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The page you link to gives the reason from an interview he did in 2010:

"This isn't as hard to understand as people try to make it. By the end of ten years, I'd said pretty much everything I had come there to say. It's always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, ten, or twenty years, the people now "grieving" for Calvin and Hobbes would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I'd be agreeing with them. I think some of the reason Calvin and Hobbes still finds an audience today is because I chose not to run the wheels off it. I've never regretted stopping when I did."

You could read that as being about Calvin and Hobbes specifically but it feels to me that it's about cartooning in general.

It's understandable that someone who had achieved what he has achieved in the medium felt that there wasn't too much more to do and that it was time to try something else.
See my other comment for thoughts on the e-mail/post (sibling to yours).

On the banks... "Overdraft protection" is probably the single most disingenuous thing the banks have done to low-income individuals. It's such a "squeeze 'em when they're down" tactic. I had all kinds of financial problems in college, mostly my own doing, but they were sooo complicated by this... service. Suddenly because of one mistake, 10 small transactions turns into an additional $320 expense. Three days later you get 10 little envelopes in the mail. And then the dread. "Shit, I did it again. Now what am I gonna do?"

To the best of my knowledge, SunTrust wouldn't let you opt out prior to the CARD act. Or, if they did, none of their customer service reps or bank managers notified me of the possibility.

Thankfully I manage my finances better now. And thankfully the CARD act makes overdraft protection opt-in (although for a lot of banks this is just another clause in the phonebook-sized account agreement you sign), and there are now a few checking accounts (ING Direct, Ally bank) that treat payment of transactions that cause overdraft like what it is - a line of credit.
I use than SIP provider for all my telephone stuff, which gives me the ability to have menus etc.

I've now got one for "press one if you're calling me about an unbelievable sales opportunity" that gives the exact response. I have no idea if anybody has called it yet, but it's kept me laughing for the past three days!
I've actually noticed this (because, technically speaking, widescreen films should still have black bars on them even with "normal" widescreen televisions). I always assumed it was Netflix just accommodating the average user who would get pissed that they bought a widescreen TV and the picture is still showing up with bars on it.

Also consider that the average user usually watches television with their TV that auto-crops and/or zooms and stretches pictures, not to mention interpolates 120Hz viewing for a delicious soap opera effect.

I have to say, though, that cinemaphiles complaining about Netflix quality is a bit like the audiophiles that buy $10k sound systems to listen to their MP3 collection.
Another: buy more RAM if needed, and set -Xmx###M and -Xms###M to sufficiently high numbers so that the JVM never runs out of memory and forces a collection. You can also do System.gc() to "suggest" a collection be done soon, such as while you're busy doing something slow that's I/O bound like reading a file or getting network data. Though I wouldn't be surprised if most of the time modern JVM GCs already know when you're doing such things, making such a hint redundant.
Would you tell me what title you'd expect? I honestly don't know what you think is wrong with it.
I don't think ranting against the title without providing a reason and/or better suggestion is very constructive.
How do they "scan" I hope they're not using those ADE 651s?
Start Ringing the Bell
As someone once putted, "the software industry is like buying shoes that explode when you try them on".

We only get away with things like outsourcing, low quality work full of bugs, side jumpers into the industry, weekend developers, because no one is held accountable for software bugs and their consequences.

The only place people seem to care is when people life's are at risk, and even then we know how Therac-25 went out.
Also the TSR-2 - which was a fantastic aircraft design:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_TSR-2

"All modern aircraft have four dimensions: span, length, height and politics. TSR-2 simply got the first three right."
I think Boner wants IMAP for fetching email from other email accounts. At the moment it can only do that with POP3.
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Yeah, Central and Eastern Europe has humid continental climate with big temperature differences between Summer/Winter. In the Summer it is hotter there than in the UK. Yet, people in the UK (men) have a tendency to go shirtless when it goes above 20 degrees.

My point? Culture.
The other answers give some of the advantages of journal, but imho fail to capture the philosophical underpinnings; or the real reason it's there.

Traditionally, unix systems have had a very distinct and different processes for managing the system during bootup and runtime. For hardware, there initially were only the bootup systems and hotplug was added haphazardly a piece at a time, and it never really worked properly in all corner cases. Non non-systemd systems, it still doesn't.

A lot of the justification of systemd is to unify the bootup and runtime systems, so that there is only one, and there should be no difference to a daemon or a driver if it's pulled up during bootup or when it's plugged in or by the user from console. This unification makes the system simpler, saner, and much more robust. However, it means that there has to be large-scale changes in system architecture. One of those changes was that logging interfaces need to be available before init forks the first time, and among other things, before filesystems. This meant that old logging daemons just couldn't do the job.
Knowing so little about him (I think this documentary claims to have the first audio recording of him in 10 years), it's hard to know how he's viewed the Web age...it's possible that he, being someone who grew up and was inspired by Peanuts in newspapers, still believes that is the prime medium (that, and books), and may not feel compelled to produce for the web, especially if his success so far has allowed him to live the life that he wants, in privacy.

That said, it's so rare to see an artist quit out of artistic principle...and also, refuse to sellout. He's fiercely protective of his copyright...not because he's selling his own C&H merchandise, but because he doesn't want his characters to be watered down in the same way that Peanuts has been. I would love to have C&H t-shirts, dolls...but I have to say, about a decade later, the scarcity of C&H has made it even more sacred and beloved to me.
I read that ticks detect the ground shaking, and hope that means an animal will walk by soon, and they climb onto a stalk of grass/branch and put their legs out for a free ride.

I would like to know if the CO2 trick is true.
Stack Overflow blog entry on why they stopped using "Not Constructive" http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/06/the-war-of-the-closes/
Virginia is so incredibly humid in these summer months - 95% constant humidity, I can only imagine trying to rough it without AC in a full seer-sucker suit. I can almost feel the flop sweat forming just thinking about it.
I'm organizing these because they're great but hard to read, and it's easier to do that than to complain and demand you edit them.

- On your resume, don't list what you did, list what you accomplished.

For example, wrong = "Wrote new SQL and bug-fixed existing SQL on web application". Right = "Reduced a long running SQL call from 8 hours to 20 minutes"

- Also try to avoid "fuzzy" statements on your resume. Make your accomplishments quantifiable.

Wrong = "Rewrote a VB program so that it was a lot faster". Right = "Rewrote a VB program, reducing average run time from 60 minutes to 15 minutes"

- Be prepared to defend any statement on your resume. If you made that program faster, be prepared to explain how and why

- Apply for some jobs you don't really want before you apply for the ones you DO want. This is because interviewing is an art, and it really helps to "get in the mode" first. If you going to bomb the first few interviews, make them ones you don't care about so much.

- Turn off your cell phone. Better yet, leave it in the car.

- Have a personality. Hiring is still mostly about who "fits" the job. If they like you, half the battle is over. At the same time, don't be "chummy" with the interviewer. If you act like you two are best friends and should go out for a beer together, it feels kiss-assy and rarely if ever bodes well for you.

- Prepare to answer common questions. Why do want to work here? Why should we hire you? What are you most proud of? What is your weakness? What was a time you had a conflict at work? Almost everyone asks these, and and sucks to answer with some dumb example.

- Always try to rephrase the question asked to you before answering it. e.g. "Tell us about your SQL experience" - you reply, "So you want to know what kind of SQL projects I've worked on?" This makes sure you understand what was asked, and it also gives you a moment to think.

- If you don't know, say you don't know

- Have examples of your work. Code snippets are great, screenshots of UI's you've worked on, etc. When I bomb their pop-quiz (and I always bomb their pop-quiz, I suck at testing) it really helps to tell them that you can show them code from your daily job that better represents you on a daily basis.

- Never talk badly about other jobs, even if they were awful. Try to have a reason for switching jobs (e.g. They were a great place to work, but there was really no chance for job advancement) as opposed to "That was a soul sucking job and they can kiss my ass"

- Understand that most people performing tech interviews have ZERO training in doing so. If they aren't asking you questions that put you in your best light, then help them out, and offer up that information.
As a die hard fan, I was immensely disappointed in this documentary. If you already know the story and have read the 10-year book, theres absolutely nothing more to learn from this.

For casual fans, it would probably be great though.
Especially when the bug very feasibly might not be in your system.

In this case, Twilio is obviously calling out to a billing provider of some sort. I've run into situations myself where the billing provider returns a status message equivalent to "failure" when it actually was successful. In that case, many billing systems will try again thereby double-billing or worse.
I bet the grad student involved is celebrating now that they can finally submit their thesis
I understand your concern, but I agree with the advice whether just out of college or not. Interviewing is a skill just like any other, and if it has been more than a year since the last one, chances are you'll be rusty.

If a candidate is in the interview, there must be a modicum of interest, and is a great chance for the employer to sell it's position. And of course, as an interviewee, it is mutually beneficial to avoid wasting both parties time by expressing disinterest as soon as possible.
When people insinuate government control of the media, they aren't implying that the editorial boards of every form of media run their material by a government representative, to which they get a yay/nay. It's quite a bit more nuanced that that.

So I'm not sure that seeing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover of a mainstream magazine should end the "conspiracy theories".
Why should the manually managing your stringbuilders be preferable to having the compiler do it for you? The example given is:

String result = foo() + arg;
result += boo();
System.out.println(“result = “ + result);

creates 3 StringBuilders. I would have thought that it wouldn't be particularly hard to track that the input to subsequent "+" was the output of a previous stringbuilder, allowing easy re-use?
Exactly what I was thinking. Snowden is either highly delusional or completely out of options. As soon as he doesn't play ball with Putin, he'll be in jail with all the other troublemakers.

I can't believe your comment got downvoted.
If you leave mail on your mail server, and are fetching mail over a WAN, with IMAP you only fetch messages with a higher ("newer") unique ID on each connection. With POP, you scan the entire map of unique identifiers each connection. With a large mailbox and a relatively slow WAN connection, this creates a significant overhead with POP.

IMAP pretty much supplanted POP. Most people nowadays use IMAP, unless they have some specific reason to use POP.
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The theory is that the Australian one will drip upside-down
Personally, I always aim to be polite and I don't understand the reason why people believe that "argumentative" is necessarily a bad trait. Sure, it's bad if you argue for everyone and everything but doesn't this mean that you need to do it in moderation?

I think part of the reason why being argumentative has a negative vibe in the general public is because people don't really argue - they just bring their point of view and try to shove it down your throat until you swallow it and agree or choke on it. The mere thought of considering new suggestions is for many people scary.
Before assuming it's just going to be things like "PHP SUXXX LOL GO PYTHON" check out some of the questions that have been closed. Here's one I came across this morning on open source face recognition libraries:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/953714/face-recognition-l...

The original question was asked in June of 2009. It was marked as "protected" in June of 2010. Then it was closed as off topic in April 2013.

While it may be true that the question itself is not framed particularly well, the answers are really useful, including one from November, 2011 that was posted more than two years after the original question.

If the original question was considered off topic in 2013, then it was presumably also off topic in 2009 when it was originally asked. If it had been marked that way at that time, some very useful answers would never have appeared.
This is the sad foundation of "If you see something, say something" as well.
Fiber is cheaper.

Putting on my well-worn cynic hat, I wonder how much SV's anti-remote attitude is influenced by people whose inflated property values depend on SV's anti-remote attitude.
Seconding Willie's comments. I'm not your customer today, but seeing how y'all are handling this would make me feel confident to use Twilio should the need arise.

When you get some time (I'm sure you have none right now), read some of the Dreamhost discussion below. You folks appear to be doing an excellent job responding to this.
I've been using Twilio for over 3 years now and haven't experienced any significant downtime or service issues. Their support has always been amazing. Obviously this situation sucks but if there's any company I'd trust to make it right it's Twilio.

From a developer point of view, we all have bugs. I remember the first time one of my bugs impacted customers and it was awful. If there's any community that should be understanding that things like this happen in the tech world, it should be us.
I don't know. Often I'm not sure if I want the job or not whem I apply, so I see interviews as an opportunity to learn more about the company. Many companies are very different in what they ask for in a listing and what they're actually like. It goes both ways.
If we surrender all our civilization progress just because of a "war against terrorism", then the terrorism has won and we are not better than our opponents.
You probably have read this story as a kid but here you go again

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare

"it seems like the easy way out."

Not really. It is your way. Everyone has to figure out what works for them and make it count. If you want to stay home and work at your own pace, so be it. What will matter is how dedicated you are towards your goal whatever the method is. The destination matters but how you get there is what life is all about (I know this is a quote somewhere...)
IMAP can be used that way, too, so as far as I can tell it fully subsumes all practical POP use cases. (Perhaps there's some quirky case, whoknows, but let the people with the quirky cases worry about it.)
They have it, but not for fetching from other accounts.
Most of the 'hacks' were not relevant anymore 10 years ago. The blog is probably written to pitch the product.
Try working for your college. The IT department probably has work study jobs, which will give some "real world" experience but not intrude into your studies too much.
There's so much nonsense in these few lines, I don't even know where to start disputing it...

For one, you can certainly fix things on SO. (I hváve a third or a fifth of the power necessary to kill or resurrect and question.)

Further, moderators do not flag. That's utterly wrong. Moderators react to flags – and they mostly do nothing more.

And the place to challenge them is rather easy to find: it's on httP://meta.stackoverflow.com. Now, I am not saying that all your problems would be solved when you post there (nor even indeed that I would agree with you that they are problems), but if you've been around for as long as you seem to imply and you still haven't found meta, then I will have to presume that there must be something wrong – on your end.

Also, there already is a place to make all those discussions, and you can even do them in realtime. It's the SO chat, and it's been there for years, with a link to it from every single page. (Note: Chatrooms are generally more relaxed than SO proper, but that doesn't mean they'll all be what you want them to be. Many of the older ones have acquired quite their own culture, and if you happen to burst through the door and trample over that, you might find yourself among a group of people who resent you having come in.)

Finally, there is not close-reason "not constructive" anymore. It's gone.

Now, don't get me wrong. I am the first to admit that some things are in dire need of improvement on SO, and it has turned me off enough that I likely haven't even given a dozen answers last year. But any critique should still be well-founded, or it will be ill-received.
That's why I said you can vote counter to most moderator decisions. That's the one thing that only another moderator (or employees of Stack Exchange, who oversee moderators) can reverse. And no, "delete happy" mods cannot abuse it. There is oversight by other moderators and the Community Team at SE.
Is that a serious question?

First line of the article: "The Obama administration has won the latest battle in their fight to indefinitely detain US citizens and foreigners suspected of being affiliated with terrorists under the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012."
Well, don't rule bad software glitches in medical devices out so fast. As a matter of fact: they can kill:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
One simple organization method is: Dated entries, linearly from the front, and a sparse dated table of contents, linearly from the back, that refer to front section notes for important items. They grow toward each other.
I voted for both, despite the fact that I use IMAP myself. It has been my experience that most of my clients, have a real hard time understanding IMAP. Most of them don't organize their email more than INBOX & SENT. This is especially true when you have a cap on file space on IMAP, the idea that you need to archive email on your own computer become very difficult for people to understand.

Even with the rise of smart phones, and most people accessing email from multiple devices, IMAP is hard to grasp, and they use it basically like POP.

For myself, I have used IMAP since the late 90's. I have last several years of email available via IMAP, and the rest dating back to the 1994 in Mail.app
Yeah, I just meant energy is not the reason trains aren't used as weapons.
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Yes, I'd seen that before just didn't realise that was the term for it.

Something like that would be ideal if a system could be implemented that was reliable enough, there's always going to be some degree of false positive/negative but it would be cool otherwise.
Nginx gets the boilerplate treatment
while we're at it, no one should ever be allowed to mention any pre-Civil War leader without a discourse on slavery, or Columbus without mentioning his murders and barbaric practices. There are enough historical atrocities to go around, no one should have to risk having a discussion without their personal one being overlooked.
I know a guy (that I obviously cannot disclose who) that once a similar thing happened, not as president though...

Someone that noone knew, a woman to be more exact, once showed up with some documents, showed some to him (without allowing him to read them all or too much), then asked: "Do you want to become mayor?"

The person I knew replied: "Yes, why not?"

The woman: "Alright. I call you later." (mind you, she never asked for his phone).

Indeed, she called, and told him that if he wanted to become mayor, to do what she told him to do, and talk with her in a certain place at a certain time.

He asked why, and tried to convince her to do it in a manner that is less weird and shady...

Then she told him: "Your call, if you want to become mayor, do as we tell you, otherwise we will choose someone else."

He gave up.

And I wonder who will win the elections next year in that town... (there are currently no obvious candidates or popular politicians, the only would that would be a automatic win is the current mayor that is already re-elected and thus cannot be a candidate at all)
Definitely true. More than once has my resume ended up several times over at the same company, causing me to "drop out of the race". Why? Because recruiters either did not mention the company or could not disclose the name of the company.

I've learned not to rely solely on recruiters either so in the end, the only recruiters I feel like are justified to work with are recruiters hired specifically by a company, meaning that they represent the company and the company won't deal with anyone outside of that.
pop!!!! haha
He made a religion but didn't keep himself at the head of it. That's why he's not rich, he didn't capture any value from his creation.
Prospectively you are right. But once you have a single solid lead on the opposition, SIGINT lets you mop them up in short order.
How long are you willing to run a scientific experiment? People dream of projects that run decades or centuries or even millennia (see the Clock Of The Long Now); few manage to.
7 Reasons to Brand Yourself Before Your Startup
File containing its own checksum
Haters gonna hate...

:) ok this was a joke ;)
I was speaking more to the "communications/personal finance" bits you mentioned.

You can't be wholly private. Merely by existing, people will be able to learn some things about you. Nothing you can do about it.
By labeling that citizen a "terrorist" without due process of law. The entire purpose of "due process" is to force the accuser to produce the all the necessary evidence to prove the accusation and that he (the accuser) isn't simply trying to destroy someone he doesn't like.
I think that the single-person deletion allowed to mods is a big mistake. It's hard to correct and can be handed or really randomly. For example look at question 2380148 on SO. Years old, both question and answer have 10+ votes, there were other people both commenting and answering... But some one mod decided to delete, so it's gone. (He lost the diamond since then so now I can vote against it - it was not possible originally)
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