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For years Maven's import-comfiguration-only-by-inheritance behaviour has limited good, DRY design for build and configuration management for big projects.

Maven-Tiles, by Maurizio Pillitu (http://about.me/maoo), brings a long expected game change to the table.

It will let you import build configuration by composition rather than inheritance - which enables much more flexible designs.

The project is still at a very early stage, but you can checkout the code and see for yourself.
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It's much less widely used than it once was, especially among younger folk. The only checks I write are to settle up personal debts between trusted folks, and that happens maybe once every 6 months and only if they don't have Paypal. Everything else is done via direct bank transfer or electronic bill payment.
"...justify an hourly rate of $1000 (or even 1/4 that)"

No. He didn't justify anything. He's limiting the type of clients that talk to him.

Point: "This rate is designed to weed out less serious clients. [...] If anyone hires me to write code for $1000/hr, they are wasting their money."
Very cool! Is it possible to use an existing StatsD installation if we already have one running? Or is it pretty much an "all or nothing" package?
This is a great reminder that it is important to run experiments to test your hypothesis. It's easy to fall into the simple, simple, simple mindset when designing but sometimes that doesn't drive the most sales. If a more complex design makes more money then that is the "right" design. After all, at the end of the day HubSpot is a business.
I also studied economics in college, but now program professionally, largely due to my experience at at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. If you are still looking for work after college, and I assume you are, I recommend you check out their Research Assistant program.

http://federalreserve.gov/careers/ra.htm

For me it was a great way to parlay my economics training into a programming career, even though that wasn't what I was interested in at the time. It's also a great career stepping stone if you're interested in graduate education (not necessarily econ), government work, policy work, law, or myriad other fields. If you want more info, let me know and we can talk offline.
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The last page will try to sell you on the DVD. Just change the page_id to "16" to read the conclusion.
It's not the study you describe, but there's already a lot of research to support the thesis that eating fewer calories (and fewer calories alone) than your body burns leads to weight loss and better health: http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/22/low-calorie-diet-lifestyle-...
Checks are still useful because most online transfer mechanisms cost money. For example, my bank recently started charging for ACH transfers, and wires are always expensive.
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Er, they're not cheaper - at least here in Australia: http://www.virginmobile.com.au/mobile-data-plans/

Neither of the major players here, Telstra or Optus, seem to do prepaid data, although they're in the same ballpark for postpaid: https://www.optusbusiness.com.au/shop/mobilephones/packs/mob...
In Belgium as well. But when parents decided to sell my grand-parents' house located in France I heard a lot of cursing about the antiquated french cheque system and the administration being obsessed with it.
I do all of my wire framing and app planning work exclusively on iPad. With the iPad, I can actually create content while sardined in the subway. These "consumption-only" folks are just parroting Microsoft-sponsored drivel.
His "hacked" mail came from computer that was taken by police from Navalny "for investigation" (by time coincidence). According to Navalny who commented on that mail messages were partially changed and didn't really give anything certain, this is why there was no real police investigation after that.
If that was the case, the company sending out the checks would be due for a lengthy prison-term on a couple thousand charges of mail fraud.
I'd like to know that too. Never seen one in my life in Germany.
GoPro's customers do an amazing job marketing their product.
Development resources are finite, though. Just because you want to do something doesn't mean you can prioritise it.
I have not used a check for several years, nor has anyone I know. My bank gets a deposit from my job and I use a bank card to withdraw cash or a credit card to make purchases (the credit card is paid everymonth with an automatic bank draft). I think that's pretty standard unless you're a small business or require some sort of paper trail.
That's not fair. He makes it quite clear at the beginning that the whole story is free but that you will see requests for tips or to buy the DVD.

Remember that this story was written in 1995. Internet advertising was generally not available then, and neither was proper etiquette for advertising. I do not blame him for trying to partially monetize his thousands of hours of effort. After all, it's not like he kept the money.
The spec is here (PDF): http://www.khronos.org/registry/gles/specs/3.0/es_spec_3.0.0...

Appendix E on p312 has a list of new features.
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This does not always work in the favour of the client. As mentioned in the bottom of the article, a similar incident took place in New Zealand. The couple involved have been arrested, found guilty on multiple charges of theft and are currently awaiting on the sentence: http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/7083997/Runaway-millio...
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He didn't generate a fraudulent check, so he didn't do anything illegal. It's akin to receiving a forged bill and then using it at the next place.
but it's not. the way i see it, op seems to have a rather big audience. but it rather reads like a highschool it essay. see if he had been in any way related to stackoverflow the message would've been ok, but too long.

"A little harsh. I think it's a good reminder for all of those new products and services being developed as we speak who can make this a priority now instead of having to layer it on later."

i hope you see the irony. you're right with what you say. but it would be even better of a place if people would actually try to create something of value, both positive or negative. but this is somewhere in between.

something with more value and much more precise is the stackoverflow link someone posted in this thread

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/69171/why-doesnt-the...
Unless it's a large check, in which case it's normal practice for a bank to put a hold on all but a small portion of the funds for several days. The exception is for deposits which occur regularly from the same source, like payroll.
While thats where many people start, its worth noting that its really a markup language that lacks core programming concepts (if statements, loops, etc...) Not that it isn't helpful!

And as a relatively amusing anecdote, I started teaching myself HTML when I was 8 or 9, when my family had gotten our first Windows PC. I had no idea what copy/paste was, yet somehow I knew how to view source and ended up handwriting out HTML and then retyping it into Geocities (yep. Geocities). Thats one way to never forget it ;)
If it's like the Philippines, all the SIM does is get you on the network, but with only a SIM card you can't call, text, or anything. Then you purchase a prepaid card from a convenience store or anywhere with call minutes, text messages, and/or data -- the card has a long code that you plug in to the phone to activate it and associate the minutes etc with your SIM.
"suddenly made aware". According to the long version of the story, FICAL was made aware of the error within the 24 hour window, but did not notify Combs until almost 3 weeks later.
I was surprised the treads are not very deep on the wheels.

With a 14-22 minute ping time, it better be able to handle most situations on its own...
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I would have thought that any laws around checks clearing etc would start or end with a big caveat along the lines of "Assuming there is no known or deliberate attempt to defraud"
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There's a lot of truth in this article, and it reminds me on what Tom DeMarco writes in this book "Waltzing With Bears" (ISBN 9780932633606):

DeMarco argues that having detailed, quantified information about your risks enables you to make more courageous decisions. But in order to be able to quantify your risks, your company's culture must allow for critical and "negative" thinking.

Otherwise, you won't be able to perform even the first basic step: identifying your risks. Without having properly identified all your risks, quantifying those becomes a farce, and essentially boils down to missing one or two elephants in the room.
Why don't they just put a camera filming downwards to determine the ground speed? Wouldn't it be simpler and more reliable?
He probably needs the money
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> Usually a perjury charge requires that you know the truth and tell a lie, knowingly and willingly. I'm not sure where negligence comes into it, but I think you'd have to prove WF knew their filings were wrong, as opposed to just careless

Foreclosures are different, and for a good reason. One of the statements you make (similarly to DMCA takedowns) is something along the lines of "I have done my due diligence, and I assert under risk of perjury that the info contained below is correct."

If your bad foreclosure (or DMCA takedown) is taken to court, you should be able to prove that a mistake happened in spite of your due diligence.

Unlike amended taxes, or patent infringement, the results of an unjustified foreclosure might be fatal and essentially irrecoverable for the foreclosed party.

> Also, it's rare to prosecute for perjury when the defendant volunteers the new version, as that would discourage past liars from ever coming forward with the truth.

No truth was volunteered willingly here. They are challenged in court every day, and often shown to be fraudulent! After a lot of these, they went back to revise.

It is rare to prosecute when someone corrects themselves with a good excuse.

It is not rare to prosecute when someone admits perjury with no good explanation (and really, you should look into it, e.g. on Deninger's market ticker - the only explanation here is greed, which is not good enough). Unless you are a big bank.

> In other news, I amended my tax return a few years ago. I do not generally refer to that event as the time I committed perjury.

Perjury requires, as you stated, making a knowingly wrong statement. (Will does not enter the equation, only knowledge). If you knowingly filed a fraudulent tax return - then, yes, you have possibly committed perjury - but unless you are already on the IRS' sight, not much is likely to happen.
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Checks are unheard of in Sweden at this point too. What is really annoying is I still do some consulting in the US and for some reason a lot of places will only pay a consultant with a paper check. Absolutely ridiculous. They have to mail the check across an ocean just for me to take a picture of it and deposit it back in the States.
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That "Fat and Simple" is a fantastic writeup of the Hacker's Diet.
Pup will work with any existing statsd client - it just replaces the node.js statsd server. In other words, you can keep all your code and apps untouched (FYI I'm not the author, but a Datadog co-founder)
Guy uses closed source software, moans when it changes in ways he can't control. Fail.
Did I imply otherwise? That said, I think socially ungraceful people should have access to higher education, too, and we'd be a much poorer world if they hadn't had so in the past.

Especially (but not just) because social grace strikes me as a arbitrary and moving point on an arbitrary and moving scale.
Well, we did get all cocky and built a tall tower. So I guess we had that coming ... Wait, that sends an odd message?
I completely agree with all the points. The key is to find a specialized/niche domain where demand is high but competition is limited. But in some cases, you can just ask for a raise and it might work. It is very common that lot of people are afraid to ask for a raise thinking they won't get it.
Once we have a society that lives, works and builds in orbit there will likely be active recycling.
I don't understand what this is about. Care to give a little more context?
Nice! And that's an awesome logo.
What happens if the ground moves?
Judging by the numerous sold out shows[1] over the years I bet this fake cheque has actually helped him make a lot more than $95,093.35

[1] http://www.man1bank0.com/dates.cfm
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Same reason you still use miles and pounds and degrees Fahrenheit in your measurement system: inertia.
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Of course there's a reason. Regulation is deeply captured http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture (reading this article and all the examples in it, some of them very recent, will be an eye opener if you are not familiar with them. Or cause you to put an SEP field over the whole thing because it looks too crazy to be true)
That turned out so well last time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company
The internet comes to the information rescue: http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-2043...

It was close enough to being a real cheque aside from 'non-negotiable' and a whole host of other things on it to make it invalid, except the law prevented those things from mattering which turned it into a real cheque. Seems a bit fishy, but if the law says that it was a valid cheque, and it's been paid there's very little they can do except sue, which of course is how any big boy wins a fight these days.
Yeah, exactly.

I was going to try some new method (PopMoney?) to pay my roommate for rent and utilities, and then I noticed it cost $1 per transaction. Back to paper checks (= free).

It's not the fact that it costs something - a dollar is no big deal - it's the fact that the alternative is free.
In that case certainly the wheel marks will be unexploitable as well? I'm thinking about scenarios such as heavy wind blowing the sand away or sand "avalanches" on slopes.

Besides, a camera would work on hard ground, while this method wouldn't. I don't know if that's a problem in practice on mars of course.
So people protecting $11 million probably shouldn't use such a weak check.

What about people protecting $500?
They definitely don't check the signature. About a year ago, I altered the way I sign cheques. I used to sign my full name, now I just initials them. I got not problem, no cheque bounced.
My guess was that the invention is not an invention as such, but more along the lines of "he made it practical in a huge way and showed everyone else following him how to do it". There is often a very long lag between actual "first to invent" and "figured out how to make it practical without it being stupidly expensive", and oftentimes the latter is regrettably (IMHO) not recognized nearly as much as the inventor. A quick bit of Googling around led me to Tung-Yen_Lin [1], and prestressed concrete, a relatively (as these things go in civil engineering) modern technique.

Patio11's comment that this was roughly 10 years ago almost fits when this rather amazing gentleman passed away.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tung-Yen_Lin
The experience is not comparable:

GP and myself are talking about avoiding food (but not water) for periods of 24-720 hours.

Ramadan fast is avoiding both food and water for ~13 hours (for 30 consecutive days).

Not a judgement of anything - but that's not what we were talking about.
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I can safely say that I HATE a lot of the American agenda especially when it comes to foreign policy, but in this case I would only hope that American tax payers felt at least a shred of pride and sense of ownership in this amazing accomplishment if it had any influence in swaying the American government from their current investments and back to incredible projects like this.
I think it's the fear point of 'if I do this and put my prices up, what happens if I get no clients'. Which of course is a reasonable thing to be scared of, and if it doesn't work then drop your prices back and work out what you can do to be more valuable.
\sarc{bzr revert -r 3? What does that do? Jeez, bzr is so confusing.}

I don't think git's CLI design is that bad, but the commands for quotidian usage are hidden among a large and confusing array of commands for which serve to make git more powerful for the experts. This is also where the manuals are confusing: all the commands are listed, and beginners don't know where to start. It's like a woodwork hobbyist walking into the workshop of an expert carpenter and wondering where in the hell the hammers are.

As for subversion, try using it for branching and merging many parallel versions of code for very long and you'll welcome the arrival of git like that of Jesus into a leper colony.
Stupid comment. Don't read.
Any thoughts on how to land the jobs to begin with? So far the largest gig I've landed was actually due to my comments about the hiring market if you're not at the top end.

3) is definitely the hard part. People all over the world realize there's money to be made and have joined into the labor pool for programming, design or pretty much any sort of creative class service. Some of those people are unskilled, but others are on par with workers in expensive countries.
I spent a couple of weeks programming in FORTRAN for an internship when I was 16. I hated it so much that I vowed never to become a programmer. I didn't touch code until about 7 years later. A year later, and I just became a fulltime "Software Engineer" last week! :)
Yeah. PHP has a hack in it so that the php info page can display the PHP logo, Zend engine logo, and link to the credits, in the form of special GUIDs you can put in the query string. It's one of these things people point out as a waste of space in PHP.

So I wrote a commit that removed them in favour of using Data URIs and embedding the credits in the php info page itself.
Visited the Parkes telescope about 12mths after the movie launched, and can totally understand playing cricket on that surface. Ideal shape for playing cricket with only a batsman and a bowler.

Sorry had to drop a cricket reference here...
Imagine if [fanboy] doesn't cherry pick from the last 20 years and talks about the [article].
You have causality reversed.

People use groklaw as reference because it agrees with their perspective.

People do not have that perspective just because it's on groklaw.
I think that the severe anti-cloud reaction comes from the extreme pro-cloud cheering that we see on HN. While you may have a level headed approach, just look at all of the 'post pc era' people that want all computers to be ipads and all data to reside in the cloud... Ignoring the fact that this opens up all of your data to warrantless searches by law enforcement, or remote wipes by hackers.
I was charged $750 last time I used a locksmith :-( They did change the lock though ...
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Oh, I guess it's the solution to this issue then:

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55497
Worth saying that doesn't apply outside manned missions. They notoriously crashed a probe into Mars thanks to erroneous imperial to metric unit conversion.

EDIT: also the VxWorks fan stuff here is a bit odd, given the other notorious error involved setting the task priorities so that the probe spent the whole time checking the weather, but never phoned home. They were just lucky they shipped the thing in debug mode and reprogrammed it once it had landed.
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X11 never really fit in anyway. It was nearly always a special extra package to add in, and frequently lagged behind the open source effort they sponsored.

The upside of this, much like with Java and other similar unbundlings, is that updates to the software are no longer in lockstep with OS releases.

In the end, we get a lower likelihood of it being installed, but a higher likelihood that it's up to date.
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"Ours" - Used to refer to a thing or things belonging to or associated with the speaker and one or more other people previously mentioned.

I do hope we are guests to what we call space as well as other planets. Exploitation should certainly not be to the detriment of others.

I'm alarmed that your statement about industry, commerce and business, as if to make it OK to do whatever necessary using these devices, despite the suffering they cause, because it's about survival. If the reason for space exploration is about survival, it shouldn't be an industry or commercial. It should be philanthropy.

I'm sure Apple are making iPads to put the technology at the fingertips of everyone right? If that were the case, they'd give them away.

I see the connection you made between Buddhist teachings and my post. I like this. But I don't believe the essance of my post was in any way limited in relevance to 'personal' lives. What kind of life isn't personal?
Your own project, or are you working on the 'freedom box'?
How so? Everyone has to start somewhere. Not that learning HTML or CSS is difficult, but it would've helped to speed things up when I first started.
For that matter why not use the same technique a laser/led mouse uses to know how far/fast it's been moved?

They could have one on each wheel and then another set of sensors pointing down, so wheel slippage vs ground movement at that axle.
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I do not believe you have actually read any of the conversation.

Still waiting for someone to show me a state machine that absolutely needs goto.
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Personally, prepaid data is what I would really love. I am often back in Australia for one month every one to two years, and an iPhone without data is such a useless device. A beautiful, shiny black mini computer in which all the useful functions aren't available. So frustrating.
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This was my approach with EFL of all things, believe it or not. As a 27 year-old in Taiwan I was successfully billing $50USD/hour for helping 9 year-olds with problem areas from their recent beginning-level classes. The rate for most native English speakers doing that kind of work at the time was $20USD/hour.

I did have far above the median skills to back it up, though.
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