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Because deescalation is the wise choice. Anyway the Turkey of today is not the country that was accepted in NATO. Which complicates stuff immensely.

Turkey is a rogue state now, with very fast islamisation going on that is protected by the NATO treaties. Bad combination.
> Language is a tool to be used effectively.

Which you are failing to do, thus the meta-discussion about your weird capitalization. Were your choices effective, no one would be mentioning it.
I remember reading about how actors hated the switch to video and then the switch to HD, because it was far more likely to reveal their acne, other flaws etc.

In audio engineering, the Yamaha NS10 studio monitors (now discontinued) are famous for their faithful, naked reproduction of sound. As a result, more mixes sound terrible on NS10's than on other speakers. They expose the flaws. Which is why an engineer tests his mix on them. "If it sounds good on NS10's it'll sound good on anything."
France, and especially Paris, is going to lose hundreds of millions of tourism revenue next year, plus an increase of military & police spending, which will increase its deficit.

Holland is going to Moscow and Washington this week to request Putin's help on Syria and form a coalition. If you think that Hollande would have allowed Turkey to shot down a Russian plane today, this is basically the worst time it could have ever happened.

So I don't buy for a second that France would have supported that move, especially this week.

On the other hand, if Turkey wanted to prevent NATO getting closer to Russia, this was a perfect timing.
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I don't things are quite so clear cut. Along with the things you mentioned, ISIS gathered much of their materiel from the Iraqi military in its retreat.

Whether they are "serious about hurting IS" seems arbitrarily defined by whoever is posing the question. What we do know is that the coalition has conducted ~40,000 sorties over the past year. That seems pretty "serious" to me, but some people might consider "serious" to only mean ground forces.
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One thing that might have been nice to note is the rules regarding what you can and can't do in signal handler code.
"You have to go all the way to Haskell (I'd argue Shen) to get real benefits of typing beyond performance and typo-protection"

With some cleverness, I was able to get C's type checker to let me know when I was accessing data from the wrong thread. This was tremendously useful when moving functionality between threads. If you think type checking doesn't buy you much, it's because you don't know how to use it.
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None of the Infocom games are in the public domain. The copyright of most of them is held by Activision, which sells them as iOS ports.
With two programmer incomes we can't buy a home 35 miles away from Boston. So pathetic.
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The end of dynamic languages?
Not really. The developed nations do not have increasing population. Aging, yes. But population is not really growing.
West placing all those military bases near Russian borders ?

You mean Russian neighbours trying their best to prepare against growing Russian threat (by what I mean direct official threats, massive military training operations near borders, increased forces near borders)?

The West, when we talk about Western Europe, has constantly reduced their military by dismantling their tank armies, reducing their air force and not keeping their navy up to date with the mantra that Russia is not the enemy any more while Russia has done the opposite. I think you are just not being honest here.

Edit: I do not claim that Russians are the only ones who have become too cocky, but definitely not Russian neighbours.

PS. I wish that there is no need in the world to discuss these matters here or anywhere else.
'On the ground' productivity, where the scientist is doing labwork ends before a scientist 'gets their name on papers'. That kind of work is different from the 'guiding the science' work. It's the boss who wins the Nobel Prize, not the student, though it's the student who is the 'productive' one in lab.
I haven't tested it yet but this looks great! I was kind of looking for something like this.

I'll give it a try in a week or so. Hopefully the problems will be fixed.

IMO the only thing missing is the ability to tag your entries.
Maybe the site could parse a markdown tag entry in the file. Something like:

# _tags_ #

programming

c++

network
The article itself differentiates OECD vs Non-OECD. The point is Non-OECD countries are going big on Solar because at the consumer level they have the most to gain. There are parts of India which are not electrified because the electricity distribution is state owned and is always loss making. So there are not that many investments into distribution. Solar really helps with distributed generation as well as is not that location specific. A village can have its own solar farm and does not need the transmission lines from outside etc. Solar + Battery tech will improve lives of millions of people around the world and especially in the Non-OECD countries.
A better title would be "Non-OECD countries begin to outspend OECD countries in clean-energy investment" rather than "Poor outspend Rich." China may be relatively poor in terms of GDP/capita ($6,800 vs $53,000 in US) but its nonsensical to refer to it as a poor country in terms of overall GDP and volume of economic activity.

Here is the real story:

China has wasted no time in directing billions of dollars into its clean energy sector. Currently, the
country is the world’s leading investor in renewables. In 2014, China increased its investment to
US$89.5 billion, up 32% from the previous year. This was nearly 73% more than the US, the next
largest investor. [1]

[1] http://www.theclimategroup.org/_assets/files/RE100-China-ana...
Is this what happens when an Engineering company decides to go to space? The video (https://www.blueorigin.com/news/blog/historic-rocket-landing...) of the booster coming down like a freight train, igniting, arresting velocity and correcting for yaw, then landing on a dime was absolutely uncanny. This thing reeks of technical competence and flawless execution.
Population growth is slowing, and previous generations in developed countries have been richer than their parents, so the evidence seems to point in the opposite direction.
And my point is the opposite

Developing the tests is an iterative process that refines your understanding of the problem and the correct solution, and only once you've done that do you know enough to write appropriate code.
A pension is something companies used to provide to their employees. Employees used to be able to stay their entire career with one company and amass a pretty decent retirement pension with said company.

Then Wall Street got corrupt. They demanded ever more from companies. Each quarter had to show more profit from the last otherwise they punished the company. Wall Street found ways of funneling any profits directly to investors instead of investing in the company (and, more importantly, it's employees). Pensions took a hit. Companies stopped offering them. Some companies 'borrowed' from pensions and lost it all. The employees did suffer. Employee loyalty dropped. Companies took that as an opportunity to treat employees as temporary; replacing them regularly with cheaper ones.

You'll have to wait until tomorrow night to hear the rest of the story. G'Night.
That's a good one.

One of my favourites was always Anchorhead, which is a Lovecraftian horror game that is excellently written.

http://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A%2F%2Fifarchive.org%2Fif-ar...
Wow, that is crazy ambitious. Why aim for the problems of today when you can solve the problems of tomorrow.

SpaceX, by now, should have enough people with strong applied math backgrounds to tell them, given a formal specification of the control systems on the rocket, whether what they're even trying to do is possible (within probability bounds).

I'd be interested in seeing their calculations. I just hope they're not throwing more computation at a problem that's totally dependent on how fine they can a) sense their position and momentum, and b) do something to adjust it.
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>Tech is an area of boom in an economy of bust.

For me tech will make you either much poorer or much richer than your parents.
^On larger conflicts, I think it's a real danger.

France is hysterical right now, and I imagine they are considering an "all arms" invasion with Russia at their side. There is growing international support for Kurdish independence. Even Assad might agree to it. This is a Turkish red line. Turkey is still keen to oust Assad. The longer IS & other jihadis can demonstrate unprecedented achievements like capturing and holding territory, the more the danger grow in other ME countries. Russia has lost a civilian airliner to IS & a military jet to Turkey in a few weeks. The combination of successful IS terrorism, daily reports of raids on Jihadi safe houses, and massive refugee migration has made Syria the number 1 political issue everywhere in Europe.

It's all a tinderbox and Turkey just shot down a Russian jet.
this is so dependent on the macro economy in which you live, its almost completely independent of you

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/08/26-years-of-growth-...

can you imagine having been a 10 year old in Shanghai in 1987?
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>There's also the possibility that this is a bad decision made by field officers in the short decision window they had.

That's an excellent point, and one I think is often missed. These are decisions made by commanders in the field in a short amount of time, with limited information. They have many concerns, worries, and instructions to comply with. What if it was misidentified as a Russian plane? What if they did nothing, and the plane dropped bombs on a Turkish village? There's lots of potential outcomes, limited information, and consequences and repercussions far beyond the event itself. And it's a mistake to think national leaders are involved directly in this process.

To give my personal views for a moment here, this is why it's so important they recognize, that whenever force is involved, regardless of intent, aim, or goal, it's messy, and things like this will occur, without fail. There will be accidents, without fail.
Makes sense. More people fighting over the same finite amount of resources, leads to less per person.

Eventually, no matter how imaginary money is, it's used to buy non-imaginary resources.
Protagoras; a Dialogue
I wish them the best! These sorts of data are extremely powerful for local governments and advocacy for safer and better-designed streets.

There’s been a big push in Pittsburgh for improved traffic safety around the University of Pittsburgh and CMU due to several recent cyclist and pedestrian deaths. I’m not affiliated with the city or any local advocacy organizations, but as a concerned cyclist with some programming chops, I figured I could put some numbers to the problem myself with video tracking [0]. This impromptu weekend hack has garnered way more attention than I ever expected [1]. Being able to see long-term behaviors would be even more powerful.

0. https://github.com/mbauman/TrafficSpeed

1. http://www.post-gazette.com/news/transportation/2015/11/19/P...
It's not just web servers. I would say that it is because they want it to be human readable/editable, but JSON would probably be just as good in that regard.

I would prefer it if it were more like openssh or supervisor.
Though I suspect those styles of configs are would make some of the more advanced configurations a pain.
I think this is a good case for showing that the dichotomy is not particularly useful as the last word. Darwin was influenced by Malthus and Adam Smith, and also by Paley's watchmaker argument insofar as he sought to refute it, but his work was nothing short of revolutionary.

Tenure with reduced teaching responsibilities is the way big thinking gets funded these days.
So I've never come across INSERT table SELECT values UNION ALL SELECT values.

Any reason to prefer that over INSERT INTO table (col, col) VALUES (v1, v2), (v1, v2), ... ?
Handcuffs might have been much, but the kid was instigating and did not deserve the praise and awards he got afterwards.

Perhaps, as one of the parent comments said, the situation turned out not to be clear cut.
Keep in mind, though, that tech also has a much faster life-cycle than most professions of the day. We're already seeing large drops in average salary for many tech positions. The average developer salary today is not even close to what a similarly "skilled" profession was even 20 years ago. Now, obviously developers didn't exist 20 years ago, but that's taken from a study that compared population sizes in the US to job percentages in the population. Yesterday's electrician is today's developer and they're not paid similarly at all.
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Interesting. What pain does it solve?
I've been looking for a copy of that game for a while now. Is there an online version or a z(5,8) version I can run with frotz or something? Is it even in the public domain?
> There was some sentimental fun to be had, but these games take a tremendous amount of time to play and are difficult in a way that modern games are not. Their puzzles are almost unsolvable in some cases, or can only be solved by combining every permutation of every verb with every noun in every place to get the right answer.

It's interesting how intolerable these games would be considered today. I have a choice of thousands of games on steam (not to mention other platforms), many for less than $5. I would give these games such a bad rating, not for "lack of graphics" or anything technological, but for lack of smooth gameplay. But I loved them, and they are considered foundationial to current games.

It's also interesting to me how much time I spent patiently trying different solutions. Nowadays, if I don't get a puzzle in ~30 min, I'm off to google the answer.

I think we're way better off now, but I think there was some dedication/patience/pure-effort that we've lost with our vast number of choices, and access to information.
If the problem is that the pie is smaller, shouldn't we see how the GDP per capita goes down?

https://www.google.fr/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&m...
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Except that in large swaths of the U.S., we spend far more energy on air conditioning than lighting. (Which wasn't the case 40 years ago, when home A/C was much more rare.)

Getting home after dark would mean we'd spend less energy on cooling our homes (and though we still have to air condition workplaces during the daylight hours, we're cooling less cubic footage per person in most workplaces, plus larger A/C systems tend to have economies of scale and be more energy efficient overall).
I fully agree with the "during the Iraqi forces retreat" part. Who fired Saddam's soldiers and built these new Iraqi forces?

Do you know when the economic sanctions against ISIS where introduced, and when against Assad? Against ISIS, I can find the "Sept. 29, 2015." Isn't it strangely recent?

The bomb strikes are also a good way to show that "something" is done ("we must do something, this is something.") All politicians ordering them like them.
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> Now, obviously developers didn't exist 20 years ago

i've got some perhaps surprising news for you, my young friend... 20 years ago was 1995.

sure we didn't have broadband and fancypants angular.js but i'm pretty certain developers were around waaaay back during web 1.0 (to use a turn of phrase).
> We're already seeing large drops in average salary for many tech positions.

Are we?
Are mini-nuclear reactors the answer to the climate change crisis?
I think you're glossing over some important differences there. Some databases really are more standards-compliant than others, and that Postgres would be more standards-compliant than Oracle or MySQL is 100% consistent with my experience.

For some use cases that's fine, sure. But I've also seen many developers come to regret choosing MySQL when, months or years down the line, they ran into issues that hadn't been apparent at first. And honestly I don't see how it's a "tradeoff" when Postgres can offer performance that's every bit the equal of MySQL.
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Sadly it's not surprising. As it was said once on The Wire, "We used to make things in this country, build things. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket." That's the economy that the previous generations left us and that we're perpetuating for our children.
> I'm just going with the only real strategic targets ISIS has, oil equipment.

This is completely arbitrary nonsense.

> And if the coalition had really hit 16,000 targets, there wouldn't be any ISIS left.

So is this. This also belies a misunderstanding of both the situation and warfare in general.

The key difference between the two parties involved here is that Russian doctrine has exactly zero considerations for collateral damage and civilians. For example, Russian news sources would have you believe one cruise missile "killed 600 terrorists".
Oops! Err, I just made that assumption based on the ease I had in finding them. There are a variety of places to download them right off the web.
If you don't spend your time working for risky startups you can pretty much guarantee it'll make you rich. Google isn't going to be able to take back that large salary they pay you.
Think about how many people use real, actually-issued, legal-tender $2 bills, then think about whether a $0.075 coin would have promoted impulse purchases.

Now think about freemium mobile games. The games that price their in-game purchases in a separate currency make more money than those that price their micropurchases in the user's native currency. People are less apt to make impulse purchases with real money. But if the only thing this stupid token is good for is one bottle of Coke, why not redeem it now?

What if you sold the tokens for $0.08 each, and you sold the rolls at a discount of 6% off, at $1.50 for 20. Maybe you sold a box of 20 rolls for $24. You just made distributing Coke tokens into a profitable business, and broke the tie to the nickel.

Does that sound familiar in any way?
Ahhh, crap. I'm old. Are you trying to suggest that 20 years ago wasn't the 1970's?
It seems that the majority of the benefit was replacing a browser instance (PhantomJS launched via Karma) with a virtual-DOM (jsdom).

Karma shines when you're running integration/e2e tests against _real_ browsers, especially IE.
May I ask what your savings were in that caused them to be be wiped out in 2008? I would have to guess retirement funds invested in mutual funds which were invested in the housing bubble?
Isn't Blue Origin aiming at space tourism? No orbit, you just go up on a rocket, get weightless, see the curve of the earth and the blackness of space through big windows, then land 10 minutes later. They just did a perfect demonstration of that flight.
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You wouldn't be better off in the Valley either. With home prices topping $1m/1000sqft, only the elite of the elite can afford to buy now.
My complaint with DST isn't so much about when we have to get up, but about what it does to commuting with respect to sun position.

For anyone who lives to the west of their job - and that seems to be a lot of people - and has relatively normal office hours, you're going to go through a time period in the spring and fall where the sun is in drivers' eyes as they're commuting. In the morning, just after the sun rises, it will be blinding drivers going east, and in the evening, before sunset, it'll blind drivers going west. Given the geography, there's not much to be done about that. If we just wait a couple weeks (for any given person), the times will progress enough so that they'll no longer be affected.

But when you throw DST into the equation, it resets progression of sunrise and sunset times. After we've made it through those couple weeks where the sun is in your eyes, suddenly the time change hits, pushing the time back into your commuting drive again.

Thus, the number of days I need to spend in dangerous driving conditions, with myself and other drivers partially blinded by the rising or setting son, is more-or-less doubled by DST. It seems to me to be a significant safety issue.
> That previous generations could afford a single-family house with 1 person working and with multiple kids. Now, a double income is almost required, even with renting and not owning, and the rate of couples without children is rising too.

I find it highly ironic that while feminists wanted to enable women to have jobs, capitalism intervened and forced women to have jobs. So we have a reserse, but equally bad situation (earlier women had to be home, now they have to work).
A reasonable risk-based approach
He's been trolling his own twitter ever since last Friday again... Trying to find buyers for his books...
Does he make sense sometimes? sure! Does he completely miss the ball on this one: well, you be the judge ;)
Why do you need to need to be using the full capacity of your computer, if you are having fun?

One of the real advantages of interactive fiction in the modern era is that it can afford to take more risks, narratively, than a AAA title. Since it can be the work of a single person as a hobby or small business, rather than needing mass-market sales to repay for its development, you can try out different things, some of which may not work out but some of which can be fascinating.

Beside Andrew Plotkin, I've always loved the work of Emily Short, like Galatea which couldn't even really be considered a game but is quite fascinating.
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Yeah. I tend to forget too. Then I realize that StarCraft is about to hit 20, and given that I vividly remember playing it for the first time around 1997, I freak out. Where did all those years go? :(.
Overall it's not really that sinister, I guess.

Outside those it's mostly local gov/police not wanting foreigners walking around, not being allowed of the bus between the larger cities, them being sensitive when getting somewhat close to the border with Kazakhstan, and Bingtuan. Having "paperwork" is required then.

Plus, restrictions come and go on forcing foreigners to only travel with authorised tour agencies, or authorised guides, that won't take you to some places. And whose presence will make local people suspicious of talking to you.
Note that a link to the paper is at the very top in blood red. It looks kind of like the title to the article, but isn't.
They also hit one of the rescue helicopters with a missile. Shooting down the plane, killing of the pilots in the air (by Turkish assets), ambush of rescue party. This looks like a planed provocation to me.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/24/us-mideast-syria-c...
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They aren't. Reality also isn't as simple as a movie plot, unlike what some of the comments here speaking with an assured tone about what's "really" going on would have you believe.
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