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I think this article exaggerates and I hate the smug tone of it all, but overall I do agree that the Subway/Chipotle model can be annoying at times as a customer. The problem is just that they intertwine ordering and preparing the order. I think this caught on because, as a customer, it's cool to see them make the food in front of you. But overall it causes a few problems:

(1) You can feel pressured sometimes to make really quick decisions because of a line behind you.

(2) It can be pretty confusing ordering multiple items.

(3) It's not actually that efficient. They'd be better off having one person take your order and different people, in a different area, preparing the orders. This would solve all three of these problems.

To make up for the "novelty" (which has died off big time at this point) of watching them prepare the food in front of you, some places just style the building interior in a more lively and fun way. For instance, one of my favorite local Mexican restaurants follows the above model, and the interior is designed to make it look like you're ordering from a taco cart on a Mexican street--even though you're actually in a strip center which is extremely generic looking on the outside.
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This. I go prolly once a week. The Chipotle is in the first floor of my office building. But the experience is always the same.

I have nothing but respect for the employees. I feel like it's the corporate level that dehumanizes them and doesn't let them really be empowered, which would mean make sure the customer's happy and their order isn't screwed up. Maybe it's a San Diego thing, but at my Chipotle, the order is destined for screwup unless you watch the folks like a hawk.
This isn't "potentially life saving research". It's a 25 point question on a quiz.

Edit: here's an image of the assignments to see whT level this is aimed at. The three and five litre jug question, and 7 day time frame, are clues that this in not "life saving research" but in fact a simple assignment in an intro level course.

https://i.imgur.com/yj7aaQA.png
git stash?

Actually, you can also just create a branch, commit your work (instead of hg qpush) and just use git rebase --interactive when you want to "finalize" your work.
No I'm suggesting that the company sort of sucks the humanity out of 'em, turns 'em into bots while claiming they're empowered and happy.
check the docs? What is so hard to remember about "git push"?
If you have to go up to the counter to pick it up, maybe. If they bring it to you? All that walking around probably eliminates any throughput gains from back-end efficiency.
I have a gmail account for email too. I am talking more specifically about a news portal. Any thoughts there?
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This post is originally from 2009. Was he correct in thinking that we'd see more portfolio entrepreneurs? A high-profile example might be Jack Dorsey.
Trading performance for productivity is completely different discussion.

The point is that you could possibly buy more for less in this trade off. It's not just GC. It's a close to pauseless incremental GC that might become available.

It's not so much that it has to be in an OS, though it seems it would be better in an OS, however.
Agree on the spin, I was assuming a perfectly vertical break.

Abou the burn marks, see here http://www.pooldawg.com/article/pooldawg-library/table-maint...

http://www.cuesight.com/types-of-pool-table-felt.html

Yeah, I hate it when the ball pops up, but my opponent looks cool catching it, heh. I also play pool. Best game for lounging I feel.
Not really. I'm OP and I go to Chipotle all the time. It just has this suboptimal experience that drives me crazy.

Speaking of McDonald's, I'll never forget when this Chipotle opened, and a huge 18-wheeler McDonalds truck pulled in in the alley out back, and unloaded food supplies into the Chipotle. I had no idea . . .
The price of AAA games has gone down in real dollars, so adjusting for inflation isn't accurate. Also, when you paid $40 for a game in 1998, you ended up with a game you could resell when you were done with it. The video game market was built around that expectation. And the price of used games was much lower than retail -- $5-10 was common for games that sold at $40 a year or two earlier.

In this case, I think it's notable that the mobile Dungeon Keeper is both less playable and more expensive than its predecessor.
True. But what I find myself wishing for is not more throughput, but seemingly pauseless operation.
> But also, what has happened to all the other countries who joined in this madness and keep it going ?

At that high of a level once a "war on X" is created and billions are poured into it, whole branches of industry are opened up, whole new government agencies are created, thousands are send to kill and thousands will be killed. Things just keep going because they already are going. It becomes a self-sustaining reaction.
Lawyers, really?! This hostility is totally unnecessary!
Maybe it's a San Diego thing. This is what my Chipotle is like. Every time. I go frequently.
Grunt and RequireJS are out, it's all about Gulp and Browserify
> Oh, and then why don't you follow up by implying that "pleasant" and "clean" are anathema to authentic Mexican cuisine and culture.

To be fair, based on my experiences at various taquerias in the Bay Area, I'd have to say that that's not an entirely incorrectly assessment.
The economic impact of a stadium or other large public works project is based in calculators that are usually published by the state economic development agency. It's more of an art than a science, and like any projection made over a period of 30 years, they rarely hit their numbers.

Public financing of something like a stadium or arena does three things: eliminates a tax liability for the teams/other users, eliminates risk, as the local taxing authority ultimately owns the debt, and keeps the labor and trade unions happy, and stadium projects keep the guys on the payroll.

Ultimately, all of people in a taxing district bear the burden of these giveaways. If I could apply for a full property tax exemption in NY, the $6,000/year I pay for my modest home would be used for capital improvements like a kitchen, solar panels and siding. That would give some construction dudes jobs, and generate more value. The government easily spent $100m on Super Bowl security. That's a lot of money spent better elsewhere or not at all.
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Again, true, but the big problem I'm facing isn't raw performance so much as it's guaranteed latency.
> He says the only exemptions are for courses than cost less than $2,500, programs affiliated with accredited schools, and certain religious education programs.

Well then, problem solved: turn the buildings into Pastafarian temples and the act of coding into religious service - should be more or less the same as Scientology is doing already.
This would be a lot more helpful with some github integration. If you did some kind of proxy like saved.io. You could do kirukku.com/github.com/path/to/repo/file.css and add annotations there instead of keeping a separate environment.
tig's blame is great, cursor through the file to any line and hit B to jump the whole file back in time to the last previous commit that changed that line; repeat as needed.
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Do you have a source about how much the NFL itself spends on hotels/etc for the Super Bowl? Because I don't think that's where their claim to economic activity from the game comes from.

It also wouldn't matter very much whether the teams or the NFL itself organized the game (and part of the reason for the existence of the non-profit umbrella organization is to overcome the logistical nightmare of coordinating 32 separate entities). A condition for every Super Bowl in the past few years has been some form of sales tax relief for NFL activity. For example, New Jersey gave about $8 million in tax breaks for the game this year: http://www.nj.com/super-bowl/index.ssf/2014/02/nj_gave_nfl_8...

I also don't think it's fair to say the NFL runs the product. The teams (and the games between the teams) are the product. The NFL's tasks are: (1) Decide on a consistent set of rules, fines, etc. (2) Train and provide impartial referees. (3) Organize the Super Bowl/Pro Bowl/Draft. (4) Provide marketing/merchandise/legal stuff for the NFL in general.

Everything else (including organizing the 266 other games, the hundreds of employees for each team, and operating the stadiums) are up to the teams themselves. A "cloud services association" doesn't sound too ridiculous to me, but I don't think there's a proper analogy in the tech industry (and U.S. law recognizes this by providing some specific rules for professional sports leagues: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law#Sco...)
Could you link to something supporting this claim? I'd be interested, because it sounds pretty unbelievable. I don't know how "sending you through C++" could be slow, and I wouldn't want anyone basing any decisions on a random HN comment.
Studies show that free demos aren't the optimal way to squeeze money out of the market. IAPs are. So the vipers in suits demand IAPs.

Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs probably also seemed like the optimal strategy at the time, too.
If a $17B market cap and continued growth is recipe for disappointment, then keep on disappointing more and more customers (https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:CMG).

I'm a happy Chipotle customer. Fast, efficient, and clean. I like watching them make my burrito. I like telling them that they're putting too much of something or to load up more on the corn salsa. I also like that they cook the steak to a medium.
> I think he is confused.

You don't mean that the GP (taliesinb) is confused, do you?. He works for Wolfram Research, developing Mathematica.
So it's 1 in 6 now? When I was in college the claim was 1 in 4. So I guess there's a silver lining there. Although some research asserts the ratio may be even smaller:

http://www.leaderu.com/real/ri9502/sommers.html
The truth is somewhere in between
Not realizing this has hamstrung my thought process quite a bit. I've killed a lot of ideas because I felt they were too similar to others, but really, looking back, they weren't. Everything we do is derivative, even the things we consider original, as they're all built on a common scattershot mass of knowledge. If we all went to make something as simple as a shampoo bottle, we'd get a lot of different, completely unique concepts. This is worth remembering.
UseLuna.com isn't one of those popular services that everybody's heard of, plus, "luna", meaning "moon", is what many would pick for an overnight delivery service. Don't rush the accusations without putting some thought into it!
...shouldn't be necessary, and won't be in place for someone just starting out.
It's not like our government wouldn't horribly squander any additional tax receipts.
I guess it's a good question. At a recent conference it [website accessibility] was described as the digital equivalent to putting a ramp in at your door.

Where I work at the moment I'm required to comply with WCAG2 AA at a minimum.
Markets can't "decide" anything. They're not intelligent.

Investors have selected what they believe to be the optimal strategy for looting the games market. Time will tell whether the approach remains profitable or whether they're going to run their companies into the ground in the long term.
I was thinking about refcounting, actually, but not exclusively. My point is that there aren't that many systems where you can build in a high level language, deal elegantly with concurrency, but still have really good latency guarantees. This project might improve on that.
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Just to be clear you are taking about binary drivers for desktops/laptops and this news is totally about mobile (Tegra). It is commonly agreed upon knowledge that on PC platform ATI's binary drivers suck compared to Nvidia's.

However in my experience ATI's GPU docs project plus the resources they invested in getting OSS driver to properly support ATI hardware means that normal users shouldn't really need to install binary drivers if they have a recent ATI GPU. And it works good enough for 3D and power management is supported so laptops benefit too.

Nvidia's patches referenced here are for Tegra which is strictly a mobile chip - nothing to do with desktop/laptop. In desktop/laptop department NVidia's OSS support is still non existent and Nouveau doesn't work as well as OSS ATI driver due to lack of documentation.
Path launched an app called With that pretty much did this http://blog.path.com/post/6288422944/introducing-with-a-path...
Is what you just described any less troubling than a conspiracy? I feel like advertisers dictating the news is just as bad frankly...
Going to reply to my own post since I cannot edit it anymore to clarify.

First, I am not saying that this is strictly a waste of time. In fact, I do love learning from things like this.

Second, I am not saying we must always be working instead of stopping to try something different. I personally find switching focus very important and I think it's a great tool for a great many people. I find that when people learn something slightly outside of their field they suddenly are hit with a lot of new ideas they did not have before, so learning about random solutions to random problems can be a great way to spend your time.

What I was trying to ask (not assert) was how answers like this come to be. I am somewhat astonished that I can ask pretty much any question on any given subject and a subject matter expert somewhere in the world will then proceed to spend hours putting together a detailed essay or demonstration (or both) of the concepts involved. What I wanted to know is who are these experts, why are they giving their expertise away for Internet Points (tm) and is this detracting from their actual work.

My other question is whether it's possible that at some point the number of soft, open-ended questions on SO will reach a critical mass where most participants will flock to those rather than the specific and hard questions and detailed expert answers that SO became famous for. Clearly we are not there right now, but is it possible and is it going to happen?
Another oddity I noticed while embedding GA today: the arguments to the IIFE are named i, s, o, g, r, a, and m

http://cl.ly/image/1l1932032k3D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isogram
> The algorithms that do so are going to be complex and involve insight that I don't believe has much research behind it. So this is fairly cutting edge and worthwhile.

Here's the assignment paper.

https://i.imgur.com/yj7aaQA.png

Pouring liquid between a 3 and 5 gallon jug to end up with 4 gallons shows the kind of level this assignment is aimed at.
Preprocessing languages like SASS help a little. They don't really fix the ugly parts, but do help shove them under the bed a little more
Thanks for both the answer on SO/MS and your comment here. You definitely shed some light on what I was wondering about.
I feel like before you make this argument you should probably do a basic check to see how much profit the NFL makes. Hint: It is a lot. Certainly more than 0.
1- the user command name is "rm". It is not a dictionary word, for several reasons. It is not the abbreviation of delete either.
2- the syscall is named unlink.
What more do you want? Who is not aware of the semantics of this operation?
The fact that centering a div requires a complete guide is tragicomically sad and a condemnation of our industry.
Show me where on the online form I can order:

1) a side of white rice with a side of cheese on top (this is not a bowl with everything else omitted)

2) a chicken quesadilla (yes, this is a thing)

...and the comments/instruction box is just plain useless.
My tips: http://www.nicoschuele.com/posts/learn-to-use-git-and-remote...

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If you just have two identical balls.
An isomorphism.
There's a widespread misconception that cryptic, hard-to-remember passwords are more secure. That's why people do foolish things such as displaying credentials on mega-TV screens. Forget words. Use memorable, unique phrases.

It's not a new concept, but it's worth repeating, considering that we're still using the term "password" in 2014.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/07/passwords-vs-pass-p...
I only have limited experience with AMD chips: helping friends and family get Ubuntu running on their desktops and laptops. I have been sticking to Nvidia for the past 10 years whenever a Linux box is involved. I have to say that while the AMD/ATI OSS drivers do work, getting them working can be an exercise in the mystical arts.

The most recent issue was getting my brother's HP laptop to run Ubuntu. The OS installed but would not launch the X server. The fact that there are multiple different drivers possible for his card made matters much more confusing and neither the official docs nor the Ubuntu forums provided any ready-made answers past "install package X" which we did. I was able to get it to work but it took hours.

On the other hand the Nvidia binary blobs just work. You install it and start the X server. That's it. They don't seem to be bothered by the kernel upgrades when running Ubuntu either.

As far as I'm concerned, just buy Nvidia. Welcome your binary blob overlords and don't waste time on getting things working. I do of course wish that Nvidia just open sourced their current drivers, but for me usability of the system out of the box is worth much more than having or not having yet another binary blob.
Extends HTML in a very very ugly way.

Impossible to progressively enhance.

It does loads of magic such as dependency injection that is completely unnecessary. Computer programs are for explaining what is happening to the next person and Angular makes this more difficult.

There are other JS frameworks that do none of this and solve your problems, I say use them instead.

Data binding in particular had a really difficult to use syntax for things like looping. Loads of different attributes that you have look up every time you need to do something in a template.

Generally people have no idea what the in built components are doing of why the infinite scrolling can't work well on mobile.

It's really hard to use a JS debugger when I've tried with Angular - maybe you have had more success than me on this?

You admit Angular comes with some problems out of the box, how are new dev teams meant to know this automatically?
The PS4 is the only console ever to have an AMD GPU that runs a conventional Unix (FreeBSD). Obviously Microsoft's consoles wouldn't, and Nintendo uses their clunky "IOS."

In any case, the interface exposed by most consoles to game developers is significantly lower level than anything resembling a desktop graphics driver, especially since each platform only has to support a single GPU configuration, so I highly doubt there's any useful (for our purposes) code tied up in there.
If you can borrow a clip on ammeter from an electrician you can compare the them. You can also just integrate the readings over a day and then compare that to the electricity meter. The Efergy display units also do this using a running average. This of course assumes that you have a reasonably stable voltage. In most countries this should not be a problem. The Efergy meters measure current and multiply by the voltage you set to get the power, and the sound card solution will need to do the same, while the electricity meter measures power directly.
> I'm very interested in hearing more about DO vs Linode performance, as someone torn between both providers.

For me it wasn't solely performance or price, but additional features. Linode's control panel has a fair few features, and they have an API, but there doesn't seem to be many major users of that API.

Being able to deploy test machines to DO via Vagrant and then build my real boxes with Packer is a huge, huge plus for me as a solo dev. I'm also sitting on a 4Mbit/.8Mbit DSL pipe here in Australia and not having to upload an entire machine image is obviously a positive. And worst case, if DO somehow falls over, I can change a couple of lines and deploy to EC2 to keep things running. Building images for Linode wouldn't give me anywhere near that flexibility.
Is H&R Block Online different from H&R Block At Home? If so, I apologize for omitting it.
And wear less cotton, eat less wheat, sugar, fruits and rice.
For the Bay Area, the charts on this page are interesting: http://sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=69

Particularly this chart on rainfall at Hetch Hetchy (where SF's water comes from): https://infrastructure.sfwater.org/fds/fds.aspx?lib=SFPUC&do...
Not sure why the down vote, I agree with this response, as well as others. I recently read that tax laws can be treated as the government's way of encouraging behavior.

Now we study the tax laws to find out which parts we can qualify for and are advantageous to us. For example, knowing certain laws ahead of time can suggest which entity to form for a given business venture.
This makes sense if you're not working in an established market.
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Great little game and I really like the ability to make parts. Obviously it had to be finished for a project, but if it had a few more planets, a little more sensitive controls, and a little more functional navball, I would seriously play this game.

I love KSP and you all did a great job.

Also, the actual game URL is http://jsp.mpg.is/