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"§5 StVO Überholen
(5) Außerhalb geschlossener Ortschaften darf das Überholen durch kurze Schall- oder Leuchtzeichen angekündigt werden. .."

"§5 Passing
(5) Outside of cities/villages it is allowed to notify of a planned passing by short sound or light indicators. " (Uff, legalese is hard to translate.)
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The density change in the liquid water due to heating / cooling over the likely temperature range is tiny compared to the result of going from ice to liquid water. But I'll award you pedantry points nonetheless :)

The precise outcome requires knowing the volumes and shapes of the ice and water components, their initial temperatures and the temperature of the ambient environment so that you can calculate the path of the water volume over time as the ice has melts. In order to make that calculation you'd still have to make use of Archimedes Principle in order to know that you didn't need to worry about how much water was displaced by the floating ice in your calculations, which was the original point.
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If your definition of "better" is simply "faster", then yes, it is better. If you care about security of your data, end-to-end, this is worse (as others have pointed out because of your ISP being a MitM). In addition, now we are introducing another vector of attack for bad guys to exploit - how enticing does it sound that every ISP becomes a root certificate authority, essentially?
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That's not necessarily always true. The halo effect varies depending on the transmissibility of the disease AND the number of people vaccinated. Even small numbers of vaccinations can decrease the spread of an infectious disease.
... every DateTime API ...

FTFY
Or a APL family Programming language, marketed for writing queries. This could lead to some trouble.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_%28programming_language_from_...
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So, put in you calendar: Both February 24th and December 25th usually see Ruby releases. Don't install on the 23rd or the 24th ;).
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Going with a startup means that they are going to ask you to dedicate much of not all of your life to them for a while. With that in mind, they need to be honest and frank with you. They need to trust you and you need to trust them.

Tough questions from them is expected. Tough questions for them is only fair given what they want from you. So, if they dodge them or you don't feel that they are telling you everything, don't take the job. If you can't trust them now, it'll be harder to trust them later.

Suggested questions:

1. Why do you feel that this company with its product or service is better than what is out there? (They need to convince YOU).

2. Where are your risks as a company? (Finance, competition etc)

3. If your CEO spending time on running the company or raising funds? (You don't want both at the SAME time)

4. How many employees did you have a year ago, six months ago and now? (Good growth means the right direction)
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By asking these questions you demonstrate you are interested in the job as an investor of your effort, not as someone seeking a paycheck. By all means ask these questions. By all means take the answers with a boatload of salt.

Now, they may not answer. They may not be able to answer. But what they do say and how they approach it will tell you a lot about whether they are looking for employees to help build the company or just to do work. And if they decide not to hire you because you asked the questions, you really don't want to work there anyway.
Well, if it makes you feel better, it is my project and I have no idea who posted it (and just realized it now).
Haha, well fair enough - even more reason to have checked I suppose. Maybe textQ would be more appropriate given this project's use case?
I think asking for a rough estimate of runway is totally reasonable. Just don't expect them to tell you how much cash they have on hand or to get an exact timeline. But expecting something like "one month," "six months but we are talking about ways to increase that," "one year," or ""one year+" seem like reasonable responses to me if they expect you to take a leap of faith joining them.

Are you seeking new investment is a reasonable question, but it could reasonably not be answered, I think.

Why you think the product will succeed is a question I can't imagine not asking.

What's the end game is a great question. If you are joining a startup, you need to know the end game so you can properly value your compensation.

If you know about a problem, you absolutely should ask how they plan to address it. Again, this could reasonably not be answered with too much detail on the startups end (you'll likely get the kind of answer a reporter would).

The answer or lack thereof are all very valuable pieces of information, and no company I would like to work for would hold me asking them against them (so long as I respect their wishes in terms of what is actually shared).
These phones are specifically targeted at developing markets.
It is funny how people interacted to Whatsapp acquisition
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I was officially forbidden in my old job to write error messages at 3AM. Code was ok. But text - not after а high ranking client saw an error message. Its good that during the meetings with him we both were (in)appropriately vulgar and offensive so only my manager was shocked.
Well if this is deep deep down in a nested loop, then either you increase char or you wrap that code into multiple statements. It would be counterproductive if this is first or second level.

However, I think I missed one important point. If you are writing for Linux kernel, then 80 chars is definitely not enough since 8 spaces = 1 tab in kernel code. That is, if you have a deep branching, then after 2-3 levels 80 chars wouldn't be enough. But increasing to 100 is only going to help for an extra level.

So the important point missing is the char limit is often project coding style dependent.
As someone who works at Silent Circle (though not someone who can speak FOR SC), I'd say "Axolotl and SCIMP are both very good". Also, I don't know who you talked to, but keep in mind that not everyone working for SC is technical and can explain (or sometimes even knows) what Axolotl is/how it works.
Reminds me of the SNL clip where Tom Brokaw was going on vacation and had to pre-record every possible news story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkhwiuRbOEE
Code can be read in more ways than one. More often than not you aren't interested in all the minor details in a single statement, but you're interested in the larger structure of some code unit (say, a function), and having dozens of wraps in a function hinders the ability to scan through the code vertically. Therefore, line length is unimportant.
I had a great programming languages prof who managed to instill a love of languages themselves in me. He gave a lecture entitled "Scheme as the Ultimate Programming Language", and his love for Scheme was pretty clear throughout multiple classes I had with him. I didn't ever find a practical use for Scheme per se, but his passion stuck with me, and when I discovered Ruby and how it took some of the more clever naming conventions from Scheme, that gave me the push I needed to really dig in and learn Ruby, which is now my favorite language to code in. Matz has definitely managed to fulfill his goal and make programming using Ruby a joy for thousands of programmers. Thanks Matz, and congrats to the entire Ruby community!
You're right - I speed-read through that.
Stop making blaming statements based on your own guess based assumptions. Cryptocurrencies are not silly, but the software people write at times that use them can be.
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One final note: The "no stupid questions" rule is still a good one. Employers should want to hire employees that want to know as much as possible about the business they are in. Even if the question seems unbelievably basic, not knowing the answer and making the wrong decision because of it is so much worse.
I wonder about the code style, too, but on a different level.
You don't need curly braces (surely you should always use them) or whitespace sensitivity or source code indentation beautification if you use the appropriate programming technique for this situation.
Such endless error checking followed by releasing of resources at the end is a case for try / catch / finally.
I wonder when people start using decent languages for important coding.
It's in addition to web apps of course. The point was that Qt provides an excellent native stack and toolset which the other competitors don't have. You can also develop for Android and iOS with the same tools. Web apps are not there yet.
I'm the guy who built that, and I agree. I tinkered with having another "Show Code" button at the top, but my attempts looked bulky and distracting. Still trying to figure out a better way.

In the meantime, pull requests quite welcome: https://github.com/jsvine/reporter
I'm basically all of these five people. Except maybe for the intern.
Everything they are saying and doing is pointing to a negative outcome. Everything they are not saying and not doing is pointing to a negative outcome.

For examples of what they are doing, they have shut down withdrawals of any manner, they have moved their offices, they have erased their twitter presence.

Thing they have not done: state they are solvent. How simple of a thing for them to do - "hey, we have a security problem right now but don't worry, we are completely solvent." Instead they state things like, "Withdrawals will resume soon." That's not very specific - it could mean, "Withdrawals of 3 cents on the dollar will resume in a year and then you can make a claim to the bankruptcy court to get anymore. Good luck with that."

But let's say that all these signs pointing to a negative outcome turn out to be wrong and a positive outcome occurs. Then it's time to really investigate a current theory that they are purposely lowering the market price of Gox BTC so they can buy low and sell high on other exchanges.
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To be fair, I started using that word back in 2010 when I started Hacker Newsletter and it wasn't much of a buzzword at the time. I put the "by hand" in there b/c so many others use automated processes to create similar things.
Likely would have gotten more upvotes with a better title.
See http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/metcalfe.pdf for more backing up what I said, based on a variety of arguments from a variety of sources.
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Or #7 the programmer who is too cool to use modern, stable, popular tools that would be perfectly adequate for solving the problem. Instead insists that the team write everything in unproven fad technology XYZ - then disappears when he/she gets bored in 3 months, leaving others to maintain a code base written on a abandoned platform.
It's also a single letter in the alphabet. Anyone who names their project a single letter (or two) is expecting some amount of collision. The real question is whether or not the collision is worth it.

In this case, it might be... they are trying to make a command-line tool. So in theory, you'll be typing the command often, meaning that a short name is preferable.

But honestly, it would have probably been a better idea to use a more descriptive name.
Poor Peter Bright, he must be so confused.

And poor Google, for the most exciting Android handsets don't have their services on them.
Check out the correction here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/nyregion/the-once-and-futu...

Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated the name of a website that reported on the God’s Only Demons Motorcycle Club. It is DNAinfo, not DNAdisinfo.

And that's the New York Times.
Surely four billion IPs should be enough. Oh, wait...
This doesn't take into account equity comp, but the numbers are interesting to see.
This situation is more akin to Amazon building it's warehouse on UPS's land to get shipments out (for a fee of course). The prior situation would be if amazon shipped via US post to UPS, then UPS ships to destination. Ideally the fee to use UPS (Comcast) land would be less than the fee to ship the product via US post (cogent) to UPS. The reduction in transit time also factors in to the decision Netflix made.
Yeah, sorry for the confusion. I had a script that was suppose to keep that updated... but it broke and I obviously haven't fixed it. I will get that fixed. Issue #190 goes out this Friday.
I am seriously thinking of installing Sailfish OS on my Nexus 5 to reduce my dependance on Google.
freedom [1] is a more important feature of this phone to me.
I think other brands will get to a low price but they'll never get the freedom.

[1] Not part of some mega company's mega cloud
DSLs, APIs, design patterns... there are endless metalanguages to learn on top of the programming languages we already know. Just because you can't wrap your head around DSLs as a different kind of API doesn't mean there's "abuse" going on. Ruby is pretty clearly designed to support DSLs, and being able to use a full-fledged programming language within your DSL-based config files is an incredibly powerful tool.
> assuming competing broadband services are available to those users

You are hilarious.
Awesome, this is one of my favorite XKCDs. I've been mulling over a plan in my mind to make a physical version of it, looking similar to a deep picture frame or display case. It would use white acrylic with the text somehow printed or transferred on, backlit by white LEDs (maybe incandescent lamps would look nicer?). Each cell would be separated by thin black wood or plastic strips. It should be pretty easy to control the whole thing with an arduino, and I think it would make an awesome wall display.
I can't imagine a better followup to an xkcd strip. Bravo.
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Of course by "state-level adversary" you mean the United States. There are plenty of states with very poor computer attack capabilities, in fact most states aren't very good at it.

Its not merely being a target that is the problem, it is being a high priority target for a long period of time. Eventually they'll find a way to get your communications, but how many days or months does a technology buy you, at what cost to you and to them. Why do you think they are willing to spend that cost on people that aren't Snowden, Greenwald? It isn't win or lose, its mitigation.

We should judge security technologies not on absolutes but on relative merits given the reasonable security goals we wish to achieve (note that Snowden was able to achieve communications security against the NSA/GCHQ long enough to complete his goal).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7291213
Ah thanks, I completely missed that button. I just typed 'gif' in to my terminal and hit tab to see what I had installed, then read the manpage for the most favourable looking binary
At the announcement Jobs said the FaceTime protocol would be released but it never was. I love FaceTime but locking it down to just iOS/Mac makes it so much less useful. I can understand why they want to use it to sell more iPhones but I wish they'd at least add a web or Windows client. It wouldn't hurt iPhone sales, probably wouldn't effect Mac sales, and so many more people could use FaceTime.
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If you store your bitcoins in random website created by rails/mongo hipsters, you are doing it wrong. Use cold storage, for Satoshi's sake.
Facebook seems to be making a play to own all our communications. If this replaces SMS and then voice calls for people that's most communications locked up. The only thing they are missing is email which they've tried and failed on.
I'm curious what features of Java would be worth stealing for Python or Ruby?
That "unique combination" does not assure me but reminds of the curse "may you live in interesting times".
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As a child, I read Friday by Robert A Heinlein, which portrayed a future in which energy needs are addressed by energy storage devices called "Shipstones", which are described as a way to pack more kilowatt-hours into a smaller space and a smaller mass than any other engineer had ever dreamed of. To call it an "improved storage battery" (as some early accounts did) is like calling an H-bomb an "improved firecracker."

In the novel, the Shipstone's eponymous inventor realised "that the problem was not a shortage of energy but lay in the transporting of energy. Energy is everywhere—in sunlight, in wind, in mountain streams, in temperature gradients of all sorts wherever found, in coal, in fossil oil, in radioactive ores, in green growing things. Especially in ocean depths and in outer space energy is free for the taking in amounts lavish beyond all human comprehension.

"Those who spoke of "energy scarcity" and of "conserving energy" simply did not understand the situation. The sky was "raining soup"; what was needed was a bucket in which to carry it."

Ever since then, I've been far more interested in new methods of storing and transporting energy than in new methods of generating energy.

Also, what happens if the mechanisms that contain the "Star in a Bottle" fail? Will the French Alps suddenly and catastrophically acquire a new valley?
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At one of the keynotes for the Association for Learning Technology back in 2007, the speaker had a variation on this question. His point, if I recall, was a little different --

As normally asked, the question is code for "parrot the Archimedes principle back to me". But on a realistic "hot summers day" there's not just the Archimedes principle. There's evaporation that can remove water from the cup. There's wind, and occasional movement of the ice cubes as they melt and slip over each other in the glass, that could cause spillage if it's really that full that it's on the verge of overflowing. As could interruption of the surface tension (e.g., condensation in just the wrong spot at the edge of the glass, causing the water in the meniscus to spill over.) The initial temperature of the water being unstated, its density will also change a very small amount, potentially in either direction.

Often when we ask our students scenario questions as teachers, we are essentially asking them to identify which taught principle we have flagged this question as being about, and base their answer on that, ignoring all other factors.

If the student answers "A. It goes down", did they fail to grasp the Archimedes principle, or are they a pedant grumbling that over that length of time there will be evaporation so it won't be exactly the same?

Take the question out of the context of a course, and suddenly the educational point of it can change. Is the person asking you this a physics teacher checking your understanding of Archimedes principle, or an ALT conference pedant checking whether you understand that in uncontrolled environments where bumps and spillages can occur you can't blindly expect the ideal result you'd get in a textbook?

The peril comes when questions are used outside of a teaching context. For example in technical interviews, where the same question can sometimes be a signal for many different teaching points, each expecting subtly different answers, and the interviewee does not know which the interviewer has in mind.
I love the name for this. :)
And zombies will come out of it and we will all die... or they will switch it on and we will instantly turn into a star. :)
Why is ITER not real fusion research? And by "set up" do you mean intentionally, to hold back fusion research? If so, by whom, and why?
Eric Mazur's Peer learning process https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Ww... kind of highlights the problem and a solution for the same.
Namely, Flip the classroom. Ask questions that highlight the knowledge gap within the students. Let students debate among themselves and then actually provide the solution.

Though this is not sufficient, it at least improves the ability of the student to reason about the problem and question the models they have built around their heads on the given subject.
This sounds a lot like the too big to fail argument and so it is not an apples/oranges thing. It's a sliding scale and the only reason it seems like it is apples and oranges to you is precisely because MtGox isn't big enough.

I'm not saying that customers of a bank should suffer for the investment side but let the investors suffer for their bad investments, if the political will is there.
They've federated Lync and Skype; so you can call Skype users with Lync (and visa versa), and so your boss can log all of your personal chats :)

It's doing pretty well in its market (Enterprise) because despite the demands (federation requires two servers) it's better than the competition (WebEx).

The client is slightly less annoying than Skype if only for the fact that it doesn't take over your entire computer for IM like the new Skype client does.
That is an interesting thought, except they would have zero trust or goodwill left with the community. They might be able to rescue the company financially but I don't see any chance of the company surviving after that.
It's definitely worth really digging into (get the PickAxe book--it's incredible!). Even if you never use it for a real project, you'll learn new ways of approaching problems that can be used in other languages.
I heard this reported on Fox News Channel this morning.
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As well written as this article is, I do have a problem with its tone. The writer seems willing ignorant of why the Internet “sucks” for gaming; it was not designed for real time small packet transmission. Most of TCP’s design, in particular, was intended to facilitate the transmission of comparatively sizable files over FTP, NNTP, and SMTP. Even stuff like IRC was designed not to be so concerned about timeliness that the chatlog on each end would match up exactly.
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Do you really need to access all your coins instantly from multiple places?

The worst thing about this is that you are probably recommending this scheme to everyone else.
1.5 second cast times with abilities to push that down to around 1.0s. A lot of the interrupts are off the global cooldown in order for players to use spell interrupts effectively.

.5 - 1 seconds of delay may not seem like much, but it actually adds up to be quite significant because of the global cooldown would also be enforce client side and so a player with higher delay would have done fewer actions in the same amount of time.
Any medical intervention goes through something called a "Risk–benefit analysis" where the potential risks are weighed against the potential benefits. We accept a certain level of risk as necessary to achieve certain benefits. Vaccines that are widely used have displayed very high benefits with very low risks, especially on a population level. No medical intervention is without some risk, however low.
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