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If someone identifies an optimum (for performance, efficiency), all competitors are forced to go there to stay competitive. We already have more cores then we know what to do with, and better single core performance is always appreciated, so badass branch prediction probably wins out IF they find that it is useful at all (these days, meaningful gains on single core are difficult to eke out).
I think that privacy concerns may be what caused the recent increase in the development of ad-blocking and anti-tracking tools. Tech people seem to care disproportionally more about on-line privacy than the rest, and they're the ones who develop tools to stop it.
If you find a union where union dues are selectively paid, let me know. Until then, I will continue using English accurately.
Good for them. But sadly, people who live there are habituated to driving from everywhere to everywhere simply because home, workplace and "third places" (shopping,recreation,entertainment,etc) are 10's of miles apart from each other.

When the sprawling highways were put in, nobody ever considered that everybody would get sick of driving all the time and that each highway widening project would precipitate even more driving and ever-increasing congestion.

Fortunately, there are some compact mainstreet communities in the LA area. These are excellent candidates for complete streets and biking infrastructure. If this can nucleate in some communities more folks will gravitate towards communities with less driving. That will be a very "long game" process however.
> If I remember correctly, ad blocking software overlays the ad with blank HTML right?

Don't know why you're being downvoted, you're simply unsure about a (wrong) assumption and asking about it, which to me simply calls for a correction / explanation. Anyway, no, uBlock for example actually blocks http requests, based on huge community-maintained blacklists. Just try loading theverge.com :

- Without uBlock: 131 requests

- With uBlock: 37 requests
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It's too easy to diss the smaller, less effective accelerators, but they have many forces working against them to improve. They don't just attract lower quality applicants, but lower quality mentors, operators, etc. Most people that can make it to the big leagues leave Pittsburgh, making it harder to invest in the ecosystem there.

Those startups need to work their way up, and naturally many of them don't make it.
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Have you been through some sort of responsible disclosure? I don't know enough to tell if this is an immediately usable vulnerability.
I believe that you would enjoy reading "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences". It is a short essay that deals (but does not answer) the question of why "some theory" that "never actually explains why" seems to still work?

https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.htm...
If you're having fun, seeing the possibilities instead of limitations, eager to experiment and learn, then you won't even notice. Find what you can do, do it well, learn how you can do it better, and it will all come into place.

I've heard it said that software development knowledge has a half-life of 3 years. That means you'll forget half of what you learned 3 years ago. That means half of the stacks that are relevant today are going to be gone in 3 years. What doesn't leave is your ability to learn, how you do things, your approach to problems and your priority.

Keep dreaming and visualizing what you want to create. You may not see how what you're doing today is ever going to materialize into something, but at some point everything will click and you'll be building what you want.
I'd rather say, 80s hackers are todays yuppies. So it might be the same people.
Maybe related to AMI retrieval from S3?
Are we supposed to flag this because MichaelOChurch the user id got banned? Not bothered either way, but wondered what the policy was.
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Wow, very awkward timing considering the latest "This Week in Startups" podcast is all about Zirtual

http://thisweekinstartups.com/
An aileron roll will experience -1G - something you really don't want to do in an airliner. A barrel roll is specifically named because its like driving around the inside of a barrel; the plane always maintains positive Gs.
My opinion is that the Copenhagen interpretation does not contradict DeBroglie in terms of nuclear chemistry, but solely thermodynamics.

The Copenhagen interpretation makes a leap of faith with the Born Rule as it is based on Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics. The work of t'Hooft is a more modern alternative for ensembles where the outcome is stochastic, rather than probabilistic. Photosynthesis has that property, as do many other enzymatic systems.
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>>go explain that to people every time you are drinking water in a pub

Don't go to pub.

Pub: A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed.
Also, it's pretty easy to make a wire-wrapped ISA-bus card.. I would try to do this. One 22v8 GAL for the address decoder :-) I would make a some kind of FIFO interface- don't bother with DMA, it's very slow.
You don't start off having to know everything.

You start off picking off small problems that don't require deep knowledge of an entire stack.

Then you have to know everything: there's no question a full-stack dev has to know a stupid amount of stuff. I've drawn a line at all but the basics of devops; it's not something I'm interested in, and even though it's important, it won't be where I focus much attention.
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It depends on the social situations. In my experience (yay, anecdotes) you only need to assert your preferences once or twice (maybe less with soft drinks, maybe more with alcohol, depending on the situation and people involved).

Anyway. You shouldn't be surprised if people react incredulously when you're not just deviating from the social norm but opting out of entire categories. "I only drink water" is no different in that regard than "I'm a vegan" or "I only eat raw food". It's a perfectly fine preference, but you're going to be an exception and exceptions tend to stand out.

I'm German but don't like beer and feel rather dispassionate about football (or "soccer" to Americans). It used to take some explaining when I was younger (i.e. teens and early 20s) but at 30 I find that barely anyone[0] cares about it -- simply because they've learned that they don't have to agree with everyone about everything to be friends.

[0]: Except die-hard football fans who can't imagine anyone not at least enjoying the sport or uber-machos who think drinking beer is a requirement for being a man. But those traits tend to be obnoxious enough on their own.
Even two is pushing it for me these days.
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It needs a front end. If this is the web version of TeX, it needs LaTeX and TeXshop or Kile. You're not suggesting that text be originally written in Pollen, are you?
I actually wrote to the NYT about this some weeks back. In essence: feel free to block me, charge enough subscription to cover your needs, or go out of business. Or, display static ads that don't collect and forward information about me.

It just occurred to me that if adblocking is made illegal, then the next generation of adblocking software won't block ads, they'll block sites. "This site is known to use intrusive ads, which are illegal to block. Whitelist or Blacklist?"
Right. I am no fan of Coca Cola sugar water, but it's probably true that your weight gain is determined by the totality of how much you eat, not necessarily drinking coca cola per se. So, taxing soft drinks extra rather than, say, all of junk food extra, seems somewhat arbitrary.
I don't have a strategy, because I don't have a straightforward goal. Define your goal before working on a strategy.

"Making it into the inner circle" for me, would be more of a means than an end. What's the end?
To clarify a little bit - 'soda' in the UK refers only to fizzy water / 'club soda' - i.e. unsweetened.

(this isn't the case in the US, where it can refer to pretty much any canned sweetened drink - Coca Cola / Sprite / Dr Pepper / etc)
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Do you mean like this?[1] Also, I was unaware of any laws that required unions to charge dues. It is true that many do, but one can certainly create a union without dues.

[1] http://www.nrtw.org/c/vartwlaw.htm
other possible reasons for obesity:

- increased car ownership

- lower cost of food, allowing binging (people could not afford meat all week)

- shifting nature of work. most jobs now are done in a sitting position of some sort, hard manual labor is getting rare.

now add medicine that allows you to sustain the obese lifestyle, from statins to insulin, and you can let your body go without much consequence (for a while).

and hell, forget the soft drinks. go to any cheap place in the US and everything is sugar-glaced. Try ordering something healthy from Panda Express, etc. And even traditional stuff like Ribs - put on that sweet BBQ sauce.

combine ALL the above and you might have an explanation of rising obesity. pretty sure it is not a simple equation, it never is.
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Yes. The parent's visa can be transferred, for up to a max of 6 years in length. However, the employer needs to be willing to transfer the visa. Lots of employers are willing to transfer the H1B during a good economy but rare to find an employer who would be willing to do so in a bad economy.

Also, if H1B worker wants long term stability and wants to stay in the US beyond the 6 yr period, then the employer needs to apply for Permanent Residency (Green Card). The H1B worker needs to employed for that employer for the entire duration of that GC process. The icing on the cake is that the H1B worker needs to find new employment within a month of being terminated or leave the US. Again, possible in a good economy but near impossible in a bad one.

All in all, this creates the perfect hostage scenario with H1B workers pursuing stability till they get their green card.
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If you want to hire someone detail oriented will you look inside his CV if he has "detail oriented" listed or you just see he has typos?
So, everything on the nanometer level is quantum mechanics? Seems like a cop-out answer. Quantum mechanics as opposed to what? This is hardly new.
Have you been to many pubs? :-)
I'd also love to see a post mortem on this, but I highly doubt they'll release anything about it.
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Before startup founders disregarding PG's advice about prefering .com domains if feasiable, consider 2015 RSA Conference cyber security speaker Paul Vixie recommendation for corporate sysadmins to filter out new TLD's to cut down on cyberthreats. Startups considering sexy new cheap TLD's may want to reconsider cost / benefit metrics of such path.

On Thursday, April 23 at 9:10am, there is a session called “Domain Name Abuse: How Cheap New Domain Names Fuel the eCrime Economy.” The panel will be led by Paul Vixie, CEO of a company called Farsight Security, Inc.

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It's also not a good idea. See for example the Lufthansa crash on 15 July 1964 where they tried to roll a B720 during a training flight:

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19640715-0
Standard XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1534/

I have a colleague who completely avoids alcohol. No particular reason for it other than one day he decided to do it because his friend wanted to do it. His friend didn't keep it up, but he did for ~30 years now. I have nothing for or against alcohol and I like some drinks now and then (mostly avoid beers, just don't like the taste).

I have to respect this guy that he keeps it up so long, even though he has nothing to gain or lose from it. I would have figured at least one day, what the heck, it's not a big deal, not doing anything bad or anything. But he decided he won't drink, so he doesn't. Mad respect.
I hadn't heard of javosize before, looks interesting, thanks. Being able to update code and data on a live system is very useful and I haven't seen that for the JVM before (BEAM of course handles that :) ).
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No, it is an adaptation, but time will show how successful. Just as it does for every other. Adaptations are not only changes that succeed or that conform to the way you would like to see society evolve.
When I was in a unionized position, it was frustrating because I couldn't choose to not join (technically I guess I could, but the union and the employer had already agreed that non-union employees still paid 90+% of union dues to the union. why this is legal I have no idea). Anyway, the union (which I became part of because, hey, 10% difference) really didn't help me. They were an entity with lots of institutional power, but they all had their own agenda. It's not like they really had my best interests at heart. It just became one more level of power to answer to. It was really frustrating, and I was happy when I was able to leave.
I am far from knowledgeable regarding diet and nutrition but I recently switched from drinking a good amount of fruit juice and an occasional soda to drinking 100% water. I wasn't really even overweight but I shed 10 lbs within a month and I feel in much better health. I don't think it's just sodas - pretty much any drink with a lot of calories and sugar seem like a waste. Now when I see those giant sized sodas in restaurants I can't believe I used to drink them.
> Would I still be stealing if I rendered them, but never moved my eyesight over to where the ad is placed?

No, because merely visiting the site and rendering the ad has done its job. The value of a web ad is in the information collected and profile built about you. You're going to see ads somewhere, even subconsciously, and you're going to buy something, somewhere. The hope is that retailers can place something in front of you where your task is buying instead of reading. Cell phones are going to be a huge assist to physical retailers in this area, because they carry your online trail into the store.

EDIT: I expect the day to come when advertising networks are subpoened for information on people.
I'm now curious of where you lived in Appalachia and of what economic background you came.

I too grew up in Appalachia and quite poor ($6000 / year for a family of 5), and aside from the camaraderie of poorness, I wouldn't want to inflict that hardship on anyone: few jobs, poor food, poor housing, poor schools, poor hospitals, poor infrastructure.

Where I grew up there were two classes of people: the 'professional class' and the 'working class'. The professional class were multi-generational groups of irresponsible doctors, preying lawyers, slum lords, land owners, government cronies, and other sorts of con men. Their spouses, children, and cousins took most of the other middle class occupations. The rest of us were left with the scraps of broken 100 year economies of iron, coal, and steel. And, these two group rarely mingled.

When people ask me what it was like to live in Appalachia in the 80s and 90s, I tell them to rent Gummo http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119237/.
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I understand that you like it, but I do not.
See also: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/177508/The_lagfighting_te...
Somewhat related, great piece of writing about the banked turn - http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/langew/turn.htm
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>Everyone loses union dues.

All they get in return is a salary that is above industry average.

>High performers lose high compensation

Sure, because unions in Hollywood totally ruined it for A listers.
It's not really a "low risk" maneuver to do an aerobatic maneuver on an aircraft that isn't certified for it and that doesn't have a g-meter. Ask the crew of the Lufthansa B720 that crashed trying to do a roll in 1964.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19640715-0
> non-exclusive and irrevocable

Perhaps you should read the Facebook terms and conditions before making arguments based on them ;)
This is a situation where "we pay you, now do as you're told" comes in handy.

Not every job can be full of self-directed aspirational spiritual awakenings. If that were the case, nobody would deliver my dinner on a bike when it's -20ºF outside.
Alcohol is a social lubricant which, yes, we shouldn't rely upon. But there are a great many things we should do that we don't - I don't see alcohol as a huge problem in that regard (unless, you know, it becomes a huge problem for you personally).

I also have friends who don't drink, including some when I was at university (a high time for most people's blood alcohol levels) - few people cared. Though my one suggestion to you is to drink something other than water, even if it's just club soda. Aside from anything else, getting something that costs money will likely make the pub staff friendlier.
I was at the Farnborough airshow in 1998. Farnborough is one of the largest commercial/trade airshows in the world. Wikipedia says that $72bn worth of aircraft were bought at the last show.

The commercial jets are really thrown around at the show. Steep take offs and really tight banked turns low to the ground so that the aircraft can remain visible to the people at the airshow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3EgoPDBvLc

The planes are more than capable of these manoeuvres, but paying passengers don't want to imagine themselves riding in those planes. Passengers want slow, steady and graceful flights that wont spill their drinks or upset their stomachs.
One of my on-hold projects is an FPGA-based floppy controller (that is, my own version of the 8272). I wanted to make an FPGA-based computer that could talk to a real floppy drive. The interesting point is to make the MFM data encoder/decoder plus DPLL for clock recovery.

I got as far as 3.3v to 5.v interface logic, plus acquired logic analyzer traces of real floppy data patterns.
Unions historically were organized by people that were individually very replaceable, could not find easily another job if fired, had limited education and means to fight for their rights and improve their condition.

For this reasons ther employers could force upon them punishing work conditions and contracts, and unions allowed workers to leverage their number electing representatives that could organize them and would be better suited to negotiate with the employers.

I fail to see any connection with engineers which can easily move between jobs, command decent salaries and benefits and are more than able to negotiate better conditons individually with their employers.

Maybe a more suitable organization would resemble the medieval artisan and merchant guilds...
Your second point assumes that high performers are both a) identifiable and b) are rewarded with higher levels of compensation currently. I'm not sure how we could quantify that, but I'm not convinced either is true.

(All that said, I'm not fired up about unionization as a software professional)
Similarly, see "Merchants of Doubt" by Oreskes and Conway. A small number of scientists (whose scientific field is sometimes barely or even not-at-all related) routinely get hired by front companies for various business interests to deny the hazards of smoking, climate change and so on.

Some of the ones who fought the "smoking isn't bad" action went on, after that was finally buried, to work for the "climate change isn't happening" front.

Tends to work in the exact same way as this is. Create a reasonable sounding front outfit ("Global Energy Balance Network" in this case), and throw money at the small handful of scientists you can find who will oppose the consensus. Use your money and media contacts to get their views far more publicity than they deserve, creating the illusion of a large body of dissenting scientists. Take advantage of current media belief that "balance" means you have to provide airtime to some crazy kook to oppose any view, and hold off the inevitable for as long as possible.
> four years intensive learning and practical experience under your belt.

You're not even finished after four years. In fact, you're merely starting.
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Among college educated folks, you'll probably not see so many sugar soft drink drinkers, but among the poor they still consume them.
We found that out the hard way. We were getting tons of reports of our product not working. After a lot of investigation, we found out they were all coming from people at Starbucks locations, because Starbuck was blocking .me.
If so, I'm gonna start charging them for my CPU usage. If what's going on in my computer, using my electricity, isn't under my ownership, I'll be darned if I'm gonna pay for it's execution.
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We built croovies to help people find those "underrated" gems, and give more context to what people did or did not enjoy about a movie. We built a shape rating/searching/recommendation platform in the process (over at BetterContext.com). Let me know if you have any questions!
> How does this address either of my points?

It addresses it as a human being discussing the meaning of the article as opposed to a pedant-bot dicing words to 'win'.
Personally I've become a big fan of tea. Hot and iced. In my opinion most teas don't require any sugar or require very little to offset a bit of bitterness. 9 times out of 10 I use no sugar at all. And that 1 time I do it's maybe half a teaspoon because the tea in question has a bit of bitterness or because I let it sit for too long.

Tea also has the added benefit that if you make it per glass it forces you to get away from the computer for a few minutes. Plus the aromas and flavors are, in my opinion, more numerous and pleasant than all the sugary drinks out there combined. Tends to be noticeably cheaper too :)
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What are some creative/clever ways you dealt with people hotlinking images from your site? Or directly loading scripts/other resources.

Things like:

- redirecting to a 900MB large image hosted in Dropbox
- redirecting to a gif saved from that one Rick Astley song
you say don't want to start wider discussion yet you try hard to start one... not really good in communication skills, are you?

I mean, I hate unions with passion, but your post almost makes me like them
Yes, the are different. However what the OP is pointing out is that Tex actually did an aileron roll and not a barrel roll. (Watch the video and it's pretty obvious).