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I am the designer in the video. I should say that I also used to work for Adobe. And that is not to say that I don't design in PS because I think it is crap. Quite the opposite, the PS team is an awe-inspiring team of PHD-level engineers. I would say that it is a huge tool that is still focused mainly on imaging and is decades old. They have to respond to a very large and diverse user base. I personally, don't like using big monolithic tools, like most web-oriented people I like the light-weight editors and focused tools.

I was a Fireworks user, but since Adobe decided to phase out support, I looked at what my workflow would be like. This transition came at the same time that I was moving away from detailed specs to a more lean design process, leaving the details to when I switch to code. Sketch, makes it very fast for me to create mocks and for the team to switch to code. Everything I design translates very well to web standards. I know that since Generator, Photoshop has a much better export flow to CSS but that is still not how I work.

Overall, my switch to Sketch has been very positive and I would recommend it to anyone that is doing any type of interactive design. Granted, Sketch is still pretty new and is missing a few things. Symbols or Smart Objects being the biggest thing for me.

Right now my workflow is: Omnigraffle for userflows, Sketch for wireframes and sketches, PS and AI for asset creation, Reflow for when I need to try some responsive layout, Edge Animate for motion prototypes, and I'll code with Brackets.
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> You may say, "What about a country like India or (less extreme Eastern Europe, where the poor genuinely can't move up?"

It is possible for poor Americans to move up, but how probable is it for hard working Americans to be able to move up?
The extortion charge could be reasonable, but the California Penal Code sections 530.5 and 653m charges are ludicrous: 530.5 deals with identity theft for taking out loans and such and 653m deals with telephone harassment, this is neither.
Personally, I can't design everything in code. The reason for this is that I catch myself making design decisions based on my knowledge of the technology. Which is always limited. I like to first design things, make a blue print and then figure out how to implement them. If I design based on bootstrap or any other framework, I find myself too "in the box". I think that the use of code in the ideation phase should be more of a proof of concept.
Well, I speak Russian fluently (and therefore can follow the Russian media/Internet) and I have visited the country 3 times. In addition I have visited another ex-Soviet country, Ukraine, over a dozen times. You really have to go to these places to understand them, and preferably have some level of competence in the language so that you can speak to a variety of people, not just some egotistic activist that gets his jollies out of manipulating foreign media.
Revising the above since I was told that Highlighter and UsingMiles were acquired and that App-X is alive and InvitedHome changed its name to Invited. The success rate is now at 77%.
What would it even mean that the universe is a hologram? Wouldn't it imply some sort of holographic projector?
>Foucault's style is (possibly deliberately) obtuse, and his knowledge of history dubious at best, per Keith Windschuttle's book The Killing of History

That critique is not even worthy of an answer -- it's basically a conservative "oh, all these new fangled lefty theorists have ruined our field" cry.
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So basically they are saying we are a 3D projection (extrapolation) of a 2D source?

Can we do anything useful with that like FTL space folding?
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The grants are not merit based, so Google is not judging these women at all. The grants are to help restore the gender imbalance in software engineering. You seem to be having trouble understanding this.
> Also, I strongly suspect all of these efforts to drag more people into coding are at least partly sponsored by industry, in an attempt to drive the relatively-high wage of a programmer down, in the face of a perceived increase in programmer demand.

Perhaps by newer and less experienced entrants into the business market. Whenever there's a boom in a certain market, you get a lot of hacks flooding in who have a lot of money, but little sense. Web development was this way post-dot-com-crash. There were many print advertising agencies that added on web development as a service to their clients. However, they didn't alter their business practices to accommodate the needs of software development.

These agencies treated software developers like graphic designers. They almost always required fixed cost contracts for development ($X to build a website), and this caused a ton of problems that would be evident to seasoned developers. When I suggested that they change their compensation practices they would refuse, and just blame it on the original programmer for being unskilled.

I didn't mind in the beginning, because I was making $200-$300/hr to fix their problems. However, I eventually quit consulting because I got bored with cleaning up bad code caused by time/money constraints. It wasn't stupid programmers who caused the problem, but stupid business people.

Bringing it back to the main topic - I think it's wrong to get more people to code. Those who graduate with CS degrees and software development skills are entirely capable to building large, functional systems. However, a good bulk of those programmers aren't going to work at a software/tech company. They're going to work in the IT departments of companies in non-software industries. Efforts should be made to better integrate these ad-hoc IT departments into the primary business.
Yes, it would require a change in infrastructure. No, it is not necessary for the investment to be done upfront. You quickly ramp up cheap mass transit options (bus service segregated from regular vehicular traffic with dedicated lanes, MUCH cheaper than light rail construction) while using permitting/zoning to phase out car-friendly policies.

It won't happen overnight, but its a start.
This release cycle is great: it's not quite as fast as Chrome but it means that I can start using features for 90+% of the Firefox-using public within months of release rather than years.
Julia uses libuv, the same library used by Node.JS, for its networking functions. Therefore, given better library support, Julia could be quite suitable for writing web applications. If you wanted to provide a web frontend to some numerical computation (as I think the Sudoku solver mentioned in the article does), such functionality would be quite useful.
Just to throw this out there in the hope it is useful, I have been using this book as a review of linear algebra:

http://linear.ups.edu/html/fcla.html
Could this be used for scrypt-based altcoin mining?
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What is the difference between using militarized police and actual military? If in the hands of a despot one is a problem, then so is the other. So I don't see how weaponizing the police changes this equation.

(Some other commenters suggest the police is more loyal to the local citizenry, in which case weaponizing the police could be seen as providing a counterbalancing armed force that could defend against a military assault on the populace)

Personally, I'm not concerned about either scenario.
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Shooting dogs of guilty people is a bad thing, too.
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I wonder if mugshot sites (which this guy will ironically have to pay to get removed from) will suffer the same fate.
Without some notion of how much your equity grant represents of the company (by current dilution), the actual number of options you get cannot be sensibly valued. The total number of shares at a company is totally arbitrary. Seriously, when you register one, the state just asks you to pick a number.

If a company won't tell you enough to calculate the percentage, that's like you asking "What's your offer for salary?", "Dollars. Definitely dollars.", "Can you be more specific?", "No. We consider exact salary offers to be competitively sensitive."
Hey,

I'm the creator of www.BitcoinReminder.com.

Nice site - and nice to see a new competitor :)
Really nice layout!

And yeah, you are right. It's hard to earn money with it. Our service had been for free for a long time.. But without earning money, its hard to pay the server costs (beside earning something for your life..).

But in the meantime its getting better and better.. :)

Good luck! :)

Btw: We implemented a new type of reminders, feel free to try it :P
Hopefully in the long term low effort trivial (but yet useful) fixes will become a scarce resource.
I picked up Neuromancer recently and for the first time in a while I stopped reading it a little less than half way because it was so bad. I just could not get into it. I like the topic and genre and all, but it was just not grabbing my attention.
> Finance fads are called bubbles, as far as I understand, and yes, there is a Bitcoin bubble. I don't think anyone's going to argue that point.

You have to be more careful with your wording for these statements to be testable and therefore meaningful. When you say "there is a Bitcoin bubble," what exactly do you mean? Do you mean that the USD price will go down to x in the next y months (and you have to fill in x and y for it to be testable)?
...local police doesn't have access to this sort of information.

Yet?
How on earth is an Air Force pilot going to shoot down an ICBM? A Minuteman III can reach speeds of 15,000mph.
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Just ordered and tried the food. It was very good.

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I was assuming you were mistaken, but it's starting to look like you're just making things up. LevelDB has no dependencies other the Snappy compression codec, which is both optional and BSD-licensed.
What good would weapons' system training do, exactly? Are you suggesting that if more people knew how to operate this equipment that local police departments would be less likely to say yes to a free MRAP? What point are you making here?
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I didn't want to be so negative but I'm actually frustrated with this. Because:

1. I used to be in love with Firefox. So much.

2. A few web searches turn up tons of other problems [1], maybe mine also. Maybe not.

3. At this point, this is not just a one shot problem to sort out. This is something mining my daily productivity.

[1] https://www.google.com/?q=firefox+hangs&safe=off
https://www.google.com/search?q=local+police+cell+phone+reco...
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Yes, but as stated further up, that CPU could anyway just write arbitrary data to the memory that holds your entropy pool, if you use RDRAND or not.
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I wish I could be so stupid...
I'm not far away in Uptown where the "walkability" index is 97.

The point is these shots are not atypical, it's like this throughout Chicago. Even the "not so good areas" have the same fundamental layout.
This is easy enough to fix from a policy standpoint:

(1) make free parking a taxable benefit for companies

(2) tax the hell out of gas/car registration, or at the very least tax it enough to pay for infrastructure

(3) no mandated parking minimums in new construction in cities

(4) get rid of publicly paid for parking

But of course this requires transit alternatives and popular support, which does not exist in places like Atlanta. I live in Orange County, and I bike to work (we have perfect weather and mediocre bike infrastructure), but people love their cars here.
Yeah, /u/bitcointip is a great example of what I'm talking about.

Though I do wonder how the more vocal Bitcoin supporters would react if the project never grew beyond "electronic petty cash," even if it was successful at being that (i.e., widely used and easy to set up).

My worry is if Bitcoin "fails" in its larger goals (e.g., challenging the USD's global domination), it'll be seen as a failed project which will keep it from even being able to accomplish its smaller, more manageable goals.
I agree. I wish I woulda been able to start with something like this. Some of the LM features are overkill & clunky.
The issue is that the local Police are aggregating the same types of data E.G. Auto scanning tags of cars within sight of a police car and it's only a matter of time before the links are made to pool the data. All that needs to happen for this to become a reality is one piece of legislation be snuck into a spending bill or farm bill etc.. and bam - all police forces are required to send their data to the national data pool that all other police forces can access for the "greater good".

Not being involved in this myself I don't know the extent or the checks in place but police do have access to cell phone location data since about ten years ago? (if you call 911 on a cell phone they use it to find you)
An "enterprise Dropbox" conversation is one that many customers will have with AeroFS. I know this from experience trying to sell this very type of product.

The challenge is that sales cycles are long and potentially high touch. One way to mitigate that is by getting sales distribution through 3rd parties. But avoid integrating with a bunch of 3rd party storage platforms unless you get commitments for leads from the vendors. In other words view integration efforts as an engineering to sales arbitrage.
If bitcoin ends up as a mainstream payment option alongside Visa and MasterCard, there is no bubble right now. If not...
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If something breaks out and can run as your user you're done for. For example it could put an alias in .bashrc for ssh to evilssh and you would never know it (until it's too late).

Running firefox not as root is a good idea, but keep in mind that if a user run an evil application, that user is utterly compromised.
The post is right, and even more so for developing world cities that emerged before cars were around.

However the post is also naive. Cars are usually much faster, provide much better shelter from the weather, and are much less tiring than trying to lug bags from one place to another on buses or other public transport. They also place far fewer constraints on when you can travel.

Of course it's possible to structure one's life so as to deal with all of the issues. I have lived half of my adult life without a car, including 4 years in the SF Bay Area, and I managed.

But let's stop pretending that there isn't a trade off. Cars are very very convenient. The key to reducing the need for cars is not just good public transport - it's services that reduce the reliance on traveling to get chores done. Things like grocery deliveries, laundry pickup, and amazon.com.

It would be a lot easier to rely solely on public transport if you never had to carry anything.
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I agree, makes negotiation much harder. "We're giving you 25000 options"... but if I have no idea how much its potentially worth, I dont know what I'm saying OK to. This is often the case though, I'm quite sure.
Engineers are smart these days. Is anybody really doing 80h/week for shady options? I doubt it. Employees stuck in this position generally aren't so bright or don't have any other choice for some other reason. But still very rare.
Yeah, it's in early stages, so I've not gone as far as writing hints/instructions into it to set expectations. It's based on the TodoMVC apps, so you can double-click an existing headline to edit it, but I'm still working out how to best enable that functionality on mobile.
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Exactly. Consider how often cases of police officers (or even spooks; remember that they coined the term "LOVEINT" for cases of people doing exactly this) abusing their authority to spy on, stalk, and harass the objects of their a̶f̶f̶e̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ obsession have come to light.

Now contemplate how many happen, but don't come to light.

As much as I want to decry TFA for fear-mongering, slippery-sloping, and straw-manning, extant — even rampant — abuses of authority give it ever so slightly too much "plausible" to dismiss out of hand.
I have found this Leonard Susskind lecture to come closest to answering the question of "why would anyone even suggest such a thing?" about this subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DIl3Hfh9tY
On Ubuntu, you can use the Official Mozilla Daily PPA[1] to get the latest versions of Firefox. They have PPAs for each channel and you can then use the normal package manager to update your Firefox.

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That's where the "research" bit comes in. Take that report to your fish-monger[1] and ask him about it. If he has a strong opinion about it he's probably a keeper. If not, ditch him and get your fish from somewhere else. Again, check online vendors.

1: Here's a direct link to the actual report so you don't come off as someone who gets his information from tabloid newspapers: http://oceana.org/sites/default/files/Fishy_Business_updated...
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Hopefully the next step is to take image decoding off the main thread.
replaced it with a little cat.. is it better?
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How would you have come up with an X and Y at the start of tulip mania?
Very cool of the people doing the matching donations. I'm always happy to do anything I can to help the EFF. But now, more than ever, it feels like they might be our best chance to avoid dystopia.

But considering the size of the tech industry and the amount of money the internet / technology is making all of us, I'm sometimes surprised by how small the EFF is. Does anyone have any thoughts on why the EFF isn't larger and better funded like most other industry groups?
Self driving electric cars that people pay for on a subscription model (rather than ownership) are the future I'd like to see. I hope it happens during my lifetime.
This is talking about Stock Options, not pure stock grants. This means that "Sell it all" isn't quite as simple as you might suggest - First you need to "Buy it all". But there is often vesting, which means you can't buy it all yet.
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replaced it with a github icon there
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Not great. I'll make sure this is fixed soon. Thanks for the heads up.
Eh, IMO, cars are killing democracy, too. I haven't lined up the studies to actually show the causal chain, though. It's something I need to get around to doing.
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That's not a very good argument - they could just as easily have calculated sign as ((s) / max(abs(s), 1)) if this was intentional, so the fact they didn't probably just means whoever wrote the code didn't think of that trick.
Because it went horribly in Vietnam? Because we have tens of millions of willing, ready, and able volunteers? If you ask me, compulsory duty is just a bad idea, period. Especially in a country the size of the United States. It all sounds fine and dandy if you are not at war, but what if your two years just so happened to be 2004-2006? What if I turned 18 during that period? I get to endure decades of PTSD and who knows what else just so I can master the fine art of driving a Humvee?
SquareOne (squareonemail.com) is a standalone native iOS email client that works with your Gmail account. We're in public beta with the app now.

The experiment we posted about (we're calling it MailOne for now) would simply supplement the new email UX by an added service layer, where the sender of an email is challenged to categorize it for you as the recipient.
I have been to the Ukraine over a dozen times. Ukraine is doing more than just contemplating change. Everyone there is demanding change and is unhappy with all elected politicians no matter what party they are from.

The main problem is that Ukraine is not sure what kind of change it wants. And it doesn't understand the steps to take to get change. And too many Ukrainians want a magical solution that will sweep the problems away.

Point 1 - Signing that Euro agreement will not change anything. It only puts Ukraine on a path to make thousands of changes in their laws and their society that may or may not hurt the people. Then, after 10 or 15 years of this, they might be allowed to join the EU. Ask Turkey about how long you need to wait. And after joining the EU, Ukraine would be a substandard partner, for instance there would be visa restrictions for years to come that would prevent many Ukrainians from working in the EU. Quotas in fact.

Point 2 - Ukraine is already in an informal union with Russia. Given that Ukraine's largest trading partner is Russia and that Russia's largest trading partner is Ukraine, they can't help but be in a union. If Ukraine would only sign an agreement as a CIS member and formalize this relationship, the people of Ukraine would gain immediate benefits. For instance there would be a legal way for Ukrainians to go work in Russia, and since they are already fluent in Russian, they could get reasonable jobs and not dishwashing or hotel cleaning jobs like they get in the EU.

So what would be best for Ukraine?

Also, consider this. Russians are GREAT chess players. What if Russia is orchestrating this because it knows that if Ukraine joins the EU, then it will weaken the EU and open the door for Russia to also join, and then to dominate?
This is pretty much one of the Ultima Thules of Mathematics. Reading about it won't make you understand it, the metaphors used in popular science are just that: simple analogies that fool the reader. If you want to understand it I'd suggest allocating 6 years of your life to be thought the foundations and move on from there.

Edited to remove a shitty snark re fractional dimensions, hence the replies.
Funny how the volatility of gold prevents it from being a currency (see egold, etc). But the volatility of bitcoin is magic rainbow-spewing miracle of portents.
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I have spoken to Ukrainians and Russians, students and programmers, and they would be offended at your assessment of the situation. The most telling part of my conversations with them was when I suggested that things are getting at least a little better. They were adamant that things were not getting better. Anyway they were glad to be in the states.
Stop putting so much stock in version numbers?