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Don't you have to change it in your local git repo by running `git config user.email <email>`?
Nobody knows exactly, but it sounds like true. We have seen many cases that the search results for "radio" contain apps which do no have "radio" in any places. The new Apple's algorithm indexes some external sources.
It's hard for me to imagine 1M lines of code being written/generated in a year and then flown. I suspect either the first person was responsible for testing only 2.5M lines of it, or they used different counting methods.

As the one who posted the larger figure, I'd say it's more reliable because it comes from the man who sat at the Flight Control station in the control center :D
1. Great looking product. I clicked through a little bit and liked the general polish, but didn't have time to explore everything.

2. For people whose jobs involve statistical analysis, how much need is there for something like this? The more analysis I do, though, the more I realize that the hard part is collecting the data and programmatically "piping" it from package to package...And from professionals I know in various numbers-based industries, their biggest blind spot seems to be that ability to gather data that doesn't come in a CSV/Excel sheet for them.

* edit: in addition to the challenges presented above, the challenge of cleaning data so that a package like Statwing can do a proper analysis
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What are the safety implications of launching 10 pounds of plutonium-238 on a rocket that could malfunction or explode before gaining escape velocity? The article says the plutonium would not explode, but what about plutonium particles or radiation entering the atmosphere and ocean?
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YouTube for Android doesn't support at least some videos with ads (vevo and what not), because the content owners specifically block it on mobile (maybe so they can push their own apps?), so don't get your hopes up too high.
> having on-demand online docs for any clojar or github repository would go a long way.

How so? Isn't GitHub already its own on-demand online docs service?

https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/tree/master/doc

https://github.com/technomancy/clojure-mode/blob/master/doc/...
Do any of your advertising efforts meet with success? Most app developers I know try advertising but never seem to get it to work.
I thought it was odd as well. I think that he meant that the guy who knows a subject very well is more likely to be advanced in responsibility/seniority quickly.
Are you a mobile app? Android? iOS?
The ratio of landowners to households should be very close to 1:1 in the country. (-: In the city, there will be somewhat fewer landowners because of multifamily dwellings (apartments and similar).

I agree with your permits and jackhammer points.
I'm not sure what the basis is for the assumption that this is a marketing move. It seems like the more obvious motivation would be to force everyone to pay with Visa to get the credit card fees from what will undoubtedly be several million dollars' worth of purchases, as a means of partially offsetting the cost of the investment in the sponsorship.
How exactly does "question the author's credibility" translate into "disregard everything he has to say"? Regardless of the author's political affiliations, I seriously doubt that his writing appealed to the likes of the people like Sarah Palin by being sane, rational, and thoughtful.

I mean, sure, there's a good chance he's really an intelligent and respectable guy, but I think the simplest answer is that he's a political shill and has no credibility. And that's the answer I'll stick to until I see evidence that I'm wrong.
So this is about a man with a Visa card upset that his Visa card is accepted everywhere he goes. Visa has been exclusive at the Olympics for a long time and even though I have never been I know that.
I've certainly found this the case when creating new key bindings for Emacs. Of course, this now means that other people have a little bit of trouble using my Emacs because some of the basic key bindings don't work any more and some of them do something new :).

I'm now using this strategy whenever I want to change something like a common command or key binding--essentially anything that is a habit I don't have to think about.

Another thing to note is that it really helps if you come up with the alias or new key combination yourself. I find it takes almost no effort to memorize a key binding I choose myself as opposed to remembering a new one that comes with the tool itself.
Why? They haven't done it for their Android app, which is far more in their interest.
>But this Visa deal, what on earth are people without Visa supposed to do? I just don't see how anyone sane could think this was a good plan, either from an Olympic organiser's point of view, or Visa's.

I think both OP and you (or me, for that matter) don't have access to important data - specifically, what's the percentage of people that have BOTH Visa and MasterCard (and what percentage of those that do not, are likely to buy ticket for games).

If it's low - then it probably was a stupid move, although I don't really feel qualified to say that.

If, on the other hand, it's very high (like 90% (which I think it is)), then it's very smart move.
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How did we get two of the exact same post on the home page at the same time?
The cheapest Mac laptop is $1,000. The cheapest Mac desktop is $600. So you are saying there are comparable PC's available for free and -400 dollars?
Usually, emails come through Linkedin. People mostly see my name in a Meetup group, or on my github page, and I guess they check with Linkedin for the profile.

I get a few messages even though I have zero interesting projects or distinctive characteristics out there, apart from a basic "I'm a backend developer" presentation profile.
It works fine when I commit locally (as yes, it's just a normal old git repo) - just via the web UI, it always uses the email in my github account marked as 'default' even though the repo obviously belongs to the organization, not to me.
So basically someone posts on Facebook that they got lousy service, 90k people comment, and the company responds how?
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I do write software, professionally and for fun :) I also give some of it away "for free"! Check out my github: https://github.com/amoffat
This was a great read. I've been working on an ebook myself and need all the advice I can get. I really appreciate that he's sharing some of his experience freely instead of just making yet another "How to get rich" ebook.
During the Vancouver Olympics not only were we not permitted to use other credit cards, we couldn't even use our bank-issued debit cards for payment (in Canada we don't have Visa Debit cards - our debit cards are issued directly from banks have been accepted everywhere for nearly two decades.)

Cash or Visa Only.

So there I was at an official Olympic souvenir shop picking up some gifts when I was told no - I'd have to walk down to the other end of the airport terminal and take out cash... come back and pay with that.

Needless to say they lost the sale. How many other sales did they lose I wonder?
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But the fact that only Visa is accepted is not really something to be proud of, is it?
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No it is not. The choice is freedom. Giving up freedom for perceived safety is never worth it.
I think that if you had been the one with a pill in your pocket and had gone through such an ordeal that your attitude would be different.
IntelliJ also makes Resharper, a VS plugin. VS+R# is the best IDE in the world (IMHO)
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According to the article, the person in question was applying for a technical recruiter role. Given that the biggest problem tech recruiters at startups face is arguably getting top-level engineering talent to give them the time of day, I'd say that a stunt involving getting a lot of talented engineers to talk about how much they like and respect you is completely justified and appropriate.
So I'm European and everything, and not so much used to credit cards everywhere ... but is it really so hard to pay cash for a day?
question: how are you guys different from GameSalad, or Construct2?
You hate them and yet will probably change nothing in your usage habits regarding their cards or make an effort to support systems that are not visa?
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Agreed. I've heard 'use dropbox' so many times here, and it's still shitty.

However, for the specific case of misrendered HTML skitch is def the best option, even if your software supports attachments. So few clicks, totally worth it.
Wouldn't you be able to sue the business partner for that sort of behavior?
> Needless to say they lost the sale. How many other sales did they lose I wonder?

Surely not enough to cover the massive amount of money Visa paid to be an exclusive sponsor. In London this year that is reportedly over $100M and during the first week Visa racked up $700 million worth of charges at the games.
In the posted article, he mentions endorsing it with a smiley face.
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Somehow I stumbled on the exact PDF you want to see: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/604332main_APP%20MSL%20Launch%20Nucl...
h264 has been a standard for a long time and performs very well on current hardware (many machines have hardware acceleration for it). Google has wasted terawatts of electricity due to flash.
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Thanks! We really had the get-started-quickly scenario in mind.
I don't think Visa Inc., which has been sponsoring the Olympics since 1986 in whatever country it's held, gets any transaction fees from Visa card acceptance in Europe. Visa Europe is an independent company with an irrevocable license to the Visa brand and an interoperability agreement. That suggests to me that the sponsorship is purely a marketing move.
The fact of any corporate sponsorship isn't something to be proud of. Your Big Mac isn't going to taste better because they forked over a ton of cash to the IOC. I have a Diet Coke on my desk right now and I'm not proud at all over it being available at the Olympics instead of Pepsi.
Here's the issue, you walk into a store that you've been going to since you were a kid, pull out the payment card that you've been using since you were an adult, and they point you to a sign that says only Visa is accepted even though you bought something on interac a week before.

It's not about visa being exclusive to the Olympics, its about VISA being the only thing you can use to buy shit in your hometown. Basically, if you could buy a quaachi in the store then it was going to be a pain in the ass.

It's a piss off, people don't like to be forced to do things for arbitrary reasons.
You're all arguing over nothing, you can't reverse the trend the internet has set without severely restricting it. Data at the end of the day is 1s and 0s, nothing more. There will always be people who want things for free, just because they can then get something more tangible with the money.
> the best way to do that would be to make tools that make beautiful documentation easy.

Really? I find it hard to believe that the problem is caused by a lack of tools. Clojure already has five or six tools for spitting out a programmatically-generated HTML overview of the shape a given project.

Instead I think it's clear the reason this doesn't happen is that good documentation is really difficult to write and people don't want to put the necessary effort into it. Putting aside the obvious problem that good English prose is really difficult to write, you have to overcome the fact that the people qualified to write the documentation don't much benefit from it. On top of that, it's very difficult for an experienced user to put himself in the mindset of a beginner.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say that the existence of all this existing documentation tooling only goes to reinforce the harmful notion you can just run something like marginalia over your codebase and publish the HTML output somewhere and consider your project documented. Sure, API overviews are valuable as a reference, but they're mostly just a distraction to someone starting out who just wants to figure out whether the project is a good fit for their needs. Long-form prose documentation is crucial at that stage, and it's awfully hard to come by.

http://jacobian.org/writing/great-documentation/what-to-writ...

Anyway the tooling is trivial--getting an overview of the API and docstrings has been done over and over, and rendering a pile of prose in markdown files is hardly rocket science. The real problem is cultural.
I'd disagree with the article and say the biggest threat of the RTG's is not being used by terrorists because a dirty bomb isn't all that effective with that amount of material, however, a bystander digging into one and having fun with the material could be a serious problem. Like the Goinia Incident [0].

Then again. It's kind of a funny thing to worry about with all the unexploded ordinance that's around most countries, even the U.S. I was just out sailing in the long island sound last week and my girlfriend thought it extremely odd how many unexploded bombs pockmark the navigation charts.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
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what happened to the community then? did you redirect them to a different service?
> Training users to haggle at checkout and not trust the list prices

Definitely, this is quite a risky one. Just speaking for myself if I notice a Cart Abandon strategy, I will always abandon my cart in the future to keep getting the dicsount.
Very nice. Who's the target audience for this? Students? Curious enthusiasts? Analysts within companies?
I was figuring it was some sort of compression artifacts, but that makes sense too.
I'm surprised Visa even needs to market, whenever I have been issued a card by my bank sometimes it's been a VISA and sometimes a Mastercard/Maestro. I assume I could get one particular type of card if I specifically requested it but I really don't understand what the difference would be to the end user.

I guess perhaps if the only differentiating factor is "you can use this one if you goto the olympics" then maybe that is enough to sway a bunch of people?
I was in the gift shop at the Pacific Science Center (Seattle) two months ago. The Buckyball demo video was playing on the corner of the sales counter, surrounded by the other science toys and kits that the museum sells. So I feel this claim of "marketing to adults" is somewhat disingenuous.
But that didn't happen. He went to an Olympic stadium, probably one built just for this event. It's like complaining that only Coke products were for sale (which is also the case thanks to a giant Coca Cola sponsorship).
I also agree with 2-5, but don't agree that specialists always get further than generalists. I'm very much a generalist -- within the fairly broad realm of infrastructure architecture, that is -- and I think that's served me very well. To understand the whole thing, whatever it is, is very valuable.
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That's what I'm saying, they were. They shouldn't. Like CERN announcement in Comic Sans.
It could simply mean that running space programs in the USA is far more costly than in other countries. Someone did say that NASA of the recent age is less about research and more about massive employment.
The America's didn't require water and food to be constantly shipped from France, England, or Spain on government funds. This isn't another continent, this is another planet. The rules are different.
This is pretty much exactly how I feel about services that suddenly require a FB or google account for signup. Or websites that insist on using Silverlight to stream video when HTML video or even flash or a .mpeg file would have sufficed.
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That would be Odyssey, not Opportunity. Opportunity is the rover =)
Interesting. What you're implying is that the marketing benefits of Visa become a sponsor are secondary to the direct revenue it generates at the event.

This could be the most profitable marketing spend with the quickest ROI ever.
load balancing websockets has been a pain of mine on sharelatex.com and I will have a good play with this.

However one thing that jumps out at me is the low number of tests. There only appear to be a few Acceptance tests. For a serious bit of software like a load balancer I would expect to see a fair few unit tests.
I disagree completely. Visa sponsored the event - why would they want competitors there? When the average person sees that his or her Mastercard is not accepted, I don't think the first response is "damn you, Visa!" Just like, when I see an AMEX card isn't accepted, I don't say "Damn you Visa and Mastercard for offering lower rates!"

The image that Visa is trying to promote is that they're the most commonly accepted card. Because consumer perks vary only slightly (if at all) in home countries, for most consumers, the question becomes permeation. If they see lots of places accepting Visa and not Mastercard then they're more likely to get a Mastercard.

To give you a closer-to-home example: In Canada, we have Tim Hortons - which is a cheaper version of Starbucks (and it's very popular). They take Mastercard, but not Visa. There have been several situations where I've been unable to purchase food because I use Visa and I hate cash. At no point have I said "damn you, Mastercard! I hate you!" In fact, if I actually drank coffee, I'd probably have gotten a MC already.
I don't think that any of those 5 things are particularly restricted to or more commonly found amongst young people.
Time for a sequel to 'The Dish'.
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The flip side of this marketing proposition (give something, not take something) is exactly what American Express does. At last year's US Open, American Express gave cardholders a special little radio from a booth in the concession area. Many people had these radios, which was good marketing for American Express, especially considering the presumably affluent audience attending an expensive event. But they didn't actually inconvenience anyone in the process.
I suppose it depends on the demographic, if the olympics is mainly attended by relatively affluent people with multiple credit cards. I know plenty of people who don't even have a credit card beyond a bank issued Maestro debit card.
I wont buy Samsung again. I still feel burnt by my purchase of a 7" GTP1000. The hardware is great but the software feels unpolished, laggy and really ugly in places.

At the time I was expecting Samsung would follow Apples lead and ship updates for years to come. Instead... nothing.

I'm going to stick with Apple from now on.
I would imagine that one might be able to continue selling these magnets via, say, a mail-order laboratory-supply store that caters to school science labs. Such stores carry lots of products that are dangerous in counterintuitive ways:

http://wardsci.com/product.asp?pn=IG0015551

Don't get the sodium metal wet or feed it after midnight!

But such products also aren't labeled like toys, or stocked in storefronts that also sell toys. They are labeled like industrial products and ship with MSDS sheets.

The problem is that killing the existing sales channels will likely kill the existing business, because the sales volume will drop by orders of magnitude.
My understanding of the problem is that nuclear sources tend to be nasty stuff and not the sort of thing that one really wants lay people responsible for discarding.
Wow, I would have been screwed. I had to look in my wallet because I truly didn't know if I had a Visa. I just have a card my bank provided and it happens to be Master Card. And I rarely carry around much cash.
A no-hassle, real-time display of custom metrics for developers: 1 command to run and you can watch your app in action, as long as you instrument it with a statsd client (pretty much standard these days).

So, no logs to parse to get any app metric, everything already graphed for you in real-time, quasi-nil setup.

We chose statsd because it means that you don't have to change your code to get it to production. You can then rely on pup for display (but no historical data), or on your internal tool chain (e.g. graphite et al.) or give our service (http://www.datadoghq.com) a try if you don't want to set your own stuff up.
No, I'm saying that any lost sales the IOC sees from people who don't have cash or Visa will be more than made up by the huge amount of cash Visa paid to be a sponsor. The $700m figure just shows that the exclusive relationship is doing just fine.
Hehe. No Flash, no YouTube... sounds boring. Good to see the predictable fanboy response around here, just like when they declared war on Adobe.
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"damn you, Visa!" is exactly what my first response would be, either that or damning the Olympic committee.

This is particularly jarring , because in the UK we are just used to the fact that everywhere that accepts VISA will also accept Mastercard. I can't think of a single situation I have been in where that hasn't been the case.

AMEX is a little different , since most banks that offer AMEX will also give you a Mastercard/VISA on the basis that it's less ubiquitous but offers better perks.
Write another BBS Door game for the iPhone -- instant nostalgia.
One thing I find disappointing is that you can't delete severs once they've been added. Especially since they count towards your limit. Unless I'm missing something?
Got 13sec and 2 stars.. hmm.. Keyboard is not the best for this.
Looks really great overall - props! One small design thing in there that bothered me was how the gradients reverse in the buttons on hover - this should never happen. Just lighten or darken the color on hover (move the gradient up with background position and add a transition is a good trick), then consider reversing the gradient on active (or just adding an inset shadow).

Everything else in the design looks great and this is totally nitpicky, but hope it helps!
Pay cash, moron. That's how we roll in Europe.
Were there ATMs at the Olympics that would dispense cash from a non-Visa card?

You can always walk out of Tim Hortons and get cash out of an ATM, or go to another coffee shop. When your options are either "have no money" or "waste ticket by exiting venue to get cash I can not use at that venue because I can't come back in", it's a bit different.
It's a lot easier to just settle for Coke instead of Pepsi (if you even have a preference) than it is to go to your bank and have them change your credit card type just for the olympics.
It's what happened to me, so I'm pretty sure it did happen.
More likely, in my mind: The IOC gets the marketing money from Visa, while the independent vendors at the Olympics take the hit from not being able to accept MasterCard.