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At least here (Finland) that kind of agreements are only legal for board level positions and even then for half a year. Some conversations around the subject seems to indicate that might also be similar case in the other side of Atlantic

Blackest black and whitest white used together will trigger my dyslexia and makes reading almost impossible. Even though I have very mild case of dyslexia! But like you said, slight tint makes wonders. Even in my case.

Chernobyl is still in use though. At least the reactors which weren't damaged. But only thing that could be done would be putting the radioactive material from one hole to another.

Could not sign-in/create account to the blog comment thingy, so asking here:

Is there performance numbers available per browser in Android somewhere and to which browser the mentioned numbers apply?

Traditionally the vendor shipped browsers in Android are abysmal, out of date, probably insecure and not standards compliant. So what I am really interested about is stock Google Chrome or Firefox performance. And if these numbers are from either one of those, it would be nice to know.

Funny enough, when looking at Steam processes tree (and if I recall correctly, also licenses), client is done with Chromium Embedded Framework.

Yeah, just like Firefox which is pretty much Javascript and XUL on top of Gecko :)

In NUMA front Linux is, as far as I know, leaps and bounds ahead of FreeBSD, Solaris and Windows. All four platforms offer ways to tune process and memory allocations by hand, but Linux is only platform that puts lot of work to make automatic NUMA scheduling actually work. It is actually pretty difficult problem. Something to read if you are interested:

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2513149 http://lwn.net/Articles/591995/ http://lwn.net/Articles/568870/

Size really is issue when dealing with mobile devices. Even from disk cache each KB increases startuptime by about 1ms (and jquery 2 is ~32kb minified, for < 2.0 lot more). Over cellular connection you can nicely multiply each KB by 100ms. This is even worse when you minify and concat your JS library dependencies, as most likely your cache headers expire way too fast for them. If you have bothered to set them at all.

Also, last time I checked jquery uses "querySelectorAll" for that fancy $("selector") syntax, which is slow as hell with every possible browser compared to "getElementBy*". This might not be issue with desktop machines, but you will probably lose most of your mobile users because of that. Jquery does also exposes very dangearous things from the API. For example: most of the time use of css modifying from JS just implies that your UI logic is fundamentally flawed (also, incredibly slow as poking CSS from JS will force full relayout which will make your mobile users throw their devices to wall or leave your site).

Jquery lets people cut corners which will give short term benefits, true. But in long term you are just killing your user experience. And like others said, people mostly use like 1% of the API, which has as easy native browser support.

Except getting macbook to boot anything else than OSX or Windows requires bunch of stuff that I can only describe as 'hacks'. At least it was like so couple years ago (http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12037.html) and I haven't heard that things would be different today.

What.. version 1.8 and now there is Date support? Shouldn't this kind of stuff be aournd at version 0.01 when we are talking about data stores? You know, the only non-easily swappable piece of our tech stack?

Same thing what we do, we just don't ever see the people whose life we shorten or end to fullfill our need for nice gadgets and fast connections around the world.

Leap doesn't work (or at didn't work during beta) well or at all if you had solid object blocking it's viewport. Even if blocking object was behind your hand.

Browser user agent string alone is quite accurate identification [1]. Just add IP/country data on top of that..

> I leave thousands of things left unread, and yet google reader makes it quite easy to keep up to date with whatever I feel like reading at the moment, without getting bogged down by all the stuff I don't want to read. It lets me categorize stuff hierarchically, and then drill down to what I want to look at, and maintains unread counts for each level, easily visible all at once. It's easy to see what categories/subcategories have new stuff. It's easy to mark stuff as read/unread, one by one, or in bulk by category.

I was seriously starting to think I am only one who wants this from web-based rss-reader. Most of the native rss clients are built around this behaviour and I really cannot understand why web readers don't. Maybe A/B testing with bad test cases (or without enough diverse user population) or maybe we are just crazy.

> It doesn't have dedicated mobile apps

Android at least has. It was/is really nicely hidden under all unofficial, privacy violating rip-offs in the Google store.

This is also reason why most of the time you cannot use online bank systems through Tor: banks block big chunk of Tor exit nodes as malicious traffic sources (for legimate reason, I believe).

> .. you can't ignore the impact of the tremendously acrimonious culture we have, steeped in animosity between the races and between different socioeconomic classes.

That is actually symptom of the problem, not the cause. It's not too long time ago when Finland had one of the bloodiest civil wars in European history[1], but still country was made enough unified to survive during WW2[2][3] and of course build 'nanny state' we have today.

Only reason that was possible was that big differences between classes was seemed as primary problem, caused by the system, instead of thinking it was caused by external forces which cannot really be affected. Maybe biggest success in this front was to ban private schools for kids and provide good basic education for everyone. Take note that all of the kids went to same schools, so kids from both factions of civil war shared classrooms, meals, etc.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Civil_War

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation_War

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War

I think that if post has so trivial amount of information that it can be shortened to TLDR, there is never any need to actually read it

It doesn't have one that works as well as Firefox tab groups and will never have because of AddOn permissions/APIs.

Saying that Qt is sane sounds kind of flame bait. If you need own custom preprocessor which is bolted on "some" compiler to be able to build your GUI.. well I prefer something else. Like GTK.

> Countries ridden with welfare are not doing TOO well currently. Most countries in Europe, US, Japan. All deep to their neck in public debt, always at the verge of bankruptcy. This can't be good for anyone in the end, poor included.

At least most of said countries have smaller debt-to-GDP ratio than US.

Also eastern/southern Europe countries are not exactly welfare countries.

> Doubly so when kids tend to think that schools work hand in hand with parents. Your expectation is that anything you tell the school, goes home. Even if they say it won't. Adults lie. Abused kids don't have a lot of trust. Anonymity makes a big difference.

And lets not forget about shame. Even adults have problem talking about abuse to someone they know because of stigma, for kids this is even worse. There is stigma with added fear of physical punishment far worse what has happened so far.. Anonymity indeed makes BIG difference: most likely it is difference between getting help at all or not.

I find it ridiculous that some consider this kind of picture "disturbing to their children" when they don't probably even blink when passing even more brutal/disturbing movie ad or when they let their kids watch those movies.

I think biggest benefit from this kind of specification would be for data (partly) distributed and (partly) shared between different hosts, as there would be at least some common ground for both clients and server how to communicate. IDs are very abstract and does not necessarily tie data under particular host. Of course for some data domains ID could be URL, but that is decision made by data provider. Spec decision would be crippling for overall use.

Yeah, it took quite long to notice that it was kickstarter ad. Although there is something done if you believe actual kickstarter page.

Also, whole point of first paragraph in the site is to promote that app is open source and what benefits it brings to the users. So using open source for marketing and then kind of hiding actual source.. not nice.

"Ghost is an Open Source application", tiny github image link in footer and organization has no public repositories.. (https://github.com/tryghost)

There is protection against spawn camping, in secure space. If you are going for nullspec, you are supposed to have corporation backing etc (although this comes someone who haven't played EVE much). UI is bit cluttered, but given amount of information it actually provides it is quite good.

This made me smile. Also reminded me of http://prog21.dadgum.com/169.html

Takedown notice was also (briefly) in that site too http://imgur.com/a/u0ez8

> Something I've seen from speaking with a lot of people with overuse injuries is that what activates a person's injury tends to vary a lot.

In hindsight this really makes sense. Mine was most likely activated by combination of low-profile keyboard and finnish keyboard layout (almost all programming related special characters are behind right alt combinations). So it's not suprise that all reaching motions are not good.

> The ideal here, however: are motion sensors--like the Kinect, but better.

Kinect depth sensor has really low resolution (640x480, if I remember correctly) which is way too low if you want to interpret precisely small movements. I also was interested about Kinect for exactly same purpose, but those specs were too "meh". For this reason I have been waiting for Leap to be released since its announcement.

Well RSI and CTS are quite closely related, and as someone who has latter I can say that touch screens are worst possible input device possible. All swiping gestures cause static strain, especially to wrists, which makes long time touch screen usage impossible. Even using touchpad gets painful fast, my laptop has to have "nipple" controller. Also all keyboards I use has to have clear actuation point so I can use as little strength as possible to type.

Game controllers are not better. Excerpt from wikipedia: "RSI is also used as an umbrella term for non-specific illnesses popularly referred to as Blackberry thumb, iPod finger, gamer's thumb"