-off the debt' more like €642 per inhabitant

For context total EU sovereign debt [2] is €24,415 per inhabitant

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33325886
[2] http://www.eudebtclock.org/
They'd be dumb to shut down the consumer DNS product. It's a goldmine of useful security data they can funnel back into their other products. Also, DNS doesn't cost much to run.
Greece will not leave the EU over this, and doesn't have to. Really nobody wants this. The Greek don't want that, and no EU country wants that. This is not going to happen.

I'm a EU citizen - from a rich country, without much corruption, and I don't see how we can change the Greek society within a reasonable period. I don't know what will happen, but I hope the EU will help Greece with many billions to help local people to survive.

This is a hard lesson for the Euro countries. They shouldn't have Greece let in, as well as several other countries. That's hindsite, but as we let them in, it's our responsibility as well. If you invite a country in which has a corrupt system, where not paying taxes is allowed on a massive scale, then you invite problems.
Thanks, Felix ;)
Safari still has some pretty glaring problems. Take going back, for example. Going back, it loads an image of the previous page before it actually loads the real page. This gives the perception that it's loaded immediately, but it's not really loaded. This means the page is not responsive. It also looks fuzzy, and you can see it's fake. It's horrible, and while it's intended to fake being fast, it only serves to remind me that it's not actually fast.

Then their is the problem with black boxes. I don't know why, but all to often, safari loads a page and there are black boxes on that page. Just covering up portions of the web page. I have to resize the window or do something to get Safari to rerender the page so it will go away. This happens frequently.

Couple this with all the other issues OSX has, I can't but make the assumption that Apple is focused on Quantity rather than Quality.

Of the 3 big browsers in Mac, Firefox is still, in my mind, the most solid. Safari suffers some serious problems, not the least of which is that it's only for Mac.
> Saying "I didn't use any browser-specific hacks" with HTML4 is a strange statement

I was working on top of a huge CSS framework - the majority of styling work I did was tiny tweaks to styles where the appropriate hacks had already been solved.

Also I didn't mention layout. The specific pain point was contenteditable in combination with JS - by the time I got to the code everything surrounding my little problem-space had been solved by the rest of the team. Again, specifically, Safari demonstrated wildly different behavior within that specific space, where other browsers only behaved marginally different (a relative term, contenteditable is a complete mess, sadly, still in HTML5) in a way that I could find a viable subset of functionality that worked consistently.
Linux as a lifestyle
Glad to know that someone else feels exactly the same as I do with work. You're not alone on this one.
And I'd add that for me the biggest issue is the extent to which it treats workers as disposable. In a salaried position, everybody understands and behaves as if people are people. E.g., sick days.

As somebody who was a self-employed consultant for years, I get that being one's own boss has upsides. But I always maintained a large buffer of cash and could price in all the time I spent looking for work. Things like Uber and the new retail scheduling trend don't allow for that, and as far as I'm concerned amount to calculated exploitation of desperate people.

In some sense, that's nothing new in labor history; we've always had exploitation of desperate people. But that's no excuse for increasing it, and in particular I despise Uber's "we're just helping people be independent entrepreneurs" spin to cover up that exploitation, especially when their whole plan is to kick those supposed entrepreneurs out into the snow the moment they have self-driving cars.
Wawrinka has potentially the greatest backhand of all time (single or double handed).
Cisco acquiring security companies? It's like the 1990s all over again. :)
Oh man, would this be even possible? That is a lot of money. I'm gonna pitch in but this needs some serious traction.

Wouldn't it be amazing though? Imagine what a breakthrough it would be, this sort of worldwide collaboration, it would be very empowering to common people.

I'm not sure why I'm getting so down-voted, maybe a little bit naive, but I thought I made clear I know it's a long shot, that much is clear, but given that, what isn't true about the rest of my statement?
Haha i would really like to see the actual numbers. 79% increase over what? Almost nobody knows bitcoin in greece. Is CNN that bad?
They can, but they don't have to. Mozilla ships a Gecko engine in Firefox for Android.
>That's not the whole story. The reason Greece is where it is today is because of the cruel austerity package imposed upon them by their European creditors.

History doesn't start in 2010. Greece pretty much lied to get into the EU and is a badly run country, at best, and a corrupt hell-hole at worst. Low retirement ages, low taxation due to fraud, government being the largest employer, lack of diversification, etc.

Its easy to take this hip anti-EU position for upvotes here, but you're defending a shittily run country in almost every respect.
> Microsoft didn't "break the web" they created their own web
> and then let it twist in the wind because they were pissed
> about the government beat down.

I was around as well. My recollection is that they let it twist in the wind because SaaS competed with their two interdependent quasi-monopolies: Windows and Office.

Which is another instance of the Innovator's Dilemma: How can a successful company embrace technology that disrupts themselves?
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You can install other browsers on iOS.
> immunize your attack aircraft from them

Stealth?
Our Unexpected Tale of Stumbling into a Trillion Dollar Market in Fintech
You can't move to another currency -- whatever that currency is -- after capital controls are in place.
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You can imagine composing a mask from several images using Join or Union. Summing up images to make HDR, only on some areas of the pictures based on different criteria to produce the mask.

Another possibility would be to output a mosaic based on properties of a set of pictures.

I also vote for the use of UPDATE and also the use of INSERT to insert some part of image 1 x mask in image 2 x mask, or insert geometric features x mask.

I think this project is a great idea, thanks for submiting it.
Iceland (Island) is 300,000 people and did NOT join the EU.

Iceland collects their taxes.

Iceland dealt with problem promptly.

Greece needs to bite the bullet. Harder.

Stop blaming others.
OS X 10.10.4 with discoveryd removal
FYI, opennic is far more than just an alternative resolver to OpenDNS. OpenNIC is running an alternative set of roots, with TLDs that aren't agreed to by the regular DNS-managing bodies (like ICANN). That may be fine with you (opinion on ICANN's handling of new TLD's is a subject for another time), but be aware that you're seeing a different DNS with opennic than you would be with OpenDNS or google's 8.8.8.8
Because Apple does allow you to install other browsers.

But then again that depends on how you define browsers...
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>But they have been following the Troika's plan for over 7 years now

Except they aren't. They aren't fixing their tax fraud - no one is paying enough taxes. They didn't fix their retirement age, there are easy loopholes around it, etc and a million other things.

Greek fraud predated this plan and worked during this plan. The EU cant fix Greece's corrupt governments and leaders. That's why we're where we're at right now.

Also Iceland is a edge case. It has one tenth the amount of people of the city I live in. Its like a small suburb going broke. Greece has 12 million people. More than likely you're looking at an Argentina-like situation.
Although Mobile Safari will no doubt get a deluge once iOS 9 is released.

cf. http://murphyapps.co/blog/2015/6/24/an-hour-with-safari-cont...
I have a suspicion that "focus on their needs" is good advice for social anxiety in general.
do you mean Iceland?

[edit] did not know that. thx (I could not reply to the replies)
Imagine if we used the word "investments" instead of "loans" for these government bonds. One word change and everyone's perceptions would drastically change.
Browsers on Android are not required to use Android's built in WebViews. And several alternative browser engines are offered by the platform[0].

Android has no specific restrictions in place. Although it is the path of least resistance to use the built in WebView, since you now don't need to deploy your own.

[0] Including: Blink (Amazon Silk, Chrome, Opera), WebKit (BlackBerry, Dolphin, et al), Gecko (Firefox, Minimo), NetFront (Blazer). At the moment WebKit derivatives seem to be most popular, but several browsers re-build it from the source rather than just using Android's WebKit components.
The extreme measures (bypassing kernel etc) allowed them to shave ~20 us off the latency, which corresponds to a few kilometers. So this could indeed make a difference for latency-bound apps talking to eachother inside a data center.
Some browsers do, but Firefox Mobile uses it's own core.

That makes it possible to use extensions like ublock, for much better browsing experience than any browser without ad blocker can provide.
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Isn't the correct term entering into arrears instead of default? Doesn't the Greek government have a couple of weeks to regularise their debts before going into default?

Also someone needs to keep tabs on this: http://isgreeceindefaultyet.com/
Congrats to David Ulevitch for building a great company and taking it to a successful conclusion! Well done. I could tell he was on a good trajectory when he hired away one of my more capable colleagues at a previous employer. :)
But I think that's way better than having to buy the whole goddamn car and then hope that they make it back. Plus paying all of the maintenance and being out of work if a car broke.

There are already multiple companies renting cars for driving for Uber/Lyft/etc.

Specifically, here in SF medallions could be bought only by working taxi drivers, and in order on a waiting list. So the ones that talked about it to me were pretty comfortable with the system.

Yeah, no shit, they got in. It's like measuring the average outcome of a lottery by only surveying the winners. What about everyone who didn't? How do you measure the loss inflicted on everyone who remained unemployed when could they have been working?
One business use case is to stop threads between the Ops and the Dev team about missing JAR files on a production system.

If Docker was fixing this only, I would still use it. There is nothing better than a single binary deployment that is byte to byte the same as it was running on a dev laptop and a QA env.
Considering there are only an estimated couple million bitcoin owners worldwide and only an estimated quarter million active users... without the actual numbers in Greece, this is pretty meaningless. Going from 100 to 179 users would be a 79% increase.
My business customers strongly disagree with you. They use my (internal) web application to do all their business needs and are very happy with it. A native application would work as well (of course) but a web application is much better for their needs and is much, much better to support on our end. It is cheaper to develop and support which makes them happy. It also is cross platform. My business customers don't have access to any app stores. It's not a simple web app either.

On my end I don't want to have to download an app to do all the things I want to do. I keep as few apps on my phone/computer as possible.

Not all software development is making cutting edge social phone apps.
Err, Greece is in the hole for a THIRD OF A TRILLION euros. That's 1.5 years of their entire GDP. This fund is just for the immediate payment. That's on top of running in the red budget-wise sans austerity.
This is what I need. Thank you.
I like the idea of immutable infrastructure. If I can manage my app as code, I'm in.
My mistake, my comment was penned rather quickly and emotionally (typical). I should have verified my memory with actual homework, the revised timeline does not change my opinion ;)
> The EU was never meant to be a transfer union.

The EU maybe not. The Eurozone, on the other hand, must have a compensation mechanism to allow for the inclusion of countries as different as the Netherlands and Portugal (to use examples far from the polarized Germany<->Greece spectrum).

Whenever a country has a chronic balance of goods surplus, its currency will gain in value. This keeps the surplus from accumulating, by making imports cheaper and exports more expensive. However, combine chronic surplus and chronic deficit in the same monetary zone, and they cancel out. Neither the surplus nor the deficit get corrected automatically by the market.

Now, you can't have a chronic surplus, not any more than you can have a chronic deficit. Either you compensate through other channels of monetary transfer (investment, differential taxation, redistribution), or you are letting the system go in freewheel mode.

If you don't compensate, something is gotta give.
> you need to have your CM tool or whatever other supporting files/scripts installed in the image

This pattern is maybe even more helpful than harmful, for making your dev environment more closely match production, when your final deploy target is not a docker container.

(You are obviously going to want to see those build scripts running in test, if not earlier; certainly once, before they should kick off in a production environment.) You could do more individual steps in the docker file, just like you could store your token credentials and database handles in the git repository. Neither way is "completely wrong" but there is a trade-off.
Obviously it shouldn't be as simple as "someone complained, so turn over control."

However, us normal plebes should be able to get some competent human on the phone and talk to him about what's going on.

I'd hop through lots of hoops to recover my google account, but without getting a human's attention I can't do anything.
New Roles for Both CIO and CEO in Internet of Everything Era
It's unclear how much wealthy US states actually do pay poorer states. Whenever I see statistics attempting to quantify this, they tend to include a lot of questionable things. For example, a military base in Kansas which defends the entire US is treated as a transfer to Kansas, and a person who worked in NJ but retires to Florida has SS/Medicare treated as a transfer to Florida.

If you know of good stats I'd love to see.
It's "Island" in the local, Viking dialect.
Have to parse that carefully. The web is a great delivery platform. But the apps ... not so much. They can be laggy, unresponsive, render poorly, double-process user events, and on and on. The apps are not great. In fact, only their mother could love them.
I would add burnout to the list of things that made Sampras retire. I would not include Roger Federer, because it's not like he's ever been Pete's nemesis - they've only played one match and it was a close one, but that's beside the point (Pete wasn't even ranked in the top 5 when he won his last US Open).

They are exactly one generation of players apart. Pete had been thoroughly burned out (and retired) long before Roger started to win everything in sight.

Agassi, on the other hand, became a philantropist closer to the end of his career and was trying to earn as much money for his foundation as he could. So he continued grinding despite his aggravating back problem (he had to get cortisone shots in his back before matches).
>Transducers are composable algorithmic transformations. They are independent from the context of their input and output sources and specify only the essence of the transformation in terms of an individual element. Because transducers are decoupled from input or output sources,

The biggest thing holding me back from learning Clojure is that I fear it will take me a decade to become remotely competent in it.
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Make me to remember a game from Cactus, Dear Agent! http://cactusquid.blogspot.com/2010_10_01_archive.html?m=1
or the PixelJunk game Shooter http://pixeljunk.jp/library/Shooter

Nice work!