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>Even driving from one place to another, you're confined to the freeways.

Plane to train is also the same as train to car.

The US has all sorts of non-expressway routes that are fun to drive and you see so much culture, culture you can actually stop and interact with trivially. For example, the classic Route 66, which you can still drive today. Or make your own routes with all this fancy GPS stuff we have today.

There's something wonderful about cars that I think we're going to miss as we continue to urbanize and move into self-driving taxi's or other exotic tech. The few long drives I've take out of the city have been very pleasurable.
Admittedly, it was a few years since I looked at the inside of wp, but it was horrible, with php api calls inside the template code, bad/missing/misleading documentation and non-existing database structure.
Maybe not explicitly, but conservative policies are often biased against women and/or minorities.
Thank you. I kept reading that as Christchurch, which was confusing.
If you run an app that gatekeeper forbids, when you go into settings to fix that there is a button to approve that single app. There's no need to let everything through.
/Applications/Xcode.app: accepted
source=Mac App Store

/Applications/Xcode.app: accepted
source=Apple

/Applications/Xcode.app: accepted
source=Apple System

Are the only valid options. You should remove XCode and reinstall it from Apple.
Is there a vagrant or docker install for simple developer experimentation?
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I believe the vast majority of barbers use a replaceable blade shaver. It's called a shavette and just makes more sense for professional use.

If you're not familiar with that, not sure how you could know the blade was old. How often and by what method do you shave/get a straight razor shave? Both of those could affect the quality of the shave more than the age of the blade.

http://theshaveden.com/forums/threads/shavettes-the-truth-ab...
Whether intentional or not, Russia's economy is something like 40% oil and gas so the effect was certainly severe.
More than half of the world's population is still offline
I had to clone a website, then make a few tiny adjustments (like change the site name), and it took me several days.
No, these repositories are created in the teacher's organization account. Totally separate from your individual repositories.
I get this with latest XCode from the App Store:

$ spctl --assess --verbose /Applications/Xcode.app
/Applications/Xcode.app: accepted
source=Mac App Store
I did. I was driving to and from school on the east coast. (Doing this meant I didn't need to transfer my car to the US.) The biggest difference in driving direction was the sun. I don't know why, but sunrises always seem shorter than sunsets. Heading east is therefore easier than west because you spend less time with the sun in your eyes. The change in timezones also made heading west 6hours faster, partially explaining the longer sunsets.
Most Americans will get a wrong or late diagnosis at least once in their lives
Thanks for posting this comment. I think you raise what most of us should really think hard about when we see the struggles Groupon is going through. We like to throw them into a big, bulk, category and dismiss the entire thing as "bad business". But just like you pointed out, you really enjoyed it as a consumer. And I know businesses that have been running groupons for years, because they also get a lot out of it in profitability.

Groupon's dismissal as a "terrible business" reminds me of Kozmo. Kozmo was another "terrible business". Delivery in an hour of food, videos, electronics. Grew way too fast. Spent all their money, and couldn't profit. But if you looked at it in detail, they were making profit in some of their locations. Of course, some of their expansion made no sense. They did grow too fast. But the business? Now we have instacart, postmates, Amazon Prime Now, Peapod, and more making this model work of fast, local, delivery.

There's a bunch of comments in this thread already - and really in every conversation of Groupon - about how it's "terrible business". And Groupon does have a lot of bad things going on, no doubt. But dismissing its entire business model is a sure way to miss some of the things we can learn to apply to our own businesses.

Yes, there's a ton of business where Groupon has made no sense, and maybe even helped those small businesses go bankrupt. It's a really dangerous sword to wield when you share a massive discount. But there's some really interesting parts of the product and business that have worked. There's probably some great things to learn for the next person who wants to build a company that helps promote local small businesses. Be careful not to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
From my understanding the dump was started from financial companies that had loads of oil sitting around in tankers and the Saudis then followed and met the price, but didn't set it.
A branchless 4 element stable sort using SSE bit tricks
I do a lot of research, advocacy, and editorial work which is very critical of many powerful companies; I have to be sure there is no accidental impression I am "for" or "against" anybody or benefitting financially in any way from my research. that is actually why I changed it.

any sane person can see that releasing my intellectual property for free wasn't an evil scheme to make $.25 from digital ocean. ;-)
Or maybe it was just a purposely provocative title?
I've been using Meteor for months. It's such a pleasure to work with. It's what Rails should've been if it was written today.

They just keep on delivering on out-of-the-box functionality, compatibility with 3rd party libs, and more importantly - on a very solid architecture for real-time transport by guys who really know what they're doing.

Kudos everyone.
It would be nice if respecting student privacy was one of the main requirements of a system like this.
No, GitHub gives you 5 free private repositories for any educational use if you sign up with an academic email. I use mine for research.
I'm sure they have geographically distributed and anycasted servers. I'm talking more the moral or sociological impact, post-Snowden, of relinquishing control of our services to a handful of third parties en masse. It seems that building systems that are designed to be distributed, federated and cooperative isn't actually enough to overcome our natural tendency to want to pool resources and build communal lines of defence against the perceived 'Big Bad'.

Broken middleboxes meant HTTP/2 needed to become TLS-only, which now means middleboxes can't be used at all, which means no caching, which means we all go to Cloudflare or another CDN as a professional MITM service. It's all fairly ludicrous. In principle the idea of ISP web caches was a good one, just like how ISP provided DNS caches are essential in keeping the Internet as we know it reliable.
I use phantomjs because it can run headless and is low resource. the request data is processed in python though.
Gatekeeper makes that a lot safer than you might think. The only downside is that it's not obvious how to check who signed it. If you could easily verify it's signed by Apple, that would be 100% safe.
I am definitely feeling that: I've already had to do some reorganizing as I discover that some of my initial decisions weren't perfect, as to organizing the class repo.

By the way, your article has encouraged me to get the students using issues for eg. homework questions they'd normally email, thanks for that.
That's a little like saying "So what if your bird died? How many coal miners wish they even had a pet canary in the first place?"
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Let me guess: Groupon agents (who got a commission?) would push for the best deal possible; naïve pizza joints and dry cleaners would do it. Response would be overwhelming, leaving the company broke after a month. Rinse and repeat.

There was nobody in the process who would/could responsibly manage the actual value of the coupon. So they were either useless or debilitatingly lavish.
That is one of the nice parts about the schedule of the California Zephyr - both directions give you the mountains of Colorado during daylight. In the winter you might miss some of Utah's desert because of the shorter days, but you get at least a taste of it. And you end up sleeping through most of Nebraska in both directions as well. Nothing against Nebraska, but it looks much the same as Iowa, so a half day of looking at farms in Iowa is enough - no need for 8 more hours of it in Nebraska.

I've lived in various locations on that route for most of my adult life, and take the train often enough that the conductors are starting to remember me.
I wasn't aware of this shortcut until now. I've been going the long route through Settings. Thanks for the tip!
sorry, it doesn't monitor links, it captures network-level requests, that's what I analyze.
Researchers are eligible too.
OK, but this is just the benefit of any CDN, not just CloudFlare right?

So I guess the selling point of CloudFlare is that it's like a normal CDN, plus it offers security services like DDOS protection?

With a normal CDN, you don't change your DNS to point at their servers right? DNS points to your server, but you change your code to have <img src="" > and so forth pointing at their servers. To me that just seems a lot less invasive, but admittedly then you can't get the security features.
There are a lot of free resources about meditation online. You can search on youtube for dharma talks or guided meditations.

A lot of monks publish free resources online as well:

A pdf on the basic method of meditation from Ajahn Brahm: http://www.dhammaloka.org.au/files/pdf/Ajahn%20Brahm%20-%20T... is a good place to start.

Also one thing that is taught in a meditation class is to not judge or despise the thoughts that arise, just notice them and let them pass.
It would seem there is.

http://hub.docker.com/r/nodesource/jessie

These guys appear to be on the ball, usually a cursory investigation would lead me nowhere but they've got a healthy presence in all the right places.

The linked DockerHub repository does point to a page with an example Dockerfile using node-0.12, but they do have tags for 4.0 and 4.1. Fascinating.
So on what contract were these 1100 people employed? 0 hours guaranteed, get in and get paid for the hours you work and your contract can be terminated any day? It always baffles me to see a thousand(s) of people getting laid of with the flick of a finger. That's like an equal amount of people added to the economy unemployed, right now.
I got:

/Applications/Xcode.app: accepted
source=Mac App Store
override=security disabled

Which I think means I have Gatekeeper disabled, but it still gave me the 'accepted' response.
It might work, but an "experienced" developer might know that there no install script for Xcode (also, an experienced developer will probably not download from a random server, so i guess that's something...)
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So you've created this:
https://xkcd.com/927/
Hey, maybe he'll get some leads from this post. Anyone want to work for Groupon?
If it is a common misunderstanding on the stores' part, I think it's Groupon's job to manage that. If an organization is set up to sell the product to the wrong customers, that organization should fix their sales process.

But I suspect it's a correct understanding on the part of the employees. When I talked with servers at restaurants, their experience was that the average Groupon customer was demanding, cheap, and a bad tipper. And they were also unlikely to come back, meaning there wasn't a lot of incentive to invest in a relationship.
Yes, you're probably right. I didn't want it to include any HTML (to make it easy for anyone to contribute to course website), but perhaps there is a way to use a simple Markdown for GitHub pages.
That just reminds me, after working on product and talking to customers this morning I am hungry...
> Our left-wing presidents look like our right-wing presidents from 20 years ago in fact.

Not really. Obama's policies are a lot more like Clinton than either Bush (the closest thing to "right-wing presidents" on either side of 20 years ago) -- including doing some of the things the right-wing opposed Clinton's efforts to do or move toward (both domestically, like Health Care Reform, and in foreign policy, like normalizing relations with Cuba.)

> If Reagan or Eisenhower were running they today would be considered extremist left wing communists far too liberal to ever be elected.

Well, modern Republicans might see a candidate with their views that way, though Reagan was pretty significantly to the right of Obama, who manifestly is not "far too liberal to ever be elected".
You can find yourself using a computer that is running code you've written but that you are not free to modify because you are either only provided with binaries or actively prevented by the software from modifying it.

See iOS for how common this is, which is to say very.
Wekan, an open-source kanban made with Meteor
What is the pronunciation of Google's "brotli"?
If you love its users, copyleft it.
How are you using CloudFlare for S3 images? Are you using Flexible SSL?

The problem I ran into was setting up a CNAME for an S3 bucket requires the bucket name to have periods in it, but https:// access no longer works for buckets with that naming convention[1]. So I ended up having to use CloudFront instead for my images.

[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/BucketRestri...
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Until maybe 5 years ago, I would read almost anything. This is great for discovery, but sucks when you have to plow through an abysmal book. I remember vividly reading the sequel of Dracula by a descendant (and a handful of ghostwriter) of Bram Stocker. This was terrible, full of cliché, badly written...

So now I am actually planning what I am going to read next. There are lots of classic to chose from. Admittedly some are boring. Last year, I have really enjoyed Lord Jim, Nostromo and Heart of Darkness.

I always have a "to read next" list with 10-20 books in it.
That's great!! I'm happy it helped.

Can I ask what initial decisions you had, or what did you reorganize with time?
It appears that a Chinese company named Kunlun licensed IP from Rovio and is developing Angry Birds apps specifically for the Chinese market. Perhaps they're also distributing the app themselves.

http://www.rovio.com/en/news/press-releases/621/rovio-gets-w...
The business typically only makes 25% of what they would have. A restaurant cannot survive on that margin.

And most Grouponers are bottom-feeders. Just looking for a deal. They're also the most likely to be vocal on Yelp (there was a study somewhere showing how Grouponers/Living Social people were more likely to leave bad reviews).

Groupon's salespeople are so high-pressure and portray an overly optimistic view of what a struggling small business should expect.

Speaking from personal interactions from several business owners who have tried daily deals here. Sure, a business needs to calculate it's ROI, but I think Groupon 1) oversells the value of 'getting their name out there' through their deals and 2) doesn't explain how bad their customers are.
I think the requests PhantomJS makes while loading and executing the page are recorded and their URLs stored.
Docker definitely on our roadmap; vagrant in consideration. It's a straightforward install for the runtime now.

node app.js

nsolid app.js

same thing
Yes many companies wish they had the opportunity to burn fat stacks of VC cash. Some of those might have expanded to two countries instead, and not been forced to write off the whole thing soon after.
> It's ideologically motivated just like the GPL and does a poor job at letting anyone use their code.

Agree that it isn't a good choice if what you want is the most permissive, inclusive license.

(Completely with you there, and hadn't noticed the misjudged "with the openness, you can't beat the WTFPL" above.)

> Sure, it's a personal choice, but if you do choose it you're not doing yourself or anyone else any favors.

I wouldn't and don't use it for my projects, but I'd absolutely defend anyone else's choice to do so.

The choice to go with a license that actively eschews the standard reliance on legalese is a form of self expression. If someone chooses to use it and disregard the supposed legal risk, then I totally respect that.
WiFi is a great win, I think. The problem is just that we have allowed ourselves to think it is a complete solution. That everything should be wireless, that wired has no advantages. In reality WiFi and ethernet complement eachother, each with their own strengths.

In particular, I've found a 10Mb LAN outperforms a 1000Mb WiFi for networked filesystem access.
Can you link to the page where you found this? I can't find it on https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/#debian8

This seems like setup instructions for GitLab and I think it is unrelated.
I also have this. I'm curious if I have a hacked version.
I think this is absolutely the way forward for technical courses (where the prof and maybe students already know how to use git, or can be expected to learn).

A course is kind of like a web app with a lot of common functionality. Too bad most LMSs seem to think we want to write our course in a little text box with no version control (even newer ones like Canvas make this assumption).
Adding comefrom to luajit
I'm not sure. The way I read this is that enterprises can disable Gatekeeper and then add a CA by which the binaries need to be signed.

Gatekeeper seems to really be tied to Apple's CAs.

Of course, if you're willing to download XCode from a shady source, you're also willing to disable Gatekeeper when it prevents you from launching your shady copy, so the point is moot I guess.

edit: Stackoverflow seems to agree: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11833481/non-apple-issued...
That's the letter of the law, but Sheehan was acquitted by people who have a closer perspective to mine: if the threat is reinforced by past abuses/attacks and there's no expected relief from the authorities, even something deliberate can be self-defence. This can be true for a person, and for a group.
I've just run the recommended check on freshly downloaded older versions (5.1.1 and 4.6.3), and their both appear rejected (source=matched cdhash).
I self-published a guide that helps junior developers dramatically improve their chances of getting hired at startups: https://kokev.in/hired-fast

I'm glad I didn't do it solely for the money, because I think revenues so far works out to something around minimum wage. However, it was a pretty satisfying challenge and I enjoyed every minute of it. I've gotten some great feedback from people who have landed some great jobs, so it provides a sense of fulfillment.

Like many others, I relied a lot on Nathan Barry's Authority (http://nathanbarry.com/authority) to write this ebook, which I'd recommend if you're looking to do the same.
At Groupon merchants get paid for unredeemed vouchers (not all at once but staggered).

For the human psychology of a business owner of say a restaurant that's terribly, as this means every time someone walks in, that's $25 of revenue and say $5 of profit walking in for your business and its employees to extract, but a guy walking in with a voucher is just $20 of costs.

Even if the voucher was bought for $25, that feels like money 'earned' weeks ago, and anyone who actually makes use of the voucher feels like it's costing you $20 even though it'd constitute the same $5 profit as a normal customer.

Combine that with the fact the vouchers in this hypothetical example wouldn't actually be priced $25, but rather discounted to $15 or $19 which has to be shared with Groupon, and the fact those who're use Groupon (discount seekers) not always but on average tip less, really kills the mood for typical Groupon's merchants: struggling business owners who don't sit in an office and look at customers on a purely rational level and see them as just numbers.

So I agree, it's a human psychology flaw in the business model. It's not unsurmountable, if Groupon runs a solid Merchant Centre full of 3 minute videos for merchants on Groupon's research that shows how their service affects the success of a Groupon deal generating repeat business, how instructing your employees to say x y z words when a Groupon member comes in etc, you could go a long way to mitigating this.

Google for example runs a clever incentive structure where the quality/relevancy of the ad plays a role in your ranking vs other merchants, and so the better & more relevant your ad, the less you have to pay for your add to be more visible. This means some merchants who build relevant ads actually pay less to be on the nr 1 spot in the search ad rankings, than companies who pay more but offer shittier ads. And they run a whole merchant centre with tons of videos to explain this whole process and what you can do to improve it. [0] This improves the experience for users by rewarding merchant's quality control, which benefits them, too. Groupon should run something similar which they probably already do in some way but I'm not very familiar.

Another solution is more controversial and hard to sell to merchants, which is to not pay merchants for vouchers that go unused and expire. This way a merchant can't be 'hopeful' that a Groupon user doesn't come in, because he doesn't earn any money when a person buys a voucher and doesn't use it before it expires (like I've had happen myself a few times.) Every groupon user who comes in is one he'd otherwise not get paid for, and so it flips the story around, every time a person comes in he gets paid by redeeming the voucher. Right now he gets paid regardless and people coming in are just costs, so obviously a merchant isn't thrilled to see groupon users come in today.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjOHTFRaBWA
thanks! we don't sleep...that much ;)
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Apologies if I came across as a wee bit patronising didn't mean to, I too am an old timer and been around the distro block more times than I can remember.

I settled on CentOS and Fedora because I mostly buy Dell kit and by and large it's always worked with little or no fuss, even brand new laptops which are often a friction point. CentOS is also our production distro at work, so it makes sense for me.

That said I've built a brand new machine from components (Core i5 Devil's Canyon on an Asus Z97-K mobo with an Asus GeForce GTX 750 Ti graphics card - not exactly bleeding edge, but still fairly new spec -wise for me) so I'm going to see how well CentOS & Fedora get on with that.
Climbing up is a lot harder than climbing down.
If you are interested in image processing I recommend Digital Image Processing by Gonzalez and Woods. Great introduction to image processing.

EDIT: Added title. I can't believe I googled the title to make sure I had the correct authors just to forget writing it here.
I'm not understanding the "doubt their intentions" bit. You're saying that Fedora deliberately did this to harm you?

It's just legal fear. It may be justified or not (probably not, as this feature is now enabled), but I don't see the reason to invoke malice.

Why the tinfoil hattery? This is hardly the first time Fedora has refused to ship patent-encumbered software and it won't be the last.