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This is a pretty big question. Learning has many flavours of frustrations that go with it. Here's one:

Learning itself is pleasant. I think we're wire to enjoy it. If you had a judo lesson now and learned a simple trip, you would have fun. Give most people their first programming lesson and they'll enjoy jumbling up letters or whatever you do.

Not knowing is unpleasant. In your first lesson you have no expectation. In the second, you double your knowledge. On the 20th, you are dealing with forgetting and you've accumulated bits you find difficult. You are still a beginner, but now you have expectations.

You can trip or throw a cooperative opponent but you keep repeating mistakes, frustration. There is still a gulf between where you are and scoring on an uncooperative opponent. You can jumble words, add numbers or record form data in your db. But, the gulf between doing that and writing your spaced learning iWatch app is big. Basically, you suck and you are judging your performance by the standards of a programmer, judo player or whatnot. Sucking.. sucks.

I'm about 5 weeks into learning a language and I'm in this spot right now. week one was really fun. Every lesson meaningfully improved my vocal, grammar, etc. I know about 1200 words and a decent amount of the basic grammar. You need about 2500 words before you can understand a simple paragraph or video snippet. I'm nearly useless outside of the context f a lesson translating single sentences. I can't think in the language (I translate) which means (A) it's difficult and frustrating and (B) I might understand your first sentence as you wrap up your third…even if I know all the words. None of the gammer is natural to me. etc. etc.

Basically, there's a massive gap between where I am and where it felt like I would now after the first lesson. Massive. Even if I conjure up discipline I didn't need in week 1 and push hard this week, I'll still suck. My vocal might go up to 1500, but I'll regress on something. It's whack-a-mole time where revision is 75% of the work and 50 new words is a drop in the ocean.

Thinking of it, I realize I might have taken the wrong side of the debate. Learnings sucks. I hate it.

But, for the sake of it I'll keep arguing this point. This expectation/reality gap is as irrational as it is inevitable. You know it how long it will to learn things in advance. I know I can't get fluent in a language in 25 hours of practice, but it does create frustration.

Since I'm not going with the "learning sucks, I hate it" conclusion, lets wrap up with stoicism. Good as any, ne? Do thy duty though the the skies fall down upon thee. Seek not vain pleasures of the moment. Rather, take comfort each day knowing that thou hath done thy work. Focusing on your goals to much can make learning emotionally hard (frustrating, etc.), unless your goal can be achieved very quick. If your goal requires 100 hours over 2 months, when you are 46 hours deep, you feel like you aren't making any progress. You are probably wrong, but it doesn't feel like it. Don't focus on the end goal, just do your 2 hours and pat yourself on the head. Good stoic. Nice stoic. Here's a Senecan biscuit. Well done.
Unfortunately it is the Eurogroup who are not willing to listen or compromise. The IMF reports (including one leaked today http://news.forexlive.com/!/imf-finally-says-what-they-think...) shows that Varoufakis was right all along and the debt is unsustainable, yet the Eurogroup does not listen and won't consider debt restructuring but wants to continue with the same failed and discredited policies.
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Really, isn't it time for Adobe to admit that Flash is a relic?
They were closing down a line of business that failed (the brokerage unit). It's not a stretch to think that people working on that project would be overwhelmingly more likely to be let go than those that weren't.

Nevertheless, I agree with a CEO giving the heads-up to the staff that's staying, in effect saying, "Look, we're having layoffs [tomorrow or later today] and I just want you to know that your role is safe and we value your continued contributions." That takes the anxiety away from that person without making any meaningful change in the privacy of the affected employees, especially if it's same-day, but evening before is also OK if timing doesn't permit same-day.

I've gone through a few at different places (including financial services post-LTCM and post-9/11) and there is no perfect way to handle it. People are losing their jobs; Americans have this weird tie-up between their job and their identity; when a bunch of people are losing their job for reasons other than incompetence/ineffectiveness, there's going to be a lot of butthurt. No way around it, and the CEO has to balance optimizing for those leaving with the ongoing health of the remaining business (lest more rounds follow). Everyone focuses on those leaving, which is normal, but if you don't leave a healthy company at the end of it, you might as well close it all down and lay more people/everyone off.
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They also acquired HowAboutWe exactly 1 year ago today.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/14/digital-love-consol...
To what? Last I checked the browsers haven't implemented a proper means of doing cross-platform video publishing (video + audio) reliably yet.
You really think the opinion of game developers should matter in a discussion about how to make browsers reasonably secure for people to use without getting their hosts compromised? Because I don't.

Anger towards browser developers or HTML5 is misplaced; you should be angry with Adobe for the fact that Flash is buggy, insecure, and closed-source.
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Of course, that's why the Greeks so desperately wanted to get out of the Euro, and why new countries have to be added to the Euro by beating them until they join.

Oh wait, no.

Despite all the 'omg the Germans are holding poor pplz hostage!', the Euro has massively lifted the economic prospects of tens if not hundreds of millions of people in a measly 10 or 15 years. Ask the Polish how bad the Euro has been for them, for example. The fact of the matter is - if you want to play, you have to abide by the rules. And I for one am glad that at least the Germans have the spine to say 'this is what we agreed on, no you're not special and we're not going to give you special treatment that we wouldn't give to many other countries that are in much worse shape' (like in Africa or Asia). Ffs, even some of those countries are less corrupt than Greece.

So, just because the Germans have gotten so much flak over the last few weeks, here's another sound: thank you, you guys do what others talk about but fail to uphold. (much like how the US is the only one with enough spine to actually go to war when it's necessary, but that's another topic...)
Their saving grace might be the sports leagues themselves, which have varying degrees of tacit approval for betting, since it drives up interest in their products. They are much more likely to use their clout (billions in revenue and political favor that allows inexplicable tax exempt statuses like the NFL) to keep Congress from outlawing daily fantasy. Although it does feel like one wrong move could result in the rug being pulled out from them tomorrow.
I know HTML5 doesn't have all of Flash features, but as a user, I'm glad that I won't see random pages using flash without need.
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if it is a http:// page, then even a small change in the local host file is enough.
Github uses flash for the 'copy to clipboard' button to copy an http or ssh url to the clipboard.
It can be said the people of the world payed for it given American imperialism abroad. All the reparations countries pay might have contributed...
They're only about to complete Phase I, the first two miles of the planned 8.5 miles. The entire tunnel will take a few more decades.

For comparison, Shanghai started from zero and built the largest subway in the world in 20 years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Subway#Timeline
And this response shows that you know nothing about economics or finance.

> do something again the blatant corruption, burocratie and tax evasion

Corruption and tax evasion are an economic problem, not a moral one. People decide whether or not to pay taxes based on many factors - convenience, value, habit, punishment, etc... In a 'developing' economy, like Greece, if there's a history of not paying taxes, you need to provide incentive to pay taxes. Because if you all of a sudden raise taxes and enforce it hard, you don't get tax evasion - you get capital flight, which is much, much worse for the economy. And it's all too easy to move around in the Eurozone.

> Stoneage lefties like to discuss, well, preach, all day long while spending other (EU) citizen's money.

Greece did not spend other EU citizen's money. They sold bonds at the market rate to banks and investors that BOUGHT them, and their debt spending was entirely sustainable up to the financial crisis (not sure if you've heard about it) which rocked the whole world. The troika bailed out those banks, with the vast majority of the "EU citizens' money" going to those banks and only a fraction of this money ever made its way to Greece.

> instead of hindering startups, business and innovative people

You know what hinders startups, business, and innovative people? A repressive tax regime. Like the one the troika imposed on Greece...
its quite sad, but the West has been showing its liberal democracy is in a gradual and obscure decline(like in this case).
This man is my hero. When I become a millionaire I want to be just like him. Spent a weekend hacking together a mediocre site that grosses millions a month. Working 15 minutes a day. Yeah, brilliant.

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/and-the-money-comes-rol...
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"Greek Debt Crisis Deal Is Reached, but Long Road Remains (nytimes.com)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9879815
I am surprised that no one has mentioned ADD/ADHD yet in this thread, but maybe that takes patience. If all the ADD/ADHD self-rating scales were boiled down to just one question, that question would be "Are you easily distracted?" If you are easily distracted, focus your attention long enough to see if a medical appointment might be helpful for you.

How I come to give this advice here is that years ago, a participant here on HN described how his programming career struggled until he got medical treatment for adult ADD. Now he can learn more effectively on the job, and he makes a lot more money with a much more stable employment history. You owe it yourself and to anyone else who has helped you develop as much as you have so far to check your attention regulation so that you can be as healthy and happy as possible.
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Don't they use it on their "copy URL button"?
They seem to use it for clipboard access, some repository links have a button that puts the URI in you clipboard automatically. I'm not sure if there is anything else they are using it for.
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I disagree vehemently. The austerity and bailouts so far have been a punitive process that has achieved either an undesired effect or the specific goal of:
1) destroying the economy. no growth. no way to achieve the surplus targets mandated. no way to exit debt.

now, it's a set up. that's the premise of his statements in this article. you disagree or character assassinate, either or, but you don't propose an alternative except the tired lines about Greeks spending other peoples money. Go. learn something. come back when you know something about international finance, the Eurogroup, the ECB, the last 5 years of austerity, the last 2 Greek governments, the German Sub deal (anecdotal, not endemic, but representative of the nature of such transactions) and the macro economics of how +-5 million people shall fare over the next 20-50 years.
You come across as a jerk, mean-spirited, and ignorant. Your comment was troll bait and more insulting than any of the articles rhetoric. You use the term "leftie" to describe folks of any political persuasion who make take umbrage at the blatant mafia structure at the core of the euro (currency) laid bare over the last weeks.
Please DO go study a bit before you show your face around here again. Thanks
Aaron
I have this trouble with mathematical topics in isolation. It bit me in school as I was very good in most of my classes, but when I had to learn (for example) trig identities, and various rules in calculus in order to slog through problem sets, free of visualizations or some kind of real-world problem, my eyes would tend to glaze over. It has hit me in Haskell because I have tried very hard to understand some of the mathematical formalisms associated with monads, etc. but learning those in the abstract, from a page, without actually writing code to solve a specific problem, was very difficult for me. It's frustrating because I'd _like_ to be the kind of guy who can and does work through a pure math textbook on category theory or linear algebra or whatever, just for fun. But apparently I'm not. I learn best by actively beating my head against a real programming problem. If this is a programming thing you're trying to learn, my suggestion is to keep it tied to a real program.

If it is really severe, consider being evaluated for adult ADD. I probably have this in mild form and also what might be considered the opposite, obsessive compulsive personality disorder, which results in me veering between wanting to understand _everything_ and working obsessively on _one_ thing trying to get it textbook-perfect and understand it completely. This combination often intersects well with the requirements for my work but sometimes... not so much, as I either insist on solving a problem better that is already working well enough, or considering a whole range of possible approaches when I really just need to complete one, and quickly.
eHarmony and Zoosk are the only two majors left standing independently.

It wouldn't surprise me if IAC has over 50% of the US dating market at this point.

There's a blatant competition issue there, but the online dating market isn't likely to attract much anti-trust scrutiny at this point, for at least three reasons: there needs to be some evidence of consumer harm (I'm not aware of much in that regard); competitors would have to be getting Washington's attention; the dating market isn't considered to be very attention worthy, minus something egregious going on.
It looks like the found a good gullible market with lots of money, and it will be years before anyone complains. They have an earliest delivery date of 2017 depending on how things go with the FDA.

When I see something like that my first question is if the doctors involved are real or not.
From the outside looking in, I have to imagine this has been on the industries radar for a while. I mean flash has had some pretty steady hate for a while, coupled with advances with other mechanisms becoming increasingly robust. It may create more work but surely work that was not unexpected.
So let's do the opposite! Just point our DNS at the ad networks and have them reverse proxy our content! It's genius!

(You just know it's gonna happen one day under the guise of a free CDN)
patriotism in such things as space exploration is laughable, however reasonable commercial reasons behind it are (well described in another post). seeing logic "usa reached pluto" instead of "mankind reached pluto" is a bit sad, and i don't care if it's US, China, India or Monaco spacecraft. it just feels as wrong and antiquated view of the world... but maybe typical to generic US person? (no clue really)
I think if you are going to run the biggest heist in history you are not going to ask permission :)
"True and honest"? Are we reading the same article? He sounds like a bitter extremist who doesn't know how to control himself in order to reach a certain goal, but instead like either a petulant child or an autistic person (depending on the day of the week, it seems) can only repeat 'the Greeks voted for no extra cuts yet stay in the Euro so we should get it' (no shit? and I'd like a pony) and 'my economics paper says xyz, I want you to reply to each point I made'. Uh no buddy, that's not how the world works.
I don't know if capitulating to theocratic regime in their attempts at nuclear proliferation (which will likely set off a regional nuclear arms race) is something to be proud of.
It's not like these copies replace the higher-res ones. Not a project scientist, but I'd rather as many people as possible see some image than only a few see only any at all.
Is there some other area that feels they have a right to not be offended?
I agree. The Eurogroup's real final target in this whole thing is France. The Germans want France to change their culture (pensions, social system, etc), but France is too big a target to go for straight off the bat.

Varoufakis stated:

"Based on months of negotiation, my conviction is that
the German finance minister wants Greece to be pushed out
of the single currency to put the fear of God into the
French and have them accept his model of a disciplinarian
eurozone."

Therefore they are playing the long game, and for that to work, Greece needs to capitulate and exit the Euro. The Eurogroup has tried to make it impossible for Greece to stay in the Euro, but Greece won't bite.

Once Greece do exit the Euro, the rest of Europe will see the incredible pain that is involved when your national banks have the rugs pulled out from underneath them.

Once France understands that they have to change or end up like Greece, they'll change. They'll have no choice.

It is an economic invasion at state level.
Some excited researchers expressing their joy at one of the greatest scientific accomplishments of the age "was one of the most appalling, jingoistic, alienating spectacles [you've] ever seen?"

You, sir, need to watch the news.
"America's love of the automobile"

The smartphone analogy would be the stereotypical hollywood/tv view of teenage girls spending hours talking on legacy landline corded telephones means that demographic will be totally uninterested in texting and social media on smartphones.
Sure, the AWS us-west datacenters would go down (Oregon and NorCal), but us-east (VA) is still the largest of all AWS regions. While Amazon is headquartered on the west coast, I sincerely doubt a failure of even both us-west regions would take out the others.

Ultimately it's up to the user: if they're going to put all their eggs in a us-west basket, they're out of luck if the west coast ends up under water.
Keep the old code, instead just start using it for new one.
The problem is when people zoom in and "see" things in the JPEG compression artifacts.

Also when they release the pic on Twitter in crappy form before they release it in uncompressed form.
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Is Shumway ready for production use as a drop in replacement for flash ?
Of the bailout money, yes. But bear in mind that the bailout money (at least the initial tranche) was to take on debt that had already been spent. It most definitely is not that case that that money was spent on debt re-payments.

It's fair to say that a lot of subsequent additional money was primarily used to cover debt re-payments but that's because the original debt was so large (relative to the Greek economy).
Interesting to see how he kept things lean and has gone against the entire 'companies need a co-founder to succeed' stigma by single-handedly growing a multimillion dollar venture. He recruited the first three employees in 2008.

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/and-the-money-comes-rol...
>> The Iranians can't be trusted.

>National stereotypes, pillars of pragmatic diplomacy ever since 2000 BC and the clear mark of logical thinkers the world over.

The OP clearly means the theocratic regime, not the Iranian people themselves.
The same could be told about other third party resources, like images and css files, too.
A few citations would be nice, as would some explanation of how the conduct you allege in any way resembles the behavior of the Chinese government. I am aware of zero cases where the U.S. government has taken down a site just because it concluded that the site contained propaganda that the government did not want the U.S. populous to read. I seriously doubt such cases exist. The fact that I can pull up Wikileaks or RT without trouble tends to suggest that the U.S. government certainly does not do this regularly -- I think these sites certainly would be blocked under the Chinese approach, much as China has repeatedly blocked the New York Times, or specific New York Times stories. (https://www.google.com/search?q=china%20block%20new%20york%2...)

I don't doubt that it has the capability, and that the U.S. would use it if there were a compelling reason to do so (your assertion about ISIS forums, for example, strikes me as an attempt to suppress organization and recruitment by an active enemy of the United States in wartime [insert largely irrelevant debate about whether this is really a war, here]), but I seriously doubt there is any credible evidence that the U.S. government uses these tools in a way comparable to the Chinese government.

We have a lot of problems here in the U.S., but I think you'd be hard pressed to make a credible case that pervasive Internet censorship, equivalent, or even remotely similar to what is done by the Chinese government, is one of them.
It's often easier to start from zero.
And that's downright weird, given that Chrome use a different plugin API and thus get Flash bundled.

Even Windows has Flash via the updater.

Just about the only browser that use the old API is Firefox.
The doctors looked suspiciously like models. I tried google image searching them but I think the oval surrounds threw it off. I'd bet they are fake as well.
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Unfortunately it looks like you aren't supposed to do that with Google AdSense: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/3394713

> Is it violating program policy if I place ads on iframe webpages in my software?

> Yes, it does violate our policies. Firstly, you’re not allowed to place ads in a frame within another page. Exceptions to our policies are permitted only with authorization from Google for the valid use of iframes. Secondly, you’re not allowed to put ads in your software, e.g., if you control both a website with ads and an app that loads that website, we will take action against it.
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If we can't cheer for our country over this, then when would it possibly be appropriate? There was plenty of cheering ("jingoism") about Rosetta too, as I remember. And it was just as appropriate.
Oh wow really cool! Been getting more into bitcoin this year, this will help give me a bit of insight and stay current with the latest discussions.

Thanks!
https://www.happn.com/ has a mobile app that seems to have a large pool of users, at least in central London.
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The water in Greenpoint, though, is notoriously bad.

edit - Greenpoint, the neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY for any who don't know.
They could not put it in pluto orbit?

They need to practice a bit more with Kerbal space program.