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From the EULA, point 1 applies to anything you upload to their site or to "Jide services". Jide services require registration and are necessary to some functionality within the OS. This could be a horrible interpretation of giving up certain rights to content you share on a social network or site.

It's awful, yes, but it may not apply to everything you do within ReactOS. The other 2 points do apply to everything you do in ReactOS, so you're supposed to censor yourself based on Chinese government censorship policies whenever you use it.
> This person is clearly not familiar with the militantly computer ignorant segment of the user base.

The article you're replying to directly contradicts this. He was dealing with militantly ignorant people, made a change to accommodate them, and it worked.
In my calculation I took into account the risk of sharing the prize, although I had to make assumptions on how many other people were playing (you can get a sense of how many other people there are playing by how much the jackpot increases between draws). Unless my guess is wrong, I think it still works out even with sharing unless you happen to buy every ticket on the same draw that other people have had the same idea.
My mother frequently has to cycle through my brothers/my fathers name before getting to mine.

Its the times when she starts using the cats name I get a little miffed.
> I get the feeling 70% of IT is just data munging.

The remaining 30% is, as far as I can tell, fixing bugs in the data munging code.
Elevators enable skyscrapers. As you build taller skyscrapers, more and more of the floor space is given over to elevators. There must be a huge incentive to improve elevator routing. I'd love to peek behind that curtain.
> In the civilised world we think your agricultural subsidies (and the enormous amount of subsidies in all sorts of areas) are part of what makes the USA a rouge state.

My ability to eat is more important than free trade.

I agree with your quibbles about corn ethanol and fracking environmental damage though. I'm hopeful that electric vehicles permanently damage corn ethanol subsidies. Biofuels for anything other than aviation are a joke.
Exactly, but you really need to get into the mindset of the random clicker user type to even think of doing this.
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Obama will close Guantanamo before he leaves office, with or without Congress
Don't go for a FSM.

GKRuleSystem[0] to the rescue!

Or any other Fuzzy Logic(?) framework.

Or maybe a behaviour tree, which is how I would have (tried) to design it with.

I hope I get something like this on an interview, instead of "reverse binary tree" like questions. This actually seems like a fun problem to solve. Knowing my defect brain, it would put a lot of effort into this because it's kinda fun.
Also because I already have a ton of ideas on how to implement this - not that I already have.

Just off the top of my head.
A BT that tracks current floor, direction, some predicates for inputs e.g ignore input 2 if direction is up and current floor is 3.

That would satisfy the current test conditions. HOWEVER.. a better style would be to keep that in queue with an indicator (UI) that it's on the queue after current direction has hit its highest floor.
Could add another predicate that the elevator won't stop for 'caller' on third floor if it's filled (maxWeightReached) and everyone are going to bottom floor.

Eventually you could maximise the amount of people it moves based on space available and how many have called the elevator using their condo NFC tags.

Seriously, this what dev interviews should look like.

0: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Gamepl...
Except that the android apps almost all suck.
I'd far rather have the Debian repository on my phone than Google play on my laptop.
I'm kind of surprised by you're not liking the martian. Have you read the book? I read the book (but haven't seen the movie yet) and its definitely on of the harder sci-fi books I've ever read. With the exception of the flexibility of space suits and problems with a benzene reaction, the physics, chemistry and biology are pretty good. Maybe this didn't translate to the movie as well (which might have been nigh impossible) or was glossed over in an unsatisfactory way.

And as for the astronauts, I've actually heard that astronauts find the attitudes reflected exactly right. All from a guy who didn't know any.
How is microservices related here? They're built in-house too. It's still just services/apps/code that has to run somewhere.

You can run it on AWS or somewhere else but moving is always a problem regardless.
Yep. Glad to see it was merged. I wonder when it will trickle down into my distro of choice. :)
For the past 30 days the bounce rate has averaged 43% and traffic has roughly doubled.
Entropic explanation of gravity force is not an accepted physics theory. Regardless of whether it is right or not, the concept of entropy in common thermodynamics I was referring to above is different from that in entropic gravity. In thermodynamics, in contrast with theories of entropic forces, entropy is assigned only to states of thermodynamic equilibrium that can be achieved by exchanging heat reversibly. State that is not a state of mechanical equilibrium (such as state of accelerating bodies, unmixing water+oil) is not such a state.
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I noticed that as well. I think those bad quotes unnecessarily take away from the good points the article has otherwise though.
Totally agree! To be honest I'm still a bit wary of using ECS via the web console. Too many (new) terms to understand! Thankfully the folks at AWS were smart enough to make a CLI that understands docker-compose. So that's how I ended up using it.
Because we are talking about such tiny numbers when we are talking about the current sea level rises, anything spectacular in the future has to be non linear in nature or it just would not matter.

It amazed me just how linear historical sea levels have been. Take a look at measured New York sea levels, which have been kept since before the Civil War.

http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.s...
Interesting you find that scammy. It is for real though. I'm a consultant and it's been a real pain trying to collect large payments without getting killed on fees. The information is required by law by the patriot act for any bank transfers done over the internet. I can't get around it. It's required by law and by my ACH provider.
This script worked for me once I enabled SSH on the lan interface on my FortiGate 100D running 5.0. But the only command that seemed to do anything is "exit". Everything else gave an "Unknown Action 0".
Also if it didn't get your bank account details? How would the system pay you? Haha
Um, my post was actually a comment on a different official, who did official work on her private email...
No worries, thanks for responding. I'm in a pretty similar position to you although I haven't yet reached the 3 year mark, more like 2. I also tend to have ADHD with my hobby projects that I do on the side. There's this open source project based on Rust that I want to contribute to on my spare time (I've already looked at Android and made an app, but for some reason I'm not compelled to pursue mobile development professionally) and of course I've already told you about NodeJS.

Easier said than done, but I'd advise to just stick with the web dev right now and focus on the other stuff later (if ever). Web apps are increasingly standing in for native mobile apps (that's partly why I gave up on Android) and Rust hasn't really reached a level where it's lucrative for professionals. Just be pragmatic and catch up on your web stuff right now (like I am right now) and once you think you've covered your bases then you can focus on the "for fun" stuff (Rust - although it would be awesome if someone could prove me wrong).
The addiction and depression thing really bothered me too. There was so much detail on those topics I figured he must have gone through a lot of it himself before I read up on his life. Yet, there's so much that's just patently false. He goes on and on about the depravity of marijuana addiction and has a character try to commit suicide from overdosing on 4-5 hits. Ridiculous. I guess this is some parallel world where things aren't exactly as they are in real life, but that just seems like an easy out.

I'm barely half way through the book, but some of the chapters written in ebonics are atrocious. He starts out the chapter totally over the top and it seems like he forgets he was writing in ebonics by the end. There's just so many places it feels like his editor just said "fuck it".

There are definitely a few sections that I get lost in, but they are so few are far between. I could probably count them on one hand. More than half the book I am pretty neutral about and then there is a significant portion I read and just look up and think, this author is full of shit. I guess its just his style, but when he was describing "eschaton", he has no idea how the game would actually be played. I guess the way it ends up kind of describes that the depths of the game were really beyond those playing it, but thats kind of pattern throughout the book. He has this grand idea and exposition, but it just sort of devolves out of laziness, or style, or I don't know what. I'm kind of terrified I'm going to reach the end of the book and he's going to devolve again and introduce some stupid non-sequiter to wrap things up cleanly, without any introduction or background.
Then on their second random click you drag their mouse to the menu for them. Keep thinking of solutions.
I agree that whitespace scope delimiting is a bad idea, but I was thinking more about general syntactical clarity. Just because C++ uses every possible typographical symbol doesn't mean rust should. Simple example which had me WTFing:

use std::collections::{HashMap, HashSet};

Are all those ::s and {}s adding to clarity?

Why are there no easy to use initializers for maps? It's 2015! I have to do:

let mut map = ::std::collections::HashMap::new();
map.insert("a".to_string(), "b".to_string());
...

or some such nonsense. Oh, right, I have to write a macro and basically learn another language. Also, using the macro system for basic things like println just seems bonkers to me; use macros when you really, really need to do something special, not everywhere.
I would automate our deployments as they take up a lot of my time ensuring things went smoothly. Also, our git workflow leaves something to be desired. We have way too many "revert revert revert" commits.
The way you sound affects your mood
I don't do much (any) numerical stuff so I don't have a terribly informed opinion.

Glancing at the code samples, I don't hate it. It looks rather pleasant.

I can't fathom
Is the tax something that a hedge fund with offshore shell companies and other active investments could work around?
Sounds like these systems look for all the things that make driving fun
Buy 2 machines then. Or 4 with 2 Nginx proxy pairs.

That's still less money and about 1000x the performance without the hassle of dealing with the API/Lambda development experience. Just deploy your webapp to 2 both instances without downtime and you'll be serving hundreds of thousands of users.

Amazon doesn't provide any extraordinary high-availability or reliability beyond what you can just do yourself. Their managed services are just running on their own private resources using the same AWS infrastructure, just with more money and people.
Except NASA, who basically invented HACCP, would never send raw potatoes up to space.
Don't worry too much about the actual open sourcing of it. Just push to github and forget. There will basically be two responses to the source code: either tinkerers or project managers.

Tinkerers will just want to poke around the code, and maybe make a youtube video.

Project managers will try to "fix" issues, "suggest" new directions, and basically try to get you to do things they want. :-P
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>"Compare this with 'decompression freezing' of water: when you open a really cold beer bottle, ice often forms in the beer. The phase transition for H2O is such that liquid is stable at higher pressures than ice (I think this relates to ice being lower density but I don't know). Opening the beer lowers the pressure, causing some water to freeze.."

This is fascinating! This past New Years, I had two beer bottles in a row freeze into beer slushies when I opened them. We had left them in the freezer probably longer than we should have. I really appreciate the explanation. I tried to explain the weird situation to a colleague the next week but he didn't believe me. Thank you.
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Pivotal acquires UX design firm Slice of Lime
Nginx running on a tiny instance can load balance 100k connections at thousands of requests per second. The network bandwidth for the instance will probably be saturated way before the CPU/RAM becomes a problem.

ELB (and most other managed service load balancers) are overpriced and not great at what they do. The advantage with them is easier setup and lack of maintenance.

If you're running a service with hundreds of millions or billions of requests, it's just far more effective in every way to use some small load balancing instances instead. Their Route53 service makes the DNS part easy enough with health checks.
For those of you curious why some Meetups fail: They tend to be boring and not well organized around a purpose or objective. Putting a bunch of people in a room together without a purpose is like gathering an army of soldiers in a gymnasium without a war or even a training exercise.

There's nothing to do. That's why some meetups fail. Whereas video game / exercise / yoga based meetups, from what I've heard, are much more successful and long lasting. People need something to do together. Not just sitting around talking to people without a purpose. That works temporarily but after 2 successive meetups without a purpose it's boring.
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As another Ansible user contemplating the 1.9-->2.0 migration, I'd appreciate if you would submit PRs updating the porting guide with stuff that you hit that wasn't already mentioned:https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/docsite/rst/po...
WHOA. I just wrote almost the same comment before seeing yours:

> My mother is known for cycling through names before hitting the right one.

>

> I was frequently addressed as "Hershey-Chris-Patrick" while living at home.
Do users have to verify using Plaid for every transaction if there are recurring payments? Those seem the riskiest if someone has insufficient funds on a tokenized bank account
Hmm, to me it reads as: Having never seen and committed to memory the face of Aaron, I did not consider his brother as anything other than an individual whom I had interacted with for the first time.

Your comment (to me at least) seems to suggest Noah wanted everyone to associate Noah with Aaron, and in the same moment wanted to be unhappy by said association, which doesn't seem like a fair thing to say about Noah.
It is encrypted I think.
> We're already able to send probes to Pluto within a few kilometers, calculating an asteroid's orbit is well within our capabilities.

Yeah calculating the orbits and movements for a simple small mass might be fairly easy. But an asteroid is irregulary shaped which makes stuff quite complex. We have failed with Philae for example...

The only way this is going to work is with a powerful nuclear bomb mounted on an interstellar rocket to blow said astroid to pieces (and these pieces should be tiny enough to vanish during atmospheric reentry), should the need arise - however the EMP would fry at least the satellites in orbit, maybe also on the ground.
You mention Plaid for bank data scraping, but what do you do for the other banks Afaik Plaid supports about 12-13 banks (~80% population coverage).
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Praise Jesus I've been waiting for this.
There are portions that look like that[1], he's just been showing off the terrain in the last few updates. Check his videos page[2], about 2/3's the way down.

1: https://youtu.be/gW04jTU5FQw

2: http://www.voxelquest.com/videos.html
http://uk.businessinsider.com/imf-regional-economic-outlook-...
After testing ELB and seeing the scaling issues, we ended up going to a pool of HAProxies + weighted Route53 entries. Route53 does a moderately good job of balancing between the HAProxies, and the health checks will remove an HAProxy if it goes bad. HAProxy itself is rock solid. The first bottleneck we came across was HAProxy bandwidth, so make sure the instance type you select has enough for how much bandwidth you expect to use.
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> Good. Now do it with independent axioms / where no axioms follow from the rest.

They already did. Which of their four axioms do you think follows from the rest?
How does a company stay private if it's underpaying its employees, and their only chance of breaking even is the IPO? Or alternatively, why would employees choose to stay after the company decides not to IPO?
Same Day ACH has been in the works for a while; however, a payments expert I spoke with said all the big banks are opposing it since (a) they make more on wires, as mentioned, and (b) most of them have in-house same day transfers, so it's an argument for opening multiple accounts with them vs at different institutions.

https://www.nacha.org/content/same-day-ach

The electronic financial system in the US is an embarrassment, to be honest. Instant transfers have existed in other countries for years. The only platforms that allow instant payments require (a) holding money in their bank account (e.g. your Venmo balance) and (b) the companies to comply with incredibly stringent money transmitter laws.

From what I've heard, Stripe doesn't make much from CC transactions (hence why almost all providers are at the same pricing). ACH costs fractions of a penny, so even if they only make $5 it's nearly 100% profit.

[Note: I'm not a payments expert so would love if someone who is could (in)validate all the above.]
(5) isn't convincing: pull the plug of the computer hosting the AI: it's "dead".
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Does anyone else here think that using WiFi for controlling lights (and other such applications) is a terrible idea? Every WiFi router I've ever owned had a range of about 20 feet when there are walls involved, and a typical WiFi device like a laptop or set-top box will lose its signal and require a manual reconnection about once a week.

Bluetooth, on the other hand, easily requires two or three pairing attempts lasting 30-60 seconds each every second or third time you try to use two devices together.

I fear we are doomed unless we throw out the protocols we have and come up with new ones.
There's TurningPoint as well, and it integrates with the office suite + the Student-Teacher backend (D2L, blackboard, etc): https://www.turningtechnologies.com/higher-education
"users" is a bad metric. How many requests are you getting?

You can run wordpress (a fairly unoptimized app) on a tiny linux VM and easily serve 50 requests per second. That's 4M requests over 24 hours.

If you need more than that, just upscale your server. 1 midsize server these days can handle 100M requests per day without a problem if it's just running a basic site.
Might just be me i suppose but don't most people wear their watch on the non-dominant side?

That'd mean that it's a possible but much less reliable attack vector.
Or (tongue in cheek), you could always buy 2-3 tickets that all have the same numbers. That way if you win and someone else wins too, you still get most of the money. :-)
There's another aspect to this development. One benefit of incandescent lamps vs. CFL or LED is superior CRI (color rendering index).

CFL/LED lamps produce output having a discontinuous spectrum, fluorescents with prominent green and LEDs blue emission. Consequently these light sources can be much less desirable where accurate color rendering is important, for example critical color matching, art galleries/museums, etc.

I've found it difficult to replace continuous spectrum sources with LED lights in particular. The latter are much more energy efficient and have greater useful life span, but unsuited to photography, etc., where quality of color rendering is crucial.

Quite likely there's a large enough market for improved incandescent lamps to warrant further development.
Flexible working hours, less rebasing, try to get others to adhere to coding standards, clearer/more detailed project specs/designs etc
Why do you have so many reverts?
The science may have been sound, but I didn't believe that one man could invent a radically different/more powerful kind of processor and solve the power supply problem on his own.
I seem to recal that Canada doesn't tax winnings.

And there's a better strategy then playing every number; play only the numbers that are not likely to cause a collision. You might not an every time, but you'll increase EV
It seems like Google is setting the standard for clueless management and other poorly managed companies are following it.
Definitely working on international. You will be able to accept payments (not send) this week in the form of a paper check mailed to you. So when you claim, just check the box for mail me a paper check and you'll get one in the mail once the payment clears.
The problem is even if they could be profitable, they choose to invest all the money they can in growing rather than making a profit. So it's hard to know.
With all these linux distros in the market now, I doubt that any new distro could have any attraction or any effect without having something exclusive to offer.
subscribing to a meetup group is about the same as an opt-in email subscription

People who say "i'll attend" on a meetup are typically 1/3 for show-rate. And that's only if you actually remind them a few days before the event.
How well does the voxel rendering parallelize based on number of cores? Related question: how much of the rendering is handled within the GPU?
Yeah, the pre-installed software is usually crap. But there are plenty of modded ROMs for the more popular boxes. And you can't beat the price as an OEM product -- just put your own software on it.

The source release policy has gotten better in the past year. Mainly due to Google (Chromebox), Hardkernel (ODroid) and others kicking the manufacturers. At least they're upstreaming their drivers now. They have to clean up ~1M lines per SoC family, that'll take some time. And userspace is not just blobs anymore. For example Amlogic regularly publishes a (working!) buildroot at http://openlinux.amlogic.com:8000/download/ . Microcode for VPU or Wifi still comes as blobs.
I would agree with you, if the country had been saving any of it. As we currently ran things, the oil sales crowded out other sectors via currency appreciation for no long run gain.

That's environmental concerns aside. There are pretty good global and domestic reasons for leaving the most marginal bits of the gunk in the ground. And leaning into the cycle develops precisely those marginal sources that were most polluting or least profitable.
Sure, it's long painted itself a global city after all, so it's not surprising that the housing market became globalized when it became a major center of economic growth.