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Hey thanks for your interest, I have been working on UWP for quite a while now; it has been both good and bad.

My biggest gripe right now is no good DB support (SQLite requires an extension and that two is not enough; you have next to nothing ORMs and well EF7 is still RC). In today's world I can't image an App not finding database as a useful platform feature, Android/iOS have builtin DB support and they prove the fact how important DB support could be. I just don't understand what were people smoking when they made a decision to not include a DB framework in UWP.

XAML framework has it's own bugs, caveats, and yes there is next to nothing material available to help you. They have improved a-lot with x:Bind but then you find bugs like this https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/c2bde144-47ae... over which you would spend a whole week and then say "AH FUCK IT; use Binding instead".

Performance is good with .NET native but not as good as you would picture a native code to be. I have seen Java blowing my mind just with JIT. Personally I felt Microsoft has done good job of performance on PC since they have mastered the x86/x64, but ARM feels a little slow to me.

I personally strongly feel (coming from WP 8.1 platform) that UWP is better but it feels like an RC; it has broken ends, missing good documentation (hell wrong documentation sometimes), and next to nothing opensource community support. One of my colleagues clearly said that if he has to choose to work on another UWP project he would choose to not work on it.
I agree with you about everything except the job offers. But even just the other three points are very good.

I have gotten to the point that whenever I consider a client, job offer or employee, I:

- google them for general information

- look them up on LinkedIn to see what they've done professionally and/or if we have anyone in common. (Yes, they may see I have checked out their profile--so what?)

- look for them on twitter (much lower hit ratio)

All this gives me a much rounder perspective on a person than I would have without these resources.
"Middle out" is not "tip-to-tip efficiency." Though they were indeed invented (discovered?) by the same team at approximately the same time, and may also be linked (depending on one's scientific, mathematical and/or philosophical definition of 'linked') they are independent algorithms solving radically different problems.
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Wasn't sure at first why the title bugged me. I think it is the word 'betrayal'. Parents want their kids to do well. And what that means is likely evolving over time. But is it a right to do better than your parents? Is it an entitlement? I don't think so. Each generation has issues it needs to solve, and by definition those issues are left to them by prior generations. One generation had to survive the Great Depression. The next, World War II. Then, political upheaval of Vietnam. Then 'stagflation', Internet bubble bursting, mortgage crisis... Each person has their own set of opportunities that are influenced by both personal and national economic circumstances. But it is the personal circumstances that make the difference. More than ever, parents need to teach their kids to be resourceful and adaptable. Competition for jobs is more global than it has ever been. I once jokingly advised my kids to become dentists because that was one job that could not be off-shored. Then this whole robotics thing came along ...

What I find interesting are the opportunities for young people in 2016 that prior generations have not seen. First and foremost is the elective jobs that are available: Find something to sell on eBay, borrow your parent's car and drive for Lyft or Uber, build up a stake, rent an apartment and become a hotelier with AirBnb, or buy a car and rent it out through GetAround.com... These are jobs that you can do if you want to do them and can serve both as a place to start now and as a fall back if you find yourself unemployed in the future.

I am not saying it is easy. It wasn't easy for any generation.
Thanks for this. For those of us not following closely, that paper explains the issue clearly.

From my reading, the protocol is supposed to adjust the difficulty of the block chain proof of work to provide a certain number of blocks per hour?
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You simply didn't read what I wrote. I didn't say there isn't talent in Austin, I'm saying these startups don't have it, and can't seem to attract and keep talent.
Didn't thought about it but I think there exists a version already
This is true. The big "chain" hospitals do have pushy tactics, doctors with lab prescription quotas etc. Similarly, but at the other end of the spectrum, there are hospitals in smaller towns that mistreat you or send you off with painkillers.

Clearly, your mileage will vary, so you have to do research, ie, talk to people you trust, much like everything else in India :)
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You should be able to use this like any other WinRT component in WinJS.

SQLite support should hopefully get better now that it has been added to the platform SDK.

Also, have you tried PouchDB yet? I've gotten some good results from it.
This is false. There is not "near consensus". There was heavy pressure at the event to reach some conclusion -- some who agreed have since expressed other viewpoints. A number of miners who signed that document went on to experiment with Classic (the alternative client). Also, that group wasn't fully representive.

Looking at users, the majority are very unhappy with how Core has operated over the past year.

Additionally, running Classic isn't "taking over the network", it is a way to get a change into the protocol without Core's approval. The next software upgrade after that could very easily come from Core. Of course, it also sends a strong message that Core needs to listen to others more, and that can't unilaterally mold Bitcoin to their own personal vision.
It's great -- it's 87 LOC though. And don't forget: coverage is tested in terms of LOC, not in terms of program states.
That line of thinking makes about as much sense as "marijuana will never be legal because they can't tax it."
I've always thought that LinkedIn really does not have "market fit" and could be so much more of a professional tool and resource. It's like LinkedIn is stuck in an old paradigm of social networking and can't find a way to move forward and innovate or see a path forward.

Maybe that's why they are having such a difficult time and are hitting a wall and the stock took a dive.
the article addresses this directly as well

> In order to get coverage of the top of the headdress, the scanner would have to be held high above the statue, and not at waist level as the video indicates.
+1 totally worth watching
They did mention PTSD, I think they spelled it out fully.
I find LinkedIn very useful. I use it before every external meeting to get background on the others, and provide my profile to offer the same courtesy.

The frustration is that it could be so much more. They have the richest demographic of customers and the worlds best human capital map. They could be doing so much more than paid Lead Generation for salespeople and recruiters. (And this is coming from someone who has used it for both)
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and have two things half as great?

No, similar to Abe lincoln bringing the entire union together splitting the country into a 'north' and 'south' would have disabled the progress that was made in the 100 years after.

trying to make everyone happy is not possible and in my opinion is one of the first steps towards failure.
They also invested in Atom Bank (a new mobile-only bank in the UK): http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/24/uk-mobile-only-atom-bank-pi...
It takes a day of work to use this code to disable the autodestruct, but that doesn't really change anything. That they have this code (that nobody else has) at all is the main reason a judge can force the safe maker to assist with the investigation.
Even math has an infinity of infinities - Cantor findings etc.
Selling advertising is also a straightforward traditional business model.
> I'm personally not going to A/B test larger webpage downloads for my customers.

That's very sensible. But then you can't state that smaller images alone increased your conversion rate by 56%. Maybe your products are just more Winter-appropriate? If you can't control for confounding factors, you can't make a strong conclusion.

...On the other hand, in a contrived example, one could imagine smaller images could increase conversion rate by 1000% (if it cuts several minutes off the process; a website that takes 5 minutes to load will get no customers).

What I would like to see is an analysis of how much faster the shopping experience is post-compression. Perhaps for some of those edge cases (like your 250+ item shoppers)
If you try to copy a search result, it turns into a Google url that redirects to the result.

On iOS this doesn't happen for some reason.
It's incorrect to assume that a shell script that uses tools like xxd and awk is distro-specific. Almost every distribution ships the GNU coreutils and other GNU base tools. It's going to work on basically every distribution. What makes distributions unique is their package manager, release and security philosophy, amount of cruft, etc.
I think it's about as difficult as it needs to be...in that it purports to be an interactive visualization builder that also serves as a self-hosted visualization player, as well as a kind of database/spreadsheet hybrid (or at least, a hookup between those kinds of things)...for non-technical users who need all of those things, all at once...Tableau is probably the best solution. But I usually only need one of those things at a time...or, that's how I approach my data problems: work with it in SQL/Excel and export into a portable format (i.e. JSOn or CSV) that a data visualization tool can make do with, whether that data viz tool is just, well, Excel, or ggplot2, or D3, if I need a web interactive. And I know how to upload/host my own web content.

So Tableau is difficult because it's an all-in-one package with a lot of moving parts...and I rarely need all of those moving parts. While I don't use Tableau myself, I know many people who do, and generally they use it because they don't know how to do web things, period...i.e. Tableau's web charts "just work", once you learn how to build them.

Of course, "just works" is a moving target in this day of responsive web and AMP and non-Web platforms (i.e. Facebook Instant Articles)...media publications that produce Tableau viz are going to have to find a workaround, or hope that Tableau continues to innovate in making their viz packages portable.
I presume waste-negative means it can take existing waste as fuel, and make it less dangerous while making energy still (as current fast breeder reactors can, though not on a small scale afaik). Carbon negative presumably just means "uses less carbon per kwh over the whole lifecycle than the diesel generator it replaces" which shouldn't be too hard to achieve.

"Small" presumably makes this harder.

You're right though, some more technical details would be nice.
At least with Pidgin I could participate with any modern networked computing device. We have now reached a point where the most popular messaging networks are exclusively tied to smartphones (e.g., WhatsApp).

What worries me most though, is that some businesses and governments no longer appear willing to use e-mail for external formal communication at all. When I asked my bank (ING in the Netherlands) how I could e-mail them with a question, they stated that e-mail is no longer an option (not even via a web-form), and that I would have to use Twitter direct messages, Facebook, or a web-based chat-page for any digital communication with them.

E-mail may not be hip, but I do get to keep an archive with sent and received communications that I can easily backup and keep for future reference, just like I do with paper mail (at least the important stuff).
So your talking about a system where earlier user's posts have more weight than newer users?
I realised yesterday that its been almost exactly ten years since I stopped using LinkedIn!
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Without looking it up I'd still be willing to bet that Thucydides meant war is expensive, not that it's profitable.
>Lincoln walks into the neurohacker meeting I am attending in a garage in San Francisco.

first sentence really paints a picture
>Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

-Friederich Nietzsche

Don't let yourself get depressed, that's one of the worst things you could do in such a situation which calls for change. I've been there and it helps no one to feel sorry for yourself all the time.

Realize that although we are poised technologically to destroy everything, the world is in fact the most peaceful it has been in a long time.

Also, stop reading so much into YouTube comments, they are not representative of the world at large. I suspect many of the inflammatory provocative comments on there are astroturf anyway.

>Would you like to save the world from the degradation and destruction it seems destined for? Then step away from shallow mass movements and quietly go to work on your own self-awareness. If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

-Lao Tzu
One possibility is that there were no 'hacker' types. The scan might have just been given to them by someone sympathetic to their cause, and the easiest way to avoid investigation while still getting press is to carry in an unplugged Kinect and claim to have made the scan yourself.
Math has long tradition of generalizing definitions to make sense for larger domains, when it's useful. See fractional powers, complex numbers, quaternions, and many more.

I can imagine defining uniqueness as a function returning real number from <0; 1> instead of a boolean value. For example:

let U(p, x, X) be the uniqueness of property(function) p(x) for element x of set X

U(p, x, X) = 1.0 - (size of X')/(size of X\{x}), where
X' = set of all elements x' of X such that p(x')=p(x) and x' != x

Property p of element x of set X is strictly unique when, and only when U(p, x, X) = 1

When it's useful? For example for speaking about minimizing collisions of hashes for given data.

Another way of thinking about it: uniqueness is 1-probability of uniformly randomly finding element with same value of p in X as x after removing x from X.
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Your 95% number is completely made up, and doesn't match what others are seeing. There are many posts in r/bitcoin that are pro-large-blocks/anti-Core with hundreds of upvotes.
Not sure about the carbon-negative part, but several types of breeder reactor can be fed nuclear waste exclusively after an initial charge.
I'll take a stab and say that at 3-4 years old I had a pretty decent idea that other people had a mind of their own. It wasn't so easily learned but oddly enough I picked it up around 3 that I knew my mind was wholly separated from my sister, mom, dad, and grand parents. I can't explain how I got the concept down I just did. A better way to explain it is that it's also when my memories become far more concrete was around 3 years old (about the time I got into Transformers and He-man. An odd way to place it but it was definitely when things got more like what they are now, before then it was a mushy blur of noise and color tbh.).
Related:

An executive from America was standing at the pier of a Mexican village, taking a much needed vacation. It was his first in more than 10 years. He noticed a small boat docked with just one fisherman on board. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The executive complimented the Mexican fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

The fisherman replied, only a little while.

The executive then asked, why didnt you stay out longer
and catch more fish?

The fisherman replied, I have enough to support my family for a little while.

The executive then asked, but what do you do with the rest of your time?

The Mexican fisherman said, I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, and stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos, I have a full and busy life.

The executive scoffed, I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing, and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually NYC where you will run your expanding enterprise.

The Mexican fisherman asked, But, how long will this all take?

To which the American replied, 15-20 years.

But what then?

The American laughed and said thats the best part. When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions.

Millions.. Then what?

The American said, Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, and stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos.
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Interesting stuff. As a once kinect enthusiast I was completely blown away by the quality of this thing. Normally, the kinect is a pita to deal with, is very touchy, and gives a faily low quality/res return. I just assumed they were using some fancy image stabilization and some fuzzy logic/hand cleanup to make it not look terrible. Or that the Xbox One kinect was just much higher resolution than the original, but a quick google search tells me the difference is negligible. Hell, if the kinect could do resolutions at this level natively, everyone would buy one as it would exceed 3D laser scanners costing thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars.

The hacker theory is interesting, but I wonder if someone with access to this statue during off-hours performed this with a proper laser scanner and the kinect story is cover to make sure he doesn't get caught. Sounds like someone might be in trouble now. Of all the countries to have an intellectual freedom debate/trial, it seems that politically unstable Egypt would be one of the worst for any positive outcome here.

Its all a shame. We should have good 3D scans of every museum item of note by now and available for free for the public. How can we sell this concept to the boards, trustees, curators, and bureaucrats who control these items? Wasn't there a big controversy when high-quality color film came out way back when about publishing photos of art pieces and museum pieces? Seems like we're destined to re-invent this conflict over and over as technology advances.

edit: This bust is permanently housed in Germany, I just assumed it was on temporary loan. Thanks for the correction below.
My understanding is, it's not just active users, but their level of engagement and evidence that the engagement is in a direction that will drive growth. To use a tired example, Facebook at Harvard didn't have a lot of active users from an absolute standpoint, but the people who used it were actively engaged and because the proportion of the target community was so high it suggested a model for growth -- expanding to similar communities.

At first there wasn't a numbers game, there was just something that people used and loved because it made their life more interesting.

Good luck.
Well, I've found the contrary: at least on Spain their app/web/ATM experience is much better designed than other banks with atrocious UX and WebView-based mobile apps.
Ah, my intention radar was off. I assumed you were making an observation but didnt jump to the probable conclusion
If you went there alone, then you're not really the target customer.

Most customers come to Ikea with family or spouse. The store's design provides a space of reflection on the state of their own home against an unfolding sequence of idealized Scandinavian nuclear families. At the end of the pilgrimage, ample opportunity is provided to make amends with cheap impulse purchases.
This is interesting to hear about somebody approaching nuclear with a start-up type approach. As a lay person I hear about reactor designs that can reduce nuclear waste and make a truck load more energy off it at the same time, which leaves me wondering why these things don't get made. Is it all institutional politics as this article makes out, or is there a safety/proliferation issue there as well?

If the institutional inertia has a large part to play then a startup model would be very promising.
I don't know, I just don't like Github wikis. I find issues to be more "social".
I'm not sure you mean atomic, unless you've seen cases where the file you get from S3 is a mix of the old and new version. Did you mean consistent (which is what you describe)?
> Note that it's generally not desirable to have FLIF used on the Web. A decent-quality JPEG will load at full resolution quicker than it takes FLIF to show a half-resolution preview.

On the other hand, this allows browsers on metered-bandwidth connections to control bandwidth more effectively. Rather than disabling images entirely, this would allow loading a low-resolution version and stopping, and letting the user control whether to load the rest of the image.
I'm curious about patent/ licensing restrictions.

From what I gather it is patent free and the implementation is GPLv3?

Does this mean someone else could make a compatible encoder/decoder with a less restrictive license?
No one except others using the new version of the software. If the majority decided to switch, the un-upgraded nodes would be cut off.

Choosing the version to run is a political and economic decision.
You're right, they're trying to get me interested in other jobs, which would then lead to an interview etc. Maybe "recruiter proposals" or something would be better.

As for how they should approach you, I recently got annoyed enough by bad approaches to write a blog post about it: http://henrikwarne.com/2015/11/22/recruiting-software-develo...