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Pulled something like what? From the article, the actions taken include "limited access to wifi at peak lunch hours and turned it off on weekends" at one place and "instituted a half hour wifi policy between 11.30 and 1.30" in another cafe. How would either of these have bothered you, when it sounds like you are already working around those times as a self imposed restriction? It kind of sounds like you are self identifying with people who do things that you deliberately don't do, which is odd.
Using the mechanic employed by the scala plugin I linked to[1], dofib would be annotated with pure(argumentProvider). dofib itself is pure however, at each call site, it has the effect of its argument for that call. This is consistent with your example.

[1] https://github.com/lrytz/efftp/wiki/Relative-Effects

edit: That's effectively (sorry!) higher-order effects, behaving just as you'd expect.
I especially like the Feynman solution. Sometimes it doesn't have to be elegant to be correct.

"If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize." - Feynman, 1985
What could Valve possibly say? "We fired her because we felt it was a mistake to hire her, and then afterwards there wasn't anything for the rest of the hardware team to do."

It sucks, but it happens.

Incidentally, this is exactly why a large portion of the Valve handbook is devoted to hiring. Letting questionable people into your company will poison the place from the inside, and then from the outside. This is a perfect example of that.

Valve wanted to get into the hardware field. Then the way she went about hiring people made it clear that it was a mistake to hire her in the first place. What else was there to do except layoff the entire hardware team, or let her ruin the company culture by acquiescing to her demands for "let these engineers work here, or this project can't work"? And maybe it couldn't. But preserving company culture is far more important than this particular project, especially at a place like Valve.
I haven't read the 2008 list but just went there based on some of the comments here. This #29 stood out:

"What's the best way to make a web site if you're a real estate agent, or a restaurant, or a lawyer? There still don't seem to be canonical answers. "

There is a huge opportunity here not for a site builder so much as a way for those types of businesses (and other businesses) to keep their site current and fresh once it is built. None of the existing options work that well with this demographic. Either to juvenile or to many features and options and a learning curve. Fix that and the world will beat a path to your door.

Start small with this. Solve the issue of how I know what the specials are from the local sushi takeout restaurant that I visit a several times per month. Then move to other restaurants. Make it dead simple for the busy owner to get me that info. Even if it means simply shooting a picture of the special board and getting it to a single page site that you host in the cloud.
"We'd get some material that was non-trivial to figure out on an exam. That's just bad teaching."

You should reconsider what you just said. I tend to think that most 'good' universities do that.
That would be OK if most high-margin drinks weren't packed with sugar and all kinds of other shit. Why punish people who want a simple Americano by forcing them to get up every 30 minutes and make a new purchase? :)

edit: Of course, the appropriate response to this is that getting up every 30 minutes to walk around and stretch is good for health. Yes, I do debate with myself in my head...
That sounds great. Make it group friendly and my friends and I would probably pay to use this space for evening hobby work if it existed in Seattle.
What's is incorrect about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2xYjiL8yyE
?

She points out a paradox in a seemingly intuitive method of computing a limit.
i understand you're being snarky, or perhaps willfully defiant/facetiously ignorant despite your common-sense understanding of the difference, and you probably are a bicyclist, but a car that slows to an almost-stop is much different than a bicycle that just completely blows through it at full-speed without even slowing down, which is pretty much what all bikes do here in southern california.

where I live, anyone who pays attention realizes that most bicyclists are either casual, ignorant weekend riders or very serious road bikers who just simply don't give two shits about the law. commuters who follow the law are VERY rare.
Expect to see the NSA as a back-up-of-last-resort cloud solution provider any time soon?
When you're behind the wheel of a car, yes. When you're around a car, no.

Even if someone's driving defensively, sudden changes in the environment lead to a more dangerous situation. If they're driving defensively, hopefully they can deal with it, but that is no reason to create dangerous situations in the first place.
That's only true in the absence of other signals. If you look at it as instead a problem of "how do I convince X that I am the person they're looking for?", you can consider all possible strategies, and additional signals that you could provide to demonstrate your worth. Grades are a very imperfect signal, but often times it's the only signal provided by the applicant.
Any plans to add support for Julia as well. One of the things holding Julia back is a good plotting library.
They want the government to play less of a role, not more of one. Regulation of corporations is not something they want. They are mainly for moving power from the federal government to state governments.
And on Linux, if you enable gstreamer and if your gstream has mp3 support installed. (A lot of ifs, but it is the Linux desktop ...)
good stuff.. thanks mike!
Why does it make very little sense? If the exposure was below the threshold dose at which radiation has been established to be carcinogenic it sounds like the most defensible position. The alternative is to say that anything can have an effect on cancer risks, which even if true in some pedantic sense isn't a useful way of looking at risk.

It's not like large-scale low-dose ionizing radiation is an unknown phenomenon: radiation exposure from the ground and sunlight vary widely, and we have very large data from chernobyl and 1950s above-ground nuclear testing.
This doesn't work for me, nor do the other two users' suggestions. I even just rebuilt git in case my version was out of date.
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Whoosh?

Watching a blank video has a similar effect: You start to hear the ambient sounds... traffic outside the window, the ticking clock in the corner, the 60Hz hum of your electronics, the creaking as you rock in your chair, air whooshing through the conditioner vent...
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Looks really interesting.
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No need to be sorry. I just wanted to demonstrate that even with insurance, healthcare is hard.
Thanks for the pointer! Had seen this before and never really checked it out. It's crazy fast. Some very unscientific testing showed searching for a word in a project I'm working on took 0.07s with ag and 21.7s with ack and 16.3s with grep. Not at all definitive, but I'm definitely going to keep trying ag.
Why are you specifically interested in the negatives and not in an overall accurate comparison?
While emergency care needs to be taken into account, most medical issues are just not emergencies, they are merely pressing. Even super expensive, life threatening ones (ie, a cancer diagnosis) allow for a bit of shopping around, second opinions and such.

So if most surgery, and near all outpatient procedures are not-pressing and possible to shop around for, why can't I know how much it costs ahead of time?
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Definitely have, and it's deliberate; instead of Cambridge acting only with reference to itself (and generally grade harsher than other universities), they now apparently aim to make a Cambridge 1st or 2:1 equivalent to the same grades at the other Russell Group universities.

So there we go.
> If you're looking to do work with some research group, people want to know your grades. If you want to get into certain graduate schools, you'll most likely end up competing with people with high grades.

As a counter-point to this, to anyone reading who might be discouraged, the research groups I personally know mostly care about sufficient grades (i.e. that you're smart, hard-working, not stupid). The ability to get outstanding grades doesn't correlate that well with research ability; it just correlates well with your ability to do exams.

Given sufficient grades, it's infinitely more important that, say, an addition to your research group is able to work well with the other people in it than what specific grades they got, and the people making the hiring choices are keenly aware of this.

And when you get beyond your PhD, it's your publication record that people are really going to care about anyway. If you get good papers into good journals, no one gives a crap about your grades.
Good stuff!

Our mobile & desktop web app, SpeakerBlast, uses the web audio API to play audio in sync across multiple devices.

Though up until now it only works in Chrome & in mobile Safari.
This only makes sense if everyone has the same amount of resources to trade. When all you pay attention to is money, the only metric you care about is who has any money.
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Pressure equipment, specifically sort of mid-scale items for laboratory and small-batch use.

Our low level code (ie, directly controlling machines) is written in the SPARK environment. This code tends not to get updated often, and has a high level of verification to it. It's what actually handles the pressure cut-offs (ie, hard limits on the machine), turning vales, etc.

Our middleware code is based on a specially developed VM that gets code generated for it in Coq, to ensure that it doesn't choke or become unresponsive. However, it's not directly responsible for safety control and has somewhat laxer restrictions.

Coq is useful for demonstrating that the middleware analytics will complete in a given time profile and not crash out the server on erroneous input.
How about coffee shops offering to rent out a table for n hours for x dollars? It might be weird but I would like a option to pay for the facilities without having a coffee every two hours.
I don't think cold affects gay people more than straight people, so probably not.
Allright, if you're so inclined...

1. It definitely is an argument and in fact my main argument. At least explain how this would be any less valid than your "it's a hack" and (bandwagon) "wave of the future" arguments.

2. My turn to invoke "not an argument". Just because one can simply copy a struct over a socket doesn't mean it's a good idea to do so. Especially in light of the flourishing culture of diversity we have on the Internet.

3. You conveniently choose to ignore one half of the argument, but miss it entirely. The point is not that we can't overcome endianness mismatch, it's that we shouldn't have to. At least not inside layer 7.

4. Except the old records will have to remain there forever. HTTP implementations dropped the Pragma header a long time ago and today we can simply pretend it was never there.

5. When it comes to common sense, ASCII is right there. That's because a protocol on the Internet needs to interoperable with many systems. Sure, all of those systems use binary one way or another. But human operators are still going to have to program those systems and ASCII is a useful representation which enables us to do just that. Furthermore, the draft proposes to encode binary headers in base64 in order to transfer them in an HTTP/1.1 upgrade request. Now you have 3 ways of transferring HTTP headers instead of just one and we'll have to support all of them in any case. This might seem trivial to you, but it's a problem to servers and quite a huge one at that for intermediaries (proxies).

6. Amending HTTP with a new header again is much less a hack than providing a way to switch to a binary protocol and resume communications from there. Your buggy argument doesn't stand, for HTTP is not the car. It's the pavement upon which old buggies can ride along just fine until it's no longer considered safe amongst the faster carriages.

7. Yes, I'm not convinced client-provided request identifiers are the way forward myself. Though I would consider the proposal a better starting point for discussions than the current HTTP/2.0 draft because it leverages existing mechanisms better.
Thanks! MP3 support for OSX would be great. I was recently working on a music playing web app and was frustrated by this chart http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_audio.asp
Happy to be reading you in another thread. Questions:

* How does this process differ from domestic criminal law?

* What enforcement mechanisms does FISC have, and might those methods involve transactions with the federal courts in general?

* Doesn't Google have standing to sue the USG in addition to petitioning the FISC (in the manner, for instance, described by the Yahoo disclosure the NYT ran a couple weeks ago)?

* Similarly, don't the electronic providers have ways to engage the federal courts on the issue of gag orders?

I concede what I perceive to be your fundamental point, which is that regardless of the process used by FISC, the setting in which it operates makes it difficult as a practical matter for any other court to oversee their actions. But then, I wonder whether that's because in domestic criminal law, warrants are mostly confronted as a consequence of the exclusionary rule, and thus involves named defendants.
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Ad some left and right padding to your container or body for iPad.

Also, it's a lot of text. Look into highlighting your personal tagline in headings, pull quotes or something like that.

Your top right language links (are they links?) aren't clickable on iPad.
Oh I completely agree. This is still something that I struggle with 20-25 years after elementary school. Again, I'm questioning the balance. There probably is something to be said for more frequent but shorter breaks too, which I am taking a liking towards.
> Grades aren't a super important determining factor

i would disagree with this. they are THE determining factor in 9 out of 10 things you want to do post-college, and grades follow you for LIFE.

the reason i started a company is because i didn't have the grades to do anything else except be a bottom-rung coder (not even at a "good" company), which I did for a few years after school. i graduated a very good UC with a 2.01 C average (i BARELY graduated, i was put on academic probation 3x, and took an entire quarter off at one point). i'm not kidding around when i say "i'm a terrible student" like some people do - i actually had D's and F's and plenty of W's on my transcript.

even with 5+ years of owning a successful business, if i were to apply to b-school or masters/phd program, they'd probably reject my ass. when was the last time you heard of a C student getting into a worthwhile grad school?
Thanks for the advice, that's actually what I'm trying to do now. I'm offering to build free mobile websites so that I can build up a portfolio for myself. Just out of curiosity how many examples of work would you be interested in seeing before you felt comfortable purchasing.
Of course. But do you realize that some groups/schools filter by GPA? You don't even get considered unless you're above a certain threshold. How do send other signals then?

Are you going to try to talk with the professors personally? How and when are you going to do that?

edit: furthermore, how do you know the professor can single-handedly have any impact on who gets admitted into the program?
Well the bigger the boat, the more vulnerable it is.

New cool things don't come out of big companies, it either comes out of small/medium companies who did not prove their worth, or either of particular smart people or indie devs.

I don't even know how successful google is at this 20% "free time" thing. I don't think it works, because any hiring process is always biased in order to have those people work on things they want. Not only people working at google could turn this free time and environment into a success.

You don't sit talented people in a room and get success. You need to sit aware people who just have the motivation to do cool things, and let them work.

"Talent" is overrated. You can't tell a person is talented because this person had or is having success. You don't plan success, you just see it where it is, and make it happen, talent or not.

Getting hired because of talent, and you end up in your comfort zone. Then bye bye "talent".
Oh, well if she is fine with it then he must have been hallucinating. /s

What utter shit.
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It depends. Vendors are obligated to handle upstream vulnerabilities once they become known, and commercial vendors are obligated to handle upstream vulnerabilities no matter what. The only situation in which a vendor can wash their hands of a vulnerability is the one in which they're informed of an upstream vulnerability and the upstream isn't, at which point that vendor is at least obligated to relay it to the upstream.
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>>That's only true in the absence of other signals.

The problem is that the vast majority of HR departments do not have the time to look at those other signals. Resumes are filtered based on GPA and other measurable numbers first.
Grand juries do not issue opinions on things like "the meaning of the 4th Amendment." It seems appropriate to apply just a tiny bit more scrutiny to the FISA court than grand juries.
With STEM in the US unfortunately, you will find that the quality varies heavily depending on the socioeconomic status of the school district's inhabitants.
This abuse of "special needs" is horrifically egregious, but I find myself wondering exactly how one would go about codifying "common sense" exceptions to the Constitution, like the infamous example of shouting fire in a crowded theater.

If one allows for genuine edge-case exceptions, whether explicitly in law or implicitly by interpretation, how can we prevent the gap from widening into eroding the law completely? For instance, it's not a far leap from shouting fire, to so-called hate speech, and from there to silencing dissidents.

(Note also the use of the word "reasonable" in the 4th; while it has a very specific legal meaning, clearly the courts are interpreting it very differently from civil liberties advocates.)
I'd prefer to read some scholarly articles/books on the topic (most of which agree with my claim):

From:
Sisterhood and Socialism: The Soviet Feminist Movement
Rochelle Ruthchild
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies , Vol. 7, No. 2 (1983), pp. 4-12

For the Club Maria, the "tragedy of women" is the reeminent example of the moral crisis of Soviet communism, the hypocrisy, the abandonment of spiritual values. For Mamonova, the Soviet system, despite its great promise, has become simply the same old sexist wolf in socialist clothing.

Soviet Sisterhood, a relatively wide-spread book by Barbara Holland, was even more critical of what feminists call the "patriarchy."
Where I'm from, practically only students that aspire to be doctors get "straight A's" in high school. If you get "straight A's" in elementary school, well you'd better not be too shy because you might end up on regional or national television.

Grade inflation has gone too far when kids that get straight C's are hardly trying, and getting "straight A's" is only a minor achievement in moderately ambitious circles. You could have the most brilliant person - given she also had no problem utilizing that brilliance in a typical school setting - go through the entire system and on paper she would be indistinguishable from an average kid with solid work ethic.

Personally I went to university and studied computer science courses as well as more soft courses, and I have better grades than I did in high school. Of course a part of that is because I enjoy at least parts of all the courses I've had to take.
Is it true in general? A small case study (Berea College, 655 students) absolutely does not represent the whole case. It'd be better to look at a school that has strong science/math/engineering programs. The university I'm at now, the University of ___ has all of it's 15 odd programs rated in the top 25 programs. Berea College doesn't even make the list[1], that I can find (for math, but I would guess it's true in general).

[1]:http://graduate-school.phds.org/rankings/mathematics/rank/ba...
Monads don't really have much to do with IO. It's up in the air whether IO really even is a monad. See Conal Elliot's answer on SO and the link he provides: http://stackoverflow.com/a/16444789/65799
Is dofib pure or not?

Food for thought:

1. The easy but limited solution is that this code doesn't compile, because argumentProvider must have a single type/effect and you couldn't have both a pure and an impure function with that type/effect.

2. Is purity that important? Ultimately we care about avoiding our programs doing unintended things, and often effects are just fine as long as they don't misbehave in some way. Purity is a means to an end.

3. It's fascinating to extend the ideas of generic programming from mainstream type systems to effect systems. I suspect there is a lot of potential benefit to be had if we can figure out how to do this without introducing a lot of boilerplate code, in the same way that we can write code using generic types to various degrees today but have type inference spare us a lot of keyboard bashing.
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HTTP is not fixed and is in fact very flexible. And even if it were fixed, that doesn't make it broken and certainly doesn't mean you get to replace it with a binary protocol. They don't compare.
It's static vs realtime graphics issue rather than mobile vs desktop environment. Basically Apple is treating whole graphics as hard-realtime condition, and most people don't understand that.

When you cross the line of realtime, many things magically happen. Anything non-deterministic becomes whole source of problem, and GC is one of the biggest. Under realtime conditions, manual memory management is easier than dealing with non-deterministic black box.

So even on desktop, trivial GC is inferior architecture for realtime program by the definition of realtime. There's no room for non-deterministic deferred batch operation in 60fps graphics. Anyway specially designed GC may overcome this, but I couldn't see any actual implementation on the tech market.

Unlike old days, people want more dynamically and more smoothly working apps. Like games, all apps will become fully realtime eventually. This means you need real-time graphics approach. rather than static graphics.

If you're lucky that your users don't care those stuffs, then you're safe. But Apple is the company needs to treat single frame drop as failure. That's why they don't use GC and finally deprecated it.
The quoted part is admittedly a bit awkward to read -- I exemplified exactly what I meant in my analogy. It's true that most good universities "sort" rather than "teach." My argument is that sorting is not what schools were invented for. We have Olympiads for that.
As an addendum for everyone else, the ET team has been super helpful, and is much more active in their support forums than most of the other AWS teams. These guys seem eager to earn your business, and have iterated quickly.

Big thanks goes to them for moving fast, getting involved, and acting [quickly] on user feedback.
And if your editor is Emacs, you can use this: https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el