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The Google Chromebook is an interesting product to watch. I've been using them since the Cr-48 days. In fact, two Chromebook laptops were in service in our household until just a few weeks ago when the Samsung Chromebook broke (although I hope to repair it soon).

These laptops sit next to our couch in a stack as a set of floater laptops we use for random surfing. If any of us are just looking for a quick bite of information, we generally pull out the Chromebook rather than walking over to the Macbook that sits on our kitchen counter. The Chromebook is also great for our son to use when building LEGO from PDF instructions.

Browsing is far better on the Chromebook than it is on any Android or Apple device I've used, hands down. I find the browsing experience to be frustrating on an iPad or my Galaxy 10", while the Chromebook experience is flawless. The device is basically ready-to-use for browsing as soon as you lift the lid, in contrast to the fair amount of time it takes to get logged into the Macbook (especially if another user has a few applications open in their session).

The hardware itself in the early models was slightly underpowered, but that doesn't really seem to matter much unless you're playing a particularly intensive Flash video or HTML5 game. Scrolling is fairly slow on complex sites like Google+ as well. For what we use it for, the hardware is pretty decent. The touchpads have also been hit-and-miss in the early models.

What makes these devices a hard sell is the price point. The cheapest Chromebook experience you can get today is the Acer (@ $300). Considering the fact that you are buying a piece of hardware that effectively does less than a laptop, I would find it hard to justify spending that amount if I were looking at hardware today. Even though I prefer to use the Chromebook when surfing over the tablets or the full laptop, I feel like the cost is just too much for a single-purpose device like this.

For Chromebooks to really take off in the home market, I think that a device with the equivalent power to the Samsung Chromebook 5 needs to be on the market at a $199 price point. I could see myself buying them at that price. I don't see the Chromebox being popular in households ever - I believe that we'll see the decline of the non-portable computer going forward at home. Alternatively, if we saw some sort of Android hybrid integration with the Chromebook, I think that this could radically change the equation and add significant perceived value to the device.

Now, if I were running a business where a large subset of employees could get by with just web access, I would definitely consider rolling these out. The Chromebox looks like it could be a real game changer for business.
Beyond the "You can write Fortran in any language" argument about properly structuring your code, there is a certain amount of truth in this. But in my opinion, this is mostly about familiarity. It's like a human language that uses another alphabet. Sure, if your native language is English, Polish looks more readable than Russian, as the latter is using a different alphabet. But that's a literally superficial point of view (cf. Lisp's parens), a stepping stone that is easily surmounted and doesn't change the total learning curve a lot.

English does look simpler than French, too. On the other hand, once you get beyond the accents, you know how to pronounce French, whereas that's not the case with English (cf. "ghoti"). Personally, I never was that bothered by e.g. the type characters, and quite often they were quite helpful about the context expected/required. But then again, I'm German, so maybe growing up with a somewhat ridiculous grammar and Funky Capitalization helped (there's a Perl module that allows you to write code in Latin, and here the cases and other grammatical structures replace the funky characters).

Perl certainly has its weaknesses. Some operations should probably be bound to types/objects instead of C-like functions, references are often difficult to untangle and the default object system ain't that grand (on the other hand: Moose). But I've yet to find a language that doesn't have similar weaknesses. Due to the somewhat funky syntax, they're just quite obvious. What does that dollar sign right there indicate? On what default variable is this code operating? Schwartzian what?
But I would call that "traceability" issues. And this certainly also happens with macros, meta-programming, complicated object hierarchies, generators, decorators, DoI containers, etc.

It probably does matter for casual programmers, i.e. people who don't work 20+ hours/week in Perl. Sysadmins come to mind. But if your involvement with the language is beyond that, I think "readability" is quite often a matter of taste, not more. Which, of course, doesn't totally disqualify this argument. It's just more a matter of rap vs. punk, not junk food vs. rucola salad.
I find that there's an intensity sweet spot. Usually when you're just starting to work out "for real" you just can't help being worn out the first several times. But soon after the work out actually makes you more energized. If being worn out persists I would reduce intensity and perhaps tweak the weights/aerobic balance. Maybe you need more running and the like, or perhaps more weight type exercise.

A lot of "natural" physical activities (i.e. manual labor) tend to be repetitive in ways that don't exercise your body evenly enough, which can cause greater fatigue.
Personally, I've always wanted a vehicle with the speed and fuel efficiency approaching a motorcycle and a 5-star crash safety rating. Motorcycles are a death trap, and I refuse to ride one despite their many advantages.
The more you do it, the less this happens.

You feel it a lot when you first start exercising, but not so much after that. You don't want to over-do it - it seems a lot better to do a little bit of exercise on a regular basis than lots rarely.
Reminds me of a recumbent bicycle, which I was always bewildered by - I live in nyc and can never imagine riding around on one because I wouldn't be able to see anything except the backs of vehicles. I feel very comfortable bicycling and motorcycling around the city precisely because I can see very far ahead by being higher up than most cage drivers. I could see this gyro bike suffering from the same problem in the city, which is probably where it was designed for?
The day a believer in government realizes that he's voting in an elaborate charade where the Coke and Pepsi parties both deliver pretty much identical taxing, spending, and war making, and the ones who win every election are the politicians and government employees is the day the get a clue.
That's a good question. I'm unsure if they citizens/state will really own it, or if the state will be forced to sell it at firesale to help cover their losses. Also, with the loan being through a semi-private intermediary (I think) I'm unsure who the direct owner would be afterward.
yeah-- those damn details... always an annoying part of any argument. Also, I like how you imply that you can't both understand the "big picture" and care about the details. To me, it seems like the only way to understand anything. If you aren't conversant with the details of what you think, do you really understand what you're talking about?
If you don't want to use the oauth token mechanism or if it doesn't work, you could also use your gmail password but it isn't recommended.
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> This is what happens whenever I debate "libertarians". I mention overarching tendencies, only to get replies about fine logic minutiae.

Restated: "I hate debating smart people, because I spout over-generalized bullshit, and they call me on it".
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use bignum;
use v5.10;

=cut
def Factorial(x):
output = 1
for i in xrange(x):
output *= (i + 1)
return output
=cut

# Direct translation
sub factorial {
my $x = shift;
my $output = 1;
for my $i (1 .. $x) {
$output *= $i;
}
return $output;
}

say factorial(200);

=cut
def Factorial2(x):
return reduce(operator.mul, xrange(1, x + 1), 1)
=cut

use List::Util "reduce";

sub factorial2 {
my $x = shift;
reduce { $a * $b } (1 .. $x);
}

say factorial(200);

=cut
def Power(a, b):
if not b:
return 1
if b % 2:
return Power(a, b - 1) * a
x = Power(a, b/2)
return x * x
=cut

sub power {
my $a = shift;
my $b = shift // return 1;

if ($b % 2) {
return power($a, $b - 1) * $a
}

my $x = power($a, $b/2);
return $x * $x;
}

# lambda x: x + 7
my $plus7 = sub { $_[0] + 7 };
# Or:
my $plus7 = sub { my $x = shift; $x + 7 };

say $plus7->(14);

=cut
def TweakValue(x):
return x + 7
=cut

sub plus7 { $_[0] + 7 }
say plus7(14);
@rdhyee we'll demonstrate the score following made by SampleSumo with the MuseScore sheet music in 2 days in Munich at Classical:NEXT: http://www.classicalnext.com/program/showcases/showcases

"In a special performance that marries the music of Bach and cutting edge internet technology, internationally acclaimed pianist Kimiko Ishizaka will perform Bach’s Goldberg Variations at Classsical:NEXT. Thanks to an audio tracking technology developed by SampleSumo and a special new digital edition of the Goldberg Variations score, the audience will be able to follow along with the score as Ishizaka plays. The score, which was created using the open source notation software MuseScore, as well as Ishizaka's recent recording of the Variations, were crowdfunded by fans and released to the public domain as a part of the Open Goldberg Variations project."
Currently using a WD Live which does pretty much all you said although the interface is kind of poor. Only paid $50 though, but I'll check the Boxee out.
I am not part of the medical industry. I run an alternative health site where I talk about my non drug approach to health issues. Doctors generally want nothing to do with me and I have gotten far harsher criticism than what has been doled out here to you. I just happen to believe colloidal silver is bad advice.
Thanks for pointing out the concern. Some permissions are not needed indeed, I'll change the twitter oauth settings. But my web app really doesn't do anything other than pulling in the basic user info though.
Considering my entire ribcage hurt for days after, I assume "general springiness".

(ETA: By "hurt" I mean "OMG painkillers NOW". For a week.)
Anarcho-capitalism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism

which a lot of libertarians subscribe to.
As an employer, I give you this advice: Just apply.

We make exceptions for smart or motivated people all the time. After all, your resume's gonna be viewed by a human who'll give it a subjective assessment. If by chance the company you're applying to is so rigid in their standards that they can only make decision based on objective measures, it's probably not a company that you want to be at.
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Gotcha. While I know that motorcycling isn't traditional exercise, it beats the hell out of me. I've got a comfortable bike that fits me well, but still any trip over 3-4 hours still starts pushing me. When I did Ohio to Boston in April, it physically decimated me with the wind, distance, cold and rain.
Ah, interesting. Yeah, would love a patch!
Also known as defense in depth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_in_depth_(computing)
The vertical space occupied by the top bar and title bar on my box (not a netbook) is 58 pixels. Honestly I suspect that's the lowest vertical overhead among mainstream desktops, though I don't have a copy of Unity running next to it to check. Certainly the OS X Dock and Windows 7 start bar are much bigger.
Have you seen the Xbox 360 Slim? Its fan is nearly silent. MUCH better than the original. Also, the power supply is much quieter as well.
Does any one else find it sad the question is about bullet proof glass and not controlling guns?

The last place I was that someone I knew had bullet proof glass in their car was Colombia. Are the American's here happy with this comparison on public safety?
Not really. The logical conclusion is that productivity becomes high enough to just use fewer employees.
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Perhaps an important detail, then: Thatcher's quote was actually "And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families."

... as if families, themselves, weren't each a kind of small society.
. . . that scientist is Jonathan Haidt, who wrote The Righteous Mind.
Thanks for that.

First one (not 100% sure it's constant memory, I think perl optimises the for to avoid instantiating the (1..$n) list:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Modern::Perl;
use bigint;

say fact(5000);

sub fact {
my ($n) = @_;

my $output = 1;
for my $i (1..$n) {
$output *= $i;
}
return $output;
}

(Took the value up to 5000 to get something which ran long enough to get a measurement, on my laptop it runs (including startup time) in ~1.2s. (Can we compare runtime too? I know we're discussing readability, but I'm interested).

The reduce version (again, I'm unsure of const mem req). Comes in at ~1.4s:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Modern::Perl;
use List::Util qw(reduce);
use bigint;

say fact(5000);

sub fact {
my ($n) = @_;

return reduce(sub { $a * $b; }, 1, (1..$n));
}

The add a constant (true lambda, closing over lexicals in scope, etc etc) is 'sub':

sub { my ($x) = @_; $x + 7; }

(doesn't have the python lambda limitations). (Be aware that perl GC is refcounted though, so ref cycles are possible).

Edit: I think the languages are comparable in terms of features and also readability. People may dislike leading sigils and that's fair, but I dislike python's "no need to declare your vars, just hope you don't typo an assignment" approach to lexicals.
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So what if Facebook fell 10% today? Here's the long-term case *for* Facebook.
Warning over digital archive 'black hole' for Scotland
Thank you for this. Hoverparenting is not the only way to parent.
I saw something for 5.16 and'push', but I've not been keeping up with the featureset since 5.10 properly. That's good to know, thanks.
Those poor bastards! Now they can only afford the Gulfstream IV.
Why don't you just tell them that you're pretty well-versed? Doctors are pretty smart. I wouldn't presume to say this is always appropriate, but depending on the rapport they might listen attentively to what you know from your own research (though they would probably check before acting on it.)

Doctors know very well that a person with a specific rare disease has a lot more incentive to have spent in-depth research on it than they did when they last ran across it...

I mean, these days there are whole forums dedicatd to a specific disease. If you told the doctor, "You know, I ran across a forum for people like me, a lot of people have said they had very bad results with (x) despite the clinical trials, so I would prefer (y)"...you don't think they would listen to you?

Where is this attitude coming from?
I have two healthy children (0 and 3) and can't even begin to relate with what you've gone through and are going through.
It sounds like the worst kind of hell mixed with small moments of the very best life has to offer.
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But can something like the chromebook survive in a ipad world? Maybe for some, but while I could be in the market for a chromebook (if it came before the ipad I would properly own one) but a tablet fits my 2nd computer device much better.

I can survive with only a chromebook, so it would need to supplement my main computer, and in that regard I think my ipad (or properly a android tablet) is a much better suplement.
Hm... The titles seem awful, but at least the "Is hiring a “chief intern” a good idea?" one has a very specific set of parameters. It can be answerable with specific answers, and sufficiently answered by a very small set of answers. That said, the answers so far are...

The "Is there a viable alternative to the agile philosophy?" one is from Nov 2010, a more relaxed era, when the site's scope wasn't as well defined as it is today. It was bumped on the front page by a minor edit (argh). I'm on the fence on this one, and I'd prefer it be closed by five regular users.
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The guy who was behind the trigger probably laughs at you and your gun control laws. In fact any laws.
RIP. :(

I didn't know the guy but heard about him on the news. What a tragedy.
You're strawmanning. I didn't say we were going to "run out" of oil, I said prices were headed upwards, had been for a long time now, and was showing no signs of reversing. And that we're at the point now where fuel costs are 1:1 with production costs of vehicles, and thus we're going to start seeing changes in vehicle designs at the low end to compensate.

I don't see a "this time it's different" anywhere, just an extrapolation of pretty clear evidence. I'm willing to listen to alternatives, like this one:

> Short-term estimates are that gas prices probably won't go much higher.

For which you conveniently fail to produce a cite. :)

(edit: and still haven't. The only link I found that matches your point is a Reuters story saying that prices are expected to be stable "this summer". So if a three-month window is your criteria for "short term" then I grant you that. And when the expected rise continues in the fall, you'll promise to change your mind?)
Sure, maybe those too. Except perhaps Saab, which last I heard was broke, and Jaguar, which I'd probably target at a slightly older crowd.

Lincoln and Cadillac maybe not, too -- perhaps Americans who holiday in Europe are much more likely to buy European cars. If I had more data I could draw up some correlations and tell you exactly how much more likely they are to buy European cars and whether it's still worth waving a shiny new MKZ in front of our Volvo fan.

There's always exceptions to any of these correlations between stuff we like and other stuff we might like. In fact we're all exceptions; we all like things which are anticorrelated with other things we like. But that's not a big problem -- your targeting algorithm doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be significantly better than random scattershot... and ideally, better than Google.

In an ideal world, I'd only serve Acura ads to people who:

a) Are buying a new car soon

b) Are certain to buy an Acura if they see an ad for one, and

c) Are certain to not buy an Acura if they don't see an ad for one.

but failing that I'll settle for targeting people who are in vaguely the right age group and income bracket.

Actually, I think car sales are a bad example; if I wanted to sell cars I'd use google ads, because people buying a new car already know they're buying a new car, and are probably out there doing research on the subject of new cars. Whoever posted the milkshake example had the right idea for facebook ads.

Google ads can sell you stuff that you're looking for, Facebook ads (if implemented properly) can sell you stuff you don't yet know that you want.
Well, it should't be a day off, you should do something that has to do in general with what you do at work if possible.
I haven't though about it that much, it was just an idea. If you get the day off, most people would probably just do what they want and "waste" the day (which means not being productive).
Hey, thanks for noticing!
I keep forgetting that SV operates under completely different definitions than the rest of the business world. I don't mean offense by that, it's just the truth.

You started a business in 2007 using a 4 day work week and it was acquired in 2008? That's not evidence of sustainability. Smart? Yes, apparently. But is that business still using a 4 day week?
As a stack overflow old-timer, I can tell you that questions that get a lot of hits from outside, (e.g. popular searches, blog post links) tend to get more visitors that are not familiar with how the site works. Many of them assume it's like a discussion board and post "answers" thanking another poster or asking a different question. I've seen this many times. It's not really offensive to claim that people new to the site are likely to be less familiar with how its intended to work.
Don't take it so seriously; I said it half-jokingly (well, actually, completely jokingly!). I like how Steve Jobs called everyone he disagreed with a 'bozo', and I imitated him here :-)

BTW, as that discussion is closed now, we can't directly (and publicly) communicate with those mods there; so here is the only place we can rant (that is, unless there is a meta-programmers.stackexchange.com for meta discussions).
Why a liberal? Conservatives also believe in government.
"Years of Experience" along with "Degree" are objective requirements that can simplify hiring. Some companies will be hard and fast about them, others will be more flexible.

But to note, if you want to claim that you have outstanding reasons why lack of years, or a degree, or a certification, or whatever ought to be disregarded, figure out why that is, and emphasize it.

If you have an active GitHub profile, an interesting blog, a self-published book - a great many recruiters will overlook their objective benchmarks.

Focus on your strengths, shore them up, and advertise them. Time wasted complaining that some recruiters are inflexible is not only pointless; it takes time away that you could be using to do something positive.
Not as disingenuous as Apple not just stating that. It seems unreasonable to hold RogueAmoeba to the standard of "Apple says you did something wrong: list all the things that you think they might disapprove of".
The top rated answer though is pretty priceless. The easy way to over come the experience requirement, is to put in the time. But the relevant response is that when you don't know what you don't know, you're not nearly as effective as you think you are. I remember being so depressed at Intel one day when I figured out I was tons smarter than this senior engineer I was working with but I didn't have a shot at his job until I had more experience.

I advise folks, don't rush, breathe, look around you, learn. And then apply all that. But recognize its very hard.

Generally the advice here to just apply is solid too. If the skill set matches I and any other hiring manager will give you a look. And experience comes even when it isn't 'paid' so doing projects in your spare time is also a great tool.
I often see soft discussion on consumery sites like apple.SE and DIY.SE.

My instincts are to vote to close, but there are just too many. Kind of makes me sad when I go to their metas, and the mods there are most definitely StackOverflow users. It seems the same standards aren't applied across the SE board. Myabe this is not a bad thing because building community, etc.
I see a hell of a lot of Harley Davidsons (whatever your opinion on them) out on the road every day, and those are air cooled. So is my Triumph.
And even closer to Gentoo! At least, it uses portage.
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I am the Gmvault developer.

1. Gmvault doesn't save all your emails in a .db file. It creates a db directory which contains sub directories containing your emails in eml format. So it is using a standard email format and allow users to access individual emails.

2. I have already closed my laptop and reopen it and Gmvault restarted from where it stopped (tried on windows). Still there might be a problem so please report it following the instructions here: http://gmvault.org/report_pb.html.

3. Regarding the workflow, the recommended mode is to do a full backup and then daily do a quick backup. The quick backup is an incremental backup that only check emails for the last two months. It takes only 2 to 3 minutes normally.
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