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I don't know if I am missing a setting, but here on Windows, it feels a bit like TextAdept is fighting a loosing battle with ClearType (as in, I almost feel I should be wearing 3D glasses).

On the wiki there was only one other theme available for the latest 6.3 release, so I tried an older Solarized theme, but TA crashes when I try to load it.

I feel having to press a keyboard shortcut to bring up the auto-complete menu is a step back in productivity compared to ST, but the built-in API help is a nice idea.
It was introduced during the Microsoft Techdays'13 in Paris two weeks ago. Its nice to see Microsoft playing nicely with the standards body and the other browsers.

Their proposed API looks like a step forward from the iOS touchevent proposal.
Well it certainly gets him some celebrity, as if he were in need of any more. It seems Linus Torvalds lashes out on someone every month, and it's probably not an attitude that makes people want to cooperate with him. Or are they used to it by now?
Can anyone explain or share a link explaining what was a high level purpose of the RedHat patch? (besides winning the contest, because I understand there was no such thing)
How often do you sit in front of a computer without X11 or another graphical interface? Many people don't edit any remote files.

And when you do, you don't need to run the editor on the machine where the file lies. What's missing is a nice integration of ssh into the editors.
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Out of all of the articles that I've read regarding weight loss, none seem to refute that: lowering calorie intake, and some moderate exercise will result in healthier body.

If you want to reach a certain aesthetic then that's fine, but as far as I know the "obesity problem" is more about a persons health and well being, not being aesthetically pleasing.

So we can sit here and point fingers at what diet is best or whether or not we should cut fats out of our diet, but at the end of the day the true issue is simply people do not have the will to exercise, and they either do not have funds or the will to eat a healthy amount of calories.
Nitpicking delivery is much easier than commenting on content, particularly when the person in question has a reputation of being unrelentingly pragmatic at the expense of artificially polite diplomacy.
Richard Thaler just had this op-ed in the NYT on ways to reduce costs, talking some about tort reform: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/business/overcoming-obstac...;

I'm skeptical about tort reform as a panacea. However, lawsuits are incredibly expensive, and so doctors take steps that we would otherwise call economically unreasonable to avoid them.

The amount of tort reform I think is really necessary is whatever would allow me to set up a private equivalent to the UK's NHS here. If someone thinks they are getting denied care that they deserve to have, the decision needs to be very cheap to adjudicate.
Maybe that's also the ultimate proof of him having chosen the wrong words.
sorry for the waiting, here it is:

https://blog.paymill.com/2013/02/25/customer-feedback-on-our...
You are wrong. Too much energy dense food makes you fat.
Fat will make you fat if you overeat (because the fatty acid molecules from your food will be stored in your fat cells). It's not as easy as "more carbs" = obesity epidemic. There are many more factors, most important being inactivity and overconsumption of food.
The carbohydrate hypothesis is very clearly Bullshit:
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.de/2011/08/carbohydrate-hy...

When people go on a low carb diet they:
a. restrict their food intake by restricing their choices (less processed foods if you exclude a massiv part of "
b. increase protein intake (protein has a higher thermic effect than any other macronutrient and drastically cuts down total kcal consumption in ad lib feeding trials by reducing appetite)

You can do something similar with a low fat diet (on which another part of the population will feel better - skewed towards more active and leaner people).

Low carb (whatever that means - not clearly defined) isn't a better choice for your health than a mixed diet with a high(er) protein intake. If it works for you: great.
But that doesn't mean calories don't count and carbohydrates/insulin cause obesity. Nor that it works for everyone.
> "and same as in the other 2 a lot of the discussion here is again about his choice of his words instead about the content"

Yes, and this is an important lessons to people who underestimate the importance of communicating effectively. If you walked onto the stage at the Oscars wearing assless chaps, you can hardly blame people when they can't remember what your thank-you speech was about.

Similarly, when you throw around ad hominems about your opponent performing fellatio on a competitor, you cannot blame people when the discussion recenters around it.
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Here's the deal which I see - this isn't what anyone here is making it out to be.

It's a wide strategy with its real target a set of managers. I'll bet money on it.

The secondary benefits and even the primary touted reason are great things to have, but they aren't the main goal.

This is based on what I'm seeing from looking at CEO in a non tech firm doing.

The aim of a new report or designation being created so far has is always aimed at getting and succeeding to get, multiple targets achieved, with the real target being buried somewhere inside and discrete.
Thanks to everyone for feedback, we really appreciate your input! We have compiled a blog post to answer your questions:

https://blog.paymill.com/2013/02/25/customer-feedback-on-our...

Best,
Dominic
You don't think it's offensive that sexual acts traditionally associated with women are considered inherently derogatory?
Precisely. YouTube was, is, and probably always will be a terrible investment.
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I'm not sure if this is true, but I heard that in some parts of China you only pay for health care when you are healthy because when you are not health care failed.

Ofcourse this raises a lot of questions about responsibility. But in our society health care is making money when people are unhealthy. That is an unhealthy situation.
> I think Linus Torvalds may be the next Steve Jobs.

Let Linus be Linus, and Jobs be Jobs. We don't need to classify people as "the next [insert name]". Not least because it does them both a disservice; Linus is in a very different position from Jobs, and admirable for completely different (but occasionally overlapping) reasons, and his merits and demerits are his own.
From seeing the results of the flames it appears most people are used to it now, which I can't decide is completely horrific or not.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to troll you.

You asked about multi-line lambdas in python and I gave you a valid Python syntax for multi-line anonymous functions. Here is PEP 202, which simply says list comprehensions are more concise than for loops and map/filter etc.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0202/

RE: accounts - I delete all of my accounts on social websites once a year.
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>>The content is right there, for the taking. So I take it. If it weren't there, I wouldn't take it. (Duh.) How's that "entitled" activity? Are you that obtuse, or are you just trolling?

You know, seeing this level of sophistry in a post on Hacker News is fucking embarrassing.

"If it weren't there, I wouldn't take it." Are you fucking kidding me. Most human beings have their thought process extend a little further than this, but apparently not you. Mindlessly pirating content and not thinking about its moral implications is just a lot more convenient, right? And when people call you out on your fucking bullshit, just put the blame on the content provider for not making it available to you - even though it is, you know, their fucking content and their fucking choice.
"Your Black Swan idea"? I hope they realise that...

spoiler

...she dies at the end.
HN sure is one hell of a sampling bias, but it would seem everyone here has impostor syndrome.

I think one important factor to feeling like you're an impostor who doesn't belong is being among others who are smarter and more experienced than you.
Same here (Mondays and Wednesdays), much better than coming to the office everyday IMO.
No, not at all. Serving meals makes it much easier to convince your team to go to lunch together (though many folks will eat at their desks, PLEASE DISCOURAGE THIS). Lunching together with your team frequently is the single best benefit of a company that offers cafes for employees. It's one of the ways non-urgent but important information propagates around an organization.
"The high-level view is this: Microsoft wants to ensure that nobody can run unapproved software on their home computers. As a first step toward this nightmare, they bullied computer makers into shipping a bootloader signature system that could potentially prevent people from running GNU/Linux. Red Hat, a multibillion dollar GNU/Linux distributor, decided to play along and got a special signing key from Microsoft. Linus apparently does not want to play along (and I commend him for it)."

Taken right from the comments on the linked article:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3492573&cid=43...
> .. and that most of the "software development is So Sexist!" people are non-engineers looking for an excuse to be outraged.

You should tell that to the DevChix mailing list. I agree that the "dick-sucking" comment is non-gendered, but don't for a second think that there isn't sexism in this industry.
Feynman is not talking about subvocalization in that video.

He's talking about seeing and hearing. According to psychology, humans have two sets of "short-term memorybuffers"; spatio-visual, and auditory. It is perfectly possible to do two tasks at once, as long as you use different "buffers". Like juggling and singing.

But to be able to comprehend text, it needs to go through the linguistic centre. It doesn't matter if it goes through the spatio-visual or auditory sensors. Subvocalization is created by the linguistic centre.

Simple words or numbers do not need to go through the linguistic centre. So it is perfectly possible to comprehend text and at the same time count if you "see"/"hear" text and "hear"/"see" counting. But you cannot comprehend two advanced texts at once.
I wouldn't say plenty - succeeding while working on a startup part-time is definitely the exception, and not the rule. I would love to hear some examples of those successful founders who succeeded while working part-time on their venture.
"Recology, a waste-management company based in San Francisco, is working with the city of San Francisco to help it become the country's first zero-waste city - in a scant seven years."

Why do people (and journalists) fall for this PR trick? Great, they are trying to tackle the problem of garbage. Are they going to transform the behavior of people, business, industry, and change a major element of urban infrastructure in 7 years? No way! Why even bother writing this as the first paragraph of the article? I feel like I'm being lied to by a sleazy ad man, rather than being told an interesting story.
ERs are expensive for two reasons:

1. You are paying for a standing army. 1 hour of scheduled doctor time is much different than 1 hour of doctor time ready to deploy in an instant.

2. The ERs need to cover all the non-paying clients.

These two items probably feed on each other.

Emergency departments are about 1% of total health care costs. They can be a good indicator of other symptoms that are wrong (medical billing is a maze, on purpose[1]), but fixing it won't really address health care costs.

[1] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/22/how-hospita...
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> "And it's not really offensive"

Wait, someone using crude, derogatory language to describe someone else is not offensive? Describing your opponent as wanting to deep-throat a competitor is merely impolite now?

How socially clueless are we around here?

I'm so very sick and tired of the apologists here. Our industry is known for prima donnas who are constantly at each others throats, with no semblance of civility whatsoever. We are the only industry I've ever seen where we take pride in being callous, insensitive, and deliberately terrible to each other.

All under the guise of "not playing by The Man's rules".
We need Lightspeed to be successful in its battle against the entrenched internet carriers. We're not using Satellite communications correctly as yet.
The old "No True Vim User", eh?

As in: "No TRUE vim user would think any other program was better!"
Back when he was alive, Milton Friedman did a study of the costs of health care in the US from 1900 to the 1970s. (I think the first study was in the 1970s, and it was updated in the 1990s)

What he found was that the funding mechanism of health care over that time had shifted from patients paying out of pocket to government paying hospitals and government incentivized (by making it a tax write off for employers) and regulated (by preventing efficient pools of insured with state-by-state regulations) insurance.

Consequently, not only did the availability of health care go down, but the costs went up 26fold.

Or put another way, despite massive improvements in technology, medicine and productivity over 70+ years, costs skyrocketed from what you could afford out of pocket to what would bankrupt you. To put it in 2013 dollars, if you hypothesize a $100,000 surgery, in 1970[1] it would cost you $100,000, and you'd need insurance or go bankrupt, but in 1900 it would have cost you $3,846 (an amount you could put on credit cards today.)

Command economies don't work, and the change in health care over the last century has been a centralization in control. I with Obamacare this has dramatically ramped up and now there are boards to decide who gets what care based on cost measures, rather than medical need.

Whenever someone talks about the need for socialized medicine because "otherwise people would go bankrupt", remember it is the socialization of medicine that caused costs to rise to the point where people would go bankrupt.

[1] The study was originally done in the 1970s, but I'm using 2013 dollars here so you can understand how cheap things would have been.
Oh god. What the hell does "clean" mean. That's orthorexic nonsense. Unprocessed foods can be very helpful, but they aren't magically different kcal, If you eat too much potatoes and nuts (instead of cake) you'll still gain the same amount of fat (controlling for fiber and protein energy loss).
http://www.wannabebig.com/diet-and-nutrition/the-dirt-on-cle...

Regarding fructose:
http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-ab...
http://weightology.net/?p=434

Gluten is extremism overhyped, but sensitivity to it can be a problem.
As I was reading this article, I used the SpeakIt! Chrome Extension[1] with the native voice setting to gauge how fast the quoted speeds actually are.

For me, 800 wpm was about the limit of how fast I could read while still understanding most of it. That's the '4x' setting. The '2x' setting is 400 wpm, which based on the article and my experience is a good target reading speed.

It's not entirely perfect because the rhythm imposed by the text-to-speech engine is not optimal for fast reading – it pauses when you don't need a pause and powers through complex sections, but I found it an interesting exercise nonetheless.

Lately I do most of my reading by listening to audiobooks. The last two books I read, I experimented with the 2x speed setting on the iPhone. It took a few minutes to get used to, but now I can't recommend it highly enough. Now I can get through audiobooks in half the time and I've totally adjusted to the butchered sound quality.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speakit/pgeolalili...
That's the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
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Kernel drama, will this be on TMZ?

It elicits the same emotional knee-jerk response, just don't.
Food companies aren't poisoning people either. People are poisoning themselves.

You can make the case that these "poisonous" snack foods are so appealing because they are cheap, because the government only gives subsidies to agriculture used in making junk food, but that's a stretch & still assumes there are no other options (like eating healthier or eating less).
You're shifting the argument. Sure you should, in some cases,[1] use probabilities to determine your belief about whether something happened or not. That's precisely what the court says in the second paragraph. Your beef was ostensibly with the wording of the first paragraph, but as I pointed out that when talking about things that have happened in the past, the wording is not incorrect.

[1] Of course you also shouldn't sometimes use probabilities. If we have statistics saying that witnesses lie 15% of the time, is it helpful to present expert testimony to the effect of "there is a 15% probability the witness is lying?" Such evidence is not useful and also impinges on the fundamental right of the jury to judge witness credibility.
I suspect that the high concept musicians of our era will not be the ones that are remembered. John Williams or (shudder) Andrew Lloyd Weber perhaps will, and they dodn't need to die to receive recognition. Those unacknowledged geniuses composing difficult music will be obscure footnotes.
I agree, Though I'm more at issue with the contradiction. Getting more people into the startup pack increases my odds?

That's just insulting.
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"It is hardly a war if only one side is doing all the murdering, incarcerating and driving people into exile."

Losing a war doesn't make it not a war.

So you're arguing that Communists don't do exactly the same thing when they take power?
Any one of us could go off on a diatribe on why DHH is right or wrong (and some of us have) but I think this issue is actually much simpler and we're missing something crucial here.

Whether remote work is a good practice or not is besides the point. I'd say, when done intelligently, it's a great thing. But don't you think Mayer knows that already? The bottom line here is that Mayer has to take a floundering company and turn it around. There must be something going within Yahoo! that makes this decision the right one. Yeah, there's going to be some blowback from employees and the media but at the end of the day it wouldn't be surprising if Mayer is reading all these articles and saying "Oh if you only knew what remote work is doing to this company...".

Remote work as far as I'm concerned is a great thing - but it's probably hurting Yahoo! more than helping right now. I wouldn't be surprised to see Mayer turn this thing around and reinstate the remote work policy when the dust settles.

It's easy to play armchair CEO, especially if you're a CEO, but what DHH is saying is basically "remote work is working for us therefore it should work for others". Well, it's great that it works for 37Signals but Yahoo! is a different beast and Mayer is not an idiot. It seems like she's willing to take some damage now to avoid a catastrophe down the line.
For all intensive purposes, Python and Ruby are practically equivalent. So equivalent, in fact, that we have to find absolutely pointless differences to argue about since there are no actual significant differences worth mentioning.

No one is against anyone. Python is great. Some people dislike whitespace restrictions. Who cares? Just because they dislike a characteristic of your preferred language does not mean they think it's lesser or are trying to demean or belittle it in any way. Stop arguing about it already.

As you said, "Stop living in a paranoia bubble and think everyone is against you."
exactly what i will be doing from March onwards, just got the keys :)
I think they're probably referring to Taleb's concept of black swan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory)
You are still looking for one after reading that article?
It doesn't solve everything but it should help to simplify matters greatly.

What would help too is ubiquitous electronic records management, e.g., any records from a visit with one doctor should be usable by the patient at another doctor.

Add to that cheaper testing and more AI / self-help and that should take it even further.

Lastly, kill the corn lobby and get some real sense into people about how their diet and lifestyle directly impact their health. What percentage of US healthcare costs are going towards diabetes and any related illnesses? And what percentage of that is directly related to obesity and a sedentary lifestyle?
Craigslist in '95 another example.
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I'm curious about how groups have successfully installed sensor networks around a city. Assume that money isn't the issue--you've got 1,000 sensors bought and paid for, and now you want to place them in public areas. What's an effective way to go about this?
You are deliberately misinterpreting to get some pity and avoid the hard work of changing what you can control.
Life is not black or white. Women do have very similar problems to men. With your attitude you'll just filter out the people that will treat you like shit (because you expect them to treat you that way).
That is very cool, and it's something that will only get better if the Apple-proposed modules get widespread.
Maybe she knew she was making it wrong but did it anyway.
The debate about form is about better vs worse, not about right vs wrong. The only way they would be the wrong words is if they deliver the wrong message, but I think pretty much everyone understood the message alright.
I did smile here especially when I saw an explicit example directly above it that too.

Should have required JSON posting data then just given the example of curl --data "postInfo" url

regardless awesome idea!
>>I think that it's probably easier for women to feel this way. More specifically, I think it's probably easier for men to shed these feelings. As a guy, there are a lot of social opportunities as a CS student; from clubs to just friends.

More importantly, in male-dominated fields men receive praise and validation much more easily than women do, which makes it easier for them to get over their impostor syndrome. For women the situation is quite different. I work for a private software company and our owner and CEO is female. She once explained it like this: women in tech are not taken seriously until after they have become successful.
The problem is that anything could have much more mindshare. WebOS has negative mindshare; a new product built from the ground up with modern technology actually has a better chance of success (and indeed, that's likely to happen).
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