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As someone who's never used Mono or Xamarin, but who has played around with CoreCLR and the DNX tooling. I can't figure out whether to start developing with Mono, or wait for CoreCLR to mature. I don't understand the roadmap.
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This can happen when some other developer adds to your enum not knowing about the use.
and here I am with an anthropology degree.

In fairness, I am a developer for an anthropological research agency at a large university. That is a plus.

I'll take a look at that book. Thanks.
I would always get up early on Saturday for cartoons, infact I only started sleeping in because I was no longer interested in the new shows. That was somewhere around 1999 because I remember hating the new Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon.
Why I choose to pay $400 to live in a box
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Yes, to discourage abuse. This is pretty standard for free trials of all kinds of products.
Maybe this is why we perceive so little matter in our universe. Maybe our universe is packed to its densest in its natural higher dimension :))
I often end up writing an immutable wrapper for date/time in different programming languages.
Can you produce any evidence to support your theory?
Oh this is the ugliest part.

When you spend 20 years convincing people that the right place to put their retirement nest egg is in mutual funds and stocks and that defined benefit pensions are not economically viable and that gov't run social security should be capped or cut...

Well big surprise you now have a huge constituency demanding that 'the stock market' be bailed out.
Xamarin Studio doesn't run on Linux.
I've made apps with Xamarin before. For UI it's basically a very thin wrapper around existing UI code (at least pre-Xamarin Forms). I basically could take my existing native iOS knowledge, look up what they changed the function or object name to in Xamarin (usually a minor name change to be more idiomatic to C#), and set things up almost exactly the way I would have done in Objective-C code.

It was actually very common that if I didn't know how to do something I'd look it up for iOS on Stack Overflow, because it was almost certainly answered there, then look up the corresponding Xamarin object/function names.
... which are each just small bags of chemicals.

But it's only at the level of a brain that the illusion of consciousness appears.
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That makes a lot of sense. Yeah, you should consider renaming it to something more clear. Maybe even change it into several commands with better names. Your docs frame the issue as whether it allows dynamic/JIT stuff or not. So, static-only, allow-dynamic, or allow-jit come to mind.
Verizon had a breach in December too
Agreed.

A common objection from new developers is that "commit messages are hard and they slow me down", so if that's how you feel (for example, you're starting a fresh project): go crazy with your commits and don't let them slow you down. But then rebase, squash, and edit the commits before sharing them.

If a developer consistently pushes commits like this, they should be guided by their team lead to understand their importance. But if over time they refused to improve them, in many cases that would eventually be fireable. Commits are the technical paper trail: whether used when diagnosing issues, merging, compiling release notes, or whatever. Making the messages clear is extremely important.
There's no built-in feature that lets you use a simple passcode after the initial unlock.

Touch ID ends up working like this, where your fingerprint takes the place of that simple passcode. But for people who don't want to use a fingerprint, you're stuck using the same passcode or passphrase for each unlock.
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You might like Nim or Crystal?
And don't forget that it must be returned upon an acquittal in those proceedings.
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Correct. The Xamarin API is 1:1 aligned with the native platform. To the point that it is almost entirely generated from automatic tooling with the odd "fix up" here and there.

Xamarin Forms however is a framework that performs abstraction, in a similar vein as React Native. Xamarin Forms is built upon the Xamarin API.
I live just outside the Sacramento area. Talking to a coworker, I was surprised to learn that SMUD's (Sac area utility) highest "tier" rate was just under PG&E's (most of the rest of CA) lowest "tier" rate. Once you use your "quota" of electricity (easy to do with kids), you move out of tier 1 base pricing ($0.18/kwh for PG&E) into tier 2, which is currently $0.25/kwh, then tier 3, then tier 4 (which I think is in the $0.35 to $0.40 range per kwh). So, putting in at least a partial system is a no brainer.

If you look on the price map in the article, there is a pale colored blob around Sacramento, which reflects that SMUD's prices are a great deal less than PG&E's. I don't know that solar makes sense if you are on SMUD.

During Spring break (nice sunny but not hot) weather, we generated a surplus (although we would not have if it were cloudy). I'm looking forward to being able to use the A/C this summer w/out getting a $300 to $400 electric bill.
I'm really positively surprised how observant you are to these issues. Thank you for your insight, especially great to hear from a German.
To swallow Linux whole, especially dev environments.
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It isn't actually. What happens in other countries is, nobody ever says "Everybody, lets go kill this person", rather "Everybody, the other community must pay".

If the courts and police starts prosecuting that kind of euphemism laden language, then they shift further.

On the other hand, keep everything open and people tend to learn and build filters for stuff like this.
This is a common way of bypassing the courts. US police departments have gradually ratcheted up the amount of punishment they can inflict on people without court consent, with a combination of civil forfeiture, pre-trial detainment and destruction of property. They get away with it because the courts have neither the will nor the resources to push back effectively. The practical result has been a loss of faith in the US criminal justice system, which is a threat to the innocent, not a defender of it.
This is from the SO survey and I think it's a bit misleading. Only 13% of respondents say they are only self-taught as opposed to combining autodidacticism with some other method of learning.
because the command line is one of the best ways to interface with a computer, and chat bots are fuzzy commandlines.
There have been two different Greek governments in this period.

Smearing Syriza, a socialist formation which made the same critique as the above poster, and would never have signed those deals -- for the corrupt actions of New Democracy & PASOK which did is a little bit of intellectual dishonesty.
I'm naturally a late sleeper, I travelled from UK to California then Floria for a couple of weeks and found I pretty instantly became a morning person in the new time zone.

Though I'm not sure if that is down to exhaustion from a 23 hour journey forcing me to sleep earlier and longer for a few nights and thus re-jigging my sleep cycle.
*phenotype
"There are strong parallels between people who give this kind of advice to delayed sleep sufferers and people who think they can cure homosexuality"

I almost said the same thing in another post, but thought it was too controversial. Kudos to you for saying it - I agree the mindset feels similar.
Sure, these aren't for defensive programming—they're for places where you know a location is unreachable, but your compiler can't prove it for you. The example given in the rust docs, for example, is a match clause with complete guard arms (i.e. if n < 0 and if n >= 0).
Not sure if this helps.
I'm also a self-thought programmer coming from a similar story -started programming at 10 and never stopped since-
I'm in law school now, but I continue to spend nearly all my time hacking.
Sometimes I think it's better not working as a programmer, because I'm very passionate about computers.

I was depressed for a long time that I couldn't study CS. Then I realized, I can learn what I want freely. I have an entire life dedicated to computers.

Although I secretly dream about inventing the next facebook, I mostly embraced the fact that I won't be able to get a formal education and a job in the field.

Tinkering with computers is part of who I am.
The rest is not in my hands.
Red Hat isn't free.
Delayed reply, but, I think the method matters. How we act should driven by the context of the situation. In an interview I don't think telling someone to fuck off is effective. What you want to do is to rebuke the interviewer. The interviewer might be making the distinction of "elite school" == competence without even thinking about it, in this instance telling them to fuck off will probably just reinforce this view. There is no need to go from polite interview to full nuclear, "fuck off" is an unnecessary escalation.
"They got an anonymous tip"

Why did they even need that, the couple called them up told them they planned to sell mary jane and the hours they planned to do it, "Come on down, check it out", yet the police still needed to contrive an anonymous tip for some reason.
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The US has a higher tolerance for hate speech, but that doesn't mean you're allowed to say anything. The bar is comparably low to sue for defamation and libel, for example. Pretty much only the UK (perhaps France?) is less free in that particular aspect for comparable countries.

And free speech is not very useful unless you have access to ways to practice it. In a country where mass media practice active censorship voluntarily (against "wardrobe malfunctions" and swear words) in order to avoid state sanctions, that absolutist view gets a bit problematic.
"The answer is Azure. While Microsoft wants you to run Windows, they care even more that you're running in their cloud."

The lock in here is a very hard to resist value proposition. I started using Azure because they gave hundreds of dollars a month for free (for I think 3 years). I then started to use their services because it's just simpler. Core made that decision even easier for me. I originally started using Core because my thinking was "if i'm on linux, I can always move to AWS, linux is pretty competitive everywhere", then I needed a solution that had a market place offer (which is not free) or an azure service offer (which is free). I decided to choose the azure solution, but I designed my software with an interface so in theory i could replace the implementation if I ever needed to move to AWS. However, i'm now starting to realize that while I've always tried to choose solutions so I can easily move, it's becoming increasingly more difficult. In 3 years I may have the capability to move, but i'm now becoming aware that it might not be practical to move. They got me.
I halfway joke that there is a single test whether a non programmer has any chance of becoming a programmer. Do they right click?

I guess there are some analogs for different environments. Command line, do they know about man pages. General problems, do they google it first or ask for support. etc...
You're making a comment that's often repeated when talking about whether or not a bank bailout is a good idea.. but that is not the issue being discussed here.

This conversation is about whether or not it's in everyone's best interest to try harder for criminal prosecution in these cases.. which should not be something determined by things like population size.
They can use his fingerprint, if they did it within 48 hours of the last time he unlocked his phone with the passphrase, and if he didn't shut the phone off or make five failed fingerprint attempts in a row.

I'm guessing it's been well over 48 hours since the suspect last had access to this phone, so that would no longer apply.
Really? Its the sunlight or something that controls serotonin? Its certainly not the clock. Its hard to see how the display on an electronic device has any effect on sleep time. Likewise, how it can be justified that getting up late is some health requirement, because the clock again.
There's a related RadioLab episode on this topic. A Scandinavian researcher showed that if you underwent caloric restriction in your adolescence, then surprisingly, your descendants are less likely to suffer from heart disease, diabetes, and other illnesses related to diet.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/251876-inheritance/
That's but _one_ of the problems....
"zero usable experience" is a bit harsh and doesn't reflect reality. There are internship programs where students have a chance to gain work experience as well as work-study. And anyway, programming is not rocket science and even rocket scientists have "zero usable experience" in rocket science when they land their first jobs. Fresh-out-of-college hires should be placed in junior roles and mentored systematically by experts rather than handed over to project-management professionals who will thrust deliverables upon them.

As for "one year of programming" [before college] what do you mean? There are already AP computer science courses for students in high school. Most high schools have enough trouble getting students ready for college, no need to add comp-sci when the basics are on such poor foundations. Much more effective to provide a solid grounding in mathematics, writing, and science, history, and literature in high school.
These are the cars of Roborace, the world's first driverless racing series
It's interesting that just putting M13 in the nasal passages of the control group of mice "showed very nice recovery of their cognitive function" - if I read the article correctly.

I wonder if someone could try that in humans in some less FDA obsessed country given that "M13, the phage was originally isolated from sewage in Germany 50 years ago" and so is presumably not that hard to come by.

My dad has Parkinsons like deterioration at the moment and it would be nice to have some recovery of cognitive function now rather than waiting for the treatment to be officially approved after he's been dead for a decade or two.
That is called "Content".

Hilariously, this exact website could not stop fawning over Apple Music's nearly identical curated, editor-created or automatically generated content.

Personally, I love the Spotify curated content.

I listen to my Discover Weekly every single Monday and very often choose one of their regularly changing playlists when I'm not listening to my own lists.
I'm a big fan of 'DO NOT MERGE' in git logs
clickbait headline. Most people learn about the abstract double helix structure that is a rigid rod, but that's still quite applicable and correct for many situations. What this article is really about is that DNA folds into complex 3D structures; most of this was actually known in the 80s and 90s and very little additional work has been done, much to my chagrin.
For me it's because there are very few databases (you can count them on one hand) that check the following boxes:

* Document or SQL Storage
* Integrated Full Text Search
* Can transparently survive a node going down (load balancer or client driver support)
* Highly consistent by default, or allow operation level quorum settings
* DR options with minimal lost writes
* Transaction support
* Hosted
* Affordable for small businesses with low average load, but including the occassional peaky or seasonal issues (large bulk imports, auto/consumer/product/etc-show traffic spikes for a few days, etc)

Cloudant meets everything but Transactions. But that's a big one.

Most databases you might think of don't satisfy the Hosted option. And considering how easy it is to loose other items on the list through misconfiguration or maintenance issues, that's a lot more of a core feature than might be obvious for a small shop. It's great if node failure is transparent in theory, but if it doesn't work in practice it may as well not exist.

Most of the rest don't integrate full-text-search. That's huge. It means a ton of concerns move from the database vendor, to you, the application developer. Any database that doesn't (at least plan to) integrate full-text-search is one with a much higher development and operations cost.

And the number of databases that promise to (eventually) deliver distributed SQL? There was 1 a few years ago (AFAIK) that met most of those: FoundationDB. Never to be heard from again. :-)

I don't need a GraphDB for my CMS-like sites. That's just not a very good fit. And working without JOINs (though it sounds like they're on the roadmap here) is not as onerous as you'd imagine for many sites, and it often brings along the side-effect of forcing you to write a much more efficient/fast product against denormalized data.

So any database that promises to check most of those boxes is worth keeping an eye on (IMO). Though the things that kill most solutions candidacy for me are:

- lack of integrated Search
- lack of Hosted/Managed option

Everything else is pretty flexible.
> You can't accuse non-living property of a crime, you can only seize assets as part of a normal criminal proceeding.

Well, this is the heart of civil forfeiture, and without it there isn't any. Civil forfeiture is also how they confiscate contraband, or anything that is itself illegal to own. I imagine without CF law enforcement would be forced to charge you with a crime to remove illegal property from you. This might be problematic in the case of guns, illegal substances, explosives, etc. I'm not sure about requiring a 16 year old to be charged with a crime for a police officer to take him beer away, so I understand this argument to some degree. It's a case of police discretion being warped into something it wasn't intended to be.

> And under no circumstances can the proceeds from a seizure be given to anybody in the decision-making chain.

This is common sense, but is wrapped up on the idea of using CF to help fund police departments because the public doesn't want to. Personally, I would like to see the money go towards treatment and counseling for people with problems with drugs, addiction, criminal records and mental illnesses, and community building and outreach programs.
In my teenage years I hated going to sleep because I was riddled with anxiety, so generally I would stay up all night so that it made it easier to sleep the next day. My mom was a night owl, but my dad would go to sleep at 9pm like clockwork and I never understood how.

It wasn't until I started weightlifting the past several years where I've found myself actively going to sleep at reasonable hours (9-11pm) because not only am I tired from the exercising, but because I know my body needs the sleep to rebuild itself. My time inside the gym would be wasted without the sleep. I also track my calories obsessively fwiw.
Will they Open Source the windows spyware... er... "metrics collection" code?
Yeah, unfortunately my company has "core hours" that start @9am so I am expected to be around starting @9am.
> There's always at least a bit of racist motivation for complaints about NBA players' "egos and attitudes".

Oh, is there? That's quite a harsh accusation -- it can get people instantly fired nowadays -- so I'm sure you can back it up.

> It's like a dog whistle in that certain audiences hear the message, and others don't.

You seem to be very good indeed at hearing this alleged dog whistle. Perhaps the problem is a little closer to home than you realize.
Winners and losers from my perspective:
- Linux CLI beats Windows CLI - hopefully I can go the rest of my life without learning to use Powershell or cmd.exe. If anything this cements rather than undermines my preference to use Linux on embedded devices and webservers.
- Windows desktop environment beats Linux environments. I'm now less likely to use Unity/GNOME/KDE in my desktop OS, because, while they are ok, they were never one of the reasons I used Linux for my desktop.

I'm not sure which OS this helps/hurts more in the long run, but I know I'm happy.

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft
(double disclaimer: but I'm almost fresh out of university)
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CentOS sure is.
I'd love to use Lambda, but the cold start issue[1] makes it a nonstarter for me. Anyone know if Azure Functions works around/solves this problem?

[1] documented here, e.g. https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=181348
A purely selfish request, I know, but may I ask why? :)
What really struck me about this is that for me, personally, it would be very difficult to use both of the skill sets demonstrated here at the same time: coding and writing prose.
> It's probably worth noting that I don't think @gkya is supporting Erdogan

Thanks, I see that now. Some of @gkya's words sounded like they take the opposite viewpoint, such as,

>> Speech should not be regulated in any ways

>> Freedom of speech does not mean irresponsible and banale flow of whatever one thinks.

>> freedom of speech must not mean that one can be reckless, inconsiderate and demeaning.

It reads like it was unedited and is very hard to follow

> When one looks at his actions in the light of those motives his actions make a lot of sense. Without those motives his actions appear stupid.

I disagree, see my comments about astute businessmen not using yes-men above. No worries if we don't agree here. Countries are most certainly businesses. They're in the business of acquiring people who generate money.
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Which is why I always chuckle when tech workers fight labor regulations or unions.

You are not a temporarily embarrassed millionaire. One day you will be old, and it will be harder to find work. Or you will be discriminated against without recourse. Or your employer will try to work you beyond what they're paying you for. Or you will have a wife and family you want to spend time with outside of your job.

Organized labor was never about protecting the mediocre. It was about providing labor with negotiating power against capital.
:(

I was really hoping I would be able to develop on Linux. Visual Studio is nice (my favorite IDE actually), but I'm willing to put up with lesser IDEs if it means I don't have to use Windows.
Damn. I based my entire GCSE coursework on one of her works a few years back, and I remember just sitting there loving every piece. It's a sad day.
Austrian Economics clearly favors letting banks fail. Keynesian Economics and Chicago School Monetarists support bailing out banks. Although you have to infer these things out.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023034439045755782...
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asciinema is a very useful. But, what I found unappealing about it was that I needed asciinema to play the recordings (is that still the case?). I wanted to be able to put the rendered session anywhere I wanted.

The example links are actually hosted on my server and were uploaded using Dropshare. Pretty easy peasy if I need to share something that I don't want public.
So let him sue and let the courts deal with it.

Do you think the media needs to be a little more accountable or the hysteria is good?
most of those probably tack on an "until..."
Given Apple's declined to say what happened with China's "security" requests, but China's allowed them to continue doing business, the FBI's head met with them in China to talk about Apple, etc. -- I believe their enough known to merit Apple and the FBI going on the record regarding what, if anything, happened, and their position on the topic.
Also, every item taken must be written down, the list signed by the officer overseeing the raid and by the accused and a copy given to the accused.