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I've tried 4G networks on every continent and multiple devices and I haven't seen 450Mbit anywhere be really commercially really available.

Infact most "4G" networks out there give you less speed than what HSUPA/HSDPA 3G/3.5G networks could theoretically provide.

But even if you had those speeds the low bandwidth makes h.265 attractive not because of max download/upload speed but because of datacaps, if you only have 2GB of cellular data each month and you can have a video codec that both allows you to conduct video calls in suboptimal conditions as well at 1/5th or so of the bitrate that h.264 needs for similar visual quality it's really a no brainer which one you use.
I think a lot of these suggestions are trade-offs in complexity. For instance, sure you could have one type of looping mechanism but really you're just moving the complexity inside it. It forces you to use more if, then, else statements within the loop.

It reminds me a lot of Linus Torvalds arguing for monolithic kernels over microkernels. Microkernels might have nice simple atomic units but they have very complex interactions. Where as monolithic kernels have more complex atomic units but less complex interactions.

Most of the complexity I find in programming comes from libraries and frameworks. When I started programming, I thought I would be able to easily make full-blown GUI application. I thought that's what programming did. Once I actually started to learn how programming worked, the biggest leap for me was figuring out how real-world applications were made from such basic units as variables, loops, and if statements. Learning frameworks has always taken me much longer than languages.
From the perspective of the author. This is fantastic work. Keep up the enthusiasm, and I hope to see more from you.

From the perspective of google, they should have done this 3 years ago. The chrome hangouts plugin is an atrocity. But at this point I've already fully abandoned google hangouts except for video chats at work. Too little, too late.
You're basically leaving money on the table if you're doing most of your transactions on a debit card or in cash in the US. The credit card companies all offer set percentage cash back, rotating categories of higher cash back, and/or heavily discounted miles. Discover and Chase both offer cards with 5% rotating categories that are different between the two and have no yearly fees. Even the cards with a fee often end up being worth it due to the large amount of miles you can rack up with them.

Thats not even getting into the shadier side of card churning for the sign up bonuses or buying gift cards so that you can pay your rent and for other things that have a fee associated with them when you do anything besides a bank transfer.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/ has a good primer on the different cards
Get a pebble! You can have TOTP codes on your wrist where it's a lot harder to lose.

Presumably similar apps available for Android Wear and Apple Watch, but those are too smart for my tastes.
I think the expectation is that they move on to the next challenging problem eventually.
This must be a US only thing.

In the UK nearly all cards can be used for contactless payments below a fixed amount (£ 30 at the moment).

Additional security (inconvenience) only kicks in on higher price purchases.

Additionally, there is no time delay for contactless, and chip and pin is extremely fast too.

Contactless is far faster than even unlocking your phone (even if you use a fingerprint unlock), and can usually be done concurrent to the cashier putting your item in a bag or reaching to pass it to you... it is essentially frictionless.

This all works so well I find myself doing something I never though I would... I've abandoned cash. Contactless payments are that good, and fast, and work at the end of the day when my phone is out of battery, and works for every one of my daily casual purchases (travel, food, a book, some toiletries, some groceries, etc).
apparently we have talent but lack judgment.
> ...as it was meant to be used...

Actually, a bug was exploited.

By that reasoning, I should be allowed to legally contact Amazon customer service and socially engineer access to others' accounts, then place orders to be shipped to myself. If the customers call and cancel the orders as fraudulent, I should be awarded damages in a lawsuit against them.

It's also worth noting that, if you're a person that doesn't have any monetary interest in The DAO, you don't have any right to vote for anything, meaning you're no different than somebody standing near a poker table spouting out your philosophies about where others should put their money (aka in the industry as a railbird).
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Politics and objective decisions:)
these two work together only in delusions I think..

So just vote emotionally as everybody else ;)
I'm a girl, and let me just say that if someone wanted to watch Friends, I'd laugh at them too. Have we considered that the show is just stupid and everyone there knew it except OP? Look, there's no accounting for taste, but if I watch something that no one else on my team watches, but they all watch something else, I would not consider that to be alienating. I also wouldn't make them change the channel. I would, however, make fun of baseball the entire time I was sitting there watching it, because I hate it, and all my co-workers will tell you how much I enjoy making fun of sports. They are never offended by this. They find it amusing. And we all get along just fine.
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This is fascinating. How do ancaps propose that DRO's will enforce their judgments? With violence? What's to stop the losing party from just gathering a bigger militia and shooting back to prevent collection?
Having more credit cards can benefit your credit score in a variety of ways. The fundamental reason for this is, of course, that credit card companies want you to have a lot of cards. They're betting they can make more on your interest payments than it costs to acquire you as a customer.

Some ways having multiple cards can benefit your credit score:

- More cards = higher credit limit = lower utilization percentage when you carry a balance. [0]

- If you're young, opening lots of cards early can make sense because in a few years the "average age of accounts" will only take small hits if you add a new card. Also, if you foresee a mortgage in your future, you can cancel your credit cards and they will still continue to "age" on your credit report

- If you've missed a payment in the past, since payments are calculated as "percentage of on time payments," you can increase that percentage faster by opening more cards and making all payments on time.

- At least according to creditkarma, more accounts actually translate directly to a higher score.

[0] edit - see jdmichal's comment below. utilization = current balance / limit.
I had recently reset phone and had lost my 2FA recovery codes. This was how I was able to recover my account.
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That reason is why I have my various 2fa credentials available from my computer as well. Problem is that I have some that either use a text message or the Authy API, which has abysmal desktop support.
See also: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/03/us/elections/t...
Yeah thats the whole point of the period instrument performance movement. A lot of Early Music sounds different (better) to me when it's played with faster tempi and smaller ensembles with period instruments.
Nice. I've jumped on searchtempest a few times to avoid flipping through results on CL and to get results from multiple regions at once. It works!
Your RFID card is very easy to attack. Recently I heard of an attack where a guy was sneakily putting a RFID card reader against people's pockets on the subway. With this he was able to charge each card $20 without them even having to authorize the transaction. (above $20 usually requires some auth)

Phones authorize the transaction differently and are this still safe to use for tap & pay.
Our orbit is quite dirty there are probably over 10,000 NEO's, but Pluto's orbit is even dirtier.
Earth is the 30 year old single guy/gal, Pluto is the 19 year old college slob.
> Perhaps, but nobody can write a bug-free legal contract either, and no legal system is without bugs.

The difference is that when there is an issue with a legal contract you can defer to an arbiter (a judge) and discuss whether that is a bug or a feature as soon as a divergence of interpretation is detected.

Hell, even just having a sentient empowered human in the loop is sufficient, with fully automated response systems we'd never have survived the cold war as a civilisation, the first false-positive detection (and there have been several) would have ended it.
Yeah, that's what I said (meant) in the beginning. I think we're just saying the same thing.
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Yes! It's not like the technology isn't already there, well documented, and waiting for use.
> affecting the ability of people to support themselves

Well, that depends. Is it subsistence farming? Or is it for biofuel? Biofuels may, during combustion, cause fewer emissions, but add in the change in land use (with the attendant fertilizing regimen, etc.) and the reduction in carbon sequestration from removing trees... That causes deforestation for biofuel to be worse than just burning fossil fuels in the first place.

Burning things isn't the way out, no matter how neatly those things burn. Nuclear power (whose waste products arguably are vastly easier to contain than burning anything), solar power, geothermal power (the benefits of nuclear power without the pesky reactors) ... Even wind/hydroelectric power generation are, kWh-to-kWh, less damaging to our climate overall.
Last year they were hosted on Parley's and organized by conference location and year. A little harder to suss out the year and location this way. But excellent content nonetheless.
No, the DAO believers explicitly decided "f* the government, in code we trust" and wrote in their contract that whatever the DAO did, according to its code, was right.

You don't have such an agreement with Amazon.

Regarding your edit: I don't want to vote for anything. I'm simply pointing out that there is a (real-life!) agreement, and a party (slock.it et al.) not holding themselves to that agreement, and that I'd enjoy seeing that played out in court, where it belongs.
> No, we can.

There's no evidence of that, and lots of evidence to the contrary.
Nope. There is a thing called Terms of Service [1] that is in place for that very reason.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_service
Yup, used to work for HTC and some of the bullshit that Apple used to pull still pisses me off to this day.

Remember the whole "click on a phone-number launch dialer" patent? We pulled the feature in the US phones, following the letter of the law since we lost the suit(back when Apple was going for Mfgrs instead of Google).

Apple filed an injunction with Customs right as we went into a huge marketing push for one of our devices. We had millions of phones sitting on the docks while FTC "investigated". 4-5 weeks later it was found that we hadn't violated, Apple never paid any fines and we had a ton of pissed off customers who couldn't get phones.

http://www.wired.com/2012/05/apples-patent-win-delays-shipme...
The article talks about 'track and field', which isn't a term I've ever heard before. It's the athletics team that's been banned isn't it? The article even sounds confused that 'track and field' is administered by an organisation called 'International Association of Athletics Federations', which could have been a clue that the name was wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
Sorry, not qualified to have an opinion. Opening this question to the floor?
Diego, the underlying scheduler for Cloud Foundry, has a concept of pre-defined one-off tasks. It'll eventually show up in the rest of the platform.

However, it'll be in the middle of the range for startup times, as some agents are sideloaded. Latency is around a second. The initial target is tasks like database migrations and batch jobs, so the ~1s delay isn't an issue.

One of my colleagues in NYC spiked on using one-off tasks for a FaaS and concluded it's not a slam dunk fit.

If I was to shimmy FaaS-style stuff into Cloud Foundry, I think it'd be easier to have standing apps with an array of functions already running, then push the magic into route services. I suspect this is how AWS already does it, given the vast difference in spinup times between Node and JVM requests -- Node makes hot-patching a list of functions easy, the JVM is less hot-patch friendly and really expects you to provide all the JARs at launch time.

Disclaimer: I work for Pivotal, we donate the majority of engineering to Cloud Foundry.
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Online consignment is quickly becoming the new trend. What can businesses do to keep up?
What is the logic for which repositories show up in the available list? I tend to create opensource projects with their own organization. I see some repositories within these organizations present, some not - even when I'm the primary contributor. Very strange.
I'm at a bit of loss when it comes to being able to care. Maybe for the athletes that were possibly forced into doping, but otherwise, this is a power struggle between an incredibly corrupt state actor and an incredibly corrupt IOC.

Besides, if the condition reports out of Rio are to be believed (and I see no reason not to) it's not the worst thing to stay home.

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/14791849/trash-co...
Track and field is the American English term for what you're calling "athletics".
What's the size of the data directory on AWS and Dell workstation ?
They don't guarantee corruption, because if the corruption shows up on the prediction market it has occurred (or will occur) elsewhere already, and if large amounts of money are betting on a certain outcome, others will follow, and thus the payout won't be as large.
Sublime still qualifies as native. It doesn't use native theming, but the UI widgets are in fact native (just heavily skinned). This is what allows it to have extremely low latency text input (compared to Atom/Brackets/VS Code) and under OS X, allows it to automatically adopt the extensive set of standard text editing shortcuts the OS implements.
Isn't it crazy, you spend so many years training and building your experience to become great at your job. So much so that you get rewarded with a promotion to management. A position you are given no training for. It is a hard transition and most people have difficulty with it.

First of all, congrats on the promotion.

You need to ask yourself, was coding what made you leap out of bed in the morning or was it that you were building something?

If it was coding then you need to go back to your old role. Please repeat to yourself this is not a failure despite what popular media and the start-up bro culture tells you. If you find a job and role that you love you are beating 90% of the workforce and win at life!

If it was building then you might still be able to make this CTO role work, just in a different way than you are used to.

Forget about technology, you are now a people manager. People are now your tools to build something. Fighting fires and dealing with everyone's crap is usually a sign of some kind of micromanagement. Have you placed yourself in the middle of everyone's decision making process? Are you their road bock for getting stuff done? This is often a result of giving your team tasks to do instead of goals.

Activities describe how people spend their time, whereas goals are the results that they seek.

Give each team member a goal and some kind of structure on how they can make their own decisions to achieve their goal. For example you can tell everyone any decision that takes less then half a day to implement they can decide. Anything that takes more time than that they should discuss with you.
Your goal is to set their goal and then get out of their way. You need to run interference between them and distractions from other parts of the company. Check in with them regularly to mentor and coach them to achieve their goal.
Can you empower team leads below yourself to do some of the mundane management?
When I worked for a performance management company I posted this over on Quora on goal setting. https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-difference-between-a-goal-an...
Setting a goal changes the conversation from them coming to you with problems to coming to you with ideas and solutions.

One lesson I learnt when dealing with other managers, departments and up the line is that you have to over communicate. Everyone is mad busy in a start up and they will not remember what you discussed and all agreed last month. You almost need to market yourself, your team, goals and achievements to get their buy in. Run some regular workshops to get further buy in from them.

Your depression may stem from the feeling that you are not doing a good job more than the role itself so keep that in mind.

I have gone through the painful transition myself from doer to manager and I have made all the mistakes :) Design and marketing is my area, not tech.
Happy to answer any questions you might have alan at spoiltchild.com

Alan
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Because microservices.
The Ethereum virtual machine isn't concurrent even though the network is. The model is a relatively simple serial sequence of operations, state machine style.
The big picture here is not whether this ruling is just. It's that China has protectionist impulses, and that if Apple is to maintain the kind of volume of smartphone sales that propelled it to its 2015 valuation, it needs China. And China may be inclined to throw up a bunch of nasty speedbumps in its way.

That said, there's plenty of value in Apple selling iPhones at the rate necessary to maintain the mostly saturated markets in the West, so don't get myopically focused on China.
> "f* the government, in code we trust"

I never decided that.

The idea of distributed investments and unstoppable tools that are distributed isn't about "f* the government" or anarchism; it's about not letting anyone other than a consensus of ourselves manipulate us.

> I'm simply pointing out that there is a contract, and a party not holding themselves to that contract, and that I'd enjoy seeing that played out in court, where it belongs.

The point is, if we disagree, what can you do, if you don't have any interest or control over this (hint: nothing)?
There doesn't appear to be a monopoly on "serverless" and the term has been used by many vendors including IBM at the last Serverless Conference[1].

There is definitely room for many kinds apps in the PaaS space, including serverless as well as microservices. OP was arguing that existing platforms like GAE have been supporting serverless and can continue to do so. However, the premise of the serverless computing movement is that newer platforms (e.g. OpenWhisk, Google Cloud Functions, AWS Lambda) are better for running serverless applications than traditional PaaSes (e.g. Heroku, Bluemix, OpenShift)

[1] http://serverlessconf.io/#agenda
The world is full of simplified programming languages. The problem with newb adoption isn't just a function of ease-of-use, the simple programming language must also interact with a familiar UI. Why would I, as a newb, want to write in a simple programming language if it can't do something sufficiently complex, like create form UI, or change a web page, or interact with my OS to do something useful?

This is why VBA is so common. It's a simple scripting language that is exceedingly forgiving and interacts with a built in UI that most folks are already comfortable using. There is a "Macro Recorder" that writes the script for you if you wish. As you advance in your VBA skills you can interact with other VBA enabled applications on your machine and then graduate to shared libraries and com objects and interact with the OS. Furthemore, Microsoft Office applications come with a built in IDE (VBE), so you are ready to go, out of the box.
I know everyone else is saying that this is really fast, but on my desktop machine it's actually slower than regular HN. That said, HN is really fast for me, so there isn't much room for improvement to begin with.
They can call it whatever they like- he kept his money.
Not so.

The Prince is relevant in any organization where a strict hierarchy needs to be maintained. Which is why it was relevant here to the question of how a CEO who needs to implement a painful decision (in this case big financial cuts including laying people off) should go about it.
That doesn't satisfy the legal requirements. First, that repo may go away at some point, and you need it guaranteed, and second, they aren't doing to mail you a physical copy for cost, which is also a stipulation of some of these licenses.
Re Sprockets, I found this recent talk at RailsConf about the history, problems, and future of Sprockets maintenance and development to be an interesting read: http://schneems.com/2016/05/31/saving-sprockets.html
In the United States at least, "track and field" refers to what other countries might call "athletics" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_and_field). The term "athletics" in the US would more often be used to refer to sports in general.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_and_field

According to wikipedia athletics covers a few more sports:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_of_athletics

However, the dictionary definition of athletics is "physical sports and games of any kind". That definition makes more sense, because football teams have the word athletic in their name (e.g. "Charlton Athletic"), and the word "athlete" is typically used for any type of sports-person.
In the US, "athletics" is usually called "track and field". Here we have "USA Track & Field" as our governing body.
That is Somerville's biggest problem right now: very tight and inappropriate zoning and building regulations, but they only take effect in if you demolish your house and build something new. So Somerville is frozen in amber.

A few years ago, I saw developers in Somerville get around that problem when they wanted to replace one 3-apartment house with one exactly the same shape, minus a whole lot of rotten wood, and plus a whole lot of good insulation and the like.

So instead of tearing the building down and building it anew, they tore down half of it, all the way down to the foundation, then removed all the parts connecting to the foundation, leaving half of the building on stilts, and then started building the new building, with the shell still in place.

They did good work. They replaced a well-designed but badly neglected building with one that is also well designed and more liveable. They should not have had to do this charade that they were just "renovating" it, but that was the only way to do it legally.
Track and Field is the common umbrella term for basically the sports that happen in the Olympic stadium: running, throwing, jumping, etc. i.e. the events that involve running on a "track" and doing activities in a "field".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_and_field
"The "hacker" simply used the DAO as it was meant to be used ... and deserves the funds."

Exactly. DAO is CoreWar meets Nomic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic

Designers of rulesets (laws, board games, markets, control systems) ignoring Gödel's incompleteness theorems should themselves be ignored. Just like we ignore inventors of perpetual motion machines who ignore the laws of thermodynamics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel%27s_incompleteness_theor...