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The framework(s) I always look to learn or recommend learning are the ones that I think are going to be big in 5 years.

Of course, consider front-end or back-end first, but I'll assume you are open to either.

I'm currently learning Play (scala) because the framework is a part of two projects I've been involved with at my current job.

I was learning Mercury.js because we selected it for a project, mostly because I wasn't a fan of Flux, but having said that, the community has voted for React, so I'll be moving to get more experience with React (we're not re-writing the Mercury stuff, but I probably won't recommend it for future projects, BUT, if you're not familiar with Mercury.js, check it out, I really like it).

I'm assuming you're already down either the Less or Sass road, so I'd look for the next thing in CSS, which just might be https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules

For testing, I'd check out Tape (unit tests) and nightwatch.

Make sure you're up on Webpack and/or Browserify

Oh the list goes on and on.

Out of curiosity, you mention web development framework, but do you have any interest in IoT? and would you want to use your web-dev skills in interfacing with hardware? The reason I ask is I've been building a framework which hopefully will allow web-devs to develop embedded code. I'd be keen to hear your feedback.
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don't forget the graphics hardware and memory buses. these can have enormous impact on the performance of anything that gets rendered - even ignoring GPUs, if it is pure CPU rendering.

i'm not saying he's not gotten something wrong, just that your reasoning is flawed based on my experience working with these things. measurement should always be trusted over 3rd party numbers imo - but only if you make the measurement yourself.
Surprisingly, kibble is supposed to be worse for teeth because it gets stuck on teeth more easily. Same argument has been made for humans and cereal grains.
Thanks. Some is specific to SETI and most of the rest looks like good scientific common sense (independent verification, share all the data). The first step is still rather vague though:

>"(the discoverer) should seek to verify that the most plausible explanation for the evidence is the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence rather than some other natural phenomenon or anthropogenic phenomenon before making any public announcement."

What goes into "seek[ing] to verify that the most plausible explanation for the evidence is the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence"?
You know you can already access Chrome for Android with DevTools via chrome://inspect/#devices ? Note: You may need to run adb devices to get your device to show up

There is also the rather wonderful WebIDE in Firefox which lets you connect to a range of iOS and Android browsers via a single interface
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not even an argument, but had me in stitches. :)

bravo
Sunday delivery workers are paid just above minimum wage and are non-union.
Why can't I access EFS? That seems like the best solution to this.
Based on a comment in this thread which suggested that USPS would be a prime (no pun intended :) ) candidate for a partnership, especially due to the existing real-estate infrastructure. If we think about it: USPS can very easily deliver letters/magazines using Amazon's service.

What if Amazon soon will develop the AWS-of-postal-delivery infrastructure?!
The question of how you change your expectations, though, boils down to asking "how do I think the person chose?"

Interestingly, I think that given any particular choice of maximum entropy distribution, the recommendations boil down to "there is a value above which you should stick and below which you should switch." Since I don't think - from the question alone - there is any particular reason to favor a specific distribution, I think it amounts to a free choice of that number. If you have some idea of, say, the bankroll of the game runners (or, at worst, the total amount of money in circulation) you should be able to do better, of course.
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If reports are to be believed, then clearly Uber expected that it would be 5 stars or nothing, and their low tolerance for 4 stars makes reality more consistent with that belief. But as a user from the early days, nothing in the app clued me into this expectation and accordingly I gave 3 stars for "meets expectations", 4 stars when I was offered refreshments and USB connections, 5 stars when I couldn't imagine a better ride...

It's only lately and due to the prevailing rumor of Uber's mercilessness that I give 5 stars to meet "don't fire the driver on my account" and less than 5 stars to mean "I demand a refund and the head of the driver."
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Typescript has became my favorite language. The option of having types when you need them is great and the addition of async/await make working with promises a lot nicer. Ever since I've been able to use experimental features and get es6 support with typescript I've never looked back. The only thing lacking now is the tooling. The atom-typescript plugin is the best I've found but I would love to see better integration with other editors. Can't wait to see what comes to typescript next!
Firefox remembers your tab icons and names between sessions but won't load the pages unless you interact with that tab. Most folks with 150 tabs open never look at more than a handful of them.

Note that pinned tabs will always be loaded as the assumption is you're using them for chat or something similar which needs to be loaded each time (messenger.com, hangouts.google.com, etc).
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Any effective tutorial is going to gloss over some, potentially lots, of infrequently used confusing edge cases. That's great sometimes. But when I'm trying to understand the infrequent and confusing edge case, a generic tutorial is the last thing I want. Git's man pages get dumped on a lot, but they're some of the best comprehensive reference documentation I can think of off the top of my head and are definitely not in a tutorial style.
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You can do that today... it's not the only way but I'd imagine it's pretty common: http://www.apple.com/shop/iphone/iphone-upgrade-program
There are forms of SETI besides the listening-for-interesting-signals kind. Looking for large-scale artifacts also exists:

http://home.fnal.gov/~carrigan/infrared_astronomy/Fermilab_s...

http://www.space.com/24269-how-to-search-for-alien-civilizat...

I find these fascinating: let's consider the branching tree of ways civilizations might grow and then look for evidence for leaves on that tree.
Um, I didn't say anything about distinction between Men's and Women's sports and I didn't intend to do any such thing.

I meant look at the entire participation within the NCAA. That means both Men's & Women's and if the overall analysis is that participating is barely a break-even proposition or actually loses money, then shut all of the sports expenditures down. Popularity doesn't always correspond to profitability and that should be scrutinized if discussing "saving money" in higher education.
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I've seen the other side of this -- I taught at West Podunk Community College for a year. Their quaity control on instructors was not great. I know, because I was 22, with a very fresh B.S. in Computer Engineering, hired to teach C++. Neither the administration nor I had fathomed the depth of my ignorance when it came to C++. (Although this was 2001 and there was an order of magnitude less to C++ than there is now. It had only just been standardized!) I did badly enough my first semester that one of the students asked for his money back. After that I realized I needed to go lighter on OO, turned things around and managed to teach a relatively sane subset of C++ in the spring and summer.

The students, on the other hand, were great. Some of them were professionals trying to learn a new skill. Others were saving money on the first two years of school. Fully a third were Chinese, trying to establish a U.S. academic record. They sat in the back and the students who understood me would translate for the ones who didn't. The translators generally did very well. At the end of the year, when I moved on to other things, I had gained a huge amount of respect for community college students.

Community colleges and the students they serve deserve more resources so they can stop hiring clueless 22-year-olds.
I personally find the New Yorker to be one of the few news sources worth reading. Can you point out any particular sentences in this article that you don't like the style of? Reading through it quickly I can't see anything that seems overly convoluted or unnecessary.
PS: much more interesting discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10647500. Why this post didn't take off where the next one did, I cannot speculate. :)
Interesting article. I am still waiting to get my hands on an iPad Pro to compare it to the Surface Book clipboard. I am primarily interested in comparing the drawing performance but there are lots of ways you can make a more dedicated system perform its intended task better than a more general system. When I bought the Surface book I understood that I was paying a premium for that generality.
That's the theory of the Unitary Executive, made famous by Bush's OLC head John Yoo.

But there are statutes that delegate powers directly to agency heads and cabinet members, and not to the President, others that expressly limit the President's authority over agencies, and there are independent agencies that the President can appoint people to but cannot directly control --- despite residing in the Executive Branch.

Also, the Constitution gives Congress the authority to vest the appointment of "public ministers, consuls, and all other officers of the United States" directly to the heads of departments, explicitly bypassing the President, who is mentioned earlier in that sentence of the text.

Ultimately I think you're mostly right in one sense, and the President has so much authority over the DOJ that resignation is the only real authority the AG has --- which explains things like the Saturday Night Massacre --- but that the day-to-day authority of the AG and the leverage they have over the President by threatening to resign makes the balance of power here tricky.

Again: John Ashcroft thwarted not just Bush but the real President at the time, Dick Cheney; so far as we know, he didn't threaten to resign in protest, but rather just refused to authorize STELLARWIND. And, unlike the Saturday Night Massacre, Bush's party controlled Congress, and was not hostile to what he was trying to do.
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Thank you for that completely uninformed rant!
I remember some of the interactive CDROM encyclopedias that came out in the 90s. Encarta I think was one. They always had the coolest and hardest to use interfaces. I've got a Nat geo collection of a 100 years of their magazines (guessing) and it isn't really usable across a dozen disks. I wonder if this supports screen readers? The loading screen gives me warm fuzzy feelings about my days coding Flash.

I haven't been able to see what is past the spotted screens yet because I'm using a 5 year old laptop. Latest Chrome, latest Safari. Someone else tell me if it is as cool a resource as I imagine!

I tried again, still can't make it past the dots.
> The current system does allow for experimentation, but provides a conservative framework for it.

Which most people seem to think is wrong. The vast majority of treatments that get prescribed by doctors are unproven in terms of safety and efficacy. The main differences between the status quo and a proper experiment is that we're not recording any data or allowing for informed consent.
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It does not surprise me that a Broadwell CoreM can have faster graphics than a Haswell Core i5. There was significantly more die area allotted to graphics in the Broadwell generation. It's also my understanding that significant effort was spent improving performance/watt in low-power scenarios (sorry, don't have a source for this; I heard it at work).

Take a look at the difference in Die area:

Haswell: http://images.anandtech.com/doci/7003/Screen%20Shot%202013-0...

Broadwell CoreM: http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/intel-...
Linus's comments make a lot of sense but the fact of the matter is this: a number is a number is a number. If I run the same "flawed" benchmark suite on last year's iPhone 5, it will tell me that, yes, its CPU is indeed slower than that of a 6S. The tests might not holistically represent real-world usage but they output just enough data to tell me quantitatively how much better one phone performs over another in a vacuum.

The "real" benchmark; actually running automation on a cross section of phones against a few popular apps, would probably be a more useful test. But Anandtrch and their cohorts don't seem to agree.
I'll give it a shot. If the U.S. dollar falls 30% against the Euro, suddenly Tesla cars are 30% cheaper for rich Frenchmen to buy. Maybe now the company makes a nice profit and goes on a hiring/investment spree instead of struggling to survive. Similarly for Boeing jets vs. Airbus jets, etc.
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Not the point. Obviously we can think about ways to avoid each specific problem that each user might have. But developer resources are limited and you can't chase all user's problems.

If you want this worked on, you should contribute to the project. Not saying you need to learn how to actually code on Gimp, but just to add your voice to the mix.
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it is not a threat to x86 laptop vendors, which is the vast majority and OEM driven

what people need to realize is that apple is not becoming a CPU vendor threatening intel, but it has reached a point where next macbook air can be a A9X or AXX, and macbook pro will not be too far away in future.

interesting part would be these chips might be manufactured by Intel and not Samsung or TSMC
I work at a Start up in Japan with about 10 people, we have:

1 Japanese, 1 Portuguese, 1 Brazilian, 1 Filipino, 1 Canadian, 1 Australian, 1 German, 3 Americans (although 2 of them have been in Japan for a really long time).

1 Female 9 Male

2 Asian, 1 Latin American, 7 White.

Although its very fun to have so many different cultures together and an immense learning opportunity, I subscribe to the view of getting people based on skill only.

We'll probably be on-boarding Japanese for the next 2 hires since, well, we're in Japan and its a tricky place to do business with big, old Japanese companies.
Thank you. This is basically my point/question. There are obviously HK and Singapore based VC's but I reckon Valley VC's would value the company at a valuation that's more than 15% more optimistic.

My other question is regarding the outlined example: Do I simply pay a number very close to 20% (due to marginal taxation) of that 50 million dollars (when selling my shares in a Delaware C-corp)?
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What does the British Museum mean by this text (in several of the object descriptions)?

"The British Museum acknowledges contemporary cultural perspectives associated with the objects in its collection. Please note: cultural rights may apply to this object."
I said that:

> Then you would insert the max you just removed into the next heap in the same way, and so on.
How is this better than hooking into bash-completion? I don't see this avoiding ambiguity.
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> Thrusters require energy and reaction mass...

Yes, obviously. (Unless that microwave drive from earlier this year turns out to be really for reals).

> For every course change of the spinning construct you'd need to stop the rotation, reel in the drum...

I'm not convinced that this is entirely true. Doing so would simplify the math required to perform the course alteration, but I expect that altering the course of the craft while it is spinning is not impossible.

Regardless, as pavel_lishin mentioned in the first comment you replied to in this subthread, you can reel the tether in when making craft course changes.

> On top of that you can't do work on the outside of the space ship since everything (including the space walker) would fly away.

Unless -as you go on to say- you're attached to the outside of the craft.

> Storing oxygen/hydrogen over long periods is an issue in itself.

...if you're going to take a long journey in space, this is one of the problems you're gonna have to have solved, no?

So, I'm a little confused.

We go from:

> so how do we stop the rotation while reeling in for acceleration? Shortening the tether would accelerate the objects at the end...

to:

> Thrusters require energy and reaction mass (or chemical propellants). ... It _is_ a low level physics problem, but the practical implications are massive.

You're moving the goalposts. Your first question asked "How do we maintain the speed (and -thus- the g-forces in the craft) while altering the length of the tether?". Your follow-on comments to the answer to your question say -in a nutshell- "Gosh, solving that problem would make maneuvering too hard, and is thus kinda impractical.". :/
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The thing is... is actually killing the pc, it doesn't matter what anyone does, it's the king... for the people who check twitter... "writes" and post to facebook...
Disclaimer... it's ironic, I'm actually very happy to see this happening, why it's the mistery, could it be apple shinning aura fading away? less money to throw to make it incredible? or just 6 or 7 years is the time to get someone to post some kind of results like this?
I tell people that pc is the most generic and more powerful way of computing we have, when in doubt open vmware, launch macosx, inside macosx run the ipad emulator, inside of it the browser test and see if you can replicate on the ipad.
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Yes, I already know about the remote debugging tools.

That's not the same as having DevTools available in Chrome for Android.
You're giving the FBI a whole lot of credit for their ability to orchestrate what would be one of the great conspiracies of the last 100 years: despite the fractious nature of modern politics, with politicians charging through revolving doors of office and then lobbying jobs all the while accusing the sitting President of being a traitor or even a foreign agent, not one of these attempts at blackmail has ever been brought to light, or even alleged, by any member of Congress on either side of the aisle.
> why was this classified??

It wasn't, it isn't clear to me what it even has to do with NSA. It was published in Journal of the ACM, Volume 12, 1965: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=321264.321274.

Actually the -1+i base was proposed by S. Khmelnik a year earlier (at least according to Wikipedia, I can't read Russian...)
Looking over https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/httpbisa/current/msg14..., I'm not sure whether I'm reading this correctly. In light of PRISM, the author posed a few options:

1) We can try to add more encryption to fight back.

2) We can recognize that there needs to be hooks for duly authorized access.

3) We can change or at least influence the political objectives

Personally, I'd have assumed option one is the obvious answer, in addition to increasing adoption of encryption in other areas (though that may be outside the scope of their project). Unfortunately the author seems to conclude that there need to be (presumable CALEA-style) hooks for "duly authorized access". This is almost unbelievable that they are openly suggesting implementing backdoors in communications protocols. I expect this from LE and politicians, but I don't expect this from FreeBSD commiters.
http://www.seti.org/faq

How would we know that the signal is from ET?

Virtually all radio SETI experiments have looked for what are called “narrow-band signals.” These are radio emissions that extend over only a small part of the radio spectrum. Imagine tuning your car radio late at night … There’s static everywhere on the dial, but suddenly you hear a squeal – a signal at a particular frequency – and you know you’ve found a station.

Narrow-band signals – perhaps only a few Hertz wide or less – are the mark of a purposely built transmitter. Natural cosmic noisemakers, such as pulsars, quasars, and the turbulent, thin interstellar gas of our own Milky Way, do not make radio signals that are this narrow. The static from these objects is spread all across the dial.

In terrestrial radio practice, narrow-band signals are often called “carriers.” They pack a lot of energy into a small amount of spectral space, and consequently are the easiest type of signal to find for any given power level. If E.T. intentionally sends us a signal, those signals may well have at least one narrow-band component to get our attention.
I definitely hope to incorporate a camera as one of the future releases. :D I want to be able to spy on my kitties while I'm away.
apple is not a standalone research company, it is market driven, with its purchasing power for components and tooling budget is making its vendors innovate and that shows up
Such a villian, in fact, that a huge building in DC bears his name in order to honor him. The building that houses the very organization we are discussing in fact. Whose employees walk past his plaque and honorifics every day, witnessing a great work done by their colleagues for the sole purpose of giving him his due respect.

I think things are certainly not as bad as when the FBI was literally commanded (founded, really) by a criminal and a traitor (the Ashcroft event was quite encouraging) but I'm not so sure many people in LE consider him so evil and much of his culture lives on.

Though I agree with you it seems like quite a stretch to blame blackmail for any of this. More likely well-meaning people making short-sighted decisions, as it always is.
Also beating at what exactly? If I loaded a page on the iPad Pro will I notice it being substantially quicker and interactive than if I did it on the x86? Synthetic benchmarks claiming this is faster than that are just that - they are used as a marketing tool not as anything that bears any relation to reality.
The user interaction isn't as fast because its a touch screen device mixed with an external keyboard in a device where the OS is still not optimized to be used as a laptop. The OS is meant to be used as a simplified touch device. For many reasons, but one very obvious one is file management.
Now... yes it flawed for the reason there is no way to test the whole system in the same way because every system is different...
Or said in other way all of them are different and serve different purpose... hence no way one killing the other.
they linked to a feeder! they're pretty cool, really heavy duty.
My father in law has a bunch of these walnuts. It's crazy how expensive they are: $5-15k per pair depending on hue, number of lines, etc.

Somewhere in China, a walnut farmer is getting filthy rich.
Hold on, don't move the goalposts. Levison did not design Lavabit under pressure from the DOJ. He had years to work on the design, the precedent of Hushmail to work from, and, let's be clear: until the DOJ requested documents that violated his own political leanings, he was compliant with other DOJ requests.
It is not good at all if you are earning above an ever decreasing threshold -- which is the govt's way of clawing even more from you. In that case you get no FTB.

The supplementary private health insurance is good for hospital cover but not for things like dental -- god forbid your kid should need any braces, etc.
It does. You have to set the schedule from the app. :/
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