Unfortunately not that I can find. I didn't even realize that one lead to a paywall, since it seems to be completely unlocked to anyone on an .edu.* network.
Sydney International (after customs) is pretty nice, but Sydney domestic is pretty horrible. No power anywhere, very expensive food, horrible chairs, and it only got wifi this year but it's slow and painful to use.
Honestly, I'm a little surprised they weren't all completely open by lunchtime the first day. Kids, when given access to technology in a school environment will always find new ways to (primarily) play games, and those ways will evolve as the schools desperately struggle to keep up, but the school will always lose that particular arms race.
One thing I'd also recommend for speeding up django is swapping in djinja. Straight drop in replacement for almost the entire template engine, but much faster.
Benchmarks, please. I've yet to find a case where that was true in a real-world project outside of … dubious … designs where someone was using a dozen nested if/for blocks to avoid writing a templatetag.
In one memorable case, someone switched an entire site over to Jinja before doing any profiling – I reverted it and added select_related() to avoid doing 8,000 queries while generating the page.
The iPhone 4S (so, the one in all the demo photos) has a screen resolution of 640×960 at 326 ppi, and the Enfojer uses plastic "toy camera" lenses similar to the ones in Lomography cameras, so the results are always going to be slightly blurred.
> In a tipless society, your entree would just cost more
I live in a tipless society. Things cost exactly the same here (in Australia) as they do in the US. Difference is we don't have to pay extra on top of the meal.
We also get paid far far more. Minimum wage over here, in fast food, is $20 an hour.
> Things cost exactly the same here (in Australia) as they do in the US
That's not true. The cost of living in Australia is considerably higher than in the US. Melbourne and Sydney are both in The Economist's Worldwide Cost of Living top 10 (no US city is)[1].
Looking at food specifically, in 2011 one litre of milk was on average $2.21 USD in Australia, and a 1kg loaf of bread $5.24 USD.[2] In the US they were $1.80 and $2.80[3]. Half the price.
> Minimum wage over here, in fast food, is $20 an hour.
It's actually around $15 per hour. It varies a little with age[4][5]. Still quite high though. I'm not saying food prices necessarily directly connected with the minimum wage, just refuting the idea that in Australia food is the same price as the US. It simply isn't!
Service sector workers are most likely casual (ie not permanent part or full time) and thus their minimum wage is AUD$20.30/hr [1]
Tipping the scales further against America is that they are also fully covered by the national health insurance system, Medicare.
That said, it's hard to directly compare Australia and the USA - there's just too many variables. You are correct in that food is a little cheaper in the States; not 50% but probably 30% cheaper on average, from experience. Rent, too, is higher in Australia.
All things considered, though, I think it's pretty inarguable that a service sector worker is going to have a higher income and better quality of life in Australia. That's a consequence of deliberate economic policy. It's not without its negatives, of course - service hours in Australia are much less than in the USA, and certainly a factor in that is the higher cost of staff. For example, there is not a single 24-hour supermarket in Sydney!
Interesting. On a haswell i5 with an intel 5000 series GPU it works reasonably on Chrome without any noticeable CPU or memory impact, Firefox stable works pretty well with only slightly more load, Firefox 26.0a1 dies instantly and completely.
The fact that it kills browsers for so many people so completely is a very good indication that this is in no way ready for use by anyone for anything other then "look at this shiny demo!"
Outing himself so publicly was one of the worst things Snowden could have done. Doing so before he was already in a country which had guaranteed him political asylum was just idiotic.
A leak like that one really didn't need the figure-head that the identity of the leaker would provide, and given who he was angering it was only going to make his life painful.
A good leak through the right channels doesn't need to be backed by anything. All it needs to do is get the right questions asked to the right people, publicly. If the outlet the leak comes through is trusted enough, it doesn't need the figure head, and it certainly doesn't need a figurehead holed up in an airport in Russia.
You think so? He sure seems to be getting a lot of media and people on their toes waiting to see if the big bad U.S. government catches him or not - and then what will follow if a country does give him asylum?
That's the side-show distraction from the actual leak.
Yeah, people are talking about him. That would be fantastic if he was in it for his own personal gain, but he tried to tell the people of the US that their government was over-stepping the line. Being the story is not helping the story he tried to tell.
"Where's Waldo" is a simple concept that most people can understand and have an opinion about. A country spying on its own citizens is an important thing to deal with, but sufficiently complex that most people would rather just ignore it.
I would imagine that if even a tiny fraction of the people hearing about Snowden then go in to investigate the spying, then that's more attention than the spying would get by itself.
The mass media putting 'Snowden' in everything, to try to grab some of the traffic, is noise - and that is true it's a problem for the mass consumer. However, the important articles are still circulating, being shared, etc.. it would be good if there was a good way to see them curated in an updated list.
That somewhat depends on the mutation rate. I have it set to 20% and the cars are optimizing down to big wheels connected by what can only be described as a bar, which means they can drive in any orientation and are clearing later and later challenges quite effectively.
