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How to Rip Blu-ray to Samsung Galaxy Tab P7510 on Mac
If someone says that Samsung electronics is not a great corporation, she or he might get lots of criticisms.

Its Galaxy series, which has branded both smart phone and tablet, is weighing much heavy day in day out. Galaxy Tab P7510, is one of those 10.1 inch tablet series. It has a 1280*800 super PLS-based display, which enables astounding performance in playing HD movies. Here is a well-known Blu-ray Ripper software for Mac platform, DVDFab Blu-ray Ripper for Mac, which helps you convert your Blu-ray movies on your Mac to Samsung Galaxy Tab P7510 compatible videos.
Did your dying friend really had to see an iPad? I mean, in her last moments, who cares about a bigger iPhone? I'm not trolling, I'm myself a tech enthusiast, and I'm not quite sure I'd expect from a friend to come tell me goodbye and show me his "latest toy he's been working on lately".
Better methods:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
This doesn't amaze me at all. Once I read an email, if I don't respond immediately, there's a good chance I'll forget and never respond at all.
It's a nice idea, in theory. Trying to implement it could be a total economic/political nightmare, especially if it was something along the lines of 'hey, we've got a pretty good hunch, revamp your entire method of producing corn/honey/whatever for n years, and let's see. maybe you can have it back afterward.'
I spent a summer in Haiti. There were blackouts every night... The skies looked just as beautiful as the ones linked.
Similar situation in San Jose, CA: http://mthamilton.ucolick.org/public/lighting/Cooperation2.h...
If you're dealing with high volumes of email, terse responses are the only way to keep up. All this guy needed was the ok; that's what he got.
I remember there were some organizational issues - is that what you mean by "the disaster that was S12"?
RFID tags on tickets could accomplish this and have been being tested for a while now but haven't got much adoption yet unfortunately. Hopefully more soon. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/04/world_cup_rfid/
Meh, I picked that a random. If you want a little more in depth analysis try: http://www.epi.org/publication/us-student-performance-testin...

As to the non industrialized countries yes we beat zimbabwe etc. Often studies only compare industrialized nations as doing otherwise is a waste of time.
This is a really interesting discussion.

We've seen a number of times people who are completely clueless about work when they get out of college. And we've seen people who are so engaged that they don't even finish college because the stuff they are working on takes over.

Between those two extremes are a whole bunch of people with questions, and I read the presentation as something Zach would have liked to have known when he was in that 'I'm in college but soon won't be, now what' phase. Clearly his advice isn't for everyone. I heard a talk at "career expo" from some guy in the enterprise consulting business and I immediately knew that "enterprise consulting" was not a career path I wanted to pursue.

Zach clearly works at a startup because it is fun. For him. For others it may not be. I personally like the shorter decision cycles that a smaller company offers, but see the appeal that a more established company can offer. Some of my best jobs have been where the company was small when I joined and then got big enough that I didn't have to worry about it going away without some notice.

Working 60, 70, 80 hrs a week on something you don't like is not fun. I would strongly recommend you not do it. Working 40 hrs a week at BigCo that you don't enjoy at least frees up 20, 30, or 40 hrs a week to work on stuff you do like.

It seemed like Zach was saying do startups because you enjoy doing them, not because you want to get rich. You can get plenty wealthy working at BigCorp and participating in the employee stock program and socking away your 15% into your 401k. The warning though is that if you're doing this to get rich, you might want to re-check that. There is a lot of luck with getting rich, there is a lot of fun by following your passions.

The last bit is the 'unsuccessful startup' thing. Since a lot of startups fail at one time or another, it helps to think about that ahead of time. Since startups you weren't even at fail all the time you should re-assure yourself that it isn't your fault. The only personal failure you can have with a startup is that you don't learn anything. If you're not learning something you are doing it wrong. Lots of ways things can go right, lots of ways they can go wrong, and sometimes both on the same day.

Think of your career as a 25 - 50 year journey and realize that you the prize is learning a lot. At some point you drop dead and just before that, its nice to be able to look back fondly of the previous years.
Ciapre Xcode theme
So I've just ported this theme for Xcode from the original Sublime Text one.

Hope you guys like it! :)
Lessons Learned from YouTube’s $300M Hole
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In fact, I think this is a good example of needing to fully understand all use cases of a particular feature before making judgements on its usefulness. An integral part of working on a system is fully understanding the needs of all of the users, needs that may not have been intended during the primary design of the system.

I know I've fallen in to this trap before, where I've proposed a design change to a system and had a prototype manufactured only to have the workshop floor staff immediately explain why it's useless, because it cannot reproduce some unintended but now-important function of the original design.

Conversely, it's also good to look at unintended uses of previous designs. I've used equipment for functions it was never designed to do, but nevertheless proved to be a simple and effective solution.
I remember being disappointed that it was overcast during the blackout. I was so hoping to get a chance to see stars.
An interesting difference between your photos and the renditions linked here is that the buildings in yours are black silhouettes, while the ones here are fairly well lit up. That's the first thing that stuck out at me: if there is no light pollution, what is lighting the foreground buildings? If you look at the Hong Kong photo, for example, it looks like there is a ton of light pollution: all the buildings, plus the surface of the water in the harbor, are lit by a diffuse glow. The only exception is the sky, which is inexplicably not affected by the same glow, clearly giving away the Photoshopping.

Perhaps there's some combination of moon-lit conditions that would produce that effect, but it sure doesn't look right to me.
Moore’s Law vs. Murphy’s Law: Algorithmic Trading and Its Discontents
The context of this discussion started when people were complaining about the language designers being able to build in special functions that are type parametric. The implication was: if the language designers can do it, why won't they allow me to do it?

i.e., purity for purity's sake. It ignores legitimate trade offs between allowing a few special functions and building an entire generics system into the language.
Potential is there to make much more than. depends on the size of venue & unsold / unused # of premium seats, type of event, sport, etc
agree, i'd like citations as well.
What are the merits? This isn't a troll, I'm interested, because I can't stand it (or most Asple mice for that matter). Their trackpads on the other hand... Every iteration blows the old one away and I love them.
This isn't surprising. Let's look at how many people applied and how many acceptances were issued over the last few years:

* 2012-2013: 38,828 applied, 2210 accepted

* 2011-2012: 36,631 applied, 2427 accepted

* 2010-2011: 34,348 applied, 2427 accepted

* 2009-2010: 32,000 applied, 2300 accepted

There's a constant amount of spots and they take the same amount of people.

The reason they are now more selective (percentage-wise) is simply that more people applied.
I've had to deal with one scenario where ZFS fsck would have been very useful, though it comes up rarely: corruption leading to valid checksums, but bad ZFS data.

In my case[1], our setup died due to some power problems, and somehow, NULL pointers got written to disk with valid checksums. Normally this wouldn't happen, but when it does, it's a PITA to debug because trying to traverse/read the disk gives a kernel fault, instead of a segfault as you might see in a user-level fsck program. This was a real pain, as we had encrypted disks, and every reboot meant going through the disk attach steps (enter password, etc etc), every time.

As a result, a userspace implementation of scrubbing would be useful since in this sort of rare instance, I'd be able to probe the fsck process with a good debugger and see why it's crashing. Since it's in userspace, the fsck program can also quit more sanely, with a full report on where it found the corruption. I was able to get my data back via some ad-hoc patches, but it was an... interesting experience having to debug in kernel vs in userspace.

zdb isn't a substitute for most of these things as the on-disk compression and RAIDZ sharding makes it difficult to actually see the raw data structures. Max Bruning wrote a post a while back with an on-disk data walkthrough[2], where he wrote some patches to fix this, but they haven't made their way upstream yet. Additionally, FreeBSD and Linux don't have mdb. :(

[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2012-November/...

[2] http://mbruning.blogspot.com/2009/12/zfs-raidz-data-walk.htm...

edit: formatting
Uncovering a multimillions advertising fraud scheme.
I grew up in Tucson, I do remember amazing stars at night. I also remember seeing an observatory on Mount Lemmon. Never made that connection tho.
The summer I was 13 I went to summer camp in Minnesota, and one clear night the counselors took us in a bus out away from the camp, to a hilltop, and we lay on our backs and looked up. I could see the band of the milky way across the sky, and so many colors. I have never seen a night sky like that before or since. It was as vivid as these images depict.
Need to harden the tech before you run with the big boys!
Thanks for that -- I could really use something like that.
On a related note I did quite like the email replies that Steve Jobs would write when he was still around. I started to collect them at one point in a web site.

http://emailsfromstevejobs.com

At the time it felt like an interesting meme but over time I began to really feel the philosophy of the man and Apple not having previously been a fan of Apple.

To me the interpretation was that Steve always was product focused and wanted to put out the best user experience possible. I began to appreciate this customer focused approach. So I can see why he said 'OK'.
Reminds me of the dialogue in Kurosawa's Dreams movie in the part where there is a conversation with an old man in a treadmill village (I wouldn't like night so bright you could not see the stars) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1FIps--PGg
When simplicity is the solution
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>Fact is, the brothers of all the other people who attended that course could have (and might had) said the exact same things to their brother. And most of them would be proven wrong.

Exactly. But those people don't talk about it a decade later. And that's selection bias.
It doesn't really have anything to do with the insurance companies. Their margins on paper aren't that great, and even if those margins are bigger than they look, it's probably not a big difference one way or the other.

The major costs here are two-fold:
1) old people
2) doctors and hospitals (those huge, beautiful new buildings aren't free: http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/gfx/news/2012-year-revi...)
With terminator, you can have a windowing editor (vim) inside a windowing session manager (tmux) inside a windowing terminal (terminator).

Inception!
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The reason they are now more selective (percentage-wise) is simply that more people applied.

A more accurate description would be "Stanford's increased marketing efforts got more people to apply". It's a trend nationwide, a race to the bottom to game the school rankings system.

Edit: It's not limited to undergrad programs either. Business schools are at it as well.

Edit2: It helps their top line too. Application fees are something like $100, marketing costs are definitely an order of magnitude smaller, and the cost of processing one application (especially if they just get rejected right away) is quite minimal.
On a clear night without light pollution stars provide decent illumination. However, those photo's where clearly Photoshopped.
So you want to work for a startup?
For me, the caps lock key is that thing that i keep hitting by accident when i reach for shift+tab.
An introduction to using Android as an embedded OS
... oh ya, the USPS is relevant. When did snail mail drive the modernization of anything?
I am no huge fan of the BPD, and I don't deny that their tactics here were silly. But there is real history behind this issue, and it's a legitimate safety concern. It was only a few years ago that the Station fire happened less than fifty miles away from Boston; a hundred people died that night, and people haven't forgotten it, nor should they. This is an area that has a ton of old buildings that aren't coded for large numbers of people. It's a very real risk to pack people in.

And - fires happen fast. Between the moment a fire starts and the moment when people start dying, there generally isn't time for a neighbor to call the police and complain.

This isn't a noise issue; it's a fire hazard issue.
much more so than the idea that multiplying 66 by 1.27 would be the key thing in turning something that works into something unmanageable

Ever run into an n^2 algorithm?
I was in CT (just outside NYC) when Sandy hit. My area was out of power for about a week, and I remember sitting outside on our porch just after the storm started dying down, looking around and seeing... nothing. I hadn't realized just how many lights there were, even in my tiny little town. As much as that whole experience sucked (being without power, water, etc isn't fun), sitting on the porch and writing a song with my roommate that night is one of my favorite recent memories.

Makes me want to go out to the middle of nowhere for a while, just to experience the Real World (TM) again; it's been a long time.
> and at this point I'm now spending about $10k a year. I realize that doesn't sound like a ton of money

That's more than a third of the median US individual income.
Do You Sharpen Your Saw?
Great additions to an already great library. I've already found a use for this guy: http://jquerypp.com/#formparams Thanks for posting!
You're implying that someone who can't program is as capable of hiring trustworthy and skilled programmers as a programmer.
Learn how to use a frogpad, I use that when I was doing a lot of 3d modeling. One hand had access to the entire keyboard, the other hand never left the mouse.
Other countries also have old people, and I don't have any reason to think that doctors and hospitals are more expensive in the USA than they are elsewhere.
Thing to consider - how many drivers did that stripped down version include? Windows, at the least, still dominates in overall driver/hardware support.

From the article, a "smallish kernel + xyz" is hard to compare with what exactly is in "MinWin". I suspect the fact that http://www.c64web.com runs on an unmodified Commodore 64 blows your "smallish kernel" out of the water.

My point? You can make assumptions, but you need to know fully what your kernel and other bits include.
There's a lot of that kind of stuff that goes into signal-cleaning in observatories, especially those located near major cities (like the Lick Observatory outside San Jose). But it tends to be pretty site/telescope-specific, full of in-house custom code, so I'm not sure if there's anything good that a regular photographer could use to produce the same effect.
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It doesn't sound that much less horrific when you have to sleep with someone just to have a place to sleep.

As a society, why do we allow situations like this to persist?
It's one thing to offer a perspective and perhaps some constructive criticism, but at some point you have to realize you've stated your point and just step back a little. It's the repeated comments for me. Jobs said that in exchange to a long and tiresome email thread--he actually took the guy seriously at first and responded straightforwardly to his points.
> However, those photo's where clearly Photoshopped.

That's pretty much what the entire article was about. :)
I would be curious to read the applications of the people who got in.
at todays conversion rate one lottery was about 4 cents, and price money was about 20 cents. these lotteries were preprinted with the numbers and available only at lottery vendors across the town, one vendor would have about 20-100 of the same number, so if he believed he would win, he will buy one number each for the predicted number and one for one random number and then buy those 2 in volume of hundreds across the town. it was pretty addictive
As a Senior in high school who already works in a startup, I have another question: what shit should I being trying to learn in college?

There's a prominent attitude here that a degree in CS isn't all that practical—work experience matters more. What should I try to get from college? Just wondering if anyone can chime in.
Yep, Grindr notoriously has had great success with their app for non-straight people. It's something unique to that market, but when you try to speed up the dating process for straight people, it has always failed. Why? Because you're missing identity. Girls are still scared to meet strangers off the Internet when you speed the process up. And that's totally legit. I even worry about it sometimes, and I'm a guy. If you meet someone from OkCupid, and something happens, you have no way of knowing who is on the other end. You just don't know their true identity. So it's a huge risk.

To clarify, this is just me and another guy working on this. We don't get to spend 100% of our time writing code. We have to put a lot of thought into what to build first, before we build it. Social dating is more of a psychology game than anything. You can throw features at people, but unless they make the user comfortable and are highly engaging, it's all a waste of time. We're not trying to target straight people, we just haven't had the bandwidth to accomodate everyone else. We'll get there eventually though.
I can't help thinking that these books might have been keys for encrypting messages. Key-based substitution ciphers, such as the Vigenère cipher[1], were already known in the 1500s. If two people each had a copy of this book, they could send a key to each other by referring to a sequence of characters such as "the third row on page 25". The messenger who carried this message wouldn't be able to reconstruct the key without a copy of the book. If you wanted to give the code to somebody else, you wouldn't have to send them the book: just tell them the "seed" words and the algorithm for generating the pages, which could be sent separately, for security.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigen%C3%A8re_cipher
New Yorkers: 1993 is calling from a payphone.
It's the second and third vacation homes of the insurance/hospital administrators, equipment/drug suppliers, and doctors/surgeons you are paying for, not the hospital itself. The hospital itself is often getting massive tax breaks and other funding.

The problem is US health care is for-profit and the "American way" is that there is absolutely no limit on that profit, so they charge whatever they want.
Is it a code problem or a productivity problem?

Code productivity:
Using issue tracking like FogBugz or Github really helps you make sure you work on the important bits first to get a minimum viable product.

I try to think 'Lean Startup' on my projects. Only create the features you really need. Get the bare minimum thing working properly and get feedback/testing from someone who would actually use your product/service. Iterate. Be agile.

More generally:
The basic productivity techniques can be a distracting read http://www.43folders.com/howto.

Breaking things down to much can create overhead. I've been trying to improve the way I stay on task. Not just working on the project, but working on the most critical parts without getting distracted. Its too easy go on a tangent, and research something which wasn't critical.

I'm currently refining a method I call ReasearchLock: keeping track of the current task so I don't deviate from it. Things which appear critical often turned out not to be if I tried to get by without them and just left them for later.

I outlined my original idea in a note: http://njoin.co.uk/grains/5107d5516decf91f10000002 but have refined it since.
No. There were already massive amounts of people exiting the market in 2011 (price went down from $30 to $2 in 6 months) yet Bitcoin did not fail.
If that was put in a savings account and used for health expenses, is there anyway it wouldn't be a better option? By the time something bad happens, statistically, there should be a fair bit of cash there. It's worth noting that I'm not in the US, and while I know care is expensive in the US, I may be under estimating it.
I'm pretty far from 20something myself and I live on less than 10k a year (in the usa).

If I needed 10k for a medical problem I'd be completely screwed. It's not like they will treat cancer in the emergency room.
a constant amount of spots

a 10% variation isn't what I'd call 'constant' exactly.
I kind of figured that's probably just what they did. Being none of those things, I didn't really check them out.
That's neat. It still leaves one related question unaswered for me. How would one go about making something like this [1] (but with arbitrary similar changes)?

[1] http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/6721/imagehy.png
"minus the atmosphere and with eyes that will absorb stars luminosity for 20s straight"
let's not confuse it.
There are varying degrees of harm. The fact that equally effective free alternatives to mp3 never caught on makes this obvious. My point was that Stallman is not right 100% of the time, as the above poster asserted.