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Around $5K/mo for few android apps, being 60/40 between paid and inapp + paid versus ads.
I find that having a nondescript black case for my kindle makes it look enough like a book or journal that flight attendants have plausible deniability to claim that it didn't look like an electronic device.

Call it the e-book equivalent to brown bagging a beer on the street.
aka finance?
> They also enter a social contract that promises to provide them affordable coverage when they’re older and no longer healthy, as a form of back payment for cross-subsidizing today’s aged and ill.

This is only true if the law requires younger people to pay more than their cohort consumes on an average basis, so as to transfer even more wealth from the working young to the retired, wealthy elderly.

Hmmm http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisconover/2012/11/27/young-pe...
I think a second core problem with BBT is that it really plays into the "trappings of being intelligent" - which is not how most intelligent people actually are. There are a TON of "signalling" devices, for example liking comic books, or having thick-rimmed glasses. Now, I'm not a physicist (chemist/biologist) and we may be more "down to earth" but I don't have a single scientist friend who HAS THE TIME to do a lot of those things that maybe in high school geeks/nerds did a lot of. I don't know anyone who plays D&D anymore, I don't know anyone who goes to Comic-Con (I'm in San Diego). We do stuff like - go hiking; I'm obsessed with social dance (where there are, incidentally, tons of engineers and scientists); I had a lot of math majors friends from college and of the ones that did math PhD programs, they wound up: climbing rediculous spires in red rock country, supermarathon running for fun... And one, after getting his PhD, joined the Navy and entered its pilot training program (he would have become a fighter pilot but there were no fighter billets available).

So, what bugs me about BBT in addition to having really awful people (watch "BBT without the laugh track" on youtube if you doubt it), is not only that it perpetuates stereotypes, it perpetuates really dumb stereotypes... And the life of a scientist, I think, swings from incredibly boring times in the lab, to super-exciting times in the lab, to "relatively normal social life" outside of the lab, except that that last one gets a lot less time, since, we're in the lab all the damn time.
"The absolute cheapest benefit you can offer an employee is their title, and if they have a rational reason for wanting a better title, why on earth would you refuse to give up some title to get a good candidate on board?"

If your role doesn't match your title, you may be in big trouble when/if your company gets acquired. Also it might seem like the cheapest in one sense but as the company grows you'll find yourself in an awkward situation when a manager makes more than a VP you just hired. It's a sensitive subject that should be approached more carefully than you'd expect.
It's bound to be a magnet for complaints when feature requests get ignored

Maybe that's the idea, like the Close Door button on an elevator that really does nothing.
Since this thread didn't specify that the recurring income has to come solely from technology, I make $400-$1k/mo DJing. Technically it's work because it's not passive, but it is recurring and it is a hobby that requires little to no work - I have a LOT of fun doing it and it pays well by the hour. I'm only posting this because I think it's important to also point out that you can turn hobbies into passive, recurring income and that is a surefire way to getting the most out of your passive income.
China has notoriously poor food standards and regulations, and only enforces them when they need to have some heads roll because the public is outraged. Business culture in mainland China is also strongly a "caveat emptor" market, so every buyer is left to their own devices to perform due diligence when purchasing something. In the US, regular inspections and regulations keep things mostly orthodox, and while irregularities happen in US food manufacturer, they are far and few between relative to China.

With that in mind, what would be reasonable if providing an exception to the tariff, if, and only if, the Chinese honey manufacturer can demonstrate provably that their honey and manufacturing meet high standards. This should apply everywhere. If these manufacturers were employing better manufacturing methods, their honey prices would probably be more inline with US prices.
It's true that it can be awkward in such situations, but there are two things that still make it "better":

1. Google will bring it back up in a timeframe that is very comparable (if not better) than your average in-house IT team would.

2. Given (1), if you ask people how much per year they are willing to pay for transparency in such circumstances, most businesses will not be willing to dedicate very much of their budget towards it unless it increases reliability. The "helpless" feeling is just because you can't see Google's engineers working to fix it. Surely no one doubts that they are doing their utmost to bring it back.
I'd like to caution that this analysis is incredibly flawed. Specifically it magically ignores the entire liabilities side of the balance sheet (when you buy a company you don't just inherit their cash balances but also their debts). This is the problem with most financial journalism; you shouldn't taking financial advice from someone who doesn't understand the income statement or balance sheet.

All I did was take the balance sheet and pull out intangible assets: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ABBRY&fstype=ii&ei=.... I did NOT consider the value of earnings from any of the business (i.e. income sheet) as the investment thesis I made was for shutting down the business, and I don't want to divine profitability from each of the business lines.

They really need to require finance coursework in college so this kind of fake financial journalism gets stamped out.
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>Do people really think, even for a second, that CBS developed a primetime network show whose jokes were targeted specifically to Caltech physics PhD students? Or even to self-identified nerds?

Yes, and it named it The Big Band Theory.

I mean seriously, did you really think, ever for a second, that this wasn't at attempt to hit the target group of (not Caltech PhD students of course) the "geek/nerd crowd" -- a group which nowadays is more populous than ever, and it's not "the kiss of death" to indentity with anymore?

It's delluded to think the setting is not part of the targetting strategy and merely serves as a backdrop for the humor. That's not how TV works. The BBT is targeted for this crowd as much as Twilight is for teenage girls.
Nor do they forbid you from being deaf during takeoff. They may ask you to change seats, so perhaps it is reasonable to ask that people sitting in those particular seats not have headphones on, but otherwise listening to music seems fine to me.
I was shocked at the fines involved. $180 million in tariffs avoided, but from what I read, only $3 million in fines were meted out.
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What is the greatest harm that someone has caused you? Just curious.
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Thomas Sowell wrote a spectacular book in the same vein as this. http://www.amazon.com/Conquests-And-Cultures-International-H...

Extraordinary amount of detail as to why war drives the rise of new civilizations.
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Bingo!

As problems get more complex, the amount of time to complete them can go exponential for some developers. I've been forced to work with people like that; it really can be the case that some developers (who are otherwise competent) would simply never finish tasks that involve a crucial level of complexity.

And EVEN at just about any nontrivial level of complexity, where the time spent is only in the 1.5x-2x realm, the code written by the awesome programmer will likely be easier to understand, shorter, and easier to maintain.

Huge articles like the one linked are simply written by (and for!) the average competent programmer, to make them feel better. If you haven't worked with developers with a huge range of productivity, then you either haven't worked with a really good developer, or you've somehow lucked out and never worked with a poor developer. Statistically, it's likely the former.
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As an American I agree, it's terrible not having universal healthcare. What's the point of being a large body if we don't take advantage of that? And if we don't, we really aren't anything except individuals. Nothing wrong with being an individual, but we can be and accomplish so much more together. Apart, we're just living in the same place.
I don't think the op knew you can turn off the LinkedIn emails.
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I too was looking for that button, and the best that I could find was drumroll to create a LinkedIn account and change my preferences. :/

For the end user that isn't a member, they seem to not want to let you opt out of their emails.
Exactly, if I had any confidence that the insurance companies and congress weren't going to screw me out of tons of money, I might buy into socialized medicine.
At least in Canada, you're only allowed to have headphones on if they're earbuds (easy to quickly remove) and connected to the in-flight sound system (so you still hear announcements). I haven't paid attention to the onboard safety dance in ages, so I don't recall what it is elsewhere.
Created http://www.canadaprepaidcreditcard.com in June last year. Traffic has grown steadily to 3000+ unique / month. A large Canadian daily newspaper included link to site in a story on prepaid credit cards which spiked traffic for a week. Otherwise traffic is almost all organic search. Adsense revenue grew steadily and is up to $120+ / month. I have one affiliate ($35 per sign-up) that has paid once. Have to look into this some more.

Created http://www.australiaprepaidcreditcard.com, http://www.usprepaidcreditcard.com and http://www.ukprepaidcreditcard.co.uk sites recently. So far only UK site is following steady growth pattern. Apparently no one is interested in Australian cards and US has trillions of similar sites so mine is drowned in search.

I did Canada site card research myself. But didn't have time for Australia, UK and US site research. So I created 3 Fiverr jobs with template Excel workbook asking person to search internet and fill with as many cards as they could find. I got 4 people per card so between them I got good detail though had to clean it up and fill in the blanks.

Sites requires minimal ongoing maintenance. Actually I have had customers and several card companies contact me to make corrections and updates.
Desura runs on Linux, but assuming SteamOS is akin to "boot to Stream Big Screen," users won't have a Gnome or KDE desktop to install it to. In such a case, Desura's existence on SteamOS depends on either inclusion in Valve's marketplace or users' willingness to venture off the map.
Does mac bootcamp only work with windows, or is it any OS?

Id love to have a macmini as a 'steambox'
The purpose of purely functional data structures is generally not to be used as a shared, mutable source of data among multiple threads/processes. Hell, even in a single process, this kind of serial access results in the same situation. The point of a purely functional data structure is to be able to pass it to another method/thread/whatever, without having to worry that the data will be modified without the caller context expecting it..

In terms of the type of pattern you're talking about (something like producer/consumer), an appropriate pattern in Scala might be to use an actor with an internal mutable data structure. Actors receive messages in a synchronized manner, and can then distribute work as needed. If the majority of your data is immutable, then beyond config for number of threads and actor mailbox size, there's very little you need to worry about - contention, lock granularity and race conditions are essentially non-issues.

As a thought exercise, it would be possible to use an immutable queue with an actor for the above purpose. Create an actor that, when receiving a message containing an item to enqueue, waits until it receives a queue. When sent a message with a queue, it should take a message from the mailbox, enqueue it, then send the queue to a second actor. That actor will dequeue and operate on an item from its message, then send a message with the new queue (with one less item) to the original actor. The only time the original actor will do nothing is when it receives a message with an empty queue (which is how it will start, and also the state it will be in every time it has finished working its queue), in which case it will wait for an item to enqueue. Assuming that the "process a queue item" step is fast (as it should be), and the "wait for a queue" is not a busy wait (I think there is a way to do this with Akka), then this might actually be efficient. This is probably a bad idea though, just having fun thinking about how it would be possible. =)
Stupid question, do you also support bitbucket?
Of course intent matters. If I run over someone with my car and kill them and it was deemed just a terrible but unfortunate accident, that is 100% different than if I drove over them because I intended to run them down and kill them.

The same applies to this case. He intended to access something he knew he shouldn't have had access to. Thus why he is guilty.
the NYTimes article disagrees with you:

> The guidelines are expected to allow reading e-books or other publications, listening to podcasts, and watching videos, ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/technology/faa-nears-new-r...
Wait a minute, really? Planes with onboard radio stations in the armrests broadcast during takeoff and landing, and I've used headphones with those. How would using your own advice be any different?
"Between 2001 and 2008, entry level wages declined 7 percent for college graduates and 4 percent for high school graduates. Entry into middle-level incomes is becoming more difficult."

"Previously it had been possible for a young man just out of high school to get a good-paying unskilled job in a unionized factory, buy a house in the suburbs, with a federally-insured mortgage, and send his kids to college with government-supported student loans. This was a common road to the success promised in the American Dream. Millions achieved that coveted upward mobility. Under the illusion they were no longer working-class, they thought of themselves as a new class in the middle, somewhere between the poor and the rich - a middle class. It is neoliberal globalization that has now blocked that road for more and more people. For the first time in generations, the next generation has a lower standard of living than their parents."

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16291-the-american-dream-...

>Alternatively it is because all the Baby Boomers are sending all of their kids off to college, pushing it as
the only legitimate career path, reducing the relative
value of merely having a college degree, and ultimately
forcing kids to specialize something actually useful to
remain competitive.

It's this same complacency at hand - it worked for me, it will work for you.

>Improved standards of living (in this case, near universal
access to universities) is to blame, but who can really
fault an improved standard of living?

Sure, there are way more people going to college. In a reasonable situation, this would also mean that there needs to be way more professors.

It's the declining standard of living. It used to be that you could get by fine on a professor's salary, and so they hired professors. Now, they can't afford to pay a living wage, and so they don't, and they call them 'adjunct' professors.
Agreed it's a silly policy. Anecdotally I was asked to remove my headphones during a flight I took about three weeks ago. My headphones are Etymotic mc3 which I use as earplugs during takeoff and landings. I was sitting in an exit row across from a flight attendant who was facing me in her jumpseat. She had no problem with me wearing them (she could see they weren't connected to my iPod), but the head flight attendant came over and told me to remove them for takeoff.

As the engines were throttling up for take off, I put my fingers in my ears to (I'm an acoustical consultant and my livelihood depends on my ears so I'm a stickler for protecting my hearing) - the FA sitting across from me saw me do that and told me to go ahead and put my headphones back in.
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> Multi-camera sitcoms with live audiences are very, very different in writing, tone, and end product to single camera comedies. They both serve different purposes.

Or, y'know, you could have single camera comedies with no laugh track. The British seem to manage that just fine. I personally find laugh tracks equal parts desperate and condescending. "Hey dummy! There's a joke here! Laugh damn you... LAUGH!!"
I may be wrong but I'm guessing he's not a parent.

You're right; but I am a child, and there's no way I would let my parents help me buy a house if it meant that they couldn't retire comfortably.
Can't vouch for the rest of the comment but I have to drive between one and two miles from home to answer my phone. One mile gets me to a nearby park and two miles gets me to the university where I work; there's not much else in between.
I don't accept anything less than universal food care, universal shelter care, universal clothing care, and of course universal marriage care.
I'm definitely focusing on the free trial signups, for exactly the reason you said.

Here's how I decide what to do next: I have a big 6' folding table in my office that's covered in index cards. On the left-hand side are six columns: what I'm planning to work on this week (the current iteration), the next four weeks of commitments (mostly episode air dates), and any future commitments (such as my Christmas vacation with my family).

On the right hand side, I have five more columns: Attract, Convert, Hygiene, Delight, and Intelligence. Whenever I have an idea for something that I should do, it goes in one of those columns. If an idea column is full (some categories get two columns), then I have to throw out one of the existing cards before I can put a new one in.

All of the columns are full.

Every Monday, I calculate my velocity (Agile/XP-style) based on what I finished the week before. Then I look over my upcoming commitments and move everything that should be done this week into the current iteration. I try to stay about two weeks ahead of The Beast (that is, episode commitments), but I don't always succeed. Still, I have yet to miss an air date.

Then I look at the amount of points remaining and choose an idea from the right-hand half of the table to work on. Sometimes there's one I'm already working on--that goes into a special "On Deck" corner of the table--in which case I just generate story cards from that and slot them into the current iteration. If there's nothing on deck, though, I look over all my existing ideas and pick one.

I pick ideas primarily based on bang-for-buck. Is it relatively easy, do I think it will work, and will it give me useful information even if it doesn't work? But sometimes I pick small things that are bugging me or that I think would be satisfying to work on. Morale's important. And sometimes I choose things that are really big and risky but the time is right to do them.

tl;dr: dart board. ;-)

Here's a picture of the table: http://imgur.com/tmm9TvT
The numbers still don't seem to add up though. For the same price you could get a (much) cheaper/lighter ARM tablet that gets much better battery life and a better desktop. I'm not sure what the point of convergence is here unless you have some specific need to run a legacy win32 app on a tablet.
O+O

OS + Oculus?
Mobile Apps source code market, is it good?
Yesterday i received spam marketing email from them and checked it out, looks promising. Has anyone tried it before?
I think "entitlement" is a bit much when they sell it as a replacement to business customers.
The name is also terrible. Pro vs RT makes it sound like one is picking a trim level of car. It makes it seem like they're both the same with minor differences on the surface. But they're not. They're quite different.

Call one the Work, and one the Play. The Work gets the desktop, full Windows 8, full Office, Visual Studio, etc., the Play gets Metro and enough support to not be completely useless but also enough to create a separate market segment.

Bundle them both with keyboards. Give the "real" keyboard (the Surface Type Cover) to the Work, because people with this tablet will be the ones writing Office documents. Give the cardboardy Touch Cover to those that buy the Play because they just need it when the touch screen becomes a little too annoying to bang out that email to your family while on vacation.

Differentiated products for markets that should now be able to self select with less confusion.
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One flaw is the failure to control for intelligence. Or socioeconomic background. Or any number of other factors that influence lifetime earnings that also positively correlate with college attendance.

If you were to only look at people who grow up in a very-middle class household (a very ill-defined term I admit) and who scored in the X to Y percentile (not sure what good numbers would be) on some measure of intelligence then I am nor sure that the numbers would be clearly in favor of college.
Planning on doing any of the work to tell us how the analogy fails there?
No/reduced alcohol leads to increased productivity
Not sure how enforceable this will be, especially with services hosted outside the state/country. We have a big enough problem with keeping publicly accessible data out of websites like Spokeo/etc.
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The other thing SteamOS will end up doing that is super interesting is get good controller support on Linux/PC games, which can many times be real lacking.