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I should add: When you have a ton of code in a single file, Code Climate will start to assess penalties. The idea is to try to approximate how maintainable and approachable a given piece of code would feel to a developer who is looking at it. It's not perfect, but very large files tend to be harder to maintain in general.

So Underscore's choice to be single file effectively dooms it from the start. Ember.js, on the other hand, is larger but more decomposed and scores fairly well.
Yeah, I think it's just a pragmatic layman's term for a good headline. I've complained over the years to my wife I'd like a "reverse microwave" for exactly this use, so it certainly clicked with me.
> Of course PC sales will be low. When you don't have enough memory, you buy more RAM. When your processor is too slow, buy a new CPU, or you get a new heat sink and over clock it. You rarely have the need to buy a whole new box

This is not end-consumers nor businesses. Enthusiasts who were building and upgrading their computers were always a small market.

The article talks about upgrading repeatedly, but I don't think the author can extrapolate their own expertise over the rest of the traditional desktop users.
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Most game makers are targeting consoles, which just went through a longer than usual shelf life. With the new ones coming online, we will see more PC upgrades from gamers.
OpenDNS actually does inject ads to its DNS servers (for NXDOMAIN). I wouldn't like it, but it would be ok.
Yeah we don't have a strong opinion on the matter. The lack of braces can lead to bugs when attempting to expanding the code in the conditional, as has been the case since the C days IIRC.

The linting is configurable to projects preferences, by checking in a .jshintrc file.
Post your specs to give your post some legitimacy… I hope you didn't skimp out on your motherboard…

2010 $1000 rig running all 2013 AAA titles at the highest settings sounds unlikely to me…
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The fact that one of the words is a subset of another depending on the context doesn't invalidate the fact that the words are still synonyms when they are used in a specific topic.

Moreover, by what you said before:
> "Exchange" is the critical word. A single promise is extraordinarily different...

I would conclude that you are actually agreed on how I used it in my original comment:

> "and contracts might be dissolved if both sides of the contract agreed. This being an open promise is not a contract but a reaffirmation of a goal"

How that can be "100% wrong"?
Didn't mythbusters do an episode on this once? Fastest way to cool a beer, or something like that? They concluded that the fastest was to use a CO2 fire extinguisher.
Even if you put the books on a single long shelf, chances are you're going to make the numbering system based on the content of the books, like say, the Dewey Decimal system. That's a hierarchy of at least two layers, right there. If you assign random identifiers, you'll probably end up creating that same hierarchy in the index instead, unless you do something more tag-based which is actually likely to be better.
Add Windows 8 to that, and oh boy, there's a lot of tears. My aunt's laptop died so I bought her a new one. Every time I talk to her she's complaining about the Windows 8 UI. She still hasn't figured out how to do some tasks she would do before with Windows Vista (which she had no problem with).
It's been a while since I played with OSM data. OGR 1.10.0 supports OSM, and you can grab it from various sources (gdal.org or gisinternals.com/sdk/ if you want latest windows binaries).

Converting OSM -> SHP should be relatively similar to other formats, and there are a good number of tutorials out there for using OGR. Here's their page on OSM: http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_osm.html
Great work. Do you have a link to the machine-checked proof? In the technical report there is only a formal specification and a detailed but not machine-checkable proof.
It would be really great to see systems researchers write machine-checked proofs :)
Of course PC sales will be low. When you don't have enough memory, you buy more RAM. When your processor is too slow, buy a new CPU, or you get a new heat sink and over clock it. You rarely have the need to buy a whole new box.

i agree that the increased (functional) life of pcs is a contributing factor to slowing unit sales, but its laughable to attribute it to the idea that people who once would have bought a new pc are now just buying more ram and upgrading internals.

the percentage of people who would have any idea how to do that, or even consider it as a viable option, is far to small to have any real impact on demand..
I may just do that, thanks! I don't think the Nexus 4 was on that list last I checked.
Not true. ARMA or BF3/4 multiplayer on large maps can choke your CPU with ease.
Ok, I see how running out of battery and having working pedals would be necessary. I supposed one reason for wanting an e-bike would be to save money on gas. Since my longest work commute on a bike was only of about 30 min (~1yr), to me that was perfectly fine, but I can see longer commutes could become exhausting when done on a daily basis.
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The only med I take is Citalopram, which I started for anxiety, but now only take because I don't have time to deal with withdrawals, having fixed my problems through other means.

As far as supplements go, I'm a junkie, but I'm also careful to only take things that I'm positive are actually doing something. My current routine looks something like this:

- Vitamin D3 (4000 IU winter, 2000 IU otherwise)

- Fish Oil (about 4 g daily)

- Magnesium

- Vitamin C (1000 mg weekly)

- L-theanine (whenever anxiety strikes)

- Melatonin (occasionally when I can't sleep)

Also, I'm currently experimenting with Alpha-GPC (a potent choline source) and Piracetam. The first take I took Alpha-GPC it was like lifting the brain fog that's been plaguing me for years. After a couple days taking it though, I started experiencing nausea and headaches (both frequently reported symptoms of excessive choline) so I'll probably be cutting it back to one or two 300 mg capsules weekly. As for Piracetam, I'm not entirely sure how it affects me yet but I'm staying away from it until I sort out my Alpha-GPC intake.
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This is where a mission and values come into play. Leadership sets the tone and provides a framework (people should have input during this process of course), then gets out of the way so its people can make their own decisions inside that model. You make it safer for people to take risks this way, and try something that not everyone might agree upon.
This seems largely the same as the item submitted just 3 hours ago, still on the front page, and discussed at considerable length:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6605312

Same story (but no real discussion) was submitted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6604925

Call me cynical, but I suspect it will still be upvoted and discussed here because any comments on that earlier discussion will get lost in the noise of the close to 200 comments already there.
Here's another article about this story that's not behind a paywall:

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/judge_accused_of_text...

Apparently the judge has been forced to resign:

"A Texas judge hasn't admitted any wrongdoing concerning her claimed texts to a prosecutor during trial.

But 258th District Judge Elizabeth Coker will give up her seat on the bench effective Dec. 6 and she is taking a voluntary leave of absence in the meantime, according to the Houston Chronicle and Your Houston News.

The settlement agreement also will preclude her working as a judge elsewhere in Texas."
If everyone adopted the attitude of the author of this blog, all innovation everywhere in the world would cease instantly because, for most of us in the developed world, everything is good enough already. There are many points throughout computing history at which existing hardware was overkill for the things that we were asking our computers to do. Had we stopped innovating because of that, the world wouldn't be anywhere near where it is today.

In high school I recall lusting after a $4,500 486DX2 66Mhz machine with an astounding 16MB (not GB) of RAM, and a 250MB hard drive. A few months ago I spent a little less than that on a laptop with 2,000X that amount of RAM, 8,000X that amount of hard drive space, and a processor that would have not so long ago been considered a supercomputer.

I for one am glad that we have continued to innovate, even when things were good enough.
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When we speak of PCs versus smartphones or tablets we're talking a lot about form factor and portability. I imagine a day when my smartphone has more horsepower than the best desktop today and it can drive a huge 4K monitor while streaming petabits at a time. You'll only need one device and it will be the CPU to all your interfaces.
The example they use is navigational query for "Southwest Airlines". As far as I'm concerned, the deep links to South West airlines' site such as "Flight Schedules" are actual search results.

Ignoring that, it's unfair to use one example and say that search results are 12%. Is it 12% average, 12% median, or 12% for navigational queries only?
I don't agree with your dismissal of the work, but this is a very constructive comment on the whole with many interesting references and should not have been downvoted.
I'm starting to see a trend of tablets-as-laptops where people have a case that integrates a keyboard and they type their papers or whatever else on their iPads or other types of tablets.

Having a 1.5 or 2 pound laptop, with a 12 hour battery life that you can detach the keyboard from for $300 is a much better form factor than the current typical laptop. Many of these tablets also come with wacom pen digitizers or touch, allowing a creative input that is missing in many laptop form factors.

Also you can still create web-apps and other such things with things like node.js and so on android tablets today. Javascript really is the BASIC of this generation.

I won't be surprised to see full IDEs that could be viable in creating general purpose apps in near future. I really think Android & iOS will eventually become the next 'desktop' OS with a full suite of apps as powerful as the current desktop set of applications. Concerns about tablets as consumption only devices will go away probably within the next decade as the world transitions to these 'mobile' OSes.
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Same here. Lethargy and motivation were largely a matter of health.

Congrats on your success in finding the problem!
apologies about the error - wiki article says the "remaining components" are zero, which means there's something that isn't, my bad.

Yes, that's what I read - two different domains with independent (or nearly independent?) flow, which means you could design it carefully to avoid a lot of shear in the centre - which is (on a skim reading) roughly what a Rankine vortex is.
T60 will even run coreboot, if you fancy putting an SSD in there, you'd have near instant boot.
Someone searching for Southwest Airlines is probably looking for... Southwest Airlines. So the very first result is a useful one. With sections of the official website conveniently linked and a pretty picture on top.

This sounds to me like a complete non-issue. If you don't like ads, install AdBlock. Of course if you need clicks for your website, carry on.
This genuinely couldn't have came at a better time.

We've just released our internal application powered by Node.js — our first. Since releasing we've been experiencing random 504 errors with no way of tracking them down, since they run in a Dokku container. Attaching to the logs displays nothing either.

This will really help! Thanks guys!
Thanks for the explanation. I'll keep an eye on it and test it out if any of my JS projects grow well enough to justify it.
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You're just not playing the latest games or doing any intensive computations, or just don't care that you could finish your task 3 times faster than on your 2008 CPU.

What's your framerate in Battlefield 3 on a 64 player map at 1920x1080, high settings? Or Crysis 3?
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I will start this discussion by saying a few things I noticed about it.

1. The app doesn't use a battery because they are disposable after one year. I wonder how they tested it to know it really works for a year, and what happens when it finally goes dead?

2. Since they are disposable the super sticky adhesive you are applying it to must be a pain to remove and reapply when you get a new one.

3. This also means it's $18.99 per tile, every year, which I suppose is ok but it still seems like a waste not being able to charge it. Hopefully in the future you'll be able to have a wireless charging station or something.

4. It uses Bluetooth 4.0 technology which supposedly has a range of 50-150 feet depending on where you are. They also seem to have GPS built in, or it craftily uses the GPS coordinates from your phone. If you're out of range, then you're out of luck. It is a cool idea that other people can pick it up though and it will alert you, that was clever.

5. It does transmit audio for when you need to find it audibly so that's cool, but you have to be in range to signal it.

Overall they use some pretty good copy to make these seem magical and problem free.
There are passive coolers for i7s out there. You can even find passively cooled GPUs and PSUs. It's pretty cheap to build a silent pc.
According to the video, it was funded by the EU in hopes of mass deployment to reduce energy waste in supermarkets (no need to keep an entire open drink case chilled if customers can cool their drinks on their way out the door), and they're planning to license it worldwide for a reasonable price.
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That might be helpful, yes. Even just presenting me with relevant terms to research (such as "IgE") based on symptoms might be very helpful, especially to someone just starting out.
What are "actual results" for Southwest though? To me it seems like links to check-in, flight status, schedules and customer services is exactly what I'd want to see there. Is the image what you find distracting? But doesn't this give you immediate indication that you got into the right place?
Also resolution stopped at 1080p for a decade. Now that 4k is happening, there is an easy path to performance for gpu manufacturers.
Bikes take up less space front to back, and two bikes together will share a lane. And they obviously take up less space parking

Care to adjust this statement?:

> I do not find this to be the case at all.
I like the idea a lot, Brandon. Any info on the size of the order, restrictions on shipping, etc.?

I'm assuming you're in the US, but shipping to Canada can often kill even the tastiest of plans. (Semi-interested as a potential customer, but very curious as someone who thinks this is a cool little business idea.)
As a user, sure why not? Why does it matter whether the link you want is within the ad words box or under it? If you're searching for southwest airlines you obviously want the southwest homepage. Now southwest probably sees it different since they're paying for ad words but that's a different conversation
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I've been prioritizing human interface over raw power for some time with my laptop (more or less my only PC). It's semi-homebuilt - a Thinkpad T61 in a T60 chassis. I would rather work on this machine than any new one.

The CPU is slow by current standards, but a Core2Duo isn't slower than the low-clock CPUs in many Ultrabooks. The 3 hour battery life could be better, but I can swap batteries and many new laptops can't. The GPU sucks, but I don't play many games anyway. DDR2 is pricey these days, but I already have my 8gb. SATA2 is slower than SATA3, but I'm still regularly amazed at how much faster my SSD is than spinning rust. It's a little heavy, but really, I can lift six pounds with one finger.

So the bad parts aren't so bad, but nothing new matches the good parts. The screen is IPS, matte, 15" and 1600x1200. Aside from huge monster gaming laptops, nothing has a screen this tall (in inches, not pixels) anymore. I can have two normal-width source files or other text content side by side comfortably. The keyboard is the classic Thinkpad keyboard with 7 rows and what many people find to be the best feel on a laptop. The trackpoint has physical buttons, which are missing from the latest generation of Thinkpads. There's an LED in the screen bezel so I can view papers, credit cards and such that I might copy information from in the dark, also missing from the latest Thinkpads.
That's really cool! Great name, too. Probably a little less comprehensive than New Relic's offering, but I like that you don't have to do any kind of integration.

On a side note, the font you guys use for parts of your site is way too thin. It's really hard to read. See the items in the bottom/middle: http://cl.ly/image/2H0r1d1b210p
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(Can't edit so replying to myself): My mistake, Coursera does have courses in other languages from European universities.
Dry ice will, ironically, make your soda go completely flat as it constantly agitates the drink as it boils/sublimes away.
I just upgraded from Q6600 / 4GB to i7-4770K / 32GB, but actually that Q6600 would have been enough, if I would have just used SSD with it. SSD is they key. Apps I user are Firefox, Thunderbird, Deluge and VLC.
The nice thing about the hard parts of the game is that there was a sense of accomplishment once they were mastered.

Docking used to drive me to tears. First get in line with the dock. Then start to rotate in sync with it. Only to fail. Even after I got the hang of it I'd blow it once in a while. Still remember playing with friends and having one who was the best "docker" step in at the critical moment.

Similarly when I got my Acorn Risc Machine/Archimedes, the bundled Lander game was also hard but it was a satisfying challenge, and the best demo of the new machine.

I remember thinking at the time that Braben was brilliant and wondering where his life would take him. I'm glad that he has now put his brilliance to use with the Rasberry Pi.
I've discussed this at length elsewhere, so here's my abridged opinion.

The main issue is that a "mainstream" personal finance app must have the following two features:

- Automatic download of financial transactions

- Intelligent categorization from "STBCKS3134" to "Starbucks [Dining]"

Any tool that doesn't have those two features is doomed to be "niche"... used only by people who actually enjoy and/or are disciplined enough to enter their own data regularly.

In short, we need a "Twilio for personal finance" so that people can build creative solutions and not have to reinvent the wheel. There are startups out there that are trying to solve this.
We've used the beta for months, very happy with it! :-)
We would be better off steering into the skid. History has plenty of examples of people who've tried to hang onto the old ways 'because that's how I learned it'.

The way forward isn't to try and keep cheap PCs viable for creativity's sake, but to ensure that creative desires are being met on the newer devices. Would I have learned memory management and dual booting if I'd had a tablet instead of a 386? Probably not. But now that same money buys a high end tablet and a pile of hours for an EC2 micro instance.

Would I still be me? No, I would be even better. All those weeks wasted fighting with modem racks for my BBS I'd gladly trade for weeks spent on a Nexus 10 and a linode.
I agree, I brought a high-end Dell 2.5 years ago and it was starting to feel like upgrade time (sluggish performance etc) a few months ago. I then stuck in a 240gb SSD and its faster than it ever was, even when I first got it.
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Correct: thriving, not surviving. (I would not have made my remark, had the author used "thriving" in place of "surviving").

And we are not yet at the point where Bitcoin needs to reduce its volatility to further grow. My prediction is that there is still room for Bitcoin to grow (and it will), over the next 1-2 years, and yet volatility is going to remain just as pronounced as today. I say this because so far, its adoption curve shows no sign of slowing down.
Also the PySpread project which is still active: http://manns.github.io/pyspread/
It's not deceptive, it's figurative. Not everything has to be rigorously literal.
Read the papers to get an idea of how they are beneficial. One obvious way is straight-up helping individual inventors or small companies take on big ones. But another less obvious way they help is by creating a secondary market for patents. This has many follow on effects. For one, VCs are more likely to fund startups with the idea that they can partially offset the risk of failure by monetizing the patents (papers by Merges, Mann, etc. to this effect, IIRC). This enables entrepreneurs to pursue riskier technology ventures.

Saying they exist only to litigate is missing the whole picture. That is simply what they specialize in, primarily because patents are essentially a right to sue, and there's a gap in the market when it comes to enforcing patents.

Now you may say that patents themselves are crap and represent no value, but 1) that's a different problem than trolls, as others have mentioned, and 2) you'd be making a generalized assertion with little data to back it up. Even if you are an experienced patent litigator who's seen a lot of cases, there are biases at play. Which is why, again, we should turn to studies, which, again, do exist and, again, present a much more nuanced reality.
I'm seeing the same thing with my iPhone. I Have a 4S and while I like what the 5s brings I'm just not sure it's worth upgrading now. There is just starting to be the very hint of slowness in some things on the 4S, but it isn't anything like when I went from the 3G to the 4s. That was a huge upgrade. Now it just doesn't feel necessary to buy the next thing on the same schedule.
It's really sad to see someone bright self-destruct this way, but I need to say I found the exotic dancer's name, Chastity, almost funny.
Its a great idea - but the terms are horrible. From my understanding Assembly made own the rights to the software and a pretty big stake in application.

The article talks about forking code, contributing to open source but goes directly against it.

https://assemblymade.com/tos
It's not even GPU today. RAM is pretty much the bottleneck for everything. CPUs have been so much faster than RAM for so long now that they have to keep doing more and more tricks just to keep utilization up at all. With gaming, it's always texture memory and transferring from RAM to the video card that's expensive.
We are going in the oposite direction of #2 for at least a decade. Nowadays a motherboard has almost all the periferals you'll need in a typical PC, and at the ARM world (that is more flexible) we are getting into the periferal-less single chip CPU that has only a power supply and I/O pins for display, USB and network.

That's a natural step because connectors are expensive, power hungry and bulk. As computers get inexpensive, upgrading makes less sense, so it makes less sense to pay more for an upgreadable system.