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Our Canadian office managed to convince a couple of team members in our American office that we ran on a 20 hour clock, with 72 minutes in an hour. That was fun for a week.
I'm gathering from the article and comments here and there that "room temperature superconductivity" would be an awesome breakthrough that would lead to lots of awesome things, but I'm not familiar with this sort of thing. Can you guys give some examples of why this would be so awesome?
It's not just Austin: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19602986

I've heard from a friend in Austin that this is a hoax. Sounds like this might be related to the anti-Islam film.
WAMP is a pain in my ass. If I have to do my dev work in a VM just to get my dev environment to somewhat match my deployment environment, that's a problem. MAMP for web development is where it's at, or LAMP if you can swing it.
It's an opinion piece. I don't think there's any reason to get too upset. We may not agree with it, but I wouldn't say it's bad writing just because I don't agree.

People are allowed to gripe. Some people don't think this iPhone is a significant improvement over the last. That's fine. You probably can't convince those people otherwise.
I find this funny. The IANA holds 15 IPv4 /8 blocks, even mentions "Reserved for future use" when whoissing, and nobody cares.
> Obama-controlled General Motors forced unions to accept cuts to their pensions during the restructuring

From the very article you linked to, in the very first paragraph:

"The plan gives the union's health-care vehicle some promissory notes, plus a 17.5% stake in GM and warrants to purchase another 2.5%"

It goes beyond that. The government bailed out GM. That's obvious. We, the tax payers, now own some 500 million shares of the stock. This stock would have to be sold at some $53 per share to just break even. Google it. We are taking a huge loss to benefit the unions.

Lastly, one of the reasons GM is doing well is that the government has vectored a ton of business towards GM. We, the tax payers, are buying brand new GM cars at a time when government should be making due with what they have and save us money. This is a secondary and never-ending bailout.

Translation: We got your back. Vote for us when the time comes.

Using taxpayer money to buy votes. Brilliant.

Want backing articles? Fire-up Excel and Google it. Do the math, don't just take in left-wing articles and use them as the truth. Don't take right-wing articles as the truth either. It's amazing how easy it is to clear the bullshit out of some of this stuff if people would just take the time to take paper and pencil and do a little math.
Neat PR - $3 million worth of tech for a cost of bandwidth/CPU resources; Not trying to undermine the value that this provides.
It's much better preparation for the post-college world anyway. The internet enables unparalleled access to information, so knowing a disparate collection of easily searchable facts is not really that useful. Rather, successful people know how to analyze, synthesize, and summarize information, test sources, weigh competing claims, reconstruct arguments, etc. A take home exam is more than able to measure that at least, or better, than an in-class exam.
The statistics lacking is a very good point, and a large oversight on my part.

However, I wasn't saying that we should be trying to stop this. I meant to show up, conversely, that a lot of the existing security is there merely for show.
That's not the case for older legacy networks. Those don't fall under the purview of RIPE as they were allocated before RIPE existed.

I'm wondering if RIPE can even do anything regarding that netblock in terms of possibly pulling it and re-allocating it.
Self teaching fundamentals is boring and not sexy. I'm self taught and I'll admit it took me a year of doing the fun stuff before I forced myself to go back and start to really understand the fundamentals of what I was doing. Turns out I now enjoy what I used to think was boring.

I think this is a fairly common experience.
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That's why duplicates on Stack Overflow usually aren't supposed to be deleted. They're supposed be closed with a link to a canonical question, so that all answers are available in one place, but they'll remain open to help people who are searching.
The problem comes when two companies using 10.0.0.0/8 decide to merge. For example, IBM acquires multiple companies every year.
I chuckled at this too. But a lot of iOS devs have been complaining that Android development is comparably hard because of the different screen sizes... well, there you go.
>- The built in Mac applications and frameworks are frightfully poor - it's unacceptable from a company that prides itself on quality. SyncServices is still a flaming travesty, Mail.app spontaneously corrupts messages and passwords, Spotlight can die in twenty different ways, iCal is a UI disaster, Address Book has completely broken sync options... the list goes on and on and on. Of all of these, I think Mail is the absolute worst. Three total rewrites and it's still neurotic on a good day.

Most of it is anecdotal YMMV kind of problems.

I, for one, never had any problems with Mail.app, and I have 2 Gmail accounts synced to it, and a third party IMAP one -- around 40,000 messages in total.

I also use iCal and AddressBook with no problems. Some UI issues that could be better? Sure. Then again, everything else has similar problems in any platform.
I don't agree with you .Except point 1 and 3, I was in the same category when I graduated but with 70K plus of student loans to pay, it took some effort. This is definitely a story to share and read.
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Yeah, only reading back does it seem stupid to not have put Porsche in there.
Why is there a movement to make every quickly-made website look like dull white/blue with a hint of beige? This is madness.

"Hack away on an app and have it look halfway decent" is a very, very poor attitude that portrays laziness and a disdain for the user. Halfway decent is the same as halfway sucks.
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So when will we see the TSA mandate for landing gear inspections?
> That's probably their only weapon against the equivalent of the attack of the hordes of beige boxes' that previously took them down.

This totally ignores the fact that Apple later took on those beige boxes, with the same general strategy they're using in the phone market, and carved out a perfectly nice, massively profitable niche in it that I imagine they're quite happy with.
> Change the way the program works here

Then it isn't really the same program if the changes are fundamentally different, so in essence, it isn't direct copying anymore. But changing another person's program in non-superficial ways is often as difficult as just solving the problem from scratch.

Cheating is also harder to detect in introductory classes because there are often few good ways to implement the algorithm in the first place (say, factorial, or pre-order traversal of a binary tree). Consequently, these tools tend to work better in larger projects, such as in an operating systems class.

> rename all the variables, and always use the same variables for your loops (x,y,z or i,k,l for example) between assignments and it'd be hard to detect.

It turns out this is trivial to detect; see MOSS [1] for an example of the type of analysis that is done on programs.

However, more often than not, cheating is detected by teaching assistants simply by hand ("Hmm, this submission looks familiar"), but instructors pretend that there is some sophisticated cheat-finding system to scare off students. Usually typos are dead give-aways, especially when two students have the same typo in the same comment at the same identical spot. In my academic misconduct cases, students were most often identified through spelling and grammar errors.

I imagine that there exist many more instances of cheating than instructors catch, and that we really only get the low-hanging fruit (and frankly, my job isn't to be the cheating police, so I don't go out of my way to find it). But catching the most obvious cases and having a severe punishment as a deterrence is often enough. ("If you cheat, you likely won't get caught, but if you do, goodbye -- it's automatic failure at minimum, and possibly suspension or expulsion.")

[1] http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/ and the actual research paper http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/publications/papers/sigmod...
The author is allowed to have his own opinions, but not his own facts. The post you're replying to seems to be complaining about incorrect facts, not just different opinions.
My ISP feels it is 'reasonable' to charge $10\month for one.

$10 x 4B x 12 months would solve the national debt in just a few years...
Hint: Users didn't ask for a desktop OS that looks and works more like their phones... or rather, like the phones that Ballmer hopes to sell them at a later date.
One simple answer: lossless power transmission over long distance. A measurable percentage of our electrical generation is lost in powerlines or transformers without doing any useful work.
You've got it entirely backwards. In your scenario, the atheists would be risking their first amendment protections because they're the ones threatening to murder someone.

No, the parallel was accurate. The guy in California threatened no one, and his freedom of speech is on the line because other guys, who disagreed with him, committed murder.
IMO, Phones have been pretty much commodities feature-wise for at least two or three years. The iPhone was the first modern smartphone, and I'd call the 260+ ppi Droid the first "truly modern" smartphone. Apple leapfrogged that screen density a bit further with the iPhone 4, but the usability/readability jump for text was biggest in that first jump made by the Droid.

There aren't any current truly game-changing features out there. Heck, despite missing free turn-by-turn navigation for years (and there being much complaining about this from iPhone users) iPhones still sold in ever-increasing numbers. Even if the geek crowd is feeling like the iPhone is increasingly just more of the same, I think it'll take a long to for that feeling to permeate the masses. And it would probably take some serious marketing/design failures on Apple's part for it to happen any time quickly. So while Android's carving out a ton of sales in the cheaper/free-smartphone area, Apple still has a ton of mindshare as the premium smartphone for heavy users, which further drives development of the latest apps to be targeted for iOS first, etc. (And that's without mentioning the iPad sales beast.)

But unless someone figures out something truly novel to do with NFC or whatever other new features introduced, people aren't going to care much. Right now those features look promising to people in the know, but they're still far from essential.

Apple gets some more help in the US with the subsidy situation—for instance, on AT&T, the new-customer unsubsidized price of the 16GB S3 is $100 less than the 16GB iPhone 5, but the two year contract one is the same price. The One X is $200 less unsubsidized, but only $100 less with a two year contract. Some quick searching makes it appear that the S3 was only $50 less than the current iPhone 5 price unsubsidized at initial launch, but that's still a nice little trick on Apple's part to have AT&T sell a pricier phone for the same price.
Re Israel:

I have a hard time to take seriously excuses like "we have harder demands on democracies" together with no criticism of state supported Nazi race hatred.

It is just ridiculously large double standards.

A couple of more examples:

Syria was one of the world's worst police states long before the present turmoil -- many times worse treatment of its citizens than Israel, even with a Palestinian description. Syria is/was a big part of the Israeli conflict, so it is discussed when the conflict is discussed. The criticism of Syria from the left has been almost nil.

The Swedish left wing politics have existed for a bit more than a century. During that time, they have never supported a democracy against a dictator.

As I wrote, there are many more examples of this insanity.

The real reason for this lefty weirdness, is that foreign politics are treated as arguments for internal politics.

The problem is: with incoherent arguments, conspiracy theories and disgusting double standards -- why would anyone sane take the left seriously?

I seriously don't believe you consider so gigantic double standards as rational -- the modern difference is that they aren't for nobles/kings now...

Why do you try to defend double standards of a factor of (at least!) thousands? Do you have no intellectual integrity? Do you identify with the position, like football fans?

Re prison:

We have too different societal systems and prison implementations.

To a Swede, the US 19th century prison system looks both counterproductive and like a crime against humanity.

Sure -- you can make a good argument that a country with 30 times the Swedish population is impossible to control and manage; the problem size increases with the square of the population, or something.

Also, Sweden didn't have "real" criminal subcultures and organised crime syndicates until quite recently. And still don't have desperate people, except for drug users. An influencing factor might be that the police isn't functioning well (compared to most of the rest of Europe) and punishments are short, so crime-as-profession might be a better deal in Sweden.

But in general, if you make extraordinary claims, you need extraordinary proofs. To argue against mathematics (in this case, game theory and evolutionary biology) is an extraordinary claim.

Sure, humans have culture -- which is updated when the environment is updated. There is an obvious lag of at least decades, before the cultures change.

And it is easy to make proof of concept examples of punishments influencing crime (e.g. see previous re prison/death for jaywalking).
I don't know what you guys do to your keyboards but I don't want to ever touch them...
Two questions:

1) In Firefox 15, the demo page adds two new options to my right click menu: Rotate clockwise and Rotate Counter-clockwise. Is Firefox recognizing pdf.js (since it appears that they are related) or pdf.js adding menu options? I didn't know JS could do that.

2) Isn't Javascript an embeddable language inside PDFs? I'm pretty sure I read that javascript is used, not necessarily for animations but for run-time dynamic layouts. If that's true, is pdf.js "eval"-ing that javascript?
There is software to detect copied programming assignments by doing fuzzy comparisons of the abstract syntax trees. Changing variable names or layout would not affect a program's abstract syntax tree.
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Granted, they still need to compete with other phones, but if you ever watched people shop for phones basically nobody cares about specks.

So, is it enough is all about upgrades. And phone sales in the US are strongly linked to upgrade cycles which tend to be 18-24 month range. The percentage of people that upgrade mid cycle without breaking their old phone is tiny. So, is it worth the 800$ upgrade no, is it worth the 200$ upgrade on a 2 year old phone with some scratches and diminished battery life? probably, and that's what apple is going for.
We did not receive any response from them, I figure they get plenty of complaints about people's sites being blocked and ours just got lost in the mess.
So, to get this straight, speech is not protected by our first amendment ideology when it:

- Is demonstrably untrue

- Endangers the public

It's pretty easy to see that both of these conditions are met with regard to this video.

Your statement is factually wrong on so many levels.

One, your understanding of what first amendment covers or doesn't cover is incorrect. Hate speech in particular is protected (which this video may or may not even be - I would call it distasteful but legitimate satire). This has been expressly addressed many, many times: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech#United_States

Two, the words "demonstrably untrue" mean that someone has audiovisual proof of what happened. I am not agreeing or disagreeing with the video's interpretation of the history of Islam but fact is, no one has the video of Muhammad getting religion. This is why it's called "faith".

Three, inflammatory words = violence equation is no more valid than slutty dress = rape equation. Violence is always squarely on the perpetrators, however provocative the trigger may be. I don't see why Muslims - or people of other faiths - should get special treatment when it comes to their religious feelings being offended.
And the problem with take-home exams is that everyone cheats on them. It's common knowledge to students. Usually nobody gets caught, though.
Sea level is not the minimum oxygen levels tolerable by your body. Why, just a month or two ago I climbed to 14,000ft. Made me dizzy and nauseous , but the partial pressure was somewhere around 80mmHg.
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...but in the context of aircraft (where we go through ridiculous security theatre; and where we cannot use any technology; etc) we're used to that kind of spending.
TorrentFreak is the Daily Mail of IP law news - take everything they say with a very large dose of salt, as they definitely have an agenda to push.
I'm kind of OK with that.
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Personally, I find Cygwin to be a horrible substitute for a real Unix, in large part because so many emulated Unix operations like fork() are horribly slow. Sometime try running a "configure" script, and see how much slower it runs than on Linux or Mac OS X on similar hardware.
There are lots of stories like this. Many of them are worse; at least you can imagine that the UK is holding these addresses in reserve. There are companies with giant allocations that are holding them so that they can give every desktop and every printer in their enterprise a routable address; others are doing the same thing, but also operating flat, unrouted networks.

More evidence for the core problem: fiat allocation doesn't work. If there was a functioning, liquid, accessible market for advertisable IP prefixes, you wouldn't have to convince anyone that a /8 was worth $1bn; it just would be.
Well, more power to them. There's a ton of people like me out there who would like to learn to code, and do so in a prescribed manner that could eventually lead to employment placement.

That said, this particular announcement is more than a little confusing, since presumably anyone with a .edu email who is interested in web design/dev would already be enrolled in related classes. But... I guess any press release is better than none...
1. Cash out a $99K retirement account.

2. Don't eat out for a few weeks.

3. Pay off student loan.
I don't believe you can survive in a true vacuum. Your skin would bruise instantly for one.
Or you can tap anywhere on the alphabet bar and swipe up. You can scroll through the alphabet like that as well, no need to tap exactly the right letter.
If you have 1300 in disposable income each month and a salary of 100k+, you should have no trouble with your student loans.

But that's not the situation for most new college graduates, who are making, on average, about 50k (the median is probably lower). That's the core problem with the tuition bubble, and the student loan time bomb. The undergraduate ecosystem of the last 20 years is going to stifle the economy for the next 20-30 years.
I agree that the murderers are obviously to blame. But the film is like a kid who pokes a beehive with a stick with all his friends around.

We know you can't control all the bees once you get them riled up, so you're still an asshole if you intentionally put others at risk.

Free speech may give the film-maker the right to be an asshole, but it doesn't change the fact that he's an asshole.
its the secret handshake that only CS grads know. If you cant` recite the CS pledge then you must be lame..
What perplexes me is that the threat was called in at around 8:30 am and claimed bombs will go off around 10 am. UT made the decision to evacuate at 9:53 am, 7 minutes before the called threat. Is 7 minutes an ample amount of time to evacuate a campus this large?
Step 1: Adopt Frugal spending habits, and focus on paying down your debt.

Step 2: Write a book.
1. Thanks for the arxiv link, (OP: it belongs at the top)

2. Magnetic characteristics of perfect diamagnetism are indeed "actual superconductivity." If there were some residual resistance, the magnetic field would not be completely expelled from that part of the material.

Wikipedia's entry serves as a nice intro to diamagnetism, which is the underlying principle for the measurement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamagnetism
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I think most developers are self-taught. Those college classes were okay for comp sci theory perhaps. But for accomplishing real world tasks, I think I got more from books and the internet and actual knowledge, than paying for a course.
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> The disagreement and dialogue in this conversation has been brought to you by Free Expression.

Much to the contrary-- try having a conversation like this on a "free" forum like 4chan and see how far you get. This kind of respectful dialogue is brought to us by pervasive peer moderation and social opprobrium, with a dash of outright censorship to taste.
I was a TA for computer science classes. I barely read variable names when grading. It was quicker to compile/run and then check over the structure of the program.

Also keep in mind that if you're grading 50 people like I was, you won't remember what variables the students used between assignments. The stuff they would do to throw me off the trail wouldn't help much at all.

If I found a student had copied from a neighbor or whatever, I'd ask them both what had happened. It was uncommon that they would deny it. I'd tell the professor and mark the assignment a zero. After that, it was between the students and the professor.

Try it yourself, write a small program, perhaps a script to read a CSV of numbers and do a pivot table or something, then copy it and use whatever technique you like to hide the copying. Now read them back to back. Give no more than 1 minute to each (since they both compile and pass tests). You'll spot the copying immediately.

Disclaimer: I did TA work for undergraduate stuff; typically for students in liberal arts and sciences just trying to get through their comp-sci requirements.
I think "pixel perfect" refers to matching a designer's visual design. iOS developers should have been using the layout constraints for most of the UI - if they have hardcoded values, then that is bad programming.

For apps that use a lot of UI graphics in the form of images, yes they have work to do. But the same would be true on Android.
I don't have his problems. I have other problems, not as bad (I've started to wonder about that Other space on the iPhone too...). I think this could be all summed up as: Desktop OS's ain't tablet OSs.

I don't like OSX Mountain Lion. I anticipate that 10.9 will be extra smartphoney, and I won't be upgrading. I will, however, be looking at well-designed Linux laptop solutions for my XFCE/Enlightenment needs.
An example of the open positions Microsoft has for C# code compilation improvements

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I'm aware of the definition of superconductivity. My point is that these researchers have no definitely found superconductivity, they have found evidence that under controlled conditions they can possibly achieve short-term high-temp superconductivity. This is a huge accomplishment, to be sure, but it's not as simple as "room-temperature superconductivity."
Just because something sells well doesn't tell us everything. It's a good data point though.

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