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>They don't convert - but they do make the conference and the conversions possible.

This sentence is an oxymoron. They have a negative effect on conversions, but they have a positive effect on conversions.

Tell us more, Slick. The article demonstrates quite conclusively that they have a negative impact on his business' lead generation, period.
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This is why I still like old Unix systems (early BSD/v7 etc). It is possible to get a complete understanding of the system in a relatively short amount of time and they're still pretty productive.

xv6 reflects this from an educational perspective: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html
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> if you check in intentionally broken code ...

Agreed, but that's not what you should do.

Many times I have finished the day with a working commit and push, then I add a compiler-error "todo ..." line to the code locally so that it's clear where I have to resume tomorrow.
Out of interest, why can't you do law (or indeed medicine) as a first degree in the US?
In general, firing into the ground is very rarely a good idea. In most places, the only permissible reason to use lethal weapon is when you feel you are threatened by force that is very likely to cause you grave harm. If you are feeling thus threatened, why would you shoot the ground? You should be shooting whoever is threatening you! If you didn't, the police would assume you did not genuinely feel threatened but instead wanted to show off or intimidate or make a statement and such. And in most places, using a lethal weapon such as firearm for any of these is a crime (unless, of course, you are a policeman, police plays by completely different rules and regular law does not apply to them).
I love the first answer. Demonstrates the folly of these UX people.

Common sense design: "to see if the machine is full."

UX design: "the water is dynamic and responsive, exciting to look at, calming, relaxing, inviting."

This is why so many startups die.
I actually prefer Spotify to Rdio. Mainly because it's really easy to find playlists from other users and because the multimedia buttons work out of box.
I follow ~5 people who have these huge > 1000 song playlists that get updated daily. Practically a constant stream of new music that I like.

https://play.spotify.com/user/rmeijerink/playlist/0owSCmXQJw...
https://play.spotify.com/user/xbrett82/playlist/2eheCERq82SL...
https://play.spotify.com/user/pbrown148/playlist/3r46U16o2yl...

Unfortunately Spotify doesn't provide an easy way to manage playlists. Yes, there are folders but once you have 100ish playlists it kind of gets difficult.

If I wanted to migrate I would want to copy these playlists form Spotify to Rdio, which is nearly impossible without a lot of manual labour.

And then there's the audio quality. The songs constantly sound better on Spotify than on Rdio (that's at least my impression).

Ah and for me Spotify is actually cheaper than Rdio (I have Spotify premium for offline mobile support). The mobile playlist sync feature is awesome: I don't have to touch the phone in order for Spotify to update my offline playlists (on Android at least) for all the playlists I have tagged on my phone.
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Problem is that Academia thinks that professors must be good at teaching and research. It's akin to wanting your Librarians to be good at Calculus and Library maintenance.

Research and teaching are separate skills, one doesn't imply the other. Research requires great amount of intelligence and imagination and dedication, while teaching is best suited for those that have great speaking abilities, great charism and slightly lower intelligence (it's easier for people of same IQ to relate). Asking to researcher to teach will detract from researching and vice versa.

One solution is to have cooldown period of research to focus on teaching. But I think R&D should be kept separate from teaching, but in the same way teaching shouldn't be bogged down by standardization.
There is a perverse logic to it: using a gun is considered lethal force, using a gun as warning is using lethal force in a situation where you don't need it (since you shot a warning) and self-defence protections thus don't kick in.

As a result, you should shoot to kill, not to warn, whatever the situation is. It's completely bonkers and it ignores that warning shots are a separate and higher-impact deterrent than many other options (especially for "lightweight" such as most women), but that's the general case law. IIRC there was some hubbub in FL about "fixing" this (aka making warning shots non-felonious in a self-defence situation) but I don't know if that passed. And that's just for FL anyway.
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A surprisingly low-quality, diluted, conformist list of mostly boring and outdated books. You can't expect much innovation to come from a team reading this. I scanned through the list 3 times looking for something of value, but nothing caught my eye. Disappointed by Intel.
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Yes, you can. Then you would be put against the jury of your peers and would have to convince them that you a) actually did not start the fight and b) reasonably had a reason to fear for your life. If you succeed at that (all while paying through the nose for a lawyer, unless you're a millionaire say bye-bye to your savings, and btw your job too - they won't keep your place while you're being arrested and judged) - you get to walk. Not my idea of a good time, though.
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you probably weren't serious, but in the case anyone else is unsure about this: whatsapp is and always has been broken from a security standpoint and there is no need for the/a NSA to penetrate anything in their case. i wonder how you could've missed out on what happened to snapchat lately though, two links as some sort of a short introduction:

from late 2012, but a worthwhile read on whatsapp
http://fileperms.org/whatsapp-is-broken-really-broken/

and in the case anyone missed the snapchat debacle
http://lookup.gibsonsec.org/
Thanks, Moxie! Been using it for a while now, and apart from the odd crash on a memory-starved ancient Droid, I'm happy to report that It Just Works :)

Still trying to convince other people to use, without much luck in non-geek circles :(
I actually built a similar, albeit simpler, course scheduling website for students of my university, UAEU. I however couldn't improve it because I feared that it might catch the eye of one of the higher-ups and lead to my expulsion. So I've left it as is. Quite a few students are using it, which is more than enough for me.

Here's the site (no domain yet):

http://nameless-shore-4042.herokuapp.com/
Wonder how this works: https://whispersystems.org/assets/screens/textsecure_upgrade...

Unfortunately, there are no explanations on webpage and I'm not currently into the mood of reading source code to figure things out.

Maybe outgoing (unencrypted) SMS sent through TextSecure app are tagged as "hey, we can upgrade this to secure comms". Then all you have to do is use the app. But I really don't know.
I'd say underscore needs to be there too
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And why don't dishwashers?
Fortunately somebody has already made a implementation and you could try to use it as a base layer for your own system. I don't how easy it is to interface with Clojures core.async, but I guess its probably possible.

Here somebody has already did a mini-actor implementation: https://github.com/halgari/clojure-conj-2013-core.async-exam...

It might be a interesting exercise to implement Erlang Actors on top of this and then expose it to a JS interface. This might be a good idea in general and not just for your OTP-ish langauge.

Also I want to say that I came a across as very negative, I just wanted to say that LuvvieScript is quite cool and useful. WebWorkers are a much better primitive for Erlang style stuff because its shard nothing even on the server (I think). In really the browser should really provide a API for either shard memory threads or proper Erlang/Go Style threads.
"Another problem is simply walking around with 2 phones which is an opsec indicator for feds that you are up to something and req targeted surveillance. They have full automated access to every cell tower db to look for this as per snowden docs dumped on cell meta data"

They, the feds, must be surveilling an awful lot of ordinary citizens because in my day job, delivery driver, I carry two phones. One issued by my company and my personal phone and on days when I'm working with another driver we'd have four phones in one vehicle. I can imagine there are quite a few people who have good reason to carry two phones regularly.
Nice collection of resources on a single page.

There's a fair amount of typo's and grammar mistakes however.
Slightly off topic, but I was disturbed by some of the phrases in there, particularly '30 months for starting a fire' and being proud to have 'managed to stay out of prison'.

What has my home country become? You can make millions of dollars in fraud and walk free, yet have to somehow mange your life if you're an ordinary citizen to stay out of jail. I was considering moving back to the US with my family, but news from there over the last few years has been disturbing to say the least. I've been away for 9 years, and it looks like that time will stretch indefinitely.
NSA and GHCQ apparently routinely backdoor international carriers. I vaguely remember something about a Belgian carrier stumbling upon the backdoor and struggling to remove it for months.
Someone’s refrigerator just took part in a malicious cyberattack
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The restriction on antibiotics is for the protection of everyone, it's not just to screw you out of $50.

If people are allowed to throw antibiotics at any problem they think might be cured with them, then they eventually lose their effectiveness (as is becoming the case already). It doesn't matter that they were for your dog either, the same antibiotics are often used to treat human and animals, so misuse in one group can still cause problems for the other.
I really can't imagine a prosecutor to be compassionate or caring for civic duty.
From personal experience I can attest that the answer 'so you can see the machine is full of water when it stops mid-cycle' is the right one. I've had my washing machine break down while full of water, and if I hadn't known when I got home and opened it unsuspectingly, I would have been very, very unhappy. You'd be surprised how much water the machine contains when it's full...
Thanks for all the advice here, guys - much appreciated. Time to start!
I hope the first answer was satire :D
How would one start to begin making such an scheduling algorithm? I'm asking for learning purposes. What should I be reading? Or their resources for basic such things...
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The more current one is a free web resource http://www.albahari.com/threading/. You maybe come across that already. I like it.
You have to get started somewhere. Cheers for putting your neck out. Demo renders alright on my iPhone.
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You dodged one hell of a bullet. Either they were entirely incompetent or about to exploit you. Wanna bet which one?
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With a google lens, they could even project adverts directly onto people's eyes.
With the ongoing adoption rate of IPv6 devices attached to the internet without NAT firewalls (yes, I know it's technically not a firewall, but it at least prevents the majority of scriptkiddies with Metasploit and nmap from pwning you), this will only get worse.
I think it would be just like RFIDs and NFCs: you send power to the antenna, the chip uses it to make a measurement, and to send it back.

Maybe it can take enough energy from the ambient RFs. Maybe we will see a lot of people bringing their phones close to their faces from time to time, and people would be confused. "What are you doing with your phone, do you have an ear in your eye?"
So this is "the British way" even though it's being done at Yale, because you have one anecdote about something semi-similar happening at a university in the UK?

(Only semi-similar, because I think you can make a better case for shutting down a dating site using university IT facilities than for shutting down a course-info site not using university IT facilities.)
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Which is a rather odd position because it's the students who pay the bills. Of course, Yale, so it seems, feels safe for being Yale.

Let's see where online courses such as the Udacity one that starts today lead. Yale may want to reconsider their position or build their own system so they can have the metrics in place to guide their long-term strategies.
According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washing_machine): "For front-loaders without viewing windows on the door, it is possible to accidentally pinch fabric between the door and the drum, resulting in tearing and damage to the pinched clothing during tumbling and spinning."
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That wouldn't explain why dishwashers don't have them.

Opening one of them that has broken down full of water isn't much fun either.
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I can't figure out what point you're trying to make. GP pretty much stated in his first paragraph what your comment explained.

Does any of that matter? The only reason they thought he was better than Bush was because he made promises that sounded good, but he didn't actually keep them. That's the issue here.
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I don't think that's really fair. It's not as if Disney are going to put out a SW film, but all Disney'd up with knights and princesses and evil sorcerers and stuff instead of the hard sci-fi that... er...
You should hang out with better geeks. Geeks that do, instead of just talk.
Hmm, I concede your point. I interpreted it a little incorrectly in the first place. :)

(I'm still not sure whether people rich enough to afford these cables wouldn't be smart enough to listen to evidence, but that's entirely another point)
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I agree that optimization for its own sake is not a good thing (though tempting one for some, including me), but there's a difference between prematurely optimizing and just careless cowboy-coding. Sometimes two minutes of thinking and few different characters are enough to speed code up an order of magnitude (e.g. by choosing the proper type or data structure).

Also, being aware of different ways code can be slow (from things dependent on programming language of choice to low-level stuff like page faults and cache misses) can make you produce faster code by default, because the optimized code is the intuitive one for you.

Still, I think there's a gap between "fast enough and doesn't suck" and "customers angry enough to warrant optimization". It's especially visible in the smartphone market, where the cheaper ones can't sometimes even handle their operating system, not to mention the bloated apps. For me it's one of the problems with businesses. There's no good way to incentivize them to stop producing barely-good-enough-crap and deliver something with decent quality.
I'm working on graph algorithms and this is all work in progress. This example shows how to render graphs from both node.js and a browser, using the same code. Would really love your feedback
"broken down full of water"

How does that happen? Every dishwasher I have owned is perfectly safe to open at any point in the wash cycle. Maybe the sensor that detects how much water is in the machine fails and it fills up completely?
I will side with the cop here. Knowing a few who are in this line of work I am more than amazed at what they put up with. Put it to you this way, your not being pulled over because they don't like you, your not being pulled over because they are having a bad day, your being pulled over because you flagged yourself; speeding, running a stop sign, tail light out, etc.

There is no reason to get argumentative with someone doing their job, let alone a traffic cop. All that while they are working on your incident they have to watch out for traffic, your actions, and ensuring you don't get so excited your a threat to yourself or them.

More than likely, being familiar with "our type"; techies, she came off as a pretentious twit and treated him with contempt for being an ignorant cop.
Mayer always struck me as one of the least competent of the big tech CEOs. Almost every time her name hits the news it's due to something that, one way or another, reflects poorly on Yahoo. Having marketing in charge of editorial/journalism is another poor decision that seems very hard to justify rationally. I'd also not be surprised if this turns into a bit of an exodus.
I wonder if said refrigerator was compromised by a cold boot attack.
Did he? I can't remember that being an important issue at all in the 2012 election.
Sounds like you should just use Nagios or some other network monitoring system.

Nagios is very valuable when you're recovering from a disaster. Just keep doing things until it all turns green! It's just like refactoring.
Can the OP say whether it works with Wine on Linux?
See, that's part of the problem. It's not at all clear what this list aimed to accomplish, which explains the low quality of the result. You want me to recommend a book? Sure. Read Hemingway.
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There's a lot of choices, and that's not a bad thing necessarily. Javascript is in a heavy growth period right now. But I totally get the choice overload thing. There's a lot of people interested in javascript from all different areas of computer land, and they all have different ideas of what "best" is, and they all want to make javascript more like lisp, or more like ruby, or more like java, or more like c# or more like flash, and so on and so forth.

If you just need a choice, somewhere to start. I'll make some choices for you. Here's the zen selection. My view of the standard javascript library:

jquery ($)

underscore (_)

mustache ({{}}) (possibly accentuated by iCanHaz)

Backbone (Backbone)

And that's your basic starter pack.
It's a confused ecosystem because it was only since about 2007 that people started to realise that javascript was an actual programming language and not just a stupid toy. I remember that year chatting with people on #javascript on IRC who simply didn't believe that I had an actual full time job writing server side javascript. the idea seemed too absurd. And so here we are, a mere 7 years later and we've pieced together a very humble ecosystem in the face of that level of bald hatred and misunderstanding. I remember it wasn't so long ago that flash was in a similar position, and not long before that, java, with its popular image being its slow crummy applets.

So, yes, in conclusion, you're right, and it's because it's young and every language goes through this stage.
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Dishwashers don't fill with water. They just spray a high temperature water at the dishes and the water is drained immediately.
If you don't want to aid him, that's quite alright, but I'm not sure how OpenSSH balanced against his abusive comments to select users on mailing lists is somehow a net negative...

It's not like we're talking about Wagner's antisemitism vs his music here!
Glass does not provide a HUD. It is more like gluing a smartphone to your rear view mirror.
It's closer to true indentured service, where a debt is being repaid through a fixed period of labour. I think it's wrong to compare it to slavery, although interesting how the racial make-up in prison supports the assertion!

I do think inmates are probably better off with work to do. I also think it's reasonable for society to garnish a chunk of the profit from their work to offset the cost of crime and punishment. Just my opinion, and at an abstract level rather than specific. I don't say the balance is currently right.
And this is exactly how it starts :-)
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