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This is why I don't buy into cap and trade and other expensive systems for the US to reduce its emissions. Compared to emerging economies, our emissions are already dramatically lower. It's the 2nd and 3rd world that needs to get in line (China most of all).
BestBuy is one of the biggest electronics retailers in the world. If they can't sort products properly, then it's not reasonable for a vendor to expect anybody to do it. Hell, if I look for Apple Routers, they dont' even list the Airport Extreme - they don't even have the Apple routers tagged consistently - they have both Apple and Apple(R).

And then you get this view:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?browsedCategory=a...
> A developer and a computer scientist are two different things.

No, they are not. A good developer is someone who, by virtue of the fact that he or she has to write software whose theoretical underpinnings are rooted in CS, must be good in CS as well. It's ok if you're not a CS person, but stop generalising and saying no dev has to be.

> There are awesome developers who are terrible computer scientists. They can build a great website/small web application in RoR or Django, fast and get the job done. The site will never scale tho.

No. These are people who are good at gluing together a framework. If that's your definition of a developer, I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but you are mistaken. Web development is not the be-all/end-all of Software development.

Scalability is a very very specific topic, but it's not the only one. CS includes a vast number of things.

Good developers write things like compilers, infrastructure tools, operating systems, libraries, the frameworks that you so like to use - someone wrote them, and chances are, they knew their CS. Video Games - try writing one without knowing much about Linear Algebra. See how far you get.

> Most companies want developers, not computer scientist. You might get asked all sorts of questions about algorithms ^& data structures, but in reality day to day problem is CRUD.

Partly agreed here. The thing is - as the CRUD things become more and more common, everyone wants in on the next stuff - Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning! Who is going to provide that for the companies? The guy who did dev bootcamp or the guy with a CS degree under his belt who says he can learn it? Who are you going to hire?
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This is about Chromium, not Chrome. A lot of people assume that Chromium is safer because things like this should get caught by the community.

I think the lesson to be learned here is that FOSS can be just as dangerous as commercial software if not enough people are inspecting the code and following development. It seems there are a lot of people who unconditionally trust anything that's open-source.
There are full threads on why this impl is faster. It's cheating
If you frequently sit in front of your HTPC-enabled TV with a laptop, connecting the two together using http://synergy-project.org/ is amazing, UX-wise. You don't ever have to pick up a remote, or try to get Bluetooth peripherals to work over an 8' distance; you just flick your mouse up "past" the top of your laptop screen, do a few things on your TV, and flick back.

It's a bit of the feeling of having a second (big) monitor hooked up to your computer (or using Apple's AirPlay "extend display to this monitor" mode in OSX) but having the two be separate computers is actually a good thing, frequently:

• I don't have to worry about having something CPU-demanding (like a streaming Flash player in Chrome) running on the TV while trying to compile on my work laptop; neither one will cause choppiness in the other.

• I run all my torrents on the HTPC (because that's where I want to play the videos from anyway) and have QoS enabled on my router, so my laptop's network connection is never clogged.

There's also the benefit of the pixels of a TV being far-enough away that you can get away with a lot of scaling. Presuming a 60" 1080p LCD at an 8' distance, turning on Windows' "Extra Large" DPI Scaling, or force-enabling OSX's HiDPI mode, looks really good (e.g. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47375701/ss20151022-1108...).

You only get 960x540 effective pixels from a 200%-DPI-scaled 1080p TV, so some things might not fit on the screen and will necessitate temporarily toggling back to "regular" 1080p. Also, you'll probably want to full-screen most apps, to get something like this (http://i.imgur.com/YDN6VuZ.png). It's a lot like using a netbook.

It's pretty great for reading long articles in particular; I find there's less eye-strain than looking at my laptop—maybe because the glyphs are so clear, and maybe also because I'm focusing on something farther than 2' away.
That's the trick: transform all database changes to be backward compatible between version n and n+1. It takes a little more time, and you end up with multiple deploys, but it's really quite nice.
From selling its "default search engine" spot -- I'm on this web business professionally since 1995, I know that.

That's not direct ad sales and Mozilla wasn't created with the specific purposes to sell ads or collect private information, nor is owned by an ad-selling company.

Besides you can change the default search engine in a heartbeat.
I've tracked Kotlin for 2+ years, and it has gotten better. The restrictions are to make sure that decisions that are made after 1.0 are not breaking, but permit more options. It is called "careful planning." No thanks, Java 9 is klunky.
Tenured professors work for a department head.
Boot camps have been awesome for my business niche: fixing Android apps that other developers have failed at and abandoned. If more boot-camp graduates come on the job market, it will be even easier for me to demonstrate the value of my services.
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CommonLispConditionSystem

"When an exception is thrown in Java, the stack unwinds meaning all state in stack frames from the point of the throw to the handler gets thrown out."

"In Common Lisp, the stack does not unwind and high level logic can simply restart the computation (after fixing the error or trying different strategies) without losing any intermediate state. This killer feature is what makes interactive debugging possible."

Not enforcing a functional paradigm also makes prototyping easier.
What kind of job would you get with a PhD in "Future Studies"?
If you don't mind, cast a vote in https://github.com/metabase/metabase/issues/1294

We're going to be building out connectors by community demand. =)
Hm. I'll have to take another look at it then, last I played with it you couldn't add network shared to plex.

Though I still prefer Kodi for its FOSS-ness.
Most people that are capable of installing Linux (or some other Unixoid system) are probably capable of reinstalling GRUB (at least with a little help from a search engine of their choice).

But if you try to get your parents to give Linux a try, because their laptop ends up infected with some virus every other month, this does not help.

Which makes me think: What about dual-booting two Windows installations? This is probably a very rare scenario, especially with virtualization, but what if I was developing, say, device drivers and wanted to check my driver works both on, say, Windows 7 and 8/8.1? Does the Windows installer put my other Windows installation in the boot menu automatically? (Honest question, I have never tried this and probably never will.)
And what does that program entail and where do you study that?
I think https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1495983 is still there, right?
Unfortunately accidents happen, there are much bigger accidents happened in complete public rails. But if you check the measures , overall safety has been increased a great deal, actually it is considered as the safest in Europe, And for most accounts there are improvements (Customer satisfaction is up, Level of traffic is up, Fare increases are lower than before, Average train age unchanged, Punctuality unchanged, Safety is increased, Efficiency is up)
).

If it would be a real privatization, chances that it would be better.
I don't think that chromium should call home at all but incognito mode is not about this... it is about not leaving traces of your browsing history on the local computer.
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My SO is in Singapore, and she complains almost everyday about the smog.

While we in the US and other 1st worlders could do much to stem our pollution especially given our ability, the fight against climate change has to be a global fight, and not just the acts of a few willing nations.
Yes, it would be terrible if we did all that work to improve the atmosphere for nothing.

http://i.imgur.com/kUCPeBo.jpg
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I was just in Singapore for the past few days, after living there for several years. It really is awful this year.

The haze did make the laser show from the top of the Marina Sands really spectacular. ;-)
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This seems to be crashing my browser :( Breaking chrome inspector, too.
Incorrect. The point of incognito mode is to record less information locally, not send less information. It doesn't store cookies (beyond the duration of the session), doesn't record history (beyond the duration of the session), etc. On the Chrome incognito start page, it clearly says:

>Going incognito doesn’t hide your browsing from your employer, your internet service provider, or the websites you visit.
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>Someone said that that all of those call home as well

Obviously, since all have update-check (and auto-update) features, live content (e.g. intro page), etc.

That's not the same as mining your every search, and they don't own an add company or anything.

>I need a browser that just lets me browse instead of filling me with constant "1984-esque" anxiety and paranoia for every URL I go to, and apparently all the extensions I run ALSO call home and leave a uniquely identifying finger print.

It's even worse: EVERY IP (and/or page) you visit is registered on your ISP.

About apps phoning home specifically, you can install an application firewall like Little Snitch and be warned and in control of any such attempt.

It's not something that you should trust on the browser vendors not to do, anyway...
Satoshi Nakamoto is a case study in how confused everyone is about the concept of identity. Many of the engineers I talk to are at the point where they refuse to even use the term "digital identity" at all. (I think this is mostly what you are saying.)

I still trot this link out as a primer whenever the subject comes up: http://stpeter.im/journal/1035.html
I remember the phrase from back in the day, but never really paid attention to it. I do remember testing new PCs with Lotus 1-2-3 and Flight Simulator to prove they were actual compatibles that were going to work with all the software.
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I've noticed the opposite. I see more jokes than before and they don't seem to be downvoted when I'm around. The jokes aren't even clever; just low reaching ones just like on reddit.
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Interesting question. I will speculate without actual data for entertainment purposes.

I would assume that a candle would produce more or less constant output in heat and CO2 and you likely will light it before having sex and not in the middle of it.

I would also assume that two exercising humans will produce more output than a candle.

So it would produce some bump in the baseline but you still would have a measurable spike in it.

You could also distinguish the candle from the light bulb when you have CO2 reading.

Of course it would be also better if you could execute controlled tests i.e. you could control the heating and possibly the ventilation. As the temperature sensor in the room is usually in the form of thermostat then the first one would be viable.

A fireplace would deplete oxygen from the room but (unless one without exhaust) will not increase the room CO2 concentration. But it will likely introduce an additional airflow. So this would be more complicated case.

But you likely could trick the users in the configuration phase to give you additional information to make strange cases more explainable. I.e. you could ask such harmless question like do you have a fireplace.
OK, I have to ask: What is Future Studies? Googling, it sounds vague and unspecific. Are they offering PhD's in it...?
Five years for the body. Fifteen for the brain and spinal cord. Fifty for the legal recognition that it has the same rights as every other person.
Not the full Akamai network - only 219 edge locations out of many thousands on Akamai's full network:

http://go.rackspace.com/cdn.html?cm_mmc=PPC_NonBrand-_-US_Cl...
Amazing- I've been looking for this image for years, sums it up perfectly!
I don't understand why a guy has avoided Microsoft for his entire career feels the need to dredge up a 10 year old article that talks about events from over 30 years ago. Too much pro-Microsoft news for you? Honestly - what's your interest here?

A comment[1] somebody made yesterday on the "Twitter apologizes" story reminded me of this. I think it's an important story regardless of your opinion on Microsoft specifically, exactly because it highlights the risk inherent in building something on top of a platform you don't control. I wanted to highlight that that particular bit of wisdom isn't exactly something new.

Looking at the submitter's background I don't see any professional experience with Microsoft tech.

FWIW, I have spent plenty of time working with Windows and DOS in my life, I just don't highlight it, because it isn't really relevant to what I do now. I also don't mention OS/2, AS/400, RPG, Visual Basic and a laundry list of other things I've worked with that now seem more or less irrelevant.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10427499
Consumers usually purchase things based on individual needs, not messages they want to send. It is only in rare instances do consumers actually manipulate the market by deliberately controlling what they purchase, the term is called boycott.
This quote was mentioned in the recent discussion of Twitter's outreach to developers. I believe the intent of this submission was to share a slice of relevant history with those in the community too young to have lived through it.
Isn't also shortsighted to expect every application to implement its own system for checking for security updates? Wouldn't it be more secure to have this managed by the OS or a package manager instead of hoping every application does it correctly?
Is it just me or is every picture/photo in the article broken?
Hey -

Really appreciate you taking the time to try it out!

If you're still around, are you using the default schema ('public') for your tables? We've found a few bugs around non-default schema we're working on.
I always assumed it was a play on "shazam!"
I would guess they can "force" him to no longer teach that class, even if they can not dismiss him.

I don't think its bad that the university has the final say in what and to a certain degree how certain elements of the ciricullum are taught. It's not hard to imagine how a bad math course can very seriously compromise the students ability to follow other classes.

Not to say that this applies to this case, the professor proably made a good and ethical choice in class materials and is pressured for other reasons.
I'm actually surprised that there's no policy on conflict of interest for these universities. It's one thing to be charging through the nose tuition, that's just further exacerbated by these professors that wring students for personal gain.

Writing your own book is fine, but manipulating these books EA style (where you buy a game that comes with a one time use multiplayer key, neutering your ability to sell it afterwards) on the thinly veiled "improvements" is just downright shady. I commented about this on the other math book to pdf submission, but I had a professor did just this. He basically shuffled chapters around and renumbered problems, making the previous year's book worthless because the problems he assigned are numbered out of the new book, and he refused to provide any mapping of new problem sets to old problem sets. I had mentioned this to the department heads and none of them really cared at all about this practice.
The most interesting new feature to me, beyond the UI itself - there's now some algorithmic generation in the movie/TV screens.

It looks like the Movies screen will automatically offer up unwatched movies with recent release dates, as well as groups of unwatched movies from the same director ("Top movies by ..."). If you actually go into a movie and open the Extras menu, along with trailers/features (if you have a Plex Pass), it'll show you other movies by the same director and with the same lead actors.

Similarly, the TV screen has groups for recently aired TV episodes, and even has shows grouped by the channel they're currently airing on (!).

It's a neat use of metadata, and it would be interesting to see it go further. It would be really neat if I could, say, choose Star Trek TNG and get an automatically generated list of the best 10 episodes (with data pulled from thetvdb, IMDB, etc), or if I could go into Movies and choose an option to group movies by randomized Netflix-like specialized genres.
This is a conversational dead-end because there is both no evidence for it in this case, and no way to disprove it.
Strang's textbook is fantastic. One of the rare cases in college where I actually enjoyed reading a textbook. His lectures are available for free on YouTube as well, and I can't recommend them enough!
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I don't think what you said ("won;t consider an offer" applies to first-time buyers. With the median home price in Boston around $467K, a young family would need ~$100K (including tx costs) in _cash_ to buy.

I am a bit puzzled by where this down money would come from. Given college debt payments and stagnant wages. Also, saving money is not a practiced virtue in the US :-)
Yes, same here. I typically use between 10 GB and 30 GB a month, and have yet to experience any throttling.
The biggest thing I see standing in the way of this vision of the future is that it seems to actively go against IT best practices that medium/big orgs have in place.

For instance, the github example in the article is cool but it seems like every company over ~100 employees switches to github enterprise or a similar self-hosted tool where every employee has an isolated account and it's only accessible on the corporate network/VPN.

I've looked around out of curiosity and I haven't really found any good information about building a secure IT organization while taking advantage of modern SAAS products (e.g. github, slack, circleci, docker hub, whatever else). It's basically taken as a given that if you want to be secure you'll have a corporate network in your physical office and all your important internal tools will be on that network (or an even more tightly locked down subnet). I'd love to read any resources to the contrary.
Go around the periphery, the "real-food", instead of all the fabricated food-like items in the aisles. ;)
Or anywhere in the US, check http://www.teamusa.org/usa-curling/clubs/find-a-club to find the nearest club to try the sport.
Ugh.

Don't listen to a puffed up experts or self-assigned gate-keepers rehashing generic fluff (click-baity title included!) to get out another tired blogpost.

The only takeaway from this post should be: find mentors so you can accelerate your learning.

Now, whether you want to accelerate learning how to be an employee or to be a founder is up to you.

Because ain't nothing to it, but to do it.
I'm not talking about opening videos on my computer, don't be ridiculous.

We're talking about plex, and plex is for streaming from one thing to another. I've been able to stream from OSX to roku using plex but each version keeps getting worse. The last version was so bad it didn't even let you browse folders. I think there were so many complaints they released 'plex classic'.

I'm trying out emby again right now, looks much improved and like all I need.
I am guessing it only triggers the process of closing the garage door - it determines when the doors should close. I can't imagine how it could do anything else.
Well, US just burns off some crazy amount of natural gas that is released as the byproduct of oil drilling/fracking. It's not captured because it's too cheap to be worth it. 10 billion cubic feet in a month[1], just because it's "not worth it". So maybe,actually, US needs more caps and expensive systems to curb such behaviour?

[1]http://www.wsj.com/articles/north-dakotas-latest-fracking-pr...
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palm oil is a terrible, terrible thing. If you have travelled at all to central america or asia, you know what i mean. (ok yes, you got me... traveling to asia isn't so hot for the environment either)

Wherever you think a jungle should be, you see palm trees. As far as the eye can see.

If you care about this. And you probably should. Then have a look at the ingredient list & don't buy products with palm oil.
The fact that other people are messing up doesn't mean that you should as well. Everyone should take responsibility for their own actions.
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Sometimes this is true.

And many people are smart and strategic enough to be able to launch successful startups while sacrificing very little personally.

Persistence matters more than personal sacrifice, in my mind.
Yep. Like the WWII Japanese General said :

"Just went we learn to play poker they change the game to bridge."
I tried out your demo and while the design is very stunning, I am a little confused about what I'm supposed to do. Is this meant for big company workforces (500+ employees), restaurants, any company? Would love some more insight as to who this is for.
The whole idea with auto-updates is that you are neither reprimanded nor worried about "maintaining an up-to-date system" -- the browser is.

You just enjoy your browsing being automagically always update with the latest available patches...

Comparing the situation to "siege-mentality" etc is taking a far-reached association so far that it's not even on the solar system anymore...
I believe the intent of this submission was to share a slice of relevant history with those in the community too young to have lived through it.

Exactly.
This is a course on developing Android apps, not for preparing you to work at Google, which most of the discussion here seems to miss.

Students should most definitely be able to write a decent app after a class like this. Interface and backend communication aren't that hard, nor to they require an engineering background. Engineering problems, UX design, etc. are all likely beyond scope.

It's important to identify where on 'the scale' this lies: Google creates advanced tools that allow people to develop products using simpler concepts. This program targets the latter audience, which is a sensible business decision.
This isn't black and white. The options aren't sabbatical or disaster.

Time off is not a solution. The problem will simply resurface when the person comes back.

The solution is to re-organize the work. Hire an additional person, if needed. Add work that the employee will enjoy and that will be relaxing. That's a solution.

If the company isn't interested in solutions, then the solution for the employee is still not a sabbatical. The solution is to quit and find a company that isn't so myopic.
That's what's being argued here--it's valuable to both users and services like GitHub for everyone to have globally-unique names that everyone can recognize.