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I'd rather they worked on improving IDE support for Clang and LLVM when it comes to "unmanaged" languages, as well as moved some of those compiler and optimization engineers to improving LLVM. LLVM still lags a bit behind GCC when it comes to performance of the machine code it generates, so I'm sure improvements there would be quite welcome, and I'm also sure Microsoft has the expertise to make it happen. For extra brownie points, help the community implement a portable debugger that doesn't suck, because thus far all attempts at this have failed miserably.

Microsoft C++ compiler is a source of aggravation at best. Their unmanaged language tooling has been neglected for nearly a decade while FOSS community (led by none other than Apple) plowed ahead and delivered the work of art that is Clang/LLVM, and a profusion of languages like Rust and Swift that run on top of that infrastructure.
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Not yet, from the OP: "For GitLab.com users: We plan to enable custom domains on GitLab.com in the following week, so stay tuned!"
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That makes sense. I guess the styling/presentation didn't make me think of it that way.

Thanks.
Electron apps are very big in size. It's like having multiple instances of Chrome running. Remind me of Java apps all over again.
Yes, this is one of the rare cases where "brick" is being used in the correct technical sense of rendering the motherboard permanently unusable without repairs involving a soldering iron. There is no reset option.
Could you expand a bit?
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I'll never know if it offends me because the page starts with a video ad and then throws me against the paywall anyway.
I readed it before, but thanks for posting it anyway since it's really interesting read. Decide to link sources I was referring to.

[1] http://amyshirateitel.com/2011/04/03/the-lost-art-of-the-sat...

[2] https://www.quora.com/How-did-we-lose-the-technology-to-go-t...
Ah thanks, I'll commit this to my lexicon.
So, one of those crappy companies that makes junk that only the US government would be dumb enough to buy?
Are there any CLI gmail clients which can handle 2FA? I'd like to have a way to read my work email in emacs, but I'm pretty sure work would be unhappy about me putting an app-specific credential on my hard-drive without 2FA.
Briefly, since I'm on mobile, I'll explain why I think you're completely wrong.

Insurance doesn't seek to prevent the inevitable. That's not why we buy insurance. We buy insurance to insure against catastrophic risk. Would you rather flip a coin and lose your house, or flip 10,000 coins where each toss risks $100?

Humans are risk averse, and there is plenty to say about the value of risk reduction. We buy insurance as a trade off: we know we're getting skimmed by the salesman, but our preference for reduced volatility means we gladly take a small certain loss instead of a possible huge one.

On the other end, insurance sales men don't just sit on their obligations. They swap risk and find complementary risks: it's highly unlikely a hurricane in Florida will happen at the same time as an ice storm in the north east. Tally up all the insurance salesmen and you'll find they all aim to hold a bit of each other's risk. They, just like us, prefer to take a small certain loss than a possible disaster.

This is the purpose of insurance: to dilute the 'pain' of singularly disasterous events across a large enough population so we collectively do better off.

Health insurance is supposed to be the same way: you shouldn't need insurance for buying aspirin at Walgreens. $5 ain't gonna kill you. What will seriously damage you is an unforeseen large medical expense. As it stands, most people don't really need much in the way of serious medical care- it's true to say that a small population of people incur far higher medical expenses than the rest of society. This is exactly the purpose insurance was designed to deal with.

I leave my discussion here. I recognize that there is something deeply unfair about leaving a population out in the cold. I agree, we ought to do something for them, but this is not a critique of our social policies at large. I mean to simply remark that insurance is exactly the financial vehicle that best serves to smooth out the consequences of unlikely yet expensive occurrences.
When I say revolution I usually don't mean a violent uprising. While historically speaking that is what it means, I do not think future “revolutions” will be fought with violence. The times when you could behead a bunch of monarchs and set up a republic are over: as soon as a vacuum of power is created, other regimes take advantage and use the chaos to their advantage using all means available. International law has demonstrably failed to protect the people from the big nations.

I bet on a revolution in the minds fought with civil disobedience.
So the future of storytelling native advertisements? pretty grim.
There used to be a notion that it is a quintessential right for citizens to be anonymous to the government, even if that just means choosing or even just having a choice of interacting with the Government, but also being able to choose not to and forego some things.

We are ever increasingly accelerating towards what will really be a despotic dystopia where the government has tabs on you at all times even if it is just by virtue of deduction.
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I agree that there's no promise it's a file. After all, fuse will let you mount anything as a filesystem. But I'm trying to think of another file I can "delete" and permanently hose my computer, but I'm coming up blank. Maybe some fuse filesystem somewhere can do it, but none of the ones I've used.

I mean, yeah, I've destroyed many a partition table in my day, and I've permanently lost myself some data, I've even dd'ed in the wrong direction with no recourse but to suck it up and deal with it, but I've never fried a computer with a rm command. (Contrary to what some commenters seems to be viciously defending, this does seem to be a legitimately different level of destructive possibility than has conventionally been available. This is the sort of thing that would put me off having ever installed Linux in the first place.)
Yep, but on another note if you don't need all of the features of thunder bird and you are looking for something self hosted check out http://www.rainloop.net/
No onboard USB kills it for me, especially at that price point. For something in that price range, I'm more interested in the ESP-210 - it's tiny and has USB-Serial built in.
Idera bought a company that I used to work for out. They terminated about half of the people without severance (well, you could get severance if you were still out of work after 36 weeks). The rest were kept on in case Idera's employees needed to consult with them about absorbing the purchased IP. The rest were let go about two months later.

Idera buys companies and outsources all further development after they've assimilated the source code and the build process.

Embarcadero's employees were doomed from the moment the takeover was announced.
(for Americans: "spanner" -> "hammer")
Thanks! We think the displaying both project information and the files is too messy, but I can see you point. If you have any other UX suggestions feel free to share them.
tldr; You can use your keyword with any of these trigger words: 'char', 'chars', 'character', 'characters', 'cheat sheet', 'cheatsheet', 'command', 'commands', 'example', 'examples', 'guide', 'help', 'quick reference', 'reference', 'shortcut', 'shortcuts', 'symbol', 'symbols', 'key bindings', 'keys', 'default keys'
> Therefore one has to wonder what Assange's motivation is behind this leak. Based on its timing, it seems far more likely that his motives are personal more than philosophical. It furthers no agenda but his own.

Or his motives are following the philosophy of the freedom of information, as it had in the past. The or is not exclusive: it's possible that his motivations are both personal and philosophical. But to say that this leak furthers "no agenda but his own" is oddly dismissive of the mission / philosophy behind wikileaks.

It's not there to circlejerk people who are already exposed to this kind of information. The philosophy is that more people should have the option to know. If it weren't for projects like wikileaks, it would not be a choice for you to make.
It really seems like you've argued against yourself with this.
Glad to hear GitLab is fast for you! Will be even faster with 8.5 :)
>so long as the two are hardwired and one or both are programmable, there's no certainty.

I don't quite follow you. What I meant was something like this. Connect the LED in series to the power supply to the camera, so that you cannot even power the camera without turning the LED on.
Wouldn't const be checked at compile time?
They're probably talking to C programmers. RAII is usually presented in the context of exceptions.
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You're right. And that means the only way to set it to keep text contained less wide than that is to have a smaller browser window.
I'm not aware of any changes that would explain that error, but that doesn't mean it can't be a regression in 8.5. If so please open an issue for it and link from https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13350
Just a suspicion but I imagine the narrative that FBI, DEA, ATF, IRS or any federal agency is frustrated that the NSA won't share its toys with them has some truth to it. Of course, it makes sense. Complying to very single request would leave NSA as mere peons.
I haven't read the study yet, but I'm immediately reminded of the great chocolate p-hacking article from last year: http://io9.gizmodo.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-choco...
I tried running it back then - the textures, the music, the models, all of the content is generated "from scratch", which is why it takes forever to start, it has to create all content first
That is the downfall of Delphi, they didn't adapt to market trends. When free and open source languages challenged it, they didn't make a free version. Other FOSS IDEs came out and took away business from them.

Delphi was good in the 1990s and competed with Visual BASIC. Those were the salad days. Now Delphi is more of a niche market as people moved on to different languages and platforms.

Kylix I think was the Linux version of Delphi. It didn't do so well.
Sadly this did not get more debate or comments.

I'm not in his position, and it provides some insight, and yes it can be even compelling.

My "against" points would be that:

-There is people working as hard as you do to keep afloat.
-I'm totally positive on the adequate taxes for the rich.

While you cover your base, you don't cover for example why if banks knew mortgage industry were going to go broke they pushed for it.
It doesn't cover how wall street were saved by devaluating US dollar and it doesn't cover all the people who were in charge and knew what were going on and how we don't know still who they are or why they are not in jail.

They were playing with US economy.

You don't cover how IP protects medicines by preventing others from competing.

You don't cover how all big IT players foul around the game evading millions in taxes.

I'm not against you, I'm against you dropping oil in the sea, destroying china environment because it was cheaper to build there, not pay taxes and when environment is dead you can take all back to your alps house.

When I see those images of the future, with beautiful buildings with trees or underwater cities... I wonder if those are rich cities and everything else has been destroyed?
Because it _is_ dead. Relevant excerpt from the OP:

TAKE-AWAY

Considering all that, we have reluctantly decided not to pursue strong mode further. We learned some worthwhile lessons, but overall it is not clear that the benefits justify the costs. Starting with the next version of V8, we will hence remove support for strong mode.
I'm not sure and asked Kamil to look into this.
‘London Whale’ Breaks Silence
Complying with the FBI's request does not make it easier for terrorists and foreign hackers to access data on American phones. This is a case where having a little bit of knowledge leads to a wildly inaccurate conclusion, similar to Greenwald's original PRISM reporting.
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I've been in and out of coding for finance at a few different shops for about 10 years now, and recently have been working more on the front-lines: coming up with my own trades and the software to do those. I can tell you from personal experience that this is a completely different experience than writing code for someone else (a trader) who then is responsible for making/losing the money.

Imagine this for a daily routine:
1) oh shit this is awesome: x times $1000000 means i'm going to be so fucking rich!
2) run code live on the XYZ market, trying not to shit bricks
3) hang-on i found a bug in my analysis/data-preprocessing/ML pipeline and i'm not going to be rich.
4) spend hours (or days) fixing bug & re-running analysis
5) go back to 1).

After a few months of this one gets seriously fragged.
We give you something real to work on but we'll be in a Google Hangout to discuss it with you: "As part of our interviewing process, you may be asked to pick an issue from the GitLab CE issue tracker, and code ‘live’ with the interviewer there to talk with and collaborate with."
> after that however, the market also has to allow people to trade those shares with speculators otherwise there's no way to exit your investment

You are forgetting about dividends.
this more describe Type 1 situation

This is why the preferred terms now are IDDM / NIDDM, for (Non) Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus.
Even if you agree with his points, the humble brag style is off putting.
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Numbers vary, but somewhere between 7-12 calories of hydrocarbon energy in every 1 calorie of food. That's precooked; afterwards it can be 25 or more.

The entire food system is heavily dependent on hydrocarbon energy and long supply lines.

Take oil and natural gas away and billions of people would starve to death.
That's still a check that var is not subject to. Hence, it's a little slower (in theory).
Under penalty of prosecution, not really.

All I can say is that they genuinely do their best to protect you. For me it's that they have to spent a lot of resource (fiscal and other) to protect you from what is in my opinion: really sketchy shameful shit on the US and many other government's part.

If people want to really know why tech companies are at the point of enough is enough, it's because many governments continually try to twist laws/regulations/random stuff/whatever they want/made up shit in an attempt to get what they want. Eventually becomes boring, annoying and very expensive telling them they're wrong.
You still get bugs inside
I wrote this tool in 2011 or so as a quick proof of concept and it has survived a few google streetview api upgrades. The auto-complete idea should be an easy win. It defaults to cycling as I am a cyclist and originally wrote it so I could get a quick glimpse of cycling routes to see if they would have bike lanes. Still waiting for google to contact me for work! Usually just dutch people though.
I feel like my positioned has changed a bit now that it is clearer the iPhone is owned by the same party that wants to recover the data?
As I said I get about 2 miles
Easy win. Will do.
I have been incredibly disappointed at the coverage on NPR, which often does a good job with complex subjects but has completely blown their coverage of the Apple FBI story--reducing it to simplistic sound bites.
> Using gas to produce food is just crazy if you think about it.

I thought about it. It sounds like using energy to make a system move in a direction away from the point of lowest energy (decayed fields on a rocky, dead planet), which is basically what the Universe and the human race do for a living. So it's not crazy.

Whether or not it's the best use of energy, and whether or not the effects on future generations is good or not, I don't know.
There is flaw in your logic. Assange as public person is known because of WikiLeaks, but WikiLeaks it's not just Assange. And timing can be simply explained by fact that they always stated only few percent of materials they have are published since verification is extremely hard.
This comment doesn't seem to make any sense whatsoever, care to expand on what you meant?
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Yay FP! I wish the article had made clear that the OCaml was a programming language. Could be some proprietary junk GUI the way it was actually written.
Note that it says chocolate as in cacao, not sugar and milk fats.

As a fine chocolate connoisseur (ahem), I recommend sticking to 70% cacao minimum. 90% is usually disgusting. Always check the ingredients. A decent commercial international one is the Lindt 70% black. And I don't work for Lindt.
Right. Same page. Although as I understand it, consumer FRS/GMRS two-way radios like the one you linked only require a license for the GMRS channels. Also, it looks like the GMRS 5-year license cost has effectively dropped from $90 to $65 by eliminating a $5/year fee:
http://www.buytwowayradios.com/blog/2015/05/fcc_eliminates_g...
At first the cynic in me thought, "Scientists find that people with higher cognition like to habitually eat chocolate?"

But from the article: "Benefits to information processing speed and working memory were observed in these studies within hours of consuming cocoa flavanols or dark chocolate. Less research has examined the effects from the longer-term consumption of chocolate or cocoa."
I eat semi-low carb. I've done better than I am right now, but during the spring/summer I was playing basketball/volleyball about 3-4 times a week. Some nights for 2+ hours straight with minimal breaks. Eating low carb and trying to maintain a good blood sugar was pretty tricky for me. You have to eat quickly eat/drink something when you check the blood sugar between games and it goes low, and then you end up having to correct that later with more insulin. I've found low-carb to be fine and maintainable when I'm just working and sitting at my desk all day, but have struggled when trying to combine it with any type of higher intensity activity.
My only regret is they didn't get him sent to jail.
Considering they recently chose to completely ignore the UN opinion on his "arbitrary detention," on top of everything else in the past - false rape accusations, ignoring his asylum status - I don't see what more he really has to lose. What are the odds he possibly gets out of this without torture, assassination, or life in prison?

They've done everything possible to turn him into an actual enemy, rather than the editor of a site facilitating responsible disclosure by whistleblowers. I wouldn't be particularly surprised if that affects the manner in which future leaks are released as well.
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I was originally wholly on the side of Apple since I place an exceedingly high value on privacy and against government intrusion. But now that I understand that the phone is the county's, it seems more like a case of a phone owner just wanting to recover their own data. Thanks for the downvote, though!
It is a complicated topic but we can't just ignore general public that takes on position without realizing its implications. For decades, general public had opposed marijuana, even when half of them have used them before.
KASLR is useless anyway. A single infoleak and it's game over.

https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3367
Congrats to the team. We've been really happy trying it out. It's a drop-in replacement for the standard flux pattern.
The brain can only run on glucose.

False.

Now, things like alcohol attack the glucose

False, but it is true that the liver breaks down alcohol first, as a toxin.
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>No, there's no evidence that these activities produce economic value of a magnitude that justifies their compensation.

The evidence of economic value is the fact that these activities are so lucrative. If they weren't producing a lot of value somehow, be it directly or indirectly, they wouldn't receive such high compensation in the market. Economic value is essentially a measure of what people are willing to pay for things (revealed preference), under the assumption that people paying for something, absent any cooercion or market distortion, means they value it.
I have a TextExpander macro for ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, which has improved my efficiency by several orders of magnitude.
Despite nearly a year of campaigning, 6 months of extensive political coverage, non-stop advertising, and series of debates with large audiences when push came to shove a third of New Hampshire primary voters decided in the last few days before election.

Perhaps it's a bit premature to treat people's responses to a quickie poll as evidence that people are "taking an opposite stance" as opposed to giving their immediate impression.

It seems likely that Apple, Google and Facebook could make a case that would persuade people, especially with the support of the EFF, ACLU, and Amnesty International.
Not really -- world war 2 was really a settling of the over-punitive peace imposed in the first war.

I wouldn't be surprised if future historians view 1914-1989 as one war.
From the video, it looks like they activated the aircraft's ELT, which is the aircraft version of a PLB. Same system, just integrated into the aircraft and designed to automatically activate in a crash.

At the time that video was recorded (1989), ELTs were analog-only... nowhere near as accurate, and very prone to false alarms.

The new 406 MHz digital beacons are much more accurate. :)
IIRC, that had surprisingly little impact on the overall economy.
> As a fine chocolate connoisseur

> 90% is usually disgusting

Tsk tsk. Amateur.
you could always try it on Azure assuming you haven't built a ton out in AWS already...
What kind of a democracy do we live in where we rely on corporations to protect the people from an overreaching government?
Regarding the scope optimizations: that's an interesting point. I wonder if the different scoping of let/const also create a performance penalty versus var.
No, I'm saying our health system is as good as, if not better, than anywhere else. The problem is there are a lot of Americans who have such a high opinion of the medical system they think they can adopt whatever habits they want to adopt without repercussion. Because the doctors can fix whatever problems result. This is a fantasy.

I'm pretty sure there are some additional costs that result from lifestyle choices, but I don't know how much they impact the bottom line.

And I don't think you can compare spending across countries like that. Americans have different expectations from the medical system - they don't accept money as a reason heroic measures shouldn't be taken, particularly at end-of-life.

There are a lot of countries where it's reasonable to say to the family "Look, your father is very old. We could operate and maybe put his cancer into remission, but he's likely to die in a month or two anyway and we only have so much money." The US isn't one of them, and my suspicion is when we get a single payer system the costs won't actually come down much if at all.
Just a follow-up to correct the record as much as possible. I believe this motorcade was related to the Prime Minister of Malaysia's visit to Apple per the following tweet. Hat tip to the redditor @frenvedd over on r/apple for this information!

https://twitter.com/DelFazli/status/700133655444746241