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If you cast the net to include British comedies, I’d venture to say Yes Minister and Yes Prime Ministry are deeply intelligent and uproariously funny.

While, in this case, it was for science, presumably, the inhumane and especially cruel flaying of millions of live dogs, cats and other animals happens every year in parts of China and around the world. Not necessarily for the meat, but for a few bucks to be made off the sale of the skin.

Rather well designed. Thanks!

I'll give a shout out to Speeko! (I'm not affiliated with them in any way)

https://speeko.co

A testimonial (also unaffiliated): https://www.speeko.co/blog/beth-tucker-interview

On an unrelated note, would anyone be able to tell me which blog engine (and theme) their website is running on?

I remember this! It is quite hilarious.

OMG I laid the groundwork for the Falling Fruit mobile app, but I had to step aside and it was all so long ago! It has come along leaps and bounds since then.

The browser app has always been way ahead and the programmers behind the whole idea are super competent.

https://github.com/falling-fruit/falling-fruit-mobile.git

I'm sorry, I hate pointing anything negative out. Was it a recent change to store passwords in clear text?

It's worrying because the founders of VK started Telegram which claims to be end-to-end encrypted.

Thank you. Articles like this make coming to HN on a Sunday morning worth it.

I'm not sure why you were downvoted but it's possible that your question was too basic from the point of view of a web developer.

To answer your question: one reason is that the developer needs to express how elements on a page place themselves not just on the screen but with respect to other elements as well. As you can guess, calculating this "layout" will occur pretty often, and if you have only one thread running all your code, then your logic and communication with the server can interfere with the rendering of the UI - thus making the response choppy.

On native apps, though some of them have borrowed web-type expressions of placement or layout, the entire calculation runs on a dedicated thread. Not on the same thread that also needs to respond to touch / slide / drag events!

HTH.

Just want to mention another great publisher of Chess analysis on Youtube - Daniel King.

https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerPlayChess/videos

I liked Ubuntu's approach where they asked you on startup if you want to install/enable proprietary packages like Flash or some graphics drivers.

Is it tough for Mozilla to prompt the user to do something similar with DRM stuff on first run? i.e. Telling them these are the features not supported by Mozilla in principle but are a) implemented to be in compliance with standards and b) required if you choose to use services like Netflix.

That way I would still have the option to run a DRM free browser (and voluntarily not use websites that require DRM).

Sorry, I don't know why you were down-voted. The loss of a loved one, no matter who or what that is, is always difficult.

The article is very moving and I can't imagine how difficult it is to watch a loved one go through such suffering.

And your story is a nice tribute to a faithful, loving being. It reminded me of my own friends from a while ago in my life. It's good to know your dog was loved. Good luck with the future.

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I really enjoyed the book on Fermat's last theorem by Simon Singh -

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0802713319

A long time ago, a friend's mother was complaining to me that (high school) Math is a dry subject and she doesn't blame her otherwise intelligent son for not being able get interested and do well in it. I wish I knew of this book then - I know it cranked up my interest in Math ever since.

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Helvetica Neue - that wonderful font again.

Sorry for being off-topic: can anyone please recommend a (legal/accepted) way for licensed use of Helvetica Neue on websites/apps without having to purchase it from expensive font vendors like Adobe or Myfonts?

I've seen QA teams or training teams run into difficulties with smartphone screen sharing. That's one use case where I guess this makes it easier.

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I've had this happen to me. I agree it's presumptuous and toeing the line but just so you know I've always been able call them and have the data plan turned off for good on that line.

One of the arguments I make with them is that if I have kids on my family plan who go off to school and pop their feature phone SIM card into their friends smartphone, I can't be expected to deal with that headache - and if AT&T isn't going to recognize that the person who pays the bill should have the final say in the matter, and they don't offer basic parental controls, I'll take my business elsewhere.

It's worked at least three times on three different lines off the top of my head.

What resonated with me was the sinking feeling you get when you're defending yourself to a third party, thinking or knowing that the stalker has already put in place some counter-evidence to your rebuttal.

It's important to develop a strong emotional instinct of conviction based on your own beliefs rather than the natural method of holding convictions viz. based on what is popular knowledge at that time.

If the organization is large enough, try to make an amicable break and move internally. This is the simplest way if you do not have a conscience about the company or your work (not always a bad thing to be conscience-less about these things). If you can't move internally, pursue two threads of action simultaneously:

(1) In most situations, you will have a smart, rational person you might be aware of in the layer that he/she reports into (though preferable, not necessarily her direct boss). Talk to them about what you see as problems.

Be prepared to back up your claims with documented, solid evidence of the behavior. Keep emotional, hyperbolic, prejudicial expressions or assertions to yourself - they will only work against you in such situations.

Be as paranoid as you can be about who you can trust to back you up in your peer group in case there has to be a discussion. Knowing people who're discontent like you helps only if you know they won't stab you in the back.

Avoid ultimatums. Express faith in the system and the ability for the person to change. Express willingness to change yourself. In other words, come off as the bigger person right from the beginning and at all times.

(2) Have an exit strategy if the situation turns on you. This could include escalation to several layers (CEO/Board) above the layers you're dealing with and looking out for a new job.

This may make mass lawsuits difficult but I wonder if this means anything from an individual harassment perspective. I guess the next question is this (if someone can shed light on this from a legal perspective):

Is detection of copyright infringement through or from an IP address enough to get a warrant issued that allows searching of the devices belonging to the individual using that IP address (or happens to be connected to the internet through that IP address)?

Forgive my ignorance. Which application lets you write native iOS apps in C#? Thanks.

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Given that a majority of the Instagram users (~30M) are on iOS, what if Apple decides to give away iPhoto for free? Or better yet, make it the default photo app on iOS?

iPhoto is not half bad. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iphoto/id497786065?mt=8

Even if it's made the default photo sharing app in the next release for iOS 5+ users for whatever reason, and integrated deeper come iOS 6 this summer, they'd instantly have access to several times Instagram's userbase.

They could using this as a bargaining chip in their negotiations to integrate FB into iOS / iTunes. Because Facebook, a public company, cannot have a $1B acquisition become irrelevant in a couple of months.

Indeed - in fact they reached out to Miguel to submit a pull request. :-]

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