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Upon seeing the title I was expecting an article about movie piracy. I think this was ultimately more interesting.
So, calling magic subroutines is more functional than passing about first class functions?
There was async stuff in 1.0, but the really good stuff came with version 4.0 and 4.5. The Task Parallel Library is a very nice implementation of the Promise/Future pattern, that came from the functional programming world.
I might agree, if juice were a regulated substance, and if people were required to walk around with documentation about their medical issues.

As far as reasonability - he's correct in noting that the TSA is not entitled to your medical history. Moreover, TSA screeners are generally not doctors (some may be), they're not YOUR doctor, and they're certainly not in a position to decide what is or isn't medically necessary for you.

Does this mean that you should be able to get your juice past security by claiming to have a medical condition? No.

It means you should be able to do that without having to disclose anything about your health, and the only remedy that should be available is for the TSA to screen the liquid if they feel it is necessary to ensure passenger safety.

Is that unfair? Maybe, but so is a ridiculous ban on a liter bottle of safe substances.
Because Apple inexplicably still provides no way to read the E-books it distributes, on its own OS.
Just to let you know, there's a typo under the "Tweet Generation" category. Should be too not "to". Good luck and thanks for sharing!
My girlfriend is a flight attendant. She, and many of her co-workers, are very upset about the new pocketknife policies. Mainly, the issue is this: She's still not allowed to carry one. Company policy: She could lose her job upon uniform inspection. Total craziness if you ask me. Honestly, I wouldn't care if they sold knives for $2 like headphones. I just wish that they would provide her with some training in martial arts with a focus on weapon disarming.
Ah, ok. I missed the part about the camera not being hidden.
If you ignore the fact that the guy was trying to board with 2 liters of liquid, when the limit is 100ml, then yes. Imagine he was trying to board with a 2kg pack of sugar instead. Just saying it is 'medical' is not enough, otherwise anything would go through just by saying the magic word.

From the agent's perspective, some guy with a camera showed up with 2L of juice, clearly not allowed, and didn't want to give any further explanation. What should he do?
With film it's a similar story. Directors must first go to film school, then fetch coffee for directors, then work their way up the ranks on other peoples projects and then catch a series of extraordinary breaks before they are given the opportunity to direct other peoples ideas before they are finally given the freedom to truly do what they want. If they achieve that freedom by their 50's, they are one of the chosen few.

LOL no. I have worked in film for the last decade and I never went to film school. If you have talent and you're not an asshole, then it's one industry where you can pretty much write your own ticket just as fast as you can learn your craft. It helps, a lot, if you have or know people with money. But that's true of just about anything.

Being an author works much the same way.

To be an author you just start writing. You don't need to get a degree in English or a blessing from a senior writier.

You are suffering from a bad case of a disease I am sometimes afflicted with, which is permission syndrome. You don't need other people's approval to be innovative. I find it particularly odd that you invoke film as an example, because I sometimes think if I had got into that field when I was younger and more brash (instead of balancing it with family considerations and some other factors) I think I'd probably have gone farther and faster.
Take it easy with the tone. No need to be confrontational.
Option 3: don't talk to cops. Ask if you're being detained – if the answer is 'no': leave. These people are not your friends.
3 video suggestions for geeks:

HaXXXoR http://web.archive.org/web/20081010173653/http://www.haxxxor...

Plug and Pray http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug_%26_Pray

8th Wonderland http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060234/
>> but reading files in parallel would presumably be slower since you'd be jumping around on disk

There is a lot of engineering that goes into making parallel reads go fast. Some combination of the file system and disk controller will probably be smart enough to recognize the opportunity for sequential reads and execute them as such if possible.

This is not always true, and it does not undermine the rest of what you have written. I just think it's interesting to keep in mind that operating systems implement a lot of helpful machinery that user-level programmers forgot about.
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> He could also split his liquids into smaller liquids

This isn't actually true, and you'd see that if you watched the video all the way through. Part of the treatment is the weight of the liquid container.
IMHO you're over simplifying. Oracle was better positioned to capitalize on Sun assets, so they were likely to pay more than Google. Microsoft or Apple may have decided to bid to prevent Google from acquisition. Merging with a huge enterprise is always painful.
https://gist.github.com/rhapsodyv/5279369/raw/88af15fdba655b...

This is a cpf (something like social security number in brazil) validator from this site: http://via7solucoes.com.br/curriculos/cadastro.asp
I assume that's why a doctor's note is recommended, so that nobody needs to make assumptions.
Massive Multiplayer Online... Alarm Clock?
I recently went to one and it was similar. I did my own thing anyway, had a blast.
The problem of bad peers exists with BitTorrent as well, but it's not very effective unless you have a lot of IPs to spare. I found https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=434346... to be an interesting read.
> A desire to make a difference in the world

Yea, coat checks and and t-shirts ... I can feel the impact.
Ufff, I must be doing something very wrong. Once in a while rebase continue will just fail with cryptic error messages and nothing but a hard reset will let me continue using the repository. Never had a problem with regular git pull.
$ commit -m 'This is
> my long
> multi-line message'

Granted, if you really want to write a novel that gets inconvenient, but I try to keep commit message short and reference a story or bug id# for more details when necessary.
Indeed! MBA was meant to train junior managers from big co's. It's objective was to train them to do better management with things like people, operations and finances. Nowadays, getting MBA means changing career or shortcut to entrepreneurship for lot of folks.
I'm not so sure given the results. Google (with selling the hardware / chip division to Fujitsu) would have done pretty well given all the tech projects Sun had.

If Apple had bid to prevent (patents I suppose), I wonder if ZFS would have finally been on OS X. Java would have been the truly odd man out in that acquisition. I could see Java being sold to IBM.
Put yourself on the other side of the coin. Companies say they need to ask for a Master's to get candidates with Bachelor's degrees. Maybe, take it with a grain of salt.
I like iCloud but it is only an add-on sync option for most games we do as they are android/ios/web/desktop. A non fully cross platform cloud sync option just doesn't help speed up development much but it s a great low barrier sync for iOS only customers.

For iOS it is pretty easy though, anything in Docs gets synced if logged in and the app is setup for iCloud. It has always been a little touchy when they added the Caches/Documents requirements. You have to setup a no backup flag to prevent it from syncing if storing anything there which can be a problem if you store too much.

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forKey:NSURLIsExcludedFromBackupKey error:&error];
> TSA contractors have absolutely no right to demand intimate medical information from people who simply wish to travel through the air.

They're not doing that. They're demanding a doctor's note (official communication from your doctor to people like employers, school administrators... in other words, not intimate information) only in the case that you need an exemption from the rule that prohibits you from carrying on large amounts of liquid. Should they exempt passengers from rules just for saying "naw, it's cool, it's a medical thing"?
Looks cool! Have you considered adding a Smart App Banner? http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/AppleA...
Hi All, Im the dev behind the site and I thought I would clear up a couple of common questions/misconceptions about Perks.

1.When dont bulk follow and unfollow, we try to pick out users who are related to you and have a high likely hood of following back.

2.I can assure you we dont just have an army of bots just following each other, in a giant follow train / ponzi follower scheme.

3.When were generating tweets for users, its based around the users interests and (hopefully) recent relevant news on that topic.

4.We've had alot of people mention not liking to enter a CC for the trail, and were looking into changing that in the near future.

If anyone is curious why we made Perks, it was because we hated all those 'GET FOLLOWERS FAST', or 'THOUSANDS OF NEW FOLLOWERS A DAY' services, they're sleazy and amazingly spammy, and bad for the entire Twitter community. So were trying to create a tool that automates alot of the tasks that a small business would common have to spend alot of time on, and try to provide real growth and interaction for those businesses, and not sketchy follow trains.
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There are a lot of alternatives to iCloud. Most of them are just backend-as-a-service, but some of them are really sync engines. Dropbox has been around a long time, and is really popular for iOS file sync.

My team at Couchbase has been building mobile NoSQL databases that sync[1], for a number of years now, and our tech is used by a few apps in the app store already.[2]

This preamble is to say that I've had plenty of conversations with developers who would be in iCloud's target market but decided not to use it. And the big reason they won't use it has very little to do with the reliability and user experience problems that keep coming up in the critiques of iCloud. The big reason they don't use it, is that they need to control their data.

It's one thing for a small game or journaling app to outsource data management to Apple, but an entirely different thing for medical apps, enterprise sales, or other "serious" apps to do that. Perhaps in the long term Apple will offer an enterprise version of iCloud that you can run on your own terms. But until that happens, most serious apps are going to want to run their own infrastructure.

BTW all the code we write is open source, so if you are interested in sync capable databases with offline and p2p support, join us. [3]

[1] https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-ios
[2] https://github.com/couchbaselabs/TouchDB-iOS/wiki/TouchDB-In...
[3] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mobile-couchbase
I guess it depends. The most important thing is knowing the basics. Usually someone with a CS degree knows them. I have found very few self-taught web/mobile developers who can answer questions about complex data structures, threading, etc. Knowing that stuff helps you build more efficient, less buggy software. I would personally recommend a CS degree because it will force you to learn the boring, yet important, stuff. And it will make it a lot easier to find a high-paying job.
I fixed things thanks to you! :) Would you use www.emorybubble.com/preview if you were an alum?
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Wow, this takes me back a few years when I was heavy into Twitter API apps development. Websites like the OP's that automated Twitter activity were pretty numerous and this one is run-of-the-mill from what I can tell. It's unique in that I didn't think anybody was actually still seriously developing Twitter apps these days after they harshed on the dev community so badly in recent years. It certainly made me move on.

That said, I echo some of the concerns mentioned in other comments on this thread. A lot of the features are really spammy, and I've always personally taken issue with the practice of auto-following people back. It destroys the very nature of Twitter which is to follow people you're actually interested in, not simply to reciprocate the social connection. Auto-following will destroy your Twitter newsfeed by filling it with garbage from random people's content (provided you haven't already let your following count get out of hand).

My prediction is due to the fact that some of the features in this app violate Twitter's ever tightening TOS this app will not stick around in its current form long enough to justify the purchase of one month of service, let alone an entire year.

In the end, there's simply no substitute for, y'know, actually being interesting.
Nice! Shout out for my current school, Emory University! Too bad my startup wasn't mentioned.
Which is fine, as long as a given _individual_ is consistent.

For example, I complain about non-retaliatory coercion wherever I see it, including nationalized industries in other countries, the TSA, and US government-granted monopolies to telecom companies.

America is an _extremely_ diverse place, and generic online American-bashing just isn't appropriate (despite being quite popular), so please try to avoid it.
From Wikipedia[0]:

Common declarative languages include those of database query languages (e.g., SQL, XQuery), regular expressions, logic programming, and functional programming.

I guess you're both right then. :)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarative_programming
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I am comparing here vis-a-vis the propaganda image (that is widely believed). So yes, they are humans. However resistance to abusive authority, resistance to invasion of privacy, freedom of speech, all those are touted as core first principles of America. I was pointing out that there seems (to me) to be a disconnect from that image to every day abuses of authority and how average Americans react to being patted down, monitored, questioned, searched, told to do things "do this because I told you", "show me your papers, this is a 100 mile border zone, you have to stop and get frisked" etc etc.

I can almost hear the hypothetical lesson in an American school teaching about how abusive authoritarian countries are conducting these things and everyone nods and approves as in "of course, make sense they do that, in contrast to us..."
Or did they make the right decision? Just because they have the money doesn't mean they need to spend it. Did litigating cost them 7 billion? The legal win shows they made the right choice in not spending 7 billion on what they are allowed to use for "free".
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"Don't drink this explosive liquid! Let us throw it in the bin here, 5 yards away from a long line of people, that also contains supposedly over-sized bottles of equally explosive and dangerous liquids"
That would be a start, but there's no _guarantee_ that they will abide by the note.

Besides sometimes being coarse and unhelpful, there are _many_ documented incidences of abuse on the part of the TSA. I would not feel comfortable with the TSA even taking her out of my sight, because if anything abusive happened, she would not be able to communicate that, due to the aphasia.

It's surprising that people can be so nasty, but while a lot of the TSA people are decent folks that think they're doing something patriotic, some of them are bottom-of-the-barrel scum who would not be employable anywhere else. And some of them get off on having unchecked power.

There might actually be some kind of procedure to go with a person as a caretaker and be allowed to _stay_ with them, that I'm just unaware of.
> If a cop stops you on the street because he thinks you look suspicious, how do you respond?

This depends entirely on how much faith I have in the cop's capacity to operate within his legal boundaries.
This is great research, thank you.
According to his blog post, there is no limit on volume. I don't know where you're getting this 100ml number.
Can this become the inclusive way democracies are run.
"Apart from the obvious argument that flying is a privilege and not a right"

Really? Why is that true? Who gets to decide what's a "right" and what's a "privilege"? On what basis is that determined? What's the means by which the public can challenge those decisions?

Without appropriate answers to those questions, in what way is a society operation under those rules not a totalitarian state?
Here we go again, another "flying is a privilege" argument.

Flying is a right:
" A citizen of the United States has a public right of transit through the navigable airspace."
From http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/40103

I choose to exercise that right by hiring air travel with an airline.

Airspace is a public resource that belongs to everyone.
Pop, trance, electronica, club/dance music. Half of the music I listen to is garbage, but I listen to it for the beats.
It is hard for me to fathom the negative feelings towards Promises. They are quite clearly a great way to perform async programming in a civilized way (see Twitter's Future/Promise in Finagle on github). JDK 8 will even have the equivalent in CompletableFuture. The only thing better is to combine Promises with coroutines for a more linear programming style like in Flow: http://www.foundationdb.com/white-papers/flow/
iCloud can resolve this problem by letting your users edit data offline and
resolving any merge conflicts automatically (and in the case of iCloud Document
syncing, giving you some options to get feedback from the user to help resolve
the merge conflicts). If this worked seamlessly, it would add great value to
your product.

If it worked seamlessly, which it doesn't. Conflict resolution is very application specific, I'm not convinced that a one-size-fits-all automated solution will ever be able to handle the edge cases as well as the original developer, who has intimate knowledge of the problem domain and the structure of the data to be synced.

App Store Features: you might get featured by Apple on the App Store for using
their latest, greatest technologies.

Don't think this is relevant for iCloud anymore. Besides, Apple has featured tons of apps that do their own proprietary sync or use Dropbox for syncing. (e.g. Evernote, Omnifocus, 1Password). The quality of the app is much more significant than the APIs it uses.

Future Plans to move to Android / Web: a legitimate concern. But why not wait
till your iOS product has grown big enough to have substantial demand for
Android and/or Web, and develop your custom back-end solution then?

Migrating your user's data off iCloud one year later is going to be a massive, massive pain to deal with. And database syncing is not like file syncing, it won't be trivial to integrate another syncing mechanism into the application. Things will start to get quite messy if you also want to interleave iCloud in there for backwards compatibility.
Telomeres exist to prevent out of control cell reproduction, ie cancer. Turn them off and you get a very high cancer rate.

That's not to say we can't end aging by extending them, but it's not that simple.
Just FYI, they tested the liquid in question for explosives and of course it turned up negative (as can be seen near the end of the video). Would requiring a doctor's note or more explanation really make any of us safer. I'm sure the terrorists have doctors too. I think the main point here was this was already decided in court and even put into policy and the TSA just disregarded it.
> Perhaps you're like me a decade ago and you don't even realise when you're insulting someone ...

You have something against salesmen? I described this person as a salesman, after he identified himself as a salesman. Which part of this aren't you getting? He has a vested interest in the position he was putting forth. That fact, the fact that his livelihood depends on the continued belief in the predictability and malleability of equities trading, is germane to the conversation. It prevents objective evaluation of evidence.

> ... in a way that would not come across as insulting.

Not every salesman is Willy Loman, and the insult you saw is solely in your mind.

He said: "I humbly invite you to consider the past and future returns of the fund I work for ..."

By referring to "future returns", he went beyond any rational position, and he directly contradicts the position taken by the SEC on this issue (brokers should never make claims about future performance).

He is a salesman. Talking to him about this issue is a waste of time. Those are the facts.
It's not an exemption from the rules when the rules explicitly say that it's cool.
Picking a model plaintiff for litigation of this type is very important. Just look at how the plaintiffs in what became DC v. Heller (the case that established the 2nd Amendment as an individual rather than a collective right) were selected:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller...
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> Just saying it is 'medical' is not enough, otherwise anything would go through just by saying the magic word.

Legally speaking, just saying it's 'medical' should be enough to trigger a testing for safety, followed by permitting it through.

You're not required to reveal a particular disease (or use of something) under the ADA.
Calling someone you disagree with "fucking stupid" strongly suggests an argument based on empty emotion, not reasoning.

"Privilege" is a false concept in any political discussion. Privileges are granted by the owner of the privilege. But the government does not own my life, nor any aspect thereof, nor any aspect of anybody else's life, including their property. We are not owned by the government. To hold otherwise is fundamentally anti-freedom and pro-authoritarian.

So to reduce that to this particular case: The government does not own airlines, airplanes, airspace, or myself. And even though it does own airports, _we_ (the people) paid for that. So, flying is not a privilege.
Well, there's this thing called the Supreme Court, which has established various lower courts, and if you don't like the way things are you find a sympathetic lawyer and file a lawsuit in which you make your argument about how things ought to be different.

I don't like to be condescending, but come on, this stuff is in the constitution too. I feel like sometimes people just read the bill or rights and completely ignore the rest of the thing.
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Not trolling! Honest!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmid#Vectors
Yeah there might be some issues with it if it became very popular. However there are already so many StarCraft apps in the app store that I thought maybe Blizzard is okay with it.
Wouldn't it be better to have a brief public profile online like name profile pic and basic info while keeping the user's share data on user's devices themselves. So on need to give your friends your profile. All the best for the project
While you're obviously right (Oracle _did_ pay more that whatever Google offered (if anything), in retrospect perhaps blinkingled's assertion that $7B might have been a reasonable amount for Google to have offered seems at least arguable. In one sense perhaps you are oversimplifying - sure Oracle was in a better place to use some of Sun's assets, but Google is clearly now in a dangerous place having a competitor like Oracle owning major parts of technology Google's mobile strategy depends on. Whether that's seven billion dollars worth of danger I have no idea - but I suspect there are people at Google regretting the decision _not_ to buy Sun (or more specifically, buy Java and get all the rest of Su for free) back when they had the opportunity.