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So we're making up the difference for short-sighted corporate farming policies that they would otherwise have to institute themselves?

Corporate welfare.
> Farming always focuses on the current and next year.

Citation needed.

I'm a (admittedly small-scale) farmer myself, and I've yet to meet a farmer who had that mindset. Further, I simply can't see a good reason why a farmer would destroy his most precious asset - his land.
Every successful, real-life application required solving at least one really hard problem. This hard problem may only look like 1% of the application, but if it does not get solved, the application would have failed. That 1% requires you to build something of a similar level of difficulty as rolling your own relational database system. At least one guy has to be able to recognize the problem and to solve it. Otherwise, the other ones won't be able to build, support and maintain the remaining 99% and won't have a job at all.
I think that most middle class people just do not need any personal services. I understand why rich need it - they have complex finances with multiple sources of income, bank accounts in different countries, tax management needs etc. Poor also may need it - bounced checks, cashflow problems, lack of understanding of financial products.

But finances for most middle-class people are plain vanilla - one or two checking accounts, credit card, simple mortgage. They do not live paycheck to paycheck so no bounced checks. There is not much space for personal interactions, especially profitable ones. Get paycheck every two weeks, pay all the bills, move whatever left to investment account. The last time I was in the bank was three years ago to do international wire transfer.

Good analogy - when I was poor student with crappy car that was constantly broken, mechanic was important person in my life. Car repair expenses in some months were bigger than my monthly budget and having rapport with good mechanic was important. Now I have newer car that pretty much never breaks and I do not give a damn who changes my oil as long as there is Starbucks nearby.
The biggest problem here is your product. Why would anyone want a self driving RC car? The whole point/fun of an RC car is driving it yourself. Why do you think a market actually exists here? I don't quite get it.
What if you want to solve another matrix?

Do you have to write another program?
Probably depends what you mean by market. Do people read them? Sure. Are you trying to see if this is a viable business? Probably not.

It sounds like you're stuck and looking for an easy solution. Shit happens. Some hackathons just don't go that well for whatever reason. Try to figure out what you can still get out of it. Are you playing with any new technologies? Might be a good time to try something. But you need an idea? Copy something that already exists that you think might be interesting to clone.
You can get rid of the global variable by testing the actual settings instead:

function! NumberToggle()
if (!&number && !&relativenumber)
set number
set norelativenumber
elseif (&number && !&relativenumber)
set relativenumber
else
set nonumber
set norelativenumber
endif
set foldcolumn=0
endfunc
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I didn't find the user-agent and responsible disclosure points particularly compelling

I think you may be right from a legal perspective but I find it troubling that the law is so structured. I think it's important that when dealing with a system that's designed to serve some information to the public, but not other information, it's critical that there be no ambiguity about what a given person is allowed to access.

I do not mean to say that all security mechanisms must be effective, else the issue of unauthorized access would be moot, but that no reasonable, technically adept person would think the security mechanism is not a security mechanism. In the case of a website or web service, a number of well-known industry-standard mechanisms exist, and it's reasonable to expect people to use them.
They usually are all over the world.

But some interesting economics starts becoming apparent when packaged food products approach the last 1/3rd or 1/4th of their shelf life. For e.g.

- near-expiry food products being exported from developed countries to developing ones (where they still command a premium over local products). I've found entire shelves of imported food products just months away from expiry (out of a total shelf life of, say, 2 years)

- re-badging of expiry dates/lots by unscrupulous importers

- 2 for 1 offers in supermarkets to liquidate near-expiry stock
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Make sure all your payments come out on the first of the month. This way it's easier to keep track.
My uncles gave the same advice, if you overtrain you're not helping your development but increasing your recovery time.
The article is slightly tongue-in-cheek (I'm pretty sure Henry Porter does not want the UN to intervene militarily in the US!).

But it does express, quite forcefully, the simple point that if the US is concerned about the safety of its citizens it might do better to focus on gun safety and ownership than on the so-called war on terrorism.
BlackBerry on why you should give BBM a chance
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"...just think what naming an XML parser “Nikogiri” instead of “XML Parser” could do? Imagine if the C++ exercise above had just been FizzBang. That would have been tons more engaging." Tons more cringe-worthy, more like. We're not writing children's books here. The times I've enjoyed programming have been when I've worked with languages/libraries/tools that are intuitive/reliable/powerful and allow me to get shit done with minimum distraction by the irrelevant.

For instance, would python's "requests" library be more engaging if it was called ChittyChittyBangBang or YourMommaSoFat something else equally infantile? For me it would be less engaging. Names like this can also make people take a piece of software less seriously than they should, and harder to find because they are less descriptive.
Blackberry was the best smartphone with a keyboard. It was not only the choice of enterprises, but also the choice of users who do not like touchscreen as a keyboard. The smaller screen (because of the presence of the keyboard)) means also better battery duration. They have killed all these advantages to become a pale copy of iphone with a bad UX, half assed between full touchscreen and keyboard. I think that copying iphone ergonomy was a bad marketing move that place them as a follower. I think blackberry could succeed as the leader of smartphones with keyboard. Now, they have lost their soul. Of course, this is only a single aspect, the other points described in many other posts are also important.
I think it qualifies, but I am not sure that it is being worked on right now.
The problem is that for the vast majority of business applications there is no algorithmic innovation required. I mean, to build a basic CRUD app, you need no algorithms knowledge at all -- rough and ready experience will serve. Even for data processing, unless you're processing truly vast (e.g. terabytes to petabytes) amounts of data, the algorithms you learn in an undergraduate introduction to algorithms class will work just fine.

At this point, employers quite rationally want someone who can put together a combination of basic algorithms in 5 minutes over someone who takes a week to come up with an a elegant jewel of an algorithm that no one else at the company can understand. To put it another way, just like the slow food movement hasn't really made a dent in fast food culture, I don't expect a slow code movement to make much of a dent in the "ship yesterday" culture of modern software development.
I don't see you busting out any peer-reviewed studies to support your claim. If you don't have that, then it's your word against mine. The fact that most of the people who have done these movements do them in low reps and really high weight doesn't prove your point either. I have actually done the movements under question in both rep schemes, and it doesn't sound like you have.
No, it's just a laughably bad argument all around. Including suicides in gun deaths is always done like this because otherwise the numbers are not impressive enough, I guess. No mention is made of things that might add perspective, like the number of people who die from smoking, alcohol, drug overdoses, drunk driving, or swimming pools. That would soften the point too much.

And the terrorism angle is just ridiculous. The reason it makes sense to worry about terrorism to the tune of billions of dollars is that a WMD attack on American soil would cost potentially trillions of dollars. Certainly 9/11's impact was massively expensive both financially and psychologically.

For some reason these issues always bring out the most intellectually dishonest and transparent arguments. Really smart people disagree about this topic and have much better arguments than this author's.
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I suspect their servers are overwhelmed. They're probably not used to managing the traffic that comes from a successful smartphone platform.
Actually algorithms are kind of important.

How do you think it is that google is able to return your search results in a fraction of a second? And how is a game able to represent and efficiently display a massive 3D world?
I recommend the recent Warrior Cop book by Balco that explain how it got to the point where the police have the duty to escalate and not defuse the citations.

Other parts of the world take the idea of excessive use of police force somewhat more seriously and are weary of it.
Not necessarily easier, but definitely less ambiguous. To be honest, in terms of absolute difficulty, I'd say that interview problems have I had to implement quicksort. Only in interview problems have I had to create a new data structure to fit a problem. On the other hand, I've always been able to suss out the requirements for the solution in one or two questions in interviews. In real life, figuring out what the solution should even look like is often a process that takes at least a week.
So many people talk about learning vim, vim philosophy, getting proficient at vim, changing your workflow so that you can use vim better. You what this sounds like? A cult.

Vim is a (surprise surprise) text editor, not a way of life. It's perfectly ok not knowing how to use vim and being put off by how awkward it feels. It's perfectly ok to use notepad++ or sublime text or whatever else you are comfortable with.

To my knowledge nobody gets paid to use vim instead of some other editor; money comes from lines of code. It does not matter that you use vim, it does not make you a smarter person or better programmer (I should know, I often use vim at my work place).

On the same note, it does not matter how cool you think you are when you manage to persuade git to do some complicated thing in a two liner command which could be achieved in svn or hg in two words, you are just being silly. Being proficient at vim/git when your job doesn't require it is like being able to rotate your left and right eyes simultaneuosly - one clockwise, the other counterclockwise. It's very funny/interesting, but utterly useless. Forcing yourself to learn vim for vim's sake or because you read on the internet how cool vim is and how 3l1t3 vim makes you is one of the things you'd be better off avoiding. Again, I should know.

Seriously, don't drink the Kool-Aid.
There wasn't a market before Apple and there probably wouldn't be one today if Apple, or someone of equal clout, hadn't created that market.
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>I think you're heavily discounting "ability to work independently"

Really? I mean, anecdotal evidence and all, but I haven't found that PhDs can actually work more independently in a commercial software setting than non-PhDs. I think it's because academic settings are just too different from commercial settings. In academia, your project is your own. You're responsible for it, from start to finish. But in commercial software, your project is often just one component or subcomponent of a much larger system. This requires a much greater level of communication and cooperation with other developers and business-people. So yes, a PhD may be able to work more independently on a project that allows for independent work. But most commercial software development is a highly cooperative activity, where the sort of independence that PhD holders exercise can often turn into being a loose cannon.
Though not American myself, I'm an admirer of the US in many ways. One thing I don't get is Americans' attitude to guns. Surely the freedom to walk down the street without getting shot is more important than the freedom to carry a gun?
This is why you need actual journalists... this is just heap of data that's hard to decipher and hard to make sense of.
So anyone who disagrees with you is inherently proving your argument?

That's not a very pleasant way to discuss things online. You should read http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"That 212,994 more Americans lost their lives from firearms in the last 45 years than in all wars involving the US is a staggering fact"

The world should stay out of this problem. It's a US-only ideology issue, primarily driven by the second amendment, and the twisted interpretation of "freedom".

If I were in Government in another country (Canada, U.K., Germany, Australia, etc) I would use this in the country's favour. This U.S. gun issue is extremely scary for many, and would use it (among other points) to attract talent from the U.S. or divert quality immigrants from the U.S. to my country. It sounds harsh, but quality of life and life expectancy are top priorities for almost anyone. If you can market this the right way, these countries with less gun-death risk can really benefit.

Country Guns per 100 Total Firearm-related deaths per 100,000
US 88.8 10.2
Canada 30.8 2.44
Germany 30.3 1.1
Australia 15.0 1.04
UK 6.2 0.25
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iWatch anyone?
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If 1.1 million users are so desperate to sign up without you actually launching, then there's potentially a heck of a lot more waiting for a proper launch. Their business will be used to dealing with one user = one phone, so the growth of the service will be predictable. Now they have to deal with a virtually unlimited number of users while also supporting actual customers.
I would move that motion processor, a heartbeat detector, a glucose detector, and the user keychain into the 'watch'.

That way users carry all information about themselves on the watch. That frees the pod/tablet/tv part from being anything more than a 'sync with cloud and display stuff' part.

The 'watch' part could show the essentials like unread email count. I would use something low-power like e-paper there so that the watch's battery lasts for a week (hm, is it coincidental that Apple went very flat with iOS 7? I think screens like the notification screen would translate reasonably well to a four-color display)

In other words: the display can easily be shared between users. If I pick up your tablet, it shows my desktop.

Maybe, I would even leave the production of displays to third parties, and keep the 'watch' and 'sync to cloud' stuff to myself (Apple would have a long way to go to get there, though)

Will that happen overnight? No. For one thing, I doubt internet connectivity is fast enough too make a device change from displaying your content to showing mine.
Yes, the article itself is a load of nonsense, with this gem in it:

BlackBerrys have never been particularly attractive, cutting-edge, or user-friendly.

As you say, they were definitely seen as attractive, cutting-edge, and user-friendly at one point because the execs forced them into companies. Pretty much right up until the day the iPhone came out. They went from great to old fashioned almost overnight.
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I would presume that their acquisition of Rapportive plays some part in their use of emails and recommendations.

I know for a fact I have never given them access to my email accounts but they have started surfacing 'people you may know' recommendations that are actually email addresses from my contact book where I have Rapportive installed.
And that gets back to what the authors of the article are talking about. The judge and jury have no idea what this long-haired, bearded internet troll actually did. So they accepted the prosecution's assertion of, "He's a witch!" and handed down a guilty verdict.
Your os news link says the keyboard prototype picture is later than the touchscreen one.
Because it's cheaper to get a new one. If you don't happen to have your house nearby, plan to live there for next fifty years and want to raise kids.

It's normal for corporations to destroy arable land in Czech Republic too, they can always move elsewhere...
In the U.S. is taboo to eat with the left hand?
There has never once been presented a single shred of evidence that they knowingly cooperated with the NSA in any manner other than the normal court approved processes via warrant or NSL that they've already alluded to and are petitioning the government to give more transparent details of.

As we saw with the first Snowden leak, the Verizon Business court order, those "warrant[s] or NSL[s]" can be incredibly far reaching.
The fact that both of this weeks' shootings occurred in jurisdictions with stricter gun control laws than Canada's is evidently irrelevant.
So deep.
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I love this kind of thing. I've made a similar one (minus texturing) in Javascript, drawing to a Canvas; my current version is 975 bytes. Output, full source and live demo here: http://gabrielgambetta.com/tiny_raytracer.html
> We are discussing actual statistics provided in the original article that clearly showed Crossfit to have much higher rates of injuries

This is equivalent to saying that surfers are more likely to get be the victims of shark attacks. No duh. It's a trivially obvious conclusion, but still really unlikely. CrossFit has done its job in educating people about the seriousness of rhabdo. There's absolutely no way they can ensure that none of their affiliates go off the deep end with craziness. That's a fundamental fact of scaling a business.

You're only looking at the negative side of this issue. But the reality is that from the high level of systems analysis, it's a tradeoff. For every person that has gotten rhabdo from CrossFit there are thousands of others that have had their lives significantly improved. In my case I got stronger and more fit. My body fat, cholesterol, and blood pressure decreased and I have actual data to prove it. I also noticed increased quickness, agility, and reaction time in everyday life.

> Most beginners are not capable of accurately assessing whether the types of workouts done in CrossFit and the manner in which they are done are healthy or not.

This is the case with a number of disciplines from fitness to martial arts to dance, so there's no substitute for educating yourself and making an informed assessment of the risks and rewards.
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The government would normally file an application for leave to file a brief in excess of the appellate rules' word limit. U.S. federal courts normally grant these applications when made by the government. When made by defendants in criminal cases, it's much more of a maybe. However, courts as a rule do not like verbose briefs.

On another note, it seems to me that in these computer cases the law really doesn't care what's "under the hood." It doesn't matter if it's javascript or java, or if maybe someone could have jumped on an open Wi-Fi network.

The law lives in a conservative analogue world and will continue to do so for years to come.
The fundamental issue here is: who's responsibility is it to keep people safe? The author, without really acknowledging it, makes the assumption that it is up to someone in authority to keep us safe. If you accept that premise, then yes, American gun control policy doesn't make sense.

Governments across the world have been steadily extending their remit into our personal lives and behaviour with the introduction of the welfare state, socialised healthcare and nationalised industries, always in the name of keeping us safe/well/employed. The assumption that "someone should do something about this" is so pervasive these days that it's hard to mentally snap out of it and say, why?

I'm no fan of guns[1] but in recent months I've come to understand the thinking behind the 2nd amendment, that government has to be kept in its place and that society must not give complete power to a small group at the centre. When you look at it that way, the hot coffee and the driving regulations are the things that don't make sense.

Whichever side of the gun control debate you're on, denouncing the other for not getting gets you nowhere. This is a debate about the proper role of government, not about guns or hot coffee per say.

[1] I'm British and so have no involvement in the whole US gun control debate, but am virtually genetically predisposed to thinking guns are strange and scary!
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The government buys and sells illegal drugs all the time. Flies them into the country. Sells them on the street. But if you do this, off you go.
As far as I know, in the CAD world Z is typically up/down. It makes sense if you look at the scene from above, like an architect a floor plan - world-space X and Y map to screen-space X and Y, and Z is then the depth. In a 3D virtual world, on the other hand, the perspective is usually of a person embedded in the world, in which case "Y is up" is more intuitive.
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What is the worlds dumbest picture format then?
Whislt I do agree with your position, what bugs me most about the whole argument put forward by this Guardian article is the assumption that America's elevated murder rate is due to it's firearms laws. The evidence simply doesn't bare this out.
Or just install ImageMagick, and do 'convert card.ppm card.png'.
I'm not referring to gun control, where do I imply this?
Not less than 2. There is no federal parole. You earn good time at the rate of 55 days per year. So the maximum "Weev" could earn is 165 days. He has already been in seg once for rules violations so it's unlikely he would get the full 55 days, at least for this year.

He would be eligible for a halfway house; in his case that would be within three months of his mandatory release date.

So in any case he is going to spend more than two years in a federal prison. Doing time is not easy if you fight the prison system, and according to reports this is what he has been doing.

His sentence also undoubtedly contained a supervised release provision. So if he violates the conditions of his release (probably no computer use, that's a standard one) he goes back inside for the duration of the supervised release period.

Federal prison is no joke. There are very good reasons to appeal.
Oh! I hereby stand corrected. I should have said (and checked) that the provision as described is useless. I know there's reason for cynicism when it comes to Congress, but maybe I'm overdoing it. Thanks for the link!
You must be confusing morality with complying with regulations. The one has got nothing to do with the other. It is actually quite the opposite: "And then spoke the creator, the god who freed us out of slavery in Egypt. One. First Law. You shall not recognize any other lawmaker than me." The punishment for breaking the First Law, is that you shall become a slave again. You probably are one already.
If you have ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick installed, you can just pipe to display(1):

.aek | display