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When I went for a job interview at Symbian many years ago for a position working on Symbian OS, they told me (and it's obvious from looking at their documentation) that they implemented thier own execption mechanism in C++ using setjmp and longjmp becuase they deemed that the C++ execption system was too slow. Other accounts say that the exception mechanism wasn't present in the language at the time, which I am not sure of.

This is why you had to push all local variables onto a clearnup list in each an every function, this I think, from memory was a call to CleanupStack::Push with a wrapper macro.

If indeed they did this becuase exxceptions were 'too slow', then the problem, im my option would be that they were using exceptions far too much -- as status indications and so on. They are, again, in my option a great help used in the right way, with the C++ RAII idiom, which is essential in the face of exceptions.
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This article is terrible...
he does say "or at least the ones making the most noise".
I would disagree with that. Virtual desktops also offer something priceless: the ability to group applications semantically and reducing the friction in finding said applications (i.e. if I need my browser, I know it's always on desktop 2, I don't have to cycle or anything). I agree that having a multi-monitor is a great step in that direction, but it's not quite the same in my opinion.

Note that Microsoft has offered multiple virtual desktops in the past (in the form of what I think was called Power Toys), but never integrated that in their OS.
People keep saying that as if it's some kind of excuse, with homeless people taking in the LA sun.

In fact there are as many homeless in LA as they are in NY (around 30.000 - 50.000 in either place according to Wikipedia).

Is the weather in NY "much more hospitable" than that of the Netherlands?
Besides the fact that there isn't that much unsafe code in there as you say, Rust is more safe because the unsafety is confined to some of the implementation. Now, this library can be safely used with all kinds of pointer gymnastics without any worries.
Thanks for pointing this one. I don't think java is the right tool for what I have in mind (because of the JVM overhead) but I'll definitely try Frink.
Wait until an employee gets some malware and some data gets leaked or lost. Then they'll be running back.
AFAIK you can disable it but it will enable it automatically after a while again, so it's not indefinitely disabled.
> The downside? Women frequently wind up being treated as sex objects

yet

> but men generally must earn more in order to attract a wife
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What are some alternative career paths to Software Engineering/Development?
Simply put, I've lost almost all passion for software development or anything related to computers for that matter, when I was a kid I used to become Euphoric when I would sit alone and work on some hobby project, not anymore. Don't get me wrong I still pursue my own hobby projects from time to time but it's not really something I want to do as a job, similar to how I enjoy cleaning my own house but I wouldn't enjoy working for a hotel cleaning service even if we put money and prestige aside.

I chose software engineering as a career path because it's what I'm most skilled at, but it's mostly just a means to an end: paying my bills.

So what alternatives are there for someone who has a CS degree and is skilled in software engineering/development. Money isn't really the deciding factor since software engineers aren't paid a lot here, $100K/year is reserved for big important managers.
Yeah, because SF winter is warn and fuzzy.

Is the weather in NY "much more hospitable" than that of the Netherlands? Because it has as many homeless as in LA.
> You're moving the goal posts, from "lethal" to "painful with a small outside chance of death or permanent injury".

I never moved a goal post. I still maintain that the chance of death is pretty large ~80% for some (it's pretty low for the heart).

> For the throat and solar plexus I can't even find any serious indication of them causing deaths in healthy individuals

You most definitely can kill people by punching them in the throat. Google around, the consensus seems to be clear. E.g. http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/865277-overview

> Hell all of those except the rabbit punch are perfectly legal in most full contact martial arts competition and hardly have a history of causing death or even serious injury.

E.g. throat punches are considered fouls in UFC and K-1.

> It's almost certainly not even 1%. If your martial art teaches that a move is "deadly" and the move isn't a blood choke, then they are almost certainly at the very least greatly exaggerating.

Google around first.
We're still working on exposing lower-level operations to advanced users. I'd still say we're a database builder, since we provide a system for making relational connections, and allow all CRUD operations on records. A form builder would probably only provide Create.

The accepted keywords for this kind CRUD-application builder are pretty generic, to be honest. The biggest one that I see used is "Online Database", which is so broad it's nearly meaningless.
Gold is doing great in my currency. http://imgur.com/rYEBCQK

Also I buy stocks.
It adds an air of exasperation to the questions, like you have heard people talking about X a lot but no one has let you in on the meaning. A similar phrase might be "what the hell is X".

Disclaimer: I've only lived in California, so I don't know how wide spread it's use is.
OkCupid had many analyzes about demographics and activity of their users. This one was quite famous: http://static.izs.me/why-you-should-never-pay-for-online-dat...
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Women want different things depending on whether they are ovulating or not. When they are most fertile (the days just before and just after ovulation) they show a preference for more masculine looking guys - more V shaped, stronger jaw line, etc.

For the rest of the time, they show less preference for these masculine guys.

These changes in preferences lead them to the ideal mating strategy of finding a less testosterone driven guy for the majority of the time - one who is more likely to stick around, care for her and her children, etc. - but in fact to become impregnated by a guy who can tolerate more testosterone.

Guys who can tolerate more testosterone during adolescence are demonstrating superior immune strength because testosterone places demands on it. So their children are more likely to fend off diseases better. However, these guys are likely to be more promiscuous, and therefore less likely to provide for the woman.

This is a dual mating strategy. Find a less testosterone driven guy for a stable relationship as a provider, but carry the child of a more masculine guy with a stronger immune system to try to ensure better survival of their offspring.

So girls aren't always looking for boyfriends.

However, if girls are looking for boyfriends, then using a sex for love strategy is something women might try (you can simplistically say that men trade love for sex, women sex for love).
The article makes an implicit assumption that girls don't want a fling and want marriage instead.

Then it argues that it is because the ratios are skewed.

I am arguing that the ratios are only skewed if they look in the places where the ratios are skewed.

It is possible that the assumption is not correct, but then the whole argument about the ratios being skewed makes no sense, because the "fling problem" disappears.
> It is rather ironic half of their sites are going to break, unless they conveniently add an exception.

Those sites aren't going to break, even without adding any exceptions. There's no definition of "essential" that would exclude Flash content on Google Finance. As mentioned above, the exact heuristics they're using are:

"TLDR, essential content is either:
1) On the same domain as the page
2) Considered "Large" (at least 298 x 398, certain aspect ratio, minimum total area), with an exception for tiny content (likely transport plugins)."
Elixir's syntax is only superficially similar to Ruby's, and its semantics are radically different. I don't think there's any evidence that people who picked up JRuby for performance reasons are notably likely to leave Ruby for Elixir versus other languages.
That's my point. At the moment routers are in the same position smartphones were pre-iphone - they're functional beasts for 99% of people and while they can be 'smart' it's a niche geek activity and it's super tedious. Kind of like what smartphones were like pre-iphone.

Once somebody makes an easy to use, beautiful router with a vibrant one-click-install app ecosystem (backup, calendar, photos, dropbox, email), I'm sure people will want to migrate to it. It's not just about privacy it's also about being more in control of your data, being 'closer' to your data (uploading your baby photos wouldn't take as long) and not having your experience dictated by profit seeking (your app won't mysteriously switch itself to top stories every other day).

We're just not there yet. Every kind of 'smart router' and associated OSS software is kind of a pile of crap, to be honest.
Looks to me like a constantly evolving maze. A shifting maze? Anyone watch the movie Cube (Cube is a 1997 Canadian science fiction psychological horror film, directed and co-written by Vincenzo Natali)?

This looks like a version of Cube, only in 2D.
yeah scientist or no the data will always favor the common consensual belief of modern western world or if not they won't even talk about it. no need to be "trained" scientist to do science.
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Waiting for precise response.
You say "I'm unable to find any historical evidence this statement was ever true." I can only guess that your failure is based on a reluctance to even try, or you would have found a whole raft of ancient cultures and their public intellectuals documenting flat-earth beliefs in the Wikipedia article on "Flat Earth."

I am and was very aware that knowledge about the Earth's sphericity is more ancient than some people may think; so I intentionally made my statement sufficiently vague to avoid your kind of quibble.
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Because OKCupid overwhelms you with worthless information. It provides you with all sorts of stats that don't matter: favorite movie (re: movies I think will attract the person I want), favorite music (re: what bands might impress the person i want?), ridiculous quizzes (not that different from fashion magazine quizzes). Presented with this deluge of useless data on your partner, you can then filter on these worthless parameters (because why not? you're getting a ton of messages anyways, might as well filter on something). Anyways, after you've successfully gotten the number down to something reasonable you proceed to... make your decision based almost entirely on a picture.

The actual important thing to realize about Tinder is that it maximizes the only metric that matters: face to face contact. Everyone on there is on the same page: lets get together and in 30 minutes we'll have a WAY better idea of whether we vibe than reading a glorified resume online and going back and forth trying to by witty (often to then find out we have no chemistry in person!). Ironically enough Tinder actually uses technology to rehumanize the dating experience: its always been about going out and meeting people, Tinder is a simple extension of that, OKCupid tried to replace it with a "compatibility score".
Would you be better served staying closer to home for your first attempt?

Rather than reach for the US why not try france or spain (or the UK)

-- common currency (except for the uk)

-- Fewer time zone issues (out of band support and troubleshooting)

-- Not having to deal with US taxes (as in sales tax vs vat)

-- Gives you a chance to work out I18N l16n in a smaller pool/area

-- is your client base one that would help you out if you put up an affiliate model? "sign up french clients and your next month is free"

If your looking for "marketing partners", are you looking at folks who would fit in a "basket of products" related to what you do? If you sell razors who sells shaving cream, can you team up with someone who is local to do the CS and sales for you hear, and you do the same thing for them there?
Please note: This advice is for designers who have just graduated from art school. The answers are for question:

"Q: I graduated from school this year and I’ve been looking for my first job. After interviewing around, I finally got a job offer at a small startup. How do I decide if it’s the right offer to take?"
Yes I've addressed that but still 9M people out of 10M over 8 years is a huge part of the population even when accounting for natural population changes and migration patterns.

With ballpark numbers on migration[1] and natural population growth it would mean that approximately 70% of the current LA county population today would've used "public assistance" given the 9M figure.

This is why the definition of "public assistance" is very important since all the statistics and the numbers in that article don't pass a simple smell test.

[1]https://www.census.gov/hhes/migration/files/acs/county-to-co...
The way I see it, the retail clients connect to a broker platform (IB, ..) and it is there that the above scenario can happen. The broker has an account in the exchange and uses this account to offset the global position of all his clients in his system.

Using this information is generally possible for any intermediary (bank, broker, ..)

To be clear, I am not saying everybody does it but I think that they can, they want to and regulatory oversight in the past could not even keep track of the total stock of a broker (see MF Global).
As a very green programmer, not just the tooling, but workflow blog posts and presentations like these are a god send!

I wish learn x in my y minutes could pay people, especially those with weight in their respective language communities like Brad Fitz, called Straighten Spaghetti in X by Y Minutes or Less.

I might pay for that.
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WHy not just use the click-to-play option in Chrome?
Check out the Mythbusters 360 degree video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WIS6N_9gjA
The link shows that there were several people that bet on mean reversion and their trades were cancelled.

The interesting bit is that the decision to cancel the trades seems very arbitrary, at the very least to me.
It may be silly to ask[1] but is there a similar list for Mac OS X?

[1] Silly because, you know, closed source
> have you ever worked a job in that service economy and fallen seriously ill?

I'm confused. Is this a hypothetical where the employee doesn't have short- and long-term disability insurance?

The practical answer is to have insurance to cover risks.
The main pull of Tinder for women, I thought, is that they get to decide who can talk to them.

OkCupid, POF etc is like a scene from World war Z - hoards of men pinging girls with messages constantly.

The downside is that Tinder requires less investment - most don't even enter a bio - and so things kick off with a match based on physical attraction rather than any other attribute. I call that a 'downside' but guess that's only true if your criteria for a partner extends beyond looks.

In which case there's OkCupid. So yeah I don't see the problem here. The optimal choice may be to install both apps and filter accordingly.
One billion people used Facebook on Monday
FireWire is a vulnerability for Linux only because the kernel maintainers want it to be. There's a register in FireWire controllers which controls the address range for which remote memory accesses are valid. It can be set to 0, which locks out that function. The last time I looked, years ago, it was set to allow access to the first 4GB of memory, because the code pre-dated 64 bit systems.

I once proposed setting it to 0. This was rejected because there are kernel debuggers which use it.
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Simply put POPULATION, there are two many people for this to work and countries like the US, Canada, China, Russia are way too large. Direct democracy only works in city states with small populations i.e. the size of a small town not the size of New York or Los Angeles. And then there is the other significant problem: migration which stems from the extremely large human population, even today you can tell that Europe is struggling with migration, they're having literally thousands of Syrians entering Europe per week, what's to stop a small city state with less than 1000 people be overrun and destroyed by migrants. Immigration is tough problem, we can't deny it because it's immoral doing so: "who are we to say who can go where?" but at the same time we don't want to displaced when the number of immigrants becomes larger than the locals.
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Yikes. Save it for r/theredpill
> Asking women is not the answer here

I'd add a big "but" here. There are pleanty of women who speak out and say that, yes, sometimes women just want a fling. Ask a woman who identifies as a feminist. They are usually less concerned with upholding traditional gender roles, and often can speak freerer.

However you're right that the societal filter can apply. If a conservative older, more powerful, man asks a woman (e.g. a 40 y.o. boss asking a 20 y.o. new employee), then yes, sometimes people don't tell the boss everything.

A general advise of "don't listen to women!" is very disturbing.
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Yikes! Evolutionary psychology based on research that goes against my PC beliefs!
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Like said before it has nothing to do with language design.

That said, I like the idea of having Ω, √, etc. But I'm afraid that our keyboards/editors/terminals are still not good to type that kind of characters quickly. But maybe I could use R or Ω, K or KΩ, why not…

And yes I think you're right, I could infer that 10K + 200 is 10.2K, like 3V times 2 is 6V, etc
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It's not proper English.

The grammar is purposefully incorrect as a way of emphasising that you have "no idea what it is".

I'm not sure how it's supposed to emphasize it, but I have noticed that many people use incorrect grammar as a funny way to emphasize their point.
"Amazon S3 API is the industry standard for Cloud Storage."
Uhh...no. One companies API is not the standard. Nice try.
I'm not an expert about Linux server-side distros. I'm using Ubuntu Server, I haven't seen any cons for now. Any hint ?
Tinder's swipe mechanic, while incredibly superficial, helps with the biggest problem with OkC and other traditional dating sites: The experience is horrible for women. Their inbox receives a torrent of marriage offers and incredibly explicit sex offers from men they have no interest in. Tinder's reciprocality system, where you both have to show interest before a chat is even possible, solves this elegantly. The downside IMO is that it's incredibly hard to find someone that you have more than a physical interest in. OkC's matchmaking questions and match% system is actually a really good solution to this. I think there's a business opportunity in combining the two - enforce the reciprocality like Tinder does, but have matchmaking questions, so it can try to pair you with more likely matches first. (OkC actually has a feature like this, but when they don't enforce its use, it's entirely meaningless). Of course this would begin compromising Tinder's other big advantage, the incredibly easy setup (it doesn't really _feel_ like making a dating profile, so it attracts a much wider audience) - but I think it'd be worth experimenting with nonetheless.
I definitely agree that we need more than anti-virus these days - but I still think anti-virus has a part to play in a multi-layered approach to security.

But in any case the content of the article is rather less sensational that the headline. It seems like Netflix is 'dumping' anti-virus for... well, another anti-virus tool! It's just that SentinelOne is not signature based, and relies on dynamically detecting dubious activities by processes (which some existing anti-virus tools already do, if to a lesser degree).
When a company raises so much in "start up" mode wouldn't it be harder to turn it into a profitable public company?
There is always a discrepancy between what people say they want and what their actions show they want.
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Sample of a successful application, video, and tips (Lollipuff, W13): https://www.lollipuff.com/blog/102/lollipuffs-ycombinator-ex...

This may be especially useful for teams who wonder, "How much traction do we need," as we had some evidence of an unmet need and a MVP implementation when we applied.
Photo caption says: "Netflix is quitting anti-virus. Will its millions of users benefit?"

Wat?
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>you can simplistically say that men trade love for sex, women sex for love

Wow, you managed to demean both men and women, all in the same breath!
And that's, kids, how you do content marketing.
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This is half of it.

The other half is that many women enjoy looking for casual hookups, just as men do. Certainly this can be (and is) done on OkCupid, but on Tinder the cultural expectations are more tailored towards something short-term.
OkC has (or had when I used the site) a quickmatch mechanic where it's essentially the same. If both sides match, both receive a message that they matched each other.

I guess all they could do is just filter all messages and only keep the quickmatch mechanic? Initially, they had something like that as well!

Basically a forced requirement that someone can set. Such as... you can only message me if this or that. One would be only if I first match you. They had more success when they got rid of that mechanic.
I am on Ubuntu gnome LTS. This is half bleeding edge ;-)
Github somehow manages to copy stuff to the clipboard with flash player disabled - apparently it's using the new HTML5 clipboard API.
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How did expelling the DEA help? I can understand that the DEA would be ineffective but why would they be counter productive?
The other backup suggestion's odd too - make a good backup disk passphrase, store it in your password manager. (where's the password manager backed up?)
That is a hell of a risky investment given the approach the Chinese competitors are using in China is to block Uber's access to the devices most people book rides on...

see https://pando.com/2015/08/24/wechat-blocks-uber-its-step-one...
Sad. :( How many iOS apps have shutdown after Google bought them out? Sigh.
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You can create your own rule to do that, for instance, inspect the request remote connection address.

Then, you can apply that rule to the bandwidth poison. The poison will be only applicable if the rule passes.
Thanks for the advices ;)