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I went to public school. The tribalism existed there in full force. One just had to look around the lunch room to see all the blacks at one table, all the asians at another, all the whites at their own tables further subdivided by various labels.
The technologies are different, but the argument that bad things will come of technological advance is always the same. Luddites are nothing new, and just as their argument is the product of a deep-seated fear of the unknown, so too is yours.

When civilizations fail, they do not fail because of technological advancement. I challenge you to name an example which did.
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"These two theories describe the exact same behavior"

I disagree. One of them is about long-term passion for a goal. One of them is about social inability.

It's quite possible to have both at the same time. It's quite possible to have just one. It's quite possible to have neither. They are not the same thing.
What's the difference whether your kernel doesn't boot due to signature checks or due to lack of essential drivers?
For everyone who thinks doing a startup is hard. THIS is hard. At least in a startup you have no legacy customers or revenues to worry about.
If it has a UPC, Amazon will beat you. Amazon is already in the business with "Subscribe and Save".

The dollar shave club may be sustainable because they have managed to make no-name blades appealing through a viral video.
Well. Not until you get customers.
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Thanks! I have this assumption that SV is both cheaper and nicer to live for a family than SF. Cheaper rents, nicer homes and better schools. Is that correct? For my family, I actually prefer suburbia to the hustle and bustle of a city...
I have been using a single 30" monitor as my main display since 2005. I love it. Only problem is having to adjust whenever working on another system (also been using it with a standing desk since 2008).

I split the screen space up into conveniently sized tiles most of the time. Most often using only half the monitor width at most (like two 1280x1600 monitors side by side, but no bezel line in the middle). But occasionally using the full screen real estate for one program is really nice.
Relevance ranking. Not sure how valuable it is at this scale, but it seems worth a try.
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But that is NOT an apprentice that is a Technician (aka Associate professional) doing the a traditional day release course (ONC/HNC/BTEC) for Technicians which is how I came into IT.

Clever apprentices would only go on to do this after doing there 4/5 years.

And ok my BTEC was a some what specialized one (mech eng with Thermofluids) but we looked down on the "apprentices" form the local Garages.

Though I suspect (borrowing John Cleses line) alowing "jumped up F%^&*ing Caterers" to devalue the term that fight is lost.
"... the academic experience of being in a classroom, and interacting live with students and teachers ... "

What does it do the the argument that traditional hybrid schools started granting credentials to online students who don't do any of the above about a decade ago? I graduated from a regional college in a program like that almost a decade ago. You can't even tell from transcript, much less the diploma, that I took systems analysis online vs in person.

Also I suppose it depends on the level of your fellow students, but before I switched to mostly online, I took plenty of classroom classes, and I found that most lively discussions and debate were either students who didn't bother doing the reading and didn't mind displaying their ignorance very inconveniently and publicly, didn't have the horsepower to figure it out, or were trying to get into heaven by stubbornly insisting on some religious interpretation.

If merely making kids talk to each other resulted in brilliance, then discussions at bars, parties, and on facebook would be worthwhile... but they just aren't, not even close. I mean, realistically, what fraction of 19 year olds have anything to say worth hearing, especially about esoteric advanced topics, and then whats the odds of having one of those people in your class (pretty low, indeed). Frankly even after completing the class and doing pretty well, more than a decade later I still don't have anything intelligible to say about diffeqs or bode stability plots.
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>How does this prediction jibe with the statement that a larger sensor will always be beneficial, especially in low light?

Even though larger sensors will be beneficial, at some point the small sensor will be good enoug for 99% of consumers, though professionals will still prefer the larger sensor.

>Will smartphones be able to include much larger sensors in the future?

Perhaps, like Nokia pureview did - however that phone is slightly larger than the average smartphone.

>Is there some new physics that obviates the need for a large sensor?

No, but technology will advance so that small sensors will be sufficiently good to 99% of consumers. There's progress in sensor technology ever year. There's also progress on the processor side, which has been/is apparently a bottleneck, as new processors in DSLR cameras enable better image quality (take for example DIGIC processors).
Arguably both Gates and Zuckerberg got rich by starting a company -- there are plenty of Microsoft and Facebook programmers that didn't get rich, and plenty of CEOs of tech companies that earned money without writing a single line of code. I'm somewhat dubious that learning to program is what makes people successful at starting innovative business the way Gates and Zuckerberg did.

> Yeah you could be a writer and write a novel people love, or a painter, etc. But none of these things pay particularly well.

For a few it does; Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, E.L. James -- they're all millionaires. Not quite billionaires like Gates or Zuckerberg, but rich nonetheless. By comparison, the vast majority of writers aren't rich, but neither are the vast majority of programmers.

Yea, "you could get rich by coding", but learning to code in order to get rich is about as sound of a strategy as playing the lottery.
So I'll agree with many of the commentators that several of the practices suggested aren't 'ideal.' However, they are easy and possibly better than having no 'practice' at all.

Just as an example, the shared user account with unique SSH keys per user. Sure, it's obnoxious in some respects, but many of the criticisms I'm reading in the comments like "but they could reinstate their access with a cron job that re-adds their key when they leave" and such are silly - presumably those who are using the shared account are developers/sysadmins with sudo privileges. Regardless of whether they have a shared account they have privileges to do whatever they feel like to the systems in question. Hence I'd argue it's a fairly reasonable solution for the situation when you don't have the time/resources to configure something more complex and you have to trust all parties anyway.

I think there are two larger takeaways:

First - Managing multiple users across many servers and dev systems is not easy enough, particularly for smaller organizations, and only gets worse when you try to get more granular about who can do what.

Second - umm... no idea anymore. Forgot what was second. Automation is good?
I use this one a lot: "I can't understand what you're saying."

I figure it's closer to showing someone "your attempt at communication has failed" versus telling them "you don't know how to speak".

YMMV.
I agree. I'm hoping some folks that do have this problem weigh in on the discussion. I hope I DO have this problem someday.
I'm already thinking of ways to automate this machine to "print money".

Run a fan at the end of the filament guide. Then, attach a mouse recovered wheel encoder to monitor amount of filament extruded. Then make a simple geared wheel that turns the rate equal to extrusion (with some given slack). You can even stagger it the similar way a yarn winder weaves on the coil, to allow even fill on the spool.

After the circuit monitoring this process indicates the right amount of filament on spool, it kills the system and alerts operator to finish spool prep.

I could probably make a tidy profit if I made 20 machines and undercut filament prices of everyone on the market now. And even charge a bit extra for customized filament color (mixing beadstock would be easy).
I think the biggest problem Ron Johnson faced is that with Apple, the products sell themselves and are exclusive to that retail store. Customers come in not needing to be sold on it... just wanting to see it in person before purchasing since buzz around the launches and commercials do the selling part.

JC Penney however, does not have exclusive products and customers don't necessarily come in knowing what they want to buy but might need to be sold on a product.

That affects pricing as well. Apple can do one price without discounts without a problem since you can't find their products anywhere else for much cheaper, mostly just online retailers without sales tax.

JC Penney's products can be found in many other stores and thus pricing needs to be flexible to draw people in for sales.

Thus the huge drop in sales.
It's especially true with the FBI or any other person connected with the federal government in an investigation. Making false statements is a separate crime in itself. 18 USC § 1001 [1]

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001

[Fascinating article published originally in WSJ] http://ourtaxdollarsatwork.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/federal-...

[How to Avoid Going to Jail under 18 U.S.C. Section 1001 for Lying to Government Agents] http://corporate.findlaw.com/litigation-disputes/how-to-avoi...
you need more too it... What's the wow feature?
This has to happen sooner or later, if for no other reason than the tremendous amount of damage that commuting by automobile is doing to the environment. Commuting is also a huge, inefficient waste of time and a major source of unhappiness and poor health.

Self-driving electric cars and buses will help alleviate this pain point, but electric cars still cause pollution--just at a (often coal-burning) central power plant instead of an internal combustion engine.
Solar panels are nice in that if one fails, you just replace it. That's also why they are not nice; all the upsides and downsides of a disposable unit-based system.

I'm curious where you are getting this "conservative" estimate of 50 years. I typically hear 20 years, 40 years tops.

photovoltaics might be the future, but they aren't the today as best I can tell. They are inefficient, and much like the Prius batteries people like to talk about, are pretty environment-unfriendly to manufacture.
The following is a bit personal, but perhaps your wife has experienced something similar.

Personally -as a male- I always feel a bit embarrassed when buying toilet paper. I know it's just a normal body function, but I still don't like it. I think it has to something with my early youth.

When I was a child my parents had a hard time to learning me to become potty-trained. At some point my mother got sick of it and from what I remember she pushed my face into my own feces. From that moment on I was potty-trained.

I believe a side effect of this experience was that I'm annoyed by defecating myself and I also am really annoyed by for example people farting. It's probably 1 reason why I don't want to have kids (would hate the baby phase), though I would not mind adopting a kid that's potty-trained.

Perhaps your wife has had some traumatic experience related to her menstruation causing this annoyance.
Thanks. I plan to keep working on it. I've been working on it for a bit of time now on the side and finally decided to release it.
Pretty much. Though this particular institution is (IMHO) going to have trouble effectively spending that endowment because of the difficulty of recruiting top-tier faculty willing to live in Saudi Arabia. That's a disadvantage that Tokyo or Amsterdam aren't likely to have, so I'd look elsewhere for a good existence proof.
I feel like this could be terrible press given yesterday - while it's not in any way down to you guys, it definitely won't look good to have two visible downtimes in the space of two days (admittedly, this is just the blog and not other peoples live servers, but it still falls under the same category)
EF really isn't that bad anymore, the 1.0 times were rough but it's gotten much better.

I agree with your your example though, as well as your point about the model/repository being whatever the native ORM interface is. If you're using EF and you REALLY thought you might swap it out later for something else you could always use its POCO mode so you would at least have your business objects intact and reusable.
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This looks awesome.

Does anyone have recommendations for a Node module that'll do WebRTC? I've looked at a few, but would love to get opinions from actual humans who've used them.
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Thanks for the feedback! I really want to turn it into a community where others provide great feedback on their side projects.
Agreed; just saying in general. Also, I would guess the reason they used ERB here is simply familiarity, not any type of reasoned decision.
Thank you for sharing...
Yeah, I've always felt nervous about doing whitelisting (and to some extent, things like fail2ban) for reasons like that. Having a couple of backup hosts / friends with shell-servers listed who you can bounce through might mitigate it somewhat though, whilst still avoiding 90% of the portscans-from-(china|mars) stuff.

One idea I had was to enable something annoying and kooky like port-knocking or OTP pass/connection enabled 'backdoor entrance' for emergencies, but ended up being too lazy, and realised it was just expanding the attack surface.

To my original point, we had an interesting setup for one network where the firewall changes were all manipulated via a script which required the change to be applied, and then confirmed after a short delay with a different command, otherwise after 5 minutes the ruleset would revert to the previous known-working one. It definitely saved some downtime/late night DC trips.
Man, this is kind of a poor article, down to the insinuation that Ron Johnson was the dude who decided to include in-store WiFi. (I say this because the Sears and Nordstrom in my local mall both have free WiFi, and whether its a good thing or a bad thing it certainly isn't causing JCP to hemorrhage money.)

I haven't heard much about Ron's attempts to actually change the retail and storefront look or offerings compared to his attempts to change consumers, which I think is much loftier. The shop that the author describes sounds identical to a JCP store from five years ago -- and sounds identical to all of its competitors today.

I think a much more cogent point (that the author was flirting with, assuredly) is that consumers don't go about buying clothes the same way they go about buying technology. JCP's strategy is to appeal to the rational consumer -- the consumer who sits down and makes a pro-con list for every prospective purchase, the consumer who divorces themselves from such petty things like cheap heuristics and the innate pull of a "THIS WEEKEND ONLY!" sale.

Those consumers might employ such strategies for a $1500 laptop (or a $500 phone), but probably not for a pair of $50 khakis.
JC Penney's hiring of Ron Johnson seemed puzzling to me from the beginning. There are parts of the Apple Store experience that are good (being free and fairly comfortable to look at and try the products for as long as you want.) But there are many parts of it that are totally awful; if it's busy there's no lines to get help you just have to kind of crowd around the nearest employee and wait until they can assist you. If you don't make a Genius Bar appointment days ahead of time; good luck to you. I worked the Service desk at Best Buy for years when I was a teenager, so I know a little about what the job entails, and I have to say the Apple Store experience could be much better than it is. (Not that Best Buy is any good either.)

The point I'm trying to make; Apple's success was not because of the retail store experience. So hiring away Apple's chief of retail operations seemed like a weird move to me. Even with his prior Target experience.

Also, am I the only person on earth who thinks the new JC Penney logo and advertising aesthetic is not only ugly but looks completely amateurish? It's like someone saw that clean, geometric designs were "in", and had no understanding of how to make them actually look good.
The guys at makibox have been tinkering with this idea. I think it is on the back burner until they ship their printers. (per request of printer pre-orderers)

http://makibox.com/details/product/ramen_kit
That would't be "hipster" enough.
Personally, I think the 'no sales' thing could have worked if their prices were lower. The couple of times I've been in a JCPenney since this started everything was depressingly expensive for what it was.

It's one thing to not discount, but it's another to not discount while selling a commodity product for 2x or 3x it's actual value or reasonabl price.

Likewise, I'll concur that the stores still have aesthetic, layout and lighting issues which are getting ignored.

If they had gone for a GAP-like store aesthetic with prices between ROSS and Target with a no-discount policy, I think they'd have not had the same problems.
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I agree: density would be much better.

The screen shot is less important than the description and the discussion. A thumbnail will suffice.
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Note: known issue on Chrome iOS due to issues with cross-window communication inside WebKitView, http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=136610
Installing WiFi may not cause JC Penney to "hemorrhage" money but with 1,107 US stores if you assume a best case cost of say, $500 (and I think that's really optimistic) per store to make WiFi available to the public that's still $500k down the tubes for next to no benefit.

I'm sure the decision was based on this idea that they want people to shop on JCP.com while in the store, and if they can't get a cell signal, obviously they need to have WiFi. But still, the whole thing strikes me as poorly conceived. If I'm in the store, how about making my experience shopping at the store as good as possible and not tell me to pull out my phone to make it work?
Thanks for the feedback. Prior to the current styling, I had a screenshot with title, author, description, etc to the right. I found it cluttered and difficult to read through a list of projects. I'll keep working on it and see if I can find something.
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>TL;DR learn a /scripting/ language relevant to your interests (because you're more likely to stick with it if it interests you), and don't sweat the math until you absolutely have to

Yeah, it's pretty amazing what you can do with a little Ruby, Python, or Javascript, with maybe a year or two of casual study and practice. That's about the level of programming ability that most people should have.

Ideally, some HTML/CSS and SQL on top of that so you can build a basic "full-stack" CRUD app, or customize a basic framework (Rails or similar) app.

That level of knowledge would make millions of non-programmer workers vastly more efficient at their jobs, but there isn't really any need for most people to go any deeper than that.
Sure, but still calling it "Zkombinator" is a bit on the nose.
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>It is easy and cheaper to buy tampons at the store but it trades time for a little extra expense. If I was a woman I would probably do this as I value my time more than a few extra dollars a month and it is a set it once and forget it.

Do you not buy groceries? I don't see how the 30 seconds of time saved by not adding that one item to your shopping cart justifies the cost. Do you have a separate subscription service for every grocery item?
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying WiFi was a brilliant move or anything: I'm saying that it's not JCP-exclusive, it's not particularly important, and there's nothing pointing to the conclusion that it was Ron's idea or decision. (My money's on the bet that it was in place before he took over.)

> If I'm in the store, how about making my experience shopping at the store as good as possible and not tell me to pull out my phone to make it work?

100% agreed.
For a number of reasons this isn't as useful as you might hope, many have been mentioned (the mass on the extruder head being perhaps the most killer)

That said it seems like it is fast enough that you could connect the filament coming out of it into a typical filament extruder head and use the slack available as a signal to turn on the filament maker or not.

That would mean you would always have "fresh" filament to work with, and in moist environments that can improve repeat ability since PLA especially doesn't "age" well in humid environments.
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I freely admit I know little of Marx's work other than what other say, I will have to read it at some point.

I used to be the same way about Smith until I read Wealth of Nations Volume 1-3. Overall I found Smith's writing to not reflect the modern day free marketer's mantra as much as though.

Here's an interesting Smith quote P. 358 in my edition:
"The interest of the dealers however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public."

I don't think Smith thought Capitalism resulted in Utopia at all, as I said, he believed that once late-stage Capitalism arrived, it would self-destruct. Early Capitalism involves craftsman and merchants, so everyone is fairly productive, the craftsman creates, the merchant gives the craftsman money or credit so the craftsman can continue to craft. Then the financiers arrive, and at first it's very helpful, the merchant has more credit, the craftsman always has a buyer for the craft, the financiers are like oil for the gears. Unfortunately, the profits at the financing part are disproportionate to the profits from crafts and merchants, so eventually Smith assumed the greatest part of profits would all one day be tied up with the financiers, but since all profits have to start with crafts and merchants, this is unsustainable for the long term. In Smith's view financiers don't actually add to the "capital" of a country, interestingly enough.

So, when I say I have a new found appreciation of Capitalism, I'm really referring to the early stages of Capitalism, specifically how Smith explains it in 1776, and not how it portrays in say Stone's Wall Street.
I love the idea! But I think it would be great if people would be able to change their thumbnail screenshot that is shown on the popular and latest list. I've added my project[1] but I changing the lead screenshot is not possible which is a shame. It's also not possible to delete screenshots, which should be a must-have feature.

[1]: https://breakpoint.io/65-instaghent/
http://www.instaghent.com/
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Clever. But just like with regexps, the issue arises when a programmer applies them to every situation he/she encounters. Obviously they need not be avoided like the plague, but rather used when the situation calls for them.
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We liked Hip Chat, but still needed to be on Skype for our clients... so we ditched Hip Chat to only use one service.
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