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In my experience, it was quite easy to take and even do well in upper-division humanities classes (specifically philosophy) without any lower-division work in the major. Jumping from high school to upper-division STEM classes would be tough.
> "dirt cheap VMs" doesn't make PHP installation

> any easier compared to a hosting provider

This is easy, even for a beginner:

yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel

Consider the effort that a PHP developer has to put into editing the vhost of the Apache config. And usually the php.ini file needs to be tweaked. And often there is an .htaccess file with a few mod_rewrite rules (think of WordPress, Drupal, etc) There might easily be a solid 30 minutes of configuration to get PHP/Apache set up to run the way you want it to run.

If I want to use Clojure? I use "yum install" to be sure the server has a functioning JVM. Then I usually set my routes using Compojure, the syntax of which is certainly easier than Apache mod_rewrite. And then for the server I often simply go with Jetty, which is a 1 line dependency, and I bundle it all up with "lein uberjar".

This is the point that I made above: in the spring of 2000, PHP was the easiest thing available to me. That is why I used it. But the world has changed, and now there are other options that are at least as easy. "Ease of setup" was a very strong argument in favor of PHP in the spring of 2000, but it is not a good argument now. There ecosystems, such as the Clojure ecosystem, that offer setups that are at least as easy as configuring Apache and PHP.
Assuming its the case that you have to make a choice between the existing culture and this project, and that there is no compromise, that would be a fair justification. I have no idea if this is actually the case or not, since I'm not in the industry, so I'll just say that I don't disagree with what you said.
The site says "free open source" and the repo has a BSD-ish license in it. Where did you find the conflicting info?
Almost like that!

Maybe worse... These people can get pretty nasty. After all, you are dealing with people who would try to locate you from a set of pictures. (Some people's obsession goes so far locating someone's residence from a set of pictures, examining time it was taken, and angle of shadow, etc.)
The Fitbit Flex also works with newer Samsung Android devices.

But I'm sure Fitbit put in a LOT of time developing around the Samsung Bluetooth Smart API's.

And all that will have to be re-written when Google FINALLY comes out with standard Bluetooth Smart support in Android.

Most companies are just saying "Why bother?" until Google gets their act together.

As a side note, Apple joined the Bluetooth board over TWO YEARS AGO, and since then EVERY Apple device released has had integrated Bluetooth Smart support.

THAT's what commitment to a hardware platform looks like.
Hmm, I didn't go the federal/contractor route, I went the "bigger tech company" route but I suppose I may have bypassed the GPA bar by getting hired fulltime while an intern. Had I not done that, my plan was to start with smaller startups.

shrug, maybe I was luckier than I give myself credit for.
Check out the source code, old HTML tags
Hmm, yeah, scrolling up, there was more than a little hyperbole on both sides at the root of this thread. I agree a bike is not a "a massive threat to a car"; this doesn't mean it's okay for people to ride recklessly, or that they're not endangering others when they do.

And dangerous driving is probably more common (certainly by number of instances), and it should be condemned as well.
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Another way of speeding up grep is to turn off Unicode. Check your LANG environment variable -- if it is set to en_US.UTF-8 (or simething similar), set it to C then run grep. Also speeds up wc, and makes sort behave better.

Note, you can also export environment variables for a specific command, if you don't want to change it for your whole shell, by specifying "variable=value" before the command:

LANG=C grep ...
I though the same thing, but apparently it had been killed earlier by a spider which was not an employee of the lab.
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I'm not convinced the semiconductor manufacturing process that goes into solar is appreciably cleaner than nuclear in practice.
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Most NY apartments also don't have garbage disposals in their kitchen sinks, because they were banned until about a decade ago. Apartments that haven't been built or renovated since then generally won't have one. This further boosts the amount of food waste going into garbage cans.
Most undergrads have no idea where they will end up in life. I certainly could not have predicted the graduate programs I considered - none of them having anything to do with my EECS major.

Getting poor (or even average) grades closes many doors, especially in these days of grade inflation (at many, but not all schools).
Dont forget wifi other places.. fast food establishments, Starbucks, etc. Pop in, open the laptop, connect to wifi, leave when ready.

Lots of people work at these establishments.

I even goto the public library when I am itching to get out of my house but need to work...
Exactly my thought; my understanding is that conventional solder doesn't flow very well and that this has been a problem for printing circuits, but perhaps a little doping with this compound would alleviate that. Even if it's not up to commercial standards, it could be a great benefit for rapid protoyping.
Are you sure this is still true? I thought that bug was fixed a little while ago?

ADDENDUM:

I remembered discussing this a while back and I just found my old comment. Someone said "fun fact, gnu grep is slow with UTF8"[1] and I said "funner fact gnu grep was slow with UTF8"[2]. I reran the same grep that I used elsewhere in this discussion with C and with UTF8:

root@fob-xray:lk# sync ; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
root@fob-xray:lk# declare -x LANG=C ; /usr/bin/time grep --exclude-dir=.git -r "leap second" . > /dev/null
0.51user 3.04system 1:28.40elapsed 4%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 992maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (3major+340minor)pagefaults 0swaps

root@fob-xray:lk# sync ; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
root@fob-xray:lk# declare -x LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ; /usr/bin/time grep --exclude-dir=.git -r "leap second" . > /dev/null
0.41user 3.44system 1:27.01elapsed 4%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1100maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (2major+367minor)pagefaults 0swaps

I think you must have a version of GNU grep before 2.7.3 or 2.7.1. The UTF problem seems to have disappeared. There is a decent amount of information in the debian bug report[3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2860932

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2862543

[3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=604408
Fair point. I had a plan and thought I roughly knew the requirements. I can see how students who are more exploratory would need to be more careful.
Right, which is why I asked about Dartium (build of Chromium with DartVM built in). But yeah I guess only people really involved with Dart could answer this question properly.
Curriculum design and assessment design is not a new field, it is just an oft ignored field. The first step is to make very explicit goals. The downside of explicit goals is failure of the institution itself is potentially measurable. "Coverage" is a conveniently wishy-washy standard that makes it easy to pass the buck to the individual students -- "we covered that" has the convenient ring of authority.

Curving the grades is an awful idea, but how it is usually applied it is rarely harmful. Professors mostly use it defensively in favor of the student, to fudge the grades up when the test turns out to be harder on the students than the professor anticipated. I am sure an occasional professor does the opposite, but one can never be truly safe from terrible instructors (other than avoid them).
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The problem is that with the density of population and the amount of garbage produced, the boxes would heavily obstruct the sidewalk in some neighborhoods. They'd be the size of small carting dumpsters (which some of the newer buildings use - the sanitation trucks have forklifts to handle those.)
Something I noticed as an undergrad Comp Sci major was the disparity in the grade curves for my classes and those of my friends in other majors (cough business school cough). If you look at the business classes' historical grade distributions, they would look something like: a few Fs and Ds, and then a sharp upward linear curve from C to A. The computer science, math, engineering classes always had a more classic bell curve with most of the grades in the C range.

Unless you're really interested in the subject matter, who would want to take the classes where they'll have to work harder, and generally get a lower GPA? I lost one of my partial scholarships because it required I keep a 3.5 GPA, regardless of my major. Want to take bets on whether I would have kept that scholarship had I been a finance major?
You know, Google reads all your email and uses it in combination with your search history to populate Google Now cards. When you buy something online, you typically get a detailed email receipt. I bet if anyone knows exactly what you buy, it would be Google. That is, if you are using Gmail.
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Looks like this is referring to Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit. This is possible using Software RAID under Linux [1], you could probably even detach these devices and use a udev/mdadm script to detect them on the fly. This is a hack mind you, and seems strange since RAID is generally used to protect data, rather than for performance reasons. So using removalable USB devices with raid, is possible, but I would not suggest it.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
Was the email analysis put together with various scripts or did you use something that can output this if given access to archived email?
It seems like protocol is pretty much deciphered (for forensic purpose, more likely.) I never heard any existence of it outside of Windows.

I've once tried to run it on Wine while ago, it looks like it incorporates quite a bit of environment checking (so to prevent someone from modifying network parameters?) and I remember it was having problems running -- not sure if it's still the case with later version of Wine.
Don't birds get picked up by radar?
I think that in the particular case of an associative map, you are generally correct: there is no gain.

However, in other situations the Haskell approach is much better. Say you have a Java class with five fields, three of them are nullable (i.e. have a sensible notion of being null) and two are not (have to be non-null unless there is a programming error). There are tons of places where you can mess up: assign null to an invalid variable, assign "x = f()" not noticing f can return null, call "y.f()" forgetting that y can be null etc. However, if your type system handles nullability, you will get a compile-time error on each of them. More: if you change nullability of a field, compiler errors will point out places that have to be changed.

By throwing an exception when you "know" an element in the hashmap has to be there, you resign from safety offered by the compiler. In Haskell this is a code smell; Haskellers are less content with such hacks and might try to redesign the structure so that the invariants are enforced by the type system.
>> This is your argument in a nutshell: Product > Employee.

That's an incorrect statement.

I think its an individual > everyone else (an example would be you care for your family more than your neighbor). A company is owned by someone, if its the stock holders then its a group, if its a private enterprise than its an individual. In either case, the employees want to benefit and so does the employer and its not "morally" correct to abuse either one. Rather, its "moral" to allow each employee to decide what he is willing to work for and an employer what he is willing to pay. My initial rejection of unions were based on the idea that the government came in and has a tendency to side with the unions (likely to garner more votes).

For your other point: The government can be as bad or worse to the economy than any company. If that's your argument you'd have to ignore a significant portion of history where inappropriate regulation has damaged humanity. The point is, the only "moral" regulation is one that robs no one.
I tired of seeing people posting stuff without explaining what is it about.
Please do it next time, because I'm not gonna search for it.
Okay? I thought we were talking about the USA.
There's some debate about this: asthma rates in cities tend to be worse in poorer neighborhoods where there's greater exposure to pollution and toxins. Some studies have also suggested there are particular allergens in inner-city neighborhoods that trigger it, from vermin, etc.

Also: it's not clear that there's more asthma, or we're just diagnosing it more often, especially in poorer neighborhoods where folks might not have had much health care a hundred years ago.
I don't understand -- when you hire someone most of the team isn't comfortable with, then you're making a compromise. And compromising on people is one of the worst mistakes a technology company can make, right? So why do you disagree?
I love how every anchor has a line break. I wonder what browser bug forced them to do that...
My linux kernel has a url.

file:/boot/vmlinuz-linux

So does my init daemon!

file:/sbin/init

Which is a symlink, so let's just specify a familiar program, and just throw on the proper file extension.

file:/usr/bin/firefox.elf

Still a url. To a program. If your executor supported file URIs you could run that.

I could host it on an http server, and if I mounted it using webdav as a davfs2, I could access anything on that server the same way.

You could write a python interpreter that can take a url to a python script to run: pythor http://github.com/some_repo/foo/script.py

A lot of programs already use URIs - I know KDE dolphin specifies all resource paths as URLs regardless of if they are local or remote, and it supports a buttload of URI schema. The qt5 QML engine specifies qml files to load by URI, so you can load remote qml applications in a browser that links in the qml runtime.

I mean, we even have this nice syntax (that isn't pervasive or transparent) to supply arguments in a url with something like google.com/search?q=bacon which in bash-world would be google --query bacon or google -q=bacon.

So what is missing from URLs from being uniform resource locators?
They paid just as much for the coffee as you

I suppose, but my girlfriend and I were also eating brunch there. It's the only convenient place that serves both cucumber and capers with their lox bagel.
Presumably the comment you're replying to is assuming the OP will be using a library computer as well, in which case an online development environment would be preferable.
I continue to be baffled as to why black-box modules like this aren't more used by programmers. Code is quick to write, but it obscures structure.

http://images-co-ec.native-instruments.com/php/file.php/user...
Because fission produces massive amounts of energy compared to anything else. Solar is not cheap when you remove government subsidies. Its an economic choice as well.
So, I've had this idea for a while and I'm wondering why no one has done it yet:

An Expedia for health care services.

You pop in your zip code, the service you need (if you know it), and out comes a list of hospital and doctors with prices for that particular service.

I imagine you could start very simple: call 50-100 clinics and ask how much they would charge for a simple checkup, upload it, see how many people start booking doctor visits via your site.

Check out Zoomcare:

http://www.zoomcare.com/info/services-prices

I went there in Portland and service was great! I loved the transparency. I just wonder why more independent clinics aren't trying this.

Is there some major legal obstacle I'm not seeing?
A simple seeming idea (though I'm sure creating a sustainable merger between markup/JS/etc was not so simple), but really awesome implementation (I loved that I could see the demo and instantly see a use case for the thing right on your page) -- and using something to demo itself? so meta
Can you list those same features that it provides? My understanding of Scala's philosophy is it provides as many features as it can. A Maybe type, immutable state, separation of IO, etc. isn't very useful if my coworker can choose not to use it.
> The researchers surveyed 655 students entering Berea College, a private liberal arts college located in Kentucky, in the falls of 2000 and 2001.

/closes tab
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Yes. But only if you believe the near endless stories of available online.
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Not sure if you know this, but iOS doesn't use a swap/page file. iOS will kill an app that uses a lot of memory because it values speed over stability and can very easily run out of RAM. In contrast, Windows won't kill an app when the system runs low of memory and will create more memory (however much slower that memory is than physical RAM) for the app to consume.
Gennerally when you have null pointer erros, it is because the developer did not realize that there was the possibility of having a null value at that point in code. Adding this information to the type system allows the developer to know exactly where the issue might occur (and have the compiler complain if it is not handled). Also, in terms of use, maybe has another major advantage over null. Many times in languages with null you see the pattern

if (foo==null) {return null} else {...}

This pattern is handled automaticly by maybe; If you try applying a function to Nothing (maybe's version of null), then the result of that function is also Nothing, even if the function itself was not designed to handle Maybes.

Additionally, as a matter of culture, Haskell programmers rarely throw exceptions.
Obama’s plan to predict leakers unproven, isn’t likely to work
Pretty awesome. Were you really looking for cute pictures or just proof of concept? :)
Buy four Americano's at a time, get two hours wi-fi and tell the barista to give the three extra drinks to their next three customers. You get your wi-fi, limit your caffeine intake, and help the shop generate goodwill with its customers, which in turn generates goodwill of the shop towards you.

If you're gonna be a hobo, at least try and be classy about it.
I will - thanks for tip!
There are no <BR> tags in the source, and <DT> is not a line break.
The video link from anigbrowl noted these structures could be used in headphone wires and other such applications where flexibility and self-healing capability is critical.

I do also imagine an outer protective layer could increase durability and thus expand the range of applications. That layer could, in theory, be either more rigid or equally flexible.
Can I ask where you live? We're really interested in tuning the suggestions to population/venue density :)
I love CodeIgniter, I wish my PHP skills were better than they currently are so I can help take this on. Of all the PHP frameworks I have TRIED to use, CodeIgniter has been the easiest for me to grasp. They documentation is great and easy for me to follow.

Other PHP frameworks just fly over my head and leave me glassy eyed. I hope the right people take this on.
"Please do it next time, because I'm not gonna search for it."..because that would be such a loss to them...

its pretty obvious / self explanatory..
Looks to me like an attempt at organizing the markup to make it easier to read and edit the source text.
I believe it - it'd be nice if apps get moved to a separate list if they don't receive downloads after a (long) period of time so that newer apps have a chance to cut through the noise and get noticed easier.
I think he means breaks in the actual source itself? I.e., not occurrences of “<BR>” but occurrences of “\n” ?
Why should we need a Snowden to remind us what the law permits, though?

Any government will need to maintain secrets of some kind, for much the same reasons why people need to maintain privacy from each other. Secrecy isn't only needed for espionage, after all, so if your hope relies on eliminating secrecy completely then I would suggest getting used to the surveillance state...
Grading on a curve can influence things radically. At least in the case of larger classes, an experienced professor has enough different exams and papers to grade so he can get a good statistical distribution, determine who earned what grade, and assign based on some predetermined center and max/min.

So, for example, a 98-100% might mean "top student in the class that year", a 55% might mean "lowest scoring student who deserved to pass the class", and 75% might mean "right on the average that year". (YMMV, these numbers are illustrative and different colleges and programs will have their own conventions).

The "actual" or unadjusted scores might be quite different with no curve - for example, in the freshman calculus class I took, correctly answering 4 problems out of 10 on the exam was enough to earn a grade among the top few students of the year and a curved grade in the 90s, even if the "raw" score might be something like 35-37%.
Header instead of head
I think it's more to do with this sort of thing:

<A
NAME=24 HREF="Summary.html">executive
summary</A> of the project, <A
I meant mixing in a looping track the length of the main track ("brought to you by Mr X's Audio Tool", "this is a SAMPLE...", etc)
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/FAQ/KeepingTrack.html

How does www keep track of the available servers? - The resource discovery problem
Not so broke, as it turns out, as the US pays more per capita in health care than pretty much every other country on the planet... It's not about being broke, it's about being dysfunctional.
Thats quite a bit cheaper than Australia for a Tonsillectomy at least, 3k vs 5k.
Just scripts.

Wouldn't be super hard to make the analyzer more generic.

What would you use it for?
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In the long term, when there is a really large mass of data out there, with deep interconnections, then there is some really exciting work to be done on automatic algorithms to make multi-level searches.

Tim BL
I said I don't disagree given the assumptions stated.

I do disagree with the unqualified assertion that "compromising on people is one of the worst mistakes a technology company can make." Culture is a broad term that covers a lot of things. There are important and unimportant aspects. If you reject a person because they can't work productively in your org, that's one thing. If you reject them because they'd rather go home to their family rather than participate in your after-work Starcraft sessions, that's another. Both can be considered culture, but only one is actually important to the working environment. Furthermore, marking it as the "worst mistake" makes the assumption that compromising on culture is necessarily destructive, which its not. Again, it really depends on which points you're compromising on.
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