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Frankly these types of places have all of my understanding but none of my respect. Outside of Turkey the coffee would probably be part of the core allure of a Turkish restaurant. The irony being that coffee and tea are often complimentary after meals at many restaurants in Turkey. Its sort of a betrayal when the social aspect is supposed to be part of the package given that people in Turkey spend long hours at the dinner table, talking. Is there a legal issue that prevents them from only serving coffee with a meal? And then the thought that old folks spend part of their day walking around trying to figure out where they can sit down and talk is all kind of depressing. This seems like a poor fix, but hey, talk is cheap.

made me want to rewatch Antonio Campos's Afterschool, the first feature-length film I came across that tackled the youtube generation. That film is slow-paced to the point of irony given its subject (this video is Crank by comparison), but its basically similar to what you would imagine if this kid was a couple years younger and at boarding school, and if the camera followed him beyond the screen.

One of my accounts also got hacked sunday, with a sent message directly from the account (msg in sent folder) to all in adressbook. The initial breach showed the login from a country I haven't visited using a yahoo partner app. I only log in to my account with the browser. Never used a yahoo app...

Both your girlfriend and enraged camel are correct. enraged camel will probably agree that at this stage that talk of government overthrow and revolution is ridiculous--he says as much in his earlier post. Compared to Egypt or Syria the reasons for the protests are indeed laughably quaint by comparison. The lead-up involved the gov's attempts at the demolition of a historical movie theater, building a third bridge across the Bosphorus, restricting alcohol sale laws which were previously laxer than most EU countries, and this whole Taksim park and historical ottoman barracks "reconstruction". As you can see, most of these things are mostly grievances you would see in western democratic countries. The most undemocratic component in the past years that has been the hallmark of previous governments as well--the lengthy jailtime for people being accused of abstract & extreme anti-government activity--has been mostly out of play in this most recent of public shit fits.

The main difference this time around, and the government's biggest mistake, has been the continued disproportionate police response...

Don't see how the linked protest pics match the title. Also facebook and twitter don't seem to be blocked.

Love it, any code license info?

+1 on the self-hosted. A wishlist in silk accompanied by a 2-ton brick of a deal-breaker. You'd think the most solution-starved demographic for chat would be those behind a corporate firewall...

It would be great if they targeted their initial sales towards cheaper markets/countries.

this looks like simplified dilinger.io (whıch i like, thanks joe mccann!)with youtube but without the export options . If I want to include js files it can considerably slow down the "real-time" updating process, no?

that's great to hear, more power to you.

thanks. to be clear then, the program is "bad and ill-timed" because there is no educational framework or material ready to support the tablets. so by the time it does start rolling in, there's a danger that the devices will be out-dated.

downvote explanation? alluding to the notion that a open standards based mobile OS may be an ideal candidate for a state-funded tablet education push is bad because...why exactly?

ed: the above post is not meant to be sarcastic. dirty utopian hippie = optimistic in a good way

Seriously, I don't know why exactly but this stuff makes me feel like a dirty utopian hippie despite all the steely-eyed "realist" devil's advocate posturing people can summon.

I only wish FirefoxOS devices were around to have been considered for our retarded "give every child a tablet" program that's underway in Turkey, especially given the rumors that Mozilla is shooting for the cheap end of the market. As expected, the tablets for the program are being marketed as a toy.

fun times, an image source option for the background would be a cherry on top re the demo.

>>>>"Of course, if we push our bodies hard enough, we can increase our energy expenditure, at least in the short term. But our bodies are complex, dynamic machines, shaped over millions of years of evolution in environments where resources were usually limited; our bodies adapt to our daily routines and find ways to keep overall energy expenditure in check."

And yet how do we get from a modern man spending most of time sitting down spending the same energy as a Hadza walking ~100 miles a week to a modern Olympian swimmer supposedly spending 12,000 a day and maintaining 8-10% body fat while swimming 50 miles a week? Does 10+ years qualifiy as 'short term'?

http://www.michaelphelps.net/michael-phelps-diet/

Hmm, how long did you stay in one place? Personally if I ever did this, I think I would want to go places where I could stay several months at a time.

In more depressing news: 60% of cancers may not be due to lifestyle. The correct phrase would probably be "known lifestyle choices". But seriously, shouldn't people be surprised lifestyle only accounts for 40%. What if I rewrote the entry paragraph in the following way:

Nearly half of low intelligence diagnosed in the UK each year - over 130,000 in total - are caused by avoidable life choices including not reading, debating, or thinking about interesting problems.

Elektrik Mühendisleri Odasi aka EMO

its legal basis is stated here

http://www.emo.org.tr/genel/sss.php?grubu=%DCYEL%DDK%20%DD%D...

basically if you engage in anything that is considered to be an engineering task (inc. computer/software/biomedical) you have to be registered. They are basically taxing you every year for graduating from your discipline.

edit: They claim to have 40,000 members I think, at 65 a pop that would be 2.5 million dollars a year. Not bad. Of course, as many Turks try to avoid taxes a lot of them skip these payments as well.

In Turkey, this exists and is in my view indefensible in its current implementation. The software folks are grouped in with the electrical engineers, although the cs people will have their own organization soon by the looks of it. There are very few CS departments that call themselves "Computer Science" instead its called Computer Engineering because of the Turkish bias to anything with word `engineer' in it. A lot of big contracts require companies to have registered engineers, who in turn force their software engineers to register. Once you register you automatically owe them 65 dollars a year from the date you graduated, or a max of 325 dollars for all the previous years, and then 65 a year for every year after that. If you consider how many engineers are walking around, thats a shit load of money ana great con frankly. Without registering you can't claim that you are a software engineer with `x amount of experience' before the law or be called into court to testify as an expert in anything software related or get gov contracts etc.

So what qualifications do you need to have to become a member?

Just cash and a valid diploma. Hell its probably easier to testify as a software expert in court for a member who pays his fees but works as a rug dealer than as a 10+ year network security analyst who isn't a member.

Any academic who supports the current implementation should have their credentials questioned, it defies logic that is attained at a high school level.

Rest of Europe/Rest of Turkey

when i went to Germany, someone hooked me on to gelegenheit. i thought it was the shit ever since. i would use google translate for the site, then call the drivers asking if they spoke english. They all said 'a little bit' even though 98% were fluent, which must be some kind of German modesty thing. The site seems to have clones or sister sites in most western europe countries as well. I would have expected people in various Eastern european countries to shun these services on safety grounds, so I am surprised that it is big in Slovenia.

ideally for me this would be a web app similiar to amazon cloud reader. The Real World Haskell online version has a primitive version of this concept with a comment section after every paragraph. Add the typography of Dive into HTML5 and I'm good to go. In the future if they could add a feature where people would pay a small fee to turn their online ebooks (that the authors host on their own sites) into ebooks with 'open margins' that might be kinda cool.

samurai.fm, soundcloud, youtube.

Yeah, I was always cautious of recommending startups to friends but I let my guard down with divvyshot. I had several pissed off friends who were trusting a service that new for the first time ("never again"), so now I very rarely recommend startups--and if i do the "but don't trust them" caveat is longer than the pitch itself. This is where apps that revolve around smaller, fluid, and less personal data have an advantage i think (like Instapaper). And these photo sites are like "hey we're so nice, we're letting you export your photos before we shut down." Newsflash, I already have the fucking photos thanks. How about you come over to my house and upload all the photos to another random site on my shitty wifi.

To me it seems pretty simple: google seems to make no distinction between charitable political groups or religious organizations. they're the same damn thing in their eyes.

Would church leaders consider the church a success if they eliminated poverty in the world but the entire world became atheists?

Answer: No. If they were true believers they would accept it as an utter failure since all those souls would be in danger of experiencing a less than optimal eternity.

Question: What would be the answer to the same question from an organization whose sole purpose was to eliminate poverty in the world?

Answer: You're damn right it's a success!

From an ethical standpoint, the focus on the word "nonprofit" is misleading. No organization in the world has "not to make a profit" as its primary purpose. Not being for profit is the means for the transparency that is required to acheive the goal.

I find that active self-deception works for me frankly.

I concentrate on pretending that the thing i want to do is something I cannot not do. Whats one activity that i do every day that I can't avoid doing?

Going to the bathroom.

So whenever I try to talk myself out of doing that activity I ask myself, "Can you avoid taking a piss for an entire day?" the answer is no.

I found that for me the feeling of having to take a piss is the one thing that conveys both urgency and inevitability at the same time. and that any activity that i catalogue as "the same" as taking a piss by association also becomes urgent and inevitable.

anyway, this is how I got myself to run 4-5 km everyday for the last year and a half.

hmm...back blaze charges 5 dollars a month to back up my computer with unlimited storage. you're charging 10 dollars a month for unlimited nested strings.

the computer says..........no.

silliness aside, maybe try a forum for busy execs. Might get better input & target customers.

How are these extremely strong judgements? getting pissed off that some retards make more than some great people you know has a long tradition in civilization. My favorite is the Saul Bellow line, "Only I'm good and tired of watching high-quality people fuck up in practical life, to the gratification of the vulgar." This seems to be the spirit in which this article is written. Clearly the "fuck-up" in this case only refers to the financial aspect of things.