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I'm a developer at a small (500 people) Telco.

By very definition, for me to get promoted and a salary increase, I must move away from technical work and become a people leader/manager. I must also move into a department I have never seen/touched/know nothing about.
i.e. right now I'm coding IP stuff, I might become the manager of a bunch of call center workers.

That is the only way to "move ahead with my career".

Because of this, my direct manager has absolutely no idea what I do, let alone the 7 levels of management above that.

It's completely insane, and that's how the company has always done things.
That doesn't answer the question of whether the benchmark is written in a way that generates lots of objects that need to be GC'd.

I'd be very surprised if PyPy beat LuaJIT for anything that was numerical or otherwise had a fixed working set.
Price is about perceived value, not what the product costs to produce. Your living costs are irrelevant to your rate (except setting the minimum you need to get to make it worthwhile, but even that doesn't affect market rate just viability).
Anyone know whether that applies to rogers in canada?
Personally wrt phones, I consider needing a third-party battery for normal use a failure on the manufacturer's part and buy something else.

(FWIW I use a Razr M, which also has a sealed battery. Remarkable little phone.)
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As I said, the class feature in ES6 was intentionally pared down to achieve consensus. I hope that something will make it into ES7.

Browsers do not need to wait for a spec to be fully finalized before starting to implement features. Firefox and Chrome have already started to implement large swaths of the more locked down parts of ES6.

Object.observe is actually a feature approved for ES7, and Chrome has already begun implementation. I tend not to think about the precise spec version that a feature is a part of, and more about getting consensus in the committee that a feature should be part of JavaScript period.
Which is more popular, emacs or vim?
I wonder which one is more popular among developers.
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Wow, is that common where you are? It's been five years since I was a teenager in Germany, but while tons of my American friends had fake ideas, I never even heard of faking your birth date that way. Now, using someone else's ID card was very common.
We don't need to solve the gravitation issue. People are spending long term time in the ISS and with proper training it's not bad.
During the time when the affair was secret, Petraeus was vulnerable to blackmail. His failure to recognize that and alert his superiors demonstrates that can't be trusted.
Yes.

Confirmed working on Rogers in Canada. :D
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It's not only faster than the HSPA speeds I was getting, but it's faster than my home internet connection from Telus. This is awesome.

I had to add an apn with these settings:
Name - Rogers LTE
APN- ltemobile.apn
Port- 80
MMSC- http://mms.gprs.rogers.com
MMS Proxy- 10.128.1.69
MCC- 302
MNC- 720
Apn type 1- (default,supl,mms)
2- (*)

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You're not alone. David Simon (journalist, author, and creator of The Wire) wrote about this:

http://davidsimon.com/stray-penises-and-politicos/
Think of a web server with a fresh SQL database with no data (other than whatever is pre-populated there by the installation.) Simply record all incoming messages to the server over a period of time and save it to disk. Then, when you want to replay that recording, start with a fresh database again and replay all the messages. Assuming your system is deterministic (no race conditions, generally not relying on a wall clock [there are tricks for this, since it's a harder problem[1]]) and you're good to go. The key is designing everything to support this from the beginning.

[1] Done right, you can play a minutes long recording back in seconds, which is very useful for trying to fix a bug and verifying it against a known-bad replay.
I appreciate why places might do it. But it's irrelevant what they believe and slavery clauses aren't going to be enforceable even if I sign it in my own blood. What these guys really need to worry about is invalid clauses invalidating the whole document.
Feel a bit guilty about training others to get into law school, which you hated?
It's not beside the point. Do you know for a fact that Apple went out of their way to break functionality? Perhaps they had some reason for making the breaking changes and since they were under no obligation to support this 3rd party hack, why not do it?
Do you really think he would allow himself to be blackmailed rather than tell the blackmailer to go ahead and go public with the information? He admitted the affair to the FBI when initially questioned about the emails.

I suppose you think Clinton should have resigned (instead of lying about the affair, which made everything worse)?
I think B only want to see the letter in writing so that they can go slightly above what A has offered.It makes no sense to go largely over.

Why not ask B to make a blind offer based on the value you can bring and what you're worth, tell them you're not interested in them upping A's offer, just formulating their own based on value not competition. You want to hear what they would have offered without company A in the picture.

Not only do you come across less money-motivated but I think you're more likely to get a higher offer from B this way. Plus if you do get company B's offer in writing - maybe you can take that back to A.

After all if you prefer company A, you should be going with them regardless.
While you're not necessarily wrong, "ego" gives off a pretty negative vibe. I would say it's quite often personal dissatisfaction of the status quo.

I support what they are doing. Wheels sometimes get better when they are reinvented.
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> Ada in Europe? Interesting, where did you encounter that?

I heard it at this year FOSDEM.

Since GNAT availability many universities seem to be making use of it. As for the industry I guess it still constrained to the usual types of systems where Human life is very important.

As for the libraries you're doomed to have that for all libraries that are not part of the standard library. Even the "comes with batteries" languages suffer from this when you need to integrate external libraries.

If Java and .NET didn't happen, maybe there would already be an InteliJ for C++. I am looking forward for the tooling progresses made possible by using the compiler as plugins, as clang shows.
What services? Services are generally things people want done but don't want to or can't do themselves. In a star trek world I would expect these things that are still relevant (e.g. tax support services and the like obviously wouldn't exist anymore) would be handled by robots, which themselves are made by the replicators.

There would still be things to do of course. But they would be things that people want to do and wouldn't need to charge for since they no longer have rent or food/utility bills to pay.
Doesn't seem to make a noticeable impact on most recent VZ phones, and as far as I'm aware VZ doesn't run VoLTE[0] yet.

[0] Anecdotally, I'm hoping that's right. I've been on (GSM/UMTS) T-Mobile for years and switched to VZ a few months ago; and I've noticed a marked drop in call quality & stability vs. every GSM phone I've owned.
Well SD cards these days are kind of a replacement for cassettes. Cameras use them, camcorders use them, phones use them, computers use them, tablets use them, some cards can use them. An SD card isn't limited to one device, similar to how a cassette found its home in the recording studio, the car, the home, and the computer.
QA testers could write recordings out, sure, but taking a recording from a crash and then playing it back locally to 1. inspect the crash with full debugging powers (stepping through code, seeing the full heap, etc.) and 2. being able to fix the crash and re-run the recording to verify the fix corrected the problem, were both a more common and valuable use of the recordings.
I'm not sure that the market would sort this out. People in the first world already pay more to fill up their car than people in the third world spend on food. And biodiversity often isn't given a monetary value at all (although there are people working on valuing ecosystem services). Subsidies aren't helping, but the underlying problem is that we want and are able to use more than our 'share' of resources.
He really, really misses the point: what matters most is economics, not technical metrics in vacuo.

“… these values even do not take into account that more than 50% of the energy stored in the biofuel had to be invested in order to obtain the biomass (for producing fertilizers and pesticides, for ploughing the fields, for transport) and the chemical conversion into the respective biofuel.” [...] “The production and use of biofuels therefore is not CO2-neutral. In particular, the energy input is very large for the production of bioethanol from wheat or maize, and some scientists doubt that there is a net gain of energy. Certainly the reduction of CO2 release is marginal.”

In real world economics, biofuels are not energy; they are high-density liquid transport fuels. The economics make it clear: e.g., gasoline costs ten times as much as coal, per unit energy. You're paying for the chemistry, not the joules.

It matters very litte in real life, that much of the energy (cheap) is wasted; that much of the energy comes from (cheap, external) sources. If biofuels are viable, they can be seen as a conversion of energy to hydrocarbons: of (comparatively) cheap electricity and methane/hydrogen to expensive liquid fuel. Not as a primary energy source. It's the carbon that's valuable.

Farming machinery can be electric powered. Nitrogen fertilizer can be created from nuclear- or solar- powered hydrogen. And voilà, it is carbon-neutral. Nuclear electricity, solar electricity, hydrogen -- these are only marginally viable fuels (c.f. the world market for EV's; opinions may differ). Converting them to liquid hydrocarbons is a very useful thing.
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Salary is £50-60K per year plus bonuses - not worth to risk your life for this sum ;)
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This is crap. How many of us have to where some I similar at work? Don't suspend her for not wearing it, just keep her out if class if she doesn't check in with it. Her attendance will falter in the system and she'll be expelled for lack of attendance. This is not big brother, its what every sane parent wants to know: where is my kid?
Tried WP-Ecommerce about 2 years ago, and it was totally unusable - kept breaking. Support was poor, even when paying for it. Have things gotten a lot better since then?
But the reasons you're giving for saying "but I'd much rather never have a modal ever" are down to bad design decisions. In that sense any UI pattern could cause you the same reaction if used badly.

I don't think you can write of modals simply because you don't like how they are used in some cases.

For example, how do you feel about Pinterest using modals to expand on content?
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This is very imaginative but it doesn't appear to have anything to do with actual code breaking.
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Why on earth would we still have capitalism (i.e. a system for allocating finite resources) when resources are unlimited?

The same damn reason we still have capitalism now, when industrial productivity keeps rising to all-time highs each year! Because some people view human life as a competition for hierarchical rank, and believe so strongly in that vision that they impose it on the rest of us.
My impression is that while emulating gravity with a rotating reference frame is certainly possible, the things holding that approach back are engineering realities. In order to minimize the "gravity" gradient felt over the length of a human standing up, the radius of your spacecraft needs to be quite large.

If you are lifting that sort of mass already, your time is probably better spent lifting several tons or water that would be used to fill a double hull, providing protection from radiation. Then you can give your crew a few rubber bands and count on some minimal muscle loss. (We have kept people in space and reasonably healthy for the several months getting to Mars would take, but that is in LEO where radiation is much less of an issue).
Believe it or not: yes. Here in the UK I remember most of the people in my school using the laminator to make loads of them.
If they actually can provide, but claim they can't, it's false.
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After reading the C++ FAQ on this I can accept that using tyepdef may have been impossible/confusing, but why overload "using"?

This is one of the things that makes C++ mega-complicated. The same keywords have different meanings based on context, when really a new keyword should just have been used. For example "virtual" functions vs "virtual" inheritance.
Even if it mystically had band 13 LTE and CDMA support hiding somewhere, good luck getting Verizon to activate it.
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Announced at fam Thanksgiving: my cousin's pregnant, my startup just hit $6m run
Family seems concerned... about me. I'm 29, she's 26.

Also, no one understood what "revenue run rate" meant.
This could have some interesting implications when it comes to emotion response testing.
I'm sure they are but the Smithsonian museums in DC are some of the most widely visited in the country and there is no charge for admission. I do not believe they have one of these there and it seems like something they should have one on display.
Things often work out that way, but there are exceptions. For example Firefox raised expectations of what a good browser can be like. But then I guess you could argue that Firefox has enjoyed large contributions from Google and thus isn't a true community project either. So I'm not really sure where to draw the line.

However I don't want to sound argumentative as you do make a valid point there. It just wasn't clear from your earlier iPhone comparison that you were talking about disruptive products specifically (or perhaps I misread your post to mean that community-lead smart phones could never exist?). Either way, I think we essentially agree here :)
Minors are more easily indoctrinated into accepting that sort of thing. Employers who do this are being just as antisocial and psychopathic as this school district; the difference is that adults are mature enough to say, "This is not right," whereas children will grow up thinking, "This is how the world works, I better accept it."
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You did say that LuaJIT "usually cares for smaller stuff," implying that it isn't optimal (or as optimal as PyPy) for larger stuff. I could see how someone who had worked for years to optimize LuaJIT for all cases could find that disparaging. It sounds like you're writing off LuaJIT as only meant for toy programs.
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I am definitely guilty of patent infringement...
Using EC2 also takes away a part of the risk. If your startup fails in a year, then you don't get stuck in the end with a pile of hardware (for which you paid big bucks).

I guess that the best would be to use EC2 in the beginning, when you don't really know how much hardware you need, and later on use EC2 only for demand spikes.
It's been obvious for some time that using food crops as fuel (first generation biofuels) is a terrible idea. Well, obvious to everyone except the governments subsidising them.

What people are still interested in is 2nd gen - converting inedible biomass (mainly cellulose) into liquid fuel - and 3rd gen - growing algae, which have all sorts of cool properties. In theory, you can engineer the algae to produce a usable fuel directly. In practice, it's still proving tricky.
Digital rights/freedoms is becoming more of an issue not less. That makes Stallman more relevant every day.
There isn't any "memory" in a lithium polymer battery's chemistry like was found in NiCd and early NiMh batteries, but on some devices, a full charge/discharge cycle functions to program a true digital memory in the battery management controller about the actual properties of the battery.

From the same source: http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/battery_calibrati...
That's true. I didn't EVER get away with it and I tried so much.
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"stationer" - place to buy office supplies before Staples/OfficeMax/OfficeDepot.

And who would every think back then that one day you would able to buy supplies for computers in the same place you had prescriptions filled?

I remember very distinctly how cool it was to work on a CRT at the computer center (they had ditched the teletypes a few years before). You could sit there for hours on end and still have a good time with a green cursor on a VT100 with no windowing. And in the next room was the mainframes which you could see from practically any seat (Wharton Computer Center, Vance Hall)
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You mention 'cost saving practicalities' several times in your comment, however you haven't mentioned any. I'd be interested to hear them.
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WP-Ecommerce has three stars because the owner (who isn't a developer) aggressively marketed the plugin and left it's users hanging out to dry. Updates were done by several hired developers who ended up making a mess of the code. Anyone who wrote a negative review about it was met with an abusive comment from the owner.

This was two years ago since I last tried the plugin so I don't know how support is now, but the way it's written is unsuitable as a reliable ecommerce platform. I tried to set up a jewelry shop for a client who had bracelets in different colors and designs. It wasn't until the website slowed down to a crawl that I found that the system created 30 bracelets x 8 colors x 15 designs = 3600 records in the database. Every time you tried to update a price all 3600 records needed to be updated. And as most people know doing anything 3600 times in WordPress is a pain.

Woo-commerce and MarketPress are much better, but at the moment there are no good e-commerce solutions for WordPress. WordPress has become decent for use as a CMS but if you're looking for an e-commerce solution your best bet would be a stand-alone system like OpenCart or managed like Shopify or Magento Go.
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That isn't what the article is about. He is talking about the energy efficiency of capturing solar power via photosynthesis. From the perspective of this article, growing crops for food is just as inefficient.

If acquiring solar energy through biofuels is less efficient than through photoelectric cells or other means then the market will definitely sort this out (though would not directly account for externalities such as carbon pollution).
Hard to know what a person might do in that situation, hence the regulations.
I haven't even kept a log like this, how useful do you find it?
Is it similar to making a lot of small commits that you can search against?
> In real world economics, biofuels are not energy; they are high-density liquid transport fuels. The economics make it clear: e.g., gasoline costs ten times as much as coal, per unit energy. You're paying for the chemistry, not the joules.

Somehow, this is hard to get through people's skulls. Liquid hydrocarbons are a really potent energy storage medium with fantastic economics. (Compare a metal tank to Li-ion battery.) So long as we have need of bulldozers and heavy equipment at sites outside of fully established infrastructure, like construction sites, we will have a good use for such fuels. It's not overall efficiency that's important here. It's efficiency in a mobile context.

> Farming machinery can be electric powered. Nitrogen fertilizer can be created from nuclear- or solar- powered hydrogen. And voilà, it is carbon-neutral.

This really bothers me, and it happens all the time. Of course everything in our current infrastructure has a carbon footprint!
What I think is irrelevant. The OP asked about the blackmail justification for resigning and my point was that in the context of the security regulations as they exist, having your affair exposed doesn't eliminate the need to resign. The rules as written require you to (1) not have affairs and (2) tell your superiors immediately if you break (1).

Now, maybe you think those rules are stupid. Frankly, I think some of them don't make a lot of sense (or at least fail a cost/benefit analysis), but I don't make the rules. Petreus agreed to follow those rules. If he didn't like them, he could have refused the job. Or he could have worked to change them. But he didn't. So he has to live by them. And he failed to do that.
Yep, that was my point :)
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He isn't saying that he thinks he is doing that. WalterBright was heading off such criticism and micampe was disagreeing with his method of doing so but pointing out that doesn't mean he disagrees that Woz deserves credit for what he did.
Actually Microsoft started by developing a C++ library with lots of OO in the design.

However not everything went as they expected and people were also demanding something more light over Win16 and MFC was born.

http://computer-programming-forum.com/82-mfc/d13ea80282846f9...
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Is anyone in San Antonio planning to print this article and hand it to the principals of John Jay High School and Jay Science & Engineering Academy?
You don't even need to use a fork, regular 'ol Chrome'll do the job for you.

Go into the settings page, find the `Search` section, and hit manage search engines. Than choose DDG (provided DDG has been used by you before).
I've watched a documentary about Jobs and, before he got fired from Apple and went to NeXT, people who lived with him said he wasn't as harsh or serious, just stubborn. Also, after that event he went on to study zen buddhism.

That makes me wonder whether being fired changed his character so that he started making more conscious use of his "Yang" side. Before being fired, it seems he would just argue with directors and be at war with everybody in the company in a very immature way. Afterwards, it seems he was more harsh in the sense of demanding results and such. Given Apple was successful after his return, that probably reinforced his behavior.
Yes - this is what we are doing. With this 4x cost differential however, we calculated that it takes only 6-8 months to have the hardware pay for itself, so if you plan to be in business in that time frame you are better of buying.
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> Most (all?) of these cannot cope with trees of objects

You can if all "destructors" take care of also closing the internal resources, thus initiating a cascade process of the object owned by them.

But you're right, this leaves the responsibility in the user's side.

> I would give an arm and a leg for RAII on the JVM.

At least they finally added the "using" concept.

In a few more versions maybe they get to add values.
I agree. Hope someone donates one.
Didn't know about HHVM. Clearly Facebook deserves more credit for all of these gems.
Why? Because you predict it won't meet your definition of popularity? Once upon a time, Arch and Gentoo were dismissed in exactly this way.
My new recent project is in .NET and I happily using all functional like features C# 4.0 offers.