Contactless is supported in the UK as well (usually up to a £20 minimum), but isn't nearly as widely supported as chip +pin, and I certainly don't know anyone who uses it regularly.
Once more supermarkets roll it out (I'm looking at you, Sainsburys), it'll start to get proper traction and kick on to being regular thing.
Also, it's often difficult to see whether a retailer has contactless even when you're standing Right There and then you do the normal chip+pin out of shame because you feel like a right fool with your card out.
> We all know that this goes against the beliefs of 90% of programmers and engineers
Based on what? Within the bubble of hackernews, that's maybe true, but there are (evidently) a very large % of engineers who are either indifferent, or feel the opposite.
Because they get no immediate return from profit (from dividends), but the value of the stock still increases (hopefully moreso if they are reinvesting more of their profit into future growth).
Exactly: "Promotions" is not "Spam". There is already a spam folder, so these should go straight in there, if anywhere.
How does this fit in with the CAN-SPAM act?
"Unsubscribe compliance
A visible and operable unsubscribe mechanism is present in all emails.
Consumer opt-out requests are honored within 10 days.
Opt-out lists also known as Suppression lists are only used for compliance purposes.
"
If there is no unsubscribe option, are google in violation?
(Their get-out may be that these are not actual emails, but by making the transition from clear ad space to inbox, most people would argue that the delivery mechanism is irrelevant)
They're adverts presented in the same place you see your e-mails but as they haven't been sent the the way an e-mail is, they won't have used any e-mail protocol, you won't be able to reply to them as e-mails and so on so they aren't e-mails so won't be covered by this.
She was one of those nordic women with big bones, literally, when she was a model you could see easily several of her bones and she was more or less masculine.
When I dated her, she was overweight by her standards (but had a perfectly normal weight actually, she was underweight when she was a model), this made her "bonyness" get bit hidden and her body got natural feminine curves, also her face was very beautiful (you ever saw a ugly model?).
Yet, I remember how odd to me it sounded when she wanted to have sex with me (I was not much sure about it, I was virgin) but with lights off. I was like: "Alright, you want to convince me to have sex, but with lights off?" Then she claimed that she was too fat and bony and she looked like a transexual...
I was kinda shocked... But over time this did not really go away, it would not matter how much I would reassure her, or how much other men looked at me with obvious envy, or how beautiful she really was, she always for one reason or another thought herself ugly. This is one of the reasons the relationship fell apart... But I never forget it, I dated a woman that was rich, powerful and a model, but she kept thinking herself weak and ugly (specially, fat with protuding bones... So yes, there are people that would describe themselves like that)
In the particular case of models, that can be way worse, as it is a very competitive field where you're constantly compared and measured against other (obviously gorgeous) models.
I imagine that being a model put your self-esteem under a huge presure.
I think most people find models unattractive. Most models are gaubf skeletons (human clothes hangers) with creepy facial expressions for the catwalk, and ridiculous clothes.
Movie stars, rock stars/dancers, very attractive. Models, not really.
I'm not sure it's as simple as that culturally re self-criticism. Women are trained not to be assertive in general and to think that you are one of the beautiful people is considered a huge assertion. Beautiful is something other people are, celebrities and models. It really is a self image thing. It's like if you're 70 and have decided you cannot possibly learn computers, you never will because you'll constantly look for excuses to reinforce your self image.
"Oh my nose is slightly large," "my lips are too thin," "my face is too bony," "I'm too fat," etc etc. Anything not to rock the boat of your self image.
And I'm amazed that this hasn't caught on in the US yet. Last time I vistited, I was horrified when they swiped the magnetic strip and asked me to sign for it - felt like I'd jumped back in time.
After I got back from my last visit to the states I kept handing my card to the staff when I was paying. They usually looked funny at me and put it in the machine rather awkwardly.
Did you read the post you linked? It talks mostly about legacy problems. OpenGL 3.0+ is fine. And by the way, the emphasis should be on cross platform.
Well, the post claims that 3.0 was a failure, but I think that was a case of speaking too soon. My limited understanding is that yes, since then OpenGL has had much better shepherds.
The failure it is talking about was codename "Longs Peak", a project that was supposed to be OpenGL 3.0. It was supposed to be a redesign from scratch but was eventually abandoned and OpenGL 3.0 was based on the old GL 2.0 API (with some parts deprecated and some new things added).
Wolfire Games, of Overgrowth fame (they also were the original organizers of the "Humble Indie Bundle") have another writeup comparing OpenGL to DirectX. Their argument centers mostly on the market ("Linux users are important") and it's a bit dated (2010), but still a great read.
