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This is why web apps are bad. (among other reasons) The UI can change for any reason without you knowing and with no way to stop it.
I went to high school in Wisconsin and walking was always an option. We did close schools when the temperature dropped below -40, though.
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X number of employees?

The principle of the model is make em pay once they can afford it. So having X employees would usually mean the company can afford to pay say $10 per employee per year to use it.
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What I have been wondering is, do later start times really help teenagers? I know when I was going to high school, if I was allowed to sleep in for an extra two hours, I would have stayed up two hours later at night. Meaning I got the exact same amount of sleep. Is this not common? Or does later start time actually lead to more sleep on average? Also, the homework load does not get lighter, so the amount of time they have to stay up to do the homework stays the same. The start time just shifts to later in the day. Is there any research out there that shows changing start times does anything other than shift the entire schedule in the day? With the exact same amount of time spent at school, time doing homework, sleeping, etc.?
It was introduced with those words. They have changed since (a long time ago too).
Chicago's is heavily skewed by the loop stops - where almost nobody lives. Filtering those out would give a much clearer view.
A second major difficulty is your religion. And you have different religions. The question of religion, you have man created god, sorry, god created man in his image

Hahaha that was one of the most beautiful Freudian Slips I ever had the joy of witnessing.

That aside, the philosophical introduction seems mediocre, those are questions you naturally come up with all by yourself if you use computers.

As much as I love Hamming's work like Hamming codes, I am not a fan of his lectures (it is not the first one I've started watching either).
It's possible to have 'this' == NULL. Consider the code:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

class myclass
{
public:
int sum(int a, int b)
{
cout << this << endl;
return a + b;
}
};

int main()
{
cout << ((myclass*)0)->sum(10, 11) << endl;
return 0;
}

this will print:
0
21

And it's not a null pointer dereference because in C++ it's the function responsible to know the class its belongs to. It means that this code:

((myclass*)0)->sum(10, 11)

should become:

sum(0 /*this*/, 10, 11)

and not

0->sum(10, 11)

It can be UB in the C++ specification, but considering the systemv abi, 'this' is just a parameter that will be pushed in the call stack before calling 'sum'.
The chapters are largely independent, so I have no information or defense re NYC.

But yes, total plug there. The model, the national organization (unless they somehow got involved with NYC debacle?), and most of the chapters are organizations largely successful and worthy of people's volunteering and donation. The article was lacking background there. The chapters all need the HN kind of people helping out.
That is also why they are good. The UI will change and evolve and perfect, without you thinking about it.

--

Glass half-full kind of guy.
Hello, please also consider VPN usage. Unlike Tor, we even pay for this service, because we take it so seriously.

Despite using the most reputable VPN provider I could find with a serious privacy policy; I've seen a steady increase in Captcha requests from CloudFlare to simply view read-only pages. And all I can think is that the Captcha page often requires the same amount of bandwidth as the page I was requesting in the first place.

The net effect is that it's not saving you any CPU usage or bandwidth (if anything, it's costing you more as we still request the actual page after the Captcha system runs), it's making customers like me abandon your customer's sites out of frustration, and it's eroding the last line of defense we have against invasive tracking.

I'm sympathetic to the problem you're trying to solve, but surely there must be a better way for simple GET requests.

This doesn't just affect people like me as a user. Having experienced this, I would be averse to deploying or recommending CloudFlare in its current state.
Probably. Here everyone did it, alone at my school we had 700 kids each morning coming by bike or foot. Out of 1200.

It was literally impossible to drive on the road for cars during the half hour each morning and afternoon where we kids were there.

Similar to Amsterdam or København
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Even at 60 latitude it is still possible to wake up durung winter if not after sunrise but at least at dawn if one can afford to wake up at 8:00.

For a while I had to wake before 6:00 and it really sucked at winter when sunrise here is after 9:00. This has little to do with the amount of sleeping. To my surprise I managed to switch to going to bed before 10pm. It is precisely waking up in the dark that was problematic.
Supposedly this is no longer the case as of the previous generation (T450*, X250, etc.).

http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/introducing-our-new-product-o...
Then universities should charge even higher tuitions or shift some of the ridiculous money for tuitions they're already getting and burning into building over-the-top facilities around to offer these people more money, or just don't have a computer science program.

Over the past ten years I've seen my alma mater replace almost a third of its campus with brand new buildings 2 to 3 times the size of the old ones, and it has plans to replace almost half its campus by 2025 (its plan is a public document). The buildings it replaced were starting to show their age a bit, but they were still plenty usable (one building legitimately had health code violations. Ironically, it's one of the buildings that still hasn't been demolished yet).

Meanwhile tuition there has more than doubled in less than ten years. Some of that is due to the government reducing its subsidy, but a good chunk of it is going into these massive construction projects.

Some of that money can go to better salaries for professors getting lured by higher salaries elsewhere, surely (although I do worry more of it will go to administration salaries instead).

Whining about losing employees because you aren't willing to pay enough (or offer enough ancillary benefits to augment your pay), especially when your tuitions are astronomical anyway, just comes across as arrogant, and they deserve to lose their best people.
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This is still undefined behavior. Sometimes undefined behavior does what you want, but you can't count on it.
I'm expecting this to blow up in Germany. We are already very critical of Facebook and like our privacy. (Google Chrome here still hasn't fully recovered from the rough start.)

My employer doesn't care about people's privacy. But when there's no market share then there's no need to support the product.
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> If we agree that ads are bad, why not just ban them altogether and replace them with one single directory of stuff and stuff providers where customer would go to when he needs some stuff.

That's exactly what has happened. Web browser users have "banned" ads by using ad blocking extensions or some other means of removing ads. Then if they want to buy something, they search for it on Google.
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I find clojure's multimethods (http://clojure.org/reference/multimethods) really awesome in the context of dispatching.
DDG is my new-tab page, so that helps. Plus, if the wiki page is lacking, I can just go back and do a normal search or a Google search or a Stack Overflow search just by changing a couple characters at the end.
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Oh, the irony. To participate, you must, per the announcement, "agree to comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws". Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
The last time i tried running the engine it would constantly put load on the GPU (even if the game view is paused) resulting in high temps and noisy fans. I also barely got 10fps in the gameview on a 13" Macbook Pro with Iris 5000 graphics. Did they fix this for OSX ?
If anyone told me 10 years ago that Unreal and CryEngine would be, for all practical purposes, free... It's wonderful time to be a gamedev (tech-wise), I presume.

Writing your own graphics engine now seems to be more in line if you really enjoy writing your engine more than the game itself - or if you really want to do something you can't do easily with engines available.
Aren't you worried about stress fractures in your feet? Especially since your bones were still growing at the time?
I don't think any of the sports coaches I played for would have cared if practice took until 6pm. Sometimes it did take that long (or longer, until dark) except that after the state-limited amount of practice time an "optional" senior-led workout was what we told everyone we were attending. If we had more time before school, our light conditioning could have been a full-blown practice.
If classes ending at 3 happened across an entire area, I'm sure the high school jobs would move to accommodate.

My 11th and 12th years happened in 2008/2009 so good luck having a job as a high schooler.
Elitism at it's best. Sheesh. There's about a thousand different ways this guy could have made his complaint known without raging like that.
I don't think it's possible without user's permission, so no it's likely one of those public GeoIP databases which are usually a bit behind, inaccurate and incomplete.
This is the type of technology that is crying out for a killerapp, but may end up struggling to find one.

I had a Vodafone R&D team working with the Sony 3D AR glasses (aka 'Tom Hanks CES glasses'). We loved the tech and had a great playground, but couldn't get to the creation of one app that solved a clear painpoint.

We ended up with glorious tech demos, but they were all suited for a short-lived themepark attraction but not for ongoing use.

Anyway, I am excitedly waiting for someone who can do better than us.
It could just be daylights saving time fooling me, but I did lacrosse in high school and practices went until it was dark.
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Respect for flovilmart for responding like he did. The other guy is clearly having a bad day and flovilmart just keeps his cool.
April ... fools? :|
Unfortunately rude tone and elitism with it like this seems acceptable in some circles as a sign of intelligence.
from https://talks.golang.org/2015/gogo.slide#4

"Why move the compiler to Go?

Not for validation; we have more pragmatic motives:
Go is easier to write (correctly) than C.
Go is easier to debug than C (even absent a debugger).
Go is the only language you'd need to know; encourages contributions.
Go has better modularity, tooling, testing, profiling, ...
Go makes parallel execution trivial.
Already seeing benefits, and it's early yet.
Design document: golang.org/s/go13compiler"

and https://talks.golang.org/2015/gogo.slide#10

"Why translate it, not write it from scratch?
Correctness, testing.
Steps:
Write a custom translator from C to Go.
Run the translator, iterate until success.
Measure success by bit-identical output.
Clean up the code by hand and by machine.
Turn it from C-in-Go to idiomatic Go (still happening)."
I could be mistaken, but don't most people move to sprawl in the first place because it's "a good place to raise your kids"?

Also, living in a city isn't the only solution. I lived in a suburb ten miles away from the city but all 3 schools were <15 minute walks.
This is about the level of professionalism I'd expect from a guy with a Dragon Ball Z handle.

(Yes, I'm aware of the irony, given my own handle.)
It's not:
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Is it still April 1st? Another lunatic oss contributor being a total lunatic. Move along...
Seriously, who is going to want to become a better coder if that's how the self-proclaimed to programmers inform others?
Yes. SSA intermediate representations are now common in compilers. Many will have been exposed to SSA via LLVM.
Massive respect to the maintainers of this project for staying civil. This guy needs to learn a thing or two about decent human interaction.
That would make the most sense
Do we really need to discuss every github drama here?
props to flovilmart for trying to take the high road at least.
I'm also interested in reading these papers.
Stuff like this drives people away from open source. Abuse and putting people down are not needed when you're not paying for something that you boast you could fix. Pull requests are a thing.
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Caltrain is just two parallel railroad tracks.

What this means is that they have absolutely no way to mitigate minor problems - every problem becomes a major problem. It is not uncommon for them to have a train stall leaving a station, and that leads to half the trains in the system being 20 minutes late. If they have a pedestrian or vehicle collision, things get much worse.

They also only run one train per hour that stops at every station, so your commute is limited to a few train options every day if you're not going between two of the 5-6 most popular stations.

In addition, if you're not working within walking distance of a station, you'll have to take a shuttle, which could easily add 20 minutes to your commute, and have it's own schedule that you need to mesh with caltrain's schedule.
I wouldn't even call this elitism. Elitism implies the person is superior to others. The guy is clearly the most novice and unprofessional person in the thread.
The collaborators in this issue (@flovilmart and @hramos) have way, way more patience than I would have had. Props to them.

That said, why wouldn't they use a software implementation of CRC32? Is it really that big a bottleneck for them?
Could you elaborate on this? I'm really curious ...
I think you're being funny, but the Vive's AR is literally this.
I just wanted to buy a computer monitor for my face. I'm paying you $600, can't I just have that? :(
Despite his rude tone he's got a point, perhaps he'd be taken seriously had he approached it in a civil manner.
Worst? I find my elitism is much better communicated snidely and with brevity.
That person is just a boor. flovilmart shows himself to be a cool cucumber, he never took the bait once (which is what this person wanted.)
Yeah, I have to wonder if he was up against a deadline and this was the last straw. Better than putting rounds into coworkers. I respect how gracefully the other guy handled it.
I used AllAdvantage back in the day, mouse moving script and all. Ran it 14-16 hours a day on a second computer and made $40-$60 a month. Can't complain.

The down-side was the overhead, it was a noticeable strain on my computer, which is what prompted me to set it up on a dedicated machine. Pretty sure I was on dial-up then too, which just made things worse.

There was a large group of us on IRC all doing the same thing. Little jerks like us ruined it for everyone.
I can maybe understand rage-posting once, in a momentary weakness, but man, this guy just can't put it down and go for a coffee or a smoke…
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Not even a contributor, just someone who uses the software.
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As someone who has spent a lot of time in the region, and learned Arabic to fluency, sadly with the goal of ending up like Mr. Laux in mind, I am glad I went to the Arab world as a student.

Having traveled all over, and working as an expat now for many years, it became clear early on there is a whole very naive narritive justifying US foreign policy in that part of the world. The moment you go to live there, it stares in the face. I quickly gave up my hopes of serving in the US armed forces or intelligence community after one year of study in Egypt. It only took a few weeks really to do the damage. I can show you consistent examples for almost all American students, many who wanted government work on USG language scholarships, after such a short amount of time.

I still knew countless others, however, who continued in the line of duty, and their racist and moronic comments about the Arab world, before, after, and during service, despite expesnive US top-20 univerisity coursework in Arabic and Arab history and culture flabbergasts me, every time. These people rose through the ranks, and balked at the education they used to get there. Notice Laux did not have that kind of education prior. I suspect that is why he burnt out and knew to withdrawal from that life quickly. If he spoke Dari or Pashto, and God forbid, read the local media, he would have burnt out even faster as the stupidity would glare even brighter.

The one year ten times in a row comment gets me. As just-outside-the-inside perimeter guy, living in one Arab capital 5+ years, it never ceases to amaze me the greater political project of "taming the Arab world" goes at the civil, political, and military level, soft and hard power alike at the hands of outside nations. I assume it might be this way everywhere, but my interest in professionally engaging in even non-government East-West cultural projects ended quickly as I became jaded. I routinely think my interest in computing and open source originates from my frustration with this problem, and our hubris to not simply record things and focus on problems. We keep reinventing based on impression, not on result, with new people and a rapid turnover rate. No industry except global political terraforming would find that a useful strategy.

As for the kicking the addiction and self-help jokes: wanna know where you need to help yourself? Pick any Arab country. Great read, thanks for posting.
Yeah, and that's why you squash all the intermediate commits first. If all your commits on master are useful and meaningful individually, bisect works great.
Facebook's algorithmic news feed is why my feed is full of politics, when if I actually visited people's profile pages individually, that's not really the case. There are all these non-political posts that just don't show up in my feed.

Real time is better. Don't guess what I would prefer to see. Let me filter it myself.
> 1) it would not be unreasonable to expect that the "normal update" to their cars/robots should have passed some serious and rigorous testing/verification and the business/physical impact on end-user experience must have been assessed before rolling the "normal" updates;

So your point here is that safety-critical updates need to be rigorously tested? I agree with that, but I don't see any connection to whether it's okay to have pranks. I'm not confusing bugs and pranks, my entire point is that they're quite separate. Your bug risk is there with or without pranks. So if you feel like adding a prank, go ahead, just subject it to the same safety testing. That they released a UI update that annoys people does not imply anything about their ability to do safety testing.

> 2) and a serious business entity will not allow any such deliberate/damaging prank to slip through such a process.

I'll split "deliberate/damaging" into multiple cases.

Deliberate pranks: those are deliberate, they don't "slip through".

Safety-related damages: these are important, and not what happened here.

Non-safety-related damages: this getting through does not imply they have bad safey testing, so the comment about cars/robots going berserk is a non-sequitur.
Does anyone knows who @tenshihan [1] is ?

1 : https://github.com/tenshihan
I can build out CSS at least twice as fast with a preprocessing and it's much easier to update later. why waste your time for some dogmatic belief? It's not like we're programming in 0 and 1s still. CSS is already an abstraction, why fight more abstraction? That's the progress of technology.
I want more specific explanations on this if you would
And then the same user created a new duplicate issue: https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-server/issues/1330
It's a Dragon Ball Z reference, apparently, so you won't have any luck finding the real user.
The author has been a well known, though low key, source since I began in 2004 and I've been following him since. His about page says he's been developing for the web since it began so, no, he does not lack experience.
While I empathize, anonymity makes moderation very hard. Most people I've talked to prefer the tradeoff of reduced anonymity for improved moderation. If you email me at zach@discoverboard.com I can set you up with a pre-verified account that you can use anonymously.

Quality is hard. I don't think there's any silver bullet, but you can check out the community guidelines at discoverboard.com/about which hope to curtail the thoughtlessness you're talking about.
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Of course, it's not enough for something to return a profit; it needs to return more profit than an alternative use of the funds. Perhaps it could have made more money investing in postgrad startups?
Do you at least remember how big you thought it would be? Currently I have no idea of even the magnitude of the team.
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I'll give him credit for carrying out his oath and getting his book reviewed, as well as for not blabbing about the classified portions. That alone marks him as a hell of a lot more mature than the numerous folks one reads of in the papers who speak despite not being authorised to, who take it upon themselves to release classified information, or who are careless with information which may cause damage to the security of our nation.

edit: s/careful/careless. Whoops!
GuixSD is not the official GNU distribution if Linux, it's just part of the GNU project (Like Emacs isn't the official GNU text editor). And Scheme as the language for defining packages and even the system services is very powerfull, because you are able to do almost everything you want to.
I am told that Google's filesystem for their dev workspace is somewhat similar to capturing every single keypress as an immutable layer forever.

Apparently introducing interesting problems when people create a log file one byte at a time, up to several hundred megs. (just 100000000 files for one little project, oops)
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2km. 1.24 miles? Stress fractures? What?

Every student on a residential college campus that's bigger than tiny is going to walk 3 or 4 times that in a day. Middle school students will stress their bodies a few orders of magnitude harder in sports practices (or even light exercise).