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>You line up Charlie Rose to do one of his famous softball-tossing puff pieces..

You can't claim that Amazon destroyed the credibility of CBS and at the same time claim that one of their top anchors regularly gives "soft-ball" interviews. Well, to be honest you can, but you'll sound like an idiot.
hmmmmm i know "i told you so"s are annoying but i wouldnt register a domain name with a service other than a full-on registrar. then you could always change hosting or even scrap the blog entirely but still keep your address (and hopefully traffic...)
It wouldn't have to be while the vehicle was in motion on public roads. Think mobile warehouse: Pull into a parking area, launch the drones, collect the drones, reload. I dunno how many dozens of packages you could deliver within a mile radius or so, but it would be a lot more than the driver could drop off on his own, which is the point. And maybe someday you don't even need a driver.

If this idea is going to work at all (and that's a big if) these things were always going to have to fly over roads and land in driveways.
> While the Upshot mobile app used some pre-existing code, this did not violate the rules. Use of pre-existing code was allowable as long as the code didn’t comprise the majority of the app and didn’t violate any third party’s rights. Our internal review determined that Upshot’s mobile app was created during the hackathon and met these criteria.

So what does "a majority" really mean? Can I come in with 49% of the code and still be eligible? 49% isn't technically a majority. What about 49.99%? How do you even determine the concept of "a majority"?
Even O(1) operations on lists can break cache locality. Since you're chaining using pointers, all bets that your cells are nearby are off. With vectors, they always are.
Are you for real?

An allergic reaction is an overreaction of the immune system to a normally harmless material. "Immune compromise" is a weakening of the immune system. These are, you might note, almost exact opposites. People with weak immune systems won't generally suffer allergic reactions, because an allergic reaction requires the immune system to overreact, and "weak" generally precludes an overreaction. At worst, they wouldn't suffer anything worse than a normal person.

Now, this does raise an interesting question, namely: are newborns ever allergic to this stuff? Could it cause a problem? The answer to the second would seem to be "no" given your CDC quote that there's no evidence for adverse reactions, and that would render the first moot. However, it's still an interesting question, but you'll notice that it's a completely different question from what you asked.

Is your question legitimate? Of course. My point is that mine was legitimate too, but when I posed it, I got a stupid "GIYF" response from you. Apparently you think you have the right to ask questions without research, but I don't. That double standard annoys me.

Worse, you don't even know what you don't know. You get the relationship between allergies and weakened immune systems completely wrong, yet you state that wrongness as fact, so obvious that you call it "by definition".

And then, when I call you out on this bad behavior, I imagine you'll call me a "fascist" and say that I'm "suppressing dissenting views" or some such crap. The reality is, I welcome dissent, but only intelligent dissent. You're not providing it.
DRM. Xbox One was supposed to require an almost constant internet connection to play games. They changed their minds after seeing the internet's response.
Fine, replace "manufacturer" in my original message with "brand."

1080 displays are commoditized, and have been for some time now.

2560x1600 displays were not commoditized for 8 years. The process has very recently started.

The incumbent brands did not want Ultra HD commoditized so quickly, as evidenced by the $4,000+ prices. Seiki dropped a small bomb on them with the $700 (now $500) 4K televisions. With luck, Ultra HD will be commoditized soon enough. Thank you, Seiki!
Xbox One? Microsoft took a huge gamble in their decision to all but eliminate discs from their consoles. They had planned that consumers would not be able to resell their discs once purchased with the promise that your friends would be able to play the games in your games library without owning the game themselves (ie. they download the game from your games library) so long as you weren't playing the game at the same time as them. People didn't like this because 1.) They couldn't resell their games and 2.) It required that you connect your Xbox to the internet once every 24 hours. For some reason a lot of people felt like this would affect them (I don't know why.. I can't remember the last time my internet was disconnected for 24 hours.) As a result of all the negative feedback, Microsoft scrapped their whole DRM system in favour of a more classic approach while Sony basked in the positive attention despite bringing nothing new to the table.
I did not claim opposite. NK does not have a free market nor a liberal government, period. Dont know about the exact category of their government but their economical system seems like text book Socialism to me.
Besides, IMHO Only rich countries can afford Socialist governments, otherwise it ends up in misery.
"But it's my right to make 24/7 video recordings of people I don't know eating at restaurants I don't own!"
Why not move the domain?
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Op here, happy to answer any questions. These tools have helped us many times (from speeding up various Django extensions to some really complex code deep inside Zapier).
There's an old musicians' saying: If you don't practice for one day, you notice. If you don't practice for two, other musicians notice. Three days and everybody notices.
That's a fair point. What if you put the snippet and the description side by side so you don't even need the arrows? Perhaps like this:

tar description1
x description2
z description3
...
> Using null instead of None means you are more at risk of hitting a NPE.

I think he's aware of that - he said he's using Scala as a better Java, what would Java be without the odd NPE?
> Every attempted "competitor" I've seen that stands against the iPod Touch either costs more than the touch or is reviewed as unusable garbage.

Maybe this speaks to Tim Cook's operations wizardry? If no one can get components at the same quality or price as Apple then they're stuck either selling a crappier device for the same price or a good device at a higher price.

If you can't beat Apple in hardware price or hardware quality then you'd have to win on software cost or software quality - sounds like a perfect place for Android. It's likely that the companies with the resources to do this have decided that the market is too small or they don't want to cannibalize their phone sales. Otherwise you'd think HTC or Samsung would be releasing Android-based media players.
"Using nothing more than the built-in microphones and speakers of standard computers..."

Are mics common on desktops? I would like to think I'm not that out of touch. I get that in laptops they are common.

Still pretty cool. There could be an application for this that isn't malicious.
Mostly issues of laptop battery life and heating. I have a five-year-old laptop that can usually last about 3 hours when browsing the internet. Usually, that browsing consists of spikes of CPU activity when rendering the page, then low CPU activity when scrolling through. However, with that animation, the CPU activity stayed consistently high. This is enough to make the laptop uncomfortably warm and increase the fan speed, providing noise.

It isn't something that makes the site unusable by any means, but it is something that gives an annoyance without a benefit to me.
I bet that someone capable of infecting enough offline computers to form this sonic bridge most likely already has enough options to transfer data and commands in a way simpler and more reliable way.
Depending on the acquisition cost as a percentage of market cap, not really.
This just shows my ignorance with regard to this topic, but is the speaker cutoff from plugging in headphones always a hardware switch? I.e., can software override it and direct sound to the speakers even if one has headphones plugged in?

Of course, if one were playing music or something, it would be obvious that the switch had been circumvented.
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oh great now its in my braaaain
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Wasn't aware of this (but was hoping it was in the works) -- thanks a bunch!
Yeah, I had hopes for Kotlin, but so far they've dropped pattern matching. Still, it's more likely to gain traction as a 'better than Java, but not _too_ much more powerful' language, IMO. For example, methods (and extension methods) can still be used as operators, but have to be valid Java names, so no methods called <:< (I pronounce it as 'angry wizard') allowed.
There still were shrink-wrapped PDA apps available in stores, though, which is probably how a lot of people acquired them. I never owned a PDA back then, but I'm assuming they were just the same files with a shiny installer.
Positive book reviews have little to do with accuracy. The overwhelming majority of people that are reading the book have no way of knowing what the truth is.
This is begging for a flash mob.
I think it would be more worthwhile to compare Ryanair to Spirit Airlines.
yea but then the malware has to already be present on both machines, eh?...
AFAIK they are able to stay fairly quiet unless the purchase reaches a certain threshold amount.
The Hobbit [1] is the only movie I can think of that is shot at a higher frame rate, it being shot at 48 fps.

[1] http://www.fastcocreate.com/1682085/will-the-hobbit-start-a-...
There are many that see this as a feature, not a bug.

The divisions already exist, someone is just exploiting and amplifying them. What's 'common ground' has radically shifted - so what you think is common really isn't so much.
been there - getting support for free accounts is almost impossible.

you might be able mitigate the problem by upgrading to a google apps business account and receive support through it. i've used their email support through a paid apps account several time, the problems were always resolved promptly.
Thanks for the reply, it's definitely interesting stuff.

Why invent Eo to unify the EFL object models, rather than standardizing on something that would be compatible with the common Linux GUI platforms? It seems like a total waste of time to reinvent something like a DBus access library, when this kind of basic plumbing work has been done a dozen times already... With a compatible object system, Enlightenment could build on existing and widely-used libraries from Gnome or Qt.

What exactly is Tizen going to be, and how does Enlightenment factor into it? Ever since the first Tizen announcement, it was said that HTML5 will be its userland API. Are native Enlightenment apps also supported on some devices?

Is Tizen reincarnating the strange twisty path of WebOS - moving beyond smartphones to trying its luck on all sorts of embedded widgets? Using Tizen on Electrolux machines sounds rather like HP's plan to use WebOS on printers...
Scandalous, no. The part that bothers me is that an event, presumably designed to introduce new developers to their platform, seems impossible to win unless you're either a) directly associated with the company or b) make a living developing for the company's platform already.
This tldr is an extremely interesting essay on wealth, business, and stocks. It is ridiculously long, but takes you amazing places. Definitely worth reading!
It said "In Progress" for UofT on the spreadsheet, but glad to hear that it's on the itinerary!

Annddd, you took it the wrong way. Much love for Waterloo, I meant I'm glad you aren't _only_ stopping at Waterloo for Canada :)
I really miss a downvote now =8-/
3 seconds of video is considered a view to YouTube. I remember seeing it when I got my Partner contract.
FYI, Salesforce claimed no right on submitted code.
http://events.developerforce.com/dreamforce/hackathon/faq
Reddit reacts incredibly negatively to poor tone. You can be completely right about something, and unless you're nice about it, you will be below threshold in no time flat.

Most of the comments I see hidden on Reddit are there, not because of simple disagreement, but because the person posting comes off as haughty or smug.

I can't complain too much. Anything worth saying is worth saying nice.
Only if you sit more than 2 meters away from the monitor. Do you?
I think you've got the tone right. Also... I hope you're right about Neural implants! I've wanted one ever since I read that MT Anderson book in JR high school (minus the dystopian homogeneity and fields of filet mignon).

Maybe Amazon will debut them on 60 Minutes prior to cyber monday 2014!
And you didn't write the Ruby(|node|php|python|golang) interpreter either, or gcc/clang that compiled the interpreter, or the kernel that gcc relies on. (or the cpu microcode - it's turtles all the way down).

Personally, I think the Upshot approach was a sleazy hack of the competition rules. On the other hand, with a $1 million prize, you'd have to be an idiot not to expect rules-lawyering to be at least as important in winning as a good idea…
your blog's name is awesome for story submissions: 'what risky thing is she/he doing which might anger google?!' click

EDIT: this comment was made under the original title "Calculated Risk: Will Google Kill my Blog on December 6th? (calculatedriskblog.com)"
What's my point is that I'm an expert on the above problem, working on stuff that is beyond state-of-the-art.

If somebody hires me to work on that I can produce exceptional results.

If somebody hires me to fill in for the last guy who burned out on a project that is two years behind schedule, my performance is average.

Asking a question like that from an average person will give you an average answer and average, at best, results in real life.
How long does it take you to type a character???
Apparently Isaac Asimov did it all the time. He didn't rewrite, or did so very infrequently.
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a prepared team would have gone through the process multiple times, completely refining their work to the point of rote re-implementation of version 10 of a proven out implementation.

What is this referring to? Has this ever actually occurred?
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What surprises me is the naivety of most people who seem to think that 60 minutes and the like follow their nose for stories instead of having complicated marketing and PR deals behind them. There is no way that 15 minutes of sunday night prime-time TV is just given away to a puff-piece because the shows editors thought it might make a good story.

Next thing people will be shocked that Oprah is paid to endorse products.
"you don't have a right to post here"

But you may not be able to avoid it. If a forum is the popular forum, you either post, or never be heard. You have to post there to get heard. So the "private company" can choose what is heard or not. That is censorship. Not illegal, as many said, but censorship. With all the bad results.
Fairphone's website says they've sold 25,000, and have another 8200 on the way.

Apple sold over 9 million iPhone 5s and 5c models in the first weekend they were for sale.

While it's impressive that an independent group is putting out a phone, their sales are orders of magnitude away from what Apple puts out in a single weekend. Sure, they're "joining the game", but they're not in the same league.
There's a fun example with clang where you can have two pointers where:

x == y

But:

*x != *y

It involves invoking undefined behavior by using a pointer after it's been freed and arranging for a new pointer at the exact same location. Clang cached the contents of the old pointer and uses it in the comparison.
This was the only 'outcome' that was available to salesforce. If they took away UpShots prize money, they would have upset a lot of people who felt that prizes shouldn't be taken away after the fact, that upshot won by playing within the rules, etc. If they kept the ruling how it was, they still would upset a lot of people who felt cheated by upshot using existing code. Realistically they couldn't rejudge the entire competition, and even if they did there would be people complaining about that. They ran the hackathon poorly, they communicated poorly by posting certain things on the forums, etc, they judged it poorly, and now they just want out from under their own mess with the least damage possible

Salesforce had one out, throw money at the problem and hope it fades away.
Unfortunately they aren't 3840 x 2400 (which would be 16:10) that is more convenient for coding or anything that isn't full-screen TV viewing.

But still... yay for finally reaching retina-like resolutions on the desktop! It was about the time.
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So how would this tolerate an environment with lots of white-noise generators?
When you updated your info did you update it in Google Wallet? Google Checkout was only very recently completely deprecated so make sure it is updated at http://wallet.google.com.

Also, do you have any communication from when you configured the account? That would be useful.

What may have happened is you set up a Google Apps For Your Domain account (which would have been free at the time of your registration). If that is the case you would need to login into Google Wallet with your Google Apps account - xxxx@calculatedriskblog.com and update the payment information for that account (as opposed to your normal Gmail).
I am an iOS beginner.

I have not read your post in-depth, I will, but I think it's probably wise to stick to learning UITableView well -- and understanding why I would want to implement something custom -- before avoiding the classes Apple provides.

That being said, I understood delegates, categories, and other Objective-C features much better after coding several applications first, reading a ton of open source code, and then reading relevant parts of Programming in Objective-C (Kochan). I first purchased his book before attempting to code for iOS, and found the pace too slow or concepts too unfamiliar, but after some practice and finding what I did not understand, it is much easier to look to documentation and textbooks for appropriate reference.
To add to this blog post (which I thought was very good, definitely informative) -- This problem is ofter exasterbated by incorrectly/inefficiently used ORMS.

Usually a combination of lazy-loading + loops, or doing things in python/ruby/etc that the SQL/whatever optimizer could have done much faster
Very cool. I don't think it'll be distributable at 48fps though, at least not via blu-ray, which seems capped at 30fps by spec.
A guy admits he invents nothing, brazenly sues people before even attempting to sell a license, is challenged by the inventors of the cryptosystems in question, is shown evidence of prior art by the inventor of RC4, and wins the case.

Can it get any more disgusting? I don't want to blame all lawyers, since I may one day need one fighting for me, but this guy is a real douchebag. Sugar coat it all you want "playing the game within the rules of the system". One can play honorably, or one can play dirty, and this guy is a dirt bag.
"Duty" is somewhat subjective. They also have a "duty" to those shareholders to keep those plans secret if they deem that secrecy is beneficial for the business plans.
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Yes, but in a way they are likely damaging the company they own a portion of. They may end up losing the talent that won the award. That company doesn't benefit much as a result, and Salesforce even less.
Why? Just position the 65" one twice as far away and you have effectively the same pixel density with a bigger effective viewing area and less eye strain.
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I'd love to hear what's stopping you from forcing SSL site-wide. Is it cost? If so, what are the specifics if you don't mind sharing?

Also, I don't know if you're using different VIPs for load balancing or lack of SNI support reasons or what not, but if your certificate provides proof of authentication for all your hostnames (probably need to use SubjectAltNames and maybe wildcards too) and the VIPs match, then Chrome & Firefox will send requests for those different hostnames over the same SPDY connection.
You can also use a statistical/sampling profiler like https://github.com/bdarnell/plop. This is useful for getting profile data from a live server because it has much lower overhead than the other options and can be turned on and off while the application is running.
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<rules-lawyering-participant>So I get my buddy/silent-partner to develop my cool and unique API beforehand and sneak it unannounced onto a relatively anonymous public Github account before the comp starts, but close enough to the start date that no-one else will have even heard of it yet.

Step 2: ???

Step 3: Profit!
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Great! This could serve as an example for help sites about other shell-like environment.
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