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When I click the Windows 8 button at work the news app shows a headline blurb. If it's interesting (and preferably world news) I click it, and see what else is there too.

Otherwise I let the more interesting news bubble up via social media discussions or chatting with people.

I used to be more on top of it, but it really didn't do me a whole lot of good, other than provide me with an extra bullet point or two to bring up with amateur pundits for them to dismiss and bring up a new subject about some little thing they were told to be outraged about today.

I can't say I feel like I'm missing out on too much.

Now I just don't bother and keep up with the important news: board games (via Reddit), tech news (via HN), and video games (via Kotaku).
To be fair, some people were only carrying more things because they didn't want their stuff stolen out of their checked baggage, or for it to be otherwise lost in transit.

Stealing stuff right out of the security checkpoint ought to make those folks think twice, right?
Isn't it all relative? Couldn't a fully libertarian state make some claims about freedom regarding the US that are similar to the claims the US makes regarding China? That's the problem with using something as vague and over-encompassing as "freedom", it's only a step removed from "evil" in how vague it can be. Additionally, all freedoms are not created equal. Is my right to due process as important as my right to bear arms? Are some of my views on my rights colored by the culture I live in, or are they all universal?

I think China is lacking in some important rights, but I think being vague about them to the degree that we say they have "less freedom" only muddies the problem, and allows people to use the rights they do have as a counter-argument. Being clear that China's suppression of free speech allows them to shape discourse, suppress ideas they don't like, and propagandize their citizens easily makes the dangers clear. It does also open up the discussion for how the west attempts to accomplish the same things through the media, but that's not necessarily a bad thing have have brought up.
I really recommend reading Creativity Inc. By Ed Catmull, one of the cofounders of Pixar. It's an incredible book full of insight on how Pixar fosters creativity to create hit after hit movie.

It really helped me shift my mind during some difficult projects where I felt like I was working against impossible odds.
...I actually thought you were a native speaker at first. Your English is pretty good and it's easy to understand your thoughts.
As far as I understand, the distributed randomness will only be distributed on the 11 trusted directory servers (where you get your node manifest from). So you don't need to worry about malicious nodes killing the randomness.
>Laws that say "forget the law, anything we think is unreasonable is illegal" are a growing problem in Europe. It makes the EU look like fools

Not trying to start a flamewar here, but the common German/European perspective on the US legal system consists of corporations owning it (because of huge costs), consumers abusing it ("cat in microwave/washing machine/toaster", unreasonable compensations, class action lawsuits) and agencies outright ignoring it.

Edit: Remembered one more: Juries deciding whether murderers are guilty or not. Simply unthinkable over here. Ironically the horror of this scenario is fuelled by the US/Hollywood itself.

Edit 2: War on drugs / world's highest prison population / racial profiling / death sentence. The longer I think about it, the worse it gets. I think I made my point. The image is really, really bad.
We are literally reinventing Chinese/Japanese/et all :)
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What are some examples of refined oil?
Every so often, I think about the meme of the 100 year language. The idea is that we need to start working towards the languages we'll use in 100 years. Instead, I wonder how many we already have.

Fortan: 59

C: 43

C++: 33

Python: 25

Php: 21

Javascript: 20

Java: 20

It's still a long time until any of those languages reach 100. But longevity seems to be the rule, not the exception. How many languages that were widespread actually died?[0] I don't pretend to know all the languages that have ever been popular, but not many that subsequently died come to mind. Cobol, maybe some lisp dialects, if you don't count Common Lisp as their successor? Is PL/1 dead? Was APL big enough to make the list?

Probably some of the languages I listed above will die before they're 100. Others might be niche, like Fortran already is. But I wouldn't guarantee it.

[0] Where dead doesn't rule out someone being paid to maintain ancient code. By that standard, it's unclear whether anything will ever die (https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2015-09-01-the-most-ob...)
Take a look here :
https://www.kayak.com/careers/usa/
You can find out the main frameworks used. There's a lot of Java, we can assume they use Eclipse or InteliJ as IDE (software as you said), but we can take a look closer here :
https://www.linkedin.com/title/software-engineer-at-kayak
You can find some people with skill in resume :
Development Tools: Git, Eclipse, Visual Studio, Firebug, Fiddler

Have fun
I'm not convinced yet. The scramble to get dressed and snatch your belongings from the pile is already pretty efficient. I'll withhold judgement for now.
Yes, and it is forbidden, as in France what matters is the spirit of the law and not the way it is expressed. It helps keeping common sense upfront; keeping readable and compact text laws.
I think it's a safe assumption, because if the TSA actually found a terrorist through its screening process they would parade this achievement in front of every news organization it could.

On the other hand, there have been numerous documented cases where people have deliberately snuck banned items through the TSA security checks.

Of course, you had to qualify statement that the TSA "has performed fantastically" with the number of _successful_ attacks. There have been terrorists that have attempted attacks, such as the underwear bomber and the shoe bomber, but those were all stopped by the passengers. To me, this should have warranted a congratulations to our fellow citizens for being vigilant - and maybe even a relaxation of some of the rules. As you know, the opposite occurred, and now we have to take our shoes off and can only take small amounts of liquid. Who's being naive?
So fired up! The good news is that there is more than one programmer in the world and we can spend time on both things.
Wait, so you used to compute the bit shifted value in your calculator and type it out literally (in base 10) in your code? I could understand typing out the binary literal but this is weird. Or am I misunderstanding?
No. I'm looking for exactly something like this. I'm glad it's a "bootstrap", not yet another framework. I want to try React Native but have been having trouble getting started. And I would like something with a little bit of polish.
We used that quote as a joke for not learning new languages well enough. Do you mean that he would write C and link it to each implementation?
But then using bit fields makes no sense.
If it is on the employer to make a value judgement on your skills, then isn't it also up to the window shopper to make a value judgement on the merchandise?
I'm going to join in since I've been using a pebble for years with great enjoyment.

I treat it as a secretary. I think of different communication media as having different urgencies / time constants. Emails are a daily report. My phone's notifications are an hourly report. Notifications which I forward to my watch are the instant things. Be sure to mercilessly "mute" most apps from bugging you on your wrist. With this setup, I never feel the urge to check my phone. If there is something important, it would've buzzed my wrist.

Here are my subjectively appreciated apps

Homescreen: Fairweather. It is information dense display of weather, sunset time, pressure, vis., etc.

(Top) Button shortcut: Forecast weather. Shows a probability of precipitation over the next 24hrs (I donated for data from forecast.io). Great for avoiding the rain when walking the dog / biking home / etc.

(Bottom) Button shortcut: A bus/train stop info panel. It uses the phone's GPS to tell you when the next buses/trains are coming. Handy for when there is a stop within 100 feet of the bar and you can know if you want that extra beer or not.

Timer/Multitimer are great. Alarms for waking up are great. 7minute workout app is great.
I don't understand why AWS' free-tier requires putting things into a VPC.

It is a complete turn-off. It took me days to figure how to configure it correctly to access it through SSH without following a guide that builds out some giant infrastructure.

It should just be one-click to throw everything up that I need and hide all of that extra config behind a wall that I can access if I want / need to.
Do you British English speakers use the phrase "on purpose" ?
CentOS 7 is now available on Scaleway servers
Why was getting to the menu interesting, keyboard navigation in windows is a pretty well established paradigm, it may take marginally longer than you're used to but there are many people who primarily use their computer with the keyboard only.
Security has been privatized at a few airports, like San Francisco and Kansas City. How does security screening effectiveness, efficiency, and cost compare at those two airports relative to all other TSA-operated US airport security? I haven't seen any side by side comparisons -- does anyone know if any reputable journalists or researchers have tried to compare?
Also critique about [2]:

1) http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/7 regarding "raw socket panic"

2) http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlu... regarding questionable SpinRite application to fix hard drive errors
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The grey coin-sized CMOS battery is alongside the motherboard.

I suggest you look at the many guides and videos, just search "removing BIOS password".
They didn't KS the Pebble Time Round, but that was explained because it was being marketed outside their core market; they did make a deal for PT Steel Kickstarter users to get one at a discounted price.
Kafka 0.10 released
I went back to 7 twice now. My PC(which is a really modern machine, 4-th gen Core i5+GTX780) doesn't want to stay asleep with windows 10. It just wakes up in the middle of the night, "powercfg -lastwake" just shows "unknown", no one has any idea why that happens, only going back to Windows 7 solves the issue.

Not to mention annoying forced UI tweaks that nobody asked for - why does the cursor snap to the corner when moving between monitors? It's beyond infuriating - but at least in win 8 you could disable that through a registry setting. In Win 10, sorry, you can't. W

Why is the show desktop button literally 2 pixels wide now? Trying to hit it when it's on the edge between two monitors is close to impossible.

Also Start menu search takes much longer than it did on windows 7, and it's much less accurate.
Nope. It doesn't. I've spent two years working with it. And "gets every single dang decision right" is a matter of opinion. Chris and José are incredibly wonderful people, but they are just as opinionated as the people behind Rails.

So "gets decisions right" sounds good as long as you agree with those decisions.

I happen to love working with Elixir and Phoenix. I find working with Ecto frustrating not because of the code, but because of the opinions the framework creators have made about where things go. They have good solid reasons for their opinions. And they are not wrong.

I just don't agree with them. And that's totally ok.
What's the problem? Everyone acted nice, gave all the info needed / incident number. 2.5 days is way, way not enough time to wait for action / response.

If author is worked up cause incompetence exists and accidents happen (or crimes/scams happen) then life is going to be disappointing to them.
> since the stats don't support your mood affiliation

This is the most sophisticated and high powered zing I've heard in a while. Kudos.
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That was explained on the Pebble Dev slack as a pre-production Pebble Time Round. They originally had a smaller bezel for that, but had to expand the size due to manufacturability issues.
By that logic, I've done a fantastic job getting the sun to rise every morning. Where is my taxpayer money?
Agreed. Mostly a result of "if I had to learn it so should you" and stuck-in-the-mud attitudes.

Look at the Linux systemd / init debate. Despite the fact that sysvinit is clearly ancient, awful technology there are still people who have spend time learning it and don't want something better.

Another example: bash. Clearly an awful awful language/shell but it sticks around because too many people can't admit that the thing they know is rubbish.
No encryption here. For performance reasons I don't want encryption throttling my laptop CPU, or causing other issues.

I use the standard Windows logon password, but no encryption of drives.

I use keepass for my password encryption, and I bought Kruptos 2 Pro for whenever I need to encrypt individual files or folders. It works with dropbox, so I more of less have everything covered without needing to encrypt the whole thing.
Yet when they implemented the "retweet with a comment" system (embedding one tweet within another, accessed via the retweet button) they didn't think far enough ahead to avoid breaking their reply tracking. This because people have taken to using said system to respond to tweets.
IMO, K2 really has a good entry in the business rules engine problem with a solid, kinda-accessible UI.

I am confident, having scoped many a project, that often the case is the stakeholder not quite knowing what they want. A good UI then is a good step forward to allowing the stakeholder to iterate on refining their interpretation of their own problem.
It doesn't matter how diverse the syntax is, just think of the vastly different worlds of people programming in C derived syntaxes:

The enterprise app developer writes Java for her day job, and spends her nights creating iPhone apps in Objective-C. Her apps connect with an API on the website she built using Ruby on Rails, and handles front-end interaction in JavaScript.

All four languages are syntactically similar, but each has vastly different application domains.
Neither OSX or IOS force upgrade. Chrome is an application, so that is a Apples to Oranges comparison.
What's wrong with that? You would expect a food inspector to control places "where meat is".
Scary thought. I'd feel more at ease if it was Rust (or something analogous).

Just disassemble/decompile some random firmware code... you wouldn't believe what one can find from those piles of err... binary dump.
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That is what I do on my W10 Install. Hit that windows update group policy disable button ASAP. No more Microsoft bullshit. They even silently update your drivers - which are probably the worst things ever to update, especially when you chose a stable build and want to stay on it. I had the machine up for like 100 days w/o rebooting before we lost power here. Devs seem to have no clue about reliability and stability. Like they want us all on some perpetual upgrade treadmill while they continue to break shit that was already working just fine.
Some people will complain that windows tries too hard to maintain backward compatibility and others will complain when they don't. Its like damned if you do or damned if you don't.
Yep, that's what the cite is for. Eccentric and sometimes "crazy uncle", but has a reputation and isn't trying to murder your computer on purpose.
I'm not really up on how text rendering works; what's it mean if I can see some of those, but not others? e.g. I have Rocket but not Helicopter; not Steam Locomotive but Railway Car and High-Speed Train; Taxi and Automobile but not their Oncoming variants; Toilet, Water Closet, and Bath but not Shower.

Is there something I need to install, or something? I'm on Win7 with up-to-date Chrome and Vivaldi, and they're both the same way.
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It sounds like TrailDB works particularly well with storing data into S3, so what do you use to buffer incoming data before it is written in TrailDB? Kinesis?
Thanks for sharing this, it's so awesome!
I can't speak to Assasin's Creed, but in the case of Crashlands we can see that it was a very good idea: they've made enough money that for the first time they're paying themselves salary and even expanding their studio with two new hires. There's no way their original F2P plans for that game would have succeeded at that level - I bought the game because it was premium and because I had a good experience with the premium game Punch Club that same week and wanted more "real gaming." (I've since become a gigantic fan of Butterscotch Shenanigans, the developer, and have a lot of insight into their operations. Their Game Dev comedy podcast, Coffee with Butterscotch, is the highlight of my week.)

Of course that works for them because they're a small studio with small budgets aren't looking for Clash of Clans levels of success. The ceiling is so much lower on a premium game, but it's plenty high for their current situation, and the competition is so much less severe (so the risk is way lower for such a quality game, which again fits their situation).
So then just don't create your main user account at install time. I'm usually creating an 'admin' user at that point anyway.

The main thing to watch out for is to add new users appropriately to some system groups like sudo, cdrom, audio and such.
There needs to be a class action lawsuit. The people doing this at Microsoft are not that familiar with western legal systems or basic sensibilities or just don't care. A lawsuit will maybe wake them up.
"From 1982 to 2007, that 25 year period, NYC was the world center for globalization, moving money around to do things we already know how to do. Now from 2008 to Present the center is Silicon Valley. Moving money around to do things we don't yet know how to do."
This just results in the "first" bit, essentially showing whether x is odd (1) or even (0).

Example: 6_10 = 110_2 and 1_10 = 001_2

(x&1) = 110 & 001 = 000 -> even number

I think the x&(x-1) is wrong though. I thought (x & -x) extracts the LSB:

010&110 = 010

110&010 = 010

001&111 = 001

111&001 = 001

001 010 100 = 110 101 100 = 000 000 100

This happens because the negative integers in two's-complement are just the positive number with all bits negated plus 1.
If it'd only be negated, the result would be 0, as all bits would be different from one-another. Now everything right of the LSB of the argument is by definition zero and in the negated version by definition one. Finally, two's complement adds a one which turns all those bits back to zero and the position where the LSB is to one. This is now the only place in the two binary numbers where both bits are one, and therefore the only place that "survives" the '&'-Operation and remains one. All other bits become 0.

Disclaimer: Still studying and not teaching (yet) ;)

edit: changed order of examples to clarify, that it works from positive to negative and the other way round.
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Encapsulation is done better and is easier to manage in C than it is C++.
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Espn costs about 6.61. Not 80% of the cable bill.
http://www.whatyoupayforsports.com/numbers/
From the blog, replies aren't broadcasted. Only new tweets that use "@" are broadcasted.
Microsoft used to make most of their money by continuously moving the cheese; hopefully their transition to a focus on cloud stuff will continue to reduce this needless churn.
No shit. I helped a friend buy a fujitsu 17.3" dual core i5 laptop a few years back. I remember telling him "do not get windows 8". He has no clue about security, at all. So... he let it upgrade recently to 10 and lo and behold it stopped booting. Then he allowed his neighbor to install a desktop iso of a 32bit version of windows 7. I was amazed it even booted-lol. I had to reinstall windows 7 home premium using his key and now all is well with updates off and gwx, plus antibeacon installed.
Gibson isn't a reputable programmer, he's a noted Infoseek charlatan [1]. The proper tool for preventing Windows 10 upgrades is Ultimate Outsider's GWX control panel [2], not Gibson's poor me-too gimmick.

[1] http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/
[2] http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/
What hosting services would you recommend when targeting users in East Africa? Currently I use AWS's European regions but the latency to these is high.
While that is true, you're missing that this is a change from how the upgrade dialogue worked for the past several months.

In the past, it popped up a window asking when you want to schedule the upgrade, and the only way to get rid of it without agreeing to upgrade was to close the window.

The difference is that now the upgrade is immediately scheduled without the user's consent. If you close the window, following your past behavior, it upgrades anyway. To stop the upgrade you need to click on an 8 point blue link.

This didn't just start today. Everybody running windows 7 or 8 today has REPEATEDLY declined Windows 10 upgrade notifications for months on-end. These consumers made a choice not to upgrade, and Microsoft tricked them using standard malware tactics!

That's why this is nothing less than a _shameful_ act by Microsoft.
Great to see someone holding Sinofsky to task for this!

Some background, from what I recall:
- During the planning for Windows 8 XAML was the leading candidate for the UI technology but late in the process Sinofsky personally overruled it to make HTML the preferred UI technology.

- Through the first half of Win8 development XAML support for Win8 was essentially a side project by DevDiv with very little support by Windows.

- Other orgs analyzing UI technologies we told point blank by Windows that Silverlight was dead and HTML was the way forward.

- DevDiv had fairly little confidence in the HTML strategy and was essentially hedging with XAML. But Windows was focused on HTML.

- After people started building apps it became apparent how painful HTML was (this is IE9 HTML- no web components, no ES6, with a framework written by JS noobs), and Jupiter was re-orged into Windows. This was where XAML re-appeared in the PDC slides.

- Sinofsky likes to re-imagine history and say that he was merely getting the Windows org to bolster the otherwise ignored HTML platform, but this is deceiving. The message was clear to the grunts on Windows for the first half of Win8 that HTML was the direction and there was a very hostile relationship with Jupiter.

There was a lot of damage internally to Silverlight through this process- morale was low, internal customers were being warned off of it, etc.

Also this comment just gets me mad: https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/733699065763004416

Sinofsky was the root of so much politicking and poison. Good riddance SteveSi.
The way I understand it, the 140 character limit still holds. They just stopped counting things like mentions and URLs.
Probably because you're telling someone who has only ever used a mouse or trackpad to get to an interior settings screen without using a mouse or trackpad. Just because "many people" do something doesn't make it easy or intuitive to someone who has never done it.
The perfect example of everything I try to avoid.
I'm really surprised to see this type of coding in a triple A grade engine.

What can be the rationale behind writing this [1] ?

[1] https://github.com/CRYTEK-CRYENGINE/CRYENGINE/blob/release/C...
Volt looks really interesting.
Study: 15.5% of drivers say they’d want to own a fully autonomous vehicle [pdf]
You've lost when you start saying words like "sheeple" and "Orwell" in these conversations, you realize that right?