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> Circular dependencies ARE a problem with your architecture

This whole thread reminds me of the PHP days before namespaces. If you have circular dependencies within your own codebase, you have an architecture problem. If they are introduced by third-party libraries, maybe the usage of the library should be questioned.
UK court orders block on two file-sharing sites
Actually you do have to worry about that. Since the USPTO is financed by patent application fees it has a perverse incentive to continue promiscuously granting as many patents as possible.
It is not a good samaritan attitude. It's simply pointing out when someone is being, probably subconsciously, sexist. I showed the original comment to my girlfriend, who said, "what's new about that? I get this kind of attitude from men every day".

If you call Donald Rumsfeld, "Rumsfeld", but Condoleezza Rice, "Condoleezza", or President Obama, "Obama", but Hillary Clinton "Hillary", then there's something going on. Sexism is so entrenched that we often don't even feel that we're being sexist; that doesn't mean that we're not (just like Google, that set out with the best of intentions and even explicitly adopted a motto of 'don't be evil' -- which is fascinating, and brilliant, on so many levels, BTW -- and yet unintentionally became the most privacy invading, soul-killing consumerist company in the history of mankind). So, the easiest litmus test in this case is to ask yourself, "would I have said the same thing (as often) about a man?" If the answer is no, then there's at least some soul-searching to do.
It's definitely a very small post(I expected more when I opened it) but I assumed that people upvoted it because they were interested in the discussion that it would produce. There's definitely plenty to say on the subject of functional vs object-oriented programming, even if this article doesn't happen to say much.
I tried it and couldn't do it. It's really hard to stand in one place for hours. Walking around is a different story. People in the office do it and we use a cheap hack. Cinder blocks. You can always give it a try and take it down if you don't like it.
> But there is huge resentment against teachers because of how much they make compared to the bottom half in town.

That's amazing, considering that in many places, this is the exact opposite...
Quite a different incident, I think.
No, it seems double MIMO antenna or something. There already are multiple LTE bands. Qualcomm's S800 will support 20 different ones, and they are planning for 40 in the future.
This is what the market will produce, eventually, after it has tried everything else, but especially everything that acts to lock consumers into long-term deals with the 2.5 remaining wireless carriers.

(Actually if this constellation of devices is mesh-like enough in architecture, the 4g modem won't be particularly special either: you'll keep it in your pocket, never look at it, and it will only be used [automatically, seamlessly] when wifi or its successors aren't available.)
That's not at all consistent with my experience. I'm from rural MS, but was educated in Memphis. I went back to a small town (population: 4,500) to run a business there. Before I moved on, we had built it up to just over 40 employees. Except for technical jobs (finding programmers was damn near impossible), general labor jobs were easy to fill with a variety of skill levels.

The people we paid $35,000 were quite well off in that in that town. Hell, I rented one of the largest houses in the area when I moved, and only paid $800/mo (for 4,000 sqft). Nice two bedrooms ran $400-450, with three bedrooms running a hundred or so more.

The single wide culture fell into three main camps, as far as I could see:

1) Those who bought land and put a single wide on it, so they could own their place. Usually the intention was to some day build a house. Not a horrible decision.

2) Those who were renting, and opted to have a smaller trailer on a lot of property (to be able to have horses, etc), instead of going for a real house in town. I can respect that decision too.

3) Those trapped in the "pay weekly" rent treadmill. I feel bad for this group, because they're paying as much or more overall for their trailer rent as a decent rental house ran. But it's almost as bad as the payday loan treadmill .. once you get on, it's hard to get off.
I paid almost exactly the same income tax in Florida as I did in British Columbia. But I got free health care in BC.

Gas, cigarettes and booze are definitely cheaper in the USA though.
How pitifully insignificant and uninteresting this headline is. Is it [strongly] or [weakly] correlated ?

You can say, "On Earth, Where You're Born..."

I mean, c'mon. This is comparable to evolutionists telling us there's a genetic basis behind why we find sex satisfying.

"Big Data needs an Einstein"
Do you have any basis for thinking that? I ask because my perception is that the cost of OS is effectively zero for almost all computer users: Windows or Mac OS comes free* with the computer.

* Free and bundled together at a sharply discounted cost (or the cost of R&D in Apple's case) to the manufacturer aren't exactly the same, but that's not apparent to the purchaser.
George Zimmerman Emerged From Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue
Nonpology, followed by linking to a video of a straight, white, male comedian telling people why being offended at something is stupid?

Please, go back to reddit.
Toronto, Waterloo, Vancouver, Montreal

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I never believe in the odds. I was born in a farm town in Oklahoma where I spent 25 years. Then I moved to California, built a billion dollar company, earned a small fortune, and now I'm running a company in London.
I have not been this enthusiastic about a product since the introduction of the iPhone, iPad or Google Maps and I'm not even a Linux-fanboy.

I love how they are pursuing convergence of desktop and mobile, I haven't seen anyone try this successfully yet.
Pithy one-liners are much more fun.
You don't have to verify the source yourself. Others can do it. I trust the Debian maintainer for my package. He's a real world person who has had his key signed by other Debian developers.

The fact that the source can be verified also reduces the risk of malicious modification.

It's not necessarily just the author who might be malicious, either. The author's computer where he runs his compiler might be compromised.
>There's even a great mobile app which GA doesn't yet have to my knowledge.

I use Piwik, but GAnalytics has a billion mobile apps.
Fairphone hit their target; they haven't shipped yet but it looks good. http://www.fairphone.com
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I think that is by design ...
I do agree with bluehex: an example would definitely helped. It seems you have a new perspective on the topic, which is great but the current version sounds more mystic than informative. Here are one most confusing thought: Why are you bringing in people into the equation? Are these end-users? Or programmers? If they are end-users, why do they care what programming paradigm is used?

The idea about mixing OO and FP at different levels is a good one. Have had similar experience.
It's simply a postmodern take on original sin -- it is guilt which you are inescapably born into.
Wow. Does this include PayPal's cut?
As I predicted when I opened this thread, the top 5 comments are anecdotal personal stories.
The USPTO explicitly asked us to set up this site to help get the public involved in getting prior art to the examiners. (Press release:http://www.uspto.gov/news/pr/2012/12-60.jsp.) So, while it's entirely possible that the examiner might have eventually found this without us, which is far from certain, it seems reasonable to assume that they saw it on the site. Which means that even if you assume they would have found it without help - again, questionable, given the number of weak patents out there - at a minimum, we probably saved them a lot of time, which frees up more resources to look for prior art on the next crappy patent. And that reduces the odds that the clock runs out without them finding any, which leads to a lousy issuance.
Apple's Wearable Device Will Be More Nike Fuel Band Than Pebble Watch
I can't help but feel that this is about a couple of things:

1. education

2. income

3. influence

I've travelled and lived all over the world. It always struck me odd that the poorer places in the world always seem to value religion over education (my perception), and it creates a nasty cycle where the majority of people don't/can't better themselves.

I saw this first hand in the southern US where it was always God #1, everything else (including education, which in my view is super important) #2. You would be amazed at the things people would give up if they thought "God" told them to.

I haven't studied the interaction of the three things above, so this is just my observations, but if you have a strong influencer at a young age, that influencer has a dramatic effect on the trajectory of your life. If that person pushes you to education, likely you'll be ok. Though it goes both ways. If the influencer pushes you away from education (for whatever reason), your life situation could end up very differently.

I was very lucky to have a non-religious teacher mother who pushed education above all else. I didn't know college "was optional". In my family, it wasn't. Not b/c I think college is necessary; I don't by any means. It was her thinking and pushing that molded me in a certain direction. Even though I grew up in the northeast US, I saw super religious families who pushed their kids away from education. Those kids are now in the their 30s and 40s and have lost most of their lives to "god".
Here are a few use cases. For every one of them, I know at least one person (sometimes many) who falls into that use case.

Guilds in online games often use FB groups to coordinate. If you want to spy on other guilds, you'll need a different FB account. I've known people with dozens.

People create and abandon accounts. When they later decide that they want to use FB after all, it can be easier to create a new account than remember how to get into the old one.

People often want to hide part of their lives from others. For instance a pre-op transgender person might be part of transgender groups but have family who they have not discussed their plans with. Having multiple FB accounts is a way to separate these parts of their life.

People create accounts to use as sock puppets for online arguments.
The rest must be be torrents.
I've actually amended my fork now to remove the API keys, adding the following instructions:

/* Instructions for usage:
1. Replace YOUR_SECRET_KEY and YOUR_STATIC_TOKEN in the code below with
the values you have to access the service.
2. Fill in SERVICE_URL with the appropriate endpoint. */

Not that it's going to stop anyone from going to any of the other forks or retrieving the previous revision of the file, but at least I've now only got up what I believe to be genuinely acceptable.
I've been using a standing desk for 9 months now. I'm a software architect and my days run 8-12 hours, depending on what fires I'm putting out. I found an Ikea Jerker desk on Craigslist for $75, then picked up an industrial anti-fatigue mat at Home Depot for $20. It only took me about 2 weeks to realize that I can't go back to sitting all day.

You're not exercising like a treadmill desk, but you will often find yourself moving about as you work. Heck, some days the music kicks in and you've just got to move with the beat while you're building a new feature for your app.

Side effect: after about three months, I was also able to give up soda completely and have almost completely given up caffeine.
Or OCaml.
Add this to the same list as the 'Install Google Chrome' message the appears every time I have to go to google.com.
I don't necessarily need to trust the author directly. If he provides source, and the source is known to be the true source of the binary I'm using, then the source can be checked by others, even after a problem has been detected.

> Isn't using their work a statement of trust?

Trust isn't absolute. I might trust an author's intentions, but not that his computer has not been compromised, for example.

Being forced to provide source could be argued to keep authors honest, too.
I'm curious: How do they detect the location of a cell phone that is turned off?
OAuth for Platform API in Public Beta
I'm not 100% sure what you are confused about, but let me take a stab at it. Prior disclosure is public disclosure of the invention prior to the patent application. The one year rule states that once you publicly disclose an invention, you have one year from that date to file a patent application. Otherwise, your invention is considered public domain and cannot be patented. Does that clarify?

The problem I think you are referring to is that researchers run the risk of shooting themselves in the foot by prematurely presenting their findings unless they file an application in the process. Doing so would ruin their chances of being granted a patent.
You mentioned leaving facebook. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
I like your theory. I think the schools in those regions are generally pretty good, and due to agricultural consolidation and general urbanization, most kids in those areas see the writing on the wall.
RSA?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(algorithm)#History
Fahrenheit was a horrible microsoft api, and more like a scenegraph than a low level api. There were photos (probably still somewhere on reality.sgiweb.org) of it all being burned. Burn API burn!
> Assuming the posted letter is complete, a lawyer can't really do anything at this point.

A lawyer can analyze the facts of what you have done, and provide you with advice as to whether it is likely to be found to be an anti-circumvention device under the cited section of the DMCA and, if so, what the likely consequences of that are and what steps you can take to mitigate any exposure you might have in that regard (including, if there are any, steps short of taking down the existing offering.)

Of course, you could wait to see if they actually file a suit rather than having a lawyer look at the C&D, but if you do that, then there will be less, not more, that a lawyer can do for you.
Social Data Quality Will Take Back Seat to Data Relevance
Piwik is great and so much better than Analytics. It works especially well for us when we want to track sources of sales, as sales are handled by 3rd party reseller and Analytics goals are of no use.

In Piwik you have the visitors log at a glance, we just match IP/time to the log and BAM - we know where the buyer came from, what pages did they visit and how many time stayed there.

On top of this, our site traffic is hidden from the eyes of Google.
> Is the bank going to call around to services that I have paid for previously and tell them my new credit card details? I hope not

Yes. Anyplace that bills you regularly on the old number will automatically get the new number.

> You can't continue to use the old number for new transactions.

It depends on how you define new. A new biller, then correct. But if it's a biller that you have an existing relationship with, i.e. they bill you every month, then they do send them the new numbers (and/or allow them to use the old number).

I can't say if this is a global policy of all issuers, but I can say that I've experienced it. I've also seen it in the fine print when I signed up for repeated billing.
Growth can't continue forever: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/04/economist-meets-...

>Before we tackle that, we’re too close to an astounding point for me to leave it unspoken. At that 2.3% growth rate, we would be using energy at a rate corresponding to the total solar input striking Earth in a little over 400 years. We would consume something comparable to the entire sun in 1400 years from now.
It would be great if others could attach bounties to certain patents. Of course then the patent examiner would have to pick "winners", answers that helped the most.

Also, like Quora, does the StackExchange system allow one to register one's fields of expertise, to have questions suggested to you? (I'm not a big participant on SE but I know it may be hiding that feature from me, because it slowly reveals features based on karma).

Anyway I'm sure this has been thought of before, just curious if it's on the todo list.
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That's why it's just "sit".

I don't see why. Making those trips is likely not very relaxing- just because it doesn't involve hard manual labour doesn't mean that constantly moving from city to city and politely gladhanding hundreds of people in a day isn't work.

But you're right, nothing good comes out of charity work, it's all just a bunch of rich people eating caviar. Glad your exhaustive investigation into the topic was successful.
Upgrading vagrant boxes to 1.2
I've always viewed OO as a nice optional UI for most programmers. Given an object to mutate and call methods on seems to click for most people. I tend to go for a more functional style internally for the composibility and maintainability properties you gain.
OK, I'll give you that. In an enterprise environment, a company can choose to trust specific vendors' binaries, and this often happens.

However, I don't think this has much bearing on the original pain point. I'm familiar with these sorts of production environments. Running a local store of gems is standard practice already. There is little marginal cost to doing this.
This is a bit like writing about the programming business as if were all Google and Facebook. I knew a lot of people who started law school, most but not all of whom saw it through. Of them two or three joined fair-sized firms, one a small one, and the rest did all sorts of stuff--corporations (aerospace, insurance, ??), the military, the government.

"No relationship in the legal profession is more fraught than the one between partners and their money."

Another fine reason to avoid situations where you might have to hire a lawyer, no?
> Porn is fiction and there's no victim.

This is an unreasonably strong statement, and very likely untrue. There is no way for end-users of porn to reliably verify that performers in a specific video aren't under duress, aren't being trafficked, etc. Yes, if one knew that a crime was being committed, one could call it a crime, but this is effectively impossible for the vast majority of porn. At best one can hope that no one was harmed.
I don't understand why people in terrible positions stay where they are. I realize it takes at least some money to move, you need a way to get where you're going and you need money when you get there to eat and have a place to stay, but previous generations were much more mobile than we are now.

My grandparents constantly re-located to where the work was. They did construction so they'd move to where a big hurricane hit, since they'd be busy for a few years. People from the south flocked to the mid-west for factory jobs in the middle of the last century.

But this generation, and the previous generation, are content with just sitting on their asses. People are content to stay put after losing a job. Why move, they're getting an unemployment check? And it's not even people who own a home and don't wish to move.

It irks me when people say, "I can't find a job here." Change where here is! Beg, borrow, or steal a couple hundred bucks and hop a Greyhound out to the oil fields. Do something.
I don't believe this is a nitpick, but fully encapsulated OO provides only nouns and verb phrases that have a pre-specified noun. This is different from data structures (nouns) with collections of functions (verbs) that can act on many data structures in a consistent way.
Unless SO itself gets issued said patent, and then turns around and issues a royalty-free worldwide license on it to everybody.
Chrome Bookmark Search Extension Holmes updates for better UX
This seems counter to the hacker ethos.
It would be great if it came straight with the 64-bit ARMv8 architecture (a quad core Cortex A57 chip, I suppose), although that would mean being released in 2nd half of 2014, but they should probably wait until they can put Ubuntu 14.10 (Mir-only) or at least Ubuntu 14.04 LTS anyway. Coming with stock Android 5.0 or 5.1 would be great, too.

Why no 802.11ac Wi-Fi though? By then pretty much all high-end devices should have it (HTC One and Galaxy S4 already have it).
Well, yes there is some hypocracy with some ardent (say) anti-gay politicians who are caught with a rent boy. However there are some people who are anti-sex publicly and privately.
Yep.

I never had the 'honor' of working there. One of my brother's did.
Forked - at least startups should know how to behave. Truly shameful

https://twitter.com/ansimionescu/status/359361709904891904

Edit: Why not use some of these https://www.google.com/search?q=pro+bono+lawyer+advice
I don't disagree that culture is a real problem (and not just in rural Southern towns), but since I also grew up in a rural Southern town I think the lack of interest in education, the general focus on getting enough money to pay the rent and buy a case or two of beer for the weekend, and wealth displayed through big trucks and jet skis is a much deeper problem then "I'm top in my class, but aw shucks I need to stay home and love me some Jesus so I can find me a nice boy and take care of Mamma"... that does happen, and sometimes its not for the best, but it's not nearly as common as "I got a job in the factory after high school and check out this kick ass Mustang I got".
I've had the opposite experience, which is why I'm bringing up this issue. However, my refund was processed as a payment to me rather than a refund, so it's quite possible that your experience is the more typical one.
And an elected council would be better than an elected figurehead in what way? Just sounds like yet another platform for groups of people to disagree with each other. Fantastic.
How to deal with the beginner's blank screen problem
The Bell Labs of Quantum Computing
~400+ K in 2 hours. The start is definitely good, we'll have to see if they keep it up.
For those of you wondering what RethinkDB and Docker are:

RethinkDB (http://rethinkdb.com) is "an open-source distributed database built with love. It lets you enjoy an intuitive query language, automatically parallelized queries, and simple administration. Table joins and batteries included. RethinkDB is built to store JSON documents, and scale to multiple machines with very little effort. It has a pleasant query language that supports really useful queries like table joins and group by, and is easy to setup and learn."

Docker (http://docker.io) is "an open-source application container engine. It gives developers a way to package their app and all its dependencies into a portable container which can be deployed on any modern Linux machine, virtualized or not. Containers are completely sandboxed and do not interfere with each other (think “iPhone apps for the server”), have virtually no performance overhead, and can easily be moved across machines and datacenters. Best of all, they don’t depend on any language, framework or packaging system."
If they rely on the client to determine when things are deleted from their service, they're doing something wrong. Never trust the client software! The only thing a rogue client should be able to do is surreptitiously send a copy of your pictures Somewhere Else (for storage). All the pictures sent to Snapchat should get deleted on schedule, regardless of who or what sent the pictures.
Keep on mind alot of this enthusiastic userbase is in the third world or too young to afford it.
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