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I don't know if/how you can say that Ubuntu Touch is a "hobby". And outside of Apple and MS, there is literally no other company as experience at creating an operating system as Canonical and the Ubuntu community.

Based on the early revs, Ubuntu is by far the most polished.

Canonical is also led by someone with a driving vision, very deep pockets and an absolute want to make a mark on mobile.

So, Ubuntu has the most experienced team, the most polished early rev product and a focused founder. No way that Ubuntu Touch isn't the front runner here. Frankly, it isn't even close (or fair) to compare the rest to Ubuntu.
A few times a day, I say to my colleagues "Want to grab some coffee?" and then we go to the coffee machine and get coffee. It is inevitable while doing that we talk about what we are doing, roadblocks, etc. and sometimes we have nothing to say and we talk about something else.

That works for our team of 4-5, but I understand that it can't scale. Of course, if management started calling it a stand-up meeting and took away the coffee, I'm fairly certain we'd get less out of it.

tl-dr; why is a stand-up meeting better than just grabbing a coffee with your colleagues?
While it is certainly logical to withhold access to this information, it stands to reason that in case this information is released to the public through other means then it would be very troublesome for them.
These experiments are cruel. Who has the right to experiment on these animals? Who gave these "scientists" permission to inflict suffering on these mice? Accountability and compassion are lacking here.

When will we as a race start challenging the morality of animal experimentation and vivisection? There needs to be protections afforded to animals. This cruelty needs to stop.
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Of course. Depends on what it does. The app store is certainly more competitive than when it started, but it's still fairly "new".
Take a walk around each and talk to some people and figure out which one of these schools will LET YOU BE YOURSELF!

Which one you will learn at, but be able to pursue your outside passions.

Which on you can kick back with friends to blow off some steam.

I wouldn't consider money at all. You have the rest of your life to pay back loans and that is worth picking the place for the reasons I listed above and not worry about cost.
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Has anyone ever tried an end-of-the-day standup? Would not tend to disrupt flow, because you're going home afterwards. Also might help keep the gathering focused and on-topic.

I guess this does presume that everyone wraps up at about the same time every day, which I've generally found to be the case, but may not work well with widely distributed workers or places where people actually practice a wider range of work hours.
The idea of someone updating the kernel due to an undesirable result makes me fear for my life. "That's odd, why is it failing when I deref 0, that is an odd check, I will just remove it"
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It is exactly the type of software you'd expect to be developed by huge, lumbering, beauracratic corporations.

Several years ago when I was doing contract enterprise development work for various Fortune companies, EJB was all the rage in the Enterprise Java space. I started to feel a little rate pressure, so figured I'd better at least pick up a book and get up to speed.

About 3 chapters into it, I couldn't believe how bad it was (especially entity beans). I mean, it was almost like the perfect anti-pattern. Anyway, that didn't stop massive numbers of enterprises from jumping in head first, because it was sold as "the way" to do enterprise development. The tooling and app servers were insanely expensive too. But many IT managers didn't want to take any chances on not going the standard route.

Anyway, that about sums up enterprise software. Even for groups not into EJB specifically, the culture and thinking are the same. There is this meme that enterprise software must be more robust or scalable, etc., but the funny part is that consumer facing Web apps must typically be far more robust and dynamically scalable to serve much larger user bases. Enterprise software is typically run in a more tightly controlled environment too (specified required browser and OS, Intranet-based, etc.).

Yet, just labeling something "Enterprise" and targeting it as such, seems to command a premium.
On Ubuntu at least, when you install virtualenvwrapper from apt, it drops the file you need to source into the bash completion directory[1], presumably so that it will be automatically loaded when bash launches. As a zsh user, this annoys the hell out of me. If they dropped it in $PATH, then you could just do:

source virtualenvwrapper

and be done with it. I guess that's a (small) hit against zsh though. :P

[1] /etc/bash_completion.d/virtualenvwrapper
It will help the averages by bringing up the bottom and middle, but I think anyone seriously going after SENS doesn't care about that as much as he cares about the outliers (ie himself) who presumably do all that stuff already.
Thanks for pointing that out. CONs are a fascinating rabbit hole of government regulation. They try to lower prices by doing exactly the opposite of the actions that usually lower prices. Only a regulator could think that restricting competition would force prices down.
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I actually think reCAPTCHA has gotten quite good actually after they switched one of the words to a street address. Just look at the examples in this post, most are pretty easy to decode right away.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/google-now-using-recaptcha-...
Do you have any links with benchmarks?
Very interesting.
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College is a good environment to learn theoretical computer science and to be in a research environment. If you intend to go into research either at university or in a big company, college is a must. To be around other bright CS students, professors, on a campus where there are is always some exciting project going on, it is an excellent place to be, especially if you come from a background which didn't give you such exposure in high school. At a job, you will not have the opportunity to invest all your time on arcane algorithms or data structures, or in any subject for that matter which doesn't directly involve your job. This is a pro or a con depending on where you want to go with your life/career.

If you want to work at a social media start-up working with hot web technologies, or already have a foot in the door in the tech industry, then college probably isn't very useful for you.
I don't know if bash has this, but some commands have tab-completion on the arguments, with a listing for multiple hits:

$ tar --c<tab>
--check-device -- check device numbers when creating incremental
--check-links -- print a message if not all links are dumped
--checkpoint -- display progress messages every NUMBERth record
--checkpoint-action -- execute ACTION on each checkpoint
--compare -- find differences between archive and file system
--compress -- filter the archive through compress
--concatenate --catenate -- append tar files to an archive
--confirmation -- ask for confirmation for every action
--create -- create a new archive
You haven't even begun to answer the most important question: what are you looking to get out of university?
I've never had a problem with Spamhaus, it's straightforward enough to get removed from the list if needed. It's way worse dealing with providers such as Hotmail and Yahoo who arbitrarily block mail.

I'd argue that 99% of businesses are better served letting a third-party deal with marketing and transactional emails and only use outgoing SMTP for their own emails.
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First I've heard anyone referring to James Simons as a physicist.
No, and without saying where you are in the world you're not going to get any more useful information.
Just because something is checked client-side doesn't mean it's only checked client-side. I've used JS checking on anti-bot questions[1] quite deliberately: it doesn't have any effect on 99%+ of bots, but it stops posts by humans from accidentally being flagged as spam.

[1] admittedly questions like "type someword in this box to prove you're not a spambot"[2] rather than actual captchas, which I agree would be rather silly.

[2] if this is what you meant by a "printed in plain text in the source code" question, remember that most spambots aren't customised to an individual site, they just roam the internet submitting their crap to anything that looks like a comment form. Sure, it's trivial to write a script to parse the page and find the answer to the question - but nobody's actually going to do that for a typical company's "Contact Us" form. Adding this sort of check cuts down on spam enormously (from hundreds a day to zero), and is way easier for humans than solving a captcha.
I like the fact that it is case-sensitive and yet instructs to be typed in ALL CAPS :)
While it's an amazing concept and I really want to like it, it's actually a terrible game. There's literally no assurance against spawncamping and the UI is extremely cluttered, among other things.
That's why Lisp Machines were single-user workstations :-)
I've been impressed by the humility displayed in the announcements about this lockdown. There is no marketing BS or developer know-it-all here.
Funny, that reminds me a lot of my last job. I am sure there are a lot of people stuck in a similar situation out there. Team members can't help but become biased against the process, and by association, the 'Agile' label.
I am on firefox nightly, and the website refuses to work. Looks like it does browser detection, not feature detection.
Actually in a well ran agile team, you should not need that as you should be focused working on only one user story.

If you are fixing bugs then the story should be "x bugs related to foo feature" and your daily standup report should be "I fixed x bugs on foo, I have y to go, should be done today, no blockers"
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Oh, I don't know how hard it is to get better. All you have to do is point yourself at challenges that are harder than what you've previously done, and then do them. Sure, that's a local optimization process that will be prone to reaching local maxima, but you can always broaden your view to find a larger challenge.
Argcomplete: Python and tab completion, better together
hi, author here.

yes sorry for the mobile view.
the website was a project of mine to get back into coding.

i am not happy with the template to be honest. not my best ux/ui work.

but as you say especially the mobile view is broken. i will fix this within the next week.
hi, author here.

thanks for that. the mobile view is a mess. i will hotfix your suggestions now.

the site was more a sideproject to get back into coding. i under-estimated the positive response to be honest.
Most of the channels were educational or news or other special interest, not sitcom, drama, etc.

I think the issue is just cost -- high-end TV is $250k-3mm/hr . Low-quality TV costs something like $30k/hr of finished product. High-end web is $1-4k/hr. Amateur is $100-400.

You can produce much more niche content if you need only $1k/hr to produce it. Niche reduces the cost per hour for the same quality, too -- I'd rather see dmor or sama or garry talking about startups for 15 minutes vs. Morgan Freeman. Non-talent costs really can be dramatically reduced in a non-union world, especially one where the principals are compensated through equity or other non-cash, for the same final quality. And, if something is niche, I'll watch it even if the editing, sound, video, etc. aren't quite up to the same level.
I put together a simple search engine for Vines with their new embed code
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I agree with the grandparent. This matters more to Jolla; it's literally their company. If Sailfish doesn't catch on they will go out of business. I'd feel better if I knew in advance that everything they are working on is open source.

While Ubuntu has experience bundle's open source software and to a smaller extent creating their own, they don't have any experience in mobile, which is a different ball game entirely. Early progress is impressive though, I will agree.
I love the use of the <font> and <b> tags, too.
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Out of curiosity, what makes you think that managing YC is n^2? Certainly everyone would need to communicate with you -- that's n. The question is whether or not each YC pair would need to communicate with each other. That is n^2 and seems like an excessively high level of message passing.
I'm pretty sure my Arch Linux install actually gets better battery life than Win7 on my laptop, also with minimal tweaking. Thinkpad, FWIW.
When everything is fine, but it's not
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We usually come to life-saving diet decisions in our 30-s or 40-s. Imagine the society where people are not eating junk for the first half of their life. Can any SENS do it?

Then go to state department of health and see the stats, where we can dig the eye-opening data, e.g. all the science of last 50 years added only 4 monthes of longevity for those who are already at their sixties.
Do you beleive any SANS is addressing the right problem? I personally do not.
"NetBSD turns 20, still lives with parents."
"I went online and I bought 1 bitcoin last night"
And if you're an entrenched BigCo you carry a lot of NIH belief along ;)
Does it show you how to write a web server?
I wouldn't call this (or what was described in the blog post) as "surrender". It's more like a strategic retreat.
"It’s possible that the increased number of folds and fissures in Einstein’s prefrontal cortex contributed to his ability to carry out his famous thought experiments, such as imagining himself traveling alongside a beam of light."

"The photos also showed a part of Einstein’s right somatosensory cortex was enlarged. The area, which processes sensory information from the left hand, is thought to have overdeveloped due to his extensive violin playing."

In one paragraph, they assume that the 'shape' of his brain was responsible for his abilities, in the next paragraph they talk about how his learned abilities changed the shape of his brain...
And this is a very good example on what Agile is about. The daily stand ups are part of the basic "framework" but not mandatory if something else works better for a team. The key is to constantly inspect how the process is working and be open, as a team, to make adjustments.
Hmmm, could someone build a text "scrambler" that would intentionally create broken English? I have also noticed that "broken English" is more effective by some measures than ordinary English.

Note also that the broken English here is not the author, but it's Google Translate. The text has been machine translated from Russian. Also interesting that Google Translate is much more effective translating the mathematical portions than the other portions of the text. Another case of what people find hard computers find easy, and vice versa.
Standups are definitely status meetings, and there's nothing wrong with that. As someone else mentioned, it's the audience that matters. 5 or 6 good engineers and a clueful manager in a room are going to sync up and get back to work, usually in less than 10 minutes.
Some people, including engineers, are prone to go on and on, perhaps even about something interesting like a bug or a new library they found. Make those people go last.

If the meeting takes longer than it's supposed to, walk out or hang up.

If someone is rambling on about something that isn't going to help the team move forward, say something.

Standups will not fix a bad team, or a bad manager.
You had me at "Damn, you are going to be very drunk and full after completing my list". Love this btw. I'll give it a proper look over at a saner hour (it's 5am here).

I'm curious what the law are around hitching a tow from a cable car on my skates Marty McFly style.. :/
You are very right. and spot on. I used that example to mainly bring out the message.

This particular bug wasn't in my code but on the platform the code needed to run on.
Because of my wrong approach to debugging I ended up spending more time looking in the wrong place for the bug. so actually what I thought was debugging was just time wasting.
> admittedly questions like "type someword in this box to prove you're not a spambot" rather than actual captchas, which I agree would be rather silly.

This is not silly. This works extremely well for the low traffic forum I run. Since there are a huge number of phpbb3 forums out there, spammers have made spam bots specifically targeting the platform. If you make your forum epsilon different from the default then the bots don't work without manual intervention. That's enough to keep you off of autospam lists for very, very long periods of time.

And when someone inevitably adds your extra form element to their spam bot (it's happened to me 2 or 3 times over about 6 years) then you just change the answer and it stops working (and they might not even notice since it's a bot).
Turn the question on its head. Why is it right to prolong human and animal suffering to minimize the suffering of a few lab animals?

These experiments are incredibly important for science and healthcare.
That's good. I think people look at responsive sites as that's all they need to do and for the most part I haven't come across many discussions about taking it further.
Exactly this. I've seen plenty of faux stand-up meetings, where it's all about keeping the boss informed, and everybody else zones out. That's entirely wrong.

Another wrong way is to take a long time. It's a quick meeting, where everybody syncs up for the day and major issues are raised. I think of it as like the way players will quickly huddle together on a sports field. It should be high energy, biased toward finishing, and tabling any significant discussions for later.

As far as I'm concerned, they only make sense in a team environment. Where people are jointly working on shared goals and extensively support one another. In the Extreme Programming approach, they go along with a team work queue and collective code ownership.

If people, say, have individual work queues parceled out by a boss and don't interact much, then as far as I'm concerned the stand-up meeting is the wrong tool.
You are your own parody. You are living proof of Poe's Law. You are why feminism is now a dirty word and even successful women like Marissa Mayer don't want to be associated with it. Feel proud.
I personally love the bread bowl. Locals may not eat them, but the Boudin Bakery at the Fisherman's Wharf has the best sourdough bread I've ever had in my life and their bread bowl with clam chowder is something that everyone should try at least once!
I agree with the OP that the best policy here is upvote what is good. Upvote early and often if you see good stuff.

It is an interesting approach. Not going into the details, brain is basically working this way - instead of trying to suppress neuronal activity for all inputs but the signal, it just amplifies the signal to have it above the sea of all other activity.
It is the Ellis/Middlefield campus. Here's the link to the EPA's page on the Superfund site:
http://1.usa.gov/WUc0CA
And a map of the contaminated area:
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Oh yeah, absolutely. My point is, that when people in the US/UK read an article about workers in the Foxconn factory they feel sorry for people there, for earning "just" $3/hour. Well, I know people here who earn exactly that much or even less, and that's before taxes. And we're not Saudi Arabia either, our petrol is ~$8 per US Gallon, and people need to drive places to work. I know people who spend half of their daily wage just on transportation. So if they work 8 hours per day they work for 4 just to be there,without any profit.
It doesn't ship with half the dependencies that were tangled up which is why minwin exists. Minwin has a GUI too (apparently you can trigger it during boot on win phone 8 :) )
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I don't think you have ever signed an NDA. I have, and the repercussions for breaking it are quite severe.
C also makes memory access and device driver code very easy. The mechanical issues are a side effect of that.

As for design errors, they are hard to prevent anywhere.
It's rather mind blowing to consider the effects on society if an affordable way of doubling our lifespans is found. Talk about disruption.
Yes, you've experienced terrible stand-up meetings. My rule of thumb is 10 minutes, max. Is everybody really standing comfortably for 30 minutes? Your coworkers must be tougher than I am.

Also, who are people talking to if not the rest of the team? Why are they saying things that other team members don't care about?
I am just starting to dig into PH for data analysis. I would be very interested in speaking with you more about the topic.
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Six hours and no reference to the Rats of NIMH?! :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Frisby_and_the_Rats_of_NIM...
Which is why it behooves you to contact them and get clarification, exception, etc. The same rules don't apply to everyone equally if you can make the right case.
Simply displaying their content is not likely to get a pass, but having a way to brand it well and drive new content creation often will.
I tend to find that bugs take longer to fix when they are in part caused by another bug or misconfiguration in a third party component or platform.
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Hey guys, cofounder of Manteresting.com here. Recently we've been getting a lot of attention. Outlets from BuzzFeed, Maxim and Bloomberg to Refinery29 and Jezebel have written about us. I've even been invited to speak on PlayBoy Radio next week.<p>The attention is great, we're grateful to have the exposure and have seen our traffic increase by 1000% in a single week.<p>Media has been mostly positive with people supporting the idea through comments, tweets and FB messages. Ladies and gents appreciate that we filled a need in the market left by Pinterest's 80% female user base, and find our content refreshingly different and recognize that we are a bunch of stand-up guys (and girls!).<p>But with all the attention, I guess we should have expected this, we've been completely ripped off.<p>Check this out:<p><img src="http://bit.ly/14weZWf" /><p>And this is our site, early revision:<p><img src="http://bit.ly/10njSdj" /><p>Not only do they rip off our name, they actually stole our v1 logo. Technology aided this ripoff as these guys just threw up a WordPress theme with Pinterest-esque qualities and went to town posting affiliate links.<p>The worst part is that their navigation includes "Boobs" and "Sex" -- the majority of negative press we get argues that we are a bunch of pervs sitting around with our hands down our pants and we only post pictures of naked girls when in fact, nudity of any kind is against our TOS, we encourage our users to be respectful of women and we police our content nearly 24/7 between the founders and community volunteers.<p>These guys are just trying to profit from the recent press and seeing as I found them through a Google search, they probably are. We've spawned legitimate clones before (I won't name names) but to yank our logo and hope we don't notice? That's pretty bold.<p>PG, thougts? What would you guys do?
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