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"So should I un-friend that girl I met at a party five years ago but haven’t spoken to since? Oh wait, you make that nearly impossible. Plus, how then will I know that she needs my help to kill a rival Mafia?!"

If you no longer care about someone's updates or anything that's going on in their life, you can remove them as a friend. I know tons of people who have removed people from their friends lists. Or if someone plays too many games and you dont like seeing that update on your feed, mute those types of posts or posts from that user.
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Your comment has little basis in reality. The actual measurements of Wall Street productivity are that hedge fund managers, etc. add zero value at all; there is no correlation between performance one year and performance the next year (cite: Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow). The "best" hedge fund manager in the world has the same chance of ultra-poor performance next year as the "worst" hedge fund manager in the world.

In actuality Wall Street is well paid simply because the job involves truly gigantic streams of money passing by, and it is trivial to get very very rich by siphoning off a bit from each stream.

In a similar way, companies like Facebook et al. are "rich" in data, because it's just passing by and all they have to do is siphon it off as it goes by. This doesn't mean that e.g. Facebook's head developer is any more skilled at making data than anyone else is; it just means that due to the nature of the business he has easy access to as much of it as he wants.

If you want easy access to money, work for Wall Street, if you want easy access to personal data, work for social media, if you want easy access to food, work in a kitchen, and so on. Working in a kitchen and getting fat doesn't mean you're a better food-gatherer than anyone else; it means you work in a kitchen.
Introductory-level courses are interesting stuff if the right person teaches it (to the right students). In fact, they can (and should) be more than that. Intro courses should inspire, fascinate, and fill students with excitement about their journeys ahead in their field. I was lucky to have some of those.
Nothing is cheap about autonomy, especially when there is limited computing power on-board the robot and power consumption is a major constraint.

Using a hybrid remote operated/autonomous approach is reasonable, though: only send high level commands to the robot. These commands require less bandwidth and are less impacted by latency, so it's the best of both worlds. I believe NASA already does something like this on the Mars rovers by allowing the operator to specify waypoints and letting the robot plan their own paths between the waypoints.
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I was actually pleased by how different it was. The only glaring similarity is the top level tab being curved. I thought they'd done a good job of stealing the advantages whilst keeping a visual separation.
My girlfriend's sister lived in one for almost 2 years in Southern Oregon. Held up just fine, no leaks, and it was around ten years old when she moved into it. She mud plastered the walls and painted using some natural pigmented paint she made, kinda cool. Compost toilet was a little walk down a trail. Southern Oregon doesn't get a ton of rain, so it's not that bad having one outside the house.
I'm confused as to why these frameworks don't use the full delete identifier and instead opt for del. delete is a completely valid property identifier for objects and can be accessed identically to del and is significantly less confusing.

If you are using full verbs for everything else, stay consistent please :-/
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More than anything I miss the "How are you connected" feature that was sort of a six degrees of Kevin Bacon for every person in your school. I would spend a lot of time picking completely random people almost always finding a connection.

I guess the graph got too big.
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The issue with transitioning back to Linux is not the OS or its applications. The main issue to be able to find decent laptops that are able to run the software. Lenovo, HP, and Dell are among the brands that won't offer a quality experience (think antiglare screen, lightweight, battery efficient and decent weight.) Noise is also an issue with the fan level on most PC laptops today. SJ didn't like fan noise and it may have helped in designing the best laptop on the market today.
True. Merging the search box and urlbar is a logical step. I was worried at first at blurring the distinction between "search in my local bookmarks/history" and "send to Google", but if it works like in the mobile browsers than I might be able to live with it (show local results and offer "search on google" as an option). But I wonder how usable that would be with many search engines.

Don't like:

- The Firefox menu at the top of the window is moved to a Chrome-style settings menu on the right. Yet, no vertical screen estate was won. (I realize why this is: the top must remain free to make the window draggable, but it also shows how pointless moving it was, as you've now lost horizontal estate for no gain)

Makes sense:

- Home button replaced by home pinned tab.
- New downloads UI. Prior to 4.0 I used an extension that showed something similar to what you see in those screens.
It's actually quite difficult to remove a friend. You have to go to their individual page, scroll down, look at a text link on the bottom left of the page, click "Yes" in the confirmation box.

I wish I could just navigate through my friends list and remove friends right from there just like how I can add them to groups or lists or anything I want.
Today the reddit staff censored some unpopular content purely because it was unpopular and made them look bad.

It's not that simple - look at all the responses in this thread. You've got plenty people here claiming that all of the content in all of those sub-reddits was clearly illegal, some people arguing that it was half and half, some arguing that it's all legit.

I don't even know what was in the sub-reddits, but I can tell you for sure that if there's this much disagreement over whether most of it is legal or not, that's a nasty legal minefield that I certainly would not want to make decisions about, especially given that I'd be risking both my company and my own freedom if I happened to make a mistake and let something prosecutable through. Not to mention that I'm sure there was a lot of work involved in deciding these things on a case-by-case basis.

Personally, I'd be much more comfortable with the situation if Reddit had decided early on to place a blanket ban on these types of sub-reddits under this justification, rather than waiting until the PR shitstorm started up, but even if it is just a face-saving move at this point, I think the logic is pretty sound. I think other user-submitted content sites would probably be wise to adopt this sort of policy, even if Reddit screwed up and was too lenient at the start.
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A proper minifier/concatenator will add the necessary shielding semi-colons. Don't use anything that messes with your code without parsing it.
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Defensive comments like this reveal something deeper about a company. The leadership continues to believe that they couldn't have done anything differently that would change their current circumstance. This is a dangerous indicator that they'll continue doing the same things.
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I am really happy to not work for RIM. They were a premier tech company 5 years ago but now they are visibly circling the toilet. It must be a very unpleasant place to work.
Who are these strangers posting on my wall? I haven’t spoken to some of them in 5 years. What a wonderful treat to hear from them on my birthday.

I couldn't tell if this was sarcasm. Is it really a treat? An empty "happy birthday" posted out of obligation that took practically no thought from someone that has otherwise not bothered to contact you in 5 years and will probably not do so for another 365 days?
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If you type google.com or facebook.com into a web browser, you're redirected to www.google.com and www.facebook.com respectively. nasa.gov doesn't even resolve and you must type in www.nasa.gov to reach their website. I've read up a bit on the history and preferences regarding the www subdomain, but what should we do now? If you're setting up a website in 2012, would you forward the naked domain to www or not?
Yurts are cool structures and relatively heat-efficient. You can find them everywhere now. In the western world at least, they are built with modern engineered materials most of the time.

What is cool about the OP is that it's totally built in the rustic style - sticks, logs, etc. This is a bit distinct from deciding to build a "yurt." For more examples, google it, or check out something like Dry Kye (http://drykyerustic.com/). Disclaimer: this is my cousin in Maine. He harvests his own materials and is especially fond of salvaging patina-ed, old-growth wood from very old abandoned barns in the Maine countryside.
A lot of web apps - both the established players and the startups - seem to be in a "sort of, but not really" state. I'm pulling this from a column by Thomas Friedman about Russia ( http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/friedman-ru... ) where he says that Russia is "sort of a democracy, but not really". Applied to web apps, Facebook is sort of a way to keep in touch with friends and family, but not really, because it's mainly a pile of uninteresting crap streamed from a bunch of people you hardly know. Twitter is sort of a way to follow interests, but not really, since it's mainly a vast swamp of mind-numbing, hash-tag inundated stupidity that most people don't read.

That's not to say there isn't value in these services, because there is - I use both. It's just that it seems so half-assed. When you consider the ways in which, say, the introduction of the telephone changed society, Facebook just looks silly.
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Well, I mean, there's an above the fold pic of a guy simulating sodomy, and lots of F-bombs. Some of us don't work for startups, or even, gasp, in places with an HR department with no sense of humor and a sexual harassment policy.
Didn't they throw out IQ as a reliable measure of intelligence back in the 90's?
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It's not obvious at all. The great mass of people believe earnestly that money or a big leader will fix all problems.

Case in point: The current trend to use standardized test scores to give teachers an incentive to make students get better grades.

Case in point: AIG gives out tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to people writing derivatives to counter mortgage bond risk, because these derivatives make the company money.
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Sarcasm :) sorry, I got a little snarky there.

Totally agree with you.
As 54mf said, it needs more polishing. Kickstarter is a great idea. You'll surely find scores of hardcore gamers interested in funding a game that suits their tastes. As long as you satisfy the elite gamers, casual gamers (like me) will follow suit, just like we did with Super Meat Boy.

What I haven't addressed, 54mf has done already, so all that's left is a "good luck".
I can't help but think that requiring a prompt to modify Firefox binaries is a good thing.
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It's just embracing the ASI. Nothing wrong with it. On the contrary, the understanding necessary to use it implies good knowledge of the language.
English seem like the largest issue, because the system would need to be able to understand an essay to grade it and provide feedback. The other issue is intro classes are setup to go over material with the expectation that people will form study groups if they don't understand it. Which in many ways is punting the issues of education back on the students.
The post you are responding to is just saying drones on Wall Street make more money than drones at Google.
Seriously? "Ha ha ha fat chicks! Ha ha, theorem proved, bitches!" [image of him doggy-style dry-humping a woman he assures you in the comments 'he has no idea who that girl is'] ...The subject is honestly interesting, I'd like to see the game-dev work he did, but this guy has a huge problem throwing sex into it. Way to make women hackers feel welcome there, "bro".
There was a blog post linked here on Hacker News that talked about it from the perspective of an iOS game developer. Unfortunately I can't seem to find it right now, but the synopsis was the overwhelming majority of their users had not paid for the game (in iTunes). While this is purely anecdotal, one could argue it's probably representative of the market.

For apps and music, I think Apple does a good job of making the process cheap and easy, but there will always be people with more time than money.
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I had no idea how to make custom maps, so I learnt by doing. You should too.
In terms of a RESTful web service, is an object's id supposed to be passed in as a parameter in a GET request, or be a part of the core URI, e.g. api.test.com/teacher/1234 would retrieve the teacher of id=1234 or api.test.com/students/1234 would retrieve that teacher's students.

Is api.test.com/teacher?id=1234 more kosher?
>Your complaint was very specific, yet you claimed it was a general issue.

My complaint was a specific example of the general issue I wrote about in the last paragraph of my post. Did you ignore the last paragraph from my original post on purpose?

Let me spell it out for you.

DDG in general has provided dissatisfying results

follow by I suspect it is from not knowing what I don't know when searching, so I can't identify bad searches as they happen.

So I clearly say in general I am dissatisfied and posit a reason why that might be the case. The point of the example is, for the curious, something they can go try or talk about, but thanks for the nitpicking!

Your only other comment on this story is an "It works for me!" So thanks for contributing nothing but fanboi garbage.
Do you think this is a good idea for Windows updates for the big public? If not, how is Firefox different?

Firefox installers are signed (and so are updates), so I don't see any security issues here. On the contrary, removing the need for people to approve all those useless UAC prompts makes it more likely they will actually look at the next one to pop up and see if it is legit.
I was really hoping this was someone talking about making Ruby 1.9.3 compile with llvm-gcc. At home, I'm running ruby compiled with clang and I've noticed the occasional hiccup with some gems. But, unlike the author, I do use software installed with XCode (iOS dev kit) so uninstalling XCode isn't really an option.

For what it's worth, there are a ton of recommendations to do this same thing out there--and for many people it's just not a viable option. This isn't a success story so much as it's using a workaround. Not being part of either the Ruby or Apple dev teams, I won't say whose side this is on to fix: only that it needs to be fixed.
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Leaving semi-colons out is not clever, it's just understanding where you need them instead of shooting blindly.
Or $0 adjusted for inflation is still $0 when you get screwed.
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This would be a great way for me to keep up with the latest info related to Type 1 diabetes (which I have).

Signed up.
To be fair, this makes male hackers feel unwelcome too. I opened the page, thought "I'm not being caught with this open at work", and came here to deride the author. That's nice work, Lou...
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Personally, I either code so the site doesn't care if "www" is there or not (watch your cookie domain though) or force a redirect to the non-"www" address (particularly when I don't want to purchase 2 SSL certs for a domain).

A couple of years a go I would have said to keep the "www" - it's a subdomain that refers specifically to the World Wide Web (or HTTP) address of a site, as opposed to the FTP or email services.

Nowadays, I prefer to either drop or ignore the "www" - if you're using an HTTP client to reach my domain, I'm going to go ahead and assume you want the website and not the FTP site. Intelligently named subdomains are good for organization :)

So either make both work, or redirect one to the other. It really doesn't matter very much either way.
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Actually, you can just hover their name anywhere on the site (including your friends list), hover the “Friends” button and click “Unfriend”. It hardly gets easier than that.
Anyone who has been in a management position for any length of time knows that the top down dictatorial style does not work. If you want the best from people you need to treat them well and encourage them.

From my experience these are the things I feel are important to managing a good team:
You don't tell people to do things you tell them what needs to be done. If you have built a good team you don't need to be command/control to get tasks accomplished. Any conflicts need to be handled quickly, sharply and fairly. People will live up to expectations. Set the bar and if they don't make it, point out where they could improve and give them confidence to try again.
Falcon 1e seems to be pretty-much on hold at the moment. The Falcon 1 launch site on Kwajalein has been dismantled. As far as I can tell, SpaceX are focussing on deploying smallsats as secondary payloads on Falcon 9, rather than flying them as independent launches.
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That's a part of JS Garden I don't agree with. Leaving semi-colons only changes behaviour if your code is wrong in the first place...
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Why is it such an all or nothing approach to distribution? Getting on XBLA, which requires a publisher (I guess he must be meeting with Microsoft Game Studios then), is extremely unlikely for a indie dev's first game. Value might be able to look away from the game's lack of polish if the gameplay is really good, but even then there are indie games with a lot more polish and award recognition that don't make it on to the service.
Even without Steam/XBLA a good game could still make enough money for a indie dev to make another game
This is all moot, of course, if the opponent brings a gun.
Wouldn't it be better to replace the spring mechanism with a set of multiplier gears? You should be able to turn the top once and spin the generator a few thousand times, not turn the top once and have it spring-turn the generator once.
I've never actually noticed "one obvious way". There are a couple ways to do almost everything in Python; loops or map, Twisted or threads, unittest2 or nose, and so on. I like Python, but human nature pushes everything towards "there are many ways to do it", and humans have influenced the direction of Python.

I prefer Perl's approach of embracing more than one way to do things. I don't really want there to be 8 ways to do one thing, but it's just a more realistic outlook. You go into Perl knowing that you are going to have to try a bunch of different things to see what fits your mental model, instead of being told what to do. (I used Python at a Bank where they wrote their own style guide, completely different from the standard Python style guide. WTF? Humans have a way of ruining everything.)

Ironically, many things in Perl have converged into "One Obvious Way"; PSGI/Plack for web frameworks, Test::Builder for unit tests, and so on.
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I do happen to have an 8 GB machine, and almost never reboot (only reboot for OS updates).

Here's what I don't understand - why would anyone in their right mind purchase a $2000 laptop and then not spend the 20 minutes and 100 bucks to max out the memory on the thing? It's the easiest thing in the world to do, and basically means you never have to worry about memory usage again.
I would say you should choose to use one or the other, and redirect a user to the one you intend to use.

Simple as that
> The actual measurements of Wall Street productivity are that hedge fund managers, etc. add zero value at all;

There is of course a distinction between revenue and wealth. The folks at investment banks surely were bringing in a lot of revenue, on a consistent basis, over the last few decades. The traditional investment banking functions in M&A brought in consistent fees regardless of how well the new company ultimately did. Traders also brought in a lot of revenue without creating any wealth (trading is not quite zero sum, but the value-add case is much weaker than for traditional banking functions), by transferring wealth from people on the losing sides of bets. As someone notes in the article, the explosion of public (401k, pension) money in the system meant there were a lot of less-sophisticated people willing to take the other side on these bets.
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As would be expected, "Design and lab exercises are also significant components of the course." Sadly there is still no information on how this is going to be handled. Are you going to take pictures of your breadboard and multimeter readings to show you did your homework?

What do you guys think?
*"It was my Birthday a couple of weeks ago. From my 527 friends, I received 52 birthday wishes on Facebook. That’s 10% of my friends — more activity in one day than I saw in an entire year prior. Who are these strangers posting on my wall? I haven’t spoken to some of them in 5 years. What a wonderful treat to hear from them on my birthday."

This paragraph pretty much sums up why I deleted my Facebook account - either two or three (bad memory..) years ago on the 10th of January, the day after my birthday. I never hated Facebook, I never had any problem with the company... I just realised, having got a bunch of emails telling me that people who don't know me well enough to tell me in person, or on the phone, or on skype/msn, or via sms, had left birthday wishes on my wall, that I hadn't had a use for it in quite a while before then.
Agreed, barring a sudden resurgence in the use of COBOL.