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Providing deep platform-specific support in a cross-platform codebase is a pain; believe me I get that. But platforms evolve, and frankly the ways they've been evolving recently is likely much tougher to keep up with than "loading plugins from a new location, or with a new security context", especially for a time-based media application.

Wholesale changes in OS or environment runtime? Changes in underlying processor architecture? Forced update to full 64-bit support? Customers wanting to operate on files that are an order of magnitude larger?

If these apps have any claim to being worth hundreds or thousands of dollars per seat, and charging hundreds of dollars for basic compatibility updates, their developers should Pro-up and deal with this change like they've dealt with others.

And given the motivation for the change, I think they should skip the complaining step and lean into the work.
I thought the only 'difference' was the timeframe of availability, but apparently not:

http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/basics/basics5.asp

One major difference between adult and embryonic stem cells is their different abilities in the number and type of differentiated cell types they can become.

Scientists believe that tissues derived from embryonic and adult stem cells may differ in the likelihood of being rejected after transplantation.
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Ahh I knew I should have checked for grammar fails! It was late when I typed this.

As for "I want to use Redis... what can I use it for" that's exactly what I'm asking. I think this project can gain some traction in it's targeted demographic, but more than anything it's gaining experience with technologies that I've been dying to try, so whether it fails or not I got some useful experience from the project (Trying new technology, especially something like Redis, just run on a local dev machine won't do much for getting the real world experience).

I agree that it may be a bit of premature optimisation, so if you want we can speak in hypotheticals. In an application like (pinterest) what are some use cases for moving parts of the data from MongoDB to Redis? Would it be wise to use something like Redis for follow/following and facebook style updates (Bill, John, Mary, and 4 others loved this photo; Bobby, Rick, and Jane are now following you; etc)?
So "a consistent experience that users expect" == user tracking for ads?? I don't think so. That's quite some spin on Google exploiting a bug to track me.
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I apologise if I missed something here, but the GP said:
"I haven't really seen/noticed women not getting promoted/paid less just because they are women"

You have provided statistics that show women get paid less than men in technology. But this does not show that women are not getting promoted, or are getting paid less, just because they are women.

Is it not also another plausible hypothesis that they are getting paid less, because, (for example) they make work/life balance choices that focus less on career advancement?

This of course, might indicate that there are other issues to be addressed, with how society structures work/life balance, gender roles etc and this is well trodden ground; but statistics that show women get a lower average (or median) pay do not necessarily show they are getting paid less, "just because they are women".
I hate the whole web paradigm but it's what's in use and it's definitely improving. And in particular, jQuery makes it less painful so that's what many of us use (or similar JS frameworks). The same problem happens at the low end with the x86 instruction set. Yet we live with it.

None of that makes it OK to write a bashful title that should've read "Stop paying your ASP MVC JS tax" or something. It all comes down on how they need to have inlined JS requiring $(document).ready(). That's the problem and not jQuery.
Yes, _but_ I think her article properly frames her mind-set, she is young (early/mid 20's) and may yet experience what PyLadies and other related groups seek to discuss:

1) She doesn't have much corporate experience yet, and is drawing conclusions based on her limited experience.

2) She's not in a position of authority... sexism really shows its ugly face when there are power differentials where the woman is on top.

3) She's not yet of an age where child bearing is typically discussed, once she hits her 30's she'll have to deal with this regardless if she wants to have children.

4) Just because you're female doesn't mean you arn't sexist.

As others have pointed out, it is a very small minority of problem people. However, they can have a very adverse affect on an individual woman and her career. Sexism is something we should all be actively aware of and do our best to counter when we see it. It only takes a few corrections (by a male colleagues) to address some of the more prevalent issues -- but you have to do it or the sexism will persist.
Well, that's why I said stronger, not worse.
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Sounds awesome. I'd apply in a shot if I didn't have commitments here in the US. Always wanted to go to Finland.

I wonder how much Clojure is really running in the robots, though. GC pauses aren't really acceptable when you've got an actual physical feedback loop running. You'd have to use a language capable of hard-realtime processing for that, and use Clojure for higher-level AI and decision making.
Because that's his basement, where his hot water heater is surrounded by dirt where one could also assume the washing machine and clothes dryer is.

One the one hand, the scale of this dirt playground and expensive radio controlled cars would make any grown man weep for a chance to be 10 years old again. On the other hand, you have to hope that this much obsession for 100% perfectly-scaled realism isn't as creepy as it looks.

In any event, this is impressive.
We'll be adding symptoms based on user input analysis and building out the symptom synonym engine.

True, there has been a lot of work in medical expert systems. DXPlain is an old one that tends to come up a lot in our conversations. We have several Hopkins medical informatics specialists advising us and I would say that our algorithm is novel.

Moreover, past attempts have attempted to codify a medical expert's knowledge (eg let's ask this smart doctor we know to determine disease prevalence). We calculated it from clinical data and can continue to learn as more people use it.
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That also means a huge amount of open source software that makes OS X more useful (esp. as a developer OS) is going to get harder and harder to compile on OS X. Which in turn is making OS X a less attractive platform.
It doesn't really have one. Annoying, because it's 90% of the way there- views can insert code into specific "sections" of the template, but sub-views can't.

If they just enabled that then you could make a "JS" section just before </body> and have all your JS inserted there.
I used to help a lot of new-to-html coders on usenet. A handful of them would recommend me or contract me for the more complicated stuff like shopping carts, contact forms and other data driven functions.
She didn't use boy/girl interchangeably. She used girl/man.
Every language has a separate way of doing packages, explaining the individual benefit based on your preference is a more clear message to get across. The other benefit is it helps us choose where to focus.

And, funny story: the word "weapon" is A/B tested with the word "repository" because I had the same doubts. Guess which one converts better? Hint: It's not "repository"
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This kind of thing still happens quite a bit now.
I'm always hearing of cases where someone has made a few hundred pounds creating someone a website that's been copied and looks like it was originally designed in MS Word for a small business that wants to get an internet presence.
Accidentally put an Amazon Associates affiliate link in a reddit comment. Thread made it to the front page, comment was near the top, I made about $100.
Combine this with Siri, and you have version 1.0 of the doctor for the Voyager (Star Trek)
At a bare minimum I would except the site to default to HTTPS (with no warnings). Got an "Untrusted Connection" when trying to use HTTPS. That's not a good sign if you want people to enter personal medical information.
He didn't intentionally upload code to Germany. He uploaded to xp-dev.com, and the server happened to be in Germany.
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>> We use nodejs for local development via Sam’s Pow server, but there’s no nodejs in Basecamp Next itself. It’s all Ruby on Rails. We’re running the default stack using Rails 3.2+, MySQL 5.5, Memcached, a tad of Redis (mostly for Resque), ERB , test/unit, CoffeeScript, Sass, and whatever else is in the default box you get with Rails.
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Windows 7 got very impressive start after Windows Vista and Windows XP. Windows 7, which is much faster and better than previous operating system.
Apart from the AVI to NTSC VCD (!?) conversion benchmark, which is probably down to missing optimizations, I thought it did as well as you'd expect it to, in line with the other computation heavy benchmarks.

The surprise to me was how well it did in MP3 and Vorbis encoding, which makes me think there might be some DSP help in the TI board for that.
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This is some really cool tech. But while light frequencies can obviously be translated into other media we can perceive, "color" as such always comes attached with a ton of spacial information, so I wonder how well the eyeborg conveys that? It seems like this would feel like being extremely nearsighted, which is suggested when he mentions getting close to peoples' faces when doing portraits. I also wonder how much this is a constraint of the technology, and how much are the limits of our sense perception? For example, if the device were able to encode arbitrarily specific spacial information, could one train themselves to be able to instantly distinguish among 100s of unique, simultaneous sounds (like we do with sight), or would the experience always be din?
What if you set your initial goals small? The goal is not to highlight only the good stuff, but to get rid of the obviously bad things for you?

Make two classifiers, one that tries to decide "is it interesting for thristian". And make another that decides "is this similar to an existing story". Then it gets demoted only if both it is not interesting and it is similar to something that already exists.
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Thanks for the suggestion. User privacy will be critical and we are making that a priority.
http://symcat.com/conditions/lumbago does not seem correct to me. I typed back pain and got linked to "I may have lumbago" which talks about mastectomy.
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The description of lumbago (low back pain) is mastectomy: http://symcat.com/conditions/lumbago
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For some reason I can't get to work in Firefox 10 or IE9 on Win7. Please tell me this is not another webkit only site.
Polish Prime Minister - "Our position on ACTA was not thought out"
Very interesting find pknight: "4 studies show that emphasizing to-date information increases goal adherence when commitment is uncertain—that is, when participants study for a relatively unim- portant exam, consume luxuries, fulfill a desire, and make first-time contributions to a charity. Con- versely, emphasizing to-go information increases goal adherence when commitment is certain—that is, when participants study for an important exam, consume necessities, fulfill a need, and make repeated contributions to a charity."
Hmm, degraded development experience of doing everything on the client?

Bit of a bizarre claim there given the state of templating these days. Sounds more of a prejudice than an actual problem.

Also json tends to be much lighter than HTML and if you're taking an optimistic view of updates you can assume the action's been a success and even immediately update the display without waiting for the server to create some simple HTML, so it's arguably a worse user experience due to the lag.
You could make the same argument about 64-bit Linux. It got fixed. The same will happen on OSX. People (myself included) will write patches and get them accepted upstream.
Thanks for the link; the Forbes article (while factually interesting) has some seriously distracting prose in it. I don't understand the write-a-news-article-off-the-cuff mentality at all.
I recently had to submit a revised work plan containing only big projects. In my revision, I noted that I had completed 3 big ticket items from my last plan, which made me feel pretty good, even though I had added some new ones. After I submitted it, I realized that I was ready to deploy another one, so I did, and submitted a new revision right away. Having a done list definitely motivated me to look at the big picture.
Ok, really good points.

Taking onboard what you said, a system could work to match sound volume with direction to see in a higher resolution.

I.e. It would superimpose all color in range together with those closer to the center having a higher amplitude. So the colors directly ahead would be player louder and peripheral colors played quietly.

Or perhaps this is how it works already....

Roughly how many different notes could you hear at a time?
Perhaps I will understand things a better as things move along. It is true that I have only had three jobs so far, which isn't many, compared to many of the people here.

This article is really about talking to males at work about geeky stuff and that we don't have to feel so special. Regarding childbearing, all women in other industries have to do it too, and there doesn't seem to be MathTeacherLadies or groups talking about this kind of things. We are sitting in front of a computer all day long, like many other office jobs, and those other industries have male and female workers working in the same office too, why is IT so strange and special?

Sexism is a problem in workplaces across all industries, and I do, as most others, hope the occurrences of such horrid incidents will gradually disappear over time.

All I wanted to say in the article was, in IT, being male or female does not, and should not matter. At work, as a female, one CAN join in nice conversations with males. A female geek does not have to talk to a female geek about geeky things. That's the only thing. I did not intend to refer to sexism. It was not the original intent of the article. If I have offended you with my article, I sincerely apologise.
We've tested on both of them. What's your error message? This may be a traffic-related problem...
A million dollar bond from the state seems kind of excessive
Because they like making money. To make more money you serve more users with less hardware. It's a pragmatic decision.
It's a good idea to back up your .vimrc file and .vim folder somewhere; github is a good place. That makes it trivial to keep updated.
This is from today, the translation is quite lousy, but the gist is - the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, admitted that they didn't think ACTA through before signing. He sent out letters asking other nations to reject the agreement.

Another article:
http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?ie=UTF8&#...
The best book to get if you want to build things is:
The Art of Electronics, by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Electronics

My EE professor told us if we wanted to make things, we should get this book. While the current edition is quite old (1989) it is still a great reference. There is also a lab book that goes with it.
It's fair that they're upset, 8 years in prison seems overly harsh though. In fact, any time in prison seems a bit over the top for what is essentially a breach of contract and therefore a civil matter between Goldman and the ex-employee.
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That's yet another dependency. Not my cup of tea. I'd rather wait for the upcoming light/modularized jQuery rewrite.
I wonder if you could do software testing / documentation remotely? Admittedly I know nothing of how one could find work doing that.
Should be fixed now. Thanks for letting me know!
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From a land of people that are obsessed by skiing, this is not the most pointless hobby one can have, and it's probably pretty safe.
No-one is talking about "banning", it's a bit weird you'd use that word. But that you missed that the article doesn't have the word "boy" is the reason people object to the word "girl" in that context.
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I wasn't getting any error message but now I am. Must be traffic. Clearly there's a lot of interest.

"Application Error

An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments.

If you are the application owner, check your logs for details."
Meh, there's better stuff in real life.
That's a great script, but it only displays the todo list. Did you hack it to show done items? The author's point is that a done list is only useful if you see it.
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You are right - she doesn’t. My wife, a 4th year med student blanket opinion of self-diagnostic websites for the general public is they are trying to kill their customers. And more and more I agree.

If you are ill and you don’t know what’s going on, see a doc (or a nurse practitioner etc). Uninsured (yeah - that’s me till 2 months ago.) - then it will cost a packet. Which is good as you’ll be encouraged to figure out what’s normal for your body - which is what needs to happen anyhow.

Remote diagnostics is a hard game even if a doc is doing it. A rules engine just isn’t up to it. It’s not just a game of checklists. This thing might be better (It’s down right now) - but nothing is as good as being in a room with the patient, having some EQ, asking questions, and being able to view symptoms with your own 2 eyes.
The fact that there exists functionaljobs (even though there's just two) is cool enough. :)
I think the article is mostly a full of air. I don't think there's any threat to Microsoft in a comparison of Windows 8 vs Mountain Lion, yet the title makes it sound extremely dire for Microsoft.

The premise that almost all features are linked to the cloud or mobile (or home entertainment, but that last one has literally always been the case with nearly every OS upgrade from Microsoft or apple) is false. Very few of the Win 8 features have to do with the cloud/mobile. Here are the major features that are cloud-related:

* Arguably, Metro styling, tighter (visual) integration with Xbox/windows phone. This is an alternative to the desktop, you'll see it mostly on tablets/phones but can use it on your desktop if you like it.

* Arguably, Windows app store (like steam but for everything)

* Windows live ID means you can login to any PC with one account and keep all your settings/files.

Here are features that are not:

* Native ability to boot from flash drives

* USB 3.0 support

* System restore points that actually work. There will now be "refresh" and "reset", which both make a complete restore easier than a re-installation. Refresh keeps all settings/files of the user intact and only reverses all changes to Windows files to its original state and removes all installed programs and apps. Restore deletes all files and effectively re-installs Windows, but without any additional user input such as agreeing to license agreements or selecting a hdd, etc.

* "Storage pools". No more need to set up RAID. You just plug in as many harddrives as you want and put them in a storage pool and windows figures out the best configuration for them (RAID1, RAID5, etc).

* Taskbar can now span multiple monitors

* Mount ISO natively on right click menu

* Windows explorer now uses ribbon bar

* There's now a startup tab in the task manager that shows startup applications

* Shorter boot times (saves the kernel state to a hard disk like a mini hibernate).

Out of all these features, which are a "a massive, revolutionary gamble that takes Microsoft way beyond its comfort zone" that the article claims? It seems like pure hyperbole. Most of these are either incremental or a rather obvious extension of tying together multiple successful platforms. Well, Xbox is successful, Windows Phone is very much to-be-determined!
Except that you just made this up. Do you really think Apple doesn't know people are on the lookout for just such behavior?
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We've found that the additional overhead of sending HTML vs JSON is negligible in most cases. The additional speed gained by just sending JSON across is not worth the programming enjoyment hit of doing everything client-side.

When you get below 50-100ms per action, things are generally fast enough that this is not a key problem any more. The user cares greatly if you can go from 800ms to 100ms, but not so much if you can go from 100ms to 70ms.
I used WebMDs version of this last year, and then the page started flashing "Seek medical help immediately", my appendix was taken out that night.
Your comment ignores the next section in the article, detailing how they are caching templates with a high level of granularity, and actively removing template logic that impedes efficient cacheing.

The article goes on to state that delivery times for cached segments of HTML are under 50ms in most cases. While I agree that it would be possible for them to improve the user's perception of the app performance even further via JSON or client-side updates, with the level of performance they described that type of improvement is unnecessary and introduces additional vectors for bugs to creep into production code.
Of course, you could also just take a taxi.

Oh it will be a taxi all right, just not driven by a human...
Yes, Microsoft stands a VERY good chance.

The Metro UI is a very forward looking and innovative (let alone beautiful) interface.
Just like Android took on Apple in the phone space, Windows and Android will be fighting for users in the tablet space. So far, Android hasn't faired too well on tablets, but there is no reason to believe that these two won't battle it out and possibly leave Apple in the 3rd position.

The article points to Windows Phone 'limping along', but Windows Phone market share is growing every quarter, and the Nokia's are just starting to hit shelves and could have a very large impact.
So you never watch any movies, read any books, play any games or listen to any music or anything because "there's better stuff in real life." right?

What a ridiculous attitude.
The visualizations of processes are crucial to my understanding of Brendan's analysis. As a visual person, I can't imagine using this data another way.

Once again we see that screen size remains a central UI limitation to better UX. Give me a wide printer and a big wall any time!
I am a die hard Apple fan, but I absolutely would not count Microsoft out. As much as I love my Apple devices, my XB360 ranks way up there on the list of stuff I wouldn't want to do without, and it keeps getting better and better. As MS brings that quality of experience to tablets and desktop machines, I think they'll make up some ground on the competition.
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