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Even if they're inefficient or written decades ago, you're not justified to break them. You don't get to ignore the rules just because you don't like them. This is now how society works. If you want to change them, use proper channels.

Moreover, laws are not cat-sharing webapps. If you commit your rash change and break a build, there goes your afternoon. If you update the law this way, you will ruin many lives. "Move fast and break things" doesn't work for society, and actors who casually ignore the law should be punished severely.
I am not a doctor but I suspect that it has a lot to do with our physical limitations.

I think a big impacting factor from the adjustments made to the program is the fact they created study groups.

Many students are socially isolated, that is by itself something that creates anxiety and depression. Being in a competitive environment without social supports doesn't help.

Human beings are social animals, we need physical touch and proximity to survive. Even just having a conversation with friends and family is something that generally relaxes people. Sure, it may not always be the case but if you ask me, human beings have evolved in a way that we have become very dependent on eachother's physical presence for our mental/physical well being.
It did not eat my RAM, but ext4 had breakfast with production data.
They were not visible in the image posted by frik. I see them now. PgUp/Down are nice if they are "wherever you are used to look for them" but for some unknown reasons most brands keep making changes to the layout with every model. Another irritating trend is to make the touch pad unnecessarily big while the keyboard is crowded and pushed so close to the screen that you cover the lower part of it with your hands when you type.
Why have a review system for drivers?

Uber's practice of (effectively) firing drivers that don't get top ratings seems to go against a lot of the principles behind European employment practices and laws.
> I would assume mainly because the polish word for a tank is still a tank ;)

The word is actually 'czołg'.

My assumption is that Polish was used because a significant part of Israeli Jews came to Israel from Poland (or former Polish territories grabbed by USSR after WW II), so they were familiar with the language.
Personally, I find blinking LEDs quite annoying; if I needed an indicator for either of those, the OS could easily provide one. If I could disable the LEDs my laptop does have, I would, with the exception of showing a power LED if and only if the screen is off.
Exactly. "VR is the next big thing" is the new Linux for the desktop. I like to use the adoption among women as a litmus test: no technology will gain ubuquity unless it gets women excited. I fail to see that for VR headsets like the Oculus. It is more like a Palm Pilot than a modern smartphone.
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>He has plenty of time to do real altruistic stuff

Perhaps I wasn't quite clear. I didn't specifically mean altruistic stuff but rather things that can leverage his celebrity status & implicit ability to execute that comes with it. A little bit like if Musk were to announce that he is building a thorium reactor - people will take that seriously even if it is a bit far out.

Building a home automation system on the other hand - there was a guy on reddit a while back that built a pretty good one in his garage.

As I said - he is free to do whatever he wants but it strikes me as a missed opportunity to do something cool.
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I certainly hope so! I would love to see it grow and grow and become more pervasive in our lives. There has been a whole lot of hype, and I do hope it lives up to it - I just don't see the Rift as being the answer in its current form.

That being said, of course everything develops, so it will be interesting what kind of stepping stone the rift is, and whether the momentum of it can carry through further, smaller innovation.
http://whentoexchange.com - Know the right time to exchange your money.

Added a bunch of new features, Bitcoin support, etc. over the break.

It’s a website that calculates the best time to exchange one currency for another accounting for the various exchange rates involved.
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Well, not for Germany, where the free market is always eyed suspiciously when a superior government bureaucracy could tell you what's in your best interest. I hope the Sarcasm was noticable.
That article doesn't really go into enough detail but from what little there is, this sounds different to Bittorrent - it's not random sharing of chunks, it's directed p2p synchronisation.
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I haven't found such a resource yet.
> Hardware wireless-off switch

I have to wonder, why? The OS can do that quite well in software.

> Latching lid

More moving parts means more potential breakage.

> They certainly don't need to make it any thinner -- I've had to carry some Macbooks around and the sharp edges are not very hand-friendly. I think 1" throughout is about right for a laptop thickness.

Different customers have different preferences, but the majority of people do like thin, almost as much as light.

All that aside, check out the proposed ThinkPad Retro. Looks quite promising to me.
Look at the TTM for OLED screens or flexible screens for that matter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_display
POC to product is 10-15 year Prototype/Concept to product is usually 5-8 years.

Philips had a roller display demoing in 2005
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollable_display But we are still not close to it being a product.
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Black cabs are a law unto themselves. Well, quite a few laws really. I believe there are apps for calling non-Uber and non-Black Cab firms in London these days.
I'm still not convinced by the "NAT is Bad" arguments that people use when it comes to IPv6.

Having a public address for a device in my house seems like a potential security problem - it's leaking information about my network to the outside world. And it's a dream come true for traffic-tracking.
some of the pitfalls to intuition echo the side effects of programming by coincidence, outlined in pragmatic programmer https://pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/extracts/coinc...

> Don’t code blindfolded. Attempting to build an application you don’t fully understand, or to use a technology you aren’t familiar with, is an invitation to be misled by coincidences.
You are right, of course. I shouldn't have used this language. But when I hear stuff like that I feel like a sexual assault victim who's witnessing someone saying "he VERBALLY RAPED me" after a rude conversation (stupid example, wish I had a better one at hand). Secret police and oppression by the government _are_ serious issues, and they get diluted by this ridiculous outlook.
Hence the quotation marks "cheated" isn't in a bad way, just pointing that the driving part of the display isn't on a nice thin flex package, and we've yet to seen these displays produce high refresh rate images there's a reason why prototypes always show stills things go funky once you have to start turning 8 million odd pixels on and off....
Yup, noone uses "tank" unless trying to sound Russian (and most people know it's Russian for czołg because of this movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czterej_pancerni_i_pies).

Also in multiplayer games tank is used for the fighter class that is supposed to absorb the damage, and the verb is "tankować", but it's not associated with czołg in most people minds (at least not in mine), it's just another English word from games, like pwn or imba.
Tech people trust Chinese companies nowadays?
"There's a huge difference in term of service in cities that have Uber and cities that do not. Taxi service in cities without competition is awful."

In which way, I would be interested. Your points seem unconclusive to me. Berlin had "no competition". Taxis are available, have an app, arrive in a time frame of 5min after calling, prices seem reasonable (20 EUR from one end of city to the other, Berlin isn't that big though). Minor downpoint not all of them take CC, but usually not a problem when you order one with CC. Only been cheated once in 15yrs although I pose as a tourist quite often when arriving at the airport.
A lot of people seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of what the Internet is.

It begins with telecommunications, namely wires and radio links that carry data. You cannot have an Internet without these. Normally these things are provided by carriers, also called phone companies. ISPs used to be a separate thing but nowadays, an ISP is just part of a wireline or wireless phone company. Once you have a carrier who supplies you with connectivity using the Internet protocols, you are on the Internet.

Beyond that there are millions of services accessible via the Internet and Facebook is only one of millions. Many people never use Facebook because they don't need it, or because they use an alternative service.

It costs money for carriers to provide Internet service and traditionally this has been paid for by subscribers, not by Internet service companies. People are creative, and in many countries, the billing plans for Internet services are very different from the way it is done in your country. But it works, because local carriers are motivated to understand their customers' needs.

Facebook can add nothing positive to the relationship between carriers and their subscribers. It's that simple.
I wouldn't say that level of personal detail is normal for British press. Perhaps it's to show that the group's not just made up of 60+ year old, single men.
Meanwhile, the Oculus Rift replaces any size of newspaper.
Well-said.
Seems like you could use an SVG avatar for clients that can handle it and fallback to PNG for email.
Ah, first step to consumer OLED PC screens maybe? I've been waiting for that for years already.
> Right now Uber is beneficial because it brings competition in a sector that used to have none.

I'd welcome competition if it was fair, but predatory pricing by subsidizing fares to unsustainable rates (using their unicorn valuation money) and shitty treatment of drivers - no thanks. Add to that the usual tax evasion schemes of multinational corporations that Uber surely employs.

I have an excellent taxi service in my home town, albeit a bit expensive. I'll stick to using it. Same goes for many places I've visited (e.g. Berlin, Stockholm).

Uber itself isn't illegal here, but the drivers are required to have a taxi license. Non-compliant drivers have been fined by the police.

There are places where taxi regulation is more of a racket than actual regulation (I think Paris, France would fit the bill) and that probably should be challenged by some means.
http://fictionhub.io - the best place to share and discuss fiction.

http://orangemind.io - my personal project, comics series(started only recently).
Using one Quake as a base unit for measuring development efforts is neat :-)
If you want a huge TV on the wall, but you don't want to look at it when it's off, you have a few existing choices:

- put on a screensaver of art that you like

- close the doors of a cabinet around it

- roll down a screen in front of it

- roll it into a closet
I have difficulties imagining what can I gain from the JSON "diffing" made possible by Railgun: could you provide an example?

About security, what are the specific security features you're thinking of?
> replaceable batteries

Have you ever seen the inside of a modern Ultrabook?

Pretty much the entire inside of the case is packed with battery cells, with only a tiny sliver near the hinge used by the system board. People comfortable opening the case and moving around a pile of tiny components and connectors could replace it, but I don't see any obvious way to make such a battery modular.
Other thing I don't know if can agree is that program's author has complete theory about his program.

I think that is oversimplification. I think that often program authors don't know what they are doing. Quite often somebody new who comes to the project has more insights about the project than original authors. Because:

1. the author can be biased (that's why we need code reviews)

2. the author can be less experienced has less programming skills, than a new person on the board.

3. the author simply lost his fresh eye for the program
etc.
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I have 2 questions:

1) Are you open to developers outside the US? I'm currently in Poland.
2) I have programming and test automation experience, but with Ruby on Rails I'm just a beginner (I'm not using it at work, just for personal projects). Are you open to "Rails rookies" too?
Sanity and time vs. employability and monetary compensation.
I found the following example to be extremely confusing:

a = 10
b = 5 > a > 30

When I thought about it after seeing what it compiles to:

var a, b;

a = 10;
b = (5 > a && a > 30);

I couldn't see how that statement could be true because a cannot be less than 5 while also be greater than 30.

Range checking I would assume would be:

b = 5 < a > 30
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For locals, absolutely agreed. However, for travelers, consider the relative ease of public transportation versus an Uber or similar, especially if you don't speak the native language. Public transportation systems can still potentially work if you've learned the system, have a guide, or have clear instructions and don't get lost. Without any of those, I personally find it a lot easier to take an Uber where you want to go than to work out how a local public transportation system works that I probably won't use again for years.

At conferences where the organizers provide extremely clear directions for taking public transportation from the airport to the conference venue and back, I've used it. At any other conference, I generally take an Uber, unless the local city does the obnoxious thing and bans them from picking up at the airport.

If some other service existed that worked consistently in every city, I'd try it.
Driver ratings seem fine from customer POV - they let you appreciate good service or take revenge on the driver if you didn't like something about it. Most people don't know that it may take one negative review to get the driver fired (or whatever Uber calls it, since because they're not employees they can't be technically fired). What's the minimum allowed average score now? It used to be somewhere around 4.3 - 4.6 out of 5.
> Uber has also asked the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, to intervene, and an official European investigation into Germany’s ban on UberPop — along with similar rulings in France and Spain — is expected to be completed sometime this year.

Will be interesting to see how this goes. Uber makes heavy use of lobbyists in the US [1]. Would the same work with the EU?

[1] http://uk.businessinsider.com/uber-has-a-huge-group-of-lobby...
Yes, czołg is used exclusively for tank in Poland. It comes from verb "czołgać", which means "to crawl"
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It rockets to the high percentiles but never quite 100%, that's where the real annoyance lies.
How many thousands of tabs do you have? :P
Certainly not trying to be 'that guy' for anything, ever. In fact, I try to avoid being 'that guy' in most walks of life. Simply adding my opinion.

VR isn't a nascent technology though. It's a technology that has been reimagined, then push back to the fore in a repackaged form to a world with different software capabilities to what existed in the mid 90s. It's todays version of the 3D cinema - an older idea being reapplied in a new world.

I hope it can change our lives as human beings for the better, but from what exists today, I'm yet to see anything game changing. The future - who knows. You could be right, it could explode, or it could come to nothing. My comment merely stated it would be interesting to watch and find out if everything that has been said to date will actually happen.
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I'm working on a SaaS project to eliminate all the burden with VPN tunnels.

I'm planning to mainly target developers that have resources spread among different providers and need a secure way to either connect to them or connect resources to each other.

It will be easy to setup and seamless to use. You'll just have your VMs connected between them on the same local network, so all your application will seamlessly work with it. This will potentially unlock other ways of architecting your apps.

E.g. you might have some VMs in Amazon and some other in Azure, Linode, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, bare metal in any other hosting provider (OVH?) or locally in your DC. Each of those providers might offer something different and it'll be great if you could just use them all together without opening your services to the whole world or without having to tinker with IPsec VPN tunnels or firewall rules. You just need to create your new network in our system and deploy the client with the provided config file on each of them. I'm making it as simple as providing you with a DHCP server already, so you're ready to go after launching the client. Every machine you join will be part of this virtual network in a completely transparent way.
It's a bit late for it as they approach the final hurdle. I suppose you really want to reach out to Dev's making the content as you could still just sit down with a Vive
Did you see the retro concept they were throwing around?

Very curious to see if anything will come of this.

http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/retro-thinkpad-time-machine
Words of the form 'xphobia' meaning an irrational fear of x, abound these days. What term should be used for a rational fear of x? It is very often assumed that no thinking person could ever have such motivations grounded in rationality? Well they may not or they may.
Thanks for this, I'm going to try Lakka this evening. I was happy with RetroPi but the experience of setting it up wasn't 'smooth' in in the slightest.
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While it's natural to be skeptical, I'd withhold judgement until after you've tried either the Vive or consumer Rift. One of VR's challenges is that it need to be experienced to really understand it. Until you feel presence, the excitement doesn't really make sense. On the flip side, I haven't met a lot of people slag it once they have.

(Note: Prior DKs and mobile VR generally does not induce presence for most people)
And here it is (for the lazy ;)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340...
Debunked, unfortunately: http://blog.case.edu/case-news/2006/11/30/pollock
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My Note 3 showed visible burn-in after about a year. That's why I don't trust amoled.
Let's hope not. Though if n=1 observation of how the local startup community in my city jumped forward to genuflect in front of Uber (and they have connections) means anything, I wouldn't be surprised. There are a lot of people who don't know or don't care about Uber's evil side.
Yeah, the current thinkpads with modular batteries have tiny capacity, unless you get the extended one that sticks out the back.
frankly, i was surprised noone mentions that. are we clear on the exact date and price? for rift.
tech people trust no one :)
> It's now obvious that moving servers to dual-stack, then clients progressively onto IPv6 (through provider address-space exhaustion) is a sound plan.

It's not obvious. A twenty-year deployment plan is a joke: Maybe this is the best they could come up with, but that doesn't convince me this was a good plan, or IPv8 should be modelled on this deployment.

> No sound company today will launch its services in IPv4 only and eschew 10%-25% of potential traffic

You have that backwards: No sound company would launch its services in IPv6 only because the Internet is IPv4.
Beside action videos, every other device is better suited for family videos/photos. A current gen smartphone can shot 4k videos and 20+ megapixel photos just fine (and some of them are dust and water proof) - and all with a very easy user interface.
I'm 23 and have just bought a house outside of Cambridge. I saved and saved and have managed. If people make the right choices and that is what they want to do, then they can. Outside of London, owning a house isn't a ridiculous idea.
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I'm not sure this is a great idea. "Natural" communication is incredibly inefficient and lossy. Note that academics communicate via meticulously written papers, often involving very formal language. Business processes are structured in worksheets, graphs, etc. What we seem to yearn for is the ability for a computer to transcend our inability to express ourselves. I am not so sure that is where we are(or should be!) headed. There is a certain internal clarity when you manage to formalize your thoughts and arguments, to test them for logical inconsistency and errors. Programming languages are an inherent helper in that regard.

I think the biggest hurdle for programming languages currently is flow control. Specifically, programming languages are mostly still written top-down, leaving the implicit assumption that code is executed in the order you read it in. This is obviously a false impression for pretty much any program written nowadays. Inventing a new way to present code so that program flow is easier to visualize, is in my opinion the "next big thing" in programming language UI. This is something tools and concepts like UML have tried and failed to revolutionize, so I'm not sure what the way forward really is.
Somewhat related: https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners
Am I missing something or is that a disparaging statement?
Unfortunately nobody else is the same price (or cheaper) for the same speed (or faster).

I don't have any problems running VOIP at home, though.
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> I think a 32-bit hash of an IPv6 address will be fine for a long time

Be careful with this, a 32 bit hash can see collisions with remarkably low numbers. A 50% chance of a collision is seen with ~75k entries: http://preshing.com/20110504/hash-collision-probabilities/

Depends on your application as to whether this is a problem or not.
F12 home end insert del, right there on the top row. I'd much rather them be function keys on the left/home right/end arrow keys.

Someone really needs to figure out a sleek backlit fixed size keyboard area for everyone to have their own keyboard custom printed. I wouldn't even want an insert key.

Crap-sized enter is a deal breaker too.
I would have guessed that the prices would have come down by this point. I could imagine it retailing for around 200 and doing quite well.
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has or had? I think that some MIPS variant deprecated the trap on overflow, if this is the case then gcc & clang behaviour is logical if not then it's un-comprehensible (especially since at the same time they justify f.. up your executable for 'optimisation' purpose if you have an undefined in your code).
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> useful to remove the need for cash (i.e., use credit cards -- particularly corporate Amex) in booking a ride.

> I've used this in Paris and Munich in the last year.

Did you manage in Munich without cash at all? My expectation would have been that you needed cash regardless to pay for (most) small things (coffee, bakeries etc. etc.). Credit or even debit card use is not very widespread, essentially the only time I use mine is at ATMs and to pay online for services that don’t support direct debit.