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When you use dynamic, you lose the biggest advantage of C# in general, intellisense in VS. Don't get me wrong, it can be great to use dynamic at times... I just feel you're losing the advantage that VS/C# give you when you do, so you may as well be using something else. (I like node.js)
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It seems that you and four others share my sense of humour. One doesn't. I can live with that ratio.

:-)
Now let's talk about how we are supposed to sign webApps in a way similaire to debian package distribution as to be able to actually trust one you d/l online and be able to trace the update you might receive by revisiting the page?
I always thought that given the UK was being run a bit like UK-PLC these days, that they might as well just declare the population as shareholders and start paying dividends.
If a person, male or female, takes some significant amount of time off work, for any reason, should that person continue to accrue seniority, be considered for raises and promotion, equally to colleagues who didn't take the time off, who were working and contributing?

Strip the gender politics out of it and the answer is very obviously no.
Do you need to choose either/or?
I continue to be amazed at just how functional vim+cscope can be for this job. There is very little I can't find with cscope, and vim is such a superlative editor for navigating around a world of words ..

If you've not discovered cscope, I urge you to set it up with something large, like the Linux kernel, and give it a try. It's a fantastic navigation tool ..

http://cscope.sourceforge.net/large_projects.html
Also bitdefender: http://download.bitdefender.com/rescue_cd/2013/

and AVG: http://www.avg.com/us-en/download.prd-arl

although I am not sure if they are linux based.
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I see that your examples of teaching fast (one minute, ten minutes) all use discrete models for continuous processes. For people who understand continuousness mathematically, going between discrete models to continuous models and vice versa is easy. However, there are indications that the other way around -- students who perceive these changing situations mathematically as intrinsically discrete -- going from discrete to continuous models might be extreme difficult (due to in-commensurability). Of course, students can learn procedures to make the switch from discrete to continuous models, but even then it is possible that this procedural experience is not build on deeper mathematical understanding. Tricky stuff, learning mathematics :-)
Yes, exactly. I fully believe that there isn't much discrimination in tech at the entry-level. On the other hand, after 20 years in the industry, I have never seen a woman promoted internally. I have seen women climb up the ladder by changing jobs, getting recruited into a higher position, but women never seem to get picked internally to go into senior engineer or team leader positions. That has got to have a major impact on salary by the end of a woman's career.
While in motion, a driver should maintain 100% of their focus on two things: direction and speed. Having to juggle another pedal and lever to make sure upcoming speed change would be suitable to the driver is unnecessary and a distraction. Modern cars perform gear changes good enough, at the worst. If you have a CVT, it is even better (but very expensive to buy/repair, I acknowledge that).
The biggest pain points that gems like Draper solve are allowing view helpers in your decorators (which is by no means straightforward when you get into routing helpers), and dealing with some of the strangeness that you get into by wrapping ActiveRecord models (JSON serialization was a biggie for us). It's less about what Ruby gives you, and more about navigating around some of the darker, messier corners of Rails.
In the cryptocurrency world, there's an interesting free money experiment being launched in Iceland this month: Auroracoin. http://www.auroracoin.org/

Auroracoin's goals are not quite as relevant for the US, since we don't have a public national ID database and our dollar is incredibly strong. But the distribution of a pre-mined cryptocoin could be one type of universal income. It's also a way to experiment with relatively few consequences to the existing economy.
"Unlike speeders, I assume they are mostly unwitting and unwilling participants in the attack."

If you don't check your vehicle and something falls off of it, you're responsible. For that matter, if you do check your vehicle and something falls off of it, you're responsible. You don't have to have "wittingly" or "willingly" done something for a ticket - negligence (even minor) is plenty. You're responsible for hardware you deploy.

Edited to add: Also, plenty of speeding tickets are given to people who never said to themselves "I'm going to speed," but simply neglected to pay enough attention to either posted limits or their speedometer. I know that's been the case with the couple of speeding tickets I've received. So I'm not really sure it's "unlike speeders" at all.

"Why not also sue Adobe for allowing the zero-day that led to the PC getting infected and added to a botnet?"

In general, I don't think it makes sense for liability to start with the vendors because the risks and downside is determined primarily by the particular deployment. I've no problem with allowing the companies to offer indemnification for tickets caused by their failures, and if we went that route that's something users should demand (... while still allowing people to publish GPL software for those willing to accept the responsibility, without taking a huge financial risk).
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I have documented my strategy for moving from a simple MVP to a maintainable and complex Rails app. Basically I look at factors like how many objects are affected by an operation, and how complex the additional processing is. TL;DR: Use Rails magic when possible, and Object Oriented best practices when necessary.

I created a flowchart that illustrates this strategy: http://rails-recipes.clearcove.ca/pages/how_to_change_object...
It's millions of dollars and freedom vs. 100s of millions that get confiscated when you're incarcerated though (and yes that's a false dichotomy - but it's a bug in logic, it's not my fault ..).

I'd have thought that being in control of these exchanges you could pretty much extract as much money as you'd ever need by front-running or other manipulations. The fluctuations in market value coupled with the acceptance of week or 2-week transaction periods means you can get a few percent of each transaction doesn't it.
Who said nsomaru is from India? All we know is that nsomaru has knowledge of cultures other than my own.
with PNG it's 59kb: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/All_24-b...
I don't think that recursion is really idiomatic in C++.
Even better is realizing that you can put whatever you want into /app, and having /app/presenters, /app/decorators, and /app/services directories in your application.
did you not read the parent threads?
Maybe install Cygwin for access to ssh on windows.
Microsoft Research creates 3D browser called SurroundWeb
Where is it stated that nsomaru is from India? The insensitive/tragic note here is that you've assumed that because someone has knowledge of a region, then they are from that region.
> ">> [...] a good faith offer is exactly what that person is worth. [...]"

> "As an employer, how do I calculate this ahead of time? It's next to impossible. This is not a hard science."

Perhaps if the prospective employer guesses the prospective employees worth incorrectly, the prospective employee could politely correct them. ...wait, that's negotiation re-invented. ;)
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I bet dhh is going to say something like "then refactor your controller into a service/interactor/etc., but not before".

YAGNI, and all that.
Of course not. It's just that its a god-awful way to introduce a general student population to Computer Science. Maybe its ok for CS majors, but even then I'm not sold. I think it should be reserved for a few semesters in, once students have an idea of what they CAN do, then focus on C++ in the sense that its where the real deal performance and mission critical stuff is built.
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While that's a nice sentiment, it indicates a rather complete lack of understanding of security issues by chocolatey in the first place.

Sure, they can move that particular download to https, but it doesn't install any confidence that they've thought through the rest of their flow. As far as I can tell, packages don't even need to be signed.

As a result, I'd not be able to trust anything they do.
Server seems to be down but found the Google cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ghZGR0R...
Sounds like another fun bit of code golf if some of the more aggressive compression algorithms aren't already picking up on the bit level changes (I believe they do).
The problem is that the engineer's "I don't know" gets beaten out of you when you speak to users and investors. You get made to feel like an amateur for admitting uncertainty. Which is absurd in the startup world of all places. So it's one of those doublethink situations, where you need to keep your internal accounting separate from the marketing talk. And then you need to know who to tell what on top of that. And then actually deal with the actual uncertainty on top of that. As if startups weren't hard enough in general, we're making it even worse for ourselves.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with HTTP. You are supposed to verify signing keys after you download them anyway, regardless of your source and tranfer method.

Yes, that may often be hard, or nearly impossible. WOT sadly often only works for people you can personally verify anyway.

(With HTTPS, you better wish the author chose a reputable and more expensive certificate authority which can be trusted not to give certificates without proper proof of address ownership. Otherwise, verifying the website certificate may be as hard has verifying personal keys.)
Wonder how github will handle such issues
Interestingly enough, the company behind this cluster#### has previous and proven record of similar behaviour.[1][2] Sure, it takes conscious effort to upload multiple DVD's worth of data, which already rules out accidents - but because this is not an isolated incident, I wouldn't rule out corporate policy of willful neglect either.

"Fined and fired" is not a sufficient deterrent.

1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/11/pa_consulting_home_o...

2: http://www.scl.org/site.aspx?i=ne9297
Don't worry, Heisenberg discovered the matrix formulation of quantum mechanics without knowing matrices http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg#Matrix_mechan... :). More seriously, if you ever want to study quantum mechanics, you should learn matrix algebra before.
It was announced at the 84th International Geneva Motor Show where Volvo, Mercedes, and Ferrari live demo-ed the Apple CarPlay system.

https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/03/03Apple-Rolls-Out-C...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Motor_Show
.net version asking price is around 5k not in millions.
Ok thanks ill look into it.
So explain to someone who's extremely skeptical of economics mumbo-jumbo why the value of money doesn't naturally increase ("deflate", to use what seems to me to be the better-is-worse terminology) to take up that slack.

In other words, shouldn't a slice of the money pie be worth a slice of the economy pie, even when the size of the economy pie, and therefore the slice, changes? How do we determine when 10% of the money supply equals 10% of the economy? It seems like what you, and the article, are saying is that a certain number of dollars always equals the same amount of, say, gold, or labor, and we just don't have enough dollars to represent all the gold and labor that's floating around. That just doesn't seem right at all; that's exactly the system we moved /away/ from according to the advice of these same economists (or their predecessors).
I rewrote the code in this example to use the "Beginner's Version" of Rails (sigh). You judge which you like better: https://gist.github.com/dhh/9333694
Make them quote a number first.

Do not tell them what your previous salary was.

Whatever their number is, ask for $15k more

If they are a strong no, try and trade off that $15k for increased benefits in some way

If they are a weak no, lower your ask.

They will almost certainly give you $5k above what they quote, maybe $10k

And keep in mind: if you're a typical software engineer going through a typical full-day on-site software engineering interview, they've dumped the better part of $1000 worth of dev-hours just to interview you (double that if they flew you out!) so seriously, asking for an extra $5k is no skin off their back. Just do it.
This feels like a use case to get rid of any of the iPad mini screens so they can come in with a bigger iPhone. The UI looks really boring and how would this connect with different versions of the iPhone?

Definitely not onboard with providing drivers another distraction in the car.
How should it have been done?
Of course not. It's open source, nobody would do anything malicious right?
Is it just me, or is anyone else suspicious about Pandora missing from the supported apps?
Not impossible, no. But we absolutely have enough control over software to make it highly improbable for someone to accidentally delete something important and make it unrecoverable.
I hope they get this cleared up, because it looks very suspicious! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=497736.0
That's probably the reason why the video of the conference was already taken offline today while I was watching it.

No, we took the video offline because one of the speakers hadn't realized the talks were being filmed. It will be back once we edit that one out.
It was more trying to be helpful. A lot of people's heads explode when they see trig, and they stumble on things like radians vs degrees. You can do some really cool stuff with just a little bit of knowledge.
> It's horrible in a business environment.

That may be so, but the military environment is different. Officers need to be able to make good-enough decisions on the spot, without the benefit of careful consideration, because there might be a literal dead line, after which people die. Sometimes being in motion is more important than the actual direction.
I agree that this is confusing.

We state in our terms of use that we are not obligated to return lender funds because doing so could be construed as selling securities under US law - something we are not licensed to do. In practice, we have honored every lender request to withdraw funds that we have received since we were founded four years ago.

I am not a tax expert, but I would be surprised if a tax authority construed Zidisha lending activity as taxable investment income, because according to our terms of use the loans are not financial assets.
This is superb.

Congrats Randall :)
Because the group not being demonized are mostly comprised of people who are trying their best but in circumstances that make it impossible to live up to their obligations and the group being demonized are mostly comprised of people who are breaking the law.
> But it's my privacy and security that's at issue. I don't think it's obvious why I shouldn't be able to waive those concerns.

You could, in theory, consent to a disclosure to of your PHI in insecure form to the doctor's email provider (or maybe to the whole chain between the doctor and you, but i don't think that would be necessary since once its been disclosed under your consent to someone not covered by HIPAA they can do anything they want with the data, including delivering it to you), but doctors would probably to use a method that doesn't require that overhead and not also manage the kind of consent tracking that would be necessary to use unsecure email (and would rather not deal with the PR fallout that would happen when someone who didn't really understand the implications got bit by it.)

The fact that you could, in theory, under the law consent to certain insecure disclosures to third parties doesn't mean that doctors are mandated to maintain the infrastructure to deal with every conceivable way you might want to do that. They are required to provide information to you under certain circumstances, and not to provide it to others except as allowed under the law.
You could download the installer and notice that it is signed by Simon and then feel secure. But writing a long rant works too.
Some of these images in their most basic form are strikingly beautiful. It reminds me of some algorithmic art Joshua Davis produces. ( http://www.joshuadavis.com )

The OP might consider a more art based context with a potential for high priced prints and gallery showings.
Coulda, woulda, damn shoulda. You're future coding with your "what ifs". Most controller actions are not reused. The time to extract for reuse is when you need to reuse. Not crystal balling about that you probably will be in the future.

Because when the reuse case actually arrives, you might find that you need to reuse some, but not all of the action. If you're literally doing the exact same thing for both web and api, why are you using a separate API controller? Just use respond_to with formats.

Second, yes, you shouldn't have side-effects like sending email in your models. But you don't need to! Just stick that logic in your controllers. That's what it's there for -- to render the views (of which emails is one of them -- see http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2012/emails-are-views.htm...).

The AR callbacks are wonderful for coordinating the domain model. Often times you'll want to create auxiliary objects when something else is created. That's what's it's there for. Or to otherwise keep the integrity of the domain model in place.
In my first Rails job, I was handed a copy of this book to read. I would agree with your comments, although I cannot speak for the Ruby Community as such. Well worth reading.
Developers do use it.

If you don't use it, IE gives you scary warnings that you have to fight through to download the software.

Most installers for windows software are signed. I just checked my downloads folder and of the more than a dozen installers in there every one was signed.
US banks have FDIC insurance to protect depositors against insolvency.
Was just reading up on Kiva and Zidisha on Wikipedia, and noticed this on the Kiva talk page. Looks like someone at Zidisha (from a Mountain View IP) edited Kiva's Wikipedia page to add criticism of Kiva and plug Zidisha. Is this part of the "help" you're referring to above?

<< Zidisha Edits

Removed the lengthy section spotlighting a known competing organization, Zidisha from the interest rates section. The information is consistent with Zidisha marketing language and the editor IP is attached to a series of edits inserting Zidisha into other pages. Seems like clear COI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/67.188.17...

IP is also in Mountain View, where Zidisha is working this quarter http://www.ip-adress.com/reverse_ip/67.188.179.148 https://www.zidisha.org/forum/threads/zidisha-launches-at-y-... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Djbrusca (talk • contribs) 17:01, 3 March 2014 (UTC) >>
Case for Dark Matter Signal Strengthens
Conventional macroecon says that all effects on aggregate demand are due to sticky wages and prices, which 'stickiness' has also been experimentally verified. That's why the blog of Scott Sumner, from the article, is called "The Money Illusion".
I find it astounding that a competitor of Meetup thinks that DoS'ing Meetup could drive a notable amount of traffic to their site.
Probably. At least in terms of college gender population, we're approaching a female:male ratio of 3:2.
Of course they are not kidding. We already have examples of this at different scales. SS Disability payments, SS survivor benefits, etc. Plus, as the author mentioned, the Bush/Congress direct stimulus, WWII government demand, etc. I agree printing money and dumping on the people is a bad idea as well, but there is middle ground. More progressive taxation, ending all corporate welfare, etc. You can disagree with something without being dismissive.
Terrible headline.

I knew they were DDoS'd a couple of days ago but then panicked when I read this headline. I thought they were hacked didn't realize it.

For a tech news site, the reporter should know better.
> I just wish I could access my medical records like I access my own email.

Why do you think you can't? They can't actually be sent to you over unsecured email, but they certainly can be provided to you securely, and the access methods can be very similar to what you would do with email. I don't think anyone offers a data dump rather than a UI into a hosted product, but I don't see any legal reason under HIPAA for that.
I guess that's the problem :-)
>> If you put this logic in the controller, what happens when you want a separate API controller that does the same thing?

You refactor.

In my experience, anytime you're writing something for the sake of "possible code re-use", you're wasting time. Code should and does get refactored often. By adding levels of indirection from the outset, you add a barrier to refactoring and likely additional unnecessary code.
Is there a fee for this service?
It's a lovely project, but I wouldn't be so sure it would "win the war". Raw speed and aesthetics sometimes take a back seat to other considerations. For example, what was its range? Its ammo load? Its durability and aerodynamics when damaged? Its reliability?

If the plane doesn't have the range to get to the battle, fight the battle, and get back home again, it will fail. If it dies the moment it is grazed by some flack, it will fail. If it runs out of ammo while dogfighting, it will fail. If it's too unreliable to stay in the air without excessive maintenance, it will fail. If it costs twice as much to manufacture as a slightly less effective plane, it will fail. Et cetera.

In WWII, there was something of an arms race for the largest, most heavily armored and heavily armed tanks. Germany developed the Maus, and Great Britain developed the Tortoise, and the US had the T-28. None ever saw battle. They were too expensive to build and too difficult to transport to the battlefield.

I suspect the Bugatti Veyron fighter might have been another case of the same problem, had it ever made it to production - overoptimizing one sexy feature at the expense of other, necessary ones.
Oh, awesome, thank you for posting the link! I missed it because I didn't look past the "TODO"... Whoops.
You are correct. For my wife, though, she sees that as a reason to not ask for more money. I've tried to convince her that she could maybe have both.
If I don't know something I've made it a point to tell them that.

Generally, I follow it up by letting whomever know that I can attempt to discover an answer to the question.

If the question is about how something works, I'll occasionally explain how I think it might work based on how I'd implement it, but again advise that it's just a guess and I really do not know.
Google announced the Open Automotive Alliance (OAA)[0] at CES 2014[1] with car manufacturers Audi, GM, Honda, and Hyundai, and chip manufacturer Nvidia[2].

[0] http://www.openautoalliance.net/

[1] http://officialandroid.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/new-partnershi...

[2] http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/01/06/were-joining-google-...