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I have taught for years using UW's Classroom Presenter software, hacked up to be more responsive and usable with a tablet and pen. So I'm fully on board with the concept.

But frankly, the execution seems lacking. The qrcode/sms polling is fine, if you care about that sort of thing, but there are many similar and better solutions [1] out there.
You can already mirror and do remote displays easily even with stock powerpoint/ooffice/keynote.

The one feature this and UW CP really bring is the annotation. In UW CP, especially my hacked version, the annotation tools are very good quality. You can use an active pen (e.g. wacomm digitizer on a Lenovo laptop/tablet) for accurate writing and drawing, and it has very low latency response, pressure sensitive line width, etc. In software you can zoom slides, delete/move annotations, change colors and pen types via a tablet-friendly palette. You can save your annotations and import them back into ppt as "ink" objects, and vice versa.

I don't see any of that in the poster's demo. The drawing is clunky, unresponsive, and looks bad. Can you imagine trying to write a note on a slide with that system?

Having worked on the guts of UW CP, I know that one of the hardest things was export/import from powerpoint. It is very hard to get right, especially with build animations. Font size 24 doesn't export correctly in many cases. Margins and objects shift and move slightly. Exporting can be very slow -- many seconds per slide, depending on complexity. Parsing the actual pptx files and replicating the actual look without using powerpoint APIs is essentially impossible.
Very interesting reflection on identity in the modern world as it relates to family, fame, and trajedy. I have to say that the situation does feel very familiar to me based on some other readings and historical examples. I'll explain. The most prominent correlative is with respect to Hunter S. Thompson. He created Raoul Duke as a character, and Gonzo Journalism as the method by which to report and embellish/comment on the world.

I view it very much as a 'persona' and, in my opinion, most all highly intelligent individuals - especially those in the public eye - must have one (or quickly develop one) in order to cope with the needs of being self-confident to carry forward with beliefs and goals and values, yet also be able to "put down the microphone" and live a wholesome, personal life. This is the elements of celebrity and notariety that are weaved into the essay, and it's very touching to see the care expressed toward himself, his brother, and trying to understand and work through the behavior of outsiders. Aaron, from what I saw and recall, had a very prominent persona. It's pretty much 'immortality' in the Achilles sense.

To me, and this is just from one musician and writer who has embraced using pen names and personas for years, this article is very useful to give some thought and consideration to how, generally speaking, US society and culture has decided to value 'authenticity' and 'transparency' to the point of being a little bit intrusive. I'm possibly under-stating it, but I also don't want to get too far away from what the essay is conveying to me. It's an affirmation of a perspective I formed and was guided to form as a youth in the arts: Notariety, whatever its source, has significant baggage.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r31hV_BPFf0
Yes, but this is a pain to administer. Do you have some nice tools for generating these addresses and putting them into effect in the back-end which underlies your domain, without having to whip out an SSH client, logging in to some server, editing files and re-starting services?

I have my own "yourdomain.com". I pay to keep it registered and keep a server running also. Most people don't have this; their mail domain is "gmail.com" or whatever. Sure, a lot of problems could be solved if everyone just had their own domain!

Speaking of "gmail.com"; I'm surprised Google doesn't just make this a feature of gmail. It would be fairly trivial for them to implement for the benefit of all gmail users.
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man watching your video makes me think of pilotwings 64, it would be a lot of fun to fly around your islands.
The guru of visualization and Powerpoint critic, Edward Tufte recommends projected presentations (not necessarily using ppt) be accompanied with well designed 4-5 page handouts.
> ...and housing prices are still pretty high in desirable areas.

Isn't that kind of tautological? Prices are always relatively high in desirable areas, and the high relative prices are actually a contributing factor to their desirability. What's more eye-opening is that prices in desirable areas are so high relative to above-average incomes for the area.
Haha, cool. I think I could compete with that, as a hobbyist business for non-profits in my home market at least.
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I went to a meetup about 2 years ago and one of the engineers from CloudMine gave a talk about load balancing on AWS. CloudMine ended up dumping ELB for HAProxy to handle their scaling needs.
That's not an argument, you could say the exact same thing about braces in other languages. Truth is, it's something that works that really doesn't need to be debated to death like it is.
Ahh. Sweet, sweet validation. Love seeing you on here, buddy!
Whether or not it's true, it's certainly not irrelevant. Application manifests only apply to applications. If an application aware of W10 loads a third-party plugin that isn't, the plugin will still get the real version.

This is a very real scenario when you consider the application is explorer.exe and the plugin is any software that installs custom context menu actions.
Nice job, yet I'm curious how many Interactive Powerpoint apps are out there now?

Slides.com offers the ability to use your phone as a remote and I'm guessing there's a few others out there?
If you sign up for youtube red you can download videos. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6308116?hl=en
This is not coming from a specific bad experience. Quite the opposite. I just got home from a commute. I will email you shortly.

I am curious how good it is if it is standard.. Some how major vendors lost quite a lot of money on hoverboards with Stripe.
I don't think this phrasing is particularly charitable, yet we don't need to argue about semantics, because we have numbers.

> Approximately 96% of published crate revisions that build with the 1.0 compiler
> build with the 1.5 compiler.

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rust-regressions-2015-year...
This may or may not be it: http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/errata.html
That doesn't explain anything. The UK has a similar level of fraud, and banks are just as required to pick up the bill as in the US.
The best read about Aaron that I've read in the past few days.

I had a weird feeling while reading this, I don't really know why, after having read quite a few articles already.

Thanks, Noah!
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Yes, the subtitle of the article as it was published is different, but as the author of the piece I felt ok with switching it out for the more straightforward and descriptive one I wanted to use (authors almost never have final say over headlines). Happy to answer any questions, or debate anyone who really loved the David Wootton or Steven Weinberg books! I actually enjoyed reading Weinberg's book quite a bit, especially his commitment to getting the technical details right, but I found the overarching picture it gives of the history of science to be unpersuasive for reasons which hopefully are made clear in the article.

Here's Steven Weinberg's New York Review of Books article for background on his basic approach to the history of science: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/12/17/eye-present-whig-...
I wonder if fraudulent transaction levels are similar in the US to those in the UK and if no, what the reason is for the difference (and if yes, why the transaction costs are so much higher in the US).
I think this is a growing area Bunkr is another alternative but I have not tried it much myself. 2Sli.de also offers phone-as-remote (plus annotation on the phone, move objects on the phone and sync to the screen, etc).
And thanks!
Not really related, but I had another idea (more of an art project) about installing a projector in a public place or maybe on a uni campus that you could text to and have it project your message. Some kind of experiment of uncensored amplification of speech.
"Once the money runs out" anywhere, that tends to be the case.
I dont own or support this product, but whoever downvoted, the parent clearly asked what the product was.
TL;DR ACH is a commodity. The business model is derived by the platforms services offered, flexibility provided, and business targeted.

ACH is a heavily commoditized product. For ACH processors, then, your business model is tied to the functionality and capabilities offered by the platform. Dwolla, which has spent the last 4 years exclusively building out its ACH API, has a range of free and paid-for products and services. This allows us to offer a fixed flat-fee price point based on the additional value we bring to platforms (instant account verification, next-day processing, higher limits, holding balances, etc.).

Both services do an excellent job at baking in the expensive compliance, support, regulatory, etc. into their products.
Android needs graphic acceleration which doesn't work on the pi. So it might run but very slowly.
Visiting MSR/Bangalore I was shown a neat demo using very simple QRcode-like paper and image recognition. Basically, each student had a paper they could hold up. On the front was a simple QR-code (facing the prof and camera). On the back on the edges were 4 possible answers, something like A/1/YES, B/2/NO, C/3/MAYBE, D/4/DONT-KNOW. The student would rotate the paper so their chosen answer was on top, then hold it up. A camera in the front of the room would detect in realtime and display the results. They even had an augmented reality smartphone app that would cover/highlight the students and their responses.

Oh, and the QR codes were per student, so answers could be tracked.
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"One more system will solve my problem" is the siren's lure isn't it. But I have learned "It's turtles all the way down". Each problem solved reveals more opportunities. So I just try to enjoy the process of learning, if I am lucky it will end up being fun too. If not I enjoyed the journey.
Oh come on, that's just... not right, given the amount of work and time you put into it. I don't see any "Donate" button on your page, so I just bought the pre-order. Don't lose it all under the couch ;).
Putting the most positive spin on this situation as I can, I think the difference between software and other engineering disciplines is in software we are often hiring people to do things that have never been done before. Other disciplines can say, "we need you to design this, have you ever designed this before?" and the engineers can generally say, "yes, and this is how it went." For software the best way we can guess if people will be able to do the thing that they have never done before is to assess their general cleverness and problem solving skills, with puzzles.

Or something like that.
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While what you say is in some sense true, we also make fairly large contributions back to FreeBSD as well.

Case-in-point: AES-GCM, including AES-NI support, and support for same for IPsec.

There are other, more minor contributions, such as the new 'tryforward' code (replaces what was 'fast-forward', but doesn't break IPsec). r290383

Or r290028, where we eliminated the performance impact of IPsec (which is now on by default in -CURRENT).

I could go on to detail around 30 recent changes to FreeBSD, but I think the point is made.

In any case, it's a bit more than "bundling it all up and slapping a web interface on top of it", as you assert, but you're not the only person who thinks this way.

Your point that we leverage others work is correct.
Not sure if you can take anything from this as I work for a large gov't research org.

My day started with meeting the members of my team I hadn't met in the interview process and we all had a coffee together. Then I got my workstation set-up.

After about an hour, I was told to join a tour that was being given of the different research projects in the company. The idea being that I would get a good feel for what else was happening outside my team.

The tour was 3 hours long! Incredibly interesting all the way and I tried to absorb as much as I could about these projects (the tour was actually for two very important and smart people from outside the org and I was just tagging along).

When I got back to my desk, my boss was like "where have you been? we thought you might have quit!" When I told her I went on the tour like she had said she mentioned the tours only usually last about 40 minutes, and that apparently when we switched locations, that was supposed to be the end of my tour, but instead I had stayed on and seen things that even she had never seen!

So, with that sorted, we went to lunch as a team. On my return, I finished getting the project set-up and running, which is normally quite challenging but went fairly smoothly thanks to good documentation <- THIS IS SO IMPORTANT!!

At 4, the design team had invited us around for :"daily afternoon tea", which included cake. I thought "this is the best place to work ever!"

It wasn't until the next day at 4 o'clock when I was getting ready for cake with the design team that I was informed that it was just a coincidence that they had cake on my first day and that it wasn't a daily occurence...unless I was going to supply the cake.

Either way, a very memorable and interesting day.
who are you billing in the >$25k range that doesn't have the ability to send payments via ACH and will do so free of charge.

I bill pharma and biotech companies and regularly receive payment via ACH and did not require a service provider and have never paid a fee.

I do need someone to reconcile the incoming payments to a particular account, but that really isn't a huge deal (and could be awkwardly automated already as they send an e-mail Remittance Advice the same day).

Maybe there is some intermediate set of customers, but for me, any customer paying large invoices regularly already is set up to pay by ACH.
It doesn't and you don't. Size should be specified in both the spec (data properties) and the pre-conditions of the function implementing it.
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I have just taken a look at your documentation! It seems very good. I definitely underestimated how advanced you are currently. It'll be interested to see how this plays out. You'll be tested by very smart people.

Right off the bat one thing you should really try to change is the lack of MFA by Wells Fargo. You should beg and plead to have them do something. They're by far the most available and cheapest accounts sold online.
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I might be the only one that does this, but I like using ansible with docker.

I use a Dockerfile for any long running tasks like installing dependencies so I can take advantage of docker's cache. I then use ansible for fast running configuration like using a template file for filling out user specific configuration.

The biggest disadvantage to this is that you have to add ansible as a dependency in all of your containers, which stinks. I feel like it produces easier-to-read configuration.

Don't get me wrong, bash scripting is a great tool. I just try to avoid it whenever I can because I personally don't like writing bash scripts.

I think in the future there might be a best of both worlds approach if docker adds a caching api to where ansible could interact with it directly. There is also a docker connection plugin added in this release that could add some possibilities.
> "No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own land or tenements]" -Thomas Jefferson's proposal of language to add to the Virginia Constitution

A proposal which was rejected AFAIK, and so all the others around him thought it inappropriate. What was actually passed:

> That a well-regulated Militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural and safe defence of a free State; that Standing Armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that, in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to and governed by the civil power.

No mention of individual rights to "keep and bear arms". In the recorded debate there was no mention in the Virginia debates of individuals carrying arms, but rather the debate was in the context of whether the government would provide arms for the militia.

Also, the phrase "bear arms" was, grammatically in that time period, generally used to refer to military soldiers having weapons, not civilians. It is inappropriate to take the words individually, but rather the phrase must be taken as a whole.
This has been my use case. We spin up a lot of trial servers on aws for customers, each with some unique data. I've written Python to call Ansible (1.9) programmatically, which was a fun challenge, even if possibly more work than was needed: https://serversforhackers.com/running-ansible-programmatical...

Ansible 2 changes a lot of that, so a followup for how-to in Ansible 2 is in order eventually.
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I didn't expect I'll be googling that phrase ever in my life. :o.
Heaps of money do not make you happy! They just change what stresses you. Don't discount just giving users the ability to build, I spent 10 times more time building in MC then I did playing "the game".
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Whoa. I met Noah at a very small game dev conference last May. I had no idea who he was until this moment, nor was I aware that anyone else did, but I could be wrong. It's interesting to think how that interaction would have changed, probably for the worse, if I had known more about him beforehand.
That's right: a formal specification, formal security model, and proof the spec implements it. An implementation formally proven to implement that spec will then posses the security property unless done in by stuff not covered by that model.

Which is where EAL6/7's other assurance activities come in.
Yet strangely, hardly anyone complains about braces. I wonder why?
I wonder if there's even a reasonable way to do this in Python. In C, strings are data that you're explicitly passing around, but in Python, you are constantly calling __getattribute__ under the hood just to execute your code.

I don't know that it would be impossible to make that all work, but I wouldn't assume that it is.
Thanks for this! We did check out CAH and quite a few Kickstarters.

Agreed on the scope of our video. Our thoughts are:
1) Game is pretty simple, so you could get that from the text
2) This was probably a miss. We may try to shoot some footage and change up the video to add in a face-to-face. Thanks! We were hoping the strangely high production value of the video would add credibility and wanted focus on the game.
3) We found that people reading the cards and visualizing themselves played better than showing another group of friends playing the game.

As for the lower-tier, we were worried this would mix shift to the lower tier, when we really need manufacturing funds for a first run.

It is a BLAST with a close group of players. But also works really well with a few people who know each other well and a few other people who know each other well. We've also had strong success with a group of complete strangers where people are inebriated / and there's at least 1-2 outgoing strangers but you are right, not ideal for a group of all more introspective strangers.

The Life is Life cheers is strangely fun when you actually do it, but I get that it reads cring-worthy. As it's hard to visualize, I think you're right.

Thanks so much for the feedback. Will take it all back.
But it's not "Other People's Problems". No idealistic 22 year old is trying to solve the deflationary environment in Japan.

The problems that are [potentially] open to solution are where post-scarcity economies don't exist. The problem is literally scarcity of resources; by getting more stuff you raise the standard of living. To complicate this basic proposition into a hand wringing essay on Medium is to itself go all non-profit hipster, just one meta level up from the humanitarian tinderiste.

Here's a simple test to see if your able to focus on resource scarcity problems: Do you think gun reform in the US is a good analogy to your charity's mission?
> I suspect however that Jefferson would have extended his support for the right to cover ones stagecoach and personal property when traveling down the right of way..

I suspect however that Jefferson would not have ....

It's useless to speculate. We can all pull things out of thin air. What did he write down?
While I prefer to frame it with a bit more empathy, essentially, yes. This is correct.
This is all legitimate. Unfortunately, we're in a culture -- one might almost call it a status quo, really -- where certain trolling and harassment is renamed "punching up" or "calling out" and is not only permitted but encouraged.

If we genuinely want harassment to stop, the very minimum that's necessary is for all people to be treated equally under the anti-harassment policies. Otherwise, why would those who are defined as valid targets have any investment in the smooth running of our systems? We'll create a permanent enemy and never have a day's peace until the end of time.
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I once made a arcade cabinet + game, I wrote on the side of the screen exactly what each button do.

when I showed it in public in an event, I saw the same loop many, many times:

1> user press buttons confused, see I am standing nearby, ask me what they do.
2> I do nothing if they have a SO near.
3> SO points user, that there are descriptions of the button right there in front of them.
4> User slaps his forehead.

In case there was no SO near, then I would point it myself, the reaction of people was still the same...

I concluded that ins't just that people don't follow instructions, is that they don't even try.
While it is possible to disagree and argue that life really is like chess in different ways, the article still does a nice job of comparing and contrasting two different metaphors for the same (nebulous) thing.

Another nice thing about Tetris is how it is possible to make a misplay, but then stick with playing and recover from it.
This sounds like so much of a physical struggle that doesn't scale very well.
Love Ansible, but am I the only one who has found 2.0 to be unbearably slow? Some patterns I use may now be anti-patterns I should factor out, but even with some optimizations, I'm finding Ansible 2.0 to be 3-4x slower than 1.9. Maybe it has to do with # of hosts or variable field depth, but it's really really depressing.
AMD's CPUs do many fewer instructions per cycle as Haswell (in some cases half as many), not to mention Skylake. You can't really compare GHz between them.

And releasing a new architecture is not exactly feasible if they want to stay in the server, workstation, and desktop markets. That idea behind Itanium actually was to get faster by dropping x86_64, and we see how poorly it worked out.
I don't think that's a very good example. Attribute precedence is easy to understand, and it's very necessary. After working with it for a bit it becomes very intuitive.