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It's not unheard of in Europe to get 2-3% discounts if paying by cash (particularly in computer stores). The reason is that in some countries, merchants pay that percentage of Visa/MC commission (and in case of Amex even more) plus a fixed fee per transaction. For that same reason bars usually accept cards only over a threshold of 5-10€ or so. Though if that happens in hotels indeed it is strange then.
I conform this is bug.
I once worked in an environment where such distractions are tightly monitored by management (they use some sort of tools to track what you browse, plus it's an open office space where everyone can see what you do). This helped me a lot in being more focused and stricter to myself. I guess regardless of what tools you use to block distractions, it's all down to your strong will to resist it. It helps much more if your task is what you love to do.
[...] the 3 million total would have to mean Sony only gets a <5% attachment rate. Not likely.

Attach rates for hardware add-on to a video game console are historically horrible. They might be lucky to get 5%.

And for gaming, it's always about the killer app. Given that we're still in a learning curve for VR game development, it's not unreasonable to say there won't be one next year.
Why are “new economy” moguls mostly optimists?
Has anyone in this community had success dropshipping? Any indications of expected margins? I'm particularly looking at TV accessories.
Apparently when certain people exercise their subjectivity instead of remaining silent, it's bullying.
For the record (from the author), 98% of my traffic is from Mac users, so I don't usually specify. I do, however, state in the second paragraph that it's very specific to ScreenFlow.
Ah, the tried and true "We are out of time, so let's slowly kill our employees to make up for it!"

If I see one more "kitchen" where everything is either fried, made of corn, or both....
https://pareday.com - I'm making passive income off SitterCity affiliate program.
> Filesystems have evolved. ZFS has been available for ten years.

Perhaps you should examine the section discussing the various problems with file systems. ZFS is hardly immune from these problems.
I'd also highly recommend bigger pockets, it's great for USA information specifically. I'm from canada and I still find it really useful, it has a great community that is very open and helpful!
I've recently been playing with nbdkit, which is basically FUSE but for block devices rather than file systems.

I was shocked to discover that mke2fs doesn't check the return value of its final fsync call. This is compounded by the fact that pwrite calls don't fail across NBD (the writes are cached, so the caller's stack is long gone by the time the get flushed across the network and fails...)

As a test, I created an nbdkit plugin which simply throws away every write. Guess what? mke2fs will happily create a file system on such a block device and not report failure. You only discover a problem when you try to mount the file system.
Because the servicers buy members of Congress.
You're filtering out people who don't drink alcohol.

That probably doesn't have much to do with whether they're any good at the job or whether you like working with them.
Let's stop pretending peer review works
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I do a couple of podcasts, and one of them (Systematic) regularly interviews people who aren't terribly technical. I use Ecamm Call Recorder with Skype, and even when the remote interviewee is not prepared to record, I can get both sides of the conversation on separate tracks for EQ and mixing. I do request they have a small, quiet room, and a ban on any headphones with inline mics (like iPhone earbuds). I can usually make a headset work if they don't have a decent mic, though it takes a lot of EQ work and sometimes sucks even after editing.
Not just Johnny, I've been using GPG for a decade and I have to rummage through the 2000 line manual page almost every time.
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What keeps modders modding?
How does Plan 9 deal the equivalent of this append-only pattern potentially causing corruption on Unix if you have multiple writers and the writes are larger than PIPE_BUF (4k by default on Linux)?

Most users of this pattern (concurrent updates to log files) get away with it because their updates are smaller than 4k, but if you're trying to write something as big as an E-Mail with this pattern you can trivially get interleaved writes resulting in corruption.
That's interesting. IIRC tsocks doesn't emulate the select-style system call interface that chromium likely uses for its networking.

I'm a bit surprised to find that it works with Firefox; I generally prefer to configure proxies where possible as tsocks is a horrible (albeit very useful) hack.
Apple charges a ridiculous amount in order to be allowed to develop software for their platforms. It is no surprise that developers might feel the need to pass this cost on to the customer.
When you call a function f(x) it may, broadly, be the case that either the compiler knows exactly which function f is at compile time or f may be determined using information such as which x is being passed in—something only known during runtime execution.

Requiring that the compiler be able to determine what f is at compile time is "static dispatch" and it enables powerful compilers to work hard to vastly improve program efficiency Ahead-of-Time. Without that information, a program either has to look up which f to call every time during execution (dynamic dispatch overhead) or using a Just-in-Time compiler to optimize out this lookup when, at runtime, it has the information required to know that f is always going to be looked up the same way.

Notice that this is still runtime overhead as you have to bundle a compiler alongside every program, but it's runtime overhead only once. Java is famous for this JIT behavior: expensive runtime calls have to be called enough times to pass the "burn in" period where they get optimized away and then run quickly.

Languages can choose from various points on this spectrum. Lattner, the designer of Swift, is reviewing the choice he made in Swift which pairs some static features against some dynamic features. It's a fine balance to make and he claims that Swift's choice is particularly nice since it provides user-predictable performance without (a) completely eliminating all dynamic dispatch and (b) without requiring a Just-in-Time compiler.
You may consider pricing it higher. I have seen shorts i.e 40-50 page books at 2.99
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Dang... maybe I'll get that fixed in a couple months :)
There's also a web interface

https://ankiweb.net
Yup. I was renting one unit in a duplex. My landlord put it on the market at a way-too-high price. Fast-forward nine months of having to get out of the way when the real estate agent wanted to show the property, and the price steadily dropping into my range, and I realized it would be a real PITA to have to move all my stuff out and find another apartment if someone bought it and hiked the rent or wanted to move into my unit. Went to one bank, was told that I'd need to put down 20-25% on a commercial loan. Went to another bank, and the loan officer worked out that I could get an FHA first-time owner-occupant loan, since I was planning on staying in my unit, and renting out the other one. Stockpiled cash for a few months by only paying minimums on my credit cards and cutting back on anything extra, plus a little help from my folks, for the down payment(FHA was only about 3.5% down), and bought the building.

Now I'm collecting $1300 a month rent from the other tenant, which covers almost all of the mortgage and taxes. Upkeep isn't that big a deal, since the way my lease was written, I was already responsible for all of the groundskeeping and snow removal when I was renting anyway. Also, it's worth it to make sure you have good tenants, that pay on time, and don't make a mess.
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Android is hugely dominant in Germany and most of the rest of Europe. iOS is somewhat higher than 14%, but still, the US is a clear outlier in its relatively even mobile OS numbers.
Anki is great. I've used it to learn the 100 most common Clojure expressions. You can get the Anki file by signing up for the newsletter at http://www.lispcast.com/100-most-used-clojure-expressions
A person like that doesn't have the maturity and experience to stick to tried-and-true tools, so not much will be salvageable. So you should start over with someone else.
Within the last year in Greece, the banks and ATMs all shut down for a few days. I can see why people would be keen to have cash (and specificaly, euros).
There is nothing denigrating about using "training wheels" as an analogy, Apple's bread and butter are media consumers and not developers, in my experience it shows in the OS."Training wheels" are for kids to learn how to ride a bike without hurting themselves, similarly Mac OS is primarily geared towards providing a "safe" home computer experience to the computer illiterate media consumers where user is protected from destroying their system by being passively prohibitive. These "training wheels" are particularly irritating although they can be worked around, but they also make simple tasks far more complicated than they need to be this is rather frustrating/irritating for some developers. All platforms have their share of problems.
After some search, TiddlyWiki seems like a nice alternative
It's amazing how many of these apply to the company I just quit. I emailed it to their lead developer. Hilarious and depressing at the same time.
> None of the bugs reported in the debian bug tracker seem to have been fixed by later versions!

Bingo. That is the #1 reason (the only reason?) that a package doesn't get promoted to Testing from Unstable, because it has known bugs and they haven't been fixed. This is Debian policy manual 101.

Fix the bugs, release a new version, if no more bugs are reported on the new version for two weeks, then it gets promoted to Testing (as long as it's not a freeze?) and it will be in next Stable after the freeze is completed.
Is the CSS host down? Because I'm used to Elm tutorials being very nicely styled, and this is... not so much.
This very much. Understanding the underlying concepts is crucial. Many people use out-of-the-box tools just plainly wrong, because they didn't bother with fundamentals. I know a guy who reinvented Naive Bayes and Laplace smoothing. Kudos for him, but he wasted about 3-4 months of company's time on it.

That said, I would start with Python based frameworks:

- Caffe is more for production, and Theano and family for experimentation.

- You can play with Theano or Tensorflow using Keras which abstracts them

- Python scientific stack makes it easier to visualize the results later
Perhaps you should take a closer look. ZFS wasn't part of that discussion, and none of the file systems which were discussed have ZFS's feature set.
Take notes. There'll be money to be made shorting some of these public companies when the student loan bubble bursts and/or everyone starts to realize a university education isn't the only path to prosperity.
That's actually my next big update. I've got a Gmail plugin about 80% complete that will auto-stop the messages, too.

I still kind of count it as "passive" work because I had to learn to develop Gmail plugins for my startup. I was able to transfer that experience to Autopest.

FYI to anyone reading this... InboxSDK is amazing for Gmail plugins.
I have been running http://aminosoftware.com for almost 10 years now with a partner. It's not huge money but we do zero promotion and support amounts to a handful of emails a year and pays for my kids private school. Our customers are government and enterprise so purchase through invoice/PO paperwork but that's just a few minutes using a google docs template.
There's also a great org-mode extension that implements most SRS algorithms, including Anki's:

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-drill.html
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$100 is such a hurdle that commercial app developers need to center their pricing model around it? I think you're overplaying its influence.
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Webs of perception
I dunno. Fire up a map of Europe on Statcounter and you see Android everywhere but UK, Scandinavia, and maybe Netherlands. The rest has Android sitting on top (and i would hardly consider Germany a "developing nation").
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In Elm you use static types to think of Javascript objects as static, anonymous records instead of dynamic dictionaries. There's a different type for that second use case with no syntax (just `get`).

Theoretically this could enable a lot of optimization for Elm, but at the moment I don't think the compiler takes advantage of this. It's the same thing that Google's Closure compiler does.
The watch case design is a render and the band is a photo of real bands. But as I said before, the watches are under production right now, finished very soon. So we're not able to have any real photos of the watch yet :)
There is an easy way to write data without corruption. First copy your file-to-be-changed as a temporary file or create a temporary file. Then modify the temporary file and write whatever you want in it. Finally, use rename() to atomically replace the old file by the temporary one.

The same logic also apply to directories, although you will have to use links or symlinks to have something really atomic.

It may not work on strangely configured systems, like if your files are spread over different devices over the network (or maybe with NFS). But in those cases you will be able to detect it if you catch errors of rename() and co (and you should catch them of course). So no silver bullet here, but still a good shot.
Does Elm have a lens library?
I haven't had much time for video games lately, but I love your game. Glad to hear it's still bringing in money for you.
It's possible from the Android mobile app (though I believe that's unofficial), though it's more fiddly than on the desktop.
+1 to sshuttle. I use it with iodine[1] to bypass captive portals.

[1] http://code.kryo.se/iodine/iodine_manpage.html
Number 2 is currently one of the most infuriating parts of trying to hire people at my company right now. I don't know how our recruiting wing handles the cognitive dissonance.
Anki is a commerical app developer? Last I checked it's non-commercial/open source except for the iOS app.
This really resonates with me. Without ranting, I kind of think a lot of wannabe's have been sold a dream and a formula, and when it doesn't work, they blame the dream (it's always been 1 in 1,000,000 odds!), or the formula (as per above), rather than the fact they don't have any business or technical savvy.
I run a 10x3TB ZFS raidz2 array at home. I've seen 18 checksum errors at the device level in the last year - these are corruption from the device that ZFS detected with a checksum, and was able to correct using redundancy. If you're not checksumming at some level in your system, you should be outsourcing your storage to someone else; consumer level hardware with commodity file systems isn't good enough.
Or more sun/outdoor activities.
Anki is a very impressive project if for no other reason than its constant development. It basically got me a degree in Japanese seven years ago and it's still being polished.
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Even PS Move had a higher attach rate than that. Granted, it was cheaper than PSVR will be (especiallly since PSVR might be bundled with Move), but I would still be surprised if PSVR is very far under 5%.

The main way I see it not happening is if it doesn't make it out in time for holidays with enough in stock.
Totally agree. Always consider increasing your price. If people find it valuable, they'll still buy it:)
My passive income for 2015 was (http://kihi.io) a VPS / cloud server provider for coreos, atomic, shit like that.

Netted me enough income to pay for the data center hosting and a few starbucks coffees per month for myself.

It's not much, but it essentially gives me a free dev area with a ton of computing power for me to roam free.
Ah ok sorry. I misread that.
The article doesn't mention the Federal takeover of the student loan system as part of the ACA passage in 2010. I don't know how it affected others, but I lost a number of incentives for making regular and early payments when this happened. The service from Nelnet was also considerably worse than my previous lender.
I think the trick for this is to embrace distros that allow for more aggressive installation and removal of packages, plus different versions of the same package to co-exist. Like NixOS or GuixSD. Then, one doesn't need to keep the whole package tree in sync.
I doubt a child would be involved if sperm was the only thing exchanged.
I design logos for Bitcoins.
Designing a graphic identity can take me weeks, but this particular project is for me an experiment. The logos I design are quickly made: it takes usually 1 to 2 hour per logo. They are totally adapted to the (really) small brief I receive by mail, from total strangers. My clients usually want something smart, quickly. The small economy of those projects are for me interesting and inspiring design constraints. I use only open source fonts. Sometimes, I draw the typeface myself when I feel inspired.

Total income this year: about 5 Bitcoins http://ecogex.com/logos/
I'm not okay with somebody expecting me to be their friend if they hire me. I'm here to make software, not lend emotional support.

That said, we're all still just people, and if we're gonna be friends, we'll be friends. That usually sorts itself out just from sharing circumstances.
You're getting downvoted, but I have to agree to an extent. To be fair, many business/founder types also have a total lack of understanding of what it takes to get a startup off the ground.

The irony is, I guess, that most people involved in a startup don't know what it takes to actually get it off the ground, because the formula they've been sold doesn't really actually work, and they don't have the business (or technical!) savvy to correct course.
I don't know. Apparently integer arithmetic can cause overflow exceptions which I assume requires the runtime environment which would be outside of the restricted subset. I don't think Swift can be used to profitably write a bootloader but we'll see.
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So, help me out here. Who is profiting from this? The companies who service the debt? Were costs for higher education in the US inflated under this program or is this a false impression?
https://www.ottopost.com/ - a simple Instagram postcard printing service.

I created it as an alternative to the many printing services that require a dedicated app. OttoPost doesn't require an app since it just searches for your new Instagram photos and prints automatically (that's configurable).

Not exactly world-changing, but definitely something hands-off at this point and better than nothing :)
Can you provide evidence that it is a bubble? Can you provide evidence that it will burst, or a potential catalyst?
I never tried adding . to my CDPATH, but it makes sense.
Im in California but I doubt it. I remember that story you linked, the Kansas gentleman answered a craigslist ad and impregnated a lady at her house so the state now doesnt want to recognize her relationship with her SO as valid. I dont think its representative of the risk, especially since the clinic I go to will probably just use an applicator or something.
>They took old x-ray prints and pressed the records right into them!

How can this even work? Surely the xray prints are not stiff enough to be used as records.
I have read this is not possible, because most of the loans are guaranteed by the federal government. For-profit colleges could make good shorts, but those stocks have already been hammered a lot.
Date: 2000.
This is an intellectually lazy response. Why does our government always use contractors? You won't let them spend more internally to grow their departments, but you also want them to be able to handle an ever-growing mountain of job functions? You can't have your cake and eat it, too.
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If one could do that, it wouldn't be a bubble.
for-profit colleges profit
Because a private company could to it more cheaply and efficiently?
>If the new version of Anki needs a new version of a dependency, just install the new version alongside the old one.

Yes, and do that with every other package as well.

Are you even considering the implications of what you're saying? The next-to-latest version of Anki is for example in the repos of the most popular distribution. The latest version of Anki is not in the repos, and its dependencies break something in that distro.

You're free to install Anki's latest version, but there are reasons why stable distributions will not just jump on the latest version of a fairly unknown package.
We have quite a few different storage solutions, and among those most have really bad command line interfaces. At least one of them is web only, and trying to wrap it with WWW::Mechanize or something similar would be difficult due to all the fun stuff they do with javascript. Other solutions even want you to have flash support.

Most of us (Ingvar included) prefer CLI any day. I'm so looking forward to the day where all these SAN's are retired, and we're running Ceph for all.
Looks like it does hook select: https://github.com/pc/tsocks/blob/master/tsocks.c#L343. However, it doesn't hook epoll, which is The Right Way to do operations on any number of sockets nowadays.
Wouldn't call Bezos non-technical.

From wikipedia:

>After graduating from Princeton in 1986, Bezos worked on Wall Street in the computer science field.[20] Then he worked on building a network for international trade for a company known as Fitel.[21] He next worked at Bankers Trust.[22] Later on he also worked on Internet-enabled business opportunities at D. E. Shaw & Co.[23]
For the same reason the government hires construction firms to build roads, for the same reason the government hires contractors to build bases, the same reason the Federal Reserve uses primary banks as intermediaries, the same reason the military gets their fuel from tender offers and not their own refineries...

Plus, I can only imagine what would happen to the GOP/austerity/small government types if you started suggesting they move all those (necessary) function in house. Oh man that would be a fun debate to watch.
This got me thinking about gravity's effect on antimatter.
I added you as well. I am deltafoxzed on Kloak
Network effects are called network effects because they predate the internet. They are well-studied, and those who from them are adept at using the political system to erect and maintain barriers to entry for challengers.
"... you hire someone to build a web app, you go away for two weeks .."

I'm not trying to be a jerk here, but, could 'going away for two weeks' have been the point when the project started down the wrong path?
The iOS app, which we're talking about re: the Apple developer fee, is most certainly a commercial endeavor. The FOSS desktop app doesn't change that.
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FSYNC is not enough. You also have to make sure that NCQ is disabled:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Command_Queuing
I currently take Elvanse (the long-action form of Adderall). It works for some issues (like forgetfullness and occasionally focus-related things), but it does nothing for novelty cravings. Before recently, I considered it to be a good thing, but when I understood that it is a primary driver of everything I do in life, I had doubts. Hence the post.