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> I was personally not cut out to do scut work. I had zero interest and respect for maintenance, unit tests, requirements & specs, UML modelling, refactoring, waterfall method, agile, kanban...

The world in which this is "scut work" is not the world I want to live in.

Let's be honest. You don't want to do practical, you'd rather do theoretical, and that's fine. However, don't disrespect practical just because it isn't your bag of chips, particularly to an audience that is full of practical engineers. I could spend all day disrespecting theoretical -- mainly because most of those passionate about theoretical at the expense of practical make comments like these -- but I do not, because I see theoretical as necessary for our craft.
There is a standard for doing HDMI from a micro usb connector. It even includes bidirectional control - ie a device connected to a TV using this can be controlled using the TV remote control. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_High-definition_Link

It has been implemented for quite a while in several devices (eg my phone has it). I don't know if they left room for expansion (eg a different signalling to get analog audio).

It is also possible to talk to "apps" on the device such as how the MTP protocol works. That requires more effort than analog plumbing but can provide a far richer experience.

The other big issue is power (beyond the original 5V 500mA). Apple have gone one (incompatible) way with that while the USB standard went a different way. Even that had to be extended somewhat further especially by tablet manufacturers since they need a lot of power to charge quickly. (The signalling is done with differing resistances.)
Binary Bisection.

Give half a personal day. Was the food stolen? If yes, give 3/4 another bonus day...
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Because you've enabled 'show dead' in your profile and so you see posts from accounts that are not normally shown.

One of the reasons why it is helpful to put a contact email in your 'about' section of your profile is that if your posts are showing up dead, folks can contact you.
Not to detract from the great design and the obvious hard work put into this, but it isn't this basically violating copyright every time something is added unless you own it? Almost all of the public pictures I saw were copyrighted and I doubt the people adding them own the right to make copies or are able to give you permission to host them.
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How interesting. Of course it's a very quick and crude method, but still fun. Are these DBs available for further sifting?
I think you're forgetting people's mentality during the Cold War and what was at stake. If the worst includes "return the capsule disassembled," that's pretty bad when considered from the mentality that was prevalent during the Cold War, because it would have meant giving the Soviet Union the United States' technology. The lunar program was considered an issue of national security.
This OS might be the biggest Microsoft flop ever.

There are just way too many fundamental changes which are not proven to be actually better.

I would rather see new Metro UI as another full-screen app to see if it can stand on its own before they go all-in with it. Something similar to what Microsoft did with Windows 3.10 which was basically another DOS program.

I guess, Microsoft is being run by different folks today.
Not everyone who can run a node.js server wants to (raises hand).

Think about Mailgun: obviously I'm capable of running a mail server and parsing incoming mail. But they can do it better, at a price that's cheaper than my time, and give me high availability without my paying a sysadmin.

Its an easy sell.
Even better, you can just beige box off them if you can find the demarc point, which is usually on the backside of the building where the phone is. Since all the "magic" that makes it a "pay" phone is in the phone itself, the line it's hanging off of is just a plain old phone line, with full toll call ability and everything.

Back in the mid 90's, when I was a little bit into the phreaking scene, me and my buddies used to always beige box off of a COCOT to dial into the modem for the local phone switch, so we could play around. We found a payphone at a gas-station halfway in the middle of nowhere that closed fairly early, so we'd just pile my laptop in the car, drive out there, park about 40 feet from the phone, run a long ass cable to the demarc box and then sit in the car and hack/phreak. Good times... :-)
In my experience as a CS student, the fist few classes you take teach you the basics of "computer programming"...aka you just write a lot of object oriented programs. Then as you move on to parallel programming, computer architecture, and operating systems, it really becomes more of a science.
You beat me to it :) Thanks.
@nodemaker haha just noticed you have my tweet on display (1st one), nice!
The ISO-versions (which appear to be a bit hidden this time) can be found here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso
An HTC One X survived being used as a hammer?
afaik quite a lot of the indie bundle games are basically this.
So if I understand corrently it's Metro vs. Chrome OS?
I used both and it seems you're right that staying within the node.js+npm ecosystem is hugely beneficial. I can treat my derby project just like any other node.js project which have made it much easier to push to platforms like Heroku... It was also a lot easier to get a REST API going with derby since it's so close to express and connect whereas I feel like meteor mostly hides the interfaces to node.js packages it uses
". Again today I had to inspect another ad that was causing the same problem. It had an index of 1 million. How annoying. "

This suggests that your ad provider is noting that 'something' covers it up sometimes and so is auto adjusting its Z value. Consider talking to them about that.
The addressing scheme is descriptive. But the demographics of the modern internet are such that a descriptive method is confusing to broken. Most users will assume everything ends in .com, or more likely, they'll just type in the name and expect the browser to perform correct addressing via Google.

Playing shell games with new TLDs will in no way make this less confusing for users.
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It would be really cool if you had demographic information on sexual orientation as well.
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I'm not sure I agree. For practical programming, design is one of the most important skills that you need. Code that is ugly is automatically unmaintainable, no matter how theoretically sound. The text editor is your canvas, it is your job to turn out a work of art.

I believe this is why so many without strong CS backgrounds are successful as programmers: They bring the design skills often lacking in CS graduates.
Instead of Beluga, how about launching a nice tool that with one click lets content owners remove all of their unlicensed content from Grooveshark, block all of it from being re-uploaded ever again, and send us a cheque for any revenues earned when it was there.
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"I've known people who've taken jobs with benefits vs jobs without benefits."

Yeah... I mentioned that eventuality.
"I wouldn't be surprised if the US government considered recovering the space craft and crew to be an issue of national security."

To add to your point, with regard to Apollo 11, both ships and aircraft (Boeing EC-135) played a critical mission role (in addition to security) by extending the mission capability of ground-based tracking stations and satellites in the areas of telemetry acquisition, communications and contingency planning.

Some examples (non-exhaustive):

1. The USNS Vanguard was positioned in the Atlantic to provide communication and telemetry acquisition during the launch of Saturn V. In addition, it was also strategically positioned to serve in a post-launch contingency posture, if necessary.

2. Both USNS Huntsville and USNS Redstone acted as sea-based tracking stations, positioned in the Pacific. In addition to tracking the CSM (Command Service Module), they supported a communication link to the aforementioned aircraft that were being utilized to ensure that there was 100% communication coverage.

A note regarding the USS Hornet, since it has been mentioned in other posts: this aircraft carrier was selected to serve as the recovery ship. After all, this was an epic, history-making mission and event. This ship is now a National Historic Landmark.
I don't care as long as I can change stuff.
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(Disclaimer: I first found out about the concept of natural monopoly in this article, so when I say I am not an expert, I mean I have no clue whatsoever.)

Well, a natural monopoly doesn't mean that it is a monopoly, right? Just that it's most efficient as a monopoly. It's not impossible to build out an alternate network of power lines; it's just prohibitively difficult. Maybe it'd be more correct to say that it's Facebook's specific targeting mechanism of ad delivery that it has a monopoly on?

For instance, I imagine a cellular network is a natural monopoly by the exact same reasoning you say that an electric utility is one. Except... neither Verizon nor AT&T nor whatever actually has such thorough market domination: in fact, their competition is partly on the very pervasiveness of that network.
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"Windows Server 12 will also boot into Metro"

Is that true? Are Microsoft seriously forcing a tablet UI on a server OS?
$9M, wow. Enough money to become the next Rails.
I wonder what will happen with the server version, surely that can't become Metro too?
The US did it to a MiG-25 in '76: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Belenko

> "The MiG was disassembled, examined, and returned to the USSR in thirty crates."
Reminds me of "Summer Dream Job."

http://dresdencodak.com/2006/10/07/summer-dream-job/

I had a semi-lucid dream once. I was flying after my then girlfriend. I knew I was dreaming, and I knew that I could will myself to fly as fast as I wanted. That's when I lost control, because my dream girlfriend just willed herself to fly faster than me. I willed so hard, I "broke" the dreamworld. Everything was flying apart as I woke.
I think this would "do harm" and go a little far...

I should really add it to the list though, its not the first time I've gotten the suggestion.
Sounds like a good idea, I think I'll give it a shot.
It could be a misguided prank gone wrong. Yet you jump to the worst (find and fire) without really knowing what's going on. It could be one of your most effective employees, and all they need is a little socialization.