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From the article: "–You are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist"... Wow, so we need a war against... The police? If we follow todays logic?
Oh, I do love a false dichotomy between a zero-sum contest to the death and a hippie commune.

Real Americans apparently love the sting and clash of battle, which is why you have most of the rest of the world pissed-off at you.
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It's Hollywood. Chances are their work has already enriched the lives of some bigoted fuckheads. Why single out a product based on another product by a noted homophobe when we won't do it to numerous others?
It's difficult to look at the Google Street View and get an accurate feel for what's really happening here on Hillandale. If you put 1700 Hillandale in, you're greeted with a massive multilane freeway interchange. However, this accident appears to have taken place further down the block when it narrows to two lanes. (See the photo in the linked story.)
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that does not matter at all, you are "stealing" "intellectual property".

yeah, those word are a dumb concept.
Eeesh. Knee-jerk reaction: drivers like that should have their cars impounded and their legs broken.

More seriously, how do you think we can change driving culture from what you describe to something more like they have in Holland?
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This has also become a a key focus when organizing work for the team of developers I lead. I find that by rotating certain roles, developers avoid burnout as well and yearn for times when they can become fully engrossed with project work and be left alone.
Exactly the same rhetoric about those evil pointers and safety of static typing and compiler technology was that gave rise to Java.

Haskell, it seems, while using the same slogans, plus FP and lazyness buzzwords, is really doing the job when you follow its conventions.

Actually, that part which re-implements standard FP techniques with very clever and concise, based on familiar conventions (currying, laziness) syntax, along with ability to write "curried type signatures" is remarkable. It feels much better than SML.

It is definitely the language worth of learning after Scheme/CL.)
To be honest, you chose looking at the most expensive dedicated hosting provider. Also, they're just not-that-great. Their service and support staff are wonderful, but as soon as you actually need to do anything complex... good luck getting an engineer on the phone. It used to take us three or more calls to get someone higher level on the phone and we were paying five-figure type sums to them each month.

Also, we got DoS attacks all the time on their network and not one since we moved to our own hardware... Obviously take this with a grain of salt, but take the other comments to heart and actually look into other dedicated provider pricing. You might be surprised.
Looks pretty, but there's no (obvious) way to control it (so when items drop off you can't get them back - that is, until they eventually loop back around again).

There's a couple of other issues with your site as well - it seems fixed to a very wide width (possibly due to the carousel?) which is not only quite significantly wider than many laptop displays / non-maximized browsers would reach. And you seem to have some character encoding issues as you're apostrophes are being replaced with �.

On a personal note, some of the fonts are too big as well. Your site reads more comfortable when I've zoomed out twice (which also fixes the width issue as well).

Aside that, the landing page looks well polished enough (I didn't venture further in).

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While I understand the safety arguments for encouraging people to ride on separate bike infrastructure, I generally think this is a pretty short-sighted attitude; cycling will never achieve the level of convenience necessary for it to attain a reasonably high transportation modal share if the recommended practice for cyclists is to take circuitous recreational paths through parks instead of the much-more-direct routes available to motorists. Look at any cities in Europe that have reached moderate cycling modal share (Amsterdam, Copenhagen, etc.), and you'll see that while grade-separated cycling infrastructure is common in high-traffic areas, it follows the same routes as cars (complete with traffic lights), and that cycling on same-grade painted lanes is common in lower-traffic areas. Nobody is pushing cyclists in these cities onto inefficient completely-separate bike infrastructure.
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> I'm 24; I work a day job from 8 to 5; I go to the gym and go home and work on a startup from ~7-12 and do it all over again.

And your life occurs where in that process?

Sounds like a path to being a droid.
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One small subset of the discussion that I think is relevant.

Anyone ever notice how sometimes your most productive days are when you know you have to cut out early for some important event? "Can't mess around today as I have to leave early" 3pm comes around and you're kind of shocked by how much you got done.
It is truly a shame the cost of the Pixel is so high.

During my Google Glass intro, I had the chance to use a Pixel during the meeting. My wife was more attracted to the Pixel than the Glass. They probably could have sold her one that day if they had pushed it on her.
The bullying by Apple of publishers was generally about fixing the price caps lower than the publishers wanted ($12.99 for NY Times bestsellers rather than $14.99.)

Apple didn't have to bully the publishers in general, because this deal was a big win for them.
Work smarter, not harder.

I am going to create a startup soon and we're going to work out of my beachfront 2-bedroom FIOS-equipped apt for starters. The schedule will be:

9am-noon: 5 minute standup to spec work for the day, then code.

Noon-2pm: Lunch but also surf, bike, boogieboard, suntan, volleyball, just do something fucking outside that involves physical activity.

2-5pm: Code. If you finish early, you get to leave.

Basically 2 3-hour spurts of hard work a day. If you finish what you intended to do that day early, you go.

I've noticed that I only get 1-2 solid things done a day, anyway, and the rest of the time is mostly wasted (or reading, etc.) Just fitting a healthy schedule to that.
Reminds me of shelr.tv. Just with a better UI.
^ This..

While the user experience can be lacking with a carousel sometimes, I've definitely seen it used as an internal solution to deal with competing stakeholder interests that fight over homepage real estate, and would otherwise turn into a huge waste of time.

You can arm-chair argue about fixing the underlying problem instead, but sometimes you have to be pragmatic and just placate and move on..
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In my opinion, you were getting voted down to hell because you made very inflammatory remarks that had nothing to do with the parent comment. Somebody remarked on how the relative lack of airline disasters in recent history probably amplified the media frenzy this time around, and you said "So it's ok to forgive Pilots' incompetence just because statistics say it doesn't happen a lot?"

Don't play the martyr. If you had posted that link as an entirely separate comment and suggested that it was a major factor in the crash, no one would have down voted you, I'm sure. But because of that first comment that was, IMO, a huge jump in both tone and topic from its parent, people probably perceived your subsequent comments as being irrational and motivated by emotion. It was nothing to do with what you were talking about, and everything to do with how you were talking about it.
Also, it's no longer possible to sign up for any Google product without getting a G+ account with it. You can remove G+ from your account, but of course 99.9% of people have no idea how to do this.
It's time to leave that company. They don't deserve you.
It looks really pretty. However, it frustrates me the same way that using Netflix's UI does. The scroll speed on the carousel is crazy slow! I'm not going to sit for 45 seconds waiting to see what else is in the carousel and if it's interesting enough to warrant me clicking on it.

Not sure if that's the feedback you were looking for, but there it is ;) As I said, I do dig the overall aesthetics of the site.
"All data on All sites" access needed for us as we try to show help inside any website.

You are right about messaging on permissions. We need to figure out a place for explaining rights requirement to user.
I don't know how much it's in sales, but for what it's worth the Samsung ARM Chromebook has been the #1 bestselling laptop on Amazon for almost 9 months straight, since it came out last fall (I know because I've looked every now and then, and it's always been #1):

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics-Laptop-Comput...

But I don't agree with the last paragraph that Chromebooks are ready to go to higher-end. At least for the next few years, Chromebooks should stay sub-$500, with most of them being ARM-based and sub-$300, but with a bigger battery (even more important than upgrading the resolution, I'd say).

They last about 6-7 hours, but they have an embarrassingly small battery (about as big as the ones in 7" tablets). Double the battery size, keep the ARM processor up to date and the price under $300, and that should be the strategy going forward for the next few years for Chromebooks.
> Any less and a society can't function

I disagree with this. There is simply less work to be done than there used to be, what with automated factories and powerful computers. We've somehow turned this into an "unemployment crisis", when by rights it ought to be a huge boon that means everyone can work less.
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Deluxe.
I find your message to be profound.

> They want prestige and the root of almost all forms of prestige is nostalgia.

There's something of the hazing cycle in this too. They suffered, so they glorify the suffering, and share it with others.

> (2) they're only "glory days" for people who get major, career-improving and permanent benefits from the work-- otherwise it's just managerial abuse

In other words, for most people, this is nothing but slavery.

Interesting.
You need to run the scripts under the radar. Once you are discovered you are fucked. No manager will pat you on the back for automating your work.

Programming is a tool in your toolbelt that should be used with stealth.
How so? I'm doing exactly what I want to be doing. I didn't say I don't socialize or go out on the weekends etc. I admit it's sparse because of my work but I love my life right now and if it pays off in the long run, even better.
The blog post was built on a bs argument. Apples and Oranges. Desk job versus physical labor. I guess we could argue since someone who works as a developer makes more per hour than someone at McDonalds they are making better use of their time.

You pull your own hyperbole as well.

Being successful does not make you a workaholic, and being a workaholic does not make your successful. I know more than enough workaholics who are because that is exactly what they enjoy. They work sixty hours because it keeps them occupied. It fulfills them.

The blog fails for the same reason your failing, your comparing yourself to others instead of your own goals. Your goals and your ability to meet or exceed them are what matters. How someone else does that does not, never has and never will. Some do it to push themselves, far too many do it to feel superior. Both are wrong.
At $200, it makes a nice second laptop that you aren't afraid to break/lose. It won't replace your "real" computer, but it's a better size for reading/writing email than a smart phone.
I'd always thought that circles should have been two-sided. People should be allow to create personas (channels for their profile) and choose which channels a post is associated with. Others can then follow a person's personas, not the person directly.

I admit that the idea gets a little clunky when you have to take into account "I want to make a post that only people in my X circle can see", but I don't see why that couldn't be worked in somehow.
It wouldn't surprise me to see Digital Ocean get picked up by Amazon at some point. Amazon loves a high growth, low margin business model.
Thanks for the link. I was dimly aware of some arguments against wearing helmets but haven't examined the issue in depth.
I used to think as you do concerning the pavement. However, experience cycling[1] has taught me that the pavement is not a safer place to cycle. Cars expect slow-moving pedestrians on the pavement, not fast-moving bicycles. Consequently, cycling on the pavement leads to a lot of collisions with cars as they pull in/out of driveways.

[1] In Oxfordshire, UK -- this may be inapplicable to the US.
Hahaha you got me there. Indeed, I'm sure people would pay a hefty sum for some of his "genetic material".
Do you realize that 99% of people use gmail, facebook, twitter, and play web games for 99% of the time?
I don't think so. Don't compare the Chromebook with a laptop: compare it with not having the Internet.

A year or two ago, I set up a retired family friend with an old desktop machine running Ubuntu and Chrome.

He loved using it. Who wouldn't love the web if they'd never had it before? All he ever did was launch Chrome and browse websites. Sometimes he'd watch catch-up TV, but that was also through Chrome.

A while back, a failed Ubuntu upgrade left the machine unbootable, and I had to reinstall Ubuntu for him. More recently, the HD crashed.

So for his birthday we bought him a £200 Chromebook. It has exactly the same relevant capabilities as the old Ubuntu desktop, but it's small, light, low-power, and unlikely to get viruses or ask incomprehensible questions about software updates.

Yes, an iPad might have worked too, but it would have been a lot more expensive, less familiar, and lacking in Flash (which, if all you ever do is browse websites, can still be somewhat limiting).
I'm against current copyright regime. But, "user-submitted translations of movie dialog" is clearly derivative work and in violation of copyright (at least in USA).

If you want wide spread awareness of and support for copyright reform (and I do) then you MUST educate the average person just how egregiously overreaching, damaging, and one-sided copyright law is AND how fast it's becoming even worse.

The average person doesn't care cause the average person doesn't know "user submitted translations" are violation.
I think better training would help. In a lot of ways, I think meetings are an attempt to make up for bad communication. If team size has grown to the point where team members aren't able/willing to communicate with each other outside of having a formal meeting, that's when meetings almost have to be called, to make sure everyone in the room is on the same page.

I wish the MBAs would figure out a way to minimize formal "meetings" by encouraging better informal communication. Not all situations need meetings, maybe things are better solved by a simple "walk over to Jill's desk and hash it out there". Just my opinion though, I don't have formal training in management!
Not to mention ...and for what? Most of the time what you're working on isn't worth the agony.
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amazing reaction for sensible thing to do
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Maybe they can use their military-grade hardware and shoot themselves.
"Instead, relevant terms that govern e.g. what circumstances justify a particular finding are interpreted in mostly consistent ways. The law effectively changes when those interpretations change"

This is exactly what I (and the article) meant as well. Likewise Udall and Wyden.

That is, when the court creates new interpretations of existing laws (and the Constitution itself, as in the example), then it is effectively creating new laws. Of course, these are not laws in the sense that Congress passes them. Instead, these become "precedent" to the extent that future rulings can rely upon them.

Now, such interpretation is a "normal" thing that is done out in the open with, for example, The Supreme Court. Of course, there are two (adversarial) parties when this happens.

But, when this (secret) court is carving out these new interpretations of Constitutional law based solely on the assertions of the government (i.e. without adversarial debate), then we have a very big problem.

So, I would also be interested in hearing why the parent doesn't find Wyden's and Udall's complaints compelling.
The carousel isn't 'loud', but it's still being ignored. And as someone actually uses the page, it's quickly scrolled off the page.

I think he might have been better served by putting those portfolio items in the sidebars.
While I don't necessarily like to see people brag about working hard, I definitely agree that this post is one sided and misses the point. If your work is just a way to make money and do things you enjoy, you should change your profession to something you're passionate about. Your work should be your craft. But if you'd like to just make money and explore the world and try different hobbies, more power to you. But don't assume that everyone who works long hours is just inefficient.

And I also think the comment about the truck driver is extremely snobby. Truck drivers provide an essential service and they have to work long hard hours away from their families. I don't care if you make twice as much and work half the hours. Don't be a dick.
How in the world is PHP such a small node?
Do you have stats on this?
What I know about you is only what you have written. In my experience, most people who misspell are not dyslexic, so no, I was not dissing you because of your dyslexia.

I know nothing about your country's internal politics and cannot comment about the last. I was talking about 'school as prep for Uni works better.' It appears that you want a different discussion than what I can provide.
I don't know the Apple mini assembler, but that sounds similar to what I meant.

Either we'd load a tiny "monitor" which is what they were typically called in the Commodore world at least, and you'd have a primitive REPL with commands like ".D C000 C100" to disassemble addresses 0xC000 to 0xC100 or ".A C000" to get a prompt with the address 0xC000 after which you could enter one instruction, press enter and have it instantly assembled and get the next address (with no support for labels).
If you needed to correct something, you'd press enter to exit back to the prompt, type ".A [address to correct] [new instruction]" and hopefully you wouldn't need to alter the length of the instruction as then you'd have the fun task of remapping absolute addresses and copy the following code around.

Then when you wanted to test something, you'd do ".G C000" and hope your program didn't crash things so bad you had to load things back in...

Scarily enough it was common at least in demo circles to not even save before each test as it was too slow with a tape or floppy and so we just hoped we wouldn't lose changes too often from bugs overwriting our program etc.

Often not all variables might even be reinitialized on starting the program again either, and so the program might differ depending on test runs... When we saved the programs it was often just a raw memory dump of the locations we'd assembled stuff to... (e.g. .S "filename" C000 C3FF might save the 1K range from 0xC000 to 0xC3FF)

(I keep using C000 by habit, even after 25 years or so away from the C64 - 0xC000 to 0xCFFF was free space in between the BASIC ROM and memory mapped registers for the graphics and sound chips, and BASIC would not touch memory above 0x9fff, so putting stuff at 0xC000 was popular since you could e.g. load basic programs without wiping it)
I think, also, that such agreements can only apply to the retailers advertised pricing- which is why online stores often say something like "Add to Cart for Price" or "Price too low to advertise", because they have an agreement with the manufacturer as to a Min Advertised Price. Retailers can thus sell Raybans for less, they just can't advertise it. At least, that is my understanding of the situation.
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Chromebooks are the only small, portable, sub $500 PCs that don't completely suck. No wonder they sell. Everyone else is trying to charge $800+ even though laptops are perceived as something that should be cheap because they have a high risk of being stolen, getting damaged, or quickly going obsolete. It's like Google understood what the Netbook wanted to be, while everyone else dreamed of being Apple (without the least bit of ability to actually be Apple).
> Physics has more than just the Schrödinger equation.

It was a course in Quantum Mechanics, specifically.

> With a solid foundation in second-order PDEs, it's a matter of setting up the boundary conditions and solving for the Fourier series. The boundary conditions were superimposeable combinations of simpler forms, so it was mostly a matter of determining the correct Fourier series for those forms, then simplifying.

In a usual undergrad course on QM, e.g., following Griffiths, one only solves SE with particular choices of potential -- usually only infinite well and QHO, and maybe a double well to illustrate tunneling. Neither really requires a background in Fourier series.
Jeri took quite a hit when she put her established and successful, entreprenurial lifestyle on ice to work "for the man." If you listen to that great podcast, you'll hear how she had to pack up her personal projects and local consulting gigs for regular, paying customers as well as her profitable and fun local-pinball-business to work at Valve.

Some people are perceiving Jeri's emotional crying about the experience as "whining" and "complaining." I don't think she's "butthurt" about the experience at all. It is just that it was intense and very personal, near to her core.

The interview from which the guardian article is highly condensed (remember to take your grain of salt) is a very inspiring example of going from one peak to another. She is certainly very savvy to go from being laid off in the morning, to marching out the door with the IP she created. We should all learn to be so clever!

So yes, she has nothing to whine about and no, she hasn't actually been whining about anything, only crying while telling the story because it was so intense. The world has sometimes gotten used to softballs, but Jeri is a hard-banger all the way. She mentions in the interview that she's actually going so far as to make a custom ASIC for the AR product. That's a step you only make if you are foolish and wealthy, or preparing for a major, major market movie. In EE terms, it's a cost-reduction move that only makes sense in >10K-100K quantity (well, depends on margin. Government contracts have lower thresholds.)
Simple, do you see the limits to preventive actions they can take in most cities? Have you read how "rights" activist are going to strip NYC cops from doing just that which has resulted in an incredible drop in murders and similar crimes?

We got there because we stopped police from policing and instead forced them to respond to situations left to build until they explode.

We got there by telling them, no you can't look at that guy because of where he lives, where he doesn't live, his skin color, the type of clothing he wears, or such.
perhaps 'cloud' is a misnomer - any ideas what the real name should be?
Theres Prepros thats supposed to be similar to Codekit for both OSX + Windows

http://alphapixels.com/prepros/