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I've got two welders (MIG and SMAW aka stick), never looked at a single advertisement. I went to the local welding specialist, outlined what I wanted to do, listened to his advice. Then I went to three more such stores. Then I went to a friend of mine who is an all-position welder in the offshore industry, told him what I wanted to do, listened to his advice. Based on all that I made my decision and bought what I thought I should and have been pretty happy with that choice. Nowhere in this whole affair did 'marketing' or 'advertising' play any significant role other than maybe product documentation.

Also, at no point during all this would an ad for a welder have made me decide to purchase that particular product because there is no way a broadcast ad could inform me about a product in as much detail and with as much knowledge as the above process could.
Thought this quote is well worth considering - “Things that happen in an instant are mostly bad, it’s this earthquake or that horrible murder..... But once you turn to statistics it gets much harder to have a pessimistic story.”
Is that the standard price in the US? They're £120+ here in the UK...
I've been using Linux as my primary desktop OS for about 15 years, and sound has always been a pain to deal with. I used S/PDIF on my last machine, and it took me months of browsing through endless threads to get the thing to work properly. Skype just won't play any sound as of my last install, I have no idea why, I've given up on it.

To get my last monitor to work properly, I had to manually enter modelines in xorg.conf. If the monitor goes in powersave mode, the full resolution won't be available until I restart X. (It's a Seiki 4K TV, not standard by any means, but hardly "exotic")

Honestly, at this point, I wouldn't recommend desktop Linux to anyone normal, I just tell them to get an Apple computer.
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This is survivorship bias.

What you don't see are the spots that have disappeared because there wasn't enough demand to be profitable. The examples you've given are being used effectively because the price points have dropped to match demand for those specific service spots.

Advertising follows user attention, and as attention shifts mediums so does the advertising. That doesn't mean there is an oversupply in the advertising industry, it just means that it has liquidity (more so than physical goods like lumber).
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Why would walking into the womens rest room get you arrested? Just open the door, ask the ladies if they object to your presence and if not go ahead.
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I think he's referring to X? X is a terrible system. For instance, the "screen lock" on X11 desktops is just a full screen window that captures focus.
When I studied abroad in Australia I lived in a house that included two Sri Lankans. When the other American in the house and I talked about how much 9/11 affected us, they brushed it off. Sure, they'd heard about it, but they said their reaction was more like, "Welcome to the world, America." A 40-year civil war was just ending in their country (I'm probably being charitable to my countrymen to say that maybe 10% of Americans knew that; I certainly didn't), and one of them said that everyone knew someone who had been around a bombing, or had been affected by one themselves.

This is all anecdotal, but it's meant to support your point - while 9/11 was certainly one of the deadliest and probably one of the most costly (monetarily speaking) single attacks ever, it was hardly something that put us on equal footing with places like Israel and pre-2010 Sri Lanka. But it mattered to all of us a lot more because we had never seen it here, we didn't think it could happen here, we knew where NYC was, we knew those skyscrapers, etc.
The main difference is that the My Number system is basically the equivalent of a U.S. Social Security Number, in the sense that the number will be potentially integrated with things like taxes, pension, bank accounts, health records, etc. This obviously has some conveniences, but also carries more risk. Naturally, losing your card is much worse than losing a basic ID card.

Also note that the 12-digit My Number sticks with you throughout your life, unlike an ID number that can be changed. So once you obtain someone's number, they have no easy way of invalidating it so that you can't use it.
I think building a grain store in the shape of a giant pyramid wouldn't work anyway. The grains at the bottom would be pretty much unusable and likely you couldn't get them out except from the top because of the weight. I do wonder if someone could work out the math though :-)
I'm skeptical about this. It seems like the people who say "I want a self driving car" seem to be really saying they wish they didn't need a car at all.

The people tho like cars often say "I want a car with less computers". What they probably really want is access to the technology they have already bought.

I'm pretty sure Uber has not run it's course yet. They could almost destroy the market for self driving cars. Especially with competition.

I hope that cars go to the direction of bicycles. Currently bicycles are more standardized than ever, with more options than ever. And with more competition than ever. It's hard(?) to find a new bicycle with all parts coming from same manufacturer. To me it seems this modularity is ultimately good for consumers. If capitalism works, that's where cars should gravitate too.
- Linux is as far from a gaming platform as ever.

- Hardware issues are major PITA, touchpads never work, when you have a convertible laptop, keyboard doesn't disable when turning it into a tablet mode and so on. Not to mention audio.

- No distro has nice fonts.

- In my case, Ubuntu took exactly an hour before throwing an error at me.

I use Linux every day and I prefer it to Windows or Mac OS X, but take your pink glasses off, please.
Java's way of expressing variance is really awkward (even quite popular libraries get their types wrong as a result), arrays are special-cased into unsoundness, Serializable is a total mess where it could be a perfect example of how to use a type system, there are no higher kinds, the exception system is like a second parallel type system (it even has union types, which would be incredibly useful if you could use them in the rest of the language). More than that, the standard library doesn't really use the type system to its full effect, e.g. errors in JDBC are C-style numeric codes, Comparable returns an int for what should be a 3-value enum.

(To answer your question, a type system should be sound unless and until the user explicitly requests otherwise, easy to use, but above all consistent)
I don't immediately agree with the premise of this article: that the consumer pays an advertising tax on the good or service being purchased.

I tend to believe that advertising actually adds value to the good or service, especially when it's exactly the same as a competing good. When you buy General Mills' Honey Nut Cheerios instead of Offbrand Honey Oats, the advertising on the sale has actually payed for itself and then some, increasing the profit margin above the good itself.

On a macroeconomic scale, the best example I can think of is the Soviet Union. Advertising was thought to be a drain on society under the Marxist thinking of the time, so the Soviet Union didn't allow it. But then they found without advertising, it led to under consumption. I think there were other problems too, but eventually the Soviets started advertising, despite their initial misgivings about it.

A quick google didn't reveal any good citations, so I'm certainly open to other ideas on this, but my main point is that this article over-simplifies the value that advertising generates for an industry.

Edit: Found an interesting article on the Communist world's relationship with advertising: http://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/5816/volumes/v03/NA-03
This is quite typical in most companies where devs don't have trainings nor wish to spend time with work in their free time.

I bet you will find thousands of C++ devs that don't even know that there are newer versions of C++98.

C devs that still use K&R as their guide with C89 code style.

And so on.

We are the few select ones that care to improve our skills.

EDIT: Typos.
Cameron might fast-track snooping bill after Paris attacks
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The IDE situation is now excellent (thanks to merlin[1]) and OPAM, the OCaml Package Manager, is the best package manager I have ever used.

The remaining pain point, as far as tooling goes, is the debugging situation, but steady progress has been made and it should receive very large improvements in the next OCaml version or so.

[1]: https://github.com/the-lambda-church/merlin
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If you should in the future ever wonder why people dislike advertising or marketing please go back and re-read this comment. I understand that right now you are not in a frame of mind to take that input but imo everything that is wrong with the advertising industry besides the tracking aspects is present in these 11 words.
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You can write Java-without-semicolons in Scala and be productive from day 1, possibly even hour 1. Then you work up to fancier features as and when they provide a practical advantage. That's how I started.
Why is Carson saying this? Is there possible truth behind it or is he just looking for attention?

Edit: I just couldn't wrap my head around why a candidate would be talking about Egyptian pyramids and alternate theories. Apparently it's a little more complicated. He mentioned his own "personal theory" about pyramids during a speech 10 years ago[0], it got brought up recently by the 24h news cycle and now he's defending his theory.

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/05/fact-check-be...
I'm not sure I understand exactly what you're asking.

How is which industry growing? If you mean how is ad tech growing, it's growing because digital advertising as a share of total advertising is growing. It's mainly eating up advertising budgets that used to go to newspapers.

You can check out this article linked somewhere else in the thread for more data: http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-03-03/advertisings...
I think you're shifting your argument, but whatever: the horror of fearing you might die walking to the supermarket every time you do it isn't any less palpable just because the structures that incentivize the violence are different.

All this article is trying to get people to recognize is that a) the Paris attacks are awful, but b) as awful as that is, remember that this kind of horror is a more constant occurrence for many people, and that we should reflect on that more often as we participate in the politics of our own countries.

> If you can find any French political party or ruling faction that had a hand in the attacks then I would agree with you but I doubt that is the case.

You know, I'm not sure that the far-right nationalist racists like the Front National, or the ban on the burqa, or the other efforts at systematic alienation of France's minorities don't play a roll in all of this. People don't open fire into crowds they feel they have friends in, or attack societies they feel they are a part of, and Europe's attitude that assimilation is a one-way street, and the casual racism of many people here doesn't exactly create a welcoming atmosphere, either for recent immigrants or second- and third-generation ones.
I'm curious about this. A lot of us in the computational world have to deal with able but slow iterative methods for things like fluid dynamics and electromagnetic simulations. I'd be interested to know if this works with MHD, and how well it does.
I bought mine directly from Microsoft. It does appear to be locked to AT&T's network, however. That is not an issue for me since I'm an AT&T subscriber.
virt-v2v[1] -- written in OCaml -- had a bunch of contributions from people who mainly work on Java for their dayjobs. The main problem is that people are close-minded and refuse to learn anything new. If you can filter those people out with your hiring processes, then OCaml is not difficult.

[1] https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/tree/master/v2v
Unfortunately, no. I use Linux on a daily basis on my desktop, and while it's great for development (if you develop for Linux), it sucks for everything else (compared to Windows, for example).

> Linux is now a viable gaming platform, thanks in large part to the efforts of Valve and GOG.com. Six of the top ten games on Steam right now support Linux.

No. Look at the most recent SteamOS/PC review from Ars: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/11/ars-benchmarks-show-si... -- even the purpose-built PCs deliver significantly lower performance with Linux than Windows.

> Hardware support is no longer a major issue. You can generally expect all your devices to work out of the box. Even your WiFi.

Not really. AMD GPUs are badly supported -- even the proprietary driver is _very_ slow compared to the Windows version and it has very crude power management (meaning that most of the time, your GPU runs loud and hot). The NVidia side is much better, but still tends to crash more than on Windows or OSX (things like WebGL are not 100% stable). Hybrid graphics is not supported properly, so laptops like my ZBook 15 G2 can't run Linux well (there is no solution that provides on-demand GPU switching AND proper external monitor support at the same time).

In general, my biggest issue with Linux on the desktop is stability of things related to graphics/display. My quite standard desktop (Xeons, NVidia GPU, SATA SSDs) cannot boot with the most recent Ubuntu image. Fedora 23 installs well, then the first software update breaks graphics (it turned out that GDM cannot communicate with X due some SELinux misconfiguration). I could install CentOS7 which is officially supported by the manufacturer but that has crappy font rendering and obsolete packages.

And sadly, the situation in 2015 does not seem better than ~10 years ago, when I was trying to install Linux on my X40. Everything worked well except the graphics. Same in 2015.

Look at what Windows is doing with WDDM and DX12. It's really-really cutting edge. Yes, Vulkan is coming sometime, but MS has actually delivered. But still, as a Linux dev, that's not an alternative.
You're right, it's still an amazing deal. I'm just pointing out that it likely can't be produced and sold at retail for a profit for $10.
And that is not enough, if the package needs to call distribution specific tools or access specific paths.
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Not mentioned in the article, but Paul Graham's Python Paradox (http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html) could a factor. So maybe it's harder to find developers comfortable programming in OCaml, but these developers are a self-selected more refined group. Whether that makes sense for the business at hand is another question.
My prejudice is that anyone competent in functional programming is also comfortable with other programing paradigms, in particular OOP. Not so much the reverse. Thus the limited talent pool and higher wages.
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+1 Exactly this!
>My friend's gamedev company pays an ad agency to astroturf on amongst other places 4chan

Does this actually work? Shills are pretty obvious on 4Chan due their usual lack of "culture fit" and tendency to call anyone praising a videogame a shill.
I hate this kind of gluttony over meat. No one needs two steaks a day, and just because it is part of some countries culture (although, is it?) doesn't mean it should be glorified. Anyway, it's also ignorant to think all the cows are roaming around free in some grassy bovine nirvana until they get slaughtered.
I use a brother printer with debian and I haven't even thought about printing being an issue. It works.
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Why bother selling Offbrand Honey Oats if you can't offer your customers a discounted version of the leading brand?
While I love (and use daily) i3-wm, I really wouldn't call it a "desktop environment" (and dwm, which is very similar to i3, was already available in 2009).
I'm having a terrible time in VS2015 so far. When debugging I get very frequent hangs of the whole environment. I haven't managed to find a solution to the problem yet.
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Adds value from the perspective of the seller, sure. If I buy the honey nut cheerios vs. the off brand honey oats, I've received poor value because I've paid more for the same thing. And it's only adding value for the seller if they can sell the product for more than they pay in advertising - if this wasn't the case, people would not advertise because they would lose money.

I'd also like to suggest that the Soviet 'underconsumption' you speak of might be better characterized as 'proper consumption'. It's not a mandate that we buy a product just because someone's selling it.
> Isn't this what package managers are all about?

I believe that the author means that vendors have been saying for a very long time that there is no cross-distribution place to keep config files, or set of environment variables, etc. What the Linux Standard Base was invented to address.
I don't get this. I use debian and I use a lightweight window manager. I have a ~/.xsession that starts up things I need (chrome/skype/emacs).

This works.
RSS is not federated. Each server serves its own content, and clients connect directly to them.

It's decentralized, not federated, just like the web.

I think RSS failed because of the bad user experience it provides. Unless you are following hundreds of feeders, it's much easier to just go to their site, than to open a reader, get maybe one line without context - or some text that isn't in the article at all, click there and go to the site.
They don't need to trust it - the fact it is there is a good enough indicator that the machine was compromised. :P
Google cache (OP URL not loading for me at all):

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I guess, cities advertise for themselves because of tax reasons (you work there, you pay your taxes there). And ads for cities are supported by local businesses. They pay for the ads and get paid by you in return, if you fall for the ads and move.
Yeah, "placement doesn't work" happens, and it is because another party keeps increasing their bid. Sometimes that was because they blind bid, sometimes it is because they have funds to burn through (Groupon, Zynga, all the big mobile games, Uber, Lyft, all fit in this category, and they bought enough in their time to really move ad rates), other times the company just had a better model and it forced me to make other adjustments to my campaign.

Is the question the expansion in adtech companies? If that is so, I think a huge part has been the Facebook traffic dumps to publishers like news sites. Basically the available display inventory something like doubled. That isn't sustainable, Facebook fully intends to recapture that external traffic back in to their platform. The drop is already visible to some publishers. Many companies certainly are turning a blind eye to fraud so as to hide the bad news from their clients and investors.

At some point the shift from offline to digital ends and the growth moves more in line with GDP. That will bring down valuations. Google and Facebook probably want to integrate the ad model with every human transaction. One could imagine getting in a Google car and saying "pizza" and be driven to the highest bidding pizza shop.

Certainly ad costs get baked in to some products in a big way: Coca-Cola, Geico, hotel rooms, for profit universities, and so on. Sometimes the costs are so much the profit center moves to another area, such as investing the float from insurance or maybe just straight up stealing money out of a person's bank account (pay day loan lead aggregators selling bank info to criminals, has happened many times, see FTC.)

As a whole, I don't know how this plays out. If the ad competition is brutal enough the costs will be driven up to the point where the parties not spending money on advertising are just far better deals. If it isn't the prices running up, the cost could be offloaded somewhere else like cutting maintenance at a hotel. Eventually the advertiser's reputation tanks.

These are marketplaces. On a micro level there are many perverse distortions because of some condition at a given time. Over time they should re-balance.

Some things like Coca-Cola, which has probably physically harmed and killed people on the scale of cigarettes, just last a really long time. Coca-Cola has a truly perverse combination of trademark law enforcement, addiction (caffeine+sugar), general scientific ignorance by consumers, and a long list of government subsidized cost advantages. All of these strengths save trademark law are being chipped away at right now. Which, at some point it flips and they have the McDonalds problem (toxic brand.)
IIRC I remedied my Skype installation by uncommenting the hardware detection modules (udev and static) in default.pa(5). You could try starting it from the apulse shim, alternatively.

I'll agree PulseAudio is esoteric, but thankfully not that many client applications have a hard dependency on it, though it is popular with integrated DEs.
It seems like the foreigner residence cards are only superficially similar. For example, the ID number on the residence card is not a permanent identifier over your lifetime (your number will change when you renew your card). In general, that number is also not directly connected to many other things, not in the way that the government is planning for the My Number system.
"Technically demanding" or simply "uncommon"? It seems you're conflating the two.
Firstly, these attacks were not perpetrated by any national level political party. Your line of thought, as the article puts it, portrays "a busy civilian, residential and commercial district as a justifiable military target."

However, the more important point is that it is always a radical fringe. Saying it is otherwise is terribly offensive and suggests a fundamental lack of understanding.
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A decent test would be to require all government ministers to wear the badges while in the chamber, in particular for all televised sessions.
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Also, the fact that he bought a faucet means he probably owns a home. And is much more likely to have to buy a faucet again than a random person who may rent and never have a reason to buy a faucet.
I understand; however, less is more:
http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponentia...
I think the biggest advantage of a micro-controller (like Arduino or an MSP) or prototyping microcomputer (like the Pi or BeagleBone) are control of GPIOs from a reasonably high-level language. At least for my applications. serial and parallel ports on PCs used to give you some functionality similar to this too. But smartphones lack that for the most part (the best you can expect is typically bluetooth comms with a separate device).

If you need remote logging, the 3G Particle Electron boards (particle.io) should be released soon, which I'm pretty excited for.
For the find/replace in VS, you don't need to first double click on a word. You just need to stand anywhere on it and press Ctrl+H