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They use electric kettles. Electric kettles are more useful in countries with 220/230V mains than in countries like the US with 110V mains.
That's why normal electric kettles stop boiling when there's enough steam pressure.
Reminds me of ordinary bikes.
But Americans do seem to speak as though their ways were universal, more than other nations. I remember a Canadian who worked near the border expressing her amazement at being asked "do you take normal money?"
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When I'm coming up to weightlifting competitions I wean myself off coffee (by progressively substituting regular coffee for decaf in my espresso machine) for the same reason: I want to increase the effect on mental energy, but not have the side-effects such as sweaty hands or shakiness.
Sure but that doesn't mean that couldn't be fewer hoops to jump through for the many devices that do. I have an iOS app that does realtime audio FFT without even breaking a sweat. I've considered porting it to Android but the degree of hassle puts me off it.
Your example is not DI. Your argument is in general sound, but it's tangential to the problem of DI. Your time object needs to be created at some point. DI would allow you to swap out the implementation of the Time class at that point.

In general, the time example is stupid. A better example is maybe that you have an app that wants to make http calls. Depending on the interpreter and the os you might want to switch the http library. Net/HTTP is a solid default that runs everywhere, but there are faster alternatives if you're on MRI only. In java, you need DI to solve this problem. In ruby, you don't.
This is just another example of how we're learning the lessons of FP about 20 years late.

I'm no expert - I've only muddled with FP languages (mostly Haskell). But what I learned there deeply affected my everyday imperative and OOP coding. Pure functions make for testable, clean code.
I am a US citizen and I had a similar experience. About a year ago I spent a few months in Asia while working remotely for my US employer. Reentering the states (after an almost 24 hour trip), the border agent really didn't like the fact and went out of his way to find a hole in my "story" - "So you did work in Asia?", "But your company did not send you there?" This dragged on for a while.

This was the climax of the confrontation:

- "Have you been in trouble with law enforcement before?"

- "No, but you make it sound like I am now. Am I?"

- "We'll see"

- "I am a law abiding citizen and I've been giving honest answers to all of you questions. What can I possibly be afraid of?"

Ever since, I DREAD reentering the states. I have dual citizenship, work flexibility, and friends and family all over the place. I find myself spending less and less time in the US.
> you can play wow on linux using Wine

Speaking of which, why is a native binary better than wine? I know wine is typically associated with pain, because the app developers don't support it properly, but then native doesn't work /at all/ without developer support.

If developers /are/ going to support linux in some way, why should they support multiple platforms [distros] when they could support one [treating wine as a minor variation on their existing windows support]?

(Not trolling, I'm sure there are good reasons that I haven't had enough morning caffeine to think of; plus it might be useful for someone to make a definitive list somewhere)
If you guys like a bit of humor, I regularly check this for any updated info on the whether Nate Silver is a witch: http://isnatesilverawitch.com/
I know what you mean. The bureaucratic establishment allows people in low ranking public jobs to have a disproportionate amount of power over pretty much anyone.

9/11 seems to have made things worse for pretty much everyone. Governments went paranoid and chose the easy way: delegating extra authority on people that were not prepared to exert it.

But border guards tend to be dumb and/or rude pretty much everywhere, so, don't take it too seriously.
The only way to get this popular is to have nice devices sold with the OS installed. Too few people install their own to matter.
There's no such thing as an inefficient way to turn electricity into heat. A light bulb, a television, a fan, a refrigerator, a speaker, a kettle are all going to turn all of their power into heat.
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This is sort of like when netbooks took over a significant marketshare for a brief period. It's new, it's novel, more importantly it's cheap and that's a big motivator. When netbooks were selling like hotcakes a lot of them came with Linux distros pre-installed, so it's not like Linux doesn't get its moment in the sun every now and again.
I think Kafka foresaw all of this. The man was a Genius.
I had a desire to study it since I was young. I excelled at both Comp Sci and Maths during school[1]. Studied both all the way prior to University and then had to pick one (I didn't want to do a joint degree as I wanted to study one in depth rather than two partially).

A Comp Sci degree was going to be a bigger advantage for the kind of job I was looking for and so that won. The desire to study Maths has always been there, it's just taken a while since leaving University until I was in a position where I had the time/money to study it in my spare time.

[1] First computer was a ZX81 when I was just 5 years' old.
I really wish Google released an SDK for writing fully fledged Android apps in Go.
Ask: word processor with latex algorithm viable? 
Since the MSWORD annoyed me on its layout and too many mouse operations, I am planning to write a word processor with latex layout algorithm (for browser or mobile devices too). It should be much smaller in binary size and run super fast by initial estimation.

Will I have any chance to survive? Am I crazy?

BTW, I am also an online graphics editor maker of
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Could one make a heat pump kettle that would be "more than 100% efficient", by moving head from the surrounding air into the water rather than just resistive heating? I remember seeing that approach recommended for heating houses.
Ironically enough, I went to log in to HN specifically to upvote comments in this thread, forgot my password and had to use the 'email yourself a new password' function.

Granted, it sends a randomly generated password. And granted: it's probably meant for one-time use only (I presume). However, logging in with the new password does not automatically prompt (or even force) to change it to something of my own choosing. Result: hit 'remember password' in Chrome and forget about it. Now my active HN password is in my inbox, in plain text.
In ruby you'd use timecop for time sensitive tests. It allows to freeze time and move it forward/backwards in specified increments.
I especially dislike the fact that "native app" means iOS. Like it would be the de facto standard for mobile apps. I have sadness in my heart.
I have a simple solution for not dealing with US immigration's bullshit. Too many trips marred by days spent in featureless rooms waiting for Godot, a full-time employee of your border agency.

Anyway - simple solution - don't go to America. Don't work with Americans.

Europe and Asia are big markets.
They're fashionable but useless. Less than 10% of even relatively tech-savvy demographics know what they are and practically nobody scans them. Japan is essentially the only market where they're actually useful. They look cool when demonstrated to the client, but they're a complete fad.

Rule of thumb: If general advertisers use something but direct marketers don't, it's probably a fad.
The existing system works perfectly, with very little increase in costs (the major engineering works were done years ago, Tea after TV has long been part of British life!), so there is no need for a compromise like load shedding.
Articles like this don't promote healthy discussion. Achievement gaps between races in different areas are a huge social taboo.

It's just not something that can be discussed calmly and openly in a semi-professional forum like this. So you get nothing but on side spouting politically correct cliches and the other side claiming that they are the truly politically correct ones.
The problem I have with QR codes isn't the use of them - I'm sure there is an audience for them (I'm not one of them) but it's the placement of the code within the ad. For example, the corner of a bus stop poster, a poster on the underground escalators. There's a lack of thought in the practicality of actually scanning a code.
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My understanding is that the Renewable Energy Target is actually set by the Commonwealth. Though since it's not really something directly under any S.51 heading I imagine they do it by paying the States and then the States pass the laws to make it work. [1]

I too find it weird that the RET stayed after the introduction of the carbon tax. The entire point of putting a price on emissions is to allow the market to sort out the most efficient way to abate them.

Buuuut of course the RET was started by Howard et al to prop up sugar cane farmers and now it's propping up Gillard's mob in the Parliament. So for now it's unkillable.

[1] On the other hand, when has the concept of limited heads of power ever stopped the High Court from giving the Commonwealth what it wants? I guess they could shove it under 51(i) (interstate commerce) or 51(xx) (the corporations power).
> use ads.mywebsite.com

then add that domain to the list to block! The only way to prevent adblocking is to serve the content and the ad from the same server, in which case you got the problem i mentioned in my reply above...
Kettles with heat pumps could go beyond 100% efficency.
> Power outage on the national scale?

Just brownout. The hydro will come online a few seconds later.
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Sure, it could be made easier, but i am wondering if it is done on purpose. Android encourages the developers to stay away from the NDK unless it's really necessary.
Making it easier to build incompatible apps (= NEON) would surely mean more devs building incompatible apps even if not necessary and thus hurting the android ecosystem in general with more fragmentation.

Doesn't mean there shouldn't be some helpers in the SDK in the likes of "if NEON is supported execute <optimized code path/ARM assembly>, else <slow stuff>".
If you have to do this, you could check that the published time was >= the time at which you started the test, and <= the time at which you are doing the check.
Not only do they chop segments out of Top Gear they also cut out all of the original music.
HDR can look natural when used correctly, but if the camera's doing it automatically I bet we'll start to see lots of casual photographs abusing it.
Thank you for avoiding the cliché.
We almost universally use electric kettles - to us they are regular kettles.

The US/UK difference is mostly due to the electric supply I think. At 230v with a max draw of 13Amps per socket UK electric kettles boil fast compared to US ones in my experience.
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What a delightful read.

The last paragraph about certain moments reminds me of how Derrick Jensen talks of "tree rings" and how certain moments in life can jump us from one to the next, certain moments of enlightenment. Sounds like you made one of those leaps in Seattle that day.
The problem with Windows's safe mode is that when something is really broken it tends to not boot. So while Linux safe mode is less user friendly it at least works when you really need it.

This is based on my anecdotal experience so can be specific to my software/hardware setups.
How does what you propose compare against something like LyX?

http://www.lyx.org/
Good functional languages like Haskell also offer better abstractions so we don't have to suffer tired debates around Java methodologies.
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Mind sharing the code? :)
The need for a Google account is definitely the biggest concern of mine. In terms of supporting and promoting OSS though I think it is a better direction that Windows ever took. The major pieces, Linux and Chrome are both open, if the user is curious. True they probably have to be curious on another device, or after flipping the switch, but at least it is possible, unlike Windows. The second part is that, if the web is the new user-space, then that is tremendously open. Chrome's dev tools are amazing, and still prominent on the right click menu for any site. Unfortunately JS obfuscation is pretty much defacto for most large sites, but at least HTML and CSS are still navigable.
It's not clear from the app description what you mean with "get a swipe card loaded with credit cards issued in another country" - are you issuing Visa or MC cards to your customers? Or are you "renting" card data registered to some other person/company to your customers?

Take a look at both your local legislation and Visa/MC (whatever you'll be using) guidelines. It might be that you'll have handle know-your-customer provisions like requesting physical ID's to verify their names. And you will be liable for any fraud/laundering where people fill "your card" from a stolen card, spend the money, and 2-3 months later the chargebacks start coming.

Cash doesn't need to be involved - if you can make payments "on behalf" of someone else, in someone else's name, then that's directly relevant to money laundering.
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Perhaps so, but the call to `update` makes this function impure even if `time` is an argument.
Perhaps but the unfortunate consequence is that there are entire niches of apps that flourish on iOS that don't really even exist on Android. Android is a great utilitarian OS but the really exciting stuff on mobile (IMO) needs to push the hardware hard.
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There's somebody on the US no-fly list that has the exact same name as me. I can't check-in online with any airline, and checking in at the desk anywhere in the US results in some sort of warning on their computer, and a quick call to somebody to come out from the back and check it out. Unfortunately I have to fly at least once a month.

A quick look over the passport shows it's obviously not me (though I don't have any details of the real bad guy). Must happen to quite a few because I have a fairly bland, common British name.
I'm sorry i misremembered it was drivesql.com. If you want it just pm me here, i assume it's possible or on twitter @kekeblom.
As it's reddit I imagine the top question will probably be, "Nate Silver, are you actually a witch?".
Will it offer realtime rendering?
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If Opera and Firefox can't keep up maybe they should drop out of the race
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But an expat where? These immigration policies have an aspect of retaliation. Other countries often mirror draconian policies seen elsewhere. I am concerned that all this can only lead to one inevitable conclusion: extremely locked down borders with only the very rich allowed to migrate. The UK is actively working on this now, though so far they do allow EU and commonwealth members in more readily.

Even Singapore has been raising the bar for entry lately. We may see in our lifetimes a world where one can only easily migrate to third-world countries.
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Indeed, I wasn't commenting directly on his example rather the general topic.
Followed by "One horse sized witch, or five witch sized horses?" and "How do you feel about witch mustaches?"
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I would not conclude an effect of caffeine ingestion. You may be getting the alertness boost from placebo effect, conditioned response or even just the fact of taking a break. I get an alertness boost from getting up to fill a glass of water, for example. I don't have to actually drink from the glass to get the effect.
I think the argument is that solutions such as Timecop are a hack for stubbing dependencies that are pulled out of global scope.
Say as little as possible. Speak clearly. And if entering the UK, have a bank statement with you. They like people with money (this is not something I made up, it's in the immigration rules, called "maintenance").
While this is great and helpful, it'd be really great if we could see more content in the ways of the theory behind what makes something beautiful. Something more on color theory, and more things on UX Design like what was posted earlier yesterday about dialog boxes and meaningful verbs.

I say this because I can read things like webdesign tuts all day, but I leave not knowing why I did something.
And Blizzard have had a Linux client for WoW ever since alpha which testers were allowed to use up until the release of the game. But as we can see that client has yet to see the light again for the eight years that have passed after the games release.

Big companies like Valve and Blizzard have a ton of different projects that never see the light of day. In the case of Linux clients it's most likely because the man hours needed even to support them doesn't pay back in new customers.
Twisted created one of these a good long while ago[1], and then someone adapted it for Github[2]. This one looks very fancy though :)

[1]: https://twistedmatrix.com/highscores/
[2]: https://github.com/leereilly/github-high-scores/, also https://github.com/kans/highscores
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The reason people do this is the C toolchain is terrible, especially on linux. Want to depend on a specific version of a library? Whoops, no, you can't do that. Want to extend make? Well, you either do it in make or in shell, neither of which are nice languages. Want to compile and link your code once? Good luck fighting libtool. Want a package with dependencies? You'll have to choose whether to work on debian or on not-debian. And actually the debian maintainers are going to move all your files around anyway, because the FHS committee certainly knew better than you where your program's files should go.

It's bad enough I start to wish everyone would just use the JVM, where you have maven. Truly reproducible builds, depend on whatever range of library versions you work with (and it's no problem if two programs want to use different versions), a structured and testable plugin system for extending the build system, and you can use it to build any language (there are some benighted fools who write their own tools like SBT, but they will at least stay compatible so can usually be safely ignored).
Does he mean one of the existing games will be ported to Linux, or the new game they're working on will have a Linux version as well ? If the first, I'm not interested. Blizzard used to release games that would set trends, that other developers would imitate or draw inspiration from. These days are over.
What niche apps would that be?

I mean the same statement can be made for Android and Widget Apps, Homescreen Apps and whatever else is not possible on iOS. I doubt the amount of your niche apps is more then a fraction of those :P

P.S.: My point is, that there will always be differences in the available apps plainly because the API is not the same. I am wondering though, what apps can be done on iOS that can't be done on Android.
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Depends on the side... when crossing into the US (as a Canadian) everyone in my car was taken separately into a tiny room and grilled by an agent, and our car was searched extensively. The whole process took about 3-4 hours, all of us had clean criminal records and were just passing into the US for a day to be tourists in Maine. On our way back the Canadian agent waved us through.
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This is a bit like when Sheen was lifted to the high realms of the internet during his Twitter meltdown. Granted, the story is utterly fantastic and fantastical, but it feels a bit like the world at large is helping feed his ego and it just keeps going and going.
When I used this tool, I found it exactly what I was looking for. Although at first looking at the name I didn't think it would do the job so renaming it to something that says "a network logger"

Examples: NLogger, CNLogger (Cocoa Network Logger), etc
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(And I think most electric kettles are actually 2 or 3kW, so that spike is even bigger).
Belize is part of North America if you where referring to South America as a continent, which is why they call it the "Americas". If you're referring to South America as a division of the American Continent Belize would be part of Central America. Just being politically correct here. :)

That being said, I live in Central America and I agree with the whole of your comment. People in here are generally atrocious with technology and are in love with their bribes and free stuff. Combine everything and you have an awesome
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Former CS1 (and CS50) TF here.

I wish CS1 would rebrand itself - maybe focus on web programming with a framework (like Hartl's Rails Tutorial) or computational thinking with Python.

As is, Java has nearly as much syntactic overhead as C (at least no pointers, thank god), which makes it hard to get into useful & exciting things.
> If you have all of your papers sorted out (and nothing is fishy), what's so mentally anguishing about having to wait?

You are right, if you're sure you haven't done anything illegal, it will all be OK.

But the problem is that those people can really cause you trouble. Not only they can keep you waiting for hours (is there even a maximum amount of time they can hold you for at the border?), which can result in lost connection flights, etc. that won't be reimbursed, but they can also allege that there's something wrong with your data and threaten deportation. There's a comment in this thread from a reader that almost saw his wife deported to her home country for apparently no reason. Yes, you'll get to be heard by a judge, but not until you've spent a considerable amount of money, time and patience.

The problem is that those people don't seem to be penalized for their faults. Immigration/customs personnel bullying passengers is seen as OK by central authorities, as homeland security and the struggle against terrorism are the priorities. If in order to catch a couple of terrorism suspects we have to give the rest of the population a bad time, it's still OK. Better "safe" than sorry, right?
I'm a US citizen, and recently visited my embassy abroad. I was denied entry and told to make an appointment. The first available was about 10 days away. This was for a simple document I needed signed by them. And I was leaving this country in less than 10 days. The guard who turned me away said they used to take walk-ins but not since mid-2012.

So as far as embassies go, being a citizen doesn't help too much.
I don't think many of existing games will be ported, but B-class (with medium budgets) games are coming to Linux in a big way. Wasteland 2, Eternity, Godus, Castle Story, Planetary Annihilation, War for the Overworld, Double Fine, Maia... "Indie" usually means a budget of around $100000, and smallest of these are multiples of that. Plus, almost all humble indie bundles fully support Linux.

I think the outcome is clear: some of these games will make a lot of money. Big publishers and devs will want a cut of the pie.
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Apple nails this with Action/Cancel. OK/Cancel is stupid.