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The best book I know is "Im Namen des Staates", unfortunately it is only available in German, a shame.

http://www.amazon.com/Im-Namen-Staates-German-Edition/dp/349...
Rewards for watching TV vs rewards for healthy behavior
Yeah, the new "Merrie Melodies" (of which that clip you linked) are the worst part of the show IMO. They only lasted the first season, probably for good reason. A couple were funny/interesting but most were not.

Other than that, it's a show I really look forward to watching. You may be disappointed if you're looking for original Looney Tunes, it's not really like that. The characters are the same, their personalities are more fleshed out and exaggerated, the times are modern and they live "ordinary" lives. Some of the reviews I've seen on Amazon for it accurately labeled it as Looney Tunes meets Seinfeld (they were being pejorative but I find the comparison apt and view it in a positive light).

Try watching an episode from Season 2 (the currently airing season) before writing it off. It will only take ~21 minutes out of your life if it's not your thing.
Surely there are options at that point? Like go to the USA consulate during business hours, show a driver's license, and pay a fine? Or even call a family member and ask her to bring your passport (she should bring her own as well)?
Managers as Curators
Facebook Launches a New Video Channel for Developers
If you're parting with hard earned cash to buy something, there's no reason you can't expect good customer service from the seller, even if some of their service is automated. They really need to take some lessons from Amazon.
I wish this article mentioned more information about LadyCoders. I feel like it lead up to the point "go to a LadyCoders seminar" without explaining much about what LadyCoders is. Guess I'll just have to do my own research.
All spiritual experiences sound like gobbledygook to those who have never had a spiritual experience. That they are beyond rational explanation is a feature, not a bug.
I was not even aware it was possible to OD on LSD.... and the article does not do a good job of convincing me the original people who administered the drugs were not complete morons. I mean, who just guesses a dosage without ramping up the dose when nothing is known about the drug's interaction with elephant physiology?
Back in the mid 00s I learned HTML basically from trial and error. Write some tags, save, refresh page and see how things look. That followed by verifying how correct it was with the w3c validator with strict mode. Also lots of changing css styles to *{border: 1px solid #000} to see how things were out of wack. I'm sure there's a somewhat better way than just dealing with trial and error and figuring out how css plays with html through the same manner & validating, but for the patient, it works out.

Thankfully now, browsers come with good editing tools to see html elements without crappy css hacks. I've always seen universities pushing GUI tools on students to learn HTML, but I really don't think that's the best way to do it. Showing them how the tags work, what they are for and using tools such as firebug is a much better way imho.
Stop pretending cyberspace exists
Would they have made as much money if they didn't patent their technology?
If nothing else, that's needlessly expensive.
> We use Groovy a lot at SPUN and we love it. Our CMS is written in grails and our feed consumption “sponge” is Groovy + Jetty and GPars with a frontend written in KnockoutJS. What I like most about groovy is that it builds on the existing Java ecosystem and, being so close to Java, new developers can learn it in no time. Once you get into the new features that Groovy brings to the table it really makes coding a lot more fun, but you can learn those features over time while still being productive with your existing Java chops.

What new features are these? Static compilation is hardly production ready, as seen by this bug in Groovy 2.1.0 reported only last week... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14774709/groovy-2-1-0-wei...

Groovy's static compilation came with Groovy 2.0. Although officially released in June 2012, it really wasn't released for production use until it was bundled as part of Grails 2.2 in Dec 2012. The 6 months from June to December was unofficially just more beta-testing with a larger base of users, those who download standalone releases of Groovy. Grails, however, doesn't use any of the static compilation features in Groovy 2.0. All the testing of Groovy 2.0 was just to make sure the inclusion of static compilation in Groovy didn't break any of its dynamic compilation use in Grails.

Maybe the new feature in Groovy 2 you're talking about is invoke-dynamic. In both Groovy 2.0 and 2.1, the code using invoke-dynamic is bundled in a separate jar-file which only runs on Java 7. Grails and Gradle don't bundle this other invoke-dynamic jar file, and don't intend to for Grails 2.3 and Groovy 2.1 either. Whereas the legacy stream of Groovy can be tested to see that the static compilation doesn't break the preexisting dynamic compilation, the invoke-dynamic jar needs far more testing because it would actually replace the existing dynamic-compilation codebase, so Grails and Gradle won't bundle it.

You're just a patsy of the Groovy/Grails project management pitching for Groovy 2.1 beta-testers for Grails 2.3 when you write in your blog: "Once you get into the new features that Groovy brings to the table it really makes coding a lot more fun, but you can learn those features over time while still being productive with your existing Java chops."

If you really want static compilation, use Scala which has been battle-tested far longer than Groovy's. If you really want invoke dynamic, use JRuby which bundled it even _before_ Java 7 was released. Groovy is really only useful if you use Grails, and for quick testing scripts - quick to write but slow to run, that is.
Oh, hush.
Well, I did say "primarily." Further, from your link (which is about a discussion on Climate Change and Energy legislation):

After covering the 2008 presidential campaign, Broder took over coverage of energy and environment in Washington. He is responsible for following domestic legislative issues, advances and energy technology and international climate-change negotiations.
If you want to see where US goods are being manufactured, then just visit the Census bureau.

Trade in Goods with Mexico 1985-2012
http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c2010.html

Trade in Goods with China 1985-2012
http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html

And the rest
http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/
Anything with the phrase (paraphrasing) "but I must warn you, you must be surrounded by evolved people" sounds so incredibly condescending and pretentious it really shows how these people see themselves as superior to others, like your friend who travels a lot and brings it up all the time. Except his stories are rational and meaningful, while stories about tripping balls are so subjective, they're meaningless.

Yes, I'm sure it was a positive experience, but the idea that you can learn wisdom and maturity via chemistry, well, that idea never panned out. Instead you get the typical empty-head drug talk about "seeing god" and "being nothing." And for all the elaborate salesmanship, what do these people get in the end? They're extremely ineloquent and whatever wisdom is purported to be there, just doesn't seem to be there. They've obviously invested into some kind of "rebel" personality and drug culture panders to them. I should know, I was invested in drug culture myself for longer than I care to admit on the internet.

Meh, the counter-culture petered out for a reason. Turns out ingesting random chemicals isn't the big statement so many thought it was. There's no shortcut to being an interesting and clever person. You gotta put the hours in.
"Learning to code" feels like a very amorphous and vague notion. Does it mean knowing iterators and for-loops? Integrating 2 web APIs? Building a compiler?

Speaking for myself : I know how to code, in the sense that I know how to write computer programs. However, it's certainly not enough to get hired as a computer programmer. The problem isn't my lack of presentation, it's a lack of knowledge. This may be the case for others as well.
Because humans are rational actors with perfect foresight?

What on earth would make you think that this leap "stands to reason"?
I believe pretty strongly in having a side project, and working on it at work, but only when I think the side project is something that directly (20% Google model) or indirectly (skills) benefits the company.

Seriously - we aren't digital coolies. We are highly paid surgeons. You wouldn't for a second fire the brain surgeon for reading about a new type of surgery that he can't put to immediate use between operations. Hell no.

Its the same with node.js or ember.js or whatever you think the new hotness is that you want to experiment with. You are trying to see around corners and skate to where the puck will be. Sometimes its not obvious how node.js (or whatever) is going to help. You need to balance this against your current role, but 20% sounds about right to me.

This is good for the employer. If the employer doesn't get that then you should get a new employer.
I'm happy to answer your questions here in the comments. I am one of the LadyCoders; my name is Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack. LadyCoders is an initiative that puts on seminars and provides mentorship for programmers (often women) who find that they're having problems getting jobs in tech. Women often suffer from Impostor Syndrome. That frequently manifests itself as the inability to be confident about their skills in front of technical interviewers.
I provided the single digit "1" and they accepted it right away. If they don't care if you provide a valid phone number I don't see why it should be a required field.
On a re-read it seems as though I did misinterpret what you said and overreacted. I'm sorry for that. However, I don't think any degree of anger at NASA is warranted here. They've put forward some explanations to help keep people from overreacting to these pictures, people should wait and give NASA enough time to study these objects more in depth to decide whether or not NASA is giving them enough scrutiny.

NASA has been unprecedentedly open and responsive with Curiosity science data, releasing it to the public with a much shorter delay than is the norm. Jumping all over NASA for being too open is precisely the wrong behavior. Be calm, be patient.
'It's not possible to describe what it's like. Except maybe DEATH.'

I know I'm going to be downvoted into oblivion, but I have to link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkFyGNjaQ8k.

/reddit-style
The Strategy of Conflict (1960)
That seems a rather odd comparison, just as it would be odd to say that riding a bicycle is like riding a bicycle. I don't think it's as simple as labeling it as a cognitive impairment; since the effect/impairment in question is highly characteristic it's understandable that people reach fairly widely for terminology that's adequate to describe it. It has a lot of descriptive utility even though it doesn't have an objective basis.

Not that I'm endorsing massive dosing as described here.
Good example of why Github should be using memcached for gists, IMHO :-\
I'll check out Season 2 and see how it is. I don't mind if it's not one-off clips like the original as long as they ditched things like the youtube clip, haha.

Thanks for the reply :)
They aren't still losing money. MS makes a profit on console sales now and has for the last few years, and their markup on games and especially on digital goods like xbox live and DLC is quite high.
But for those who haven't experienced LSD, metaphorical descriptions can be helpful. And it certainly is more complicated than "impaired cognition", even though the heavy handed spiritual claims are silly.
Although, thinking about it, that mark may be for the whole company and not just its eng. I think a lot of it depends on how much of an effort is taken to make females happy and to recruit them. Or if there is a female involved in the early stages of the company.
Still that 15% mark seems low. It may be worth discussing with your management about how to make the workplace better and how to recruit women better. Maybe mentorship programs or hosting 'women in tech' events
I have to admit this discussion makes me feel weird. It's a bit odd to think about people based on their attributes. It's like thinking about coworkers based on their height.
That sounds vaguely like some of my experiences with ayahuasca.
Cars may cause trouble for cities, but the title is overstated to a degree that makes it hard for me to take the article seriously at all. I've seen a lot of cities I'd describe as "robust", and only one of them, Venice, wasn't swarming with cars. Although they may be at odds, it's clear from just looking at nearly any modern city that cars and robust cities are not incompatible.

The article tacitly admits this, with the lowest rate of automobile commuting in their data set still over 40%. Which makes the terribly overstated title even more puzzling.
I used Leftronic to create a dashboard at a previous company. The built-in widgets were not as flexible as I’d have liked but good enough, and it was pretty convenient to move widgets and add new ones. We open-sourced our code to upload custom data to the dashboard, so you can see what using the API looks like: https://github.com/NeomindLabs/neomind-dashboard-public
Wong. MS hid the costs of IEB behind revenue transferred in from Windows Media Center (the functionality that allowed Windows Pro & Ultimate to have a higher license fee than Home).
A compiled executable is nothing more than a series of instructions; why do people have to make it more complicated than it is?
They aren't beyond rational explanation. We may not have models that can predict and explain this qualitative phenomena, but I end this sentence with a resounding "yet".
This is an interesting article on that:

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-10-28/world/35498580...

Don't know about the quality of the degrees though.
sounds like you need Mathematica :)
I would really recommend Mathematica if you can afford it ($300 for the home edition).

I think the cost is the only reason Mathematica isn't the most commonly used data analysis software.

http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/features/graphics-and-vis...
Are you by any chance the famous "Bee?"
Is top notch engineering talent available in china or India...
Making an accessible dialog box
I tend to think of these things as karmic accelerators. The karma that would usually ripen over 2 years is, instead, experienced in 12 hours. If that karma is negative, that might take the form of an immediate psychotic crisis instead of some longer-to-unfold variety that might, due to time, be more manageable.

My personal belief is that, moreso than any religious belief, it's important to manage the karma we experience-- to learn from the bad, and not to turn the good into bad by becoming hubristic. Negative karma will ripen, and the important thing to do is to let it do so in a way that doesn't turn into recursive negativity that generates more bad karma (either for oneself, or in negative actions toward others). What bothers me about these drugs is that they seem to take away some of that ability to manage the karma that comes through. You experience a lot of sudden karmic ripening, which is interesting, but the insight that needs to develop over time isn't there for a lot of people, and those I've met who I think could use those drugs effectively (rather than haphazardly) often have no interest. I've been very unimpressed by most of the drug mystics I've met, because most tend to be sophomoric and unbalanced. I'd rather talk to a zen master any day of the week.

Personally, I'm not interested in using these drugs at this point in my life, but I don't think they should be illegal or as stigmatized (in the larger society) as they are. They're probably less dangerous than alcohol. The problem is that, if you choose to use these drugs, you're trying out a technology that's still in the very early experimental stages, mostly because the research has been (wrongly, I would argue) outlawed.
I don't know what point you're trying to make here but it's lost on me. Are you trying to imply that it's a good idea for North Korea to have nuclear weapons? That it avoids misery in some way? That's pathological.

Nope. This is pathological:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_an...
>Are you suggesting they allow spammers?

... for crying out loud.

>That said, I wish they'd just ban spammers and give everyone accurate metrics.
The problem was that it was bad, in the ethics sense of the word.

IE was an attempt to aggressively eject the competition and kill the open web. When the web stubbornly refused to buy into IE-only technologies, it became Microsoft's dog in the manger, holding back the day that web apps made the OS irrelevant. It was good, technically, and then it was bad, technically, but it was always always evil.
Right! TCO is not essential to practical functional programming. TCO is essential to practical use of the subset of functional programming that insists on recursion instead of iteration, including fold/map/filter.

TCO is an under-the-hood behaviour that the programmer would count on for practical performance. There's no reason that under-the-hood magic can't be in the implementation of fold/map/filter as primitive control ops.

It's just an accident of history that the [mp]atriarch functional programming language is Lisp, a language that was created in the name of proving a point about recursion. Recursion as the solution-to-all-problems is not essential to functional thinking. The essential ideas are first-class functions, higher-order functions, and referential transparency.

I think this mistake is comparable to thinking that classes are essential to object-orientation. I think many people are confused by university professors who love Scheme (for reasonable reasons), and who like to pretend that Lisps are the only alternatives to Fortran (arguably true in the '60s).
Actually, the columnist - not reporter - is Chris Anderson. He used to run Wired for years, but now (as he states in the article I assume you didn't read) runs a company called 3D Robotics.

The column is based on his personal experience running a company that requires high tech manufacturing. It's interesting - you should read it.
Don't mistake the finger pointing to the moon for the moon.
Snapchat Publishes Self-Destructing Link to Android Beta App
Computer program creates dead language time machine
Reminds me of this: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/SteveFulton/20120926/178364/N...
The insights available through meditation and psychedelics are insights into the workings of conceptualization and the odd subject/object split we habitually do with thought and language. Being able to experience reality below the lens of conceptualization is the most powerful experience of my life.

I can now clearly see the fake reality created instantly by thought and the truth that there is only this moment of experience and it is totally inherently free from meaning. In this is realization is liberation from limiting thoughts and ideals and an existence that is free from anxiety, boredom, or any sense that something is wrong or needs doing.

Describing what its like is like describing an orgasm to a person who has never had one. "Uh...its like a really good sneeze."

I did this through the path of meditation, but I know others who have used psychedelics to similar ends.
Is there any way to view the .textile files rendered properly w/in Github? They are rendering the same as raw for me. Am I missing something?
Sure, and the PS2 generally crushed its competition.
Characterizing a subjective experience is not the same as experiencing the phenomena. If I look at brainwave data of a monk meditating, my experience is of looking at and interpreting data. I am not meditating.
It's a place where well-crafted pieces of code are revered. Sometimes social gatherings are held there to discuss the ways in which these things were put together.

Err, that's a Rails Temple, sorry.
Lots, it's also pretty easy to pry them stateside given the dramatic quality of life difference. Not to mention unlike India, China's software industry is underdeveloped and compensation relative to the rest of the population is not as high as it is in India.
This could be biased as it's the route I took.

I'd get familiar with all three. I'd start with PHP. It's ease of deployment will delay the sysadmin stuff that you'll end up learning anyway. Then I'd go to Ruby. Trying PHP first will make you appreciate Ruby and Python more.

When I'm interviewing people, experience in a number of languages is something I look for. A good programmer is a good programmer. Seeing and understanding the ways that different languages have implemented similar concepts makes you form an opinion and see that there are better ways to skin that cat.
> If you do it on company time you can be fired, and quite frankly we believe you should.

Bullshit.

A company can fire you for any reason. Yes, this is a perfectly valid reason to fire someone. You could also fire someone for showing up to work at 8:05 instead of 8:00. And you can fire someone because "You're the boss".

Despite that, what a bullshit article. "If you aren't 100% working for your company from 8am to 5pm then we think you should be fired" is all they are trying to say. No surfing the net, no testing out new ideas, no chatting with coworkers, no personal calls and EXACTLY 30 minutes during lunch: you are hired to sit, do work, punch out and fuck off.

People like this rile me up a bit... I've worked for places like that, and people like this, never again.
Apple isn't making much money at all with the 30% cut of app sales. Their margins are huge on the iDevices. Since XBox is sold near cost, the move to 99c games and apps will just increase the costs needed to approve games while providing little profit or benefit to MS. Increasing the cost of hardware is another option but that's not easy either. Staying at the niche of high end games and including lots of media content is probably the better option.
I wonder if intelligent machines will infect themselves with severely disruptive but temporary algorithms (viruses) and believe they too understand the meaning of life the universe and everything.
Email Client Market Share and Popularity - January 2013
I've been using BuyVM for about a year now, and I've had several instances of downtime, including one for half a day, and one due to hardware failure where I lost my data. Also, their support wasn't all that responsive when the server was down.

I'm considering switching to DigitalOcean just for the backups. Are these included in the cost?
60mg seems like it would kill someone.