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I really like this idea (and maybe I'm just dumb) but I really didn't get from the homepage that this was for actual deployed applications, not just a collaborative web dev environment.

In particular, I really need to know what backend services (if any) are available. Almost everything I write uses at least Postgres and Memcached, are those available? Even just a list of addons/backends would be incredibly helpful.
Learning it up to 9 is obviously important, unless you don't think being able to do any kind of mental math is useful.

But the 10s and 11s are very easy to learn, so there's not much reason to stop before 11. I suppose there isn't much objective reason to include the 12s. They make a nicer endpoint than the 11s, and are no easier or harder than (say) the 6s or 8s, but they don't come in handy nearly as often.
> You can't spray paint over a billboard and then claim you're protected under the first amendment, for example.

Why not? The court doesn't have to agree that your claim is valid. To prohibit you from even making that claim seems preposterous.
Yeah, just add goto!
Unfortunately that's the way the law works. If you write on some property that isn't yours, it doesn't matter if it disappears in a second or lasts forever, you've still written on some property that isn't yours and you've committed vandalism in California.

The restriction to being able to exercise his freedom of speech is another issue entirely.
Meanwhile in Wall Street, nobody has yet been held responsible for all the financial crisis debacle that has cost billions to the americans.
Are San Diego sidewalks private property? In most places I've lived they belong to the city.
> Over the course of the next six months Olson visited the Bank of America branch a few days per week, leaving behind scribbled slogans such as "Stop big banks" and "Stop Bank Blight.com."

I was feeling for the guy until I read this. He spent half a year writing disparaging messages outside of a business, that's an unstable guy. If I worked in that bank, seeing some guy writing crap that I have to clean up day after day for six months, I would certainly consider him a vandal. If this were a private residence or a family owned business, it would be harassment and they would probably be able to get a restraining order.

This is a clear-cut vandalism case. Your first amendment rights don't extend to defacing others' property, even if the defacement only lasts a few days, and even if the property you're defacing belongs to criminals. Two wrongs don't make a right.
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Does the collab mode work with vim?
Frankly, I think the value of formal education is underrated by both hackers and university professors. CS departments generally have low expectations of their students, with the exception of the "Top 5" schools. I have been on either side of this: as a teenager, I was self-taught and learned how to program by writing thousands of lines of code, and in college and grad school, I received a formal education in computer science, but I had to go out and learn more about the topics my courses covered on my own. A formal education is immensely valuable to writing more than just mundane code.

The key problem with being self-taught is that it is up to you to find the things you should be learning. It is very easy to miss whole topics that may be interesting or enlightening, or may even change how you think about programming. Here is an example of something I would never have known without a formal education:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_programming

It is easy to gloss over it, but this is a completely different way to think about programming. You might not see it used much in the real world, but it opens your mind to a new way to think about problem solving and can help a lot in understanding other things (like model checking or natural language processing).

There is also the matter of understanding certain abstract concepts that are very important in both theory and practice. Asymptotic analysis comes to mind here, though even a lot of people with formal educations seem to have trouble with it (probably because they thought their theory courses were a waste of time). Algorithms and data structures are also prominent examples of things that are easy for self-taught programmers to miss, especially those that are not included in their favorite languages' standard libraries.

All-in-all, I think the best programmers are those who have both a formal education and who can and do learn on their own. Self-taught programmers usually know their language of choice at a deep level; coupled with a formal education, you can do a lot.
Just grab the gitpro book and spend 3 minutes copying one of the diagrams and the description (or use the website).

I understand what you're saying: I have helped some friends who were that guy trying to bring it in.
well its kinda funny to poke-fun at stallman calling him a paranoid freak...but its even funnier when quite recently we find out hmm maybe hes not so paranoid, perhaps he just knows more then we do and I feel that's a safe claim to make
I wouldn't mind picking his brain for at least an hour
paranoid or not the dudes a bad ass i mean ("gnu" gnus not unix) hes simply a genius disguised as a madman
I have a hard time believing that someone that averages a B in electrical engineering from any 1st or 2nd tier school can't get a well paying job somewhere in north america.
He never said anything about any jail sentence being reasonable. He just said 13yrs is unreasonable.
Having lived of music myself in my younger years I am all too familiar with the discussion.

The problem is that once you start digging into it, the reality is that claiming "i wrote this song" is a much more muddled claim than you might think and so is the claims about how much one should earn and that others are stealing when pirating.

In reality 99% of the people playing music wouldn't be able to do it if it wasn't for the same technology that is now making it impossible for them to make a living.

So deal with it and find a way to make money or quit. That's really all there is to say IMO.
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Pretty sure a power washer can handle it in about 20 seconds, even a hose with an attachment.
Yes, but they said it was 50% of revenues. I believe Pandora is profitable, so the sum of all other costs must be less. This means that the breakeven point is actually somewhere between 2.5-5 hours. 5 hours per day is not a magic number- I think 4 or 3 also sound perfectly fine, based on the usage patterns I see.
In fairness San Diego is a very different place from, say, San Francisco.
Prohibiting his lawyer from mentioning First Amendment rights is ridiculous! What good are the foundations of our society, if they are not upheld in a court of law.

This really is my only gripe. I can actually understand the reason why it would be considered vandalism, but the purpose of the case I think is to oppress the message he was sending (he pissed off the bank obviously...that's where I'm happy). This is why we have rights to protests, even though it is chalk, if everyone did it, it still is graffiti.
alert("we steal");
The article says he spent six months doing it a few times a week. I think that qualifies as a habitual repeat offender.
Wow, how many films and photographs was ancient Greece putting out way back then?
Incorrect. The Supreme Court did not rule on the substantive issue, but did rule on the procedural question of whether Prop. 8 proponents had standing, deciding that they didn't. If they had declines to rule at all they would not have granted Certiorari.

In any case, implementation of the CA Supreme Court's decision could not go ahead until the USSC had issued its decision; now the state is free to promulgate new rules.
You're forgetting that he's not plea bargaining (hence the judge barring arguments)
I think this is more likely. There are a number of cases that have looked at speech rights versus vandalism (Graffiti being the poster child for these). The "correct" way to protest the bank is to stand out in front of it and hold up signage, that is protected by law.
He faces up to 13 years jail, but based on current guidelines, he wont pay more than $10,000 and perhaps 1-3 years probation.

http://www.yolo.courts.ca.gov/forms/Sent%20Guideline%20-%20V...

The problem is, if he violates probation through additional activities, he will then face escalated penalties.
This non-technical article references a "print dialog" and you're ready to cry about how all of humanity is oppressed by our 3D Printed Future being infected by the Win32 print subsystem? Forgive me if I feel like this moaning would seem more relevant on Slashdot.
Still sucks for workers though. College is about acquisition of general human capital which, in theory, can be used in a variety of jobs. Thus the higher wages commanded by college graduates: they can go elsewhere. A certificate, on the other hand, provides only a very limited skill set, effectively reducing the options for the employee and thus lowering the expected wage.

For many people the certificate might be worthwhile, of course. There have always been people willing to take jobs that were inherently risky (working for the only factory in a small town, for example). So my point is that even if alternatives become more popular, they probably won't provide what a college education typically provided in the sense that the balance of power will be shifted away from the employee and toward the employer.
And you call people unhealthy when you disagree with their ideas. This kind of delegitimization of disagreement with specious medical-scientific authority is one of the larger problems facing the country.
It's pretty funny how far Google will go to avoid talking about the weather. They even put barometers in all their phones but aren't building a weather network or buying any weather startups (like mine)! What gives? They algorithmically remove weather, create an unused network of 50,000,000 barometers, gah!
Why is blur supposed to be computationally intensive? It's very simple mathematically...
University of Phoenix spend big bucks to rope students into mediocre educations
If convicted, the city will waste $715,000 of tax payer's money to keep him in prison for 13 years.

If you think this case is an unreasonable waste of resources, please contact Goldsmith and let him know.

Jan Goldsmith can be reached at 619-236-6220 or cityattorney@sandiego.gov

People vs. Olson is case #M153987
There is a similar anti-porn billboard on I45 just south of Dallas.
Knowing multiples of 12 makes working with angles a great deal easier, given 360 degrees in a circle.
I live near Chicago so maybe there is something local but I like your idea, it seems flexible and stimulating enough that I can focus on it.
All of the big CAD packages (Solidworks, CATIA, Solid Edge, Pro-Engineer, Rhino, SpaceClaim, ...) are Windows only. Lately OSX has gotten some traction, but it's still pretty marginal.

There are translators (e.g. SolidWorks -> STEP, SolidWorks -> STL) that run on Linux, but the better ones, and the ones that support the proprietary formats (SolidWorks, CATIA, etc.) all cost money and couldn't be included in a Linux distro's software repository.

So even if Linux supported 3D printing out of the box, it wouldn't be as useful as if Windows did, IMO.
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> - Less accessible. Objective C is a strange, low-level, difficult-to-learn, niche language used only for mac development.

It's not hard for someone that already knows C, or really any other language. The learning curve is in platform knowledge, and every platform -- including the web -- is different.

> - More work. See above explanation of Objective C. You need an IDE to even be remotely efficient, an IDE that Apple also controls.

The IDE is a major win, not a downside. It automates the mundane, and applies equally well to web development -- I use IntelliJ for web work.

> - More work to port anywhere else. Popular app on iOS and want it on android? Time to rebuild the entire thing from scratch in another language!

That's unfortunate, but it provides the best user experience.

> - More expensive. Want to sell your app? Better give Apple their 30% cut, in addition to the yearly fee in order to have an app of any sort.

On the other hand, Apple has a mountain of customer's credit cards on file. The 30% buys you a lot.

> My point here is that the web has none of these drawbacks. The web is a uniform interface across devices, the languages are fairly simple and widely used, and the environment is open.

The web has a massive pile of its own drawbacks -- it's a language monoculture, low performance, no platform to speak of, much less platform consistency. Development is a hodgepodge of different interdependent tools, server-side and client-side. None of your users actually own anything, and webapps can just disappear at any time.

Neither proprietary native platforms NOR the web are perfect, and both are imperfect in very different ways.
You can order the local police department to arrest the guy who writes on your wall too.
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I think that is quite similar to rainbows though. Use lots of places in a variety of ways for a very long time, but only really use on flags by the LGBT movement.
This seems like a useful thing for Future Me to remember:

Back up your DNS records:

http://www.programblings.com/2012/07/23/do-you-back-up-your-...

If I did this nightly, I'd have a handy-dandy zone file that I could use to import into $SHINY_NEW_SERVICE right now.

UPDATE: This is relevant for backing up your DNS stuff _if you are already on DNSimple_, since it uses the DNSimple gem.
The real problem, then, is to figure out what is wrong with our system that it only consistently produces 92 bones...
There's also no agreement on a name for the Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus. Most of my Orthodox friends call it "Pascha" (and set its date based on the Julian calendar), and my Messianic friends consider it part of the larger "Pesach" (or "Passover" when they decide to communicate it in English). Some simply call it "Resurrection Sunday".
I really hope he goes to trial with his case and WILL NOT take a deal. I'd like to believe a jury of his peers would see this as a protest...yet in my own criminal case, my lawyer told me "ignorance of the law is not excusable."
Oy, this is just crazy. I should have migrated my accounts after last week's downtime.
No, he's saying that what's stopping the average artist to get a high a royalty percentage as Justin Timberlake and stopping pandora from paying radically less for the music is collusion among the major record labels.
Not sure why but not all clouds have disappeared. It could be Africa. I also see images that are stitched from different times of the year as you can see the difference in vegetation.

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This script allegedly will migrate Zerigo domains to Route 53... not useful until Zerigo is back up though:

https://gist.github.com/luke/5849320
No he doesn't. If he's convicted and if he receives a custodial sentence --- both big ifs, the latter moreso than the former --- he'll most probably be sentenced concurrently, as all 13 counts are for the same crime.

Here's the statute:

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen&gr...

In refusing to hear the First Amendment arguments of Olson's attorney, the judge is presumably just reading the statute narrowly; there is no "political speech" exemption to the vandalism statute, nor should there be, since we're talking about private property.

But it's hard to believe that any sane jury would recognize more than a few dollars damage from water-soluble chalk, and equally hard to believe anyone would receive a custodial sentence --- which would surely cost the city vastly more to defend at its near-certain appeal --- for chalking a bank with a political message.

Don't get your news from RT.
This looks really nice. Will probably use this instead of heroku next time I need to use it.
Oh okay, I must have glossed over that line. 13 years is still way too much (obviously), but that guy should not be surprised that he's going to be prosecuted and receive some kind of punishment.
Can you just mention that it is covered by the Bill of Rights or by the constitution without mentioning the Amendment directly?
The new Couchsurfing? Judging by their recent troubles, sounds like the time is right for something new & app-based in the same space. I think it's smart to grow the community one city at a time like Party with a Local are doing. Berlin seems a smart and obvious choice for the next city - it has an amazing party scene, if you know a local or where to look!
Your objection here actually makes it sound like you're objecting to the speech more than the chalking.

Under existing constitutional law, he would've had a right to spend every day for six months standing on the sidewalk outside the bank holding the "Stop big banks" message on a picket sign. That isn't harassment, even if it were a family-owned business (though residences are a murkier area), unless he were doing things like attempting to block the entrance, or shouting intimidating stuff at customers. Sidewalks are a traditional public forum, and picketing on them is protected, including picketing against the business located there.

So there's nothing illegal with the content part: disparaging the business on a daily basis, right on the sidewalk outside their business. The method, writing it in chalk on the sidewalk, I'll agree, is not allowed. But it does not seem much worse than standing on the sidewalk with a picket, when it comes to what you seem to find offensive about the conduct.
Landsat 7 was launched in 1999. Had the Scan Line Corrector failure [1] in 2003 and has been taking striped images since then.

Landsat 8 is the recent addition launched in February 2013. Here you can see sample images from the satellite [2] and a side-by-side comparison to Landsat 7 [3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsat_7#Scan_Line_Corrector_f...

[2] http://landsat.usgs.gov/LDCM_Image_Examples.php

[3] http://landsat.usgs.gov/LDCM_Underfly_with_Landsat_7.php
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The claim isn't relevant to the statute. At a jury trial, you're not allowed to make irrelevant arguments.
It is the right questions to ask except he should have used "NSA" or "US government" rather than "the NSA Scandale". That sounds like it was Edward Snowden that did the damage to US companies, while in reallity it is extremly naive to think that spying on that scale, probably involving more than hundred thousand people could possibly be kept secret forever, something they apparently did. If anyone is to blame for an backlash, it is NSA and the US government.
>If women were stimulated the same way as men someone would have exploited that, right? But they didn't.

If women were stimulated the same way as men you wouldn't have to cater to women. With that said, the number of women watching porn is astronomical. Stars like James Deen and Manuel Ferrara have gained a huge following because they are able to cater to female markets.
Site's 500-ing for me, google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?site=&source=hp...
A protest is not a one day event. You protest day after day, after day. How long did the civil rights movement last? How long did same sex couples have to fight to be heard? Can you find an effective one day protest?
> But it's hard to believe that any sane jury would recognize more than a few dollars damage from water-soluble chalk, and equally hard to believe anyone would receive a custodial sentence --- which would surely cost the city vastly more to defend at its near-certain appeal --- for chalking a bank with a political message.

I hope you're right.
Ok... so this is the relevant law as far as I can tell [1]

So, the reason why his maximum sentence is 13 years is because, the maximum sentence for a single act of vandalism of damages over $400 (see subsection b) is 1 year in a county jail. He is being charged with 13 counts of vandalism (presumably because they caught him vandalising 13 times).

Now, the Bank of America is claiming that it cost them $6000 to clean up all the vandalism (which is conveniently just over 450 dollars per act).

So, for all the people outraged over 13 years for chalk, keep in mind in california, vandalism charges are based on damages, not the means (which really makes sense). That it stacks up to 13 years is kinda ridiculous, but also pretty logical. It's not like its "oh, you vanadalized once and now you're going to jail for 13 years", its "you vandalized 13 times, and now a judge gets to decide how much cumulative punishment you're going to get".

You can point out all sorts of unfortunate points in how the law, damages, and punishment is structured, but the whole point of the law is to leave room for human discretion. The $400 dollar barrier seems kinda low, and that's really I guess where the issue is... I guess and combined with Bank of America's damages claims.

[1] http://law.onecle.com/california/penal/594.html
Whether or not additional examples of graffiti are actually the work of the same artist is a fact to be determined by a jury. What do you expect the prosecutor to do? Believe the defendant's word of honor, only after being caught red-handed?

Choosing to commit a crime that closely mimics the details of previous criminal activity by others (or yourself) is not the brightest idea. That is a kind stupidity that I am not sure we need special consideration for.
Sort of. It wasn't quite such a clear causal chain - there were some things that positioned them well in the first place.

Quartz, which is the drawing and compositing engine developed for OSX, is really at the core of it. For one thing, Quartz is really fast, and long before iPhone was even a rumor Apple had already tied it deeply into OpenGL and made it hardware accelerated.

Quartz is really the "secret sauce" to the responsiveness and graphics performance of iOS, and it predates iOS by a pretty wide margin. Core Graphics was built on top of Quartz, as well as Core Animation, which form the primary ways third party devs interact with the graphics layer.

If Apple hadn't done OSX first, or done it differently, I don't think they could have pulled off iPhone.
It's not "a little bit harder" because while college may have risen in line with inflation, teenage earning power (minimum wage) did not.

In 1981 minimum wage was $3.31 and tuition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was $832. In 2012 minimum wage for teenage summer jobs ("Opportunity Wage") was $5.25 and tuition at UW Madison was $8,592. Some retail paid more like $8 but that's still a 2-3x increase, whereas tuition increased more than 10x.
Yeah but at the same time, you are not just learning how to program when you go to school (if you are, then you are being ripped off). You are also learning how to think abstractly about programming problems, how to analyze programs, what sort of programs are possible, etc. It is hard to know what to learn when you are self-taught, and it is easy to get caught up in minute details while missing the bigger picture.
Nokia N95. First available March 2007, three months before the iPhone was introduced.

* Memory - 160MB, versus iPhone: 128MB.
* CPU - Dual CPU, 332 MHz Texas Instruments OMAP 2420 (ARM11-based), versus
Samsung 32-bit RISC ARM 1176JZ(F)-S v1.0 412 MHz
* Display - iPhone: 320x480 18-bit 3.5", versus N95: 240x320 24-bit, 2.6"
* Network ability: HSDPA 3.5G, versus iPhone: GSM/EDGE
* Camera: 5MP, versus iPhone 2MP

Much as the iPhone was lauded - one of the criticisms leveled at the iPhone was that the hardware was quite underwhelming. My specs were lifted from the respective Wikipedia pages, but this is hardly a subjective or minority opinion.