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.
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:
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.
> 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.
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.