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I've been an android user forever and my frustrations with the latest Android version has finally pushed me to try an iPhone.

It's amazing. Especially Apple Pay. I could never get my Android to work with mobile payments for any of my banks in Canada... Apple Pay just works beautifully.

The slightly weaker phone is worth it for the really top notch user experience. And it seems like iPhone is better programmed or optimized, because the performance feels waaaaay better than my latest gen "powerful" Android.
Well they have to live somewhere during that rental too right?
Did GM deliberately try to falsify test results, so as to provide incorrect information to the government?

Maybe. The Justice Department case against GM that was settled had two parts... a wire-fraud charge and a charge of "engaging in a scheme to conceal a deadly safety defect".

Of course, GM settled for $900 million (USD) with an agreement to drop the charges if GM fixes their recall process. So, we don't have a criminal conviction.

I do wonder if GM got off easy because they are American. Next to impossible to prove, lacking a smoking gun (email or similar), but GM actually killed people and got a small fine (relative to VW's fines).
So how do you "actually" ask for reference? What I've written is the most direct one can be (without caring about sugar coating my sentence). People wouldn't have minded had I written:
"I'm a long time fan of Apple and still love their products above any other company's, but I think some of their statements would get much more value if they support them with a third party reference like other companies do with asterisks and all, like a statement like their camera is most popular in the world could have been supported with some reference. "

I bet, that would look like a neutral and balanced statement to all and most people would be happy with it, but as you can see, it's easy to fake it. The truth is I'm tired of Apple's hyperbole and people should question them. If you make a claim, support it with facts, otherwise don't write it.
Why do almost no population projections take climate change into account? We're rapidly heading towards a much less habitable earth. The projections I've seen with Africa at a population of 3-4 billion people by 2100 would be laughable if the whole situation wasn't so damn tragic.
I wonder what founders who have sold their companies for a significant amount end up doing in the days after. It would be really interesting to know what's going on in your head right now.
This is great. It's nice to see an article from someone who doesn't "do" TDD, but also isn't ranting about how tests are useless. I personally use and prefer (test-first) TDD but still agree with all of the advice in this article.
> because Medicare reimburses about 7% less than the direct costs of services, in the aggregate. It's one of the reasons you see very few private practices which cater solely, or even primarily, to Medicare patients.

Could you please point us to the source of this information?

It was my understanding, from a news article I read a few years ago, that Medicare evaluates each medical procedure and comes out with a fair price that guarantees fair profit for the provider.

I think it might be that providers cannot charge insane profits to Medicare so they rather avoid dealing with them.
And strictly illegal in places like NYC.

Edit: The majority of uses that I have encountered of both people who use and list on AirBNB in NYC are of the strictly illegal kind.
Agreed, but that is a technical problem that can (and should) be solved. For example, "C" and "C++" are even more unfriendly terms for search engines, yet Google handles them just fine:

https://www.google.com/search?q=c+stdlib

https://www.google.com/search?q=c%2B%2B+stdlib
Personally, I don't eat anything above a certain (arbitrarily defined) intelligence threshold. So octopus and pig are out. Chicken, however...
It's now based on pyramid 1.6
Wow. Thank you for not bending over on the private key issue. That's terrible.
I always figured that the hidden camera that the AirBnB host uses to spy on me already had a microphone so they can monitor my noise level directly....
I'm paying $100/mo for gigabit fiber through Ringgold Telephone Company. I'm in Ringgold, GA (right on the Tennessee border, south of Chattanooga).
The unspoken elephant in this thread is that sysadmins and developers have broken relationships surrounded by organizational dysfunction.

Personally, I feel that system administration experience of some sort is essential to development skills, and development experience of some sort is essential to system administration.

Communication and leadership skills are essential to both. It _used_ to be OK if you were the jerk at the office if you were good enough at your job (sysadmin or developer). That's no longer the case because we've progressed well past the point where a single developer or sysadmin can be enough of an asset to look past their ability to work well with others.

Operations needs stability. Developers need to hit moving targets. Sysadmins need to keep things manageable, compatible, and secure. These aren't incompatible goals, and usually when you get the techies talking they are sympathetic towards each other's challenges and helpful to one another. With as many project managers, engineering managers, manager managers, directors, and executives in the mix I wonder if the problems in all these environments isn't more of a historic issue with leadership failings.
thanks for the trauma release exercise recommendation.

I really really appreciate it.
"Because you can" is the easiest answer you can give to anything. My comment was written because I feel like people say that Atlassian MUST expand beyond developers. So it doesn't feel like they WANT or they CAN.
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In general, I think that this is good advice. However, there are some things that a parent shouldn't just let a child fail at if it is outside a known pattern of behavior. For instance, if a kid is a good athlete and suddenly is horrible at baseball, it shouldn't be chalked up to "he is a kid, he needs to learn to overcome." To be fair though, I feel like a lot of parents are far too quick to intervene. Intervention in "failure" should only come when it is clear similar effort isn't producing similar results and there may be other factors at play.

An example from my own life. I graduated high school with a very good GPA. I was always a good student, did my homework, etc, etc. However, my Sophomore year I ran into a horrible Spanish teacher. I tried consistently, studied nightly (reviewing vocab with my mom, etc) and got Cs and Ds in the class. I worked hard. My mom had no issues with the resulting grades. She did take umbrage at my teacher's belittling of me. I was continually accused of not caring, not studying, being lazy, and being stupid. Nothing could have been further from the truth.

My mom knew I struggled with this, but it was not due to a lack of effort. She intervened with the school multiple times due to my teaher's treatment of me. I don't think that was a bad thing.

We later discovered that I have (what qualifies as) a learning disability when it comes to language and auditory processing. Basically, it is exponentially more difficult for me to hear the differences in how things are pronounced, tone, accent, etc. This is most likely from my dozens of ear infections and two ear surgeries as a child. I actually was exempt from language requirements in University due to this.

Again, I was a very good student in other aspects and I was trying. Sometimes, I wish my mother had intervened more and maybe said, "this is odd. She doesn't fail like this. Something else is wrong here. With this effort, she shouldn't be failing." But, it was a slight blip with an otherwise above average student. I see why she didn't worry all that much.

As an aside, I can't really blame parents all that much for quickly intervening. The cost of failure as a 14 year old is much higher than it was even 14 years ago when I was that age. Kids cannot eascape one bad semester when applying for college. It doesn't matter if grades and activities the followings years were markedly improved. Even getting into good state schools is quite competitive. If you had 2 good years, there will always be someone who has 3.
Christianity (at least Catholicism) has an animal ethic that is not man-made, but comes from divine revelation. Genesis says that man is given the responsibility to care for creation, and while since the time of the flood we have permission to eat animals, the general (at least Catholic) interpretation is that doesn't mean we can be cruel to animals. In other words, if we have a reasonable need to kill an animal for food, it may be done in as humane a way as is practical. Otherwise, we should care for them.
Unless I get a government certificate saying so, I won't trust that your butt-connected volume-measuring device isn't sending recorded audio, or that it won't start at some point after a trivial software update.

Actually assuming it won't is something I'd consider naivety / lack of tech-savviness.
Seems to be true in the higher-end diesels, like the BMWs and Audis and Mercedeses, but the gas versions of cars like the Cruze and the Jetta use regular gas. For people who are cost conscious, I imagine that they'd be looking at the lower-end diesels where the gas equivalents use cheap gas.
Hello from the Other Side: SSH Over Robust Cache Covert Channels in the Cloud [pdf]
There are a few spelling mistakes here:

> gage their interest (should be gauge)

> You're happiness (should be your)

> someone elses wheel (missing ' in else's)

> until their comfortable (should be they're)
People pay for things according to the value they provide, not the cost to the provider. If this provides $1k/year of value that no other provider can replicate, it is a good deal.

(Thanks patio11 for drumming this into my head!)
Given that variable bit-rate VoIP can reveal words spoken from bitrate alone[1], I would be very cautious about their claims.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/06/eavesdropping...
Occupancy can be shared, or can be reserved for periods when the primary occupant is away. I don't even travel much, but still manage to be away from my home for several entire days out of the year.

Mind you, tourists have no interest in the area I live to begin with, so that is always another good option for curbing interest in AirBnB.
> The essay's point is that the reader's judgement is just as valid as

But it's not. The question isn't "what does this mean to YOU", but "what did this mean to the author".

If I pick words randomly I can say with authority that there is no meaning in the words, and for all your understandings you can't change that the words were picked blindly, and thus without meaning.

> The author is not the final and not the only interpretation that's valid.

As to the author's intent, yes it is. Whatever intent there was is set down with the ink on paper. You come later, as a reader, so your interpretation is at most an addendum and not part of the original.

> [...] can be interpreted by the reader as having meaning even though Noam Chomsky says it's a meaningless sentence.

Sure. But an interpretation isn't a change in the nature of the actual thing. Even if I interpret an elephant as a butterfly it won't fly away.

This entire literary "discipline" (cough) is based on refusing to use an accurate description of the practice. Everyone agrees that a text can invoke various things - even unintended things - in various readers. That doesn't mean you're finding something inherent in the text but in the reader.
Helicopter parenting can even hurt you when it’s second hand.

My mom did the same with my brother but but not with me. I was much younger than my brother and still in elementary school but by fifth grade I began to feel afraid of my mom doing the same thing to me. I almost got straight As in Chinese, but a B on the final quiz could’ve ruined that. I ended up having an anxiety attack within the last 5-10 minutes of class, right before I would have to walk home. I had two attacks back to back after that and I was taken out of the class, but after a few years I had another attack in a similar situation and I recently had another, albeit at home because I didn’t that I could get a project done on time. I think something about my mother yelling at my brother and my brother yelling at her had traumatised me, because I know that when I was in fifth trade, my brother was really struggling in school. When my mom found out I was having attacks age got really scared and calmed down with my brother and things definitely got better for all of us. But for a while, even though I wasn’t a direct victim, it really, really hurt me. I understand that she was trying to look out for my brother who had lied to her on multiple occasions. I understand that she tried to do the right thing, and that it’s harder than it sounds. I have no idea what I would’ve done in her place either. I am not mad at her for what she did at all, don’t get me wrong, but the irony of the situation has always frustrated me.

In an attempt to make my brother more responsible while allowing me to still feel comfortable learning, helicopter parenting just made my brother want to spite my mom more and led to me having to be taken out of a class because of anxiety.

There’s something to learn from these experiences, but I’ve struggled to figure it out. Because in spite of how it has affected me, I have never been able to think of something that my mom should’ve done instead.
One that emits an ear-splitting siren if the noise gets too high? Much cheaper and more convenient than reporting to the owner. The kids will get the point pretty quickly.
For simple SPL (Sound Pressure Level. Literally, loudness), there's no processing of audio. It's doing little more than monitoring the voltage of the microphone. Voltage spikes above X millivolts too many times in X timeframe, send out an alert.
This is depressing. Trello is a beloved software for a lot of people. It's sad that Trello decided to sell off to Atlassian. I can't believe the same company that makes Jira is going to run Trello. SourceTree is the only software that they make that doesn't suck.
> The people here who are concerned that the culture will change are ill informed and likely haven't gone through an acquisition themselves.

No, but many have been users of companies that ended their beatiful journey soon after being acquired.

I'm cautiously optimistic that Atlassian don't want to waste half-a-billion dollars.
Actually the error results from asking a teapot to brew coffe, in which case it will reply "I am a teapot" and some servers provide the image of the teapot to make it easier, if you like a text only error page, here it is:

http://www.kurgan.org/
> I think the reason you have those kinds of holy wars among users of a particular technology...is network effects.

I find the holy wars are usually fueled by "fans" -- people less invested and less knowledgable in the topic. This is true of movies, bands, sports teams, phones, computers and cars.

The fact is if you work on the tech you appreciate that there are tradeoffs and know what your overall objective is (so are less likely to argue about things that don't get you there). Musicians tend to get along -- did the Beatles hate the Stones (OK, the Stones released "Let it Bleed"). I doubt Mark Hamill hates Star Trek or Shatner Star Wars. The catholic pope meets with the grand mufti of Jarusalem. Obama and Bush talked a lot in 2008 and 2009.

It's like the joke about academia being so cutthroat as the stakes are so small. Holy / Flame wars erupt among those on the periphery at best.
It's rather strange and ironic, given that Go came from Google, that they used such a search-hostile word.

("Golang" is a lot less problematic, of course. Hell, in an alternate universe, why not "Gol"? Only one more letter, and no serious collisions I can see...)
It's fairly straightforward to have a rust-Result construct in C++. It's a bit more tedious if you want to make it a proper tagged union, but not inherently something that can't be done with a minimum of code and be as safe as possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth

not sure if there's anything more to say.
Or at the very least, listen for certain keywords and send that data back to HQ. No need to record for that either.
No - If the only thing computers couldn't beat humans at was reading tells, they'd win online poker.

But they don't yet do that: this paper is about beating humans at heads up, which is a much more limited domain than a full table.

If you want to learn about why to bluff I'd recommend reading about using game theory to solve Kuhn poker.
I assume he is talking about net birth rate.
It's because mercurial is legacy, like darcs, bzr, monotone, and the other zoo of "git-alikes" that were big in 2008. Now it's just like MacOS Classic in 2000: there are a few die-hard zealots who claim that the interface is better in some indescribable way, and everyone else has moved on.
What happens if they unplug this thing? "Sorry I needed the outlet and this thing looked kinda useless."
You'd have to check his "Current Thoughts" Trello list :p
Uh, that's not idle capital at play in Austin, that's a gigantic influx of California transplants that have been coming by the van load even before I left in 2008. Cashing out whatever they could real estate wise made them extremely flush with cash comparatively in Texas. Austin was always on the pricey side but the sprawl effect pretty much made the "unaffordable" circle bump out to a 1 hour commute radius, well, considering how terrible the traffic is that's not saying much...anyway, hope the place works out for ya.
GM lied about where Chevy Cruzes are assembled
I've lived in city and rural environments. In my experience, people in the city are far more judgmental of rural people than the opposite. Rural people are too busy with manual labor jobs to worry about what's happening in the city.
Given the markup they have on these devices (like someone else pointed out, it's $10 in parts DIY, probably much less if mass-produced), I don't think they care...
Wouldn't you hit the out of pocket max if you have an emergency? As long as you have that much cash, HDHP makes sense to me.
> And as always, lies, damn lies, and benchmarks

Things change: not the same JVM as 2014, not the same Clojure.

We may quote to one another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, lies, damned lies and statistics, still there are some easy figures which the simplest must understand but the astutest cannot wriggle out of. 1895 Leonard Henry Courtney
My favorite part of the second article was how the octopus was able to attend to 3 or 4 people at once and still manage to steal the bucket of fish. It's part hivemind, part single entity and I agree, very alien. What's also interesting is that despite having diverged a very long time ago, chromatophore lobes of octopus are surprisingly sophisticated and mammal like (especially for a mollusk).
I doubt their "signal processing" involves anything more than a microphone and a peak detector.

A more practical side channel attack would probably be through radiated emissions over the mains power. However if you're willing to go that far, a laser microphone is much more effective and simpler.
It rips out all the metro apps. It does nothing to cortana so that's confusing. VSS?
I think we agree on the prudence of professional engineers.

The definition of 'professional' is up for debate, but I'd encourage people to weigh in on the following (to IEEE, not me):

- an appropriate engineering education background (ABET/EAC)[1]

- at least four years of engineering experience in your field and under the supervision of qualified engineers

- passed two exams (the Fundamentals of Engineering [FE] exam, which is now a computer-based test available essentially year round, and the eight-hour PE exam)

- kept current by as a minimum meeting your state's continuing education requirements.

-- http://insight.ieeeusa.org/insight/content/careers/97473

[1] I think it would be worthwhile to consider apprenticeships, equivalent to the 'law office study' path to attorneys' bar certification.
I've implemented a Result-like error code construct in plenty of C++ projects and disabled exceptions precisely because I don't think they're a good way of handling error states in code.
What I find complicated about Debian packaging is not how to use the tools and how to arrange the package, although that is certainly complicated, but not intractable. What I don't understand is once you have a package, why it is such a long and complicated process to get it into Debian.

You can't just upload it and forget, you have to sign up and become associated with that work, you have distribute your keys and get other people to trust you, you have to make a bug and file the package against that bug, etc. There is this whole social dynamic within Debian that I just don't understand at all.

If it was more like software development; make the package, git commit, push, post it to software like reddit and have people approve (upvote) it, then I'd be a maintainer already. Instead there's this whole process behind becoming a maintainer, finding a "mentor" etc, that for years I've just found to be a complete roadblock.
To admit any weakness in terms of mental hygiene is taboo. Even today. It's forever an invitation for others to question your actions/moods/beliefs as somehow entirely subject to past injury or affliction.

We link personality with mind as a society. Admitting to a sickness of the mind is a prelude to admitting to a sickness of personality.

I take great pains to manage my illness and practice good hygiene. It's more upkeep for me than maybe for others and I'm forever going to shoulder this burden. I have good days and bad days. Part of the therapy is learning how to distinguish the actions I take because of past feelings from those sourced from my true self. It's not always easy.
No experience with h2o yet. I'm not keen on having to pickup Ruby which would be just one more thing to take care of for me.
Why compile a table of their web servers though?
That's a huge "what if", on top of what's already an impossible-to-predict situation. But if we're going to entertain this, we should also factor in the other circumstances that are likely to come with this scenario:

I spent a chunk of my life adjacent to bio/med research and my conclusion is radical life extension by purely biological means will probably remain unfeasible. Genetically, we're millions of years worth of horribly interdependent spaghetti code, there is no fixing this mess. So - barring the option to upload yourself to silicon - death won't be obsolete by 2065.

However we might see some very, very moderate increases in life expectancy across the board, even in comparatively poor nations, as long as they're not living in abject poverty. This would be cause for concern, but data from industrialized nations suggest a major regression in births once a population becomes (somewhat) wealthy and healthy.

The desire to procreate boundlessly may very well be a deep-seated instinct triggered by living in precarious environments. If dying slows down, it's because of improved living standards and medical care, the same things that stop over-procreation.

It seems to me that in order to control Earth's population, we need to address poverty, which incidentally would solve a huge slew of other humanitarian and ecological problems.
Speaking as someone that works with Mercurial on daily basis, and also makes/sells software that supports Mercurial. I can tell you it's far from beeing legacy.
In her book "Animals make is human" - Temple Grandin makes the argument (among many others, this is not the main thesis of the book) that we can have a symbiotic relationship with animals, wherein we provide secure food supply, protection from predation and the associated stress, etc. and in return we eat the animal. Factory farming, by contrast has more in common with a parasitic relationship.