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Before IS and their Al-Shabaab buddies come and blow those non-muslim relics to smithereens...

While they're at it, they could also try to blow those non-muslim (i.e. Kafir) relics of wireless communications tech of way back to smithereens ...

Reddit employees - no need to watch this video, salary negotiating skills are no longer relevant to you: http://www.reddit.com/r/news/c...

With a light enough payload/low energy trajectory, and especially with crossfeeding, you can leave the center core with more propellant at separation than the side cores had. So there is a range of launches where they can bring all three cores back. It's not yet clear how useful that range is, and it's not doable for missions to geostationary orbit: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/c...

It may be that they just didn't want to model the ASDS.

No, there are still plenty of men working middle-tier jobs in other fields, teaching isn't a special case when it comes to effort vs reward. Where it is a special case is the way it opens men up to gender-based discrimination (because if a man likes kids he's obviously a pedophile! Only women can like kids without it being sexual!) and that living under the constant threat of a single student's unsubstantiated and untrue claim of misconduct can and will cost you your career, your marriage, your friends, and possibly even your freedom.

Men have been teaching kids since teaching became a thing. We didn't just decide last week that we don't want to be teachers any more, we weigh the benefits against the risks and at some point it's just not worth it.

A few articles you may appreciate:
http://www.wsj.com/news/articl...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/edu...

Also, a candid discussion between male teachers:

http://www.reddit.com/r/teachi...

This was the most reliably citable thing I could find : a medical paper discussing side effects of cataract lens replacements.

http://crstodayeurope.com/2011...

There's the much more readily verifiable fact that red-green colour blindness allows you to see right through various forms of camouflage, and this has been exploited by the military in various settings.

Lots of anecdotes here : http://www.reddit.com/r/todayi...

I propose increasing the number of squares to double or quadruple to drastically reduce the number of draws and discourage opening 'book knowledge' over pure brainpower. As a side effect, we may even bew able to beat the top computers gain. I wrote about such a topic on Reddit here: http://www.reddit.com/r/chess/...

Go has various board sizes. Why not chess?

Not quite yet. Text isn't very legible.

11 pixels per degree is what you see get by looking through the Rift Dev Kit 2
19 pixels per degree will be what to expect from a theoretical 4K Rift with Field of View like the Dev Kit 2
48 Pixels per degree will be close to what you see looking at a 24" 1080p monitor

http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus...

So you'd probably need at least an 8K display to get close to the quality of a monitor.

And she was suing for the same amount her husband owes his victims. And her attorney's name is Lawless.

I don't see any gender equality statements in this. Is the 4chan subreddit behind the times now?
Or do they assume that everyone working for free is somehow equal?

https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan...

Considering that it puts people in danger AND lately has been used to shut up political opponents (like FreeBSDGirl), I think the terrorism definition is apropos.

Yes, I actually thought this would be the greatest weight loss game kind of system ever - "gain weight lose your Internet connection"

But no, the target customers thought removing the Internet connection or television was not a funny game at all.

instead it would be so "terrible",... and customers would happen to be forced to "disable", "remove", "destroy" etc. the thing..., because they don't need a baby sitter... because they are so damn good in losing weight. Maybe, China is arranging some kind of holiday camps to its food addicts too?

Rust claims to be superior for systems programming

Eh... care to cite anything that corroborates your claim? I can't recall any Rust authorities stating things like that.

Chrome guys are quietly getting on with migrating Blink (aka WebKit) to garbage collected C++

Rust provides garbage collection. In fact this is being used to unify Javascript object and DOM object memory management. Your ignorance of this fact indicates that you don't know what you're talking about.

Chrome ... Oilpan ... blah blah

Chrome fared no better than its contemporaries at the most recent pwn2own. That event (and the 2014 pwn2own as well) revealed yet another batch of dangling pointers, use-after-frees and races, most of which Rust could have prevented. Those flaws would have never even compiled.

Chuckleheads such as yourself will impede adoption, naturally, but Mozilla is on the right track here and they will prevail. Rust, or something like it that delivers both memory safety and bare metal performance will eventually put C/C++ to pasture.

It's a shame it has taken so long.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoi...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch...

That's almost as many as Kin!

Here's the other side of the story: Ellen Pao's husband ran a pyramid scheme that collapsed. She was appointed CEO of Reddit to raise her profile for the lawsuit, as otherwise she would have been a nobody mid-level employee with poor reviews whose case would not have gotten into the newspaper. The defense has convincing evidence that there was no harassment or discrimination. The lawsuit looks like a shakedown to get some money out of somebody to pay back investors.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/c... They plan on supporting Linux and Mac for the alpha and pre-alphas as well.

WINGMAN is doing an AMA http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/c...

First of all a nutritional ketogenic diet is high in fat, moderate in protein and low in carbohydrates. If you eat to little protein you start breaking down muscle. If you eat way to much protein then excess protein is converted to sugar. As a generic range, lets say 75% fat, 20% protein and 5% carbohydrates (primarily from vegetables)

It has been shown that people who already have kidney damage can do more harm on a high protein diet. However this is not the case for people with healthy kidneys. Which is all still academic, sine a well formulated nutritional ketosis style diet is moderate in protein, not high in protein.

I also would not blame carbohydrates for all evils in the world. However, the combination of your genetics, diet and exercise can lead you to a place where your body does not do well with a carbohydrate rich diet. I am talking about people who are diabetic or pre-diabetic. A very low carb diet for them can be incredibly beneficial.

A good source for information about a ketogenic/very low carb diet, both how to do it and debunking common myths would be http://reddit.com/r/keto

I'll just leave this here:

I'm Matt McMullen, CEO of RealDoll; AMA
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/...

Some small examples: http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/... and many of http://www.reddit.com/r/lolphp...

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/...

An alternate and more appropriate way to look at it is that before Hanoi Fonda and her ilk started to burn their bras, women were made of stronger stuff and were capable of brushing off annoyances that make current women reach for the trigger warnings. Now with the "male gaze" and other such feminitwaddle even the act of looking at a girl is considered "rape". No wonder there's "more occurances" now.

Back in the day women were more moral, dressed appropriately and used common sense to stay out of dangerous situations. Women now days want the right to make dumb choices and have someone else pay the price (along with the price of their contraceptives, isn't that right miss fluke?).

That's what feminism has made of woman; stupider than her predecessors and far whinier. We won't even talk about what it's done to the men! Those poor fools are queing up to have their balls cut off -god help us all!

See /r/forwardsfromgrandma. (NSFW? Frequent racism)

The trolls who make those kinds of memes that are then shared by people who legitimately agree with their content must be wetting themselves laughing.

Interestingly kernel.org has blocked France, not for certificate reasons though, story here.

The Linux version has some performance problems that the developers are actively trying to track down. They've put out a call for help on Reddit for any users that have reproducible problems. http://www.reddit.com/r/Cities...

We don't answer questions for undereducated people here, you're thinking of reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/explai...

They're a lot friendlier to beginners and people that want to learn. This place is for seasoned developers and entrepreneurs that have already made their first million. Come back later in life, or better yet, never again at all. This is not for you.

codepigeon - Full disclosure, I work for GoDaddy. We have made so many changes this past 2 years it is crazy. We have new hosting offerings, Cpanel, Managed WordPress, etc. All of which have been getting greatly improved reviews online. Our new CEO, Blake Irving, and executive staff are changing our ads, and are committed to web professionals, kick ass products, and women in tech. In fact Blake did an Reddit AMA as well and addressed many concerns that have plagued us and users in the past: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/c... Kindly,

I've been pretty happy with NameCheap, the CEO recently did a AMA on reddit, you should check it out.

They don't actually make keyboards, they are a reseller of high quality mechanical keyboards. One of the nice things about them is that they have a great selection of different brands, layouts and switch types, so it's kind of my go to place if I'm looking for a particular mech.

So far I've bought two Filco's and a RealForce from them which were shipped to me swiftly. I haven't had to use their customer service, but I've heard it's excellent. They're also active on keyboard forums like /r/MechanicalKeyboards and geekhack.org

If you are in the EU, I can really recommend them. In the US you'd probably find cheaper options if you have to include overseas shipping and taxes.

Simple. Check the daily sticky at /r/MechanicalKeyboards https://www.reddit.com/r/mecha...

What if I told you that Valve's VR has been here all along and it was hiding in plain sight -- inside the Oculus Rift itself? Early on, Valve worked with Oculus to improve their head mounted display. The Oculus Development Kit 1 added Valve technology and became the Crystal Cove prototype. The prototype was re-released as the Oculus Development Kit 2. Oculus continued to receive assistance from Valve, but then in March of 2004, Oculus was purchased by Facebook.

For reasons not published, the cooperation between the two companies ended. Oculus went ahead and developed a Crescent Bay prototype, which was very similar to the best of Valve's prototypes at the time, but with the alternate camera arrangement that was used on Crystal Cove. The Crescent Bay prototype was not sold to the public, perhaps related to issues involved with the split between the two companies.

What you've seen with the Valve/HTC Vive is actually the culmination of Valve's ongoing research which Oculus has benefited from. After the split (and losing Abrash to Oculus), Valve continued to work on the hard problems and developed a new tracking technology based on lasers and inexpensive photodiodes, and controller input. The Valve/HTC Vive prototype is the latest public revelation of their ongoing work. It isn't any wonder that Valve's "new headset" has gotten high praise -- they've been breaking ground for some time, you just never knew.

We can expect both HTC/Valve and Oculus to evolve between now and the release of their first consumer product.

For a change, this is something that appeared on SoylentNews before Slashdot. It has been interesting tracking this article through the social media sites that I frequent:

Reddit — Submitted Wed, Mar 11; 211 comments at the time of writing this comment

SoylentNews — Submitted Sunday, Mar 15; 16 comments at the time of writing this comment

Slashdot — Posted Monday, Mar 16; 30 comments at the time of writing this comment

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Story ---> The new Windows is to be called "Windows 10", inexplicably skipping 9. What's funnier is the fact this was "predicted" by InfoWorld over a year ago in an April Fools' article.

"The reason is simple:

Call it windows 9 - the 12 announcement stories are lost among the weak wash of windows 9 speculation

Call it windows 10 - cheap gimmick to make people think they have to upgrade to what is essentially windows 7, and 24 more stories all commenting about how they chose a different fucking number

Fuck microsoft."

- https://www.reddit.com/user/fe...
- http://www.infoworld.com/artic...

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Story ---> BusinessBill Gates: Bitcoin Is 'Better Than Currency'

"Fuck you Bill.

If you hadn't used our own tax dollars against us, holding back the internet for ten years, we might have had bitcoin a decade earlier, IMAGINE how many more learning developments we would have had.

SO FUCK YOU BILL. FUCK YOU.

Reasons Bill Gates is an asshole:

1. Trying to force linux out of the market for decade and a half with FUD, SCO lawsuits, targeting small companies and putting people out of work
2. Poisoning the well of hundreds of open source projects (see Halloween documents)
3. Stealing hundreds of billions of tax dollars worldwide with illegal bribes and FUD spread to councils and governments
4. NSA backdoors into the windows code
5. Keep pushing the windows 95 source code as a 'new product' every two years
6. Trying to destroy the console competition by using cash-cow money to buy into exclusives and create and anti-consumer market - exclusives don't benefit consumers
7. Trying to kill off openoffice, also poisoning the well of open office - disrupting development and communications.
8. Holding back the internet development for a decade, because they wanted to maintain their "SLoC" business model
9. Using NSA funds (your tax dollars) to buy skype for an ungodly amount, as an accounting trick, immediately rewiring the peer-to-peer technology of skype to push all calls into a NSA backdoor datacenter of 10000 machines that route all calls (google it)
10. Becoming patent trolls the last years
11. Being SHIT. Making shit products, being lazy - not creating something good and exceptional.
12. Faking upgrade requirements for YEARS on office - pushing broken formats, broken compatibility, lying to 99% of their user install base about needing to upgrade their shitty office suite.
13. Tying direct X versions to windows versions for no reason (proven by overriding flags) to force people to buy new hardware / licenses for no reason
14. Forcing OEMs to change netbook configurations, forcing them to stay slow, low resolution and sub full-size keyboard - basically forcing prices higher on hardware for years - otherwise they'd withdraw licensing to them
15. Forcing countries to pass certain sales laws on operating systems through lobbying
16. Forcing resellers to sell computers with a windows license, stopping the ability for small stores to supply ready-to-run linux products for fear of not being able to any windows machines people might want
17. Not innovating for decades, then trying to buy into search and email - because they were deliberately holding back the internet to stop it diminishing their desktop
18. Internet Explorer 6
19. Internet Explorer 7
20. Internet Explorer 8
21. Internet Explorer 9
22. That disgraceful way they screwed around with open standards, flip flopping and finally using it as yet another excuse to force people to upgrade (file extension changes)
23. Buying into opengl patents to hedge their bets on directx, trying to keep gaming exclusive to windows through lock-in
24. TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS of damage, LOST JOBS caused by millions of worm infections caused by WIDE OPEN APIs in outlook - N

Story ---> The new Windows is to be called "Windows 10", inexplicably skipping 9. What's funnier is the fact this was "predicted" by InfoWorld over a year ago in an April Fools' article.

"The reason is simple:

Call it windows 9 - the 12 announcement stories are lost among the weak wash of windows 9 speculation

Call it windows 10 - cheap gimmick to make people think they have to upgrade to what is essentially windows 7, and 24 more stories all commenting about how they chose a different fucking number

Fuck microsoft."

- https://www.reddit.com/user/fe...
- http://www.infoworld.com/artic...

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/c...

Hello reddit. I am Ben Lesser[1] .

I am the founder of the Zachor Holocaust Remembrance Foundation[2] .

I was born in Krakow, Poland, in 1928. With the exception of my older sister Lola and myself, the rest of my family was killed by the Nazis.

Over the 5 years of the war, I was fortunate to survive several ghettos, as well as the notorious camps of Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and finally be liberated in Dachau.

After the war, in 1947 I immigrated to the United States where a few years later, in 1950, I met and married my wife Jean. Over the years, I became a successful realtor in Los Angeles and after retiring in 1995, I have devoted my time to being a volunteer to speak in colleges and schools about the Holocaust.

I wrote a book about my experiences, entitled Living a Life that Matters[3] .

I am looking forward to answering your questions today. Victoria from reddit will be helping me via phone. Anything I can do to further the cause of tolerance - I am always ready, willing and able to do. Anyway, you go ahead and ask any questions.

How frustrating is it that some people refuse to believe the Holocaust occurred?

[–]IamBenLesser [S] 1196 points 2 days ago

Well, Victoria, I don't believe that they don't know better.

They know better.

They just believe that if a lie is told long enough, that some people will start believing in that lie.

Because nothing in history was ever as documented as the Holocaust itself.

So... you know, how could they deny it?

Eisenhower, when he came across these camps, instructed his soldiers, the fighting men to take pictures - all the pictures they could, from all they saw, these atrocities, "because someday there will be people denying that it ever happened."

That it ever happened.

So he was smart enough.

And millions, and millions of pictures. It was documented in pictures, and films. So what's the use of denying it?

They are preying on youngsters who don't know better, or uneducated people. This is why education is important. Because people who are in countries who don't have the chance to know the truth - they hope that these people will believe it.

Those are anti-Semites. People who hate Jewish people.

Better than what I get when I Google AmiMoJo. (Seriously, it's in the third result!)

Shit, dude, and you have the nerve to lecture us about respecting women?!

The cover-up didn't work.
The week-long gaming press news blackout and ongoing user comment/forum censorship (in former free-speech strongholds such as 4chan and Reddit, no less) didn't work.
The coordinated, ongoing smear campaign that began with the "Gamers are Over" articles hasn't worked.
The doxxing and harassment of pro-GG folks hasn't worked.
The endless train of embarrassingly desperate counter-hashtags hasn't worked.
The Wikipedia and Nightline hit pieces only damage those outlets' credibility for short-term effect.
The SVU episode . . . hahaahhahaha WOW, where do I even begin . . . it is progapanda that couldn't be more precisely crafted to the corrupt press's specifications (i.e. "narrative"), and broadcast to a national non-gamer audience, much of which likely accepted it as reality. It was a wake-up call to quite a few previously unaware or neutral parties, especially game devs*.

Eurogamer is the latest games journalism site to update its ethics policy in the wake of Gamergate, joining PC Gamer, IGN, the Escapist, and of course Kotaku/Gawker (though in Gawker's case, they put up more of a fight and the Gamergate pressure to be ethical had to be routed through the FTC). And there are probably more I'm forgetting.

Gamergate also got Brad Wardell (CEO of Stardock) some long-overdue apologies for hit pieces run against him:
https://twitter.com/iamDavidWi...
http://www.gamepolitics.com/20...
http://www.zenofdesign.com/in-...

Ask yourself how much of this you've seen reported in the corrupt media (which at this point, sadly, clearly includes Slashdot). Of course none of it ever had a chance of appearing in the Wikipedia article. Nothing enrages anti-Gamergaters more than someone covering both sides of the story, and that should tell you something.

Their side thrives only in an environment of propaganda and censorship, and evaporates when faced with integrity and transparency. They prove the need for Gamergate every time they write an article based on the assumption that terrorism and child porn^W^W^W^W misogyny and harassment have become the root passwords to the Constitution^W^W journalistic ethics.


* like Mark Kern and Ken Levine, who had nothing to do with Gamergate, but were so disgusted by the SVU episode that they publically called on the gaming press to stop slandering gamers. Both were instantly swarmed by anti-GG on twitter, and VG24/7 ran a hit piece on Kern without even getting his side of the story, and refused even after he specifically asked them. I think Eurogamer saw exactly what happened to Kern, and it's no accident that that their policy explicitly includes a "right of reply" (perhaps a subtle message that they won't similarly treat game devs like shit).

Does this mean troll extraordinaire AmiMojo will be banned from posting sick, perverted shit like:

"You filthy slut, how dare you cum without my permission. Maybe I should gag that pretty mouth on my dick until tears are rolling down your face, or tie you up, blind fold you, and use your little ass all night (and deny that wet pussy completely, I don't think you've earned it). I'll have to decide when I get my hands on you, but don't think being far away makes you exempt from punishment either. You can expect your orders shortly."

More here.

Here

This was a case of blatant infringement [...]

No, it wasn't.

Looks like a job for Lenny.

Spoken like someone who has never really had to deal with the subtleties of time zones. Just read this message here: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskSci...

I found the photo from this Reddit site here: http://www.reddit.com/r/space/...

> The guy's reddit name,

What exactly about the name "ioerror" screams attention whore to you?

> the shit build quality,

So, your contention is that someone went to the effort to layout and fab up at least a two-layer circuit board with surface mount components specifically to hoax the internet?

> It's a millennial cry for attention, for whatever reason.

Looks like you have a stick up your ass about millenials.
Why don't you just shout "get off my internet" at them like a proper grumpy old man?

I wouldn't be making this comment if the OP didn't mention loving Valve. I think it's absolutely lovely that Valve has done this, but I kinda hate Valve.

Valve seems to have problems internally that's lead me to believe that it's not worth hanging hopes that they'll usher in a true golden age era of PC gaming.

First, there seems to be some bizarre drama going on inside of Valve, as evidenced here. The flat structure isn't as idyllic as once thought.

Then there's problems inside of their online market place. Shit just doesn't work. Valve doing a bad job policing Greenlight. I'm not even going to bring up Hatred.

And of course, where the bloody hell is Half Life 3? Or the steambox? Or a stable release ready version of steamOS?

Valve can't be all things to all people and try to spread itself as thin as possible. It winds up doing nothing well and it's all starting to fall apart. I just hope they let us know what happened to Barney Calhoun before the company shits the bed.

I also noticed that in Reddit there is an user account called Leonard_Nimoys_Ghost which was created just couple of days before Nimoy died.

http://www.reddit.com/r/itslen...

How's there less of an excuse? UE4 isn't going to force anyone to produce high quality output, if its dev tools are easy enough to use then it'll just add to the ever increasing heap of shit that is poorly made commercial early access games on steam, often Unity3D's domain in the past. No bars will be raised, only floodgates further opened, a port of the slaughtering grounds to UE4 isn't going to stop it being a massive steaming pile of shit.
Meanwhile, people make quite interesting and thoughtful stuff with gamemaker, RPGmaker, twine and such.

Object Pascal is quite a nice language. The open source Free Pascal compiler targets many platforms and Lazarus gives you an IDE and frameworks for building GUI applications with Free Pascal. Delphi only runs on Windows, but can cross compile to OS X, iOS and Android for making multiplatform applications. See the changes since Delphi 7 for the current state of Delphi and the Delphi roadmap. The Delphi and Pascal subreddits are also pretty good resources.