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> I find the blog post with a title "setting up sublime" that doesnt cover the package manager for plugins pretty laughable. Its kind of the best part.

Installing package control is basically the first thing this post covers.
Why do they need to be consistent?
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1500-1900 hours per year is considerably more than most software engineers? Are you sure you haven't miscalculated somewhere along the way to derive that?

Assuming we're talking about the US, I just don't see how that assertion can hold water. 2000 hours per year is a widely-held rule of thumb for "full time" employment - 40 hours a week * 50 work weeks per year. 1500 hours means you average a 30 hour work week or take a tremendous amount of vacation - neither of which sound anything like the employment situations for "most software engineers."
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Even then, out of the box, the only services listening to ports are dhcp and mdns.
Obviously on a case by case basis. I've seen app downloads that come from rankings to be lower quality than those that come through other channels.

If you are trying to build a real business a 3:1 LTV is very reasonable.
I saw it covered on CNN and other network news. They were comparing the acquisition to something like Youtube or the starting of facebook. I think it definitely plays to the heart strings of the american dream. "17 year old kid hits it big all thanks to the generous folks at Yahoo and his hard work"
Ops is not about building the platform, it's about running the service.
clever code: keeping an empty todo commit in the repo tree.

clear code: keeping a textual todo or org mode file committed in the repo.

While this is another fun and a clever trick that can be done with git and it delights the geek within me, I wouldn't do this while collaborating on production code with a team.
Is this just for developers or are other positions like UX or product design eligible?
I would be interested to see the Summly summarization of this article! I think it would read something like this:

Yahoo bought Summly, a startup with an app that not many people used, made no money, and employed no technical geniuses (since it wasn't actually built by them), because Marissa Mayer believes summarization technology is "going to be huge for Yahoo".
The article isn't clear but could it be that Summly has a licensing deal with SRI for their "summarisation technology" and Yahoo wants to take full ownership of that "summarisation technology" and the licensing deal Summly has means that's not possible for Yahoo to do? For example Summly could have the only (maybe exclusive?) 5 year license on whatever... so Summly is acquired by Yahoo and now Yahoo has the only license and full ownership?

Would Yahoo acquiring the licensed SRI technology allow them to void any existing licenses?
Thats 7 superbowl ads.
Could you give an example of the WPA intercept system you speak of (SFF / Tesla)?

There are some interesting things on the Harris site, but seemingly no open source info on such systems they may have.
Also, if it is true that a) Summly got a better deal than Yahoo! could've; and b) that those terms were transferrable in the case of a change of ownership ... well, some poor dumb bastard at SRI legal is probably having a very bad month.
This is sort of like if Google announced they are building a 50 ft. wall around the city of Austin, and then AT&T announces they are building a 50 ft. wall around the wall that Google is building.
Further, D'Aloisio deserves credit for outsourcing technology development and app development to the right firms, and coalescing their work into a product that made him millions.

I can't tell if this is a brilliant dog-whistle dig or if it's actually being said without irony.
I can't help but think of the environmental repercussions of this, should it come to pass. I can imagine that the cost of heating millions of houses and apartments during the day far exceeds the cost of heating a lesser number of shared office buildings and other collective spaces.

An alternative would be if those millions of information workers worked out of coffee shops and the like during the day, but at that point, what is the benefit over working in an office?
Legally Austin is under no obligation to give AT&T the same deal.
I think it would have been fair for Prof. Galloway to reply, "I understand my policy inconvenienced you, but it is my policy for a very good reason, and I'm not changing it."

There's an interesting clash here between the view of students as supplicants receiving the privilege of an education, and the view of them that you suggest, which is as consumers paying for a service. I think there's some truth in both perspectives.

I definitely agree, though, that the school should get out in front of this. If students really have so little information on which to make irreversible course choices, that seems like a problem to me. Your video suggestion is an excellent one.
But they don't even host their own database servers?
It seems like there should be a pretty easy way around the claims of favoritism: Come up with the terms (e.g. right of way and easy licenses if you install gigabit fiber to x thousand homes with no caps and observe network neutrality), then let companies bid on the contract, and open bidding to any qualified organization. Google can put in a nominal bid and take it if no one submits a competing bid, or AT&T can outbid them if they want, but then AT&T has to pay to build the network under those terms and Google can just move on to the next city.
>I wonder what types of conversations Google & Dell have been having?

Pretty sure the answer to that is zero.
Not available in the UK store.
I wonder if you could write an extension to an existing game/mmo to use the same code-as-spell system.
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http://southasia.oneworld.net/news/kolkata-slums-face-forced...

They're destroying the slums without making alternative housing arrangements. (Turkey's done some of this as well. Tarlabasi and Sulukule are prime examples. It's destroying communities, but India is much worse about it.)

I'd argue that Turkey is actively trying to destroy cultural identity as an extension of decades old habits, regardless of the government in power. (I'm not a Turkish apologist by any means.) However, I think this is getting off the main point of original post, so I'll stop here.
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Professionals also can (and do) get a ton of mileage out of the Air. I don't see why a distinct 15" Air model couldn't have targeted the same market.

Also, just because professionals aren't hardcore computer nerds doesn't mean they don't desire to upgrade. In particular, creative professionals (graphic artists, video editors, musicians) can always make use of more storage and performance, and in days past, many of these non-nerds would become savvy enough to upgrade whatever they could. Hell, even my parents know what memory is, and that more is better.

It's Apple's product line, they can do what they want. But as a result of their decision, many power users are clinging to the last-gen product line, because it's still upgradeable, and a truly "Pro" Mac laptop is no longer available for sale. (Technically, you can still buy the old form factor, but we all know which way the wind is blowing.)
It's popular because it's pretty, not because its code is nice.

If you're genuinely interested in a framework that is actually sanely implemented (IMO), check out Foundation:
http://foundation.zurb.com/

It's unfortunate that it's not more popular, since it was the framework that actually inspired Bootstrap, but I can see why people think bootstrap is 'prettier'...
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That is a very good question. Their rules, their interpretation. I could see that line of thought.

I guess it would help me as a consumer from the standpoint of any confusion. I don't develop IOS apps, so I can't speak to the fairness of the process. I am an IOS user and it would irritate me if an app I like, such as Southwest's, is pulled all of the sudden for a rule that wasn't enforced consistently.
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Well, it's sort of serious. A lot of people seem to think that "Professional" implies something about the target market that means the computer should be upgradeable/have a firewire port/use compact flash/sport a replaceable battery/etc. But it could actually imply exactly what the word suggests, and yet still mean none of this.

In actual fact, of course, it implies nothing, and that's why it means none of the above. "Pro" is just a badge, as meaningless as the "Sport" that adorns my car (4 doors, diesel engine).
Why does this actually matter? This is an honest question. I don't use Launchpad, but its presence on the system doesn't affect me any more than the presence of Photo Booth does.

I've been using OS X since version 10.2, I think (maybe even 10.1, looking at the timeline), and came to it in large part because it married things I liked about the Mac--but never quite enough to justify buying one--with the things I liked about FreeBSD and, to some degree, BeOS. And with every iteration of the OS it got easier for everybody to use.

But it's also gotten better for power users to use. Automator keeps seeing improvements. AppleScript, for both better and worse, doesn't seem to be going away. The Terminal app has gotten improvements with every release. And Mission Control -- whether you personally like it or not -- represents the latest in what's very clearly a quixotic quest on Apple's part to get everyone in the world to love virtual desktops. Mission Control may not be nerdy enough for you personally, but its very existence is pretty nerdy. (And I actually think power users should give it a chance; it's certainly not like anybody else's virtual desktop management system, but once I got used to it I found it struck a really nice balance between power and usability.)

Certainly, OS X is getting better at catering to neophytes and is bringing over ideas from iOS. But I don't see anything substantial that they're taking away from OS X in the process, and that should really be what concerns us, shouldn't it? If you start hearing credible rumors that they're taking away your shell prompt, then the sky may really be falling. But as long as you can still do everything you could before, complaining about the fact that you can also do swipey stuff on your trackpad and pull up a big iPhone grid of applications seems just a little silly.
Except that in practice, weights of gold are not used as a medium of exchange in almost every market in the world. Gold may be used as a store of value, but so can land, buildings, collector's items, etc. One of the defining characteristics of currency is its use as a medium of exchange in a market.
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Are there sources for the $30 million? I've only seen it mentioned in secondary sources, never in an official Yahoo press release (or similar). I suspect that was leaked, and the real price was much lower.
I discovered I could be really good at it, whereas I previously thought I was too old to learn musical instrument. Just have to find the correct way to learn that suits me. But time is so expensive that I'd rather spend my time on my biggest passion which is programming.
If you are holding out more than a few months, might as well wait for the next one.
just2n already provided plenty of substance. Don't expect me to repeat what he's already written.
Originally, Macs were defined in four quadrants: Desktop vs. Portable, and Consumer vs. Pro. Each meant something very specific, trying to meet the needs of the different computing markets at the time.

These days, though, the quadrants are gone, and the names are mostly just branding fluff.
You miss the big picture. Digital currencies will exist as an instrument to hedge against currency fluctuations, commodity manipulation, and to let you deploy liquid money into assets with calculable appreciation/depreciation rates.

It won't take much more than a large industry coalition to settle the price fluctuation around bitcoins, which will follow the basic organic market coalition... i.e. vendors accepting bitcoins.

In the future, we may not be using bitcoins, but you can bet we're going to be using coins made of bits. I don't know if my bitcoins will be worth anything eventually, but they will be an artifact of great change at least.
I've seen this in a couple places, but I'm not sure I understand why. Does anybody know of a good reason for teaching java first?
Lots of professors are assholes. Some are good people. Some are jackasses who've never set foot in the real world and humiliate 18-22 year olds just because they get their rocks off on it.
All I ever hear about shorting is that it's risky. It's literally lesson #1[1].

*[1] https://www.khanacademy.org/science/core-finance/stock-and-b...
> I know the article repeatedly talks about employees paying additional tax, but at glance such taxes would seem to be paid by employers?

It would be paid by the employees. Such expenses are tax deductible by employers regardless of whether it’s a taxable benefit or just a cost of doing business.

Of course the incidence of the tax may be different, for example if, due to market forces, employers have to give people raises to cover the increased tax liability.
I don't know, another comment echoing the same thing is like two people talking to you. An upvote doesn't hold the same weight psychologically (at least to me). Maybe more could be said than "this", but that's just me.
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It depends on the action. If I were in the same situation as the student, I might have been slightly annoyed. I might even have been murderous.

But I would calm down after 15 minutes and realize he was right.

It always happens with my instructors.
This makes perfect sense.

1. Google's competitors are using Android to compete with Google. Look at Samsung and Facebook
2. Google is providing free Android Support to it's competitors because of it's licensing structure.
3. Google is a web company and they are a big supporter of web and web apps.
4. Google is pushing Chrome packaged apps to make them ready for mobile. Dart is there for this reason I believe
5. Chrome OS licensing do not allow abuse like Android
There it is. I wondered how far I'd have to read before we had a Java hate comment. Never fails.
I had a bunch when they were $5. I kick myself every single day.
There is a middle ground, and that is embodied by the cities of Portland and Austin. Cost of living is ridiculously cheap compared to the tech hubs, there is a burgeoning startup culture, and the salary that lets you afford a 500 sqft apartment within public transport range of the office in SF/NYC gets you a house and a yard within biking distance.

There is also the strategy of saving your SF/NYC salary while living in comparative squalor, then retiring early in a cheap place that you love.

I picked the first option, as I value roots, family, and home life more than a glitzy software career. You couldn't pay me enough to move.
Yeah... I guess? Doesn't really help it make sense....
I actually stopped reading Gizmodo because i thought the article where they made him cry a few years back was too far. Shaming a 15 year old kid publicly no matter how annoying seemed too far. Now he successfully gets summly acquired and the support for and shade that has been thrown at this kid has been so massive. I still don't know what to think of the kid, but I do think that SRI's tech definitely meets the needs of Yahoo and would fit perfectly with their media content.
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Lock-free B+ trees seem like a natural and good idea.
However, it's hard to evaluate how it compares to previous work, in part because this paper uses completely different terminology than any paper I've ever read on lock-free or wait-free data structures. For starters, it uses 'latch' and 'latch-free' probably a hundred times, in lieu of the ubiquitous'lock' and 'lock-free' . I gather from Google that this is an Oracle thing[1]; they call spinlocks 'latches' and more complicated queueing locks 'enqueues'.

It would also be good to know more about the skip list implementation they compared against; their description in VI.A doesn't sound like any concurrent skip list I'm aware of (e.g., Java's java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentSkipListMap). They don't say what all their BW-tree implementation includes, but if it's just the data structure, 10k lines of C++ is an order of magnitude larger than even pretty complex concurrent skip lists.

[1] http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTI...
h1 is an indicator to the search engine that you consider that blurb/content to be the most important on the page. So the h1 should be optimized for the keywords you are trying to rank for. Also, if you have a bunch of h1 tags on a single page, it can actually dilute the weight of your most important heading. I recommend using just one h1 tag on a page to keep Google from having to guess what is most important. I also recommend not using any other h tags on the page for the same reason. Don't try to rank for a bunch of keywords on one page. Instead, concentrate on one or related keywords per page and use h tags to signal to the search engine what you think is most important.

Search engines are dumb. Make everything really obvious to them.
Can you put an ad on the site itself? One of your users may have an interest in keeping the site alive.
Wow, that's a lot of code! A simple as anything go example: https://gist.github.com/minikomi/4563344
Plain old price discrimination? I wouldn't expect SRI to try to get a Yahoo-sized license fee out of some tiny startup.
Would really like to know what problem anyone has with this submission. Useful for anyone who needs to reach people in Twitter.
I actually did almost buy TP the other day after an unpleasant encounter with the new post-sequester personal hygiene equipment. But I forgot as soon as I sat down at my desk and apparently the bad TP was an accident and not actually due to the budget crunch.

But yeah, the memo is spot-on in many respects (15.62 exact == smartass) but unrealistic in others. For example I haven't seem this many words correctly spelled in a memo since I was on submarine duty, and no one here would be able to figure out how to word logic as twisted as that described.

Instead they would probably omit major details that need deciding while repeating minor details, slightly differently each time so that you can't be sure whether it's a unique requirement or not...
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I would. I hold no one else up to a bar higher than I hold myself. And I set the bar high. I've got no time for whiners and losers and this student's behavior is beyond the pale.
No, I expect top 10 lists, press releases, and slideshows!
I'm using firefox on os x, and I'm getting some weird anti-aliasing on some of the sites text, for example my user name on the header bar + the text in the lower right corner on the dashboard page.

Other than that, looks great.
You will, it's built into the next version of SQL Server.
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the optimum financial endgame for a company like Google is to basically turn into some mega corporation that pays its employees almost minimum wage

The pay for Google engineers is certainly not trending towards minimum wage.
It`s not a Java hate comment: I'm writing this as an educator with 20 years teaching experience who has learned that some languages are better teaching ones than others. Java has its place ... but another language would be better suited there.
"does nothing to improve the image that Yahoo has no idea what it's doing."

I think that's true, but only true to those people who read (or remembered or understood) beyond "Yahoo buys hot new company, hot new technology, hot new talent". The PR implication is that Yahoo is investing in once again being hot and new.

For those of us who understand the details of the company and product being bought, Yahoo's reputation was already entrenched. For the majority of readers, however, "hot new Yahoo" was the takeaway[1].

[1] Based on my experience as a journalist / writer, and the half dozen people who raised Summly in conversation with me the week the acquisition went public.
Until the fix everything was possible.

I think they meant "within this few weeks period you could not fixate CSRF token"
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Yahoo is already famous - heck, they generated headlines for the termination of working from home mode.

There is little need to pay 30 million dollars for some headlines.
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Good idea. I will put a small banner ad about the auction on the site. In case anybody is wondering, the site for sale is http://WikiCancel.org/
But now there is double the incentive to artificially drop the value of BitCoin as much as possible, no?

I don't know how trading bitcoins work, but won't this increase volatility both ways in addition to overal stability (taken as an average).
It's pretty much the same code strewn about a single file. I wouldn't say it's much fewer lines of code.
This is aimed at elementary and high school students, not at CS students. Java may be an acceptable choice for introduction to programming in CS programs, but that is not the purpose of that software which aims to introduce programming, not computer science.
I don't like how they treated him.

However I think it does expose the difference between media reporting(tech genius,visionary, future leader, hard working) and actual reality(Narcissistic, child like, unprofessional). And those traits have been exposed again, since he claimed to invent the tech and developed the app in the media. Media have hailed shower of praises, mainly because he uses a top PR agency.

Its kind of depressing for me, because it seems to mean being showy, and having a good PR facade is worth far more than people doing the actual work.
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Funny that neither Google nor Bing know what "tdl" is on the first page of results; luckily, tdldb makes it work.
Maybe they got an exclusive license when yahoo wasn't event remotely interested in the tech. Just a guess.
So you're bigoted against those who exhibit bigotry?
There's no point, eh? That's a great way to avoid holding anyone accountable for their peers' behavior or their own behavior.

The way to address this is to call people out on their sexist bullshit and force them to own it, not to ignore it and thereby grant tacit approval.
I can confirm this. The couple of times I've had issues they did a good job at adressing it and the att rep actually sounded helpful. Not some tired person who couldn't care less.
This don't make closed allocation any less flawed though.
Code Spells? Sheesh, sounds a _lot_ like Land of Lisp, but done with Java. Wonder what Conrad Barski thinks of this.