Anyone know how big the Asian demographic is in the US? Would help in guesstimating sincerity of this (vs just a play to get their vote after losing the black and hispanic groups)
Regardless, the bigger story of the alarming anti-meritocratic direction in the US is the poor social mobility in general.
People often bungle their firewall rules because they don't know any better, but Amazon continuing to willfully fuck up TCP for all of AWS is a pretty large issue for the functioning of the net at large.
I would have assumed it's declining in terms of market share (driven down by tablets/Mac/Linux) but there's a surprisingly large absolute drop coming as well:
Is your "complete system data from multiple platforms" from JS apps?
Let's also not confuse "a sufficiently smart compiler..." with real-world observed performance :)
BTW data layout transformations like compressed fields would also be useful on 32-bit. The vast majority of object graphs would be happy with 16 or even 8-bit identifiers, not to mention JS numbers which are all 64-bit floats even on 32-bit platforms.
Yes. It sucks to worry about your chargers when you're not going home for the night (trips or something more spontaneous).
Even for a 9-5 family lifestyle, charging every night is a
habit you have to learn and you need to keep chargers around
your night table.
Phones used to work like this (run for a week) before the
current smartphone craze. For other stuff you could have
a PDA that wouldn't leave you incommunicado if it ran out
of juice.
As a new Nexus 7 owner my favourite tablet feature is: I can do my Android stuff without worrying about running my phone out of battery. Now if it only fit in my pocket...
I don't know if you're a rich guy planning to marry down in the social hierarchy, living in a culture where where women don't work or just a misogynist but this is generally false in the west. Dual incomes with a single household is very economical compared to life as a single.
See eg. http://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dinks.asp "A household in which there are two incomes and no children (either both partners are working or one has two incomes). DINKS are often the target of marketing efforts for luxury items such as expensive cars and vacations."
> I don't think there's anything there that wasn't already known.
You must be a Nokia insider then: the various generations of UI design, types devices in development (with pictures!) that never made it, etc were new and fascinating imo.
> American culture appears to approach diet most scientifically, yet has probably the least healthy population
What makes you think this? Assuming you mean the USA,
I would think there are countries in northern european where diet is on average approached more "scientifically". For
example, national nutrition recommendations are taken
very seriously and abided by in school/workplace cafeterias.
> is it not possible to just have a python interpreter running in your game engine and only running vanilla Python code?
Sure, but it means much bigger swaths of C/C++ code
and your game app is no longer a python program that
imports some extension modules for performance critical
tasks or third party lib bindings.
Yeah, the freely available Python libs may not seem polished enough. [edit: not that I have experience trying to ship multiplatform games with them] But: if you flip it around embedding Python in your C++ framework as a "scripting engine", it's pretty crappy
too compared to a natively Python-driven system. And
since most people aren't starting from scratch it's
not so easy to configure the custom engine as a bunch of Python
extensions either.
I've played around with multitouch on Ubuntu, it does work
with some hardware (but not if the driver intercepts the touches and synthesizes something like scrollwheel events, that's bad).