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An MS branded Chromebook would take the very worse features of all the products and merge them into a hideous mess. They should sell a range of laptops with the full desktop version of Office included. They should include a subscription gaming service. Sell machines with batteries included, just like Apple.
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You've used all of the puns :c
Please don't make such a blanket statement. Donations do indeed fund scientific research directly. When a faculty member is hired, they get a "startup fund" to get through their first few years before they have grants, most of which is donated money. There is also a lot of research which is not "billed" to a grant, but is still meaningful, and supported by "internal funds" which are smaller university fellowships for pilot projects. These internal funds are also the only source of funding outside the physical sciences (for areas like humanities and social science) and are almost entirely provided for by donations.
I wouldn't expect "tech" oriented universities to grant legacy admissions.
That's partially why people are so upset. Mavericks is still very much vulnerable to a publicly acknowledge bug with many PoCs out.
Elite institutions with big endowments get so little of their operating budget from tuition that I don't think it's outrageous to expect one to break ranks eventually and go tuition-free.

Then I will happily give, and I expect a lot of deep pocketed alumni feel the same.
I wouldn't be surprised if Putin tried to grab Crimea though.
So -- your original point is moot, because the MS monopoly means we all need to buy Microsoft Office anyway.

Got it.
You don't need motivation or inspiration, and most of the time you don't have these. Just do what you have to do.
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Regarding the health aspects of marijuana, we of course lack the wealth of knowledge that we now have on the detrimental effects of tobacco on pulmonary function and lung cancer risk.

The experts with whom I have discussed this (a few pulmonologists) usually ask about marijuana smoke in the same breath as tobacco smoke, and consider it a probable carcinogen.

Fun somewhat-related fact that I learned last week: a one hour hookah session typically equates to a 5 to 10-pack cigarette equivalent.
You'll need to request the image directly:

curl "https://gotofail.com:1266/test.png"

curl on OS X 10.9.1 fetches the image without complaint, while curl on Debian is correctly reporting an RSA padding check error.
Well, these arguments of yours aren't the most ridiculous I've ever heard... I'll give you that much.
This is like a horse and buggy company competing with the railroads by cutting the cost of horses. Why use a computer when a slide rule is on sale?
I do wonder if this is a valid technique if your sales target is businesses, not individual consumers. Perhaps some variant?
Eh, I think it's looked at as a compromise by people moreso than a vice tax. I would compare this to alcohol regulations before tobacco.

Most of us just want to be able to have a joint on the front porch and not be arrested; the tax revenue is just a necessary evil in this case.
I think the problem is we are typesetting at all. By typesetting I mean for the printed page. Most of the result is PDF which is then emailed around. It's a PITA to write, a PITA to generate, a PITA to distribute, and then a PITA to read.

For the one percent (perhaps) of the documents which really end up on paper, I guess LaTeX is fine. Or Word. Who cares?
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I started with IDE and then moved to vim. Not because it's "cool". It's productive. There are several reasons. First off, movements. Almost any IDE now has some plugin to imitate vim-style keyboard shortcuts, but they honestly suck at it. Next thing is it's fast and lightweight, which surprisingly feels more important than I thought before. I don't have to wait for java-based IDE's GC to stop running or something. Third reason is that I can set any action to any key, I can invoke anything from the vim itself to automate some text-processing, make any visualisations I need, anything. IDEs also provide some mechanism for that but it's way more complicated and obscure. But the key reason is simpicity, really. I know what happens underneath the hood, because I manually enabled the plugins I want, I've set shortcuts. Vim serves me, not otherwise. Back when I used to write programs in Java I tried Idea and switched to Netbeans, because Idea is way too "smart". It tries to do everything automatically, which is OK until it fails. And it did fail sometimes. But when it fails it's me who has to find what did it mess up. So I prefer to write code myself (or let do it some scripts I explicitly authorized to do so), not to fix something my IDE broke. It is especially uncomfortable on some old messy projects with lots of legacy code.

Is vim perfect? Well, for me it's not. Because of vimscript, because it doesn't have mechanism to work with non-text information (for example it has to open up another window to show me rendered LaTeX). Sometimes I even think of switching to emacs. Plugins to do some advanced processing (like rope for python) are slow quite often. But I still prefer it to any IDE in most cases. It's not perfect, but it's the best thing I've met so far in this imperfect world.
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It's worth noting that when G+ launched (oddly missing from your list), it didn't have search.

Even now, while G+ has search (and yes, it's both fast and comprehensive in that everything is indexed), it's missing tools -- you cannot search by author, by date, or by content type (posts vs. contents). Search is balkanized: you can search ... "pages" from the search bar (along with posts and content which is what you likely want), but to search a Community you've first got to navigate to it, then realize that the thing that doesn't look like a search dialog is actually a search dialog.

There's no negation (you can't exclude people or terms), you can't search by user, you can't search by date ranges.

All that said: search was the one thing G+ really had going for it.
This is very common situation for most of the people and it is also general for all fields. Many colleague around me who are also not interested about their daily work. Mind set is important factor to do something. Just sharing a video with you....

In youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN34FNbOKXc
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I don't use Chrome as my main browser and Google Music experience sucks in FF (I wonder why....) and isn't even that great it Chrome itself. Maybe its because I have all 20K song slots used across 3000-odd artists but its still annoying. So I keep a chrome instance open just for GMusic. You can't hide the application if you want to use notifications, if you do hide it the notifications trigger foregrounding. Also, native notifications are always a plus in my mind.

I would like to see an actual native application that caches songlist / artist and doesn't run like shit. But I'll take what I can, I guess. On the otherhand, the Android experience is phenomenal.
I don't believe it will be quite the same. Big Tobacco really profits off the fact that most people can't grow tobacco year round, and thus must purchase it at some point throughout the year. That basic fact is what ensures those companies never die. Tobacco was always grown outdoors, and there was never a need to research how to cultivate it clandestinely, be it indoors or small numbers.

On the other hand, pot can be grown in a computer case or a closet. It's been bred for almost 100 years (maybe more) to be grown out of sight and out of mind. Given a very small amount of research and learning, almost anyone on the face of this planet can grow a marijuana plant. It's called "weed" for a reason.

edit: In other words, it's not exactly the same thing as what big tobacco was doing, which is marketing products on a mass scale, all the while knowing the kind of health damage that such products caused. That is what people had problems with.
It's been almost an hour for me now. SREs on vacation after the sale? :)

Update: No activity on https://twitter.com/wa_status. Best way of following it: https://twitter.com/search?q=whatsapp%20down
It might help to go study to a special quiet and motivational place, a library or your aunt's house.
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Does Last.fm support mean just scrobbling, or are there other features you might like? I'm not a Last.fm user but I'd be willing to take a look into including support down the road!
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modafinil. your solution, for dire needs ofcourse
I believe Stanford University gets something like 40% of its annual budget from tuition (other top universities are similar). That's not huge, but it's big enough to make it totally infeasible to simply stop charging tuition.
Nope, it's actually pretty decent C. With a bug.
I went through this phase of the British school system some 14 years ago, just as the AS/A2 exams were being introduced. I'm a very technically minded person, but I found school's treatment of these subjects to be intensely boring. I found it hard to pay attention and not be distracted by some more interesting or immediately rewarding passtime such as programming.

While much of the A-level material is presented in a tedious manner, there are other books and sources available beyond your curriculum and I encourage you to seek these out. Applied topics such as computer science and engineering simply assume that you have a good grasp on the fundamentals. Books such as The New Turing Omnibus give you a taste of lots of topics, find some you like and dig deeper. Try and find some exciting, applied use of the boring school math, or chemistry, or phyisics. Find books and resources which guide you through learning rather than just reading Wikipedia.

In summary, try to find the cool things that can be accomplished with the fundamentals you learn at school and you'll be more motivated to work through the tedium. Don't be afraid of "degree level" texts. Try to stay away from any programming that involves drudgery and focus on enlightened, mathematically-inclined tasks: learn Haskell, implement fundamental algorithms, find hard problems like SAT, fourier transforms, optimisation. Find something which requires the skills you learn at school but which is exciting enough to hold your attention. Do lots of little things.
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IANAL, but I guess you might want to add a big "this product is not affiliated with google" disclaimer on your page?
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I can confirm that this is fixed in 10.9.2 (Since the first build of it). From the looks of things (and some friends in the Mavericks dev group), the final 10.9.2 should be dropping very soon
Looks great. Would love a way to build more complex playlists!
Thanks! When I initially forked the repository, I hadn't planned on including features like the theme or the notifications, but once I realized how much I liked the product and wanted to continue to develop it, I figured I should ask the original creator for permission to keep the fork independent and he agreed. Very generous of him!
> Stanford has the most generous tuition exemption I think, charging $0 tuition if your family makes under $100k

As someone with a family making under $100k who did not receive free tuition, this is false.
I'm not particularly old, but I prefer using tools that are considered "old". Furthermore from where I am sitting, there seems to be no shortage of older developers who are wed to the latest fancy IDE.

I don't think this is something that follows age lines. Whether or not somebody primarily has a background in the FOSS world or in the Windows universe is probably a much stronger indication of what sort of tools they use.
I don't think this has any chance of competing with Steam. Though it may offer a more polished experience, it requires much more effort to use. Why would a gamer manually type in what they're playing when Steam automatically broadcasts that to their friends?
Oh you're very right, I had that added to the README of the repository but forgot to add it to the website. Thanks for the heads up.
Unfortunately the decision to use static analysis tools would have to come from developers who are comfortable admitting they make mistakes sometimes.

It takes a special kind of ego to write an SSL library with no unit tests, not turn on compiler warnings, and not use static analysis tools.
Nice to clarify that, is there a list that seperates higher education institutions based on the preference of legacy admissions? Maybe someone at wikipedia could add legacy admissions yes or no in the right side panel of each university there is data. Ofcourse then universities will just say they don't consider legacy but they will do this anyway under the table...

Transparency on the alumni relations of each student is the only way to go I guess...
It is, but you have to remember latex is best thought of a programming language that outputs pdfs so splitting into multiple source files is useful, as is source control.
Does that really apply to people with outstanding skills in, e.g., programming? I can't imagine something less relevant to programming than formal education. It's not a good indicator for me.
1) You are unusual.

2) Mavericks was released with per-monitor menu bars four months ago.
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I suspect that legalisation of weed is going to be a blip in history and they'll heavily tax it to phase it out. It just doesn't make sense to encourage people to breathe in smoke.
Yes. By changing your attitude that 100% of what you do should be "enjoyable". Try and strike a balance. In real world you will find that most everyone puts up with stuff for safety net around basic needs like house, car, raising family etc. Right now I would enjoy 2 weeks off in Maldives. But I'm here working on this presentation to make my boss look good.
> ClojureScript even less so -- it's an offshoot of Clojure which was designed around the JVM, not browsers.

Clojure was designed as a Lisp friendly to it's hosting environment. JVM implementation is probably not purely accidental, but it's not the whole of original design either.

And as I write this comment here I might as well add: non-mainstream languages are in many, many places a competitive advantage for those who use them. I know, use and frankly like many non-mainstream languages and the ROI of learning them was universally higher than with the most popular languages.
Requiring braces is the wrong solution to the problem. It's the indentation that misleads here; indentation is what people look at to see what's part of which if, so have the language look at the same thing, like Python does.
My god those were awesome. A great friend of mine typed in his name, Ben LastName. It said it was taken, but how about Ovenproof Ben? Mine was also taken, how about Mucous Robin? Both have stuck. Its name generator was fantastically random.
I think the concern, though, is that governments now have a stake in seeing it continues to be sold. Incentives can be powerful things, and I'm not sure in this case they're good.
Just because money benefits the rich disproportionately, it does not mean this money is not well spent. This is because the students at fancy colleges are not only richer, but also smarter, more ambitious, and harder working, on average. Furthermore, donations don't only benefit students, but researchers working at those universities.

So while giving to fancy colleges is not necessarily the best use of money, it is not enough to show that the students there are privileged. If the students at those colleges were only there because of their privilege, then the author's point would make more sense.
As far as easy to grow, I don't know, I don't have the greenest thumb in the world, but it's been pretty darn hard for me. Then if you start talking about real quality, as far as I've seen from some documentaries, it requires a lot of dedication and knowledge to get the kind of quality that I'd smoke consistently.

I guess my point is, practically speaking, I see 99% of people still buying it even if it's totally legalized and not taboo.
Giant black Impact(ish) font on a white background, scrolling rather slowly. I can only read the first line of each paragraph then it all kind of bluhhhhs out for me.

If the medium is the message....
Your last statement sounded weird to me. The matching figure from here:

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/tobac...

would be the volume of smoke inhaled (hookah session = 150 cigarettes). Equivalent is probably the wrong word to describe that.
Google Music , Google play logo , a project ready from a DMCA takedown ... dont be stupid, remove all the google trademark stuff or your project wont live long in github.
Actually, there is no need for -k
I was trying to point that even very common programs have (stack) buffer overflows and nobody cares to fix them.
There's a big difference between something being legal and "encouraged".
You can still vaporize and eat edibles.
> I'm two years before heading off to university, but I have no motivation to learn the things that are being taught at college.

Personally, that was a really tough time for me in my life.

> I chose to study the subjects that I thought I would enjoy, but sadly this isn't true.

That happened to me too.

> I'm assuming that if I had made other choices for subjects, I'd be in a similar problem.

Maybe; it's hard to know where other paths would have led.

> Maths is one of the subjects I'm studying, and although I enjoy maths itself, I'm not enjoying what I learn in school.

I had that same experience. That's why I studied maths on my own, outside of school (I consider programming a subset of maths.)

> I can't be motivated to put the work in, so that I can get good results at the end of the year.

Same thing happened to me.

> I spend my free time programming or researching instead,

That's also what I did. Studying philosophy also helped alot :-)

> but I can't continue doing this if I want to get the A-levels I need to enter a half-decent university.

I found my high school to be very oppressive, so instead I went on academic strike and programmed for fun. I almost flunked out of high school, and only got into one university that has a tradition of accepting everyone.

It was all for the best. I'm not saying you should do that. But, it was the path I needed to take. You can live a wonderful life regardless of what academic success you achieve or fail to achieve.

Older people have a bad habit of advising younger people they need to do very specific actions in order to achieve very specific goals.

In this ancient tradition, I will now offer you very specific advice ;-)

(1) Ask yourself: do you desire the goals you are told to desire. What are your goals? What do you actually want from life?

(2) Once you have your goals in mind, your advisors will usually be conservative. That is, their advice usually describes one path to your goal --- not the only path. For example, if you want to go to a half-decent university and an advisor tells you, "you should try to get straight A's" --- then your advisor is being conservative. Yes, if you get straight A's it will be easier to get into a half-decent university. But it's not the only way. Furthermore, younger people are often more creative in finding ways to sidestep tradition.

(3) Ask for lots of advice, but only listen to advice skeptically.

(4) Don't be afraid to "Go ahead and fail." http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-20/go-ahead-let-your-k...

> Are there any ways by which I could motivate myself to study more?

I would caution against trying to coerce yourself into being more motivated. Follow your own path. When people give you advice it's up to you to take it or leave it. Even this advice.
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No, you're worse off in C++, where the semantics of exceptions (especially in the area of resource allocation and deletion) are complex and hard to reason about.

I've done a bunch of kernel and other systems work in C and in C++, and my experience is that the C is a lot clearer. This type of code is all about not having magic side effects; everything needs to be in the open and very plain, or bugs start to get pretty subtle and hairy.

I'm not saying "Don't do systems programming in C++", because clearly you can. But it takes discipline to succeed, probably more discipline than you need to apply than if you're writing C.
Tuition isn't really the issue. Most top schools have needs-blind admissions, so conditional on getting in, you will get funding if you need it.

Inequality stems from the fact that by the time they reach college admissions, students from richer families are already more qualified (at least in the eyes of admissions committees). Addressing this would require either changing the admissions process, or helping students from poorer families to become better qualified prior to the admissions process.
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your first example is okay, but for me, I'll do this;

if(something) {do_something();}

Many code editors will easily insert curly brace pairs, so it's really just a single extra key stroke you're saving.
> See, I really don't think it's worth courting people who have that attitude.

What attitude? Someone goes to a website out of curiosity, but it isn't very helpful so they leave. (Who hasn't done this?)

Erlang might be EXACTLY the thing they need, but on the subject of why Erlang isn't more popular--subpar marketing is more than relevant.
Bah, this is unfair to put on Word. Every word processor will do the same, if the default margins, or the margins set by the user fall outside the ability of the printer vis-a-vis printable page area.

Blaming Word because some cheap printer isn't able to use as much of the page as something else is shooting the messenger. And Word is word processing software. It attempts to do the most logical thing - reflows the document to fit within usable margins. If you need absolute page layout control, use a tool devised for that purpose, like InDesign. To not, and complain, is to complain that HTML and web-browsers can't be relied on with certainty for pixel perfect display.
The paper only discusses blind signature algorithm: how to prepare a "blinded" public key and then produce a matching signature, also blinded from the signer. The primary motivation is to use such blinded public keys in the standard Bitcoin multisignature transactions. That is, transactions, using N public keys and requiring M signatures (M <= N). "Multiparty computation" with "threshold system" here are provided by Bitcoin automatically, paper does not discuss that. But it shows how such multiparty signing can be done absolutely privately, when neither party (except for initiator and holder of funds) can learn which transaction they allowed to spend.
Of course non-linear problems can be solved in linear algebra. This is the basis of the Gauss–Newton algorithm, which reduces a non-linear problem to the repeated solving of a linear system.
Ok it's in the declaration of independence, but congrats for being a smartass:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
It also very much depends on which side of the Atlantic you are living on.
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Well, my anecdotal experience disagrees with yours; I met the children of bricklayers and postmen and gardeners, not of liberal arts PhDs. I don't think I'm asking for an impossible standard of evidence; an income breakdown of financial aid recipients across whatever line the article author considers "truly poor" doesn't seem like it would inherently violate privacy laws.