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Alas, the system UI (button bar, switching, etc) are not included in the updateable components :(.
California's share of federal support vs. taxes paid are much lower than those of southeastern states. If anything, the southeast (ironically, conservative and anti-tax) has been and continue to steal money from California (the opposite), not the other way around.
Correct. It's only things that are random at a quantum level that might have multiverses.

Most [probably all actually] actions people take are not random at a quantum level.

In fact it's quite hard for something random at that level to have any noticeable [to a human] effect at all. So basically all the multiverses are identical.
The pressurization issue is no longer a problem - at least with the Japanese designs.

They run their tracks right next to each other, so trains are designed to not suffer major pressure changes from passing trains or tunnels.
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As if this is going to make the slightest lick of difference. Those that are already employed and producing good quality code aren't going to get canned from a company. Managers are going to evaluate those that deliver and make a choice "can I afford to lose this guy just because he hasn't got a license?" No! Likewise, those who are moving fast and breaking things are those that are starting their own companies and finding lucrative exit strategies by getting aquihired.

The funny thing is, once you're proven, it doesn't matter what your credentials say. Demand speaks volumes more than paperwork, and it always will. Risk is all about perception, that little license says "the State thinks this guy is less of a risk than another," but let's face it, when it comes down to it, would you hire the guy who started the last Twitter/Facebook/Foursquare that isn't licensed, or the guy that just moved in next door you never heard of that has the license?

Just like the MCSD/MCSE, it'll go out of the window the minute everyone realizes that the piece of paper doesn't actually mean this guy can deliver, it just means that he can pass an exam.
You're right, this just highlights the nature of the site in a very effective way. The message here is nobody should be surprised.
Cal-HSRA predicts that by 2040 the train will reduce highway miles traveled by 10 million miles a day[1]. For comparison, in May 2013, there were 15.3 billion miles of travel just on California highways[2]. A reduction of 10 million miles a day would be about 2%, and assuming people continue to move into the state, the number of highway mile traveled per day will likely be quite a bit higher in 2040 than it is today.

I don't know, it just doesn't seem like a very compelling argument to me. The state doesn't have unlimited resources. Spend the money where it will do the most good.

[1] http://www.hsr.ca.gov/docs/newsroom/fact%20sheets/Good%20for...

[2] most recent month with available statistics, lots more data available here http://traffic-counts.dot.ca.gov/
Am I the only one that gets value out of facebook? It's a decent way to share the photographs I take and a pretty good way of organizing events with friends. That said, I almost never scroll through my feed as I don't get much value from it.
Not just that, Google is devoting its energy to develop the closed platform rather than developing android. The example you give are relatively minor updates with major new functionality now being developed outside of core android as the author points out.
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I've been with senior developers who, in code reviews, made a point of bringing down the junior devs and flogging them over some minor mistakes they made instead of fostering a learning environment :)
> A leg up on what? Are they going to steal the tank designs and create their own in the (virtually non existing) nigerian arms industry?

The fact that you have to ask that means you fundamentally don't understand what spying is for.
Are you serious?

1. The browser requests CDN resources directly and Javascript is used to combine those static files into something that the user sees. Since the code is executing on the client, the app server is not overloaded.

2. Suppose you have a list of 20 items. You could either output HTML with all the tags already rendered for each of the 20 items, or you could output a JSON array with 20 objects, which is much less on the wire.

3. If you are rendering stuff on the client and only fetching data for it (which is what modern Javascript MVC frameworks let you do) then you can cache that data and re-use it. Caching entire HTML pages is at a much lower level of granularity that caching each piece of data you get from the server, and reassembling it in different ways.
We joked about Korean cars for a while, it will take time but Chinese cars are coming.
The browser requests CDN resources directly and Javascript is used to combine those static files into something that the user sees. Since the code is executing on the client, the app server is not overloaded.
That's just incorrect as far as I know. It remains possible to support all drivers with an AOSP build.

B&N decided they wanted to "mainstream" their Android in terms of enabling it to be a "Google-logo" device. Probably a good choice if you haven't got the scale of Amazon's ecosystem.
The differences are really night and day. Blackberry is too large to really have that "home-like" feel, it really just feels like work. Mozilla has character which I definitely feed off for motivation. The attitude of the people at Mozilla is much different than those at BB, as well. Mozilla and everything in it has life, Blackberry unfortunately feels much less-lively. Motivation at Mozilla is fueled by the love of the work and at Blackberry you really can feel the money is the end goal. Both companies are just really different for different reasons, but I definitely prefer Mozilla.
WTF?? Ok, so they forced me to go to coinbase to claim my money which according to other posts here does not work. So I started over again and checked the charity addresses they show which are actually not related to any charity neither do they get any donations in the progress.

I would say this is fishyfish.
Both are available. Any app can request complete control over the system, at which point it can do whatever the hell it wants, short of root. Update? Sure thing, install an APK.

Of course the user has to accept your huge list of permissions first.
Should mention this post is from 2009.
The stated motivation is not the actual motivation.

Moreover there is no convincing evidence to date that the Syrian government has deployed chemical weapons. In fact there is little corroborating evidence that typical chemical weapons were used at all.

On the other hand we do know that the conditions were such that the use of chemical weapons by Assad would have been completely irrational, providing little benefit while breaching well publicized conditions for the intervention of powerful adversaries in a war that he was winning.

As Galloway put it:
"First, that there is no compelling evidence, to use the leader of the opposition's words, that the Assad regime is responsible for this crime yet. Not that they are not bad enough to do it. Everybody knows they are bad enough to do it. The question is, are they mad enough to do it?

To launch a chemical weapons attack in Damascus on the very day that a United Nations chemical weapons inspection team arrives in Damascus must be a new definition of madness. "
Hey mate. Actually we didn't even have a ticketing system for the first month or so. Even now we barely use it. It's mostly email. I had a live chat widget (Olark) that I'd paid a year for from my last business.
an activity's being called "software engineering" does not make it any more likely to be a form of engineering than one's being called "armstrong" makes one more likely to be strong. we might as well call it "software writing." it is obvious that lives will depend on some software working as expected. the solution is not to license the writers of the software, but to make sure software doesn't fail in ways that could end lives. a certification scheme doesn't add anything to the solution of this problem if the solution doesn't already exist.
Can you give an example of one of your sites with a "really solid JSON API"? I'm afraid there's a gap in this definition, as good APIs are rare and good JSON APIs with a single client are virtually non-existant.
That's exceedingly unlikely.
the drag and drop doesn't work on touch devices..
I like that. Makes it seem more legitimate but still attention-grabbing.
I am looking forward to trying out new jobs, and love the freedom of internships for this reason alone. That being said, Mozilla will always hold a close place in my heart.
>>This is how you beat software fragmentation.

This does help defragment Android from a Google (developed) app perspective.

However, it doesn't do anything for 3rd-party developers. It doesn't do anything for regular consumers who wish to upgrade their 2.3.3 phones or 4.1 phones to the latest version of Android. So Google has a long way to go before they really defragment Android.
I think there might be a need for providing a decent layer between the various closed layers created by Amazon, Google et al. At least, that would allow apps to be friendly to Android without marrying Google Play.

(Is there one?)
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Turing defined the machines with reference to an infinite tape. Obviously any given machine (that halts) isn't going to use all of it. If you give any specific hard bound, you have a system which can be implemented on a sufficiently large FSM. There is, therefore, a sense in which you can never "need" a Turing complete system to solve any given problem that you can solve with finite resources.
The Koreans likewise adopted automation. The Chinese cars are not getting good until they get over their addiction to cheap labor, and they still have vast reservoirs of that.
In addition to the problem of old versions and lack of updates: new versions can cause problems as well. The claimed utility of PAAS is in part it doesn’t require you to upgrade software since they handle that. The problem is of course that sometimes new versions either have new bugs that break your software or may have some incompatible change that breaks your software. So if you do have a working version on a PAAS, they might potentially break it. With your own environment you can test your software with new versions before upgrading.

Ideally a PAAS should provide an automated framework to run any tests you have to see whether to run you in an upgraded environment, otherwise run you on a legacy environment until you are ready to switch. They’d then need to give you access to test in the new environment separately. It isn’t clear how many different legacy environments PAAS vendors would want to keep running.
A reduction of 10 million miles a day would be about 2%,

In highway terms, that's a significant reduction. A reduction on the order of 1-3% (it depends on a number of factors including number of lanes, and distance between exits) can get you from LOS F traffic (stop & go) to LOD C/D traffic (heavy, but moving traffic).
Interesting, I'd never heard of that before. Then change it to "gets pregnant and doesn't have an abortion" and it's definitely true, right?
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_professionalism

"In 1993 the IEEE and ACM began a joint effort...to explore making software engineering into a profession...The ACM pulled out of SWECC in May 1999...ACM determined that the state of knowledge and practice in software engineering was too immature to warrant licensing"

Granted, that was in 1999. I haven't heard anything since.

The ACM article explaining why they pulled out is here:
dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=581602 (paywall)

Two states adopted the IEEE's recommendation (against the ACM). Florida and Texas. In Texas, it's illegal to call yourself a "Software Engineer" without 16 years' experience. It's absurd.
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Pohl was one of the pillars around which SF grew after 1950. The Space Merchants ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants ) is a remarkable cautionary tale, often mentioned.

I also liked his Man Plus novel ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Plus ), which pointed out the uneasy relationship between sensory input and brain, at a time the subject was not yet popular.

(The purpose of the human modifications in that novel is Mars colonization. I feel it is somehow a serious answer to Clifford D. Simak's City [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_%28novel%29 ], a poetic tale where humans leave Earth to the dogs and go to Jupiter to frolic in giant kangaroo bodies ...)
Hey there. We made a few assumption about how much people will use the service, how much it costs us to get developers etc when we started. So far those assumptions are proving to be very accurate.

Most people utilize us a few times a month for small jobs. Some less, some more. The fee is per site so there's a natural limit to how many small issues a website owner runs into. We are also careful to target the kind of people that really need us and make great customers.

We don't have to worry about traditional agency expenses, offices, local staff, project management, all of the hassles in signing up new clients for project work (quoting, scoping, passwords etc). It's actually very efficient, it's not uncommon for us to get through 6-10 jobs per day per developer.

We will have to closely look at this as we grow but so far so good.
That's not 'silently'.
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just choose one. i've tried both, and they are both leaps and bounds better than the previous generation of MV* frameworks. if you are making the upgrade from backbone to either framework, you've already won.
i think this will ultimately prove to be a terrible move for google. android's success is largely a function of how attractive it is to device manufacturers and carriers. stripping control from them is going to force them into a corner where forking android or moving to another platform (amazon's fork of android, firefox os, windows phone 8 and ubuntu mobile are all potentially technically competitive even if they are not currently feasible).
Location Services is a special API, in that Google bears some costs to enable it for geocoding, for example.

It is possible to have access to basic location data from a built-in GPS receiver in AOSP, so the system is not completely dependent on Google Play Services.
Wonder what Andy Rubin thinks about how this fits into the definition of open https://twitter.com/Arubin/status/27808662429
For sure. You could build a huge business with that. These are real problems that people are struggling to solve.
passive port knocking should be standard.
It would be logical to do that if it were a section that would see some measure if high speed use.

Not necessarily - a lightly traveled starter corridor works well for a new system in terms of minimizing disruptions when the inevitable problems crop up.

To be honest, if it were up to me, I would recommend starting it where it would get the most ridership, but the CHSRA has a legitimate argument here. Also the project can more easily deal with adverse impacts in "the middle of nowhere" better then it could in a more heavily populated area.
1. Use a CDN that supports ESI, like CloudFront.

2. It's not that much of a difference, after gzipping, which you surely already do.

3. See number 1.

Moreover, in the end, you'll get a less heavy document to be processed by the browser. I swear my all bells and whistles i7 X1 Carbon still struggles on some javascript-heavy sites.
Yes, but we'd spend the savings on curing erectile dysfunction.
They're also migrating some functionality from core Android into Play Services. For example, the replacement for the (effectively broken) proximity alerts is the new geofencing API. But that's not in core Android, it's in Play Services, even though it's all on-device functionality, that doesn't need to interact with any Google central machinery.
There is not donation happening in that step and the receiving addresses are not from any charities neither. The charities might want to take legal action against being used in this way.
And to reduce load on the person checking the logs.
TBH I don't really care what the State of Texas thinks is appropriate in this matter, despite being a citizen of the state and a software developer.

If you happen to agree with the State's opinion, then fine. But don't tell me my opinion is incorrect. It's an opinion and presented as such.

If you know anything about Texas government, you'll know that their licensing schemes are another way they soak the little guy while bending over backwards to help out the big guy. Certification by my peers in the form of their acceptance and recommendations are much more important than some arbitrary test.
That would be frosted glass. I don't think the people who've stumped up huge amounts of money to get premium office space would be too happy to be presented with a blurry view of nothing.
There's nothing "sensible" about asking any computer scientist to pass the fundementals of engineering exam. That has aboslutely nothing to do with anything in the computer science curriculum.
As there is no payment done in that step anyway, they should rather make clear it's just a demo.
Funny how your comment comes across very similarly.

"I have it together, and am so self-aware and capable of keeping a balance with my relationship to Facebook. I mean who are these losers that would have a problem with it? I am so much better than they, and I can still have my FB account as well!"
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It is worth noting that the unintelligible accent issue is context dependent. A native English speaker can be the person with an unintelligible accent, and that person may need to work on their communication skills in order to have influence.

I experienced this phenomenon first hand as a native English speaker with an Australian accent. At my first hostel abroard there was a mixed group of european (non UK) people conversing in English, and I thought I'd try and join in.

me: howrya?

group: blank stares

me: how are you?

group: blank stares

me: how - are - you?

group: look of fear

me: hello?

This first experience was definitely a shock, and it took me some time to realise what it must have been like for the group.

In terms of learning to understand native speakers, travelling in their country for an extended period seems to work. My family has hosted many international guests through exchange programs, including adult guests who had never left their home country (but were taught English at school). Communication was sometimes very difficult, but universally the guests were able to pick up on the Australian accent over time. When exchanges move from blank looks to questions about particular words used, you can start having clunky conversations.

The exchange programs did give our family tips on how to converse with the guests. The only tip I can remember is to try and use different words. Often the longer and fancier word (e.g. gigantic, massive) is easier to understand for the guest than the short and simple word (e.g. big).
But at the end:

"...That doesn’t mean edX and Coursera are not game-changing initiatives that may someday change the face of higher education, says Rob Rutenbar, head of the computer science department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Far from it.

“The idea of being able to take videos of classes, to put them out in the cloud, to let millions download them, to use sophisticated technology to grade them—that genie is out of the bottle,” Rutenbar says. “We don’t know where it’s going to go, but it’s not going to go away...”
I'm not so sure about that. Most car factories operate in a pretty similar way ever since the Toyota way and total quality management come out decades ago. Although parts of the assembly line are fully machine driven (chassis welding, spray booth), there are a lot of human zones for assembly.

Yes people do make mistakes, but if you've seen their procedures on how to work, they get instructions right down to how many rotations a bolt requires, then where to put the spanner back down. Sounds micro-managed, but it's how the robotic sensors detect if people are working to the procedure and hence quality targets are being achieved.

China isn't much different (nor Thailand). Back in the 80s & 90s when Japanese electronics and cars were flooding the market everyone saw them like 'cheap junk' akin to how we see China's products. But over time management learns and products get better.
It is difficult to say if manufacturers might get locked out. So far Google has let B&N come in to the Google Play ecosystem when they wanted to do that, and Amazon evidently prefers to cultivate their own ecosystem.

If Google could make licensing transparent and accessible to 3rd tier OEMs, that would improve the customer experience at the low end.
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As amazing as this is I can't help feeling a tinge of horror that it's even required.
(4) A wallet is a computer file which holds Bitcoins. Bitcoins are sent between wallets; each wallet is represented by a Bitcoin address.

The simplifications in this explanation are ultimately damaging.

A real wallet does "hold" cash, but a Bitcoin "wallet" only holds keys & relevant history information. (It would make as much or more sense to say the balance is actually "held" by the globally replicated network.)

A "Bitcoin wallet" is not just (or even mainly) a "file", but the active software which gives you the power to spend your balances. It is atypical (and against best practice) for a "Bitcoin wallet" to be represented by a (single, distinct) Bitcoin address.

Confusion over these points have cost a lot of early adopters a lot of Bitcoins, to theft or complete destruction.

(Personally I think the very term "wallet" should be discarded, because the notions of 'physical containment' and reification-in-a-single-place that creates are counterproductive. Perhaps it's too late to fix that, though.)
I'm interested, what is the open source core in OSX and iOS? I was not aware of any. I know they share code with BSD but I didn't think it was to the extent that one could compare Apple's OS relationship with BSD to Android's relationship with Linux.
Awesome. Just noticed you're in Montreal too. My email's in my profile if you want to talk. I'm not a developer but find most of the advice still applies.
Yeah... my last project at the company I worked for was basically to automate myself out of a job. They kept one developer to maintaining everything, the rest of us were kicked off the assembly line.
Amtrak Hiawatha is an excellent and well-used "traditional" passenger rail line. Milwaukee<->Chicago in 91 minutes. Almost never late or slow, zero gate security or even ticket checks, convenient Passbook-compatible e-tickets checked by the conductor, comfortable seats, sufficient legroom, 110VAC at every window, takes you to the middle of Chicago with direct or easy access (> 3 bus stops) to every major CTA line and the Metra Electric.

The only things I'd really change are the price ($48 round-trip is a bit steep as a college student) and the lack of wi-fi. The vast majority of commuting professionals have cellular modems though.

It's really great to be able to move between cities in reasonable time without owning a car, buying gas and insurance, or trying to find somewhere to park for less than the price of a firstborn son anywhere useful in Chicago.

I've pulled out my iPhone speedometer app on the train and it clocks at around 80 in the middle of nowhere, 65ish in the northern Chicago suburbs.