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There are a lot of third-party Flash implementations. If the official Flash client becomes unusable, one of these open-source implementations will emerge as the new de-facto standard. I don't think we have to worry much about Flash's survival.
I don't know exactly when TeX was written, but back in the ed days before vi and emacs, a yellow legal pad was a substantially better full-screen editor than the line editor. Computers were for executing programs, not editing text.
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That quote is from - Konrad Adenauer

Good one!
Newtonian mechanics is the mathematical limit of quantum mechanics for ħ -> 0. It is still taught to every physics major. It is still useful. We use it to calculate whether a bridge will collapse, to simulate car crashes, to simulate water flow, and I believe even NASA uses it to calculate rocket trajectories. The heliocentric model on the other hand is just wrong.

It is important to make this distinction if you want to accurately understand scientific revolutions. It is not accurate to think that quantum mechanics was just this new thing that replaced Newtonian mechanics. One has to keep the precise correspondence between Newtonian and quantum mechanics in mind. This isn't just a narrative that scientists use to feel good about Newton.

This brings into question whether revolution is a good word for this phenomenon.
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Thanks. I just lost about 3 hours looking at Applied Science videos. :)
"All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue." - Konrad Adenauer
how does this compare to ipfs.io?
I won't give you a short term hack because I have tried many and nothing seems to stick. Instead the long term approach that has greatly improved my productivity as a freelancer and also in other areas of life is reading the book "7 Habits of Highly Effective People". If you read one book in your life I would suggest it should be this one.

When your values ( loosely translated as why you do the things you do ) and your goals align you will become very productive. Has helped me a lot. I would suggest give it a shot :)
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He also implied that the entire stock of an item isn't in the same place. This makes sense - the computer will tell the picker to get an item from the location that's closest to the rest of the items they're picking at that time.

So, you'd think there would be some logic to how the items were distributed and not just the whim of the associate. (Or maybe that's good enough.)
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The thing I took away from this was mistake minimization. As shipping the wrong item likely results in a mess of expensive actions down the road, it is much much better to make sure that the right item is shipped the first time. To this end they are willing to shuffle their entire warehouse just to prevent similar items from being set next to each other.
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I've noticed poor performance for months now. I have been a long time supporter of MonkeyBrains. But recently I've noticed frequent slowness with less than 10MBPS performance. Apparently they do throttle. Look here for the section on reasons for slowness: "Your home computer has been sending or receiving more than 1TB of traffic in a month -- our bots may have throttled your link to 10Mbps (This doesn't apply to business level accounts)"

> https://www.monkeybrains.net/wireless.html
So, you can take a QT table component and use it in a GTK app without a lot of extra overhead?

I don't see how this is really all that different from components in any language/environment/platform... yes, there is fragmentation.. and yes, you can mash things together, doesn't mean you should, but you can.

That said, it's an itch that has been scratched, if it hasn't been scratched for your tool of choice, dig into that... the fact is that more people are working towards enhancement from phone to desktop, and being able to work with similar controls at different sizes/rendering... table controls don't really fit outside the desktop model, which is probably why there aren't more options for react, and probably more for angular than react at that.
I like this because it addresses part of the problem of why I've stopped paying any attention to PLT related topics like denotational semantics, monads, category theory, and higher-order/dependent static type systems in general.

In my day to day work the programming language is never the problem because hacking around the limitations of the language to bridge the gap between the problem domain and the computational domain is never the bottleneck. The real problem is when these systems go into production and all static guarantees and beautiful abstractions become basically useless. What I want is something to help me reason about dynamic and evolving large scale software systems. What I get is PLT researchers and library authors bickering over dependent types, monads, and continuations.

Here's a concrete and unsolved problem. How do you specify some kind of topology for your production environment and then have whatever system understands this specification reason about performance, error recovery, failover, and scaling issues. In fact the lower level components don't even matter because you could write it in Haskell or Python or Java or whatever is your favorite language. Right now there is nothing because everyone is arguing about continuations and monads. Basically everyone involved is thinking too small. The one person that I think comes close to approaching the problem from the right angle is http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~srk31/.
Real time has a technical meaning in software and that's what he is referring to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing

Live updated logs meant for human readability shouldn't need anything hard or soft real-time in the technical sense.
The author titled a section of the post, "My Crime".
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Yeah, that takes me to the declaration of the IBar interface, but not to the implementation that's being used... The worst case is often when you have dependency injection along with something like EntLib's Data application blocks... it's a mess finding things on a project that you've been tossed in the middle of.

I'm not saying these patterns should never be used... only that there are generally simpler expressions that should usually be favored.
I would get a bare 640x480 resolution without tweaking.
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I agree, but doesn't this mean that scientists should read about the history of science, or sociology of science, not philosophy of science?
Take a look at spoon.net, you can script creating / deploying images and it works pretty well.
"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect." — Teller

I don't know if Teller intended it, but his observation applies to much more than stage magic. The quote is from Esquire's feature of the mononymous magician.[1] IMO, the whole article is worth a read.

1. http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a15810/telle...
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Why exactly did Bitcoin take off?
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I don't completely understand the description but I think they managed to extract the private key of the server.
Doesn’t an expressive and strong type system, as an example, help you reason about software systems?
Nope, my problem isn't reasoning about the lower level components. In fact you can assume I have correctness proofs for every piece of the infrastructure. What I don't have is the higher-level piece that can reason about the lower level components and do so when new pieces are added, old pieces removed, new guarantees enforced, old ones relaxed, etc. A static type system no matter how advanced doesn't help with any of it.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair
A few of my favorites on various topics:

I won't be able to answer all your questions. Rather, I can show you how to be lost productively, and how to become comfortable not knowing things and teaching yourself. -- David Humphrey, Mozilla developer

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny ...' -- Isaac Asimov

There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science. -- Donald E. Knuth

"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. -- Woody Allen
On a side note, there are languages such as French where repeating a word is a proof of bad style (and possibly lack of culture from the author), and others like Swedish (e.g. the Millenium books) where repeating is an appeasing regularity.
Very cool. I would be really curious to see how the incentives/performance/etc of this would differ from something like Ethereum!
UI.Hbox. would this be named after the infamous adobe flex by any chance?
List of countries is very, very limited still, so don't lie to yourself, Patrick.
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xfce will use systemd if it is available, but it can still be used without it

http://xfce.org/about/tour

the tour was taken using openbsd
What is not ready for mobile devices, is not ready for the Web , nowadays.
And something unrelated I've learnt about Google Docs:

"Wow, this file is really popular! Some tools might be unavailable until the crowd clears."
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Reminds me of Business Secrets of the Pharaohs [0]. But does anyone actually enter in to this process without understanding what it is? Looks like is is a widely known practice [1].

[0] http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2012-12/...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_open_access_publishi...
Yep, that's called the "halting problem", and I hear it's very hard to solve :)

Here's how I generally see it. Writing large software is hard (and a software composed of multiple components is large software, even if you decide using the network stack when calling some functions is a good idea ;)). "Type" people (and I'm certainly for some kinds of static types, I just don't think that they're the solution to everything) would tell you that types help restrict your computation in such a way that reasoning about it is easier. To that I say, but I want to do something specific which it's pretty annoying in PFP, and they answer, just do it a different way, to which I say, if I can do it differently, so can the compiler on my behalf. In short, I don't think that explicit types (i.e. those that can be defined in the language you use) are stronger than implicit types (i.e. anything that a verifier can prove about your program), and at least in theory, they are both "the same" (though, see another comment here on what I think about two things being the same in a mathematical sense). We should use whatever is easier for our minds to grasp.

The more essential problem -- although I don't know if it's more interesting or less interesting -- is what exactly do we want to do in our programs? If we require a Turing complete model, then no matter how many types -- explicit or implicit -- we throw at the problem, we just won't be able to formally prove properties we might care about. Some people, however, claim that we don't really need Turing completeness, and if we don't, that might open a whole new world of possibilities. But once we start restricting the computational model, the representation we use -- say, PFP or imperative -- might become much more important, each being able to compute things that the other cannot (we know that lambda calculus and Turing machines both compute the same functions, but once we restrict each in some arbitrary ways, it gets harder to find equivalences between restrictions in the PFP model and those in the imperative model).

Finally, I think that the notions of what it means "to reason about" or even what it means to be correct (and certainly how important it is to be correct) are themselves vague and require answers from empirical psychological/sociological/economic research than from math.
This is so wrong at so many levels (sadly quite characteristic of the GA crowd) that I can only suggest reading up on the background and the math of it. Good keywords would be stochastic gradient descent, spin glasses and renormalization groups.
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Academics spend years writing books nobody will buy. That's practically the definition of academic writing. They go into incredible amount of depths for a very, very niche audience: other academics interested in, e.g., the experience of women in Japanese detective novels of the 19th century. (n.b. Actually a book, assuming I am remembering all the details correctly. An advisor spent years on it.)

This is exactly the result the market should hope for: a profitable method which gets academics to write down very-incredibly-niche ideas and then put copies of them exactly where someone would expect to find very-incredibly-niche ideas. The alternative to these $150 books is not $7.50 books. It is "no book." They do not meaningfully trade off with equally-in-depth blog posts, because academics are not scored on, and hence do not as a matter of practice actually sit down and write, book-length blog posts.
But you can use phone for emails..
Did you also evaluate FreeBSD? If you did, I'm curious what the pros and cons were that ultimately affected your decision.
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It seems like the same class of problems, because they are both about high payoff, low probability bets. Solomonoff induction is just a formalization used to show the result is very general.

Any reasonable prior should have similar cases. Unless you really believe the mugger being a matrix lord has 0 probability, or that God has 0 probability, etc, you are forced to act as if they are true. Which results in wasted effort in the vast majority of possible outcomes, in exchange for a massive payoff in incredibly rare outcomes.

Assigning 0 probability is not something you should do lightly. It would mean you could wake up and find yourself outside of the matrix, and you still would not believe it had any chance of being true. It would mean God himself could come to and say "yeah it's all real." And you would be forced to believe there is still 0 probability he exists.
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Here's their references: http://www.whoi.edu/OCB-OA/page.do?pid=112616
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Can you imagine that a rocky, watery planet could have a soul, and that such a soul could be released by a spent body? Can you imagine that the youthful soul of the planet Mars might be dwelling elsewhere, re-establishing its essence on more fertile soil? Souls, like seeds, blow on the winds. The chemistry of spirit is not as restricted as flesh and blood.

Think of a sci-fi scenario where earth was shortly to be struck by a giant comet. Comprehending a collision course, the people of earth could calculate their extinction, and then make a radio appeal to all Universal stations to accept the souls of earth. Each galactic station could put the case before their government asking, “Do we want those beings here as refugees? Are they worthy to be among us? Shall we send a travel beam to receive them or shall we let them be cast adrift?” Would it be an easy decision, or would the soul seeds of earth be turned away? Who would be taken? Who would not? Would it be a collective agreement? What would be the terms? This metaphor should make you think about who your are in a cosmic sense, and what your relationship to the garden of earth might be.
Somebody needs to figure out a way to get this, or Diaspora, or something, going. Setting up servers for the Ivy League schools, and pre-populating them with the student directories, would be a good start. Worked for Facebook.

The problem with scaling any social network is "asshole amplification", or how to design it so a few people can't ruin it for everybody. That's hard to do in a distributed system, especially if you're promoting anonymity. (Yes, IRC channel kick bots sort of worked.) I don't see how Movim addresses that.
£80 is definitely not cheap.
I'm curious what factors make those textbooks so pricey.
>I would argue visual evidence inarguably points to Google borrowing and making minor edits to Kortunov's concept.

I would certainly argue with "inarguably".

Kortunov created a really good icon design, but it's not hard to imagine other people independently coming up with something similar.
I think the people that say we don't need Turing completeness say that because their models can't really accommodate proper reasoning about exactly the kinds of systems I want to reason about. Proving theorems is nice and all but at the end of the day the temporal and dynamic aspects of the system I'm building are what I really care about. Not some static snapshot of it but the actual evolving gestalt.
The open source Radeon driver also does a good job of avoiding tearing. I think there are some pathological cases where it can still occur, but it is pretty rare. Catalyst was terrible at avoiding tearing the last time I used it (getting on to be 3 years ago now). I haven't looked into it, but it is possible that the tearing issue may not be solvable without a KMS driver (i.e. no binary blob drivers can do it).

I used Wayland/Weston for a full work day about a year ago to try it out. It really was very nearly ready. I can't quite remember what problems I ran into, but I could do my work (as a web developer) with very few real problems. Probably it's time to look at it again.
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British English at least is in the "don't repeat" group.
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Good point on personal management being something employers value generically by someone completing a degree. Then again, I also know enough people who don't have all that together even with a degree.

If the question is more along the lines of how can a MOOC be part of the effective development of a desirable, hire-able person, then this is a big discussion.

There are all sorts of areas needing review. What's a cost-optimized way to get to a balanced personal portfolio that looks good on paper (resume)? Do resumes matter when performance can speak volumes (your github repo, your stack-exchange + hacker news profile, your start-up you did in high school?

Beyond that, are those things true indicators of appeal for hiring HR/recruiters, managers, peers during interviews?

Is all of this actually helpful in estimating the likelihood of positive performance? It's all very hazy. Each thing bodes well, in ways, for the total, but most people are flawed, to some degree, if measured by other people. Myers-Briggs type personality profiling is rough pigeon-holing, but there is an underlying truth somewhere that different people will just resonate or "dissonate" with each other. Maybe one of the most effective things a person can develop, beyond their fundamental knowledge and technical acumen, is the ability to empathize with other people; to be able to bridge those personality divides.

That brings me back to how there are few better environments, potentially, to get hands-on experience in navigating personality and culture difference than well-integrated schools.
I wonder how much is lost or gained by writing a different document (.lit) than one reads (.html). E.g., how much would a LyX-style (http://lyx.org) editor contribute? I'm sure it's been discussed before, but where?
True, but looking at both logos, even the tiniest detail like squared corners and the overall shape looks suspiciously similar.
I googled for systemd api interfaces and this was the first thing I got:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfacePo...
What you are stating here is not true.

Take a look at https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/systemd/InterfaceP... and you'll see that there are indeed a plethora of systemd service apis. But almost all of them are covered by the systemd stability promise (https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/systemd/InterfaceS...) and almost all of them are documented.

So, there is a commitment that these interfaces will not change.
I'm the same situation, but less money. My plan is the retire. I want to buy a small house and move there. Near the beach, in Europe, I just want to do small things.

Even worst, now I'm working in a city, that until next year in May the weather will sucks. No sun, just clouds and rain.

People things that in IT, is just money and happiness.

That is not reality
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I wasn't able to find the specific IROS paper by Daniela Rus mentioned in the article, but it's most likely because IROS 2015 hasn't happened yet.

Eventually, a copy will probably show up here:

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/drl/wiki/index.php?title=Public...
status.net isn't dead. It turned into GNU Social which is alive and well. https://gnu.io/
This article could easily be expanded to include software developers as well as academics. I've seen several excellent developers with strong reputations contributing to the open source community get "hoodwinked" into rushing out shallow books for companies like Apress. I've seen other developers also get sucked into the game, only to see less income from the work in one year as you'd need to buy a modest used car -- after months of at least half-time effort. The market and problem for these books is a bit different than the market described in this article, but the symptoms on the writers is often the same.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10030690
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>So there is no stable interface to even implement and there is no commitment that these "interfaces" will not change at any point in time.

Isn't this what the systemd 'Interface Stability Promise' does as listed here ?

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfacePo...

Judging by this chart, ~99% of the intefaces are stable.
And of course the question is, how much would the academic make with those sales? (I'm guessing not much)
Ahh, I've been disabling it on Windows, however silly that might be.
What are the best for D3-based visualization/charting libraries when it comes to being high customizable, styleable, and performant? There are dozens of them, but with some research the most interesting ones seem to be:

* Vega - Talked about in this thread

* nvd3 - Meant to work in similar style as D3, supports extension. Seems popular

* Epoch - Real-time charts are purpose-built to be performant and low-overhead. Limited number of visualization types

* D4	- Extends D3 instead of wrapping it. Separation of data from view

* C3js - Easier API. extendable.

* rickshaw - Mainly for time series data. Supports extensions. Works in similar style as D3.
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