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Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to
The Linux philosophy is to do one thing, and do it well, this is why they get impeccable codebases, but bad UI/UX design.

Jokes aside, I stopped fighting desktop environments and embraced Ubuntu's Unity some years ago, at the end I learned to appreciate it and nowadays I feel more comfortable with Ubuntu than with OS X.

I still prefer Windows over Ubuntu, but because I have added several utilities to my workflow like Everything Search Engine or WinSplit Revolution (now defunct), not because of Windows' own merits.

I just wish there could be a way to have OS X's hotkeys in Windows, since CMD + <anything> is more comfortable to press than Ctrl + <anything>. I also miss having the behavior CMD + Tab / CMD + ` and the ubiquity of CMD + ,
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TL;DR: it is in fact true. Best would be vegetarian diet; failing that, eliminating beef is a huge win.

QED if you are not vegetarian and have no interest in being, the 'greenest' thing to do is to reduce or eliminate beef consumption.

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/78/3/660S.full is glum.

(I looked at resource usage, not the ethical side; fwiw I'm an ethics-motivated vegetarian myself.)
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If you're a US citizen, you would be a bit better off if it was a US server, because the records from the server would be available to the US court system. This is helpful if a customer ends up suing the company, or if there is a security breach that is investigated by US-based law enforcement.

I agree, the inclusion does hint at Sinophobia. But it's also a valid detail for security conscious customers to consider.
Innovation doesn't happen too much in China, their patent/copyright laws are so weak as to strangle anyone that would attempt to do so.
> In perpetuity?

That's a valid argument, and it's the reason why Apple is going to be reducing their cut to 15% on recurring subscriptions.
Have you considered just selling it? Sometimes the hassle isn't worth the effort required to win. Even if you could.

You stated in a previous post it'd have to be a 7 figure amount. It's unlikely you'll get that amount. I'm not saying you have to sell if for cheap, but be reasonable if you're serious about selling. A good deal is one where both parties are somewhat unhappy at the end (i.e. one feels they significantly "overpaid", and the other feels they sold something too cheaply).
Oh, I dunno. I love this explanation!
Amazing work!

>>I want to eventually port this to Arduino

The MicroPython(a python version for microcontrollers) guys are paid by the european space agency(ESA) to create a version that runs on a satellite. I think your "tag" idea for what needs garbage collection could really help them make python time deterministic(and more memory stable) which is great for a satellite and crucial for mcu's. Same for other ideas.

So i think they would appreciate talking with you about that ideas, since your languages share many similar goals.
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You're thinking of Slack. Slackware has been around since the very early days of Linux.
so they are using something like 60-66GHz which beside small antenna size advantage makes for the fastest attenuation http://www.propagation.gatech.edu/ECE6390/project/Fall2012/T... . Pretty logical.
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> Or make a wider ladder?

What do you do next with your glut of senior managers?

Or on the compensation side, there may not be resources to pay everyone as much as they'd like.
> you've botched the hasA vs isA association

No you haven't.

In many senses, C++ inheritance is just shorthand for composition. That's why things like private inheritance are useful. Through this lens, virtual inheritance is automatic composition in which multiple composed objects each have a pointer to some shared object (the virtual base). It doesn't mess with hasA vs. isA at all.

> knowing what subset of C++ to use

This idea that a good coding standard necessarily bans parts of C++ has done massive damage to the C++ community. The correct subset of C++ to use is C++. Turning off parts of the language is just a cheap way to look sagacious while infantilizing developers. Every feature has its place.
I started laughing hysterically at, "A deaf."

"Oh I say there Bart, is that a deaf I see? Why bless the fat of my leg!"
I can top that. Back in 1973-4 I was running Fortran programs on a CDC 6400 via a remote batch terminal. It consisted of a card reader, a line printer, and a console with CRT and keyboard. It was connected via a 9600bps modem -- a rare device that I'm sure cost thousands of dollars back then.

Anyway, the CRT had a scan pattern I've never seen since. Instead of two levels -- a fast horizontal scan nested inside a slower vertical scan -- it had three: there was a slow vertical scan (presumably 60Hz), a medium-speed horizontal scan that happened once, not for each pixel row, but for each character row, and then a fast character-height vertical scan to draw the character rows. So it drew each character row from left to right one pixel column at a time.

The whole thing must have cost well into six figures. Nonetheless it was a little flaky. Sometimes the video on the console would go out -- I found a particular spot on the case where I could whack it with my hand and the video would come back.
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I'm not convinced it is a very hard problem. The catering services manage to deliver the right number of meals based on the load the airlines estimate based on their reservations systems. Maybe the TSA could deliver enough TSOs.
You'd be interested in this then (1968):

https://www.amazon.com/Grid-Systems-Graphic-Design-Communica...
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This is a common occurrence with Groupon.

If you call the shop and mention using Groupon, most of the time they ask you not to purchase the Groupon. They still honor the discount, but avoid a 50% take by Groupon.
For me, contorting my face into a horrible bared-tooth grimace was interpreted as "joy".
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Whoops, phone got me.
> Context: I am wondering if I should contact a VC firm about an ethics/business issue I am having with a company they fund.

What would they care? Unless it actively and massively damages the business (i.e. potential loss of investment), I'd imagine they couldn't care less. Maximizing their investment is all a VC cares about.

A lawsuit related to the brand name of a company, however, probably could limit their acquisition chances. So try to sell to them, instead of litigating. Even if you win, they might run out of money before you get your attorney fees compensated, and you could be out of pocket a lot of $$.
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No, I'm just terrible at making up examples so cats! Cats everywhere!
Precisely. You need synthetic aperture (or similarly complicated Fourier analysis) with multiple transceive pathways to get a good 3D model of the environment.

It's very impressive that this project managed to miniaturize both the radio hardware and the computational hardware required for this. You need to perform FFTs very fast to make this work.
- Allegedly - watching Harry Potter while driving.

Who knows what might have been triggered after a crash like that? Maybe his ipad turned on and started playing some music or something strange like that.

While this is a very sad incident, my question is more future focused. Can a software update fix this blindness or does it require a hardware upgrade?
> no branch delay slots

We fought that battle 15 years ago, and delay slots lost (for general-purpose CPUs).
People have been found guilty of changing a URL by incrementing the client number. Then when the police infects a computer with a targetted worm, we're told it's "peering through open windows"...
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Sure and a good majority of them are 2D or using art styles that have the lower production costs(space sims excel at this for instance, House of the Dying Sun being the latest great example).

Once you go 2D -> 3D you have to worry about:

Matrix math
Import pipelines
Skeletal animation and skinning
Perspective, z-buffers and z-fighting
Culling, LoD, etc
Texturing, mipmaps and shaders
and more...

From a technical perspective I think it's totally a cool thing. However from a user perspective it's normally a net-loss. As someone who's been in the 2D/3D IxD space I'd love for it to be the other way around but sadly it's not.

I do think there are areas like architectural and space visualization where VR could be compelling but that's a small market and probably not something we'll ever see at 'web scale'.
Congrats to the Slackware team! I've been following the change logs so I was eager to see this release!
Still my favorite operating system after many years. :)
Fake. Not a totally bad fake, but many of the manglings are wrong.

For instance (p.58) "In the country of the blinds" should be "In land of blinds", and no plural in man or king either.

No "Castles in Spain", either, it's "castles in the clouds".

Might be the work of a bored Englishman ...
Why is it "Sinophobia" to state a fact about where the server is located?
Imagine you don't have an easy way to solve the equation x^n = N where x is an integer. Yet, for a given N you want to find a probability that such x (solution) exists. There is nothing here about how you select N.
I'm not sure that I really get which audience that RelDB is trying to reach. Their website is not very helpful in this regard either. I guess if you're wanting a way to teach basics of the relational model with a language more suited to demonstrating principle, mmm... okay (I only glanced at the grammar bit and quickly walked away).

But outside of some relatively theoretical educational use cases, this doesn't seem to solve any problem that isn't being adequately solved, and likely more practically solved, by other, more established, solutions.

Certainly the website linked didn't give me any reason to care.
That article is the best one I have seen yet. I like that there is actually a diagram.
Hard to say for sure, but since HBO Go is tightly coupled to cable companies - I would guess its distribution model is as well.

I can imagine a cable operator centric replication model for Go, where HBO doesn't handle customer delivery at all. Instead their library would be replicated from HBO to {Comcast, Cox, TimeWarner, ...}. Each HBO Go customer ID would be assigned a "master cable operator" responsible for their delivery and managed centrally, but HBO would feed customers links to operator-local content replicas.

In the common case, customers access HBO Go from within the operator's network so transit is free and HBO is totally out of the data path (just catalog/user interaction/etc.). But the service can still easily support remote access by going over the public internet.

The benefit of that model is HBO controls the catalog and most of the user interaction, but doesn't need to build/provision/pay for a CDN which scales with # of total HBO subscribers across the entire world (and guarantee reliable connectivity from their CDN to every customer). They just need to replicate their library across a few tens of cable operators who are able to keep everything local. Plus the entire sales/marketing/billing models are completely different too.

Thinking about it from HBO's perspective it makes a million kinds of sense if you have the majority of your customers paying for you via the broadcast cable subscription model. OTOH, with HBO Now there is no cable operator in the picture so they can't make that optimization and now have to build something which looks more like Netflix.
Fortunately, I tend to lag for months usually before updating major osx versions (I don't use my personal laptop much, and at work it's farther behind still), so didn't experience the wifi issue, but did with the cifs/smb change away from samba.

I haven't had connectivity issues, other than it takes a while to switch networks... At home, my macbook has about the best connections of any of my hardware, though my Nexus 6P may be better. I've been able to reliably copy files at 200Mbps+ over wifi. Worth noting I've got fewer than a dozen devices on wifi, and neighboring signals aren't that bad where I live.

At work, it's a bit noisier.
Would you buy a game console that could only play games approved by the console manufacturer?
Yes, it's a demo of Affectiva's JS SDK, tracking your emotions in real-time as you watch a YouTube video.
I didn't say technology would solve those problems. I said technology can be used to explore potential solutions.

I understand the point; you've restated it exactly as I understand it. That's why I brought up unsolved problems. The state of the art here is very often new and novel approaches that have not been explored in enough depth.

Take color theory, for example. I want a function that maps points outside visible Lab to the nearest visible point in Lab. Sure, that's a solved problem, but if you don't already know how to solve it, you've got something to learn. More importantly, can it be done quickly? Can it be generalized to other color spaces? What is the best data structure for encoding only visible points in Lab? Then there's a problem of generating maximally orthogonal gradient curves covering an image.

There are purely technical problems. Can you solve them analytically? Will it help you to learn Topology or Tensor calculus? You won't know until you try. And there are new results in any of these fields coming out every day. Pick up a textbook and think about how to write software that will be capable of solving all the problems in that book. Does it already exist? Is it optimal? Easy to use?

Everything looks the same when you're saying "I'm just applying some abstraction to a problem and encoding it into a machine using several layers of translation." But that shouldn't make you cynical, as that leaves plenty of room for innovation and learning. But if you're thinking "this new framework/language is just doing more of the same," then maybe stop focussing on frameworks and languages and instead focus on the problems they should be solving rather than the ones they actually do. And even there, you should have no problem seeing syntactic and efficiency hiccups that might be ameliorated through an intense exploratory creative design session.
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Is it not true Google pushes updates to their Nexus line without going through the carrier?
Any trivial update has a higher than 0.0000000001% chance of failure... if you need that level of specificity, you should disable updates, and network connectivity altogether.
Anything stopping people from buying non-Apple smart phones?
I sort of wonder if Amazon is the entity providing the discount.

(I spent a minute trying to figure it out and didn't find anything)
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Multiple return values I'm not very interested in. Lily has first-class tuples, and you can return a tuple which I might later add in desugaring for. But multiple return values themselves cause a lot of problems with the internals being pretty set on 0 or 1 return.

Macros are a hard no. DSLs, maybe. For the latter, I could see allowing a pluggable import handler through Lily's options. But I'm reluctant to commit to a yes or no on that at the moment, since I'd rather get over the hump of api not being fully fleshed out.
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I don't think so. Tested on multiple connections (including symmetric gigabit with great peering, and 0 issue with HBO GO) but HBO NOW is... garbage.

Their video player wouldn't go fullscreen for a while on any of my or my girlfriends computers.
Note, if you aren't on an LTS release, don't wait too long... my grandmother is on 14.10, and can no longer run updates (servers appear to be gone) and no clean upgrade path to 16.04, so I'll be copying her profile directory, and setting up the latest version... fortunately, she only uses the browser and a couple of old games installed via wine.
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No, because these seem to be clearly marked with a Amazon Vine logo and disclaimer.
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because race, gender, and borders do not exist in the new world order. those who acknowledge them will be eliminated.

just some dumb law a pollack jew lady thought up.
Not exactly, since they were clearly not the same; this was even stated by each of them.