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I'm not sure I agree with you here. Tests are still only as clever as the person writing them. This means it's rarely going to catch corner cases that the developer wasn't already aware of.

I think the real value of tests is exposing expected behavior to teammates, and then providing quick sanity checks against that expected behavior.

The biggest thing new developers miss about testing is that most times you're not writing tests for yourself, you're writing them as a courtesy to your teammates.
To people that want more classic style presentations which are exportable to PDF slides there's shower.

https://github.com/shower/shower

Used it for several presentations and I'm pretty satisfied.
Why is this not a desirable outcome for customers?
Also, if you have a faster server than their infrastructure, it slows you down quite a bit.

Also, it catches bot traffic for a while but then they figure out how to get around it.
Could it be that your position is influenced by emotion and politics, and you are projecting this attitude onto the other side?
And meanwhile Fukushima has been dumping huge volumes of radioactive waste water into Pacific for the past two years, the western world seems to be OK with that. Maybe space is more valuable than oceans.
So I should keep funding my local bookshop which I have to walk to, has no titles other than the paperback chart full of trash like fifty shades, takes weeks to get an order in (which I have to go and collect) and costs more?

I should also keep funding my publisher which does it's best to top slice cash, screws libraries with license agreements for texts, force DRM where possible?

I think people resent amazon in this market because it's stamped on their little castles they all built. That's business, regardless of what you sell or create.
Have you tried any one of the plethora of code-school type websites that'll teach you what you need to know over the web for a fraction of the time and cost? A degree will get you what you need to progress into employment, not necessarily what you need to become a technical founder.
in a local bookstore here, I found one for 125 for a refurbished one :)
Seems like that'd solve the problem in this case better than having some nonsensical webpage pleading with customers to be inefficient.
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For this reason, I often wonder why the subject of life origins (or related what-have-you) is deemed science in the first place. [EDIT: Likewise with between-species evolution.] As it stands, between-species evolution is something one needs to "believe".

Take the present fossil ostensibly under discussion here. Was that in fact an intermediary creature between species? I don't know, maybe. I do not see compelling evidence that we know for sure. I for one really have a hard time stating such things as facts with a straight face; I feel like I need to prepend phrases like "The fossil record suggests that".

Incidentally, I feel the same way about historical anthropology... statements like (making something up) "These ancient people wore fur hats and ate with their fingers out of stone bowls," based on some bowl fragment and a bit of fur found near the remains of a skull. Well, I don't know, maybe that was true! But such evidence seems weak to me, and hardly enough to present those ideas as facts.

And perhaps my gripe is more with mainstream media presentations and with loosely-written educational materials than with actual scientific research.
> hasn't passed FCC or some other certification for use in the states

Possible, but it would still work in the states with a European Sim... So any problems it'd give the FCC wouldn't go away...
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but you start out criticising the cautious language of uncertainty, and then criticise others for making specific predictions that turn out to be wrong?

I'm perfectly happy with that cautious sentence, as it is as true as it can be stated given today's knowledge (I assume; I haven't looked into it). It's not a very good headline, but reality has a habit of being complicated.

"Luckily", we have plenty of people who are more interested in saying simple things that everybody can understand, like "snow is a thing of the past". Unfortunately, exciting scientific headlines have a habit of being wrong…
I've found two things can keep this at bay: reading old-school dead-tree books, and meditation.

I am an avid reader who is quite fussy about what he's reading. Everyone around me knows I read a lot, so of course what better present for my birthday than an e-reader, right?

Wrong. I can't use that stuff. It puts me in the Distracted Mode, whereas when I do serious reading, I need to be in the Focused Mode. E-stuff automatically flips on the Distracted switch. You know - the stumbleupon links, the reddit cats, the endless outpouring of youtube video mud. Old school books do the opposite.

Also, meditation is pretty much the polar opposite of twitter-driven thinking.

Things like The Long Now Foundation, and the book called Anathem by Neal Stephenson, are direct reactions and backlashes to the twitterification of the modern mind.
Correct. If you click the image or just scroll down you can see the names.
A lot of haters.

They had a successful exit, and for a good chunk of cash. This is a big win for the Braintree team. It's always good when people can cash out their shares.
There is an inverse relationship the number articles title "x explained simply" and the actual simplicity of x. I honestly don't understand why the developer community refuses to admit the obvious that git is unholy clusterfuck of a product. It has a nice data structure inside it? Name another end-user product for which you are even vaguely aware of what data structures were used.
Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4323172 (107 points, 420 days ago, 32 comments)
I use VLC in win7 (x64) and in ubuntu (x64). I usually watch my videos from a slow memory card or pendrive, because of this I try always to increase the file caching the in input codecs, first, I don't understand why it is limited to 6999ms, is there a reason (my machines have between 8gb to 32gb of ram, so would be nice to prefetch everything...)? and second, the volume is still with some lag... i guess because you pre-amplify it.. the lag is a real pity because makes it feels a way worse player... still it is my favorite player! so thanks!
It doesn't have to make sense. It's social media driven viral marketing.
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Venmo, which was acquired by Braintree. Its no secret that PayPal wants to dominate mobile payments - yet, most people don't even know that you can send money to other people for free using PayPal (an essential component to mobile person to person payments).
Why I Buy All My Books On Amazon

* They have it, always(and the newest printing of it)

* They usually have it digital, I start reading it within 60 seconds

* If it's not digital it is often available used($200 textbooks for $5? Yes, please, my "local" bookstore can keep their copies at $150 used).

* Prime shipping

* Oh, I also need new batteries, and a box of diapers? Might as well throw those in to the order and get back to things I would rather be doing than driving through town wasting my time.
I laid down the evidence. Just look around. Or I could ask you to show me the evidence of evolution. Could you do it?
Me neither. But I think I should. Every time I want to try something new, take a new direction in code or add a new feature I should branch, so I can safely add or remove pieces of code. Things not related to that new feature, like bug-fixes, should be done in the main branch and then get pulled into the feature branch. I'm just too messy with my commits to do that, because it requires making frequent smaller commits, instead of huge ones once in a while.
This has been my experience as well. And I actually like the rspec style of testing that the author dismisses because it allows you to group tests by functionality covered. This goes a long ways towards making your tests more approachable and maintainable. When I contribute to a Ruby gem with good rspec-style tests it's generally trivial for me to see how to format and where to put my tests covering the new functionality.
I take this as an overgeneralization from the bugs the original author runs into most often, which may be domain specific -- overflow in signal processing being endemic to the problem.

In many other cases, one of the common bugs is unexpected sign extension when a type is promoted to a larger one -- the most common being extension of a signed character to an integer, which can result in some wildly negative values.

Those who have been hit by that frequently will prefer unsigned types.

As with most things, your mileage may vary.

-dB
We have individual offices at my company and it is quite excellent coming from an open office/cube farm layout previously. Being able to just close the door and window blinds to signal you want to be left alone work and think is something every developer should be able to do.
If it was a certification issue it would affect every mobile device by every device manufacturer. My guess is that this may be an attempt by Samsung to crack down on grey market imports of their devices. The author suggests it might be a requirement buy carriers, but again that would affect more than just one manufacturer. At the moment we're all just speculating.
> it's rarely going to catch corner cases that the developer wasn't already aware of

Learning to recognize potential edge cases and partition inputs to check as many input categories as possible is a skill learned through experience testing.
I don't think Elon Musk will be distracted by this, maybe he'll see it as just one more reason to succeed. It doesn't matter what other people think you can or can not do, it matters what you really do. If there are physical reasons why it can't be done that is one thing but economical reasons matter little to nothing to driven billionaires with dreams. So far Musk puts just about every other billionaire out there (1200 at last count) to shame, instead of pursuing money for its own sake he pursues it to fuel his dreams, which I think is a step up.
For anyone thats been putting things off.
In 2013 - Students in Wilcox County Georgia hold FIRST racially integrated prom!

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/29/17967090-students...
This is my latest project. I'm here to answer any questions :)
Or you could use Braintree with Spreedly to keep your options open: http://blog.spreedly.com/2013/09/26/braintree-payments-a-por...
> The advertising revenue model gives the media incentives to make lots of cheap, addictive information.

It's the fast-food equivalent of information. It's cheap, readily available, seemingly fulfilling, and creating lots of problems later down the road.

> I have vowed to spend less time consuming and more time doing.

Yup. I've taken up hobbies that require making and building stuff in the real world. It's quite amazing what you can accomplish that way.
Why is the Ouya's bad? It doesn't look as comfortable as an Xbox controller, but I haven't held one.

I like the idea of a touch pad for configurable interface elements. That's what I first thought of when the Valve modularity patent was mentioned. Has anyone played a game on Ouya that made good use of that touchpad?

Or am I mistaking and it's not both a touch screen and touch pad, just more of a trackpad-like input device?
It could be.

Then again, he's not the one saying Al Gore's (manbearpig! hurr hurr hurr) finances prove or disprove climate change
Yes, predictive modeling is easy when the you don't have to prove you're accurate.

They just keep building more models yielding new predictions to cover all the bases so, when the future does come, they can claim success and forget all the failures.
This fits with what I've seen in other OSS projects - nVidia provides the most complete and robust implementation of OpenGL, Intel does pretty good but it's too slow and restricted to be useful anyways, and ATI/AMD basically needs you to code specifically against their device.
If this is driven by carrier request, as the article speculates, then it is yet another example of how the mobile market is broken... Are phone manufacturers selling to consumers/end-users or are they selling to networks/providers? You can't do both, equally -- at least not at the moment -- because the carrier's interests and profit models generally directly conflict with the interests of consumers. Until the wireless industry works a bit harder to align themselves to the needs of their consumers, stuff like this is going to happen. The exception are models like Apple's where they've figured out how to consistently drive profits by focusing on the consumer and using the phone as a platform for selling other things (i.e.: apps and content like movies and music) -- the carriers are almost incidental in Apple's model. Almost.
EV Certs show the company identity, which has been verified. Go to paypal for an example.
Scientists? People who study the physics of the system in question by building models, simulating them and comparing to data? I'm not sure what else you expect. I'll take them for big policy decisions any day over some blogger cherry picking data.
I have a feeling that "imprecise models and simulations" is exactly how actual science is done much of the time these days.

The trick is to answer those questions of what data is used and how things are weighted etc. well, and that's exactly what the scientists who work on these models do.
Except that that wasn't the quote.
So they can't stop Amazon from selling the book?

If they really want to make a good cut, they should sell the ebook on their own web site.
I'm with you Ixiaus. Congrats to everyone everyone at Braintree!
At the right price, everything is for sale. Not let anyone tell you otherwise...
If a smile from a stranger can cheer you up, imagine being surrounded by familiar voices each giving you a friendly "hi" and then moving on. It's not especially meaningful but it's a great feeling. Maybe it's more valuable than the option of actually connecting with whoever happens to be physically present.
How do you know the site is static?
Different regions have different frequencies, so this might just be a warning that the Note 3 isn't penta-band.
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Nah. There's a reason why god invented headphones. :)
Judges flaunt the law, surely? I mean, if you're wearing a huge wig and robes, you've got to be flaunting something.
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Yes, that's the article I commented on, check the quotes.
This just goes to show that companies will put as many DRM restrictions as possible on their devices and content, if there's no backlash, just because they "think" it would be a good idea to do it. I wish the general public would fight more against DRM, instead of simply accepting it by saying stuff like "but that's the only way I can use X". It sends companies the wrong message.
"The author suggests it might be a requirement buy carriers, but again that would affect more than just one manufacturer."

It would only if the other manufacturers caved in to carrier demands. If this is true, more might well do so shortly, but it kind of makes sense -- Samsung is likely looking for every angle to gain share over the iPhone. One could imagine that a sweet deal with carriers could gain them more promotions, greater subsidies (yielding cheaper phones), etc. etc.

But, yes, you're right, it's all speculation.
Capitalism in the sense you're using it isn't exactly a 'political philosophy'. Manufacture and trade is how human beings organize themselves and interact. If you're not taking that into account as you tackle the problem of a heating planet, you're bound to run into a brick wall.
Of course, but how many of those can't get a taxi?
Yes, how did parents control console use before OS-level time controls? The problem seems intractable.
I'm here to answer any questions, in between today's busy day :)

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There is also a human desire to consume lots of sweet and/or salty, or fatty food. It has always been there, and for good evolutionary reasons. But then the fast-food technology caught up. And now watch the results.
Done. I will not buy your book on Amazon. Glad to help.
A couple years ago I bought a Logitech gamepad that happened to use Xbox protocol (I didn't read the label well enough, I just saw the name brand). I tried to use this Xbox360Controller driver but it didn't recognize my gamepad. So, I fixed the driver to work.

When Mountain Lion came out I had to update the driver, which had undergone some 32bit -> 64bit change but also added in some other garbage about Xbox chat pads that was breaking when I tried to use it with my Logitech game pad. I don't remember if it kernel panicked or just didn't work. Certainly I caused a kernel panic or two while tinkering with the driver. But I got it working again, mostly by commenting out stuff I didn't want.
I think part of the problem is that git, like other version control systems, does not enforce any particular way of working (workflow).

When authors try to explain how to use git, they often have a very particular workflow in mind and don't necessarily describe exactly what that workflow is. This can cause major problems when somebody tries to apply advice to their own workflow.

I like the graphical approach. It helps to conceptualize what is going on so that someone can apply it to their own situation.
I was never under the impression that I could just buy any notebook that has an Ultrabook sticker and get the equivalent to an MBA. So I guess I don't really care about the brand - I care about getting a lightweight, powerful notebook.
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Maybe what you say is true,

but it has the positive side effect that we prepare ourselves for Peak Oil what will happen anyway.
It already remembers on Android :-D
I wasn't making a judgement, I was responding to the above comment about the BlackBerry 10. iOS7 is great, and I think this article describes polishing a diamond.
I've been using reveal.js for all my presentations for a while now. It's great, keep up the good work! :)
> One person, working mostly alone, produced better quality drivers than a whole team working at Qualcomm

Does anyone have any insight into how this ends up happening? Are Qualcomm just understaffing that team, hiring incompetent people, deprioritizing it (let the intern do it)?
I don't get this attitude. The DAG is exceedingly simple and I think can be taught reasonably in only a few minutes. From there you really only need to teach a very minor amount of the UI, and teach the user how to perform "I want to do this to the DAG"=>"This is what I type" translations on their own. I've seen all of this done well in sub-hour presentations.

Mercurial on the other hand has a pain in the ass datamodel (so much so that most introductions to it that I have seen do not even approach the topic), so you actually do have to learn all of the UI commands to get an idea of what can be done and what cannot be done. It is far more complex than git.

I really cannot think of a simpler VCS than git. I've used plenty, but never got off the ground faster with anything else.
A war would have thoroughly wrecked civilization, but plenty of people would have survived, especially in third-world countries.

There's no reason a much diminished humanity concentrated in the southern hemisphere couldn't be marking the thirtieth anniversary of War Day today, if things had gone a bit differently.
Shit. I thought I was frist with the idea ... but turns out I was a month later with https://github.com/sne11ius/github-screen D:

At least can generate these from .png files.
Nah, did 18 kilometers in 45 minutes every morning.

There's really, really little traffic, and it's mostly long straight roads.
For the record, who is saying that the climate doesn't change? We live on a ball of rocks flying through space, not in a museum diorama.
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I agree. I'm not a published writer, but it seems to me that the expense of selling books printed on trees might be the problem? In my naive way of thinking about it, I feel like the author should just cut out the middle-man (publisher) altogether, put together an ebook (with some kind of free tool like latex, or html, or what-have-you) and then press the "publish" button which either places it on stores like Amazon, or simply sells directly off the author's own site. This is almost zero production cost and all margin.

I'm an avid reader, and have all the walls of my apartment plastered with shelves of dead tree shavings, but I've noticed lately (like maybe within the last 3-5 years since the kindle and tablets have come out) that I don't buy physical books anymore; the reading experience on an electronic devices is sufficient, and the lower price of an ebook is attractive.

With the amount of books I buy, I'm ok with trading a little bit of nostalgia and ephemeral tactility for "2 books for the price of 1". Putting words into my head is the main thing, and authors can put words into people's heads (and make a profit) on their own now: 1. write a book, 2. convert to ebook format and make available online, 3. sprinkle with marketing voodoo (which I think any book author could do: blog, tweet, email, link to book, etc.)
Which version of Xbox360Controller and what Mac OS version? You might want to try an older pre-64bit version of the driver if that will work on your OS.

Or you could try to debug the source if you're up for that. I would try but don't have the expertise to help without seeing it and tinkering with it.
Eh, Florida has enough green lawns to water that they're making good progress salinizing their aquifers without any rising tide necessary.
> No, releasing is easy, until your established process get fucked up by an Indian PM asking you to "integrate" features into G+

Was it his/her race that fucked it up? Would it have been better if Google hired only the finest corn-fed Mid Western white American?
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That would have to be a different URL, like www.howmanypeoplewereinspaceatanygiventimeinthepast.com (sorry, coldcode).
This is one of the major problems pointed out in Noam Chomskys manufacturing of consent (1992). Its a really nice documentary. I think the entire thing is uploaded to youtube
I must say the powerpot looks far more sensible design.
Where people don't have access to the grid they also use fire and water for other stuff. Cooking food comes to mind. It will have some limited use if it is just a thermocouple plate that sits below the pot.
The fact is that the current warming is well below projected temperatures. It could reverse in the next ten years and prove everyone right, but the problem with global warming (which I agree is happening) is that it doesn't give us a scientific playground where we can try different things out. It is more like economics than it is like material science.
> Exactly! Global Warming will actually bring more snow!

This is why they renamed it to Climate Change, which is a win situation in any outcome :)
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> Then the Wal-Mart opens and everyone is actually happier.

Yes, they shop at Wal-Mart, and it's much more convenient for them.

Then a couple of years later they wonder where all the local businesses went, why all the towns look the same, why there are fewer jobs.

It's naive to think that stopping the odd Wal-Mart or Amazon here and there will help, but it's also naive to think that just because a company is popular that it is doing good on a grander scale.