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It's been something that the salespeople have done off and on through the years, but definitely something that's happening more frequently now. Usually they would just ask if you were also buying memory or something, now they'll ask if you just pass by and ask where something is.
I use SourceTree almost exclusively for this feature. They allow you to search any commit message in a repo. Such a hidden gem.
Do you have evidence to support that you do not 'troll'?
I tried to buy cat6 patches at Fry's Santa Clara in a pinch. I couldn't check out with an extra $20 of cables in my cart until I found a checked out employee in the aisles to write up their commission.
No, and in fact it is quite the opposite, they have been putting their competitors out of business and were cited by Radio Shack at one point as to why they were going out of business[1].

In the Bay area they have replenished some of their "maker" supplies to be more relevant again but it is spotty. They prefer high margin items like laptops or washer/dryer combinations. This is quite a bit lower than when parts distributors Wyle and Arrow were complaining that Fry's was selling individual parts at the 1K quantity price and cutting off their margins.

They also managed to kill off the electronics stores in the Bay area, Sunnyvale Electronics, Jade Systems, JDR Microdevices, Quement, Quest, Etc. JameCo has survived but in part because they have a decent mail order business and hold the line on their prices. I wrote a letter to Bill Fry complaining because after they killed off those businesses their component supply dropped off dramatically leaving folks in Silicon Valley ordering from a company in Minnesota to get parts they use to source locally.

That said, I find it hilarious when they have in their display case test equipment offered for sale from companies that are no longer in business.

[1] Of course Radio Shack probably cited everything at one time or another as to why they were going out of business.
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How do you discover error in production?
A winner in the Republican debate: Facebook
"Facebook's role in the debate also indicates that candidates think the social network is equally important as traditional broadcast networks, but in a different way..."
Ah, the Final Insult. After standing in the checkout line and paying, I just smile, say "My receipt looks correct, thanks" and walk right by the guy checking purchases at the door. They can't stop you. Been doing this since they instituted the practice (20 years ago?)

Man, try returning a computer, especially a broken one. A true conversation:

"This system doesn't work."

"Right. That's why I'm returning it."

"We can't take it back if it's not working, it means we can't put it back on the shelf."

Facepalm. And reasoned argument, escalating into rather loud voices until they give me my money back just to get rid of me. Do not ever, ever buy a white box computer at Fry's.
> default position that you've stolen from them until you produce your receipt as you leave.

As a matter of principle, I always walk directly past receipt checkers at store exits. I've never been stopped, although I've gotten some nasty looks.
Haxe can target both JS and Python (as well as many other things). It doesn't seem to be very well known, probably because it originally came about for developing Flash content.
A random website? Absolutely, 99.999% of the Web is safe. But we're talking about a site which is specifically compromised with malware.

With that said - "Linux" is safe by being such a tiny population of the community that browser malware generally isn't written for it. In general, I take it as a given that people have deleted/disabled flash and java plugins a long, long time ago.
I liked cmder But have you tried mobaxterm???? mobaxterm changed my Windows life!
I wouldn't trust my university. Their IT department has the collective IQ of a toad.

But individual departments have their own budget. If one faculty member says "I'll do the scheduling if you pay $500 for this software", and everyone else says "I'm too busy", then that $500's gonna get spent.
The phrase is "cellar door" (although it is pronounced "seller door").

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellar_door
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C++.
But you destroy your own point. Everyone on earth is exposed to "doses of radiation" every single second. It's just a small enough amount of radiation as to be benign.
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I think 3 is bad because it is more complex than the natural code. It's not incomprehensible, of course, but clearly more complex.

I like introducing named variables for readability a lot. But this doesn't help readability. It just adds complexity for the sake of fitting into 80 characters.
I was with you all the way until "Frozen vegetables are better for you!" On the plant ripening definitely feels right but then that itself is falling prey to the narrative appeal to naturalness isn't it? Seems like another empirical question (on vs off plant ripening) I'm pretty sure we can really answer any better than the salt, fat, msg, gluten, etc questions.
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And instead you now need to know a layer of abstraction and relearn that layer whenever it re-invents itself.
I would guess the FAA, but after a few minutes search on their site I couldn't find that exact info, though they have a lot of similar information.
I'd like to leave you with something my music teacher told me. There are no mistakes.

"Music comes from inside of you, and through thought and motion you set it free into the air around you. When you are true to the music, whether you are tone deaf or have perfect pitch, the musician hears your song that is uniquely yours and yours alone. If you want a perfect note for note reproduction of a song, buy a tape recorder."

It really helped me let go of some my perfectionist tendencies and just let the music out.
Boerse moved to boerse.to and afaik there very much alive.
Here's the listing

http://www.controller.com/listingsdetail/aircraft-for-sale/B...

$1.5M is a lot lower than I would have guessed, unless this is like everything else in the Bay Area and the listing price is the floor and not the ceiling.
Just as an aside - we seem to be crossing paths a lot on here...

I think you should just hire me as your PR and/or developer guy ;). It's always good to have a guy with a different perspective who thinks and plays outside the box. I mean inside the box is so boring....

> I do wonder how would you define the patch file?

Something like....

> A patch file contains the modified file name, author of the change, date, hash with snippets of content recording the changes. A patch file cannot contain enough information to reconstruct the software in whole or modify the CE to include copyrighted features in the EE edition. The author must not knowingly introduce backdoors, exploits, or other code that introduces malicious intent. If the author is identified their gitlab EE license will be revoked irrevocably and permanently and requested to halt any use of gitlab EE.

(However - a patch may still introduce features from the EE edition that were written with original code)

> A patch may be released under whatever license or agreements the author wants without the requirement for permission from Gitlab if it satisfies the previous conditions.

It might be good to add a clause:

> By applying a third party patch you agree to not hold Gitlab liable for any damages or misconfigurations that might happen by applying the patch. You acknowledge by applying a third party patch that it may fix your problem, introduce a new problem, or open a tear in the space-time continuum.

I'm sure you get the idea. I'm tired and I just watched an episode of Doctor Who - so I had to include something related to time :).
Not yet. I'll try that benchmark. Thanks
"Kind of sad! I guess not as many people do low-level circuits hacking in the age of surface-mount parts and Arduino boards on Amazon."

More people are building electronics than ever. But they're not buying from Fry's. Everybody serious gets their parts from Digi-Key and Mouser.
yes completely agree with the status quo reinforcing effect of voting. it also encourages ego games which contribute to trollage.
Thanks! We're hiring https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/ Our lawyer will also study this comment. I'm sure he'll discourage us from offering guaranties against tears in the space-time continuum. Have a good night.
> The idea that service providers destroy data when a cap is reached is just plain weird.

This fellow is proposing an account that's capped. In AWS-land with by-the-hour servers, that would presumably mean terminating running servers. Servers that have data in RAM. Servers with volatile local disks that get recycled as soon at they're terminated. Maybe you have an idea of how to shut down all of Amazon's 40-odd services with no risk of data loss, but I'm not seeing one.

If they're not going terminate them, then either they're going to keep charging or not. If they keep charging, then it seems like it's more a billing alert plus a service interruption. If they don't charge, then it's more like what they do now, which is waive charges for mistakes, except with a service interruption.

> Similarly, it's also weird that people think Amazon doesn't care about 4- and 5-figure accounts.

I think they do care about them. I'm just saying they won't go out of their way for the $50/month accounts if it means putting serious customers at risk.
San Jose Sharks ink 'seven-figure' sponsorship deal with Fry's Electronics
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/09/17/national-...

Both teams played (or play) at the SAP Center (San Jose Arena). Probably, the 747 tail advert was a deal-clincher, goodwill/promotion gesture or both. It makes a lot of sense to drive/cross-promote advertising, sponsorships and other business into a common ecosystem.

As it happens, I used to hang out with the Sabercats and (now former) Saberkittens at (undisclosed) because of a Stanford hookup. Since I don't find drinking fun anymore, I'm old and boring now. :)
The actions you perform with a scalpel (or even a bulldozer) are far more complex than sending email, so arguing that they have a simpler interface doesn't really support your case. Quite the opposite, in fact. I would argue that they have simpler interfaces because those interfaces are actually optimized for the task, rather than being some jack-of-all-trades compromise.
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Regarding the seating, it's in the overkill range for a corporate jet, but the 747-SP is a significantly smaller plane compared to the regular 747. Capacity-wise, and size-wise, it's about the same as a 767 or 787, which do see some service in the corporate charter/owned jet.
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"If you are willing to embrace the pitfalls and advantages of such an approach, you don't need DNSSEC."

That was in reference to Zooko's Triangle. You have to choose one of the other two if you are doing decentralized. The obvious choice being that you can't trust the human readable host names.
As a PHP developer who moved on to Rails and now Node, I think for the most part the growth of Rails has stalled.

Doesn't mean there aren't Rails jobs out there, doesn't mean there aren't good reasons to use Rails, it just doesn't have the mindshare anymore.

If you're looking to learn a new language, try to look at what is popular now and what will be big in the next few years.

I personally think Javascript will continue to grow in popularity. There is nothing else on the horizon for front-end programming (ignoring languages with compilers to Javascript).

Other things to consider would be Functional Programming languages. Though Scala is popular, I believe (and don't have experience here, so take my thoughts with a grain of salt) that Haskell is probably more popular at the moment. I'm not sure what other languages will be coming up and gaining steam in that area.

I'd think about what you'd like to make or be making, then do some research to find what would be the best language for that.
Every story about broadband attracts random, totally unrepresentative anecdotes that aren't interesting or informative. Such comments may even be harmful if they trigger various cognitive biases.
konkourse.com is a side project of mine. My goal in creating this application is to provide a simple way for people to create public or private discussion groups that are easy to find (tagable), where users can choose to contribute under their identities or anonymously.

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<quote>but state law forbids them from retailing directly to consumers, so as of yet they have no way to do this directly and no residential pricing model. So we had to be creative.</quote>

isn't having in writing the intent to go against the law (even if creatively) a very dumb thing to do?
yes, also the unconscionable betrayal by the modern day benedict arnolds-msft, yelp, getty images, and iac enjoying their bratwurst and lederhosen, while lady liberty weeps in silence.
Sugar, fat and salt taste good. That means that humans and animals evolved to seek them out. If they were unequivocally bad for us, we would have evolved to find them disgusting.
> A random website? Absolutely, 99.999% of the Web is safe. But we're talking about a site which is specifically compromised with malware.

Well, we don't know that, actually. The info given on the PE site say that the attacker gained access to the server and modified the database. Do you have proof that it's serving up malware to visitors?

In any case, it's an odd situation and an odd response from Project Euler. It doesn't seem like a complicated enough site to get hacked in a mysterious undetermined way.
you don't even have to go that far to see it is all wrong.

for each people that is completely out of coverage, there are another 100,000 that is in a monopolistic coverage that probably had to pay for TV and other shenanigans on top of a ridiculous price just so they could get the service they wanted.
What a fantastic analogy.

I wonder if this is a good analogy for a great leader. "Preparing the field for the best players to shine"?
How's this different from MSYS(2)?
It's diverse in the way Google is diverse: lots of races, gender identities and sexualities, but everyone's a 20-something graduate of the same handful of schools, has the same attitudes and politics, similar jobs etc.
Using what Daguva mentioned above, it looks like admin (https://projecteuler.net/profile/admin.png) is just a regular accounts, compared to say, euler (https://projecteuler.net/profile/euler.png)
I didn't intend to imply that the EdgeRouters run OpenWRT. I guess that wasn't clear. :(

'Tis true that the forked version of Vyatta (Vyatta 6?) that the EdgeRouters use is rather different than OpenWRT, but if one has figured out how to work with OpenWRT's UCI configuration system, one can figure out how to work with Vyatta's configuration system, too. And, both OpenWRT and Vyatta run on top of Linux, so -if needed- one has a Linux system that one can configure directly.
For me it was switching over from doing what others wanted to doing what I wanted. More specifically I was working at Sun and had been "in the market" for a bit over 5 years and sought out career advice about how people got to be senior most engineers (Sun called them Distinguished Engineers). The advice took me by surprise which was, stop doing what others want and start doing what you are passionate about and go from there. I've always been passionate about systems, whether they are operating systems, systems of government, or economic systems. Anything where there were lots of interacting parts which created something that none of the individual parts could do on their own.

Then my path switched from asking "What are people looking for that might be interesting?" to "Who is working on something interesting to me and how can I become part of that?"

It changed no only how I approached looking for jobs, it also changed how I felt about the CRUD stuff that came up in the middle of some of them. Just like a largely ignored my general education classes in school, knowing that I needed to pass them to get my degree. Staying focused on what I was building let a lot of the annoying stuff about earning a living sort of roll off my back.

I don't know that my life would have been largely different but I would have felt better about my path.
I'm curious how difficult it was to migrate. I haven't had any experience with Parse but I was recently recommending it to a friend who is trying to do an MVP and thought it would initially save time and money.

Is Firebase any more reliable? Any other alternative?
That's fascinating. The company behind it has a web site.[1] They had this working in 2002. Their web site is so outdated that it uses RealVideo and QuickTime. Their standard system costs $90,000. Their web site was last updated in 2004.

The name "AutoAuditorium" is licensed from Telcordia, which used to be Bellcore, which used to own Bell Labs. So this may be a Bell Labs spinoff that was commercialized, but not very well.

Somebody in the online education business should buy this technology and modernize it, so it costs about $9000, or $900, instead of $90,000.

[1] http://www.autoauditorium.com
Whenever a new language popup, I always wonder
1) who us it
2) why they use it
3) what they use it for

Hopefully more people share their stacks on http://www.stackbus.com/ (FYI, I build it) so that it help others to decide better.
Could quantum 'clocks' tread two different paths to general relativity?
I misspoke, I meant size.
Maybe because it has 46000+ hours on it? thats almost 3.5 hours a day, every day. Also, owning a plane like that comes with some ridiculous expenses - you gotta park it somewhere, you have to maintain mechanical on it (annuals), and you have to pay for fuel. The cost of the plane probably pales in comparison to the cost of owning that plane.
My two bits of advice are: 1) always try to be the dumbest person in the room (i.e., surround yourself with smart people from whom you can learn), and 2) remove the phrase "it works for me" from your vocabulary when dealing with others. The latter may not be something you utter often, and if that's the case, then feel free to ignore it. :)

The first should be pretty obvious, but the second is a little less obvious. But think about it this way: if it worked for me, I wouldn't complain about it. Agree?

So there are two possible choices: either I'm wrong or your code is wrong (assuming you're an engineer). As a member of a startup, it is generally in your best interest to assume that the complainant is right and your code is wrong.

Assume that your code is wrong. Investigate it. Ask for more information if you need it. Track down the problem. If it works for you, then think of all the reasons it might not work for someone who doesn't know how it works. Think of all the edge cases. Clear the cookies. Bust the cache. Make sure it's not Wednesday (http://gyrovague.com/2015/07/29/crashes-only-on-wednesdays/). Whatever it takes to figure out why it's not working for the user (which may or may not mean it works for you!).

Maybe the code is wrong -- if so, fix it. Maybe it's a feature -- if so, explain that. Maybe the user made a mistake -- if so, identify why and fix that.

Only after identifying the problem and potential solution do you go back to your complainant and say, "Here's what happened and here's what we're doing about it." If the complainant made a mistake, you can explain "it works", but you should also follow up with some way that you're going to make sure this doesn't happen again.

This is basically the single best way I know to resolve complaints. People respect you significantly more when you can always present a solution -- even if it turns out they were wrong all along!
For some reason, that brings back fond memories of Flight Simulator Aircraft and Scenery Designer... turning the jet aircraft into a "U-2" with a massive, thin wing w/ winglets and a ridiculously big vertical stabilizer. Oh and 80,000 lbs. of thrust.

Btw, a ZIP of it for emulators:

http://fshistory.simflight.com/fsvault/downloads/msfs4b-asd....
I've been thinking recently that a political party that specificaly threatens to tax the old rich people in the future for all the stupid stuff they're doing right now might help to make this topic more relevant (thinking especially of climate change denial and propping up property bubbles that transfer rather than generate wealth).

It seems kind of far-fetched, but in the Netherlands people sued the government for not doing enough about climate change and won, and I think there's a youth group suing the government in the states about climate change too.

Not sure if the demographics work out politically though.
I do have reservation about Python to be the language to be cross-compiled to anything, then there is NodeJS on server side as well, so what the hell :(

Whenever a new stack popup, I always wonder 1) who us it 2) why they use it 3) what they use it for

Hopefully more people share their stacks on http://www.stackbus.com/ (FYI, I build it) so that it help others to decide better.
They don't really care about small customers. However, they do care about the big customers that started as small customers, and about the engineers who use AWS for their hobby and choose it for their big company just because that's what they're familiar with.

It's why they have a free tier.
So basically, by telling us this, you're completely contravening the request they made that security vulnerabilities be disclosed privately?

Kind of a jerk move.
It's interesting, for the examples given in the article, research like this is crucial from a software perspective. If this does succeed though, I can only imagine it will make cracking all forms of DRM more prominent. And there is my conundrum. Coming from the content owner world as a musician, I don't think there is anything wrong with guarding your copyrighted media content; as it is different in scope from software used in, say, medical devices that affect peoples lives. So I think what should happen instead is along the lines of a specific exemption for security research in software/hardware and not so much a blunt legalization of all DRM hacking.

But then again, whether DRM inhibits piracy or just creates access annoyances is another topic altogether. I've admired O'Reilly's no DRM model for their ebooks, but I don't think that model would work with the non-professional and not as deeply committed audience that, say, consumers of pop music in their teens would be.