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You'd think so but that's not the case. Sometimes there isn't enough wind power in an entire continent to provide power, and this could potentially last for days, even weeks. It's simply not practical to use wind power as base load power.

If you look at the Netherlands, for example, you'll see that the way they've always used wind power is for pumping water (draining the polders). And there it doesn't much matter what the instantaneous amount of wind power available is, or even if the windmills are stagnant for a while. All that matters is that over a long period of time you end up with around the same amount of average power produced, and that's what wind power is good at. Potentially it would make sense to use wind turbines for powering specific sorts of activities that didn't rely on low latency of power production and could be automated (perhaps water desalination, for example). But using it as base power is a far more troublesome prospect than using solar.
Which Uni: Texas A&M, UT Austin, U of F, or UCSD?
I would love feedback from Alums or others familiar, but am looking for a little more than world news rankings. I am looking for the best learning environment, not just most recognized.

I plan to move to one of the three this June. I worked five years as a self taught chemical engineer for a mining company, looking for something new.

I have a young family, money is not an influencer, looking for a serious CS program with other serious developers.
If people are curious, I'd invite them to check out some of his skating that is on YouTube from the old VHS tapes that used to be sold in skateshops. His tricks involving skating on shopping carts and tipped over barrels always impressed the heck out of me.

http://youtu.be/A2nZ-R1HYPQ?t=8s
University of Florida, Gainesville
This is a good question that remains unanswered on your website till I click through to actually buy it. Pleases list prices!
University of Texas- Austin
I heard a good idea - the faster you walk, jog or run; the faster your internet connection.
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Are the intern positions strictly exclusive to students? I'm a recent CS grad (wasn't able to take on an internship during school) but I would love to apply for one of these positions.
> He received the same treatment any prisoner in this country does and I can find little wrong in what happened to him.

It's your prerogative whether you "find little wrong" with the way any person is treated, but the bit about his treatment being the same as any other prisoner is pretty willfully obtuse.
Where do you live? I've heard of Passover Coke for years but never actually seen it. Judging by the name, it must be a regional thing in places like New York that have a higher Jewish population.
I can't downvote but I'm using C/C++ in 2013 instead of Go simply because Go is not portable enough. There is currently no PowerPC port and that is still a requirement for me.
I agree with what you're saying, but I think that sentiment is more present in HN's comments on the submission than the submission itself.
The memory benefit also exists on PyPy without slots.

It may be possible to write a cffi backend for swig, but it's likely quite hard.
I don't know, but I can think of several things to make it more workable:

---you could probably pay less. Programmers' opportunities for meaningful, understood-by-the-recipient service are few and far between. I don't think it gets any more meaningful than this. One of my favorite gigs ever was tutoring Python for Tutorspree, and watching my students progress.
---It has a higher meaningful skill ceiling. The problem with "architects" is that every programmer is an architect, or should be. The title creates the idea of "one smart architect, many stupid implementors." But the 10x phenomenon means this is the last thing you want: you want a few smart developers, not a lot of dumb ones. So why waste your talent managing labor, when the labor is useless and what you need is more talent?
Hehe, trust me for getting it wrong, you are absolutely right.
Thanks for your feedback - have now installed OTRS and give it a try. Let us see how good it will work.
Looks like someone is getting fired...
Open Source Finance 1. QuantLib - An Interview with Luigi Ballabio
Nokia, please turn my f…ing volume back up again
That headline title.

But then again, why is this needed? Won't they be getting plenty of radiation soon as they're outside the o-zone layer? Does our normal method of radiation shielding decay over time, or something?

(Total layman here, curious)
Thanks for your feedback - have now installed OTRS and give it a try. Let us see how good it will work.

My second choice would be Zendesk, so, yea :)

Freshdesk looks good as well, will also have a look at it. Thanks.
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Is it intrinsic to this treasure trove that the knowledge it contains must be transmitted for pay, with exercises to be completed on a deadline, and with little choice on the learner's part as to what is learned?
That was funny seeing this here, for a minute I thought someone had posted the now.sh from my dotfiles. But I think it's no longer there. In any case mine wasn't as thoughtful, it was just a shell script to pretty print the current time, so that I could index it with Gnome-do/Kupfer/Synapse and easily call it from there. But I have since moved that responsibility to a key binding in vim, since I'm always inside the editor. All this, of course, so that I could hide the Linux Mint bar on the bottom and still see the time easily through another mean.
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That's a fair point, because prices vary per platform I chose not to list them on the site directly. I would like to say I will A/B test to find the optimal setup, but the reality is I get very little traffic to my site... so barring data what does your intuition tell you? Show different prices for each platform or hide prices?
Merchant account? What kind of merchant account?

And why is your LLC useless?
While I like the idea behind walking desks, this article does not do a great job explaining exactly "why every office should switch to walking desks".

He spends a lot of time discussing calories burned and weight loss, but that's really not the primary motivator for getting a walking desk. If your goal is simply weight loss, you're probably better off going to the gym and doing higher intensity exercise several times a week.

The point of a walking desk is that sitting in an office chair for extended periods of time negatively affects your health even if you exercise regularly, i.e. one hour in the gym isn't sufficient to offset the eight hours you spend sedentary. So by walking (albeit at a slow pace), you're reducing the time spent being sedentary.
Yup. In the UK we are trying to reconstruct the 'dual system' and we have things that are called apprenticeships but not quite as well organised as the ones they have in Germany. The OP is not a drop-out. He has followed an established path!
Hah - I hope not! But this really is bad...

I doubt any of Google's marketing efforts go through less than a few levels of approval.. Nobody noticed.
These PCs and laptops are the very same machines that "apps" users are deciding they just don't need any more. Full desktop applications for Windows aren't going to go away, but as I see it they're not going to be ported to "So modern we can't agree a sensible consumer-facing name for it" rapidly, either.

I agree that it's a good place to be selling right now, as the competition is sparse and largely terrible. There are a lot of holes waiting to be filled. I don't think it's going to grow the way you seem to be predicting.

Computers are different now.
"The programming part is nothing more than a hammer to a builder or a scalpel to a surgeon. Yes, you need to know how to use it, but the skill involves knowing what to do with it."

Oh but that is soooo wrong. By now it is an undisputed fact that robots are better at surgery than surgeons. Sure, surgeons are still in the loop, as of now... But by now software is already: controlling the machines extracting the material, controlling the milling machines, controlling the entire logistics infrastructure, controlling the robotic arm which shall hold the scalpel, add precision to the surgeon's movements, provide robotic arms with levels of freedom which no human hand shall ever made, etc.

In addition to that software is also about data transmission for when surgeons need to perform remote surgery, about finding correlation between blood samples results and actual illness, finding tumors in scans, X-rays, etc.

That ultra-reductive scalpel/surgeon is totally off. Soon the computer software shall be precisely the skilled expert.

And of course one could go to great length explaining how software revolutionized farming too.

But to me the less people understand anything about software, the more of a technopriests I'm going to be in tomorrow's world so I'm all for it ; )
I'm surprised by the anti-intellectualism in that post. The idea that "Growing food is far more challenging, requires an order of magnitude more knowledge and continuous learning and dedication" is totally false.

Growing food is "hard", but it's something most novices could easily do with only a little bit of preparation. It's very easy to grow food if you have access to outdoor space:
1. Buy seeds from hardware store
2. Plant seeds according to directions
3. Water seeds occasionally if there is a lack of rain
4. Wait a few months to harvest

Plants and animals grew themselves for millions of years before farmers showed up.
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Keep in mind that physical exercise and mental concentration both deplete a common resource pool of glucose in the brain. There are robust, well replicated experiments that show it's significantly harder to perform any mental task while exercising. Daniel Kahneman has a great everyday demonstration of this: While walking with a friend, ask her to multiply two two-digit numbers and see if she slows down. (You can also try it on yourself while jogging at the upper limit of your ability -- it's very noticeable.) Check out the experiments of Roy F. Baumeister for more info.

This isn't to say walking desks are necessarily a bad idea. It's possible that, at low walking speeds, the health benefits of exercise outweigh the impairment of your concentration.
You can get a literal eqivalent to PEEK and POKE by mmap()ing /dev/mem. You can map the MMIO regions of a PCI device to write a userspace driver for it, for example. This is how I prodded the tl880 chip before I had a kernel module ready back when I was working on that driver.
Yes, we can refer to Dave Eggers's younger brother in a HN headline. And in a comment we can link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem (= http://en.wikipedia.org/?oldid=536692814)
If they were really continuations they'd be fine. But they're not. They're a broken, terrible approximation of continuations.

A real continuation captures the entire execution context including the current call stack.

Instead what you get in javascript is a stack that's completely meaningless. There's no way to automatically route your exceptions to the real calling context, and there's no automatic way for you to be sure you're seeing all of your callee's exceptions.

If you really want to be sure you'll hear about the ultimate success or failure of an asynchronous call, every single asynchronous step needs to manually install it's own exception handler, trap any exceptions, and pass them back via a failure callback. You're basically doing by hand what the runtime environment is actually supposed to do for you (that being the whole point of exceptions).
Couldn't you also say "I don't see how C was ever aimed at replacing assembly for systems programming, heck the C runtime and compiler is written in assembly."

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Standup desk i understand

Had customers who conf called from treadmill, not convenient when huffing and breathing happens , had hard time

Just using keyboard or mouse in a comfortable position people get RSI, What work would this be recommended for if it has any health benefit at all
Kids should learn to swear in 32 different languages.
I agree. I feel as though my time spent in computer science courses in undergrad and, even more so, graduate school, helped me be a better programmer than I could have hoped than if I had spent those years just programming instead. It taught me to think differently.

Of course, this doesn't apply to everyone. A huge number of people skip computer science degrees and are still highly successful.

But one swallow does not a summer make, which seems to be the approach of many of these articles: Hey, look at me, I didn't go to college and I'm successful!

This seems to be an argument that is very difficult for either side to argue, because I don't see a way you could really look at a statistical analysis of the careers of CS grads versus non grads and make some kind of conclusion.
There is a difference between a hobby and business, according to the IRS and according to investors. You could also invent something awesome, and not make any money, but the world loves it. You might still get something rewarding out of that feeling.

Start a business to make money, but start a hobby to explore and enjoy. It is also possible you will start one way and the end up on the other side (biz vs hob)
Being a customer to a VPN service isn't a crime. Why are people paranoid about paying for a legal service?
It's happened to me in real life. When you want to go from keeping a value in external storage to keeping it in memory, you've gone from async to sync. The reverse happens too. These are not huge conceptual changes. When they require restructuring an entire program, it's reasonable to wonder why that program's structure is so brittle. "Likely make them async even if you don't know, just in case" sounds to me like an admission of this problem. Why would I want to make an in-memory lookup async, thus forcing it to wait in the event queue and defeating the purpose of RAM? The only reason to do that is that the programming model imposes a large complexity tax for not doing it.

Consider the simple case where one wants to look up a value synchronously if one has it in memory, and go get it from storage asynchronously if one doesn't. That's a natural thing to want, but it's problematic in Node. The problem is not syntactic—you can easily write a function that calls back immediately in the one case and asynchronously in the other. It's that sync and async semantics don't compose well, so when you start to do anything a little complicated (e.g. launch N requests and call back when all N have either returned or failed), the two trip over one another. Working in a Lisp that compiles to JS, I had to write some surprisingly complex macros in order to get correct behaviour. I wouldn't dream of writing that JS code by hand.
I personally think that walking desks are a bit impractical and rather extreme. However I did install a standing desk in my office which has made a noticeable difference in my (working) life. I don't use the desktop there as my primary machine - I still have my regular sit down desk in another corner of the room. But I like being able to get up and walk around every now and then without interrupting my workflow.

Thing is, it's cloud technology (Dropbox, gmail, etc.) that makes it all possible. I get exactly the same picture of my work from pretty much any machine conngected to the Internet. That, and wifi. And cheap second computers...
Hmm, I wonder if maybe there's some correlation between academics the poster has heard of, and those that self-promote? :)
I'm compelled to comment "No your mom's". What kind of title is this? Obviously just meant to attract attention. I would not have clicked if not for the sake of making this comment have some content, but it's giving an error and I should contact the administrator. It is a funny thing how I am unable to view who the administrator is when the page is down, and all other pages contain no info whatsoever.
UT Austin's CS program is all about the science part of computer science, all theory, no real-world-business-practice. I once worked somewhere where they would toss the resume of anyone who had just graduated from UT and didn't have side work or internships showing they could do practical, production work.

That said, UT now has an entrepreneurship program, Longhorn Startup, which I was a design mentor for last semester. I would have loved to have been a part of it when I was in school there. It's taught by local entrepreneurs and business leaders, and you work through a business plan and a product launch for one or more semesters, for credit.
"This is baffling. I really don't understand what you don't get about this."

The part where the Supreme Court and the US Attorney General say you're wrong is probably your first hint.

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"To watch a DVD you need to decode the CSS."

Yep.

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"You either have authorisation to do this, or you don't."

Authorization is a function of whether you paid for it.

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"On Linux there is no authorised method to do this, and thus it is illegal."

1) There doesn't need to be. Authorization is not about what technology is in use.

2) There are actually Linux DVD players which have paid for their Fraunhofer license; I don't know why you keep claiming otherwise, when a simple Google search can straighten this out.

3) Again, authorization has nothing to do with what software you're using, and everything to do with whether you plonked five dollars on the till at Walmart. It's called the First Sale Doctrine.

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"Whether anyone is interested in prosecuting that illegal use is irrelevant to this discussion"

Why do you keep bringing up something nobody else is talking about, then saying "but that's irrelevant?"

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"i) circumventing the rights protection without authorisation is illegal."

Yes, this is the piece you keep repeating, like just saying it a bunch of extra times will change what authorization is.

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"Thus, your sentence "What's illegal is leaving it decoded and redistributing it to others" covers 2 illegalities"

(sigh)

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"Yes, I have tried to look"

Try harder. There's Fluendo, LinDVD, the codecs in Ubuntu have been licensed from Cyberlink since 2008, Boxee is legal, your TiVo (which is Linux) can give you a legal remote viewer as a .deb, et cetera.

You're too busy feeling correct to check the things being said to you.

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"I really don't understand what you don't get about this."

Which is commonly the case for people who don't consider what it means that they think someone citing the Supreme Court and the US Attorney General is wrong about the law.

(cough)

Please have a nice day; I'm bored of this.
That linked video shows US forces firing on an armed force carrying at least one AK-47 and at least one rocket-propelled grenade launcher which was tracked from a previous encounter with US forces.

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/201878.php

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/201889.php

Wikileaks had this information, knew that the force was armed and not civilian, knew that weapons were recovered from the scene, and intentionally lied about it when they called the video "Collateral Murder".
Cloud-centric, DRM based Linux that depends on the panopticon of Google. Better to bury it stillborn than to discuss it.
By the same token you (the customer) should not have all your DNS eggs in one basket.
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That's pretty interesting. What are some of the limitations of an approach like that?
That's just a fundamental misunderstanding of what the clearances mean.

First and foremost, they're just a background check. There are lots of janitors and painters that have Secret or Top Secret clearances so they can work in buildings that contain that kind of information. There are large swaths of people that work in factories with clearances that really couldn't tell you anything of value - but they have to pass a background check to get the job.

Then once you narrow it down to the people that have actual classified knowledge, they generally only know a sliver of a small area and that's it. "Need to know" matters a whole lot.

The people with wide ranging access to lots of different databases is very small. I would bet Bradley Manning is one of less than 50,000 or so people with that kind of access.
Yes of course, technology will never progress beyond what we have today, we won't get better CPUs or batteries... ever!! /sarcasm. No, seriously, you should check out the Osborne 1.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1
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Of course

Not the glicose thing really, walking uses very little energy, it would take a lot of exercise to deplete glicose, not walking slowly

but the fact that you can't concentrate while exercise is a huge deal breaker.

Not to mention the fact that while you are walking your head keeps bobbing up and down making it harder to read things.
To go the micro-ISV route, take Amy Hoy's 30x500 class. Helps one start not with an "idea" and then selling that "idea". But with discovering and solving pains in a niche. Much easier, was a paradigm shift for me, after so many ideas and products that failed.

Here's the 30x500 class:
http://unicornfree.com/30x500
Windows Store apps don't just run on PCs, they also run on tablets (and with a few small modifications on Windows Phones).
Another insightful note from Matt Might. There's more in his blog, http://matt.might.net/articles/.
New matches being created is growing by the minute. Find your favorite game, and play with some friends, or find new ones.
Scala's syntax is not as nice as Haskell's, but it's quite consistent and not crazy at all, certainly it's not worse than Java's.

As a programming language, Haskell has many interesting features, and I would happily use it in various context, including as language of choice for a first "Introduction to Programming" course, but Haskell has several problems too. The most glaring is the 2nd rate support of state. The state monad has several good features, but in particular, it lacks a destructor, so local state use can't be hidden, even when global behaviour is purely functional. Moreover, modularisation is better supported in Scala than in Haskell.
Hi, mediocre programmer here!

I would add a bullet point to the list of reasons I like go: "Boring to people who bring up Haskell in every programming conversation" ;)

Seriously though, there are huge classes of problems in which the "interesting" part of the problem isn't the software that gets written but the business needs it solves. I am a fan of functional programming (I started the Clojure subreddit, and do a lot of "for fun" programming in it), but I've never run across a problem at my business where I felt like I needed to crack open Okasaki's book, or thought "this would be easier with an applicative functor".

Something I've enjoyed about learning Go is the open & accepting nature of the community; I don't think I've ever heard someone called "mediocre" because of other languages they use.

I am happy to feel like I don't have to be an incredible programmer to read the source code of the language I use, or the libraries I pull into my projects. I just want to get shit done so I can work on the problems that I find interesting, and for lots of us, that's just not going to be yet another implementation of datalog.
Couldn't Evernote just use a CNAME record on a subdomain that pointed to mkt5371.com? I know that's how the SendGrid click tracking app keeps the links on your domain (http://sendgrid.com/docs/Apps/click_tracking.html)
> I would bet Bradley Manning is one of less than 50,000 or so people with that kind of access.

You'd lose that bet pretty quickly. He was one of those.
Let me guess, you're in or around your mid-twenties now? Don't be surprised to find yourself waking up one day only to notice that your metabolic rate has dropped to zero.

I used to be exactly like you, then I hit 30..
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