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Admittedly the first time I wanted to run an app on my device it took a while to figure everything out but this was back in 2009. Since then it's become an awful lot easier to provision and distribute. It's still much more difficult that it should be (Android and Windows 8 are much easier) but once you get the hang of it it's the same process every time.
there were 7. the formatting took multi-line options and made them one line so I just deleted them... while I was removing them the edit option went away. oh-well.

b was the 1st option but on 5 lines; d was the 2nd but on 4 lines.

e is now the 3rd option which is the ternary; and I am unsure of why you are saying that it implies anything about a return value.

in javascript the 4th will evaluate the left side of the and. if it is true it will evaluate the center. if the center is true it will evaluate the right side of the and which will invoke the function. since the function returns a 'truthy' value in javascript the other side of the or does not need to be evaluated because of 'short circuiting'.

if either of the first two parts of the and are false javascript will 'short circuit' the and and move on to the right side of the or and evaluate it which will invoke that function.

you are correct about the last option -- accidentally I left off the invoking parenthesis.

FYI, I like the third option but went with what was b:

if (data.IsActive && !data.IsLocked) {
lockBtn.show();
} else {
lockBtn.hide();
}

so all and all it was a complete failure...
For more math oriented challenges (more project euler like), check out the monthly IBM 'I ponder this'. These are usually quite challenging, but the problems are interesting and solutions are posted at the end of the month. http://domino.research.ibm.com/Comm/wwwr_ponder.nsf/pages/in...
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FWIW, it does say: "Over the next few days, most mail users will begin to experience the new web version of Yahoo! Mail." [Emphasis added.]

So we may still be seeing the old version. That said, they probably should have held off on the announcement until it was generally available.
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I was able to parse your question, but I would have written it as:

Guys, I have a question: Is it common for companies to pay for MBAs for their employees? Here in Brazil, it is a fairly common...
Here's my theory on why so few US children score as advanced level in math:

I have a fifth grader in public school now, and as far as I can tell, schools are nearly incapable of identifying advanced learners, and most teachers don't have the training to teach differentiated math/science. So we settle on curriculums that target the "bottom average." The bright kids get bored and drift away, the slower kids get help, but almost never enough, and the middle group never get properly challenged.

It took two years to get my son math instruction appropriate to his level, and now the school system doesn't seem to know what to do with a 10 year-old who is finishing up Algebra 1. The answer seems to be Kahn Academy, which is not enough. I can't imagine what the battle is like for a single parent with two jobs, or parents who are not native speakers.
Mostly likely your PDP-1 assembly is a little rusty, so that may be hard to read in isolation. Refresh your memory with the original manual: http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/dec/pdp1/F1...

(Actually that just documents the hardware. Honestly I don't know if the assembler that built Spacewar still survives.)
What does it matter whether the entities doing the suing have no other business?

By analogy, what does it matter that mobsters are able to demand "protection" money from legitimate businesses? If it was their right to threaten and demand payment without doing anything useful?

I'll tell you why it matters: because demanding payment from society without contributing back in any way is deplorable, criminal behavior.
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Do you really want to turn this into a bike helmet thread?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_helmet#Science:_measuri...

The short version is that for most types of city bike use, a helmet doesn't seem to confer any noticeable additional safety. The analysis is difficult in part because while yes, a helmet can reduce the severity of head injuries, the full cost analysis is difficult. Fewer people bike if they have to wear a helmet, and don't forget that the helmet itself costs money, and must be replaced every few years.

I personally think most people wear bike helmets as a talisman, given the number of improperly worn helmets I've seen. I also think that people don't know if/when it's supposed to be replaced.
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Haven't studies shown that even subsistence farmers do better with education?

As far as I've read, more education is good for anyone who can afford it. (Even at its inflated prices, a college degree remains a good investment for most.)

It seems to me the real problem is that most people who'd do just as well with a smaller university education are paying 5x as much for a big/name school education. Which, for those taking on debt, is hardly optimal. And their willingness to do this is what drives the prestige/price bubble.

So, really, the correctable social prejudice is not breaking "everyone should go to college" [1], it's breaking "small school education is inferior to big/name school education". [2]

[1] Though that could certainly stand a weakening and reformation to "most people should do post-high school education", with a heavy dose of de-stigmatization for trade schools, community college and the like.

[2] That prejudice is undoubtedly true of a minority of places and programs, but rarely; and extremely so in the case of undergrad programs.
You mustn't have read the article.

It's not "FedEx's prices were too high".

It's "FedEx told me it costs $x.xx to mail a package and I was charged $x.xx + $y.yy".
This has to be expected, it's like saying "most of the debt collection is done by debt collection companies". Of course, that's the point of having debt collection companies. If there's a profitable activity - like suing for patents - there would be people who specialize on it, in order to make it more efficient. Now, useful distinction would be if the lawsuits brought on behalf of third-party clients or the PAE is the sole beneficiary, but this situation is impossible to distinguish from actual practicing entity just selling the rights to sue to PAE in order to not bother with it anymore, while keeping the benefits of the temporary monopoly.
I'm fairly certain the director has a LinkedIn profile that's updated. (There are a few with the same name that aren't.) There's also a Twitter account with that name, but it's been inactive for about a year. Any "web sleuth" with a Linked In paid membership could toss him an email if they were so inclined.

I've asked two people on Twitter if they were the writers listed on the Facebook ad. One Lorenzo Faggi replied no. Others with that name are rather inactive. I'm still waiting on the presumed Tomaso Walliser to answer.

I'd love to know just how many were done, what became of them, and if they're no longer interested in pursuing the project, if they would post the footage they did film for the public to tinker with.
>>I can open several emails at once and compose several at a time. Can't do that with Gmail.

With the new Gmail compose, you can... sort of. It will stack them at the bottom, but only show two "open" at a time (at least on my comp, with a fullscreen chrome window on 1900x1200, maybe you can have more open with a wider screen).

Not ideal, but better than it was at least.
If I could say what I wanted, but only if the government determined that my speech provided "value for society," I don't think I'd consider myself to have state-enforced "speech rights." Speech privileges, maybe, but "rights" is definitely not the word I'd think of.
I have been watching this startup closely since this industry does need to be disrupted. But maybe their pricing should be a little more disruptive. This would cost us exactly the same as ADP (our current and terrible provider).
I think the emulators are the best part of Windows Phone. Free and Far better than any other emulator I've used.
Sounds a lot like Ning about 7 years ago. Maybe a few more features, but I still don't see a big difference, or a huge demand for niche social networks.
Well then they're going to miss out on the people that vanguard these things.

Having an @yahoo is embarrassing even for non-geeks.
I was going to fire up Google Docs and have at it, because this is a granular-level of organization that is lacking in my life. But then again, I think my memory would turn to mush if I documented every little event in my life.
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Who cares? Most Standford MBA graduates make that back in no time.

The more worrying thing, IMO, are the people paying a bunch of money for Journalism or English Literature degrees.
horrendous muffled voiceover on that video
Will the results be shared?
My boss makes $1k/mo from an alarm click app.
College != Education.

Travel can be education. So can reading. In fact we should always be learning something new. You don't need a university for that.
It's deliberately hard, because developers are trying to implement a use case which Apple has tried to prevent.

The are four different options:

a) Developer builds which have to be installed using Xcode for each phone. That won't work for anyone able to install.

b) Ad-Hoc builds, which must be specified for each phone. Again that doesn't scale.

c) Enterprise builds, which install on a unlimited number of phones. This is fine, but everyone who installs them must work for the same company, and this is contractually required by Apple.

d) App Store builds, which obviously must be submitted to the AppStore.

What developers want is the ability to do an AdHoc build to anyone. This is restricted for the precise reason that it would allow someone (not Apple) to create a rival store.

Having said that, the error messages you receive could be a lot clearer when you mess the signing process up.
I always wonder if problems like these are exacerbated by our (comparatively) massive population in the US. We have somewhere around 311 million people to Finland's 5 million and we are all spread out over 50 states. Is it any surprise we can't manage a nationwide school system well?
He didn't get permission from Coolio

>I ain't with that…I think that my song was too serious…I really…don't appreciate him desecrating the song like that… his record company asked for my permission, and I said no. But they did it anyway…

http://splitsider.com/2011/12/gangstas-parodist-revisiting-w...
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Oh and congrats on the round. $6MM and not having a board is a dangerous combination... In a good way.
Pretty much everything about that statement in inaccurate.

The vast majority of them have parental funding.

Most MBAs are self-funding; almost every MBA I met at the Berkeley, Stanford, Case, Loyola, USC, and UCLA business schools was. A few were lucky enough to have their employer bankrolling the degree. Perhaps one or two were attending on their parents' dime.

MBA may not seem selective (a lot of mediocre people get in) on intelligence, but the "work experience" bar can be quite high and usually requires a leadership position in an established business (not some acq-hired startup) before 26. Stodgy blue-chips don't promote that fast, so no one gets that without their daddies pulling strings, which means they also come from money.

MBAs can be very selective; it depends on the school, but even the most selective only require 2-3 years of work experience before they will seriously consider an applicant. Experience can be acquired in any industry, including startups, restaurants, and service industries. The key factor is not where an applicant worked, but what the applicant managed to accomplish while working there.
Is it me, or is the tagline (“Your ticket to every ticket.”) near illegible? Black on dark blue seems like a terrible choice. I'd try white if I were you.
Hull is not a point-and-click social network creator.
It's a developer platform.

And who says the networks those will build will be niche ;) ?
I don't think there is any failure there:

- You are inherently short the hypothetical minimum shelter requirement home— this is your future housing obligation.

- You may also be long a highly correlated actual home asset.

Appreciation of the latter is not beneficial to you when it is matched by the former. This means, for example, that you should think carefully before obtaining a HELOC against "appreciation" because you can have paper appreciation while staying equal or actually becoming worse off relative to your future obligations.
You're missing his point (which wasn't hard since the point wasn't very clear...)

In inflation adjusted dollars, your parents paid roughly $500,000 for their house. You said they sold it for $1.5MM. Even if we ignore interest payments, property taxes, repairs, maintenance, upgrades, and the myriad of other costs associated with ownership, and all transaction costs associated with buying/refinancing/selling, your parents netted $1MM in 25 years. Let's also assume they only put down 20% in 1987, or $100,000 in today's dollars. Under these circumstances, they doubled their money 3.25 times, or earned roughly a 10%/year rate of return. That's pretty good, if you ignore all associated costs.

Now consider just one easy alternative: The S&P 500 was at 250 in Dec 1987. Today its at 1400, meaning it has doubled 2.4 times, or earned roughly a 7%/year rate of return. The DOW was at 1750 and today its at 13000, meaning it doubled almost 3 times, or earned roughly 9%/year rate of return.

Mind you, the costs associated with investing in and holding an index fund are unbelievably lower than the costs associated with owning real property. Once you account for even a portion of those costs, your parents' real rate of return on their real property is likely to be around half of what their return would have been on just a simple index fund.

(The above analysis excludes what your parents would have paid in rent during those 25 years. This is obviously a significant factor that changes the numbers [just as all the other costs associated with real property would], but as you can see, even when returns on real property look significant [we turned $250k into $1.5MM in 25 years!], the actual return is often much, much different.)

Edit: Note that I've just purchased a rather expensive home in California within the last year, so I am "long" housing relative to what I could be paying in rent. I'm not bashing real estate by any means, only pointing out that all returns are not what they appear.
Interesting, went over the 'free' Yahoo email account that I got with my DSL account. I find this particularly interesting given that I'm now looking for a gmail replacement.
I don't know if that works for all types of products, though. Some, perhaps, but not all. A B2B landing page, for example, needs to be able to convey the benefits of using the product, solutions, etc.
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I have an iOS/Android app side project that I'm interested in porting to Windows Phone 8/7. I have never worked in the microsoft eco system. I have 2 questions.

What would be a good test device? No contract, not too expensive but also a viable device.

Anywhere or anyone recommended to do the development?
That's not an apropos analogy at all. You're ignoring the crucial fact that the NPE paid the original inventor to take over the inventor's rights in the patent. Would the suit be illegitimate had the inventor sued himself, even if he didn't himself intend to use the patent? Then it's not illegitimate for the inventor to sell the patent to someone else who does the same thing. The value the NPE provides is allowing inventors to "cash out."

It's more like if someone buy's out your landlords interest in the building your apartment is in and sues you on your lease. That's not a protection racket--that's enforcing your legitimate property rights.
"there must be an iOS equivalent of the <strong> tag, right? Apparently not."

It's not a silver bullet (it can sometimes give you a bit of a performance hit), but the Nimbus library has a UILabel subclass that makes bolding a substring a lot less painful than manual NSAttributedString munging: http://docs.nimbuskit.info/group___nimbus_attributed_label.h...
Really interesting point about Finland. Has there been any research into what aspects of the system are most effective?

Anecdotally, I wonder if this solves the story of the "smart" kids who are bored and thus under perform due to a lack of challenge. By condensing the time to learn, I could see having more focused curriculum with less review between years. Also, by having children start later, it might generate more natural curiosity, rather than spoon feeding knowledge.
I'm legitimately confused what you even mean by this comment. When did I say it wasn't enforced? Did you reply to the wrong comment?
sorry to hear about your issues, snogglethorpe. what browser are you using?
Right, oops.
Lost sales aren't the only form of harm. Imagine you bought patent rights for 9000 dollars from original inventor, counting on this patent be very useful and you benefitting greatly. Now everybody uses it, but you are not paid. You are obviously harmed - you're out of $9000 and got nothing in return. Roughly the same situation as you buying a rental apartment and people living there not paying the rent (at least within the current framework of treating patents as property rights). Clearly you have a standing here.
It's an issue of charging for a service that was not provided, doing something like this is called fraud when done intentionally.

An officer of the company knowing about the issue and not doing anything about it would generally be the nail in the coffin.
I think high-siding happens when you, as the rider, try to correct, and end up over-correcting, for the soon to be low-side (you do get a choice at some point to push the bike into a "safer" low side and crash or risk the high side and maybe crash). From what is almost no grip comes massive grip. Over-correcting causes that excess momentum to swing the bike full up and sending you on a short trip in the air to finally make contact with the really hard ground.

I've done this a few times and did the over-correction thing helping me realize just how hard the ground really is (only on the race track - never on the road).

I do think a computer could monitor grip to a much finer accuracy and save the bike from a potential low side. In fact, with the electric motor, the computer could even adjust the spin rate, and thus angular momentum, of the wheels if need be.
In iOS 6 at least, UILabel supports attributed strings. I have no idea what took so long either.
The US is also more ethnically diverse than Finland, which I'm sure impacts teaching.
This new re-design doesn't work for me, it isn't intuitive and straight forward to use, unlike the previous site. As a paying customer this change is pretty frustrating.

What are some comparable services to time tweets?
There are actually a variety of reasons why people don't get value out of college, and it's not always because they're doing something wrong.

For example, most young people are told to set their sights on college. Realistically, most young people are not suited for "4+ years of uninterrupted study." This might not seem obvious if you took AP/honors classes your whole life; in that case, the mean is probably much lower than you've been conditioned to expect.
HTTPClient was released as a nuget component:
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Thanks! If you don't mind sharing, what are you paying for payroll through ADP? ZenPayroll is just $25/month + $5/employee/month, and only $1/employee/month for each employee after your first 10. Everything is included in this price.

From talking with our current customers who've used ADB, we understand that ADP can get pretty expensive, especially when you add all the miscellaneous costs they tack on.
Linux is the kernel and Ubuntu, Red Hat are distributions that ship said kernel, together with a couple thousand other software packages.
Or Thunderbird...
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Today we don’t even notice jeans that actors wear on the big screen. But during the 1950′s you’ve could been expelled from school, restaurant or theater if you showed up in jeans. Why? Well, everyone wanted to look like James Dean. There are certain movies from the 1950′s onwards that capture what we love the best – Hollywood icons clad in cool denim ;)
Bitness is more about per-process address space than total RAM. For example, a 32-bit process could not memory map a file over (somewhat less than) 4GB in size, while a 64-bit process doesn't have this problem. Wanting to memory map large files is something you could do on just about any current mobile phone.

Also think Moore's Law. Current phones are sporting 1GB of RAM. It will just be a few years before they exceed 4GB, and it's easier to get the software support ready now.
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If it produces a benefit, that cost is trivial for any business with a reasonable amount of sales.

1% boost in conversion in a business with $100,000 annual sales = $1000, which is almost double the price of the lowest plan.
Vs2012 crashes less than vs2010 though. Hand over your cash now for the new feature!

We've bailed and moving to java on the server and web and android apps for mobile.
Sorry, I removed the point because I realized it wasn't relevant to this particular bug. This bug isn't a case of an assertion failing (which is the "crash hard" bit). It was just a logical failure. A bug.

(Incidentally, eliminating these kind of rarely executed branches is a bugaboo of mine. They frequently have problems.)
Thanks. I couldn't tell either. That's why I made the comment.
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Does anyone know if / when WordPress may start using a modern PHP framework (eg zf2 / symfony2)?
I get 10 spam emails a day that get past Yahoo's spam filter. The common factor in all of them is that my address is not in the "To" field. Marking them all as spam for the past several months has been completely ineffective. My solution was to filter all email without my address in the "To" field into another folder.

I don't think the Yahoo spam filter works on an individual basis like the gmail filter does.
Arch Linux will probably get it in a couple of weeks.

Android, on the other hand, will take much longer. It's sad as there are so many goodies in this for ARM, especially the multi-platform support. This will make updating Android version a lot easier (for manufacturers, hackers). Right now the one of the bigger issues is updating the kernels (and the closed drivers, to be honest).
You can get a lumia 710 for not much. Doesn't do windows phone 8 but all the 7/8 portable apps will work on it.

Never test on a flagship device!