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> Is it best to have a king

Yes.

Seriously, on the historical timescale of kingdoms, democracy is a very young concept. It's only really after WWII that democracy got promoted to this almost utopian ideal that we know it as today. It's not a all given that it's the "best" way to run a society - as Churchill famously noted, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms".

To dial the abstraction a little back, it's a well known mode for software projects to die, when they cease being a labour of love of a small dedicated team with clear purpose and direction and starts trying to be all things to all people through "democracy"/"design by committee". Of course, plenty of projects have survived and flourished too.
you can send direct messages as well that are private
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I am a former entrepreneur, 27yo, Syrian, human rights activist, three years ago I was captured by the Syrian regime while trying to smuggle some food and medical aids to the besieged city of Deraa, I was tortured for 2 weeks then thrown away losing my home, small business, friends , dog , car ...etc and I was on the run ever since, I arrived to the states with hopes of getting my life back. I am looking for people with similar goal to join me. Your suggestions and advice is highly appreciated.
Wow, so simple but so useful. Thanks!
Series of images are loaded into a canvas element that steps through them as you scroll. The text is layered on top and parallax-ified as needed.
A 30 minute introduction to Rust
The author is aware of this and makes this point multiple times in the article. "Friends" in "Friends of Friends" is capitalized deliberately.
Same here. Switched to iTerm for proper mouse support in Vim, and you need only click (no option key) to move your cursor in Vim if you have `mouse=a` in your vimrc.

I used to be a die-hard Terminal.app user but with Mavericks it felt incredibly sluggish doing everything from opening to listing files to editing things and this is another reason I moved to iTerm.

Be warned, though, that if you're using Vim with Solarized you and you're trapped in low color mode you want to be sure you're declared as a 256 color term and update your `vimrc` to remove the following for the colorscheme to work properly:

Remove:

* let g:solarized_termcolors = 256

* let g:solarized_termtrans = 1

* let g:solarized_contrast = "normal"

* let g:solarized_visibility = "normal"
I you tried Evil-mode, i actually using Emacs with this, now i got the power of emacs with the efficiency of Vi in one place.
It's not Terminal that uses it; it's bash, and most shells that imitate bash.
I'd use:

bar = bar != null ? bar : 'default';
Useless link, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZY43QSx3Fk is the source.
Well, it will. That action is many things, but it's not meaningless.
Model, View, Culture
Why exactly are people willing to blame EA but not Maxis?
Not sure we actually disagree. I wasn't taking issue with your main point or your list so much just costing it out (roughly) for my own amusement. Both a sense of perspective and a modicum of cash are necessary but not, imho, by themselves sufficient to be happy. Together maybe they are enough? Maybe not? Idk.

Appreciate your continuation of the discussion.
Indeed, but I think we've come to learn that frameworks and communities don't exist in vaccums and are probably one and the same, especially speaking as someone who had to start learning it from scratch and ask people for a lot of help.

It is so easy to get turned away from learning a framework, if the most visible people in the community are assholes.

All in all, a nice reminder that programming and developer communities like Django are about something much bigger than slinging code and reducing performance bottlenecks - nations unto themselves. I think that'll be the biggest legacy and impact people like Jacob in particular will leave us.
Glad to hear it, thanks for the positive feedback!
Right, but it is not always uber that is at fault; maybe paying a million dollars to drive a taxi is where the problem is?
I never experienced the kind of hate that some Americans attribute to French people. As far as the French hating the English, have you ever listed to any Roald Dahl childrens' stories? They pretty much ensure that good English kids are raised to hate the French. I used to know an English family who played Roald Dahl CDs for their kids whenever they were in the car. It was frightening. So a little reflection of that isn't too surprising.
Read more sci-fi. Its good for you.
I think this is an excellent piece of journalism. I'm still digesting it. Its rather subdued and blunt. I don't know if its... layered... I don't know how I SHOULD feel about it... but I know that my first impression is that it is masterful in its tone and I agree with the sentiments expressed and the overall tone.
I'm not quite sure what you're saying here. Swap letters as in transpositions? Yes, correct. Usually the errors are simple replaces or deletes/inserts (which arguable is might include 'swapping' an 1 for an l).

But the greater field I'm working in doesn't hand you random OCR and that's it. Most projects here contain a way for typists to correct recognition mistakes or complete the missing pieces of information on a document. For that (-> human typist, often you have a database with valid/expected values for fields) transpositions aren't rare at all.
Taxi Unions have dog in the fight. They have paid hefty licensing fees to the govt and ask for rights in return.

If uber pays 1M $ OR 500K Euros for every taxi license, uber will ask much more than what Taxi unions are asking for.

The other way to solve the issue is let govt repay the money to taxi owners and allow everybody to compete on equal footing.
They sold 1.1 million copies in its first two weeks, and around 2 million copies in total.

Compared to Sim city 3k/4k, that is less than half the sale numbers in a growing industry. I would also guess that Sim city 2013 had a much higher production cost, server costs, administration cost and support costs.

And most wonderful thing, they can't blame pirates.
Right, and so are bus drivers, because they also provide a similar service.
I'd actually venture to say that Facebook's 'friends of friends' algorithm isn't all that bad. It seems to be loosely based on the idea of triadic closure (except there is only a single kind of tie). If 'A' is friends with 'B' (you) and friends with 'C' (them), it is often natural for a friendship to form between 'B' and 'C' due to shared interest in 'A'. Obviously this property is a bit extreme and over-simplified to hold in large networks, but it is a decent heuristic. I think if Facebook included filtering by location and other strong features then their algorithm would be much better. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triadic_closure
This is like McDonald's workers going on strike and attacking a Wendy's employee for going into work.

You're saying that you're ok with someone being subjected to violence because he just did his job as he does every day, but other people who did similar but different jobs happened to think that he should have stayed home that day. I doubt you'd think the same if a competitor of yours went on strike and attacked you for going into work.

Saying that the driver here got his "just desserts" is a truly disgusting and reprehensible attitude that is not fit for a civilized society. When a larger group of people can organize and use violence to subject smaller groups to their will, you no longer live in a free society.
Didn't purchase and never will, but my friend did and he's played it recently, lost his city to the ether after just 10 hours of play before he rage quit again.
That's partially true. But the online plays was screwed from the start since you simply couldn't delete cities. So that city you built when you were screwing around with the build tools and made a giant happy face out of the roads and didn't really have any intention of making it self-sustaining or part of a larger region play? It's there forever.

SC4k also had region play, cities weren't really as effective until they were part of a region. The mechanic should have been to let you and some friends start a region, each pick a zone or two and start cooperatively developing them over time. Enhance things like cross-city usage fees (so I can recoup cost for putting up a huge airport in my city that my friends use) and it would have completely satisfied the multi-player requirement.

What you ended up with was a bunch of half-asses cities that nobody wanted to play with in regions that nobody wanted to be multi-players in, that the only benefit was regional construction projects that never really worked right and had cryptic requirements in order to construct.

Coupled with impossibly small city sizes and broken AI and the game is fundamentally broken in ways that no amount of patching or fixing is ever going to solve. Time to deep six this failed experiment and move on to Sim City 2.
That is the author's point as I read it. Once again Facebook's limited notion of social relationships creates a poor (and sometimes creepy) user experience. The Facebook model works great at college, kinda just after, and then not so much.
I tend to find the opposite to be true.

C-a is always "beginning of line" and Command-C is always Copy.

and never the twain shall meet.

(I've had issues in linux going from terminal to windows, in fact very recently I kept ^W'ing while in GUI mode)
Not sure if I'm falling for sarcasm, or just an outlier for feeling the exact opposite...
> Unless ActionScript somehow becomes the dominant programming language of the future, in which case the future looks darker than I thought.

Agreed, but I am ready for the call from Mr. Stark.
That just looks like a mock-up, such as designers produce before someone makes it into a working UI for a working back end.

And good luck.
Isn't this a bit like saying once you have a killer jump shot, basketball is easy? A lot of things are pretty easy once you've got an extremely hard part out of the way.
The same "so what" as Vietnam, and the same "so what" as Japan circa WW2: the US does not want to see a pan-Asian superpower, either officially (see: annexation of territories by Japan in WW2) or unofficially (see: Soviet vassal stating of Vietnam).

As a superpower the US's interests are necessarily long-term, strategically. Sure, the immediate reaction of China jack-booting all up and down the Pacific Rim would be economic and political turmoil. It's the long-term possibility: Chinese hegemony over the entirety of the Pacific coastline, that scares the shit out of the US.

Bear in mind that the USSR, despite not being an export power (like, ever) was still able to pose an enormous threat to the existence of the USA. China losing its preferred-manufacturer status wouldn't be consequence free, but it also wouldn't de-claw them.
I have to agree. I fought with it a while, looking for third party utilities to fill the void, but eventually I realized it was more trouble than it was worth and gave up. I guess I got used to it, because I don't even miss them any more.
FYI this is 'Alt' on modern Mac keyboards.
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What surprises me is that they didn't realize that SimCity doesn't have the right game mechanics for classic DLC.

Instead of going the DLC route, they should have gone the user-gernerated content route. Allowing users to not only share and rank their cities but also to create additional content (3D models, conversions) and to interact with the game mechanics using an in-game scripting language.

By that last part I mean things like programming the logic of the in-game traffic lights, train schedules, and so on.

Pure, raw, script-based micro-management.

Had they managed to implement a game incorporating content-sharing, they might have seen the sales of their core game skyrocket, fueled by the positive marketing feedback of a content-generating community.
Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep?
My tone is a reflection of parents tone, no more, no less. I've even used the same phrase.

I won't argue with you as I think our axioms differ: I consider freemium necessary good, not evil and I don't think that anyone forgets about lack of private enterprise oversight and nearly no one defends the right to be spied by corporations.
The problem is that with the medallion system, you're turning the ability to drive a cab into property. As such, it becomes a /lot/ harder to reasonably control supply, because adding medallions will garner protests from the existing holders, regardless of the needs of the city. Additionally, with the costs of these medallions, it becomes a lot harder for a middle class person to get started in the taxi business; you have to join one of the cartels and curry favor with them in order to have a chance to drive and get decent dispatches.

I'd argue that the best way to handle the taxi drivers of all sorts is to move to a licensing system. Give priority to existing drivers, but at the same time, allow flexibility in setting the supply to give the little guy a chance to compete. Taxi systems in most city are corrupt from top to bottom, and these actions in France just show how the drivers are willing to go along with the broken system at hand.
You have to install "reattach-to-user-namespace" which you can do with homebrew.

Then you need to add the following to .tmux.conf

set-option -g default-command "reattach-to-user-namespace -l zsh"

There's a good writeup on what and why here, https://github.com/ChrisJohnsen/tmux-MacOSX-pasteboard/blob/...
> The new, replacement battery is quite expesnive and sold at a high margin.

That's beside the point. The battery recycling is free. Of course the battery replacement costs money, but the battery already comes with a fee: sales tax. The supply chain for producing the battery is likewise taxed in various ways.

> So it makes sense to tax the fuel-supply of the electric car in the same way as the fuel tax.

Then why are you talking about taxing the battery? The battery is the container, not the fuel. Electricity is already taxed.
Chances are those excuses were true considering it took them nearly 8 months to release an offline patch that pretty much every SimCity fan immediately wanted upon (and prior to) release of the game.
A Lisp interpeter in a thousand lines of Bash
I believe it's more likely that the reason is that scarce resources have a higher value/price.

The society regulating itself (read: taxi unions and politicians) recognizes that if the number of taxis weren't limited, the prices of the fare would go down, usually favouring people which are desperate enough to earn some money (read either young or immigrant). This would drastically reduce the wage of the non-immigrant french/american/italian citizen who has to provide for it's own family.

If the regulation would impose a minimum fare (in order to disallow competition among taxi drivers), there are still concerns that individual taxi drivers would have a bad time competing with taxi companies (with drivers that don't own the car or license).
Good move. IMHO homeownership is inadvisable where it can be avoided.
Mostly I feel bad for Amazon more than Maxis/EA. They probably ate the cost of the game just to satisfy me and a bunch of other people.
I've always liked the reversed interpretation: The web has a multiplying function. For everything created, there are 10 people expressing an opinion and 100 people reading it.
How so? Are they Taxi drivers? Are Taxi drivers in Paris in a Industrial Union or a Craft Union?

Do you feel like their violence against other citizens are justified?
A question about due diligence for VC/M&A?
The company that I work for is beginning to ramp up a funding/acquisition strategy. One of the things that we're looking for is a firm which assists in doing technology due diligence for startups. We don't want to engage a PWC type firm which is interested in procedure and enterprisey stuff, as we understand that startups are different from enterprise business. Do you have any experience with firms that assist in doing VC/M&A technology due diligence? Are there any you have worked with that you felt did a good fair job?
I find it curious that the venn diagram seems to indicate that a sizable subset of people who are familiar with type theory don't advocate either static typing or dynamic typing.
Groupon acquires flash fashion retailer Ideeli
After switching to OS X after spending years using Windows and then Linux, I found it patently the case that the keyboard shortcuts in OS X are much better in both ease of use and consistency across applications.

The use of the Command key and a bunch of standard shortcuts using it are particularly notable.

#notsoobjective
But I am OP. That's what I meant when I wrote corruption-- the idea that a nonprofit will be more user-focused since they can't be acquisition-focused, since they're not an acquisition target.
Not bad, the first time I've seen most that matters about bash scripting in one place. (I miss [[ ]] though.)

That said, I try not to do bash scripting. It's always been a boiling-the-frog thing for me: You start with a cute script with a couple of lines and then you make it more robust and add some more stuff and before you know, you've written a non-trivial program in an awfully quirky programming language.

But I'm still happy I've been there and know my way around bash fairly well. Makes for some pretty powerful quick one liners.
Late getting back to this but wanted to clear up some things:

1) Sorry, I think I was misunderstood. Was saying I'd rather populate Sentry from logs not that I think my logs are an alternative for Sentry.

2) Awesome. I'll look at the threaded worker transport stuff. As for the 50-200MS on 500's, I totally agree. Didn't get around to sorting out making connection timeout something like a couple hundred seconds though (at the time it wasn't clear to me if that was an exposed setting for the Sentry lib), and also I was hoping to use Sentry for situations where I might give our users a 200 but warn us internally about and use Sentry to notice a large uptick in the warnings.
You have a decent point here.
Because many of the games they publish are quite good? Just in games that are current, AC4: Black Flag and BF4.
I would argue that if you installed any extension that requested full access to your data without understanding the implications, you're not as careful a browser as you believe you are.

This isn't to say what the developer did is in any way ok ( I don't think it is), nor is it my intent to insult you. Rather - it's to highlight a deeper problem with this kind of click-through security model that chrome web store, play store, et al are fostering.

If somebody who has a reasonable understanding of computers and works with them for a living still clicks though this kind of agreement, what hope has the other 99% of the connected-device-using population?
"Your inability, or unwillingness, to perform a simple websearch even when given suitable search terms tells me all I need to know about your desire to find facts and make corrections to your weong statements."

And your hair-trigger temper and vitriol tell me all I need to know about you.
Thanks. That pretty much closes the hopes from both ends. No worries; at least during her vacations we can surely travel.
I like how this article just presents you with the basics, but all that is really needed to get up to speed quickly and with little fuss.

Most bash tutorials I have seen seem to be taking forever to get to the parts I usually need a quick refresher of.

A very good quick start/reminder/advanced cheat sheet, good work.
Same (and to be clear, this is from someone who only "switched" to OS X a few years ago because of the demands of my user community: and for the first year I hated it, as I liked neither the hardware nor OS X 10.5). So, to add some concrete-ness: what fundamentally makes OS X better at this is the way the command key is used; almost everything that has to do with the UI or the system is bound to the command key, which means that control and option are free for usage by my terminal. I thereby never run into any confusion using ctrl-c to copy something or alt-tab to switch between windows: command means nothing to my terminal, and control and option get bound to control and alt (not the default in Terminal, but its one checkbox to fix), passed to whatever actual application I'm running. On both Windows and Linux the control and alt keys tend to overlap in usage between graphical and console applications, meaning the graphical terminal I'm using invariably has some confusing overlap with the keyboard commands I might want to send to my console app. (Now, there are some unfortunate defaults in Terminal with relation to page up/down and home/end, but those are both easily fixed--a few minutes of setup before sitting down--and somewhat irrelevant as any one who even remotely cares about using a terminal should have installed iTerm2 forever ago.) (Ironically and relevantly, the reason Terminal has irritating defaults is specifically because Apple has actually been really good about having keyboard shortcuts be consistent across every application: they want option, page up, and home to do the exact same things in Terminal that it would do in any other app, even to the extent to which those behaviors are useless and counter-productive when you are actually just trying to use vim/emacs and bash/zsh like a normal person ;P.)
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Congrats to everyone at Branch. Can't wait to see what's to come from them over at FB!
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And limo drivers, public transport employees in any capacity, friends who give other friends rides...

When you are the beneficiary of what would otherwise be called a protection racket if it weren't state sponsored, it's easy to be angry when others don't pay the protection money and get away with it.
Howdoi: Instant coding answers via the command line
"Excel is not a database"

It most certainly is used as one in the corporate world. That doesn't mean its a very good one, in the sense that a hammer isn't a very good substitute for a screwdriver.

None the less, where a businessman would have called IT to store a couple hundred records in 1970, now the businessman uses a spreadsheet as a database.

I agree I LOL when I see people my hand doing the equivalent of an SQL JOIN. To some extent, the older I get, the more I see people using computers as a somewhat different form of manual labor, rather than a replacement for manual labor. Rather than typing this form by hand on the manual typewriter, you use Word and call it progress.
doubt it; their solutions from earlier bugs included such gems as disabling the fastest play speed in order to improve stability.

I wouldn't give EA the benefit of the doubt about an 8 month patch. They probably began work on it late last week. The company has shown time and time again that they don't give a fuck about you -- the offline patch is just the minimum amount of work they have to do in order to unplug the servers on a new game without total outrage.

"Look, we pushed an offline patch before terminating the servers, WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM A GAME LESS THAN A YEAR OLD!?"
"background images move by the camera slower than foreground images" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_scrolling
Exactly I have been playing simcity for as long as I can remember playing computer games. Possibly even before I played Doom.

The new Simcity is nothing I wanted and really broke the game for me. I dont think I will be playing this franchise ever again, sadly.
No one uses Terminal. iTerm ftw ;)