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Please, for all that is sacred, keep collaborating in an unified standard for all major browsers.

As a developer who has to build extensions for all major browsers I'd appreciate the effort.
Inside Chipotle’s Contamination Crisis
Yes, hopefully Adobe Coldfusion's "horizon" will be an event horizon.
When will Web Push be supported in iOS?
Regarding cancer: All the US scanners use millimeter-wave (radio) now. All of the older backscatter x-ray machines have been sold off.

A dosimeter would show zero, because there's no longer any ionizing radiation involved.
It's an old hat trick. VP of MS SQL Server was telling the same story about MSSQL around 1999 at a division meeting. For on-premises products it's even more sticky.
I wasn't expecting the PS4 or XBone to have any media drive, just a hdd and wireless/wired internet connection.

Guess we're still a little ways away from that. I remember using Steam when it was new for HL2. I cracked open a beer to enjoy while it downloaded, happy i didn't have to drive for a half hour or so to pick up a copy at gamestop.

I had good broadband. However, it took all day and evening until around 2-3 AM for it to finish downloading. Things were over saturated i guess. I didn't re-use steam until a decade later since it left such a poor impression with their one 33.6 modem uploading the game to everyone.
Who decides?

What prevents this from degenerating into "You voted for X in 2016, so you have to wear this bracelet / 'voluntarily' attend this re-education camp / only travel in the orange zones on the map"?
:-) I guess even ancient 80s (?) software keeps with the times to some degree. Notwithstanding all the idiosyncratic (in our environment) defaults for ergonomics and terminology..
A personal air-conditioner that uses just 320 watts
Please clarify something for me: Does that "proof" run a run time, or at compile time? If at compile time, how does it do so without running into something like the halting problem?
I was once told to say this by a helpful agent and it's worked every time. Never seen the handbook or any proof of its existence.
It seems like most complaints about Gamestop aren't directed at customer service, as the employees are usually pretty nice, it's about the prices and policies. They'll buy a used game or take it as a trade in for next to nothing and then turn around and sell it at almost retail price. Lots of kids are basically throwing games away at Gamestop.
This is wonderful. I'm quite fond of Lua and while I've tinkered with LÖVE here and there, the lack of mobile support turned me off from using it for serious projects. I'll be giving it another look soon.

As an aside, I'd like to plug a Lua library I have nothing to do with called middleclass [1]. I've used it with LÖVE and it's handy for game dev!

[1] https://github.com/kikito/middleclass
Because I have no experience with Swift, could someone more informed explain this to me? How would my subclassing an Apple-provided class and overriding its methods affect anyone but me? In Python, if I write:

class MyRequest(requests.Request):
def get(self): do_something_stupid()

then my coworkers can still use `requests.Request` itself without getting my bad behavior, and if they find themselves looking at a flaw in my code, they know not to blame the upstream author. What's different about the Swift situation?

I'm kind of horrified at the idea of an OOP language that wouldn't easily let me override a parent class's behavior. If I break something in the subclass, it's on me to fix it. That never reflects poorly on that parent class.
I recently was excited to find out that cold fusion is actually real. Check it out: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion

No one ever seems to mention it but it seems like it could be a promising avenue someday.
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Starting a new blog. Should I go for free hosting? or buy a domain?
Well, if the production of your electricity kills or otherwise significantly harms you, you may not wish to have that electricity.
>But overall it sounds like Chen is trying to have it both ways ("no government backdoors"), while not entirely pissing off the government so as to cling to the thin hope that some government contracts might come their way and keep them afloat.

This is exceedingly obvious to me. Like, who even gives a shit? No one is listening to Blackberry for any sort of policy or thought leadership.

It's just desperate sucking-up to the government. And worse is that Chen should know technically why what HRC and others are proposing is flatly stupid.
I kind of wish someone would be inspired to write something like this in Elm (http://elm-lang.org/), if only to help people get away from buggy OO-mutable languages
The goal of TypeScript is to be a type-safe superset of JS. Removing these type hints and aids directly, you simply have JavaScript.

> Why can't we use TypeScript on the server side, maybe the main language in Node.js or maybe standalone, or directly in the browsers without transpiling?

Then you'd end up with the same story as Dart, a language that aimed to solve the shortcomings of JS.

Afaik, it was a totally different language. It was able to compile to JS, had its own engine, Chrome almost shipped with that engine, even had a browser with that engine (Dartium).

But nobody went for it, and the hype quickly died out. The same story with Go, until the hype subsided and everyone either continued using it, or made fun of it.
The mobile site is absolute crap and I'm pretty sure they're proud of it or something. Just like this site. People have offered to improve it, even without changing the visual appearance much and it always falls on silent ears.
The vast majority by count, perhaps, but if you took complexity of functionality into account I bet you'd find static languages (specifically Java and C#) take the win.
> We're talking about in-house menus given to diners.

When given an in-house menu, now days I pull up Yelp on my phone and look at the pictures of food that people have posted. It leads to me ordering things that sound boring on the menu but that look really interesting!

It also helps solve the problem of different people's understanding of what a dish is. I've seen a dish with the same name served boiled at one restaurant and fried at another!

Yelp's interface around this isn't exactly the best (not an intended use at all!) but the usefulness is amazing.

FWIW I eat at at a very diverse set of restaurants, so I often never know what I am going to get.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_factorization
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Facebook Spam Tricks User into Supporting Walled Gardens in Developing Nations
Anecdote: the other day I was walking back home from dropping my daughter off at daycare, through a nice residential neighborhood. I see a guy sitting on the sidewalk with a cop standing over him. I gingerly pass them, and about 20 feet away I pass three old people discussing the situation. I can't make out what they're saying, but I hear the phrase "sexual predator" several times.

So I'm not convinced that this isn't the law generation process working exactly as intended. We keep appealing to the Bill of Rights because we just don't like the outcomes democracy gives us.
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One thing I'll add is if your customers other businesses it'll often take 12-18 months for them to realize you even exist. And they won't commit their business to yours without testing you out' for 12-18 months after that.
Robots hate snow
Do monastic orders qualify for your definition of co-op?
All OO languages suffer from it.
True. But I'm not defending BO's craft. I'm just pointing out that the "pop up" first stage trajectory is indeed interesting. You wind up with a godawful huge 1st stage and a rather tiny orbiter, but lots of things are simplified, especially with 1st stage logistics.
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I think the limiting factor is how much hard drive space you want to take up with coresident games. If you use a blue ray, you can load a significant amount of content from disk. Otherwise you're forcing your players to make tradeoffs based on how much space they have left which would cause first releases for a system to have a natural advantage over later releases (sales wise) as HDD space fills up.

Edit: Fair enough, it seems games are doing this already, so maybe this argument isn't as valid as it used to be.
When a point release of the operating system breaks your app, the user doesn't care (or understand) whose fault it is, they're just ticked off. Apple cares about that.
> In software, more supply = hiring people who can just get the job done and not worrying so much about credentials.

And yet, we keep hearing about the constant shortage of programmers. Hmm, I wonder why that is . . .
So they are using microwaves. Do you know what GHz they are using and wha benchmark is a safe level?

"...A millimeter wave scanner is a whole-body imaging device used for detecting objects concealed underneath a person’s clothing using a form of electromagnetic radiation. ..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millimeter_wave_scanner
Database with cold fusion papers (very comprehensive):

http://lenr-canr.org/index/Summary/Summary.php

The BSM-SG model describes LENR fusion very well, most of the reported experiments implement one ore more of the theoretical mechanisms for successful fusion.

http://www.amazon.com/Structural-Physics-Nuclear-Fusion-BSM-...

But does not make so much sense without understanding the main book.
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The systems with performance issues are the sound ones!

Hack does not have a type soundness guarantee. The compiler statically checks your type annotations, but then generates untyped PHP code. If Hack-generated PHP interacts with PHP from 5 years ago, "type errors" are possible.

(I have to say "type errors" in quotes because a mismatch between originally-typed and originally-untyped PHP could result in any kind of error message, or no error at all!)

Systems like Typed Racket do type checking at runtime when interacting with untyped Racket code. These runtime checks are the performance problem, but they do accurately diagnose type errors.
I would say buy a domain. It's not that expensive nowadays, and if you're concerned about SEO, better to have a good domain and not use it than let someone else get to it first.
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We’re working on a bunch of exciting products and need your help at our HQ in San Francisco. You must have a background in native mobile development (ideally both Objective-C/Swift AND Java). You must have a deep understanding of the technical & business concerns of mobile app developers, and an attention for detail in SDK API design, visual UX, and technical writing.

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You don't even have to go full co-op, you can make it a simple nonprofit. This arrangement is not uncommon in college towns.
Airlines Introduce a Seat Worse Than Coach
Apparently sometimes the CDN is stripping the EXIF data
At the top it says "55 points by Jerry2 13 hours ago | flag | past | web | 60 comments".
use case is for something similar to what MyFitnessPal does with user-specified reminders by time of week
If Rossi's device really worked, he would be a moron to sell it or even show it to anybody.

You can start an energy company, start small at the beginning, provide something like water heating for a small neighborhood. Then use your profits to grow exponentially until you take everyone else out of business. If you have such a device, you're only really limited by the chemical supplies (nickel powder?).
India’s Shuttl Raises $20M to Accelerate Its Smart Shuttle Bus Service
Probably a way better way to increase "conversions" would be just to not have a pain-in-the-ass login process.

oAuth/Persona, and then don't ask for anything else until its actually needed.

And now you have (for the logged-into-oauth-provider case) a 2 click login system. It can not get easier than that
Character design done well? The visual design was done in a way to make these characters very distinctive & memorable, possibly the same applies to the auditory aspects?

Matt Groening: The secret of designing cartoon characters — and I’m giving away this secret now to all of you out there — is: you make a character that you can tell who it is in silhouette. I learned this from watching Mickey Mouse as a kid. You can tell Mickey Mouse from a mile away…those two big ears. Same thing with Popeye, same thing with Batman. And so, if you look at the Simpsons, they’re all identifiable in silhouette. Bart with the picket fence hair, Marge with the beehive, and Homer with the two little hairs, and all the rest. So…I think about hair quite a lot.

Source: http://austinkleon.com/2007/08/28/silhouettes-and-profiles/
What about for provisioning clusters that don't require Hadoop. I suppose this could be akin to the comment about Redis -- we're working on deploying Kafka, Storm, and Zookeeper (none of which need Hadoop), and provisioning and node management (membership, leader election) in a dynamic environment (e.g. AWS autoscaling) is not at all obvious. There's also a paucity of substantive information about scaling these clusters dynamically.
My startup has been using GitLab Community Edition for 3 years now and we're really happy with it -- especially the code review features. We've also started using the CI in the past few months.

At this point I want a similar setup for my personal projects, but didn't feel like running a dedicated EC2 box just for a GitLab instance, so I've been using Bitbucket to host free private repos instead. What are others using to manage their own private repos?

Edit: I wasn't aware GitLab.com offers free private repos too. Even if, "Right now GitLab.com is really slow and frequently down."

https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/
How do you keep a small charismatic group from totally dominating the common spaces. In other words, how do you keep them "common," so that even the introverts can feel comfortable using them?
Note to self: never, ever buy or use a Blackberry.
The article seems to be lost on a large number of commenters who are asserting (or almost asserting) that this is a scam because (1) Rossi seems to have a dubious history (I'm only going by the comments, not my own investigation) and (2) Rossi is secretive (3) Rossi is not a notable scientist from a top-tier University (4) Rossi comes across as overconfident.

This is what the article is pointing out. The author is saying that in this case the cost of a false positive is so incredibly low and the benefit of a positive result is so high that we should be more willing to lower our guard a little more. These kind of quick reflex objections based on red flags will be useful 99.99% of the time, but major scientific advances only occur 0.01% of the time and so maybe humanity would benefit more if we loosened up a bit on our skepticism, especially surrounding the person or the field and focus more on the science.
> OK. Let's say you're right and Google ... is full of "bad programmers

I never said that, so I'm not swinging at straw men.
I am curious about this as well. Is it a feature that has seen widespread adoption?
>Here's the thing: most of our clients LIKE the fact that we don't discuss price upfront.

Sorry, but absent reliable data, I'm calling BS here: I've never, ever met someone who likes having to call some random salesman to get a price and figure out if the service is even within a order of magnitude of their budget.

In fact, most people I know detest those kinds of games.
It's a great idea if you could actually connect the 2 people. Having another developer to talk thing over with would be great, even if they're not working in the same language.
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Nice! I just put eight meters of dotstars in my tree, but that's only 480 rgb LEDs. And indoors :-)

Did you consider DC/DC regulators for stabilizing 12V? 10A per bus could be done with inexpensive boards?
Hmm - gonna have to steal this for a project in new year. This comment is more a bookmark than any contribution to society
I feel like it's often easier to learn concepts from equations. The betterexplained articles are so wordy and contain so many analogies (some of which are leaky abstractions) that there's all this noise around the core concepts. Equations cut away all of that noise. And it's not like I'm some huge maths nerd; I've always found language and philosophy far easier to learn than mathematics.

Oddly enough, I find betterexplained much more useful when I have already grasped the core concepts, because it does a great job of connecting to other concepts.
It was very divided 4-5 years ago, predominantly when underscore and jQuery were both champing at the bit to be the top utility library. It's shifted towards not monkey patching, but it's not not absolutely decided for many developers.
AWS CodeCommit is another option.
One problem here is that if everyone gets tired at 3:30 pm, then napping space is at a premium. Triple hammocks might be a solution?
why a circle and why NOT a straight line which is equally plausible visualization
In particular, most people end up using memcpy/memmove, snprintf, or a library like strbuf. The BSD devs are somewhat unusual for favoring strlcpy.
$1800/bedroom/month sounds like a lot for someone trying to bootstrap a start-up. My co-founders and I pay $730/bedroom/month in Los Angeles, and it's more than enough space. It would be nice to share a bigger space with other startups, but not $1800 great.
> If there are other ways to confirm whether a user exists or not (signup email check for example) --

This would be a bug. There should be no way for someone with my e-mail address to determine if I use any particular service.
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Stunning comment, thanks!
1. I don't believe this to be accurate in many states. In some states, you can access alternate route to certification programs that can put you in a classroom in as little as 2 months. There are organizations like Teach for America that will work to put you in a classroom. Lastly, some districts offer generous tuition reimbursement programs that can cover the full cost of tuition for that masters.

2. I guess bad is relative but if you wanted to make great money, why be an adjunct? I've spent most of my life in the northeast where teacher pay wasn't terrible. My wife taught in the inner city and she brought home a solid middle class paycheck in exchange for a day's work. Yes, things got tough sometimes. She also had the option of working summers, sports and after school programs for extra pay.
Comparing apples (going up then down) to oranges (getting into orbit). Pretty awesome to see these guys putting their cash towards this! Hope a rivalry heats up and I can goto Mars for $3.50.
They can't charge less for the digital version because of gamestop. Gamestop won't carry games where the digital version is cheaper. There might also be similar arrangements with the console makers themselves, not wanting to encourage the PC market. Games made only for PC are cheaper and have better sales.

As for reselling games, that would seriously hurt developers. A single game could be resold 100s of times, but only the first sale goes to the developer, and everyone else in the chain plays for free.
Meanwhile, poor and homeless people are subjected to police violence daily for daring to sleep in public.
I usually chalk this sort of stuff up to the bored fireman syndrome: Since we have no fires to fight, lets go start one.
Since I was 8 Years Old, I wanted to Be a Hacker
>(I'd be much more supportive of "tau" if instead of the Greek letter Tau Hartl chose a unique new symbol, much like physics uses hbar instead of h as he Planck Constant for radians instead of cycles).

I suggest using pi, but with the number 2 before it. /s
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My last car was 15k, but a text drive seems prudent, for comfort.

It's the haggling that I dread.
Providing a service that is not sustainable will have more negative long term effects than digging holes. Digging holes is just a means of transferring cash to the hole diggers, creating a service that people start to use will create negative externalities once removed (people take jobs further from where they live because the cost of transport is lower, or all alternative transport services like taxis go out of business). If the externalities are greater than the short term benefit then the overall economic benefit will be negative.

I see a price war that results in a loss of transport competitors as being long term negative. This doesn’t exist with hole digging.
Mine is http://www.watermark-image.com a windows downloadable watermarker - oldschool but still making more than $1000 a month :)

I am using the income to help fund my new project http://timeblock.com a resource/time management and project overview system that is made with a makers schedule in mind!
Apart from anything else, they probably don't want to give people hints on how to hide bugs from non-linear junction detectors. I think those are still a critical tool for bug detection at least in the private sector. No idea what the government's using these days.
I've always wanted to be a hacker too. Now I do cyber security & machine learning. :)
Maybe it's just me, but for me, having plenty of non-working time to do things like sleep makes me more productive. I mean, maybe I'm weird, but things like working reasonable hours and having ample time off tend to make me a happier, healthier person.

But I guess lying down at work in my clothes is... another way of doing it.
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> If you use a blue ray, you can load a significant amount of content from disk.

It should be noted that most AAA games install themselves to disk anyways to help alleviate loading times (especially in the PS4's case, as Blu-Ray is sloooow)
I have a hosteurope.de server that hosts all my side projects, the cost is minimal and the reliability is great.
LOVE uses LuaJit, right? How does that work with mobile where you may be denied execute access to the data segment?
I have never understood the rational argument for granting refugee status for political persecution, but not fleeing an economic situation. If you flee a country because you have odious political views you are a refugee and are granted protection, if you flee a country because your children are starving then you are an economic refugee and sent home.
Regarding the research, I think the majority (if not the only) research on the scanners has been conducted by the manufacturers themselves.
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