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You could set the fullscreen hint yourself. The problem is that setting it on an override redirect window will do nothing, because override redirect exists solely for the purpose of telling the WM "Never touch this window." You would have to figure out how to make it use a regular window.

It's unfortunate. The mechanism to allow the WM to handle fullscreening intelligently is there, but it seems that the developers weren't aware of it.
Apple Falls to Four-Year Low in Online Customer Satisfaction Survey
(Disclaimer: I'm Dove's husband. The man in question is my father in law, and I've heard the story from him firsthand, apparently much more recently than my wife did.)

> "Why would electrical engineers fly to a conference on a Concorde?"

The airline was moving a Concorde to a different facility (ie, it wasn't part of regular scheduled service). They decided to "upgrade" a bunch of passengers who were scheduled to be on a different type of aircraft. They moved the whole group of engineers together.

The stewardess asked for a "Concorde engineer", who was needed for after landing. It had something to do with the way the Concorde hooks up to the loading bridge at the terminal (it may have something to do with the unusual height of Concorde?)
It's not quite clear what the first ever compiler was, since "compiler" is kind of a fuzzy category, but Rear Admiral Hopper might have given that credit to Betty Holberton.
> At the point one insists on Linux the desktop for an average user, the complexity argument has left the barn. This isn't meant as snark.

Agree, but I'm not sure what you're driving at. I was talking about existing users that want to run Linux as their primary desktop, as they're going to be the market that is affected by this.
"The better word is that they believe in atheism"

This is a classic misdirection. The word "belief" means many things. Do you believe that Australia exists? (That's the classic response.) Do you believe that the North Pole exists? You've probably not been to both. Is this belief the same as the belief in a god?

When I say "classic", I mean that Russell wrote about it in the 1950s, saying:

> I ought to call myself an agnostic; but, for all practical purposes, I am an atheist. I do not think the existence of the Christian God any more probable than the existence of the Gods of Olympus or Valhalla. To take another illustration: nobody can prove that there is not between the Earth and Mars a china teapot revolving in an elliptical orbit, but nobody thinks this sufficiently likely to be taken into account in practice. I think the Christian God just as unlikely.

The "any more probable" part is key. You wrote "specifically deny that a higher life form exists." That is a strawman view because that's not scientific claim. What atheists will often say is that the evidence is lacking which suggests that a higher life form exists. Some might ask you what 'higher life' means - how do you know one when you see one? Could you tell the difference between a higher life form and a visiting alien from Tau Ceti?

The burden is not on science to disprove, it is on you to provide evidence.

"A scientist is constantly in search of the Truth"

That's not true. We have no way to recognize the Truth if we were staring it in the face. The goal of science is to reduce doubt, and the first law of science is, you are the easiest person to fool.

The second law might be to know what people have done before. Your essay follows well-worn ruts, based on a misunderstanding of what "belief" means, and of the objections of atheism to a religious interpretation of the universe.

Read, for example, more about the spectrum of theistic probability. Many atheists, including Richard Dawkins, regard themselves as a "De facto atheist. Very low probability, but short of zero. "I don't know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there." Fewer are a "Strong atheist. "I know there is no God, with the same conviction as Jung knows there is one.""

Your objections only hold for a "strong atheist", and your thesis means that you really need to learn more about the tenants of deism, theism, atheism, agnosticism, and even anti-theism.
No. There's a difference between employed workers where the regulations apply and freelancers that can actually do whatever they want. Actually if my employee were to accept a side-job he'd have to report it to me so that I can check he's not going over the 60 hours limit.

Interesting enough some companies start to recognize that long hours don't get them as much value as they thought. I know of a case where a pretty large enterprise customer has a "max 8 hours a day" clause for subcontractors and freelancers.
>approach Haynes pitching the idea and showing this as an example?

This is the correct answer. At least try and get a friend to do it, and take a cut.

The idea of being able to flick through all the haynes manuals on an ipad is brilliant. And I don't even like cars.
1. Most of the compilers restrict the size of Stack to be much less than the size of heap.

2. If you use the space of this stack for dynamic memory allocation as well, you will be limiting your capacity to write recursive functions.

3. it will depend on the kind of system you are developing. If you are developing some tool to analyze millions of tweets, you have to use "heap" there is no alternate. If you are developing an embedded application " say loading your list of conatcts for sending the message yes there you can get away with allocating the memory on stack itself. But then there most of the phones do not allow you to make a list of more than 25-30 people.

So it depends on the application one is willing to develop and K&R well recognized it in early 70s itself that is why they introduced alloca in addition to malloc , calloc

-http://syncfin.com
In the process of research, professors and graduate students (and sometimes non-academic appointment staff) make discoveries and inventions that can be patented. The University owns part of every patent, because the University often provides the infrastructure yadda yadda, but usually the academics are the ones who start companies to exploit the patent. Technology transfer officers who manage the University patent portfolios will negotiate licenses if you call them up, but these offices are often dealing with grant compliance issues as well and are dealing with so much data it seems like they can hardly keep track of all the research going on in the academy, let alone look for patent violators. I don't think a University ever owns 100% of a patent, so I have to believe it is the inventor's company that is really going after people; and the university is just a co-plantif because they own part of the patent are are legally compelled to take part in the patent defense / plus they want to get their slice of the pie.
Yes. When I was at my strongest (max DL was 525lbs, sadly I'm only in the 400s now) I spent only that in the gym. Lifting weights is both a physical and mental exercise that most people can only continue for ~45 minutes. Anymore than that and it's often useless work because it's not at a level that's still challenging.

Powerlifting tends to make for longer workouts because I would take more rest between sets. When I would do BB or cut workouts I would be in the gym ~30 minutes. Keep in mind that this 30 minutes was full on balls to the wall intensity. It's the intensity that matters and not the time. Also, many people do not know true intensity. I know I didn't learn it until I started doing BJJ training and puking multiple times during 1.5 hour sessions. Protecting yourself and competition has a way of drawing people out to the very edge of what they are capable of.

There was an article recently in Outdoor magazine where even amateur marathon runners are training differently. Instead of slogging out many many miles, they have cut miles and are doing less work but at maximum intensity.
I'm pretty sure Snapchat actually does this by just checking to see if you hit the shortcut for taking a screenshot (home button + power button)
Depending when the person was travelling: some nations banned bovine insulin originating from some other nations over fears of bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

See, for example, this 2001 Australian document:

http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Conten...
I find myself visiting slow loading sites less often than snappy ones. The slow load times are one of the two big reasons why I stopped visiting The Verge.
no, I actually mean I was overpaid (or the dinosaurs were overpaid - I'm not sure) - and so are a lot of 19-year-olds I keep working on from time to time...
What skills have you acquired over the years that you deem most useful?

The ability to learn new skills quickly
You can use a line of microwave towers, taking us back to the mechanical semaphore telegraphs from before Morse.
Insulin will last around 30 days unrefrigerated. Refrigerated, it lasts until the expiration date, which is years for the insulin I have.

That said, insulin is used to treat hyperglycemia, which is usually not an acute incident. "Diabetic shock" refers to hypoglycemia, in which the individual needs sugar to raise their blood sugar to normal levels.
There are lots of epic fails by evolution, is more about quantity than quality so to speak.
Not really. The problem is what you see as data can often be used to control code without modifying it. It doesn't have to run directly on the processor to end up being as powerful as code. You often find don't have to modify code to use the code the code that's already there to do what you please. This is true of a surprisingly large portion of modern exploits. A strict Harvard Architecture or the NX bit only helps with what is becoming an increasingly narrow portion of the attack surface.

Again, see also: Python, PDF, Javascript, CSS for a few different types of "data" which end up being as powerful as code.
Libraries Try to Update the Bookstore Model
I'll add a little.

I do see this a lot in less experienced engineers. "I can't tell you when X will be done." On the other side, I see people promise stuff they can't possibly deliver (due to pressure from management, or simple optimism, or plain cluelessness about the difficulty of a problem).

So part of a senior engineer's job is to notice when someone is making bad estimates and correcting the issue. This can range from simple conversation with the engineer, to diving in and helping out, to getting someone transferred or terminated for unfixable cluelessness.

Some good tools:

- Socratic method. "What don't you know? Can you figure it out?" Repeat. Also, deep examination of base assumptions ("Are you /sure/ you know XXX? Let's dig into that for a bit.")

- Crap shield. "Look, leave Figby alone for a few days until he works this out. It'll give him confidence and make him a better engineer."

- Crap generator (use this sparingly). "What that guy is doing just isn't very hard, and he's not doing a good job. Have one of ours do it instead, and have your guy do something else." Bring ironclad evidence to the table on this one, because this conversation usually precipitates a firing.

The old saw of "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two." is so over-used, but it is /so/ damned true.

We've been engineering bridges for thousands of years, and we have a pretty good handle on what makes a good bridge. In software, I've come to think of the engineers /as/ the bridges, and we can't engineer a better engineer yet.
The Solar System is a Helical Vortex
K-way merge - Python way
Show HN: what to do next with this social network?
> Louisiana is very different to California too, but that doesn't mean you can't refer to America as a general entity.

But when you're making generalizations about Americans or business climate -- which can vary widely from state to state -- you probably shouldn't. Which is what the author is saying.
Just a thought: I might consider a different monetization strategy than AdSense. The ads really look awful and make the site seem significantly less 'quality' than it actually is.

I might experiment with some sort of freemium model; maybe for free you could get the first half of sections for every chapter and then you can pay ~$5 to get access to everything.

Or, as someone above mentioned, compile it into an ebook and have that advertised on the site for ~$10, but make the entire website free.
Granted, everyone should be able to choose their own tools. But different tools can sometimes (in extreme cases) create inconsistent behavior. And you don't want to see the consequences of that roll into production.

That's the one reason I wouldn't recommend each dev using a different package manager.

However, if we follow that logic, only experienced devs will venture to choose a different package manager. Which implies that he/she would be knowledgeable enough to edit his own .gitignore and whatnot.
Exactly zero of the Rails apps on Heroku will break.

When you create a new app you'll need to remove a line from the autogenerated .gitignore in order to work the way you expect.

No?
Sony Mobile (formerly Sony Ericsson) have been making various Bluetooth watches since 2006
What is the geekiest joke?
And no mention of using Twitter Bootstrap?

I like how the site looks/works, you did an awesome job, but some credit in the "how I ..." should go to the Bootstrap team.
America is the name of the country. It's The United States of America, like the Federal Republic of Germany or The People's Republic of China, etc.
I have seen no system failing because it used C instead of C++. But I have seen many systems failing because of the improper use of C++.

- http://syncfin.com/facebook-promote/
I don't know about you, but every time I've attempted to use Sinatra for a project, it's either been for something that wouldn't ever see the light of production, or I've just ended up with franken-rails.

We had this problem at work: a Sinatra app that had pieces and pieces of ActiveSupport bolted on, and it got to the stage where we needed a beefier database than Redis before the CTO eventually generated a new rails app and transplanted the Sinatra app on top of it.

It's all well and good saying "use Sinatra", but when you get to the stage where you're adding ActiveRecord because it's the most mature ORM out there, it's usually late enough in the game that you're actually writing a poor excuse for a Rails application.
Agree with you, $crazygringo.
Most of the time, when people talk about it:
Europe = DE, FR, sometimes UK, more rarely IT/CH/AT and scandinavian countries.
Asia = "chinese" Asia, which is China and South East Asia.
South America = Brazil
Cool experiment. I thought about doing something like this myself. Maybe a remix of classic books under the public domain to create a new work with a contemporary message. Maybe then publish it online and monetize it via Adsense (although I'm not a big fan of that business model).

Instead, I decided to share a personal finance hack I developed called the No Budget Budget: https://leanpub.com/nobudgetbudget/ and sell it as an affordable ebook.

Again, the monetization isn't great, but it means more people can read it and hopefully benefit from it.

The point is ideas are everywhere. I like pursuing ideas that will have the greatest positive impact. Then, like the legendary NFL coach Bill Walsh used to say, "the score takes care of itself".
It's like the google real name debate in reverse. Some people are proud to identify with a group, so therefore we should out everybody, right?
Negotiating.
Holiday Card with Face Detection in Browser
New Android malware uses Google Play icon, conducts DDoS attacks and more
Linkbait. I am an atheist and have done more than my fair share of experiments. Also scientists that I know are generally agnostic/atheist bunch. They just don't think that god is important or relevant. Whenever we were pretty drunk to not have more valuable things to do than discuss theology the general consensus was that 1. God probably does not exist. 2 if it exist it has left the universe or left it to its own devices. 3. In the case of deistic power that is influencing and interfering with humanity on regular basis - with all that wide spread misery in the world - we will just beat the crap out of it when we find it.

Science does not search for the grand truth - just knowledge and understanding of the world. The truth is flexible and always obeys reality.
I'm not an iOS user, but what is to stop the user from taking a screenshot and storing it somewhere else? Or posting it to a remote server?

Since the image on the screen is in video memory on the device, surely it is impossible to prevent screenshots from being taken?
I'm not a lawyer :)

Sen. Paul argues an absolutist position on the Fourth Amendment, that any sort of search/seizure of information involving US citizens requires a warrant. Do I agree? I'm certainly favorable to the interpretation of the Fourth.

However, my larger concern is the lack of oversight, even by the so-called "Gang of Eight" re: Intelligence committees: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Eight

The government, under both the Bush and Obama administrations, has clearly engaged on systematic "overcollection," or going beyond even the allowable actions by the FISA law. It was a large scandal leading to the retroactive approval by congress through these FISA amendments in 2006: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_co...

So I don't think the right question to ask is whether or not probably cause is the correct standard to use since it doesn't appear that government actors follow the assigned standard anyway. The question is of oversight and the reasonably effective ability to challenge such government behavior, as contrasted with the case of Nicholas Merrill and his NSL letter.
First, the ability to make people feel comfortable around you (which usually means actually being comfortable around them)

I second "the ability to learn" -- but be more confident and bold (this is an extreme):

“After Andy dropped out of Emerson College in his sophomore year, the [siblings] reunited in Chicago, where they started a construction business, learning most of the skills on the job. They once built an elevator shaft without any plans or previous experience, having projected unquestionable confidence to the people who’d hired them—not an unuseful talent in the film business.”

You can see the enormity of the undertaking, and the brass buttons it takes to say that, yes, of course you can do something that you have no idea how to do. Sometimes filmmaking requires that kind of absurd confidence (but don’t do anything that might make people fall down several stories or anything)."

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/6-filmmaking-tips-...

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/09/10/120910fa_fact_...
Ah. I guess it has been some years since I heard the story. Thanks for the correction. :)
The people who steal a gun is usually from someone they know... has a gun.
aerosnap is a feature I sorely miss on Linux. I have been able to recreate its functionality for a single screen, but I have been unable to make it work correctly for a dual screen setup.

It seems that have multiple screens in Linux creates a drawing canvas that is rectangular in shape and it is not clear how to find out the more complicated 2 rectangle shape.

I would like to see this issue addressed.
If you are working on a non-trivial application and it's not too late to switch, may I suggest: http://emberjs.com/guides/router_primer/

I love Coffeescript/Underscore/Backbone and have made many applications with them. But for large sites with lots of nested views, I prefer Coffeescript/Less + Emberjs + Handlebars + Bootstrap.
I am repeating what Heroku's Ruby platform lead said here: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/61b91c4c55bcbd5a2ec85d...
I was half-dozing on a Southwestern flight when a stewardess came on the PA system calling for any physician to identify themselves.

I spoke up, and the crew directed me toward the back. They already had this incredible medical kit opened in the aisle. I mean they had everything....ACLS drugs, defibrillator, suction, a complete mini-pharmacy, and what looked like a few plastic-7 wound and/or trauma kits at the least. I mean, I was practically drooling over this high-tech kit.

Of course, it was also at that moment that I started frantically running through cardiac code algorithms in my head, and pondering exactly how long it had been since I'd actually dealt with a code in a hospital, with plenty of trained staff, lab support, etc.

Of course, it wasn't any kind of life-and-death situation at all - a young person very stressed and anxious about relocating and the actual conditions of the flight, who'd been hyperventilating, hadn't eaten or had anything to drink for many hours, near-syncopal, etc etc.

I tried my hardest, but couldn't think of a single thing to use out of the medi-kit. I wanted to use it.

I just sat down next to her and listened, which is 90% of medicine anyway.

Southwest was great - gave me two round-trip tickets to anywhere for taking a few minutes to talk.

A colleague at University of Hawaii wrote a paper about dealing with psychiatric emergencies in the air. One thing that stuck out in the paper was the interesting phenomenon of what he called "honeymoon psychosis", with one of a young newly married couple away from home for the first time, possibly on their first flight, all leading to some interesting disturbances on those long pan-Pacific flights.
No, wish they did. But nobody is complaining if you just drop them on your olympic lifts. They haven't changed the carpet since the 70s, you can see where everyone else drops them.
Systems in C are not as ambitious, for good reason. So not a fair comparison. I've never seen a gingerbread house fall in; but lots of wood ones do!
That the idea of a monopoly somehow facilitating innovation and competition is accepted by so many people is the mark of a political and economical system which is corrupt at it's very core. I'm not just talking about software or hardware patents - medical patents have caused regressions in innovation just the same (see chapter 9 in the link below). How something so fundamentally and obviously incorrect has seeped into common culture is something which needs to be investigated and taken seriously.

That this has happened in the software industry in particular, where since day one everybody rejected the idea, is a testament to the notion that there are social and political factors which are actively spreading misinformation. Naming names might be an effective way to shunt them out of the economy by refusing to do business with them.

http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/against.h...
There are quite a few people working on the user-generated web game content - me included! :) I'm putting together something of a rogue-like mmorpg with players being the prime movers of the game world.

Article rang true for me, since it's exactly what I'm doing! Hyperlinks to areas of the game world, RESTful API for directly accessing the game world, client support from Android, etc. I also know of a few others doing similar work, so I think web gaming has a pretty bright future.
Isn't just posting content from old books... stealing content?