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If banks weren't run by people but were some kind of natural phenomenon, like say a mineral you can find in the ground, then we wouldn't be able to blame them. Instead we'd blame ourselves for being foolish enough to risk our money with them. That's what we've done, we've trusted banks with our retirement savings and what-not but didn't do our due diligence. If they also provide some good that we really want, then probably governments would regulate our use of them. Just as is done with oil, certain controlled plant species, etc. The problem is that governments don't all regulate bank use well enough to prevent chain reaction problems and customers aren't competent to make those risk assessments themselves.
But if you wanted that type of sound, you could record it digitally. There is no reason why that type of sound has to come from a vinyl analog record. Is there ?
That letter from the school just adds insult to injury.

> talk with your child about the Student Code of Conduact and specifically not bringing items to school that are prohibited

Since when can you not bring a clock to school?
Thank you for this link. I was actually unaware of the site guidelines. I'll be conscious of them going forward.
You can fix this with basic SQL

IF record EXISTS
then UPDATE
else INSERT
That's what I was thinking. "It looks like a movie bomb." Which, were it an actual bomb, would defeat the fucking purpose!
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a good point. I used to use homebrew but I've dedicated my time pkgsrc proselytization, so I don't have homebrew installed anymore. I have a fontforge patch that I need to submit upstream, and I think I just need to install a newer gcc to get the builds to pass with pkgsrc. In the mean time I haven't tried an i686 build, which in theory should work..
Every student, teacher, and staff is bringing or already has one of those in the school every day in computers, laptops/macbooks, smartphones, security cameras/alarms, etc.
It's not Dallas, it was Irving.
I've been living here for 7 years, worked for 3 different companies. I suppose I have a bit more anecdotes than your dozen of times.

There are places are people don't seem to do anything. But it's hardly a France-only occurrence. There are only plenty of companies where you are expected to work hard and deliver results; again, hardly France-only.

I love it when some casual observations from a visitor become trusted source of generalisation for a whole country.
When CFEngine got bust (well, the company was put on life-support) all the guys who know the technology (even if it was just a 1-2 years of experience) resigned and turned into contractors with a semi-permanent contracts and 2-3x income boost.

It's not hard.
The letter to this parents:
https://twitter.com/jkfecke/status/644094380534591488/photo/...
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Mountain View in High Resolution - Markus Spiske (2912 x 4368)
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KTM Motorcycle - Markus Spiske (2912 x 4368)
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Xmas Tools - Markus Spiske (4368 x 2912)
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Horse Eye - Markus Spiske (4368 x 2912)
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Hurricane Isabel - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (11600 x 8800)
- https://loftux.nu/share/s/ntxyIcfhS1OoZimvlJn69Q

360 Degree Panorama of the Southern Sky - European Southern Observatory (ESO)/H.H. Meyer (15204 x 4620)
- https://loftux.nu/share/s/UE8ldF3rRN2TjthaTVhL_w

When resolution becomes Counter Productive - Lies Through a Lens (3337 x 5000)
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PIA16568 - First Drilling Target of Curiosity Rover - Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA (12858 x 6312)
- https://loftux.nu/share/s/PzaaDz10T9-wRru7rcxSeA

USS Vulcan (Engineering Drawing) (17600 × 13600)
- https://loftux.nu/share/s/Kx9pmszJT6GyX7sdn-4hDw
I bet today the principal and staff would think you guys were terrorists planning to siege the local strip mall. /s
> activities later in life which are harmful for American citizens

You mean like inventing robots that take away american jobs? That's just the free market.

Projecting a criminal future adds to the harm to him, don't do it.
Tell me about it. The county sheriff came and taught skeet shooting to my 10th grade Health and Wellness class. The pigeon thrower was mounted on the back of the police cruiser and we shot 20-gauge shotguns on the practice football field. This was rural NC in the 90s.
I think we're making too big of an issue of this. The trial has already taken place and the boy was found to not float... so it turns out he must be guilty.

God forbid that an officer drops his walkie talkie and discovers that IT TOO IS A POTENTIAL BOMB! I mean, it has wires and circuits...

The ignorance here is astounding. I suppose he's lucky they didn't also try him as a warlock for summoning electricity from a magical box.
Gah, that just makes me unconformable on so many levels. It's not helped by the content of the video either...
I'm someone that buys quite a few vinyl records, and almost all of my reasons are psychological. I like supporting artists, and buying records give me a way to do that and get something physical in return. I like having the big album art and putting on a record makes me much more likely to listen to entire albums instead of just random songs. Plus, putting on a record is an intentional act which puts me in a good mental state for listening to music. With digital download codes, I have no real reason to buy CDs as a good percentage of bands offer their music digitally in any format I'd want. CDs would just be something I'd burn to an mp3 player and throw in a closet somewhere.

Plus, they're fun to collect. A lot of releases will have different colored vinyl or special added features to the album.
Hence the common refrain in a lot of the denialist screeds of, "This is just common sense", "we already know this", "it's simple science", "THINK, PEOPLE!!!!', etc.
Personally, i wasn't surprised at the display of racially-biased fear at the sight of device that appears to a bystander to look like a bomb. People are people.

But why did it need to lead to arrest, hand cuffs, finger printing after an interview and a casual examination of the device clearly demonstrated it was a clock (there was an engineering teacher who could easily collaborate)? It was an outright excessive reaction to further compound what was a regrettable mistake.
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You really mean suspending him is not so terrible because it was only 3 days? I hope I'm misunderstanding you.

The child learns to not trust anyone and that his best intentions are twisted into punishment. I'm pretty appalled by this.
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What to say about the US (and Canada) where cheap transfers between bank accounts don't exist (at least from individual to individual)

Yes, where it exists it's rarely instantaneous across banks
> Unused imports flagged as an error is great for production code, but infuriating during developing, when you need to work with a lot of tentative code, the most basic of which involves printing.

This sentence has baked into it a context which is not universal. Namely that "during developing" you are "work[ing] with a lot of tentative code". That's simply not how I, nor many others, develop. Even on the very first sketch of a program, I'm writing complete, valid types and functions. I code all of the error paths completely as I encounter them. For very large first drafts, I'll often stub methods or types, but I never leave the program in an invalid state and "try it out". (Tangentially, for what I suspect are similar reasons, I never quite understood why anyone would care so much about REPLs.)

All of the tentativity, so to speak, has been expressed and explored in my head and on paper beforehand. Go is a language that rewards, perhaps even demands, this style of development. If that's not how you operate, Go will feel like it's fighting you. But that's not a universal critique of the language, that's a very specific critique of your specific operating context.
In law there is a thing called mens rea. They should look that up.
Nah, it's a high school. And the reaction really wasn't warranted. He did show it to his engineering teacher before he got nabbed, too. According to the Times,

"When Ahmed Mohamed, 14, brought the clock to MacArthur High School in Irving, Tex., on Monday, an engineering teacher suggested that he not show the invention to other teachers. But it beeped during an English class, prompting Ahmed to show his English teacher what it was, according to an account in The Dallas Morning News."
Indeed. It's amazing :) . All the infrastructure-as-a-service stuff REALLY cuts down the overhead.

I'm building a product that only a few years ago would have required a VERY significant investment, but now is basically stacking and connecting lego blocks of services :) - sales-as-a-service isn't mature yet, but if we had it, it would even sell itself :) .

Ok, it's probably a pain if one of the black boxes fails, and I do know enough about the underlying architecture behind the services I'm using - I could probably replicate (badly) most if not all of them given time and money, but why would I?
I love how "being American" makes one somehow obsessed with free market and all that other hogwash that is apparently embedded in the hearts and minds of every American. I don't expect anyone to apologize for their place of birth, and I would ask that the same in kind.
Far more likely that the experience will be a distraction to his learning and creativity, and will beg uncomfortable questions, the answers to which will affect his self-esteem.
I regularly brought my pocket knife to elementary school. Nobody blinked an eye. It was dull because I used it for digging and prying more than for cutting, but nobody would have cared even if it was sharp.
On an individual scale, statistics show that French private-sector workers are more productive than Germans and far ahead of the British.

Perhaps six hours is all they need to accomplish the task?
In the article it mentions that his engineering teacher advised him to hide it from the other staff. Which is confusing to me. The teacher obviously knew it wasn't a bomb and obviously knew the other staff would misinterpret this. So why didn't the teacher preempt this whole thing by advising the school that "Yes, this kid brought in a clock to show me. No, it's not a bomb no matter how scary it looks."
How would you stop them? I'm imagining all sorts of possibilities, and all of the effective ones require totalitarianism. You'll need a large surveillance network to watch the "at-risk" folks, secret police to infiltrate / interrogate / kill the smuggling networks that will arise, internal passports to track movement, and a nice political structure that will be able to maintain this without pesky things like folks trying to vote for "freedom" and other nonsense like that. Maybe some reeducation camps to correct the misguided ones who try to escape.
What's the author's name? There are several books by that title.
It's supposed to be sarcastic.
This is outrageous... They need to offer a public apology to this kid, and take punitive actions against the administrators involved.
Hours are flexible on my team, so the hours someone is available for in-person discussion varies widely. It's never been a problem to send an email asking someone to stop by when they have a chance.

I absolutely agree that it is important to be around during office hours, especially to take advantage of mentoring opportunities. Taking the time to sit down with a more junior employee and help them figure out their next step is incredibly valuable. There doesn't need to be any rigidity to office hours to accomplish that though. I would be taken aback if a lead came to talk to me about work hours, unless I had become nocturnal.
Any idea when? I'm not sure what the full build stack is, so it's hard to have an idea on what has to be ported.
The look on the kid's face in that first photo says it all, really.

Welcome to Earth, kid. These will be your fellow human beings. Enjoy your stay.
A two person business won't be able to negotiate a group rate or decent benefits package very well. At this point you're better off looking at these ACA exchanges. They've done the negotiation for you with these larger carriers.
Sorry if I was unclear; I mean that's what they seem to be doing. That's why I prefaced my comment with "apparently".
What the hell is a fake bomb? How does a schoolteacher know what a "bomb" looks like? Are we talking about an IED here? That could be literally any fucking thing.

I really doubt that this clock looked even remotely like any of the industrially made ready-to-use explosives.

Sometimes I can't help feeling like some people should be forcibly removed from the gene pool.
You can't legislate intelligence. Yesterday I went to my daughter's school's open house. When I entered, I was cornered by an administrator and told I had to sign some paperwork before I left. It was the computer policy. After I signed it, the admin said my daughter had to sign it too. She's 4.
A 14 year old kid was led out of his school in handcuffs after trying to show off his accomplishment. That's a terrible thing.
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The kid was too smart for his own good. He broke away from the other mindless sheep and learned things on his own.

Who knows what kind of subversive ideas he might come up with if he's allowed to continue to think for himself.
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It's more likely the P53 mutation came from a Founder (individual who had the mutation quite some time ago) that passed it on to many individuals. Whether that original mutation was caused by a higher than average level of ionizing radiation is entirely speculative. This does not rule out increased cancer rates due to unrepaired ionizing radiation damage that went unrepaired to mutant P53, although that is also pretty speculative (I mean, it's a known fact that happens, but it's also not particularly necessary to explain the observations here).

The part about cancer risk models and geomagnetic fields and space exploration are a tangent, and not even a relevant or scientifically plausible one.
>So no - it's not even remotely accurate.

No, but it can still be quite pleasant. Same way we like saturated constrasty pics or even distorted guitars.

>Personally I have enough physical stuff already, and I want less, not more.

OTOH, a vinyl collection makes for a nice rustic touch to a mostly empty, mostly-digital, minimalist house.
Just in case it "disappears" from twitter here it is archived - https://archive.is/1wJhp
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There have been many ambitious projects being developed in other GCed languages.

In Java one can see that there are implementations trying to support soft-realtime. Also concurrent GCs on multicore machines are provided, to lessen the problem of stalls due to GC.

In the Common Lisp world the response have been sophisticated GCs or avoiding GCs. For example G2 is a tool to develop soft realtime expert systems - written in a Common Lisp implementation with lots of manual memory management. G2 is used to for process and production control applications.
For some cases I've found bitwise stuff to be faster. I'd try replacing: (c < 128 && c > 31)

With ((c < 128) & (c > 31)) != 0 if this were in C.
Because he's profiling, it's a survival instinct. He sees on the news daily about Muslims using bombs and blowing things up and he's associating it with this kid. He believes statistically that Ahmed is more likely to be carrying a bomb than Alice.

Is this true? I don't know, maybe it is? It's the same reason I am cautious when I walk alone downtown at night and a stranger approaches me. I act differently because I know statistically that they're more likely to be dangerous compared to at 2:00 PM... well, again... I assume so.

The hard part is trying to ignore statistics and the media on things like skin color and religion. It doesn't matter if x color or y religion is more dangerous, you need to ignore it. Thinking differently or acting differently because of these statistics is frowned upon.

In this case, it's silly. Of course it's not a bomb, of course the kid isn't dangerous.
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They can probably change the title to "14 YO boy arrested for not being white and having the name Ahmed Mohamed".
You need cash in Germany, but not a lot of it – everything big takes a debit card. That does not help strangers with their credit cards though, so they get the wrong impression.
The school board is made up of the same teachers who aren't smart enough to tell the difference either, just with more seniority. They wouldn't hire anyone smarter then them, they might feel challenged, so how does that fix the problem?
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> The notion that anyone in a modern software development job would care about the specific hours someone spends in a seat is ridiculous to me.

Sure, but I do expect that folks on my teams are spending about ⅓ of their lives—or 8 hours/day—working. I've been on teams where the majority of the team appear to spend about 6 hours a day actually in the office, and don't appear to be working (although of course they may be thinking/reading/learning) more than that.

That seems undesirable.

> You're either getting shit done or you're not

It's not a boolean; it's a rational. One gets so much quality stuff done over time. Those who produce more quality features over less time are more valuable than those who produce fewer, more broken features over more time.
Laws do not change the concept of discrimination.

There is a big difference between picking qualified individuals vs. systematically picking certain groups over others.

He's not imagining the tests. The evidence of tests is not one guy lying in a tiny study.
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Stupidity is not an excuse for being an asshole.
> The newspaper quoted a police spokesman, James McLellan, as saying that Ahmed never claimed his device was anything but a clock, and the police have no reason to think it was dangerous.

But officers still did not believe Ahmed was giving them the whole story.

“We have no information that he claimed it was a bomb,” Mr. McLellan said. “He kept maintaining it was a clock, but there was no broader explanation.

“It could reasonably be mistaken as a device if left in a bathroom or under a car. The concern was, what was this thing built for? Do we take him into custody?”

Duh, the thing tells the time. And are they saying that if I don't explain why I made something it can be presumed to be a bomb? (especially given "and the police have no reason to think it was dangerous.")
It must be one hell of a clock if a teacher actually told the student to hide it from plain sight!

EDIT: A picture of the actual device is here.

http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/local/dallas-county/2015/09/1...
https://archive.is/Q0OLb
Same in UK as well, took one month for me to open a bank account after I moved to London. Had to do a driving license + insurance number, nightmare.
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Hell, the kid has a NASA shirt, is a thin nerdy type and brought a science project to school to show it off (instead of whatever illegal things kids bring to schools these days).

I really, really hope someone will pick this up and offer that kid some kind of internship somewhere, if only to keep his moral and spirit up.
> Schools are generally very very extra worried about everything these days

Maybe in the US, but where I live, and I guess that's going to be the case in most countries, no one would ever think that this "suitcase" could be a bomb, regardless of the person's appearance. It's saddens me to see a country becoming more and more paranoid and living in fear.

As an example, we used to chase each other in school with BB-guns (here they don't have the orange marker distinguishing them from real guns). When a teacher saw us I'm sure the thought that these could be real never ever crossed their mind.
I'm using noscript and when I went to the page I had the placeholder for a javascript element. I allowed it and it was a header image. Curious, I inspected the element and found they were converting the gif to video which looped. It looks like Fusion have developed a wordpress plugin called gif2html5 to do this: https://github.com/fusioneng/gif2html5-plugin

I am wondering why they would do this. I'm not a developer so is there any reason why they would rather play a video instead of a gif (when the source material is a gif to start with)? It doesn't really seem necessary to me but I'm probably missing something.
> Right, strict punctuality for punctuality's sake alone is counterproductive.

It has the virtue of assuring that we are all available in person to one another, which is actually pretty valuable.
> Vinyl is a fun format. I've been picking up records for listening recently. One fun thing I noticed is most records have some hand-written notes along the inside edge of the record. Usually some album ID code, maybe a date, or some other markings I can't identify.

A PORKY PRIME CUT.

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To explain myself,

in a Texas Highschool I was sentenced to In School Suspension INDEFINITELY with my laptop confiscated for having shortcuts to directories on the network that I "shouldn't have had access to." After about a week of that I'd had enough, asked for OSS - got it, which I thought was enough but apparently wasn't. They ended up wanting to reassign me to an "alternative school" (the type with a dress code, specific hours, locked down no talking etc). I managed to get "homeschooled" for 3 months (re: no school work completed) and somehow still managed to actually graduate High School. It was the most ludicrous situation I'd ever been in for navigating a folder hierarchy in Windows.

3 days is lovely.
[Citation Needed] - I've seen people who have worked at IBM multiple times, and certainly nobody has ever said that to me.
More discussion here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10226196
In this case, we're dealing with malicious stupidity. Edge of the razor?
Someone involved in the democratic process overseas definitely sounds like a threat to me.
I've used it for at least 4 years, only got one spam message ever. I blocked the sender. I didn't uninstall whatsapp.
Students all over the country should bring digital clocks and circuits to school this week as a protest.
There is a brief mention of FreeBSD in the article, but more would have been nice.
Perfect trifecta of bigotry, ignorance and cowardice. And at a school too, where any number of apparently educated staff could have verified what the device was in a moment. Great job!