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Bitcoin has no real advantage over credit cards, assuming the bitcoin processor (and there will be a middleman - not everyone is going to run a digital wallet) offers the same level of service. Credit cards cost a lot, because of fraud protection.

Now, maybe the banks are getting fat and lazy, and some new entrants will stir things up a bit. A secure token (maybe an app) could cut the costs of fraud protection, but I can't see how bitcoin can work better. Sure, you can have a 20 character password on you bitcoin collection. But there's no reason why banks couldn't give consumers the option of doing the same (a 20 character pin on a app, which validates transactions), if there was much demand for it.
Is it columnar? You can't really compare to Redshift if it isn't.
It could be a good story but after 3 pop up ads which were almost impossible to close on this device I gave up. What was the story, anyways? The first two paragraphs sounded interesting. I just couldn't get to the rest of the story to read it.
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> banks will have to follow a customer-centric approach and offer simple, user-friendly and effective products, with a high level of transparency and security

Simple is killing it on user-friendliness, and has the absolute best mobile and web banking interfaces I've ever used. They also tout the "very low operating costs" talked about in this article because they don't have a physical location.

The future of banking isn't necessarily a bank.
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Hah, for the record: not my own site, just a very happy customer.
Almost all of our products use one or more third party components, so we could never release the code.

Another reason is that for many of the products, the code is really, really bad. Now, the products all worked fine, and still work fine, but we wouldn't like to release an embarrassingly bad code base. Who would?

Seriously, the code in many (if not most) closed source products, especially old products that have had years of development from many developers and years of bug fixes, can be very very unpleasant to look at.
This is super cool - What method is used for continued client side updates? Websockets, polling?
TypeScript enhancements outside of the types just track ECMA6. It does not have backwards-compatible iterators yet though, and you will probably have to wait a while.
Nice app. With respect to overview, it would be cool if you could click on the dots at the bottom to see the different sections.
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would be awesome if there is a choice to select a collection of music.

eg:
feat Eminem
feat Snoop dogg
feat (any genre of music)
The article's photo is from the 2012 RNC in Tampa, FL. Despite an army of police with all the equipment a paramilitary outfit could wish for, there were almost no arrests. In total for the week there were 2, far fewer than there would have been in a normal week.

A year later and they're still riding around in their RNC purchased bicycles, cruising in RNC speed boats and zipping around in RNC bobcats. The high-tech CCTV system is also still in use (and has yet to actually solve a single crime). It's bizarre.
Where are you getting your boards fabbed? I literally just got back 3 2x3" 4-layer boards with 5mil min trace/spacing from OSH Park for a total of $54 (shipping included).
If the crime involved is not violent and the suspect has no history of assaulting police officers (or perhaps any history of violent acts), it should basically be a criminal act for the police to initiate the use of force during the apprehension.

You are making a huge leap from the presence of weapons to the use of violence against other people.
ACH fraud is ok for vendors that are a) creditors b) selling a trackable product (eg. something with a fedex tracking number)

Neither the verification nor ip address is admissible, and if any marketplace owner thinks it ok to use ACH they are out of their mind.
Just a side note: certain countries in Europe have much more military style uniformed police force, including police living in barracks. None of them have the track record of armed violence the police in the US have.

I'm just saying, the militarization is at most a symptom (one of many), not the root cause for the US "war against the people".
There is only one success story I can think of where open source revived a faltering product: Eclipse.

I suppose the conclusions from that can be quite open:

a) It doesn't happen often enough to know how effective it would be

b) The product has to be useful enough to attract a community to maintain it, which might be a rare condition
https://code.google.com/p/macvim/downloads/detail?name=MacVi...
I don't see the problem. It's obvious what the chart conveys if you stop to think for a moment (at least speaking for myself, I'm used to looking at graphs with a logarithmic time scale, and didn't think about it). In fact, it's reasonable that a linear improvement in compressed size should require an exponential increase in time and memory.
As for as I know BLE does not exist in Stock Android even though it is available in IPhone's first. It exists only in third party sdk's namely Samsung which i am planning to use. Hence may be once BLE is supported natively in Android SDK a lot of apps will support it.
Well, about twenty implies not much better than one sig fig, so I'm not willing to go more precise than around a pound/day.

A pound of fat is a mere 3500 calories. Why can he only be losing pure 100% fat? As a farmer rule of thumb a pound of raw cow is only about 1000 calories. I looked it up on google and its actually closer to 1300. Anyway the point is that your average people-of-walmart dieter probably biologically internally resembles a cow more than, say, a tank of olive oil, so I'd expect a delta-one-pound for a human to be much closer than 1300 or so input calories. If on the other hand you are a tank of biodiesel wondering how many calories of olive oil to add to weight one more pound, then sure it'll take 3500, but us mammals are more "a bit over a thousand cal per pound" in overall bulk average. Not this 3500 foolishness.

Finally maybe TMI but at the fattest weight I was ever at, given my height, a basal metabolic rate calculator estimated me at around 2500 calories just laying around doing nothing, like in a coma. But I like long distance hikes and stuff like that and even just housework burns more than the catatonic basal estimate. So I can easily see 3500 cal going out per day, cutting intake back to a "mere" 2200 calories per day coming in, net big mammal carcass equivalent of 1300 cal per pound, ta da, loss of a pound a day still eating a chezeburger for dinner.

Its quite achievable.
I'm not either familiar either, so I looked.

There were 28 days between the announcement of 7.3a and 7.3, 46 between 7.2a and 7.2, and 7 between 7.1a and 7. It took 45 days to go from 7's first beta to stable release.

For many of these, there were several beta releases, so there's a good chance we'll see a 7.4b or 7.4c. I would say that it certainly won't take more than two months before 7.4 is released and probably will take less than a month.

You can sign up for vim-announce here: http://www.vim.org/maillist.php.

Sources:
7.3a: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/lSlC6cUV5TY

7.3 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_announce/ZsAu_RU...

7.2a: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_multibyte/FVRKk5...

7.2: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_announce/LIlnHdk...

7.1a: http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/Vim-version-7-1a-BETA-has-b...

7.1: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimannounce/message/178

7: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimannounce/message/161

7b (there was no 7a, apparently): http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimannounce/message/153
After overhearing the men wagering, Baucum befriended Culosi as a cover to begin investigating him. During the next several months, he talked Culosi into raising the stakes of what Culosi thought were just more fun wagers between friends to make watching sports more interesting.

All the more reason to never speak to the police. Ever. What happened to 'protect AND serve'? The police have made their jobs harder by systematically turning every citizen into a criminal and forcing every person to not trust them. If I were ever to witness a crime I would hesitate to contact the police at this point out of fear that I would somehow be blamed/included/railroaded/etc... I starting to see how in other police states throughout history the citizens did and said nothing.
I can imagine a similar thing with a lot more data sources and reliable data to be very impressive and scary at the same time.

If you had access also to phone data, with position etc. it would be the ultimate stalking tool...
Wow, I wish this is what coffeescript was. This has most of the niceties of coffeescript and adds immutability, types, and macros.

I will end up sticking with TypeScript though for anything at work since the type system has more capabilities right now and it is just Javascript with types so it is very simple to use for those with Javascript experience.
The problem is that most people are simply incapable of giving correct specifications.

In a lecture about this topic (how to create specifications that can be turned into formal correct code) we were given the following simple example of an incorrect specification:

"Everybody loves my baby. But baby loves nobody, but me."

If you formalize this, you can simply conclude that the person that says that is equal to the baby - which clearly is not, what you intended.

And this is a very, very simple specification. Specifications of real software are magnitudes more complicated.
3/4 of the way through I thought I might be reading a big ad. But I'm glad this guy is doing well anyway.
I'm bored, so I'll bite. Yes, officially, Mandarin is the native language of the vast majority of China's 1.3 billion people. Unofficially, however, at most a large minority in China speak it natively. What is called a "dialect" in China often differs as much from standard Mandarin as, say, Romanian from Latin. Speakers of these dialects who live in large cities will often know enough standard Mandarin to get by, but usually only barely. Outside of mainland China and Taiwan the Chinese diaspora usually speaks either Cantonese or Fujianese languages like Hokkien. These languages are related to Mandarin, but certainly not mutually intelligible with it.

It's also a myth that the writing system is the same across Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien and all the other "dialects". While all "Chinese" languages use similar characters, written Chinese does not, in contrast to what is often thought, consist of pictographs. The written Chinese of a Cantonese speaker will therefore differ greatly from the written Chinese of a Mandarin speaker. Sometimes one version will merely seem "somewhat off" to a speaker of a different variety of Chinese, at other times it will make no sense at all.

With that in mind, the number of speakers of Mandarin has to be revised way, way down, to the point that it's no longer a serious contender for global language status. English is still supreme in that regard and will be for the foreseeable future, with Spanish coming in second.
Agreed up until calories in, calories out. I know what you mean, but that way of thinking is quite dated. It's clear these days that the macronutrient composition of the diet also needs to be taken seriously.
I'm from Russia. And it really makes me sad that such people like Garry have to leave our country now.
Thanks for the background.

This information should be easily accessible from the site.
As a long-time user, I must say they've come very far already. I'm one of those who always appreciated Unity and never got the whole hate thing. I really like the experience on my HP Elitebook 8740w.

But I recently thought about installing Steam, for which I needed to use the proprietary graphics drivers to be able to play its more demanding games.

I thought my entertainment to be just another 'apt-get install' away. I have never been so wrong. Canonical should start handing out medals to people who survived replacing their graphical drivers with those provided by AMD/ATI. It's a hellish experience, taking your heart and mind on a rollercoaster of emotions, only to see the tracks end right in front of you when the installer fails and then get catapulted into the dark void that is a system with a broken graphics driver.

Digging about in the root shell was the only option left. Adding insult to injury, their uninstall scripts usually only work halfway, breaking any further installs because it never uninstalled fully. Which then pretty much leaves no other option then to start 'forcing' installs and hoping for the best.

And lo and behold, after wrestling with some packages, purging everything that remotely looked like it knew fglrx, I had my desktop back. But what a chore it was.

So I would really love it if those hardware manufacturers provide a better and less-volatile experience when Mir launches. Perhaps the oft-rumoured SteamBox could accelerate said process even further...

Installing a graphics driver shouldn't be a fight between life and death for a system.
A landing page about the product - as if it's almost ready - and a series of Google ads. $200 of ads can tell you a heck of a lot about traffic, keywords, click thru, etc. And that tells you a heck of a lot about whether your potential product has potential.

If you ask people would they use X, many will say yes, sure they would. And they'd be lying - not intentionally, but lying none the less. Their search activity doesn't lie.
If I have a browser to use this website, I probably also have some application to play the music that I like.
The opposite perfect is imperfect, not "looks like shit and confuses people". I daresay that even "quality" products are imperfect.
Basically those are examples of bare pointer manipulations (as references are essentially syntactically sugared bare pointers).

Although it can be mitigated with specially written collections (incompatible with the standard collections) and strict coding guidelines, I have to agree with you that the C++ memory model itself is insanely dangerous.
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There are quite a lot of reasons, but these come to mind first:

There's a shockingly large number of projects out there that use "borrowed" code. This is in the sense that they may use code from open source projects (and didn't distribute the code back as stipulated in the license), code that they've inherited from other companies that may or may not have been part of a legal acquirement or through the much heard "Corporate Espionage", which sounds sexier than it really is.

Usually, it's just an intern or someone else who finds out the default password to source control and/or CVS server and sends out a few feelers to someone interested. Next thing you know, he plugs in a thumb drive and now he's a free agent with a plane ticket and fancier watch.

Early games especially were like this since being first often meant being successful at courting investors (this was before the video game crash of '83).

Source: I once did a freelance job ages ago where the dev team manager, who used to work at a gaming company, freely admitted that it happened quite a lot in the industry. Maybe it's still happening.

Then there are cases where the source is outright appalling in the number of hacks, re-hacks, back-hacks and any number of ducktape and hope holding libraries together. No one of sound mind would ever let anyone else see that mess. Let alone give the impression that some of that code survives in some form in modern software.

Can you imagine how many vulnerabilities exist? For all we know, it may be possible to do a lot more than install Linux on a Gamecube. http://www.gc-linux.org/wiki/Main_Page

Of course there are also the times where "works of art", as it were, are lost to history. As jbri said, there are times where large projects often are destroyed for silly reasons like crashes or even recycling.

I've bought several used hard SCSI drives back in the day on eBay that may have belonged to one such company (SCSI was expensive, yo!) I have no idea what the project was or what I may have in my hands, but it looked like a whole lot of assembly, a bunch of esoteric C (which might as well be assembly) and some proprietary language code, that resembles a cross between Pascal and Python to my untrained eye, and I don't think anyone outside knew how or where to compile.

Now did they copy this stuff before selling it off? Who knows. This was after the dot com crash, so I have no idea if even the original owners were involved in the sale since many of those companies' assets were liquidated in a very short period of time. And we know how delicate they can be when money is at stake.

Then there are issues with licensing (kinda related to the first point) and already mentioned by people here. Open source, as samarudge said, is complicated. If your legalese isn't kosher, you can expect to lose a buttload of cash in a lawsuit(s) even if you win. Especially with the threat of patent trolls around, you can bet fewer companies are willing to risk OS-ing their code.
You use it to make money, because the gatekeepers of social mobility in western society have decided (wisely or otherwise) that demonstrating an understanding of calculus is a prerequisite to being qualified in technical fields, many of which rarely require you to actually use calculus.
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How low did your body fat percentage get down to? I've been 'mostly paleo-ish' for two years. I know people who have been strict on the lifestyle. There are only health-gains talked about. By low carb, do you mean you avoided vegetable carbs too? Did you try "no wheat/gluten/processed foods" but still a metric tonne of veggies and non-lean meats?
why dont you install another WM? I do use a ubuntu vm for coding at work, bit I use i3 instead of unity.
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I was going to downvote you, but after looking at the submitters bio and submission history I decided to upvote
I imagine that documents remain classified even if/when a leak occurs of all/part of it. Just because someone has broadcast parts of it to the internet/world doesn't mean that there aren't aspects that remain secret and should remain secret. FOIA was never intended to reveal classified data, leak or no leak, until it has been de-classified. A few slides got leaked; let's not get carried away.
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"For me it is the internal that is important though someone who puts a high priority on external ornamentation as an indicator of personality and character would never know if you just went by my external appearance."

Liar. It's "external appearances" all the way down to the colorscheme you use for syntax highlighting.

I find it absolutely titillating, electrifying that it's perfectly well and good for Terrance McKenna or someone else to cry that we're all consumer whores; and that we've unearthed all this evidence about the The Fed and its goal to turn us into hyperconsumerists.

But you have to be a certain kind of ethnic in order to cry it from the inside. "Just leave!" or "we're so cerebral!"

Yeah, now, after about 50 years of culturally conditioned guilt and the Failure of the Extrovert education agenda. No yr all too fearful to say anything provocative except what yr console tells you. Yet another reason to, yes "Please, leave the US." You're all living so cushy, there's no genuine reason for you to "rail" against anyone. You're just passing the time while you compile.
Wouldn't this be reason to never speak to anyone, ever? It doesn't sound like Baucum identified himself as a police officer.
As someone who receives cold calls, I'm compelled to ask: how do you sleep at night?
People who are serious about delivering quality are brilliant. I want people like you to have a proper chance at doing what you do sustainably. That way the world will have less bad products built by people who are only good at sales and marketing. Quality is very important and very hard, but it is not 2/3 of a web application. At best quality is 1/3 of a web application, with 1/3 core functionality and the final 1/3 sales and marketing.

When your product is not profitable you need to let your customers decide if it looks shit and confuses them. You'll know it's ready when they pay for it and keep paying. I want people to stop leaving it too long before measuring that by giving people the opportunity to buy. Too often developers leave it too long and don't have the time, money and energy to invest in all the things you also need to get right.
> Or put another way, if you treat Python like some other language you learned, apparently not realizing it is a different language.

No, it's not "some other language", it's every other language. Why? Because the behavior being described isn't really a default. It's more like a static variable.
This is the exactly the point why we are not publishing our source codes.
> In terms of fabrication, all welding of titanium must be done in an inert atmosphere of argon or helium in order to shield it from contamination with atmospheric gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, or hydrogen.[11] Contamination will cause a variety of conditions, such as embrittlement, which will reduce the integrity of the assembly welds and lead to joint failure. Commercially pure flat product (sheet, plate) can be formed readily, but processing must take into account the fact that the metal has a "memory" and tends to spring back. This is especially true of certain high-strength alloys.[48][49] Titanium cannot be soldered without first pre-plating it in a metal that is solderable.[50] The metal can be machined using the same equipment and via the same processes as stainless steel.[11]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium#Production_and_fabric...

There are other issues as well; for example, I was reading _Dreamland_ and it mentioned that among the issues the SR-71 program ran into while working with titanium, was discovering that tap water could not be used with titanium-related processes because the chlorine would weaken the titanium or something.
As in
> I win/you win/customer loses
> I win/you don't win so much/customer wins
?
Plus, it masks very real problems on the reservations with some "everything is groovy" crud.
Guerilla marketing ;).

"Gorilla marketing" certainly conjures up a nice image though.

I personally like it more than normal marketing simply for variety: it forces marketers to be more creative and to try new things, which is never a bad thing. Certainly better than their standard approach of shoving their logo into my face enough times to imprint it into my brain.
This confirms my theory that NYT would write anything as long as Apple pays them enough.

The picture painted here ignores the point of view of the customer completely. Whatever Amazon does is okay with me as long as they successfully exposes Apple + Big Four cartel.
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In this case, I think the original "when you are a hammer" feels more right. Imagine what kind of person you must be to pretend to be someone's friend, make him commit crime and them murder him in cold blood, while thinking you did the right thing.

Even then, hammers have uses. People like this don't.
because it doesn't solve any of the problems mentioned in this thread? The essential parts are a stable community and 'buildability', none of which are solved by a webservice. Unless you have a great idea for this, than let's talk ;)
Would love to see them do Chicago as it's the "setting"[1] for the game and the city has great data sharing[2].

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPYgXvgS6Ww
2. https://data.cityofchicago.org/
Ditto, but I was also able to flag the post, so I did.
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Uhm, quite a lot of tribes would disagree with you. American Indian is preferred by many.
Another alternative is bpython
I couldn't live without tabbar - https://github.com/vim-scripts/TabBar