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Nope, I will pay in bitcoins. I fully intend to pay in bitcoins (which I have set aside), regardless of the value, but reserve the right to pay in cash in case something happens to mine AND they become ridiculously expensive. I would pay $500/coin to buy them back in the case you describe. I would not pay $10,000/coin, however, if my 10 were stolen. Just protecting myself and my family from a crazy event.
Windows Update bug renders PCs unbootable in Brazil
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It's wayyyyyyy too late in the game for foursquare to ignore monetization entirely
You will eventually die. Why bother eating?
How to rewrite your commit history with Mercurial
"RabbitMQ could not enqueue/dequeue fast enough"? I think the STOMP plugin was still pre-production a year ago. You may want to try using RabbitMQ 3.x..
This is the kind of product that would benefit from having a video on the landing page. Thirty seconds max.

Also, test the pricing from $25 to $24.99 or $29.99.
Agreed. To me this is a story of lack of professional common sense. When this guy spoke, he spoke as someone with (implied) inside knowledge of both his employer and his industry.

He should have either stressed he did not have inside knowledge and this was his personal opinion, or he should have said nothing. The problem with the first option is that he did have inside knowledge.

Put another way, if he had said something that had affected stock price, he would probably face criminal charges.

That's reason enough to shut the heck up, bite his lip, and let the internet be wrong. All of us with inside knowledge about our employers (specially if our employer is a public company) do that routinely.
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I believe String literals are guaranteed to be == in the same source file by the spec, although it's been some years since I could quote chapter and verse for that.
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The main friction IMO is exchanging fiat currency for btc. It's ridiculous. Sign up for gox, send a bunch of private identifying documents (to a site that's been hacked), send a wire transfer, wait a week... craziness.

I wanted to buy $10k of btc last week @ ~$100, I didn't have any open accounts anywhere, so I used coinbase... which limited the amount I could buy. I ended up with 0.2 BTC, which didn't post in my account until late last night.

Looking at today's quotes, it probably for the best.
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If true, this is concerning. The public domain is already under attack from increasingly aggressive copyright term extensions.

This does touch on a point I've been wondering about recently. Let's say I write an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet where the main characters are all robots and the setting is in space. From my understanding, I can claim copyright on my new work so long as it contains sufficient new creativity and transformation. My new work would be considered a derivative work from the public domain original, and I would hold the copyright for my work.

The question is, what happens when someone else creates an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet where the main characters are all pirates and the setting is the ocean?

If my work were an original, I could sue the creator of the pirate version because his version was a derivative work of mine and he didn't have my permission to create it. But obviously, he can say his is a derivative of the public domain version, not my version.

How do all these rights interact? My mind gets tied up in knots trying to work it out.
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The medallion is what puts teeth on the enforcement of those rules. It's very easy for the owner of a fly-by-night cab company to get new drivers back on the street, perhaps operating under a wholly new LLC with new livery. It's not easy for that owner to get new medallions.
Hijacking plane's navigation system with an Android app
Thanks! If you want to use ClojureScript, maybe just work in an editor of your choice and paste into the site for now. I do that anyway when I play with it, as I prefer Sublime to Ace.

Right now it starts a game 1 minute after the previous one ends. I will likely speed that up as the number of submissions increases.
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Sounds awesome.

This is probably one of the best things about being a programmer. You can work from home (or a coworking space) and live anywhere in the world.

The article and others like it usually allude to soul-sucking management-heavy corporate environments. It's no surprise to me that people don't want to work there late into middle age (as programmers).

I also work from home, have never worked in a corporate environment and probably never will.
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That would just be a hash collision. They all have 'em. You not only need to be able to get to THINGS, you need to get to THINGS in an arithmetic sequence of non-article words (first from the first, second from the second, third from the third, and so on). Given that even in an exhaustive dictionary, the definitions are finite in length (and that the hash space is only three words short of the message space), the collision frequency is probably pretty low. In much the same way, I don't need to know your password, I just need to stumble across something that hashes to the same value. (It would likely be useless elsewhere even if you use the same password everywhere, unless the same salt, peppper and hash algo are being used there as well, but it'll still work on that one account.)
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This seems to be a problem with social media in general. It doesn't encourage us to be our authentic selves but instead forces us to constantly be only who are allowed to be under scrutiny from others (usually strangers) - not the same thing. The fear is that with so much more of our lives getting scrutinized, the project of becoming an individual might become less and less possible.
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There are two big lessons from this discussion, IMHO.

Firstly, broad character sets are all very well, but they have limited value if you can’t rely on everyone using your text being able to see them. Something like the ö (o-umlaut) is a reasonable thing to expect in modern Western fonts, but what about the emoticons I’m increasingly seeing in e-mails, or more advanced mathematical operators, or the cat in the title of this very article that many people commenting here can’t see in some contexts?

We need much better standardisation and prioritisation of sets of related glyphs that are, for example, permitted by the coding standards for a software project or supported by a font file. ASCII is too small, all of Unicode is too big, and picking glyphs for inclusion in fonts one at a time is too fine-grained for this purpose.

Secondly, it is crazy that with literally a million code points available in Unicode world, we don’t seem to have new control characters for “begin literal” and “end literal” to mark a range of text that should be interpreted verbatim regardless of context. Instead, we’re still using horrible hacks like quoting and escaping in environments like command lines and source code, and in text file formats like comma- or tab-separated values. These kinds of techniques are, invariably, horribly error-prone and terrible for usability; after all, in the case we’re discussing, it seems to be the apostrophe that is causing more problems than the ö! I think the computing world would be a much easier place for many, many people if there were one universal standard way of saying, “This is plain text”.
I think that is a false economy - yes you always have to understand what you are outsourcing but the opportunity cost of a developer good enough to get invites to conferences is a lot - and I should put him on making a video uploaded and catalog page when lanyd do it all day? Nah just a days extra "tidying up" will blow months of lanyard prices
I hope that Reg FD will be fixed to consider Twitter as "fair disclosure".
Very interesting. If it were me I would create plugins for the major CMSs that embed your solution in a dashboard page.

Try to eliminate as much friction as possible.

Have you consider email delivery options for the data?
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"Personal Twitter accounts are dead" is a bit over-the-top.

* He didn't make inflammatory comments that were un-related to work. He was directly commenting on a rumoured feature of an upcoming product that he is over seeing.

* He made no attempt to distinguish this as a personal Twitter account. On the contrary, he 'prominently' displayed his employer and position.

* There's no reason that he couldn't have had a personal Twitter account without identifying information (i.e. pseudo-anonymous).
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They're slightly similar cases but still pretty different. Adria Richards was a spokesperson for the company, that was her official role, Adam Orth was not. And despite that, Orth's comments hurt his employer because people took them as official, whereas Richards' hurt SendGrid not for that reason, but because people disagreed with her actions and therefore wanted her employer to take action against her - i.e. the backlash was to punish her, not because people directly blamed SendGrid.
Having "rhetoric" in the first place puts you squarely in the public eye when you're in a high-profile position. If you can't keep that out of your public presence -- personal or professional -- then you're taking a risk, and not being aware of that just isn't an excuse at that point.
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I'm an open-borders type, and I think it's designed to drive labor costs down too. I think the tell here is the desire to expand the H-1B program, which I believe tends to lock people into one job and reduce their negotiating power.
I am happy he left/got fired.
The guy does not belong in gaming.
> so why hasn't there been more uptake?

Because generally, those of us who are interested in that sort of thing just use OS X.

> but you can make it pretty if you want it to be.

I theoretically could, for a short amount of time. But Cocoa is largely developed in private by Apple.

It still sees substantial changes and additions that get flung upon us every year. Hopefully those changes could get implemented before the next June WWDC, but there aren't enough people interested in doing so.

> Why don't more people work on the project?

Again, because those people just use OS X.

In order to be successful, I think GNUstep would have to grow on its own merits, similar to how Mono has grown, with its own popular frameworks and technologies beyond just tracking Microsoft .NET. Mono also has the advantage of using C#, which is more familiar to the masses, so who knows of GNUstep could duplicate Mono's success.

Summary: The people who care just use OS X.
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>>Engineers aren't going to work on clearing systems and tradable product catalog systems (zzzzzzz) because their parents were bankers (if that was the case, they'd be bankers).

I think this is a strawman.

Let me give you an example: my parents are doctors. For a long time I thought about being a doctor, but ultimately decided against it. I like healthcare a lot, and I like the types of people in healthcare. I just did not want to become a doctor. I became an engineer instead.

That said, even as an engineer, I have a predisposition towards working in the healthcare industry. I'm familiar with it and I understand how it works. I know people in it, through my parents. As such, it makes sense for me to get a job in healthcare.

It has nothing to do with money. In fact, research clearly shows that after a certain amount (around $75k on average), money stops being a motivator for knowledge workers. At the end of the day, doing what you enjoy and working with people you like is priceless.
Everything personal is dead once its negatively impacting your employer because of your poor judgement.
I think the parent addressed this pretty clearly.

"If you say something dumb in a conversation, it floats away on the wind unless someone else involved makes a concerted effort to tell people about it."
Companies really need do be less uptight and more grown up about the web. People share their opinions all the time, even gasp on the web. Get over it.

I recall that MS employees can blog at microsofts domain, but there is a disclaimer that opinions expressed in blog posts not necessarily reflect the policies of MS. That is a more suitable way to handle things.

Twitter isn't even connected to MS. Seriously.
Started programming at 12, didn't stop until now and I like it more and more (getting close to 40).

The author seems to jump to generalizations. For example, from "I can’t find the enthusiasm to program anymore" he goes on to "we try to discover new sources of inspiration". Who's this "we" he's talking about?
Hydrogel process developed at Stanford creates transparent brain
I believe the weather information comes from both an on board doppler radar and ACARS. ACARS is basically text messaging for airplanes over VHF.
> Excluding them from opportunity simply because they were born on the other side of some arbitrary, imaginary line is cruelty and selfishness beyond belief.

National borders are not arbitrary, imaginary lines. One of the fundamental attributes of a sovereign entity is the ability to define "inside" and "outside" and control the flow between "inside" and "outside" just as that is one of the fundamental attributes of a organism.

People everywhere are not the same. Those in your country are bound together with you in the social compact. Now, it's good and necessary to allow immigration to a certain extent, but in doing so the only consideration should be what maximizes the prosperity of those who are already part of the community. Anything else undermines the social compact, and those who lobby to systematically undermine the social compact in this way to depress wages and boost corporate profits verge on sociopathy.
More than likely.
This isn't much better than what Zed Shaw's book has for instuctions. Consider some screen shots, using Enthoughts or Continuum disributions, etc...
I joined on 2008-10-06 and by then it was already id 27786.

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Hey guys. My name is Blake West. I'm the co-inventor of Hummingbird. First, thanks for all the discussion. There really is no such thing as bad publicity. You've helped us crack 13k downloads in under 48 hrs. 2nd, I thought I'd just quickly respond here to some of the main points...

1.) "Traditional is fine. it's not broken": Neither were text-only command line interfaces. But GUI's are just easier to learn for most people.

2.) I am indeed a professional keyboardist, have been playing and reading traditional notation since age 7, and I also teach 25 students a week still. I know theory like the back of my hand, and can talk modes, b9 chords, and 12-tone rows all day long if you like. Jazz and pop are my thing and I play to lead sheets more often than not now a days. So I know this fro m both angles.

3.) We do have key signatures. They're at the start of each song in plain english. no need to be cryptic with symbols.

4.) Relative pitch notations seem like a good idea, but they really aren't. The function of a pitch is honestly pretty subjective and changes frequently in a song. Not to mention, they'd be much harder to learn, especially for young students. Relative pitch is an abstraction, and abstraction is the luxury of experts.

5.) Why not use a chromatic staff or other such layout? Because we actually wanted some adoption. Most other alternate systems have failed because they're SO different that they are completely alien. Ours is "backwards compatible", and also if you did want to switch over to traditional from Hummingbird, you could, and it's not that crazy.

6.) Why not use colors? Because music still gets printed and photo copied vey often, and will for at least another 5-10 yrs. And color printing is still 7x more expensive.

7.) "You can't hand-write the symbols". Yes, you can. It is slower, but our point is that most music is printed off of notation programs today, so hand-writing is usually reserved for small edits, or writing fragments from scratch. This is still completely fine even with an unsharpened pencil with Hummingbird. I have done it with my students many times.

8.) "Picking out lines and spaces isn't that hard" - If you spent time around kids you would be SHOCKED at how bad their spatial reasoning is before about 9-11 yrs old. It is really hard for them without a ton of frustration. That frustration often leads to them thinking they're "bad at music". That turns them away, and it shouldn't have to.

I know there's other stuff, but just not enough time...

Thanks.
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"Don't they get weather data from somewhere?"

Yes, most (if not all) modern airliners have a radar dish in the nose of the aircraft. If you wanted to mess with this, you'd have to spoof radar echoes. Not something you can do from an android phone for sure.

"And does the autopilot not take weather into account?"

No, not in the slightest. Pilots adjust autopilot settings to account for weather. It is not automatic.
Can you summarize how it works for those of us not familiar with it?
This is not good news for DoD [1].

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/04/u-s-department-of-defense-s...
So explain to my dying son why his cancer Osteosarcoma has a flat line of 15% survival rate for the past 30 years?

WHY IS THERE NOT ONE NEW PEDIATRIC CHEMOTHERAPY IN THE PAST @) YEARS INTRODUCED IN AMERICA?
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Somewhat amusingly, this troll on the debian-user mailing list predicted that Orth would be "fired". Let's see if he starts making commits to Tux Racer :-)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/04/msg00265.html
It'd also be nice to be able to use the same gravity engine to project orbits and collisions within the AI code.
ActiveMQ or ActiveMQ Apollo?

ActiveMQ, haven't looked too much into Apollo since almost it's original announcement. How is it from a stability standpoint?
IMO, the most interesting thing going on here is whether Microsoft will incorporate the backlash against his comments as meaningful product feedback. We don't know if the feature is being seriously considered or not, but if it ends up being included, that'll say a lot about how much MS values those opinions.
Sonic the Hedgehog: special tube levels. First thing that came to mind :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UfIMMS9O0o
Short answer: No.

Long answer: Code it and publish it. Or at least elaborate on your approach and how it differs from the many existing solutions, such as the TaskPaper-format and todo.txt variants.

If you're really looking for design input, re-read the first paragraph and then we can help you with feedback.
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Some instructions on how to use it wouldn't go amiss. (i.e. click the wheel)
This is a bit too smug for me.

I know that Rochester used to be a boom town (Kodak, Xerox, Bausch and Lomb, probably others) and a place of cultural and moral significance (Frederick Douglas, Susan B. Anthony). It's a nice place, and I spent 4 years there. But it's definitely a place in decline. The same way that Detroit was a boom town and now is not. If I made a similar sideshow saying "You're welcome. -Detroit", would that prove anything?

(It's also ironic that this slideshow assigns Rochester the credit for the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Was it not corporate HQ in Rochester who made the bad decisions not to do more to productize those gains?)
Face-saving lie?
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Where do these assholes get off on speaking for the entire "tech community"? As far as I can tell there are a few website developers and vc partners on the founder list.
It used to be that I could close the inspector in FF by hitting escape. I would love to get that functionality back it makes it super easy to go in and out of it. (Ctrl+Shift+I) do thing (ESC)
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ZeroMQ is not persistent: if your server crashes you lose all your queue contents.

With my requirements if I haven't processed the message quick enough then I don't care if it gets lost, as it would already be outdated data.
I kind of hate Twitter
Just create an anonymous twitter account.
That don't make Twitter not a good idea. The problems needs to be fixed properly.
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Fair enough, just thought I'd ask. :) I can't even view the site properly because of my work proxy, but I'm interested in taking a look later and perhaps participating.
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Only profitable drugs. Pediatric Cancer is not one of them so no new Chemotherapy in the US for over 20 years now and counting.

Also manufacturing is stupid also. Only one company makes Oxycodone (Pain Killer) there use to be two companies. Now the price has sky rocked and can be in short supply. So my son suffered for a few days due to not getting all the pills he needed. Great system.
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Somehow I doubt this will improve the situation with DRM on consoles. I.e. with him, or without him, MS will use DRM.
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Dear xxxxx,

I’m writing you about the lot of bike (eBay Item #:xxxxxxxxxx) that you purchased. After reviewing this case I see you wanted the seller to pay for your return shipping, because the bike has many scratches in the pain, and broken brake lever cap. That must have been frustrating to receive it in that condition.
As you may have noticed, your case has been closed and a refund is not going to be issued due to the following reason:
-- You did not pay for the item through the eBay checkout
While reading through the message I show you sent the seller your direct credit card number. In the future it is imperative you never send anyone your direct credit card number. When you give someone your direct credit card, they’re potentially able to charge anything they want on it. When you pay through the ebay checkout, sellers never get your full financial information so it is protected.
The reason why this case has been closed is because it wasn’t paid through our ebay checkout, which we rely on to be able to retract from a seller. Paying through eBay checkout allows us to have electronic record of all transactions. In the event a transaction does not go through as planned, we would have the ability retract the funds back from the seller, since they were spent on our website. As this case has been closed, the item is no longer covered by our eBay Buyer Protection
In summary, the resolution center case has closed without a refund being issued because you did not pay for the item through the eBay checkout, which voided our ability to be able to retract the funds from the seller.
I know this wasn’t the outcome you had hoped for, so I would suggest looking at this as an opportunity to learn how to avoid a situation like this in the future. I know your next transaction will go much smoother.
There are a lot of sites out there to choose from these days. Thank you for continually choosing eBay.
Sincerely,
xxxxxx x
eBay Customer Service
Do you want batshit crazy customers?