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This is a good description of the difference between available architectures, but more detail is probably required to backup some of the discussion points, beyond the fact that reducing presentation is beneficial for response times. An API server is still required to render JSON responses?
Celluloid, Cryptosphere, it seems like Tony Arcieri has found a way to bypass the 24-hour/day limit. Awesome.
They wouldn't know, but it wouldn't be legal.
Github UI? Before forcing everything to look like github, please, please, remember the term "user experience research". Github UI has major issues and they keep improving. If every open website has a github UI, that's gon to be like seeing every website running default bootstrap interface. No.
Look at all the comments:

'BUM & DEAD BEAT DAD', 'a healthy young guy with potential who turned into a bum', 'He's a bum and a freeloader' , ', 'Another bum allowing the state to raise his kids.', 'Yes, another worthless bum who the country would be better off without', 'A leach on society who should have died years ago', 'It is bums like this that the rest of us working people are supporting', 'Definitely bi-polar, a little OCD.....can't fit in society. Yeah...that's what bums are about.'

:D :D :D
What a bunch of sponge-brained twats you have over there.
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Is there an etiquette to follow for this?

Should I mention it in an interview with a recruiter?
SOA (Service-oriented architecture) is a pattern to split an application into discrete pieces of software providing application functionality as services to other applications.

Fat vs Thin is more over a debate about where to place logic. Thin implies controllers are small, and models have a wider responsibility. Fat is the inverse, where controller do the majority of work, and models are a small abstraction.

My point is this: They are not the same thing. SOA helps in designing scalable, robust systems. Fat vs Thin helps you decide where logic should go.

I'm proponent of SO design and thin controllers.
My reaction would have been "wow, that's expensive for a Bansky rip-off" and I would never have thought that Banksy would be selling real banksy's.
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there isn't enough rich to tax to fix debt, unless you count everyone above the poverty line.
This being said, some salient dot points could be put forward to summarise the videos and what they're about. As it stands, it's largely a mystery, and not an enticing one. There's no 'hook'.
It's a great speech.

Having never seen this before is perfectly reasonable if you're new.
Ubuntu with Trinity desktop (which is a revitalized KDE 3.5).
He was a great man, indeed, and his life principles of paying more focus to creative side and not immediate profits deserve great respect.
I was just going to say the same thing then caught your link, thanks for the catch ;)
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Unless you have some reason not to you should just run Ubuntu. It's by far the most popular desktop Linux distribution, which tends to make your life easier. I've been using Linux as my desktop for 15+ years, so I've run lots of distros, but I'm using a stock Ubuntu 13 on my machines. It works, gets out of my way, and let's me get work done.
You are missing the whole point being that if github is own and assume core developers don't have t latest opt you are screed. If you want to promote your idea, get to. Sage. Don use github and show people your new decentralized github clone.
Google is a major committer to Linux and to Java Guava, the premier general purpose library (standard library extension/replacement).
And they paid Guido to work on Python for years.
They are apologizing for pulling the piece re-posted here:

http://mikethemadbiologist.com/2013/10/12/want-to-know-what-...
Yes, but why is it good? I wouldn't call these people success stories.
You've got a list of stores, and a person's location. Which store is closest?

You are buying ads online, and want to maximize your ROI.

You have 6 types of EC2 nodes you can use, and you want to pick the most efficient set for your mildly parallel work.
I'm not viewing 6 videos. I came right back to HN to read the comments hoping someone would summarize for me.
All I see is a giant popup ad bigger than my screen. Is it a news story about cell phones?
It's not too expensive for Mr. Money Moustache:

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/12/15/high-cost-of-livin...
This article says they each had a market value around $30,000 USD, or 500X. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/banksy-sells-origina...
That is if they ever find out they own an authentic Banksy piece
It all makes sense now: That man is Banksy!
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>> I wouldn't call these people success stories.

https://static.pinboard.in/xoxo_talk_thoreau.htm

> Thoreau said about his two years at Walden:

> I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours

> Thoreau wrote this never having tasted any of traditional forms of success. He was thinking of a different, more fundamental kind of success, one that I wish for myself, and earnestly wish for all of you.
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn is a good soft introduction to the topic, told in parable form. You probably want a proper history book covering the Neolithic Revolution.
Well I know of a few people who are really interested in seeing what these hacker people are like. Are they raving maniacs? Timid hermits?

Video is a good format to get people who do not normally browse source code or read specs interested. I'd rather send my curious-but-not-technologist friends a video link than a protocol design page from a wiki which they'll never read.

And a proper transcription encompasses a fair amount of work. So maybe the authors found that that would outweigh the benefit of pleasing some of us. I'm still happy that someone is creating these videos (and is not putting them on Youtube but is self-hosting them, with WebM HTML5 video).
Quite interestingly, the axioms mathematics is build upon do not let you decide every question that you might come up with. As such in mathematics not everything is black or white. For example, the continuum hypothesis is independent of the most commonly used axiom system ZFC. To explain what that means imagine ZFC would be describing an apple. Out of the definition of "apple" you can get theorems that tell you "if you start on any point of the apple and dig down in a straight line, at some future point in time you will reach the 'other side' of the apple" or some statements you can disprove "if you walk on the surface of the apple in a straight you will never come back to point where you started". What you will not get is the colour of the apple. Everything you know about the apple is consistent with it being green. But all that is also consistent with it being red. The colour of the apple is independent of everything that you are interested in in an apple. Therefore there is no reasonable answer to the question "which colour does the apple have", except maybe: It should not matter. The same is true of the continuum hypothesis. I remember reading that if you need the CH to prove something, then you should definitely reconsider the statement you are trying to prove :).
Reminds me of that time when Joshua Bell played in a subway with an incredibly expensive violin. They showed people just walking past, not knowing at all what they're missing. When I saw that I thought, "what the hell is he trying to prove?"

You always need to adapt your art to the medium and provide contrast. To do otherwise is to argue against reality. Your average run-of-the-mill street performer is always going to get more attention than Joshua Bell will on the street.
Not all logic. You can do simple input verification on client side. You can do in pace filter and yielding from client side. Bu anything tht requires extracting db and saving o db must go bough server side to ensure security is met.
Well, there's one thing when the gig runs over and people look for another thing to work on. But the parent post talked about recruiting the whole team, and as it often happens, just in the middle of successful and growing project - that's the principle of acqui-hire, find somebody who is currently successful and hire them out. If it's just a team looking for a next thing after previous one run out of steam, there's no "acqui" part here since there's nothing to acquire of value, it's just a regular hire.
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And it's unreasonable to have never seen this if you're older?? I don't know about you, but I still discover new things despite being twice the quoted age.

http://xkcd.com/1053/
What are the best channels to follow discussions on decentralized social networks? I see too many alternatives coming up and it is getting too time-consuming to follow all of them. Friendica (BTW this one is missing on the list in wiki), Buddycloud, Diaspora, to name just a few - where do they coordinate their efforts and how can an interested developer follow discussions of these projects?

Also it would be interesting to exchange experiences made with these new apps, so that not every developer has to check every network, what is not possible in one life - the already existing listings of alternatives are of great value, but a more systematic approach in collective knowledge gathering and exchange would be even better.

Hey, that´s what the internet was built for, wasn´t it? Still does no software for this exist? :)
Indeed. Why can't we just have pictures on a page that we scroll through? Or just these slides all layed out to scroll through? Why does it have to be fancy (and only half functioning)?
Yes, one important part (auto-removal of buggy packages) was implemented, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/09/msg000... for the announcement.

http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/autoremovals.cgi is the list of packages targeted for auto-removal.
Money only gives you options, even if it's other peoples' money manifested in the resources of the State via taxation and public spending.

First world problems/opportunities . . . the underlying story here is that nearly none of this is possible without a well funded and run state. Riding 4500 miles across country, collecting sponsorships, going to a strangers house from CL for a fan. . . all speaks to road, police and the like allowing people to survive/thrive because there is general stability around them. These people experience none of the poverty problems that come from a lack of choices.
I suspect that "gendered term" is not very well-defined, and certainly I don't have a very good model of what it means.

Nevertheless, I'm pretty sure:

> there are lots of male and trans-gender prostitutes.

It does not automatically follow from this that "whore" is not a gendered term, and nor does it follow that anyone who thinks "whore" is a gendered term is an idiot.

(I'm sure some people have a definition of "gendered term" which implies "can only be literally true of one gender". But I doubt that everyone agrees on that definition, and I doubt that's how it's generally used.)
That's pretty sad. Programming and mathematics are normally things that go together, like burgers and beer. I can't imagine loving one and not the other. I do sympathise with the wish to see a practical application. I have a distinct recollection of an ah-ha moment for me, at about 15 years of age. We were being taught basic calculus. The idea was introduced that a function f(x) could be used to represent the yield of some industrial process. You put in x, you get out y = f(x). So far, so obvious, so boring right? But then came the cute part; If you can calculate the derivative of f(x), you get another function f'(x) which is the slope of f(x) for any value of x. Then to find the maximum yield you seek the value of x where f'(x) = 0, because the slope of f(x) will be zero 'at the top of the hill'.

I guess it's a personal thing, but for me this fired my enthusiasm for both learning the various techniques for differentiation, and for equation solving. Then integration followed as simply reverse differentiation [amazing - one is the area under the graph - one is the slope of the graph - why should they be opposite ? Because maths is beautiful is the short answer - a universe of discovery is the long answer]. Around this point maths became fun, the work part evaporated. Later I got interested in computation because you can't always differentiate or solve equations analytically (with pure math), but you can do it numerically, to any desired degree of accuracy with a computer.
Yes, by "lower-bandwidth" I meant "video usually [1] takes more of my time to transfer ideas from the author's mind into mine than equivalent text." I wasn't referring to bytes-on-the-wire [2].

[1] Sometimes video is more efficient than text. E.g. with respect to video games, gameplay videos can convey a lot of information in a short time. Basically if you want to teach someone about some system that changes over time, showing how it changes in video is often a lot clearer and faster than trying to describe it with words or static diagrams.

But a video that just involves listening to a person talk -- or, worse yet, read slides from a projector -- usually just ends up wasting my time compared to equivalent information presented as text.

[2] It's obvious that video consumes way more bytes-on-the-wire than text.
Honestly there isn't a lot of coordination, but many of the people most interested in decentralization participate in one or more of these networks. As one of the architects of Tent (https://tent.io) I spend a lot of time talking with others on Tent about similar projects.
I used T-Mobile too - the trick I wish I'd known about is it'll allow free (?) roaming on to AT&T in very select areas. Your non-US credit card may not work on the website either, I just preloaded the amount I needed while at the store.
It is important that we all have a broad understanding of what is legal, what is not, and where we need to seek advice and proceed with caution. We can then supplement that knowledge with specific legal advice from a lawyer when appropriate.

We cannot possibly achieve a broad understanding of the law if the only knowledge we have about how the law works comes directly from our own personal conversations with a lawyer.

I'm thinking of purchasing a 50 euro piece of software from a company in Germany. Do I need to obtain customs authorization to purchase software from countries other than the US? Perhaps I need a permit to run German software? Maybe it's against the law to even visit a site in Germany unless I'm an EU citizen? Perhaps I need to start paying some of my income and corporation taxes to Germany if my business uses any German software?

If we are completely clueless about what is legal and what is not, the costs of running all of these questions past a lawyer would bring the economy to a halt.
Do you need to distribute things when you're gaming? For most interactions, I imagine that when the user says "save", replication of the user's data can start at that point, and for most things, ought to finish within a minute or two, freeing up the network/CPU, at least if you're doing it across a private cloud. I imagine that for most of my data, 3 copies in disparate locations would more than suffice. How long does that take?

Having a machine on 24/7 is perhaps a bit wasteful, but what is the electrical use of a mostly idling machine? If you really cared, you could perhaps get something with less power, like a raspberry pi.
That is definitely good and in-depth.

(I had to use the web dev inspector to remove the overlay trying to force me to enable scripts and sign in, but it was worth it.)
The pieces he sold here look intentionally mediocre. They're just reproductions using stencils he used a while ago on actual buildings. They look much better in their original context. Here they look flat and boring.

Banksy actually does some interesting stuff with paintings (http://imgur.com/S3CTKip) that's better than just using his old stencils on white canvases. My guess is he wanted these canvases to look like someone did the bare minimum to copy his most iconic stencils and make money off of Banksy's fame.

That said I would have liked to have bought one even if the real art is the entire performance and not the individual canvases being sold.
This is one of my favorite Banksy works. It was a block over from my last office. Unfortunately it was defaced by some other graffiti artists. Ironic

http://www.highsnobiety.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/...
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The monthly plan for an iPhone is in the ~$95/month range. I agree that I can't even find this possible unless OP has 10+ kids.
Generally speaking, I don't think the experience would be as bad as you say. Yes they get the lowest priority but given how good AT&T's network is, you generally won't be kicked off and would probably incur a reduction in speed. The reality is, you aren't going to need (insert super fast speed here) on a day to day basis. There are exceptions of course, such as tethering or streaming content, but really, how often would you be doing that and need it? This is why I don't buy the 4G argument, especially when there're carriers that ask us to pay more simply to be on 4G.
Not anymore.

According to distrowatch, the order is:

1. Linux Mint

2. Debian

3. Ubuntu

Me, I prefer Mint with MATE because with just a few patches the screen is much more readable than any other distro and it is based on Ubuntu, so I have something to fall back on.

Otherwise I would use Arch.
Hungary. The monthly median is around $500 net.
I think you're right, and I'd love to visit Lviv someday! There is also a lot more art there.
For a nice anecdote from Leonard Adleman about his contribution to Sneakers see http://www.usc.edu/dept/molecular-science/fm-sneakers.htm
I'm not saying that video doesn't have certain advantages. I think that some people -- even some people who consider themselves hackers -- may even prefer it.

I'm just saying that I personally prefer text, and explaining why I prefer it.
I'm about to give up on London and move to San Francisco. Both cities are experiencing 10%+ house price inflation and all the pain that goes with it. New York has experienced much the same since the 2008 housing crash. Cities are in, suburbs are out. So I have trouble buying the hypothesis that London's increase is due to its use as a quasi-currency or foreign demand. The demand to live in London and other world cities is common and organic. I don't doubt the UK's retrogressive tax policies encourage more investment than normal but that's not the centre of the demand, nor are Eric Schmidt or Michael Bloomberg legitimately competing with me for housing.
I'm not trying to be smart or anything, but do you mean Elementary OS? http://elementaryos.org/ If not then sorry, but do you have a link to the project because it sounds similar. :)
For the general audience total confidence always beats the person who delivers a confidence interval.

Hedgehogs also beat foxes, despite the obvious difference in prediction accuracy in favor of foxes.
Couldn't T-Mobile use another carrier's cell towers and allow their customers to fallback into those networks?
The problem here is that you are mistaking your preferences for universal preferences. I wouldn't want to live like this either, and probably most wouldn't. But bully on these people for doing so, if they want to.
The second Gofer is not needed. The XML Support is all installed with the #load message.

I don't think you can live-patch a DoIt from Workspace. What you can try is create a test class and method. However you can demo this with the following exercise...

1. In a newly opened image, right-click the background and choose 'System Browser'

2. Fill in the template with #MyTest and 'MyTest' as follows...

Object subclass: #MyTest
instanceVariableNames: ''
classVariableNames: ''
poolDictionaries: ''
category: 'MyTest'

Press <ctrl-s> (on windows. or choose 'Accept' from the context menu - but the 3.0alpha I'm on has an error with this. works in 2.0)

3. Create a method by clicking on the "no message" protocol and replace the template with the following and save using <ctrl-s> or <Accept> from the context menu...

parse
| data doc entries entry content url |
"Get the data, you can try and print this, if you want"
data := 'http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/all?q=puppy' asUrl retrieveContents.

"parse it"
doc := XMLDOMParser parse: data.

"split up"
entries := doc
allNodesSelect: [ :n | n name = 'entry' ].

"pick one"
entry := entries anyOne.

content := entry
nodesDetect: [ :n | n name = 'content' ].

url := content attributeAt: 'src'.

4. Create a second method

get
(ZnEasy getGif: url) asMorph openInHand . "Opens image"

4. Evaulate the following in a Workspace with <DoIt> from the context menu.

MyTest new parse get.

5. At the debugger prompt, click <Debug> then right-click and choose <Full Stack>. Scroll down the call stack and select 'MyTest get'. (In my 3.0alpha you need to select it two times to highlight current position - something to clean up there)

6. Replace getGif: with getJpeg:
and save using <ctrl-s> or fromthe context-menu choose <Accept>.

Observe that the call stack shrinks back so that 'MyTest get' is at the top of the call stack.

7. In the debugger click <Proceed> or <Over> as you like.
If the top 10% controls 80% of the wealth, there are definitely enough rich to fix the debt.
I was in NYC last week using T-Mo and noticed this too. Is it due to the GSM frequencies they use?

I was told by a rep in Seattle that "new towers have just gone in for NYC", though YMMV.
Was that guy Banksy? I thought he never let himself be photographed without a disguise?

My favorite Banksy was outside of Galapagos when it was in Williamsburg. I loved walking by it until Splatter destroyed it.

Now, I'm actually in NYC for Comicon and I find out that Banksy was in Central Park .... I'm so sad now.
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I know it may elicit eye rolls, but I love using Github's built in "streak" feature for this exact thing. Best of all, it is public and motivating. I agree that it is hard to do something highly valuable on a green field project everyday, so I often work through exercises from textbooks (right now I am in the middle of SICP) to fill in days when I would otherwise just be directionless. I used to feel guilty for not "doing enough" to advance my career, and would "binge code" whenever the guilt built up too much, but now I feel so much more confident and relaxed, knowing I'm putting in a sustainable amount of high quality reading and practicing every day.
The practice of writing is, in fact, about practice. It is a craft, and you need to work at it. Writers have peer review workshops (like Clarion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarion_Workshop which is for aspiring scifi/fantasy writers) they have editors who know how to make a good idea better, clearer, etc.

Don't worry that your writing isn't great. Get the ideas out, hammer out a story, don't prematurely optimize. Refactoring is something you'll do later. But definitely write every day, or at least sit at a desk. You won't know what to start with... If you are idea based, you will probably lack for characters, plot, scenery. Don't worry, you can work on that as you go.

But fundamentally, write, then write, then write some more.
No one lives in London (San Francisco, New York, Hong Kong, etc.) anymore - it's too crowded there.
They do (although I was only able to test this in a very small part of Idaho) allow roaming on to AT&T. Supposedly it's free with a data limit.
Sigh. Should never have trusted that reddit comment!