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> You wouldn't go to a body building competition with no lifting experience, why do people dive into 10 day retreats without years of experience?

That's kind of the point though with highlighting MCO, especially if you read Gopi Krishna. Some people stumble upon things spontaneously before they're ready, and some just go off on their own focussing on the higher centres or overdo it (like 10-day retreats before they should). MCO for beginners is about opening the pathways to handle greater energy flows. Anyone writing books trying to educate the masses should focus on safety first, which he does.

He specifically calls out Kundalini yoga schools as only focussing on sending energy up, without safely describing how to bring it down. That's not my experience - the Kundalini yoga I learnt included the MCO but, as you say, didn't make a big deal of it. But, you know, Gopi Krishna again... you can never be too careful. Chia must have come across some schools that didn't mention keeping the tongue up and bringing energy down, or bringing in earth energy for balance.

I've found the Lesser Kan & Li - as taught by Chia - very effective (when I finally got it right), and haven't read about it anywhere else. Some say MCO is all you need.

My criticism of Mantak Chia is that he doesn't sufficiently emphasise single-pointedness, i.e. what others generally refer to as meditation. If you read his books you could come away with the impression that meditation is always active, always moving energy around.

That's why I prefer the aypsite approach - half chi kung/pranayama, half awareness with a mantra. It's much more balanced with an emphasis on going slowly and self-pacing. And the really interesting stuff happens in the stillness anyway...
Blame it on US coding promoters. Even Obama has paid lip service to this. Japan then feels like it is falling behind and must copy.

Japan is copied tech fad before, like AI and massive parallelism in the 1980s. And they fail at projects which arent feasible or they dont understand.
Probably won't because of battery life. An emergency button should be able to go years between charges.
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The upgrade also has the nasty tendency to forget to restore your files after the upgrade.

I had to restart 1 computer 5 times before windows 10 magically decided it's going to restore my files now so I don't have to install and configure everything again.

I'm moving everything over to Linux now anyway this latest fiasco with windows made it clear to me that it has no future.

The only annoying thing is that I need to run adobe in a virtual machine.
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I concur. Coming from São Paulo, Brazil, I thought Akita's post was well written and derived out of positive, lightly spoken, opinion. Breath of fresh air against the backdrop of hostile tech machoism.
Although I'm happy with my Pebble Time using watchface ForecasWatch by RCY, I pledged to the Pebble Time 2. It's pretty much the same product with bigger screen, heart rate, and more battery life. I was planning to buy another Pebble to give as gift this year, then I'm just upgrading mine and I'll give my older one as a gift.
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Fair distinction!
I'm so glad AdRoll finally open-sourced this. TrailDB is by far the easiest way to process trillions of events on a single machine. Can't wait for them to start publishing their internal ecosystem around it too.
westerners do; locals not so much.
"The sooner it implodes economically the better"

You're talking about people you know. People that have already been through a lot of shit over the years. Let's hope for the best, lets hope for stability and prosperity. Both are reached by free trade and free interaction with, and travel to, the rest of the world. Certainly not by boycotts, and not by demonizing an entire nation of people like you and me.
Just a warning to fellow Canadians.

I went in on the Pebble Steel in the past, and while I expected a Duty charge, I didn't expect it to be around 100$ Canadian.

EDIT: Sorry I meant Pebble Time Steel
They just recently (a few weeks ago) released new version of the companion software for Android/iOS.
Great question! We are investigating adding Relay support, as well as a PostGraphQL endpoint (Postgres+GraphQL) to the soon upcoming Pepperoni Backend Kit.

Right now we've included what we know works well, and we don't yet have experience with Relay in React Native apps. Contributions welcome, though :)
Yes, they've had a business office, that precisely noone cares about :)

"You might think they made it to please politicians"

This is not even a secret. The original office existed because of certain folks not wanting to relocate, but it was only ever grown to please politicians. It was even made into a media event with eric schmidt and the president of france.

"but I think the real reasons is for recruitment"

This is false, sorry. I wish it wasn't. As I said, i'm pretty sure this isn't even secret.

"If they want a chance to hire them they need an office in France."

I'm just going to be blunt here: They did okay without having to hire them before, they would do okay without having to hire them afterwards.

This is not a knock on french engineering folks, really, it's more a statement "there is sufficiently high quality supply of engineers elsewhere that it is not actually necessary to be there".

Heck, the engineers in france are probably even significantly more expensive than elsewhere, too.

The office was not made, or expanded, for recruitment.
It was, like a lot of other companies do, to have skin in the game.
Maybe it's because Microsoft (and others) feel developers can be powerful advocates for their platform.

People tend to ask developers they meet about what system, what software, what hardware they should use, and then trust that advice.
It still doesn't really tell you what it means, just the name/annotation.
Let's be clear: The TSA was an active facilitator in the theft of this person's private property and failed to provide a remedy for their actions. It wasn't an accident, it wasn't innocent and it was not made right. That's the bottom line.
OSI level is cute, especially once you start to interpret ip over https ;)
Serious Games.
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Ireland got hit really hard during the GFC they were in a big deficit like many other countries and couldn't pay their creditors. They went to the ECB to ask for more money. The ECB called it and said you aren't charging enough taxes to sustain the government. So they did.

* Taxes are paid wherever you do business. If you're a EU-based company doing business in the US guess what you don't pay VAT. But you'll certainly pay US taxes on that transaction.

* Those accountants are going to have to show that taxes were paid somewhere. Whether it be in France, Ireland, or the UK. They've been closing loopholes like the double-Irish sandwich and I'm fairly sure the accountants knew this day was going to come. Unlike Ireland and the UK, France, Germany, and Italy have been very aggressive about going after big companies as a public spectacle. Even if they don't find anything. It keeps smaller companies that may be doing the same inline.
Julia's StructsOfArrays.jl package[1] does this quite simply and easily without needing to modify any downstream code.

1. https://github.com/simonster/StructsOfArrays.jl
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I feel one of the worst API tooling right now are the ones that come with AWS. Everything from the AWS Console's UX and accessibility to Dynamo's APIs are just a nightmare to understand and deal with day to day.
> Seems Pebble has lost their direction. Their original product was excellent. A information UI on your wrist.

Yeah, I agree. Mind you - I still love Pebbles; I'm a happy owner of Time, upgrading from the Classic. But I liked them much better when they were about "information UI on your wrist" - i.e. a tool. Now it seems to be marketed as a toy for people obsessed with sports. I don't like that direction personally (and I sadly accept I'm probably not the target audience anymore).
About damn time!
I still really don't understand why people keep developing Tor over I2P - I2P is clearly the better protocol offering complete untraceable anonymity and a chance to secceed from the stigma of Tor...
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When you couple that with Google's internal issues in terms of maintaining ad revenue, and not finding a lot of successful alternative revenue streams as well... Google's issues are closing in on all sides.

Microsoft is in a good position right now, in the short term, Apple is on certain fronts as well. (Mobile would go to Apple in the short term, though OEMs looking to escape Android might take a new look at wherever Windows Phone gets to in the next year or two of development work.)
It's like the release of the source code of Doom and Duke Nukem 3D. We're getting old.
This bricked my sister in law's computer AND GUESS WHO GETS TO FIX IT.

Microsoft messed up. Instead of losing a windows 7 user and gaining a windows 10 user, they lost a windows 7 user and gained a boots-to-blackscreen user.
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> so it would need to be at least OSI level 5 iirc

You're right; actually tor reside in the application layer I think (above TLS).

Although conceptually speaking it is itself a transport layer I guess.
Not sure if we are talking about the same thing. I primarily tried to say that I think the cover letter matters to me. One was so compelling I jumped at the opportunity to talk to the person. Now a very appreciated colleague of mine.
Haha, I work at Futurice, and I wish I knew the answer to that question :)

Here in the UK it rhymes with Avarice. In Finland it's more like Future Rice.
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Thanks! I hope we can open-source the rest of the stack now that the core libraries are out.

Btw, I am happy to answer any questions about the project here.
I've heard that I2P tends to add experimental features that don't have any rigorous analysis of the privacy impact. So there's that.
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Clarification: clear (not get) the least significant bit.
Forth and Prolog are diverse. Ruby and Java are not. They are both algol (C) derived syntaxes. People only think they are much different because the lack exposure to languages from other (or no) heritages.
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Err, this is a completely different case.

This is the union case you can't make work right all the time, and is actually two DR's, as the bug says. This is a case where the standard is completely broken (and will likely never be fixed)

The viewpoint of committee members i spoke with is that explicitly visible union accesses should be required to get the right answer here, because anything else is insanity.

I could place your two memory accesses in a union, in a different translation unit, and pass it to this function, and you would never have any reason to know they alias, because it looks like i handed you two struct pointers. IE imagine the function and main were in two different files, one of which had the union, and other other did not.

So either the compiler assumes that literally all memory, everywhere, aliases, forever (despite any other rules that the standard says exist, which directly contradict this), or we require programmers to make explicit union accesses (or your answers change depending on how much code the compiler can see, and whether it does whole program optimization or not or ....)

Like I said, this is a case where the standard is truly broken, and the best you can do is try to build consensus about what to do.

Note also the bug was suspended to figure out what the language was supposed to mean here. Nobody said it was not a bug, they said "no idea what supposed to happen here".
The committee punted (contrary to the last comment, they didn't really resolve the question), so it's never been worked on.
That's exactly how I'd do it! What's supposed to be the better way? Modulo/division by three and five?
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There's no consensus even within the company. Fortunately we're primarily the types who avoid social situations where you cannot communicate by typing.
Listen to what you're saying here. Crime rates drop because people are scared that they might get shot. That's literally the implication of that statement.

You're saying that the best response to crime is for people to shoot each other. Not better policing or a better criminal justice system, but random gun battles.

Is it any wonder that the murder rate so much higher in the USA than in other similarly-developed countries?

"you pissed me off. That's practically a crime. I should shoot you now. Oh look I'm carrying a gun. bang"
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I was working at a university in rural Kenya for a while, and remember getting 4mb/s download speeds. This was kind of disconcerting, as the total bandwidth for the university was about twice that! The university networks were difficult for students to get access to, and the faculty and admins had little experience with using it. Additionally, super high prices for mobile internet meant people watch their data usage very closely, and are less likely to explore and discover new content sources.

Things are changing quickly, though...
Anything that replaces Tor will get the stigma of Tor.
My manager (a long-time-ago former dev) once told me:

"I can write C in any language."

And it's true. He could write beautiful C code in Perl, Java, Ruby, etc - whichever language the current project was using - when he needed to hack something (usually gathering data for business metrics).
> I actually wouldn't call them "nice"

You're being polite... Those drop downs are hideous!
Got hit by this yesterday on a computer I don't use frequently and a coworker quickly turned machine off to prevent upgrade and all was well.

It is sad that they would stoop this low. I just don't understand it.
Started watching last night and couldn't put it down. Really slick visual explanations and a great combination of practicality and artistry.
What actually happened on 9/11 really doesn't help us draw forward conclusions, because the people on these flights had less scope of the big picture. Each operated in a vacuum, it'd be difficult for them to know they were 4 planes.

After that we have a much more reliable track record. The "shoe bomber" was subdued with the assistance of passengers. The "underwear bomber" was subdued with the assistance of passengers.

imho, two things have have genuinely contributed to airbourne security since. One is reinforced cockpit doors. The other is that our collective understanding has changed - it used to be "keep quiet, sweat it out while they negotiate somewhere, and go home safe - just don't draw attention to yourself". Now the 'understanding' is that we fight back or we die.

(And no, the TSA don't really contribute to either of these)
> while traditional XAML app tooling belonged to some other division

That would be Developer Division. And a little later, this happened http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-splits-up-its-xaml-te...
> It means a conclusion that a rational person would not reach. So "unreasonable" is a pretty strong safeguard.

This is all nice in theory, but in practice, it's happened multiple times that the (Supreme Court's) interpretation of the same law has changed. Granted, this has happened over decades (or even generations), but this implies that (1) either the definition of what is "reasonable" has changed (I find this unlikely, or else the concept itself has little sense), or (2) there is more wiggle room when interpreting laws...
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Well put. I would further remark that this general debate is more a perspective of reformation versus revolution - which doesn't need to be tied to a capitalist/communist contrast.
yeah. I am getting downvoted, but I am totally with you here. The arguments above seem nonsensical, e.g. tradition, resistance to change, not having the resources (except large media companies, i.e. the subject of this discussion who have the resources), and liking the aesthetic hand drawing produces (which I suspect could be duplicated in a computer).

> I think the best analogy to use here is probably that of a REPL versus a slow compiled language

I agree. Something like this analogy, except after it is "compiled" and after it would be "rendered by the REPL" it would be a commodity. I mean this in the sense that, typically working close to the metal allows for amazing optimizations but in terms of a video/animation you are rendering a static piece of content. So I agree, you are just spending large amounts of time and resources for what seems like very little leverage.

I bet that some talented kid at RISD or another artschool who is technical and artistic could probably do a better job with adobe creative suite, so I don't understand why an entire industry would do it like this. Also pixar was started >30 years ago at ths point.

I am not trying to condemn the industry or peoples views here. I am just trying to understand the impediments to this. It seems to be unpopular, but also have no logical reason. The only one that seemed reasonable would be difficulty to produce the aesthetics, which would be especially true for a legacy show like the simpsons where the charachters strongly predate the new technology. However, southpars, the simpsons and family guy have noticeably improved their animation and charachter rendering so I don't see this as fully valid.

edit: I should say that tehri (in a dead comment) does make a compelling argument. Reproduced for those who do not have show dead [x] enabled.

> Because it's really, and I mean REALLY hard to teach the computer to create stylised illustrations from a 3d scene. Even harder, to actually animate the scene geometry in a way that corresponds to what a human animator would draw. Think to one of the core principles of animation - squash and stretch. Every character is more or less a soft body that deforms in a volume-preserving way to add emphasis to movement and intent and that's a really important artistic element of animation.
For example, just watch an old Tom&Jerry short and try to imagine how you'd represent these characters as 3d geometry. How would the animator move and deform them? How do you do the effect where Tom is hit with a shovel in the face and turns into a table? With hand-draw animation (either digital or on paper) you are just drawing the final result, but with 3d animation you have to describe the actual physical geometry in the scene.
I don't know. I like them using it much better than the usual use - VCs checking product-to-market fit prior to deciding whether to invest in a startup. Kickstarter is long past being used to actually kickstart anything, at least in tech projects.
The point was that it's lower friction to use the AWS services, and RDS is a great example of this - you can certainly run your own database in EC2, but if you use RDS it's far less work as many things are provided automatically or very easily. Of course, RDS doesn't suit all use cases, but that's true of many AWS services.
In early 2013, shortly after the store opened, Microsoft had a thing going where they'd pay developers $100 for every app they published:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/19/4124548/microsoft-paying-d...

This was actually a net negative for the store, as it led to the bulk creation of a lot of crappy, low-effort applications, setting up the expectation for users that most of the content in the store was junk, and making legitimate applications harder to find. I wouldn't be surprised if this played a significant role in discouraging developers.
"tl;dr: if you want to do web development but dislike Rails, your best bet is probably to switch to a different programming language than Ruby."

But... wasn't this the underlying point of Solnic's opinion piece?

Due to Rails "well deserved" domination in the web framework space, POROs never had a chance of contributing to friendly and just competition across the Ruby community. We simply ended up with shitty alternatives because no one was given the proper chance to be BETTER Rubyists.

They just kept eating the gluten and feeling the allergy pains, so to speak.

Ah well...

EDIT: shrug quoting...
Why does Pebble have to go to Kickstarter? Is it because they get money without any strings attached? They are a very well established company at this point. Its a good strategy though.
Is it a coincidence that both of you almost quoted C. Moore?

"There seems to be a propensity to make things complicated. People love to make them complicated. You can see that in television programming you can see it in products in the marketplace, you can see it in internet web sites. Simply presenting the information is not enough, you have got to make it engaging. I think there is perhaps an optimal level of complexity that the brain is designed to handle. If you make it to simple people are bored if you make it too complicated they are lost"

http://www.ultratechnology.com/1xforth.htm
Thanks. Now to find the cheapest data only supported service. A company I worked at used to pay $4/mo per device to Sprint for something like this.
I will need to be able to AirPlay my Linux development environment
Windows 10 needs to be forced just like OSX,Chrome and Ios. Deal with it or use Ubuntu, which is actually very nice.
Vice-versa too. At times most US products were banned in Cuba, Iran, Red China, North Korea, etc. But you could usually get it on the Black Market for a price.
My primary accounts are not left logged in. I don't let my browser auto-fill passwords. Github for example has two-factor enabled. I somewhat regularly clean my browser data.

If a nation-state wants to "get me", they will. In fact most of us would probably not be able to withstand a targeted attack by a skilled or simply motivated attacker.

I don't expect my hard-drive being encrypted would save me in court. I probably wouldn't ultimately withstand a prolonged beating in defense of it either.

It all comes down to whether your juice is worth the squeeze. I have very little juice (on display), and I don't give anyone much reason to suspect there's more juice out there.
The randomness will be used to defend against knowing in advance what nodes are responsible for the HSDir entries in the hashring (allowing DoS and statistics gathering). If an attacker knew the next numbers, then this protection would be broken (but none of the other important protections would be broken).
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Besides marketing benefit and having ordering&payments basically handled for them, I think it's a sort of tradition. Pebble was always on Kickstarter. I'd be disappointed if the new ones weren't on it too.
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Unreal makes you 'attach' your account to their repo so they know who has had access to the source code. I'm surprised CryEngine just releases it in its entirety without any such 'protections'.

The coding style is very Microsoft-like, which is I suppose not a big surprise given it's DirectX roots. 8-space tabs seems to be the convention (ugh). They use XML for their readable format (which explains a little their slow load times).

The code itself is not very well documented but relatively clear to understand. Overall not a bad engine to learn a few things from but if you're new to Game Engines a lot of stuff will probably seem very complex (check out BreakableManager.cpp).

It's no Quake 3 in elegance but it's got a lot of advanced functionality (especially in the editor). Overall, it's pretty awesome that they released this. Its a huge gift to everyone that is curious what a world class game engine that has shipped a ton of AAA games looks like.