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>we now have an excruciatingly awkward situation where I've said out loud "I want to have sex with you", and it's not mutual.

I'm pretty sure people would be aware of that downside beforehand, and would factor that in as a possible risk when comparing it to the benefit of simply satisfying their curiosity. It's not foolproof, but it isn't exactly a crapshoot either.
You could give our newly launched application a try. We're working hard to be a twitter for tasks/teams.

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I have a family member that experienced something very similar. She too was pretty upset. Sometimes this kind of ranting is the best way to lighten a very upsetting situation.

As someone who carries an Android, Google really screwed this up, and deserves all of the hammering they can get in this. They will be forgiven if the next launch goes much better than this, though.
Google customer support is notoriously bad. Support for their flagship products, gmail, google docs, etc is non-existent. For example, gmail filtering + email forwarding have been broken for over a year, with no fix in sight. So I'm not surprised to see that support isn't good in other area's either. It's really a shame because Google is a great company, with great products and a great vision, and it hurts to see sloppy execution.
I speculate that it is a interaction of several things:

1) The current firmware assumes there is "unlimited" energy available when charging, so it can keep the battery warm with little impact on charging rate (this is not a bad assumption for everything other than 120V/15A charging).

2) The current firmware assumes that the battery needs to be kept warm when charging (this is not a bad assumption for everything other than 120V/15A charging, but may not be correct for low-power charging).

3) The power required to keep the battery warm in near-zero (Fahrenheit) temperatures is nearly the same as the maximum continuous power available from a 120V/15A outlet (1.44kW, because the maximum continuous load is only 80% of the maximum load), at least initially.

The firmware probably needs to be tweaked for cold-weather, low-power charging. The firmware needs to know how to estimate state of charge when the battery is colder than normal. It could probably prioritize charging ahead of heating until the battery reaches a higher state of charge.
Are people really still writing these silly articles? Is it 2009 again?

Author does not know the difference between a caching layer, a transactional RDBMS, and distributed non-structured data store.

NoSQL is not ACID, any database NoSQL/RDBMS can be slow when not designed properly, caching is great when you can, and of course not enough people read documentation, only sensationalist trollop like this.
It's probably subjective. I've always found capitalisation makes scanning harder.

VB was one of my early languages, and I recall trying to find a way to turn off VB capitalisation way-back-when when I was developing in it.

But it might be odd to me. Whenever I see a directory of C with a CVS directory, I feel a brief tension from all the shouting.
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LowEndBox is a great site, but the hosts that tend to advertise there are ran by kids (literally).

It is also the recommended go to spot that is linked from a lot of "hack forums" for information on where to find VPS providers who don't have solid abuse handling in place yet.
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Every problem is a people problem. Managing managers (stakeholders, whatever) is just the same. We "fixers" tend to think that what we're really doing is fixing a problem or building a new thing, but that's rarely how the people hiring us look at it. They're the star of their own show (just like we're the star of ours), and they are doing it for their own reasons. Often those reasons have to do with feeling good about their contribution, looking good at work, leaving a mark, as you say, or CYA, etc.

If you don't understand that, and don't want to deal with it, then being a consultant or employee is a bad career choice!
It varies. Baseball fans I think would look at advertising on uniforms as distasteful if not disrespectful, but soccer fans don't seem to mind. Context matters, and that goes for stadium naming rights. In Newcastle, efforts to rename a stadium ran into significant opposition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_James_Park#Renaming_of_the_s...
You have to test, or you can't know how kids are doing. Maybe the tests need to be changed, but saying testing at all is the problem is wrong. You must test if you want to improve outcomes, otherwise you're just twiddling knobs with no idea how they're affecting the kids.
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I'm the same, I watch a lot of anime because it sparks some great thoughts. What if the world was like X, what if we could do this, why is this like that etc. It gets me questioning a lot of things. It definitely gets my imagination going a lot more then reality shows like you said. ( although I do enjoy mellowing out and watching them every now and then )
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Many developers think they know the solution to a problem before understanding the problem. They jump to the solution, so to speak. This is exactly what HN has been doing about Excel the last few days... if you want to replace Excel, spend a year building models in it, then you'll see how it's harder to replace than teaching someone development.
Well, I could not resist testing it and I received many results.
Now corrected. Thank you both for pointing this out. Just asleep at the switch, since I hope I know at least that much after years of studying this stuff.
You mean array formula (the {=....} jazz). Matrix functions refer to functions like MINVERSE
Copy and pasting the same snippet of generic polite text is excusable, but what can possibly explain the lack of context? Surely you'd only need to glance at the past activity on the ticket (ie, your own emails that you just sent a couple days ago) to avoid giving the same stupid, useless response.

It's either a poorly-programmed robot, or a human acting very much like one.
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If the order is secret, than how do you know how it will ultimately be worded? And if the subject is so clear cut as you are trying to let it look, than why was it impossible to pass it through a more democratic process?

Executive orders are a clear signal, that a President is unable to get a majority of delegates behind a specific agenda point. We have seen over and over again that under the cover of good intentions bad things are sneaked upon the public - and presidential orders are the ideal tool to accomplish this.
This is because Windows has moved to modern file system organization concepts, keeping data for users within the user accounts and not in the global file space. Why are your photos in c:\photos? Why do you organize your files like it's 1995?

You'll find that that left tree is useful if you flow with the design of Windows rather than fighting against it. Desktop is meant to be an easily visible place for short-term storage of working documents. Recent Places is pretty smart about remembering frequently used local and network locations. My Photos / My Documents are totally useful if you actually put things there like the system is designed to do.

If you insist on drilling down to that hard drive navigation, don't blame the software for yourself deciding to break past the abstraction.
I often find that a simple way to make a manager feel like they have control and have made a good decision, is to make one version of something that is obviously inferior and one that you like. The manager can then exert his creative vision by choosing the good one. It is a bit of a risky play since there is a chance the manager could choose the terrible one :P
I agree, I'm rooting for Google and would just like them to fix their customer support.

I get that they can't profitably provide any kind of support for, say, Google Groups. As we like to say around here, if you don't pay them, then you're the product and you can't expect good service. But once they start moving into markets where you pay them money, the bar is higher. In this case, I'm the customer and their support is by far the worst customer experience of my life. Worse than the time a US Airways stewardess took my carry-on bag off the plane before take-off without telling me.
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That can't be it because the business version has a 2GB limit as well. That's too small to store Windows, OS X, Debian, or FreeBSD DVD images.

The "enterprise" version has a 5GB per-file limit which would meet my needs - for now - but surely they're not expecting a single user to purchase an enterprise account.
So, 6 months until the TDE (Test-Driven Excel) book comes out?
When I was an engineer at Google, most Googlers tended to handle the email the same way. And of course, all 50k+ employees used the same Gmail and Google Groups as you and me.

I absolutely loved the system, and I've convinced my startups and organizations use solely Google Groups to communicate as well. Especially as an engineer in a company with thousands of simultaneous projects, it was extremely helpful to have a searchable archive of every conversation or set of meeting notes that was relevant to something I was working on.

The legal liabilities, however, that this system could obviously bring up, as greggman mentioned, are an entirely different conversation.
If that's a criteria for language selection, might as well all go with Chinese :)
Yes, it gets tiring servicing so many fine ladies
I seem to remember Cambridge Medical School students learning Latin. Can anyone confirm?
Sports is a funny business - depending on the market, you could lose every game and still make tons of money. Some teams just have huge demand for tickets + tv and wont ever stop.
That's a pretty cool idea, actually.
Admittedly I'm not swimming in data. So it could certainly be suggestion or selective reporting or whatever else.

All I was really trying to point out was that there are clearly different 'states' of high: introspective (to the point of paranoia), inquisitive, giggly, zoned, etc.

Just as there are different states of drunk: 'tipsy', 'hyper-active', 'depressed', 'blotto', etc.

So just as not everyone who hits a beer bong is going to streak across the quad to the gymnasium, not everyone who gets high is going to necessarily question the universe nor necessarily sit on the couch and watch the world pass by.

You can't gauge marijuana from the actions of a handful of stoners any more than you can gauge alcohol from the actions of a handful of stumbling drunks.
"Slightly better" is a subjective assertion. Especially in the webdev world where the pace of design and functionality improvements tend to move so fast. Granted, you may display the same/similar information in a text-only page, such as your example. But you won't be engaging users much or creating a site that people will want to see & return to, which is where the money that is spent on webdev work generally comes from.
What is UPS's response? Seems you should talk to the carrier if it's stated that it's "on truck for delivery" and ask for their explanation?
Are you saying that they weren't testing before? That the grades I received all throughout school meant nothing, because they weren't controlled by the government?

We had a measure of how kids were doing: The report card.

To me, that's what this gentleman is asking for. A return to previous teaching standards, not teaching to some standard written & defined at a government level by people who don't teach.
How do we know you're not a robot? We're going to need you to complete this series of captchas...
You may be interested in http://www.mobiperf.com/. Most of their data is available for research purposes, and there are many researchers who have used this for their tests.
the problem is that excel is a very versatile swiss army knife and that any replacement has to be flexible.

It's actually not particularly hard to build the individual components (I put this together in a weekend:

http://niggler.github.com/js-xls/

http://niggler.github.com/js-xlsx/

(pure-JS in-browser parsing of simple xls and xlsx files)

but it is hard to match the workflows.
What's your affiliation with Request Tracker?
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I used Go for the Distributed Systems course at UIUC. Assignments can be written in any language, but programming help is only provided for Java/C/C++. 4/~80 people used Go.

It was very enjoyable. The networking package abstracts some of the cruft of the underlying C libraries, and with the RPC package I didn't have to worry about serialization and dispatching.
The more general answer is that cell updates could just keep going forever, never settling down, or at least taking a long time to settle down. There isn't a good one-size-fits-all way to resolve this. Plus, these sorts of structures are most likely typos by the people writing the spreadsheets.

The more specific answer is that Excel performs a topological sort on the cell dependency graph in order to update cells in an efficient order.

Edit: as someone else has pointed out, if you really want cycles, there's an option to tell Excel how to terminate computation for your particular infinite loop use case.
This series of articles is just screaming for a Bayesian approach, rather than this ad hoc approach.
I saw that too, if you click through you get a very odd slideshow of various celebrities (including SpongeBob Squarepants) with a small quote next to them of what they liked in school.

TLDR It's a click magnet to drive pageviews.
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Great read but needs a better title; it sounds like the subject line of spam.
It's almost as if a query language is a good way to query a relational database... Hmm.
You cannot get very detailed information about a package (tracking number) unless you are the shipper. Google would have to inquire with UPS about the tracking number.

UPS support will generally only parrot the same information you can get through tracking it on their website.
> I see no reason not to switch over from dropbox

First thing I did was check for local syncing abilities on the various platforms: no luck on the Linux front, although they seem to offer WebDAV access — a far cry from a syncing solution such as Dropbox or AeroFS.
Teacher: "Measuring results is the reason we are recording poor results."
spyder is correct, the x264 graph was mislabeled. I've updated the label. It should have read "Frames per Second" not "Seconds". However, the mp3 and flac graphs are correctly labeled. DigitalOcean still outperforms Linode on mp3 and flac, but that's probably (guessing) because the processer are not waiting for the disk and the x264 encoding is using multiple cores where mp3 and flac encoding is only using one core.
This is old news but still beautiful.
It's possible to turn on circular calculations and to limit the number of iterations at a global level (I've never seen it limited at a local level), which could be used as recursion to some extent. I think it would be quite rare to find a case where circular calculations would be a better solution than doing the same thing in a macro, writing a custom function or finding a closed form solution.

The biggest problem with circular calculations is that they may not converge fast enough (before the limit is reached), and if the output is important that's not a good feature to have.
Any teacher worth half their salt will know how well the kids are doing.

It takes literally 30 seconds of looking at a piece of student writing, for example, to have a pretty accurate assessment of their writing ability.

The problem is that we assume we need to test students, and not teachers.

If teaching is the problem, why are we testing students?

We don't blame bad code on the users, do we?

The second problem with your statement, is the unanswered question of who is doing the testing, and who is fiddling with the knobs. Not an easy question, but one that can't be ignored.
I was about to post complaining that releasing a 2.3.x and releasing a 3.0.x was against their recently announced policy, but I thought I would double check and found that 3.0.x isn't covered for "Severe security issues".

Aside from the fact that this seems rather strange (to say the least), I'm guessing a lot of other people misread the policy too and simply assumed that 3.0.x would be patched if 2.3.x was.
While I agree with most if not all of what was said in this piece I think there is something it misses on completely. While this is my opinion I believe it to be true.

Our schooling systems have there faults, large ones, but they are NOT the main issue. I firmly believe that any student who wants to learn will learn. Students have to WANT to do well. The way our society has (progressed?) over the last few decades this drive to do well has pretty much evaporated. Since probably after WW2.

IDK if this is still the case but when i was in HS some 6-7 years ago i came into the start of "No Child Left Behind". We had the standardized tests, the passing grade was 30%. Students still failed, and these students were still allowed to progress to the next level. While I understand these baselines were increased this is still very shocking.

In another example of rewarding failure we have sports, where we hand out trophies no matter the placing. This could not be further from reality where everything we do is base on our performance. We have to let our youths fail so that they can strive to improve and to do/be better.

So long as we promote failure our school systems will never get better, because as much as it is the teachers and the system behind them it is up to each student to want to learn. More today then ever there is no excuse, with the internet and its practically infinite resources information is never more then a few seconds away. If a student wants to learn they can, teacher/no teacher and school/no school. But the students have to WANT to learn and be/do better.
Yes, the fact that Obama can't get consent from the Republican-controlled House of Representatives is a sure sign that he's up to no good.
I find myself unmoved by the argument "if you have standarized tests we won't have time to teach anything but what's on the tests".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule
Interesting. Haven't seen these issues at my kids' school. In fact, I just saw a grade yesterday on a report that was specifically broken down with points for grammar and structure. My boy told me earlier in the quarter a project that was partly graded on critical thinking and argument skills (regardless of the "answers" arrived at).

This isn't for me to say that their school must be better, but just to say that it's obviously not as impossible as this plea would have one think to teach the way that teachers think is right.
This sucks.

Google is an engineering company, but one has to believe that they wouldn't purposefully engineer a robot to be this foolish. I have to believe it's actually people you're dealing with, people who have been programmed to behave like computers (YOU MUST PASTE THIS AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH EMAIL).

It's frankly too banal and too non-sensical to be a robot programmed by Google; but in a way, a programmed customer service employee in a call center is a bit of a robot.

We should consider the impact repeated nonsense has on a persons ability to deal with situations in a fashion beyond rote memorization. We should consider the impact of dehumanizing folks in call centers. Google should try to understand how unique human interactions can make a contact center/email experience that much easier, instead of dehumanizing these moments for the sake of expediency.
Yes. The more different languages (and frameworks) someone has to know, the harder it is to hire them. If you hire people who only know the language of one small part of your system, they can't help out on other parts during emergencies and there will be difficulties adding new parts (which language do you use, or which existing part do you steal developers from). If you hire people who know one language and train them in the rest, the more languages there are the more that training will cost.
I've read somewhere that playing high frequencies (at a reasonable volume) which resonate with the tinnitus frequency can re-align the misfiring of the eardrum hairs causing the problem. Worth a shot. An app I made where you can generate a sine wave and set the frequency: http://sourceforge.net/projects/originalsynth/

If it's any consolation, almost all professional musicians and myself included suffer from this.
I used to program in VB/VBA and switched to Python several years ago. As the other person who replied notes, 'visual cleanliness' is subjective, but I vastly prefer looking at Python to looking at VB/VBA, and I immediately began to prefer it on learning Python, despite having programmed in VB for several years previous.

Part of it is that you can communicate the same information with fewer tokens and in less space. My eyes don't have to jump around as much to figure out what's going on.
I've used Excel Bloomberg plugins before and I can vouch for their power and frequent use in the financial industry.
A few things:

(1) Code reuse, or lack thereof.

(2) Multiplication of surface area for things like security bugs... now you have five different stacks to keep track of security updates for instead of just one.

(3) Multiplication of deployment resources-- now you need multiple VMs, maybe multiple instances with different stacks to run them on, etc.

(4) Developers can't pinch-hit for each other unless they know every damn stack in the world.

(5) If you sell, God help whoever has to support that stuff in your new organization.
He can't give individual attention to 160 students. If only every student had a personal mentor/advocate who could coach them to understand what to focus on in high school and what to let slide, someone who could argue with them at the dinner table until they developed a better ability to structure their thoughts, someone who could give then better material on writing than their school's text books or test preparatory guides. If only some parents could step up and help this poor teacher out a bit...
You could code this with Python 2.x (may also be able to get it working with 3.0-3.2), matplotlib, and xlrd. You get professional, highly configurable plots in vector format, but of course give up the interactivity of Excel charts.
>The problem is that we assume we need to test students, and not teachers.

>If teaching is the problem, why are we testing students?

And, err, how do you propose to test teachers?
[Disclaimer: I worked for Bit9 several years ago]

While I agree that it's an awful PR spin, it's actually likely that the product would have stopped the attack. I don't know any of the details, but usually these sorts of things are a result of an APT. At the very least, it's likely that some executable was written to disk. In that case, Bit9's product would have prevented the attack.

If it were an active hacker that didn't rely on writing an executable to disk for privilege escalation, then all bets are off.