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This article strikes me as a bit naive and overly cynical at the same time. I research, build and fly "drones". There is no question the technology now "hobby grade" will make the jump to industrial within maybe 2 years. What is really lacking to them is areospace efficiency, and computer science. All the most popular software and hardware to date was mostly written or built by tinkerers and RC aficionados, not computer science and areospace industry leading professionals.

You can get an article circulated by badmouthing the hottest tech news, but in this case, it's just a bad misleading article with little basis in truth.

Also the government just opened 6 commercial testing zones, and the FAA just laxed some of the regulations regarding commercial UAV experimentation and flight. Note that these moves happened at lightening speed for the government. Just weeks ago it was illegal for a company to fly with out FAA clearance and a pilots license. This is going to happen. I believe Amazon or Google are the most well positioned to make it happen.

Not only is Amazon talking about introducing drones, it's also entertaining the idea of making UPS or FedEx strictly Business2Business enterprise, as Amazon would be handling the final leg of delivery ultimately to the customers door. I haven't heard anyone mention anything about this. Personally, as bicyclist living in NYC, I can't wait until those disgusting aggressively driven diesel delivery trucks are moved to the strap yard, replaced by the distant buzz of a battery operated drone army.

Also to correct the inaccuracy presented in the article. The drones will be the final leg of the package journey, not the mid term. They will fly maybe 10 miles max, with a top speed of maybe 60 mph max within a city, not, 120 miles from city to city. It will start in one city like Amazon Fresh, and then 2 or 3 more years after that. Not every city all at once like the article insinuates then points out would be impossible. One city with in 5 years still makes Amazons plan a success and it makes this article completely wrong.
I agree 100% that you can't teach passion - that has to come from within. However, we certainly can do awfully better at encouraging that passion when it emerges rather than dutifully stuffing it back in the bottle and turning a promising college career right back into the pursuit of an MRS(tm) degree.

And if that takes a degree of well-meaning but mostly awkward affirmative action until the majority of brogrammers have either retired or drank/snorted/driven themselves to destruction, that's just the price of changing the status quo IMO.

I used to think otherwise, and all of these heavy-handed efforts to pull women into Computer Science once made me roll my eyes at their ineffectiveness, but all I had to do was listen to how a lot of my younger co-workers still judge women. Same $h!+ new decade alas...
For SQL in general SQLZoo is a horrible looking website, but if you go through the tracks you will actually learn a bit.

If you're having issues with using postgresql with Rails and heroku (judging from post below), then you're really asking how use those three things together. In this case there are plenty of examples of all the things that can go wrong and how to fix them on stack overflow. If you'd like to send me the errors you're getting and other details of why it's breaking I'd be glad to field a couple emails (contact in profile).
2014 tech trends are deja vu all over again
Darn, really unexpected. Learn something new everyday. Page-aligned access is common because I/O is usually aligned on page. Now CPU intense cases are different because of cache line usage.
Wow! That looks really awesome! Thanks for the tip.
My problem with Kaggle is that they are more greedy then Apple, Kickstarter and Paypal together. Apple takes 30%, Kickstarter takes 10%, Paypal takes 3%, but Kaggle takes 50%!

I once asked them what the price would be to start a competition to outsource a difficult machine learning problem. Their answer was: We would need to pay $20k, if we want the winner to earn $10k.

Thats when I stopped thinking about those greedy bastards.
Lol got 8.1 with Chromebook
This reminds me of some of the tactics suggested by the First Earth Battalion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Earth_Battalion) which was profiled in the book/movie "The Men Who Stare at Goats." The organizers of that suggested that soldiers should parachute into conflict zones carrying baby animals to disarm (figuratively and literally) enemies.
True, but you'd have to personally interview each women to determine their motivations for entering medicine (causation can be attributed to many things, including the general decline of sexism). Personally, my mom, even though she had a somewhat tough time, is very anti-reverse discrimination (which probably rubbed off on me). She views reverse discrimination as treating women like they are too weak to succeed on their own. Equality is treating people as equals.
Do middle-schoolers who will be doctors take apart animals in their spare time? Do the future-lawyers sue people?

Violinists, painters (presumably the artist type, not the outside-of-my-house type), and athletes are in career paths vastly different from engineers, doctors, or lawyers. There are very few people who actually support themselves with careers in the former.

Even though I have been coding since 2nd grade, I'd hate for that to become some kind of career filter to keep people out.
"massively multilayer game"

Inception?
It appears to be an else in an if statement.

All the versions of Windows I tested work right, but then anything else just returns Windows 8.1.
Most of these fall under:

> They can get a better deal (non-monetary) elsewhere

Just won the lottery, close relative received terminal diagnosis, got pregnant, believed their horoscope, saved enough to retire - these are all cases where someone believes they can get more value for themselves by leaving their job.

Spouse has had an affair with a co-worker probably goes under "not happy with the culture"...
I agree with the people side. I forgot to insert that point on my post.

But I don't agree that your achievements aren't also one of the biggest sources of happiness. If that weren't true, why did so much people obsessed with goals like climbing the mount Everest and winning the super bowl, or having rich people continuously building new companies?
Magic methods are expensive in PHP. You might as well define those explicitly.
I was laid off in a big layoff round on Monday. Apparently the only reasons I got caught in it were because it's a public company and because I've been employed too long and my benefits cost too much.

Whatever, I got several weeks of severance and signed. I feel shitty about it but I need the money.

I can't believe how many people have been fired this week. My twitter feed is filled with them.
I'm not sure what points you're arguing, or what position you think I'm defending. He knew what 'the time' was, the saying doesn't go 'don't do the crime if you can't do what you feel is a reasonable amount of time for said crime'.

I'm also not sure why you think this whole NSA bruha is relevant to this. What 'the law' is for an individual isn't always 'the law' for state actors, otherwise every soldier who ever killed someone would have to be jailed. I'm not interested in discussing whether the NSA spying is lawful, the point of my post was to counter the demagogy of 'oh he was just downloading stuff within his rights and then they killed him'. He deliberately broke the law, which is exactly what 'activism' is, but then when the time came to reap what he sewed, well we all know what happened then. Which is a tragedy, and I feel for the family having had two suicides close to me last year, but if you're going to make a point about sentencing practices or penalties of computer fraud laws, make them about actual issues, and don't distort what actually happened for your rhetorical convenience, otherwise you're no better than Fox News. (all 'you' in this not directed at 'you you' but meant as a generic 'you' that refers to everybody acting as described).
The author mentions child care, shared responsibility, financial support, parents etc. But all these things matter after it might already be too late to get into coding. The fundamental issue that needs to be addressed is the one PG made last week: "God knows what you would do to get 13 year old girls interested in computers."*

Instead of having a discussion on what is probably the single most important factor affecting gender inequality in tech, PG was forced to defend. For these reasons, gender discussions have become somewhat pointless. There is no place for candidness. Everyone is trying to be politically correct and to say things that people want to hear.

*Most of the arguments against this seemed to rely on exceptions, random examples and personal experience, and not on stats.
I've done the same for the app that I work on, but not because I needed an if-else for the UI code. The biggest problem for me was that every now and then, I'd get a bug that shows up on a device, but not the simulator. If this happens even once, it is one time too many for a small team without a lot of leftover devices to sport old iOS versions on.
I actually would sign that contract if the terms were good. For instance, suppose a company said "we're actually just interested in hiring really smart people and largely letting them pursue good ideas. Just keep us posted on what you're working on, and what business value it might bring. We will pay you a large, stable salary, and we also provide a very substantial share of the profits to the innovator". Under terms like that, I can see how a company would be kind of peeved if an engineer said, oh, my good ideas were the ones I had and worked on at home.

BTW, this is an unusual hypothetical, and not really what you're talking about here. What you're mentioning is the sort of "you're a coder for us, we will give you projects, you will need to complete them, we expect you to work on them 40+ hours a week, and oh, also, we own all other tech related projects that you might happen to do while you are employed by us".

I fully recognize that the #2 is far more common than #1.
Not enough nicer to deal with any of the not-nice things that come with straddling the major version.
The most interesting thing I saw about this list when I wrote it was how many content and/or content marketing companies are getting big buzz. I'm wondering if we'll be so sick of content marketing by June.
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This will lead to a blossoming of linguistic creativity. People are going to grow a new sexual slang that evolves arms race pace in order to get around this.

If this happens a person will need to be able to trace the evolution of the slang/code words for whatever they're looking into in order to trace a topic back throughout its history.

All this happens now in a lot of ways and in a lot of different subjects, but I think it's going to become much more important.
That's when I'd rewrite it and then sign the rewritten version.
That analogy doesn't fly. Top professional athletes are truly exceptional in a way programmers are not. They're the 0.01%. They're a good analogy to maybe Fields Medalists, not people working at Facebook.
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The inverse of this could be developers patching out quirks that enable emergent gameplay contrary to the direction they wish the gameplay to go in.

So rocket jumping has become a feature of many FPS games, whereas in counterstrike they patched out strafe jumping.
True. When you have bribed politicians the world over to spend their taxpayers money on F15's and F16's (instead of schools and hospitals) you do need the F22 to have that peace through superior bombing ability.
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I'm not familiar with Tornado but I wouldn't rule it out.
FYI, 'living like a king' doesn't mean 'live like a 14th century royalty'. It's a saying that means 'live a pleasurable life without worries about practical matters like money, and generally be much better off than those around you who you can pay to do things for you'.
https://github.com/wordnik/swagger-codegen
I can't speak for everyone but I personally don't consider having different opinions on affirmative action programs being a "sexist asshole".

If you really need examples of actions that do qualify as sexist assholery, let me know and I'll dig some up. They aren't exactly hard to find.
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Very simple explanation: Microsoft is using a group of if/else if conditions, or some switch/select case structure, and it checks the user agent for every version of Windows except 8.1... 8.1 is the "default" (catch all) case, or the else in the end of the if structure. Basically who coded this page assumed (hopefully on accident) that the only OS in the world with Web browsing capabilities is Windows, and that if the version doesn't match any of the previous Windows versions, then it must be Windows 8.1.

Had this been some years ago, and I would say the page was relying on some ActiveX control to check the OS version, and that on error, "Windows 8.1" would be shown. Fortunately, even Microsoft seems to have abandoned ActiveX.

My Linux setup is now very offended because a web page called it names.
I'm skeptical. I still lose track of time when I repeatedly hitting that snooze button every 9 minutes in the morning.
A different view of the data.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Aj15Prf9CEepdGx...
IANAL, but is that clause even enforceable if tied to severance? Seems like a reasonable argument could be made that signing such a clause when tied to severance negotiations would fall under "duress" from a legal standpoint.
lol + rofl Windowz 8.1 even tho i use a dreamcast! HAHA kik1 hackzernewsed asfafdasf
We have a community of Founders / Investors that started this year that love Ultimate Frisbee. Invite only events where we play / mastermind / do deals / hang.

Current members include Dave McClure of 500 Startups, Elliott Bisnow of Summit Series, Evan Reas of Circle and others.

http://UltimateFounders.com
Haskell with Yesod comes as close as is practical (if you explicitly tell it a string is safe to use in a certain context, it will not magically figure out that you're wrong). If you loosen the requirement to just "secure by default" rather than "insecure code fails to compile", most modern web frameworks have built-in automatic CSRF protection and default to escaping all strings when inserting them into HTML.
Maybe you didnt't read it carefully

You're accusing me of not reading something carefully when you're not considering the context of the quote to which I was responding -- which was specifically talking about the previous poster's advice to PROGRAMMERS?

and are widely considered unenforcable

Unless I was planning to really go after my ex-employer as some kind of vendetta, I wouldn't worry about a Non-disparagement agreement's enforceability. They're no more of a worry than non-compete agreements.
A better question would be: why are you visiting a Microsoft website to indicate your operating system, when you clearly already know which operating system you are running, which is not even from Microsoft in the first place!?
So you want to avoid muddy language. Fine. Do you think MIT have any moral responsibility for what happened?
Those are good techniques. What's the third one?
Are the multiplatform techno like flex, cordova/phonegap, haxe... already out of question ?
Concern for industrial capacity is strategic...
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In addition to what the other respondents have written, could it be that you are not a visual learner, and diagrams don't 'do it' for you?
I wasn't really trying to answer your question, just adding context.

As far as I know, the address confirmations are for your real address details. Namecheap isn't asking you to confirm the whoisguard details, and presumably the new provisions will function the same way.
A lot depends on what industry you're in:

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes472031.htm

Residential Building Construction: $41,910
Performing Arts Companies: $57.710
thanks, we fixed the problem causing the slow loads.
That's indeed true in California, but "at will" employment doesn't strictly require that. At-will employment means either side can terminate the employment arrangement for any or no cause, as distinguished from jurisdictions that require a reason for termination. It's still compatible with having a short notice period, e.g. requiring that employees give 2 weeks notice before quitting, and/or that employers give 2 weeks notice before termination.
It is looking at User-Agent header for "Windows NT\ ?\d\.\d" string and only listed known recent Windows NT versions (from Windows XP), otherwise it will return "Windows 8.1". Tested this with:

curl -H "User-Agent: Windows NT 5.1" http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/which-operating-system

Results:

NT 5.1 - Windows 8.1
WindowsNT 5.1 - Windows 8.1
Windows NT 5.1 - Windows 8.1
Windows NT - Windows 8.1
Windows NT5.1 - Windows XP
Windows NT 5.0 - Windows 8.1
Windows NT 5.1 - Windows XP
Windows NT 5.2 - Windows 8.1
Windows NT 6.0 - Windows Vista
Windows NT 6.1 - Windows 7
Windows NT 6.2 - Windows 8
Windows NT 6.3 - Windows 8.1
Windows NT 6.4 - Windows 8.1
Windows Linux NT 5.1 - Windows 8.1
Registrar here.

Here is the applicable rules. As nitinag pointed out this only is for registrar's who have signed the 2013 RAA. Registrars still under the 2009 RAA are not bound by this. (At some point they will have to sign the new RAA and they will right away if they want to sell (as was pointed out) the new f TLDs.

http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/raa/approved-wi...

While I can't speak for what other registrars will be doing these ICANN policies in the past tend to leave plenty of wiggle room and the ability to game the system (by registrars) if they want to.

Specifically:

"In either case, if Registrar does not receive an affirmative response from the Registered Name Holder, Registrar shall either verify the applicable contact information manually or suspend the registration, until such time as Registrar has verified the applicable contact information. If Registrar does not receive an affirmative response from the Account Holder, Registrar shall verify the applicable contact information manually, but is not required to suspend any registration."
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That's awful. Are they paying 24 hour work day then?
Well its meant to answer the question: "Which Windows operating system am I using?", so clearly OS X, Android, Chrome OS are all don't care states. Why were you expecting anything else?
Yeah; Yacht racing is for the schleppers.
So basically rayiner pointed out that you had a fairly huge factual misunderstanding of the world. You're going to acknowledge that mistake but continue to cling to your viewpoint about the value of affirmative action anyways based solely on the feelings of your mother?

That's interesting.
I appreciate it -- that was kind of the point. :)
Now I need one of those glass screens to code on.
I contest the idea that any two apps are so similar that something as trivial as list-refresh mechanism could push one over the top.
But nicer by enough to make it worth the bother of invoking a translator before you can run your code? Projects using Coffeescript often go out of the way to hide that step, one way or another (Rails asset pipeline, etc.). And Coffeescript arguably improves on raw JS a whole lot more than Python3 improves on Python2.
And "release all claims" is precisely why I didn't sign for a paltry two weeks severance at one ex-employer. Don't speak ill of them? Fine, whatever, I'm content to never speak of you again, positive or negative. But let you off the hook for when it occurs to me weeks later that you have illegal hiring/firing patterns? Umm, no, not for a measly few grand. (And though a solid case could have been made for unlawful termination, I left it be because I was a month from quitting anyway.)
There has been an odd conflation of Uber and Lyft lately, and I can only assume it's on the part of people who want to stop one or both from existing.

Uber contracts out professional drivers who are already doing business as professional drivers for other organizations. They're operating like a dispatcher.

Lyft lets regular people pick up other folks using their own cars and insurance. It is not the same thing.

I don't think this raises any accountability questions for Uber at all. It should be a red flag to someone like Lyft, but honestly it's not a problem for Uber. They have a contract (not employee) relationship with their drivers, and not even an exclusive one at that. Most of the Uber drivers I know also respond to requests from other dispatchers. They just tend to like Uber better.
Nowadays most libraries have python 3 versions, but not every machine has python 3 (or even 2.7) installed. Most of times it is very difficult to install softwares on those machines. The availability of python 3 is my major concern.
Do you really understand your customers?
Where do you come up with 22% of 60% as sticking with it? The 22% I assume came from the question of which do you program in most. I program in Python 2 most currently too because of legacy projects. But I also do a lot in Python 3 as well, just not "most".
'View plans' is a conversion killer. Working in the SEO industry, Im willing to have tools like this, but showing me the prices before of knowing how you pretend to do it, it takes me back. just my 0.02
I'm confused by this comment. What would the tests test?

My thinking is that, if trusted to output a library that matches the API spec, there is no need to test that API. However, that does require that Alpaca is well-tested enough to be trusted - would you be happy with tests in Alpaca itself, or should it generate tests too?
You know, there's `navigator.platform` returns like "MacIntel", "Win32", "FreeBSD i386", "WebTV OS".
These companies can re-purpose themselves to fill other needs.

For example, Boeing lost an important military contract to build a heavy transport plane. Looking for another source of revenue, they ended up building the Boeing 747 - one of the most popular airplanes on the planet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747
How can you possibly assert that Aaron "knew what 'the time' was?" I'm sure he was aware that there could be legal repercussions, but I sincerely doubt that he thought he was risking a felony conviction, bankruptcy, and prison.
Seems more like iOS 7 is the only convenient thing to do. That's fine, but the current title makes it read more like a weak attempt to justify not wanting to support older versions.
Because this shows the difficulty in using user agent strings to determine the client OS. This sort of thing is common when offering downloads, for example, so the user doesn't have to pick which link to click, they just get a "download now!" link that's crafted for their specific OS.
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Which is pretty lame considering xcassets supports an image 'subtype' called R4 that's designed for 4" screens.
A friend summed it up like this:

Modern employment. Can't speak freely before you have a job (social media vetting), can't speak freely in your own time while you have a job (clauses in your contract), can't speak freely when you no longer have a job.
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