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Drone aircraft are a much better option than balloons which can't be directed. You can keep a drone over an urban area, deploy, bring it down and keep it separated from other drones in a much more controlled way. Mesh networking them is also a possibility.

You can also move a drone in case of particularly large storm cells. 20km is above most weather, but a large cumulonimbus can occasionally get up there.

Good to see Vern Raburn's name there too - he did some innovative work at Eclipse before the GFC wiped them out.
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I went through this exercise a year ago but was only about one-third as vigilant as Chris. I still did step 18, though.
I think you are referring to the observations of John Gapper, Michael Mace & Ben Evans...

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John Gapper @ FT:
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e57abef0-cd0c-11e2-90e8-00144...
"The best comparison for Google seems to me not Microsoft in the 1980s but General Electric in the late 19th century – the age of electrification. Like GE, Google is a multifaceted industrial enterprise riding a wave of technology with an uncanny ability not only to invent far-reaching products but also to produce them commercially.

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Michael Mace:
http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.in/2014/01/google-conglome...
The idea behind the “Internet of Things” is that network connectivity is moving into almost everything. If that’s Google’s investment thesis, it could rationalize an investment in almost any industry. Appliances? Absolutely. Shipping and logistics? You bet. Phosphate mining? OK, maybe not that. But any category of products that have electronics in them is fair game, as are any services that rely on data management. That’s going to be most of the economy. If that’s the case, we’ll need to evaluate Google’s strengths and weaknesses differently. We should worry less about the overall grand plan, and more about the management structure of its businesses, the skills of its general managers, and the efficiency of the support staff behind them. In other words, will Google be more like GE or like HP?

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Ben Evans:
http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/2/19/ways-of-thinkin...
Hence, one could argue that Nest or self-driving cars (and the next big hardware move that Google does) are not really about understanding 'information' in any sense, and certainly not about advertising, but about finding ways to deploy being very good at machine learning and, say, connected systems, just as GE's business is to be very good at making big complicated precision-engineered pieces of capital equipment.
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>That is an accurate calculation, but it is not exact.

You know that accurate is a synonym of exact, right?

1. accurate [noun] (of information, measurements, statistics, etc.) correct in all details; exact.

>Moreover, when you do floating point arithmetic, you are not adding the number "0.3" up three times. You are adding an approximation of "0.3" up three times, since 0.3 does not have an exact representation in binary.

As a CS graduate, I've known that for some decades. But that's at the floating point level, which is beside the point (no pun intented).

What the user wants to add is 0.3 -- he could even have entered that verbatim as his input. How it's done is irrelevant to him. What we're saying in this thread is that if that's what you want to do, and you're handling money, FP is not a good represenation.

>What you're saying is akin to saying
"Well, I call 0.3333 + 0.3333 + 0.3333 = 0.9999 <> 1.0 inaccurate in my book."

No, what I'm saying is akin to saying:

"I call EXPLICITLY WRITING 0.3+0.3+0.3 and internally getting
0.3333 + 0.3333 + 0.3333 inaccurate in my book".
Your interest and Microsoft's interests haven't been aligned in years.

Your interest is to keep an OS supported. Microsoft's interest is to release Browser and DirectX updates only for the latest-and-greatest, so that you'd updgrade.

Your interest is an open ecosystem. Microsoft's interest is to have a closed garden. (They haven't been successful with that one, but they're trying).

Your interest might be a usable Desktop OS like Win7. Microsoft's interest is to ram their touch interface down your throat so that you'd get used to it, and your next phone may possibly run Windows - regardless of what's good for you.

Your interest is a usable system that just works. Microsoft's interest is providing a "Protected Media Path" that would degrade your experience if your equipment is not xIAA certified.

You already have NO control. You're already paying through other means. You might have had an illusion of control taken away from you - but that's a good thing.
> jk jk on IE. Honestly, I am not sure what Microsoft has done lately..

.Net/C# is pretty dominant on the east coast. I see far more .Net shops than Java anyway. This leads me to believe that server licensing and Azure might be even bigger profit centers in the future. It is not consumer driven, but finance, insurance, HR, accounting, etc. are serious markets with deep pockets. .Net displaced many systems that were 40+ years old (COBOL, RPG/AS400, etc.), so I am doubtful that there are many contenders that could swoop in and steal the market anytime soon.
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I believe they're using the Google buses as symbols in lieu of direct knowledge of the First Estate's whereabouts or access to them.
Maybe "Morris" would be a better name (Clint Eastwood in Escape From Alcatraz).
I bet it doesn't even comply with RFC 2324 either.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324
The worst thing I found with Windows 8. Using any of the metro apps, there was embedded advertising inside of the apps. Upsetting to be advertised to inside of applications running on an O/S that I paid money for.

It's ok though, they fixed it, when I upgraded to Windows 8.1, the upgrade destroyed my ability to run metro style apps at all - I just got some arcane error message when I try to run/launch anything metro related.

I went back to Windows 7.
> Perkins is right. The closest parallel to the mindless, hate-drenched opprobrium of these people is Nazi Germany turning on the Jews

This perverse non-analogy is an embarrassment. It reads like absurd satire. Please stop repeating it.
Isn't that the point of a patent?
I'm not sure (I'm actually not sure what I think of APL/Q/J yet) -- maybe someone that likes vim script would also like APL. Not sure about vi(m) the editor/modal editors.
For the 1%, I was using the $394,000 figure put forward by Emmanuel Saez. [1]

At $140k or anything near it, you're far closer to barista wages ($30k?) than the 1%.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/phildemuth/2013/11/25/are-you-ri...
But if people aren't forced to provide their labor by virtue of a sufficient BI, there is no longer that imbalance. Since individuals' needs are taken care of, the cost of labor as opposed to idleness is whatever dis-utility the potential worker finds in the task, and if the pay is below that we can expect them not to take the job. Again, if you run through the benefits you claim for MW, every one is provided by a sufficient BI even in the absence of MW.
You know, if someone actually built one of those, I'd probably have to convince our CFO to buy it.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dennis_Markuze

I knew he was a nutter but never realized how far it had gone until I happened on the article.
Guy harassed me for months.
Plus just about 200 lines later there is a completely different email address to notify of a failed ssh connection.

>mail('mark@tibanne.com,luke+eligius@dashjr.org', 'SSH connection to freetxn@'.$ip.' failed', 'Used ssh key 14a70b11-5f36-4890-82ca-5de820882c7f, but couldn\'t login to push those txs:'."\n".implode("\n", $el_todo));
Makes it a lot easier to get personalized letters of recommendation, too. My first year science and math professors all remember me, since the class sizes were small and enthusiastic students are easily noticed. I doubt that would have been the case at a university, where I'd have been crammed in with several hundred people.
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The problem, as far as I last knew, is that we do not know of any materials strong enough!
The real story here is not the protests, which are very small. (Compare to the Iraq War protests, which involved ten times the entire population of SF.)

The real story is how a certain section of the media loves to blow up anything anti-Google, no matter how trivial or insignificant (a few dozen people staging a rally? two months ago?), into The Biggest Problem Ever. One imagines that they make big advertising dollars from spreading their ideology of hate, just as William Randolph Hearst did a few generations back. Or maybe Bill Gates ran over their puppy back in 1982 and now they've dedicated their lives to petty revenge.

"Look Who’s Gawking: Inside Nick Denton’s phony, hypocritical class war against tech workers": http://pando.com/2013/12/26/look-whos-gawking-inside-nick-de...
PRETTY good? One time on multi-player I was decimated to a single peon and buried my way into a nook in the forest and rebuilt a mighty army and was ultimately defeated. Damnit, I was depressed after that one..
Hopefully, this solves the legacy browser problem. Otherwise, IE8 is going need to be supported for years.

Yes, some devs will be stuck because of their industries but many will be able to say IE11+.
True, but that's not necessarily the case in biology, where the people are no cheaper, but the experiments are a lot more expensive. Assuming $N of grant is as easy to get in CS as biology (ha!), you'll be able to fund way more people in CS.
Not if the NSA can help it ...
That's almost funny.

I was too lazy to do things properly (kickstart script, etc.) so I have a bash script with about 10 "apt-get install" lines that set up everything I want on Ubuntu or debian, and a few more "echo" lines that configure 90% of my other preferences.

50 line scripts that contain very little other than the names of the programs I want or the configuration I want.

Let's say I just got a new computer with Windows 7/8, not part of a domain or anything - just a new laptop. Care to list the steps needed to get into your favorite state (list YOUR favorite 10 apps you need to install)
I really doubt this will have any effect on Microsoft revenues from computer retailers like dell, and windows starter editions has always pushed an IAP for an upgraded version.

The only market they loose is the customers who go to a local store to buy windows starter/basic edition. I think that is a pretty small market, but feel free to correct me.
That is just for the ./debian/ package directory. I think it is up to the DD how they want to maintain the packaging files. The BPP[1] do not mention anything about matching uptreams choice of vcs.

You could file asking to package the latest upstream and casually mention the discrepancy:) I have just been building beets with uupdate lately. Debian's package is five months behind upstream.

[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best...
> @iH8sn0w @NinjaLikesCheez All content, including articles, scripts, reddit posts, tweets, everything. By 11.40pm today (3/3/2014).

Hahaha, that is a pretty hilarious bit of fail, there. I don't think it could really be intentional... it might make him kinda famous (in a probably unwanted way) but it won't net him new users.
>Really, so anyone using a higher level language for line of business apps isn't doing serious commercial programming?

Well, IMNSHO business apps (I take it you mean "enterprise apps") are not the epitome of programming, much less serious programming. Especially in-house apps.

But it should be obvious from my description that with "commercial programming" I meant the end user market, and things people used to buy in a box or (now) download to run on their Desktop. Not, say, some IBM Java based toolset for the enterprise.

So stuff like MS Office (or LibreOffice), multimedia apps such as Premiere, Photoshop, Avid, Cubase, all modern browsers, AAA games, etc etc.
This made me laugh loudly out loud (LLOL?). Thank you for brightening my morning!
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While this would be a better route for encryption, it wouldn't help older hardware receiving firmware updates - so a non-hardware route would be required.
Zapier lets you connect apps together in interesting ways, whether or not it really makes sense to. Maybe someone out there will find it useful to be able to manage their dashboards with instant messages.
That was my first thought too.

That and "this looks kind of structured from the top but the more I look at it, the less structured it becomes."
>Please, what number of cats did not leave the ship before a fatal voyage?

That actually doesn't matter too much. As long as the cats which do leave the ship is a predictor of disaster. Even a slight correlation, say 1%, would be useful; do you want to take a 1% risk to your life? Maybe buy an extra lifeboat or something?

Of course, the prior probability of this hypothesis is pretty low, but it isn't to superstitious people.
Seems like a problem of measurement. Do we care about how many suffer or what percentage of the world population they represent?
I tend to agree with this. Also, I doubt if big corporations, perhaps locked into multi-year contract, would bother with this free edition. I bought MS Office in a retail outlet but otherwise Windows OS itself has always been prepackaged.
It's different in the sense their decisions that lead to becoming a'conglomerate' adhere to their mission. 3bn for Nest doesn't really help organize the world's data.
Summary: iOS is missing a file system.

Even just a simple shared folder where all apps can share whatever they're producing would be enough. Those who don't understand file systems are condemned to reinvent them...
The fear of Linux took them at last.
Also, she says, "No one pretended tech was a meritocracy". The thing is, tech is a meritocracy, and that's part of the politics of tech. Meritocracy, of course, is a joke. It is not a desirable state of affairs, because it should be obvious that "merit" is a false currency used to justify what is, rather than work toward what should be. It is the quintessential naturalistic fallacy.

I wish I could upvote this so many more times.

It honestly had never occurred to me that meritocracy could be a bad thing until I read Twilight of the Elites by Chris Hayes (yep, the same MSNBC host guy) [1], recommended to me by a friend. But after reading that book, which is one of the best written and edited books on econ/policy I've ever read, I'm fairly well convinced. He builds very much upon Michael Young's work, which he mentions many times, applying it to all sorts of examples of meritocratic failure in the modern day.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Elites-America-After-Meritocr...
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If, along with FB access, they are bringing internet access to a region previously without it, then it's a good thing; because internet access is a net positive (unless you feel you are worse off with internet than you'd be without). I don't have a FB account anymore and find the internet valuable on a daily basis. Just my 2 cents.
Just a quick note for those following along at home, I recommend having a look at xstow for managing custom package(trees). Basically it's:

mkdir ~/opt/xstow
cd /tmp
# get package (verify signature)
cd package
./cofigure --prefix=$HOME/opt
make
make install prefix=$HOME/opt/xstow/package-version
cd ~/opt/xstow
xstow package-version # xstow -D to "uninstall"

I find that helps a lot when you need to install new versions, and don't want to worry about cruft left over -- and also simplifies handling of PATH, MANPATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_RUN_PATH.

Some packages are a little harder, but can sometimes be tricked to behave by moving ~/opt/xstow out of the way, doing a make install and then moving ~/opt to ~/opt/xstow/package-version-etc and xstow'ing.
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I worked on several iterations in the dating space for about a year, and this type of stuff was pretty interesting to me. Wrote a bit more about it here: https://medium.com/unfinished-thoughts/2cac1e6cc7b4
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I guess he means in that Facebook focuses on that, and Google and MS do all kinds of incompatible shit.
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I miss the Microsoft that was known for making solid products that could have a 5-10 year shelf life. It is sad that Office 2007 works better for me than Office 2010; Windows 7 better than Windows 8.
If you're using a burner I doubt the environment is your topmost concern.
That flattens everything. In Perl it's trivial to flatten just the parts you need to and leave other nestings intact.
The Black Forest survivalist strategy. Also good was carving a back entrance into your enemies base.
>Your interest is to keep an OS supported.

That's not true. It's in your interest to benefit from improvements in software quality. (Certain "upgrades" from Microsoft have been anything but that, but we've certainly come a long way since Windows ME.) A product encumbered by technical debt is going to be weaker.

There are certain well-defined, self-contained systems where never changing makes sense - things that will run for decades, like lab instruments and life-critical industrial automation. General purpose computing isn't one of them.
I was confused by the claim that Kerry threatened "to expel Russia from the G8." I clicked the link and went to the other article, which had the following quote from Kerry: "He is not going to have a Sochi G8, he may not even remain in the G8 if this continues."

Am I mistaken in assuming that the G8 is not under American control? At worst, Kerry could recommend that the US not take part in the Sochi-hosted G8, but that's it, correct?

I'm also confused by the writer's characterization of the situation in the Ukraine as "a crisis that can easily be contained if cool heads prevail."

If you drill down to the basics, any crisis could "easily be contained" if all parties involved are calm and willing to sit and talk indefinitely.

In this particular situation, it doesn't look like that would happen given that Ukraine is essentially in the middle of a civil revolt (war?) and there are a large number of parties who would have to be comfortable having some kind of draw-down talk.
Honestly, I was disappointed in his response. With all his harrumphing about real examples, I would have expected him to make an effort to understand a real example. But, as I said elsewhere, the downside of real examples is that they require quite a bit more effort to grasp than contrived ones.

To address your comments:

While it is true that one of the great features (and frequent motivations) for using the Command pattern is the separation of the creation and invocation, it is not the only motivation. The two big payoffs that we are getting are:

- Separation of invocation from the knowledge of how it is carried out

- Composition of complex commands from smaller, simpler commands

There's no requirement that the invoker is never the same as the creator. It's just that most often it isn't, particularly (as you noted) in a worker queue system. That's really just a feature of the implementation that the command readily enables rather than a fundamental property of the pattern. For us, sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't; that's not the primary payoff that we're going for.

I can't support the characterization of this as an Adapter. This is fundamentally behavioral. I have a class that represents an action that I want to have happen. All of the places that want this action do not need to know what is involved, they only need to create the command and hand it off/invoke it.

FWIW - I have five different places in my software that create an AssignCaseCommand.
- One controller

- Three commands that can create this as a sub command

- A utility job

Plus that simple concept is available to any custom implementation code that we write.
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>Why they want to propagate the loneliness and technology-dependence of the modern age onto the truly free societies of the world is beyond me.

Because technology, and therefore it should be better.

Social modes of interaction must obey technological and business developments.

Also fatalism: you can't stop progress.

So, in general, the current way to view technology is the polar opposite of the optimist modernist way of 19th, early 20th century, were people believed they'd be in control.

Now it's all about "adapting".
No. I was not arguing anything about it, but the fact that it is a proper abstraction.

The persistence is part of the domain. You need to know about when your objects are persisted and when they are not, this can be an intrinsic part of some of your business logic. Thus the events are relevant to your domain.

Of course not all your business logic needs to be aware of persistence, and nowhere do you see me arguing that all business logic should be in concerns included into the AR class.

Don't put words in my mouth, and don't assume I am stupid. You are arguing in a rather ad-hominem way, and it is diminutive to your arguments.
The same strategy can be used in dating too.

When you live in a major city and the dating options are boundless, there is always someone around the corner that is "perfect" or more perfect than the current person that you are dating. Next thing you know, you're in your late 30s and still single.
> You're telling me that somehow all these SV douchebags outweigh Hollywood or Wall Street douchebags?

This is not a comparison group you should aspire to be in at all.
I just use the same old .exe that I generate from ninite.com. It takes just one click and I have all my favorite apps running. I just need to install VS2013 and are good to go. It can't be more simple than this.
This opinion piece is insane.

Sending troops in unmarked uniforms with unmarked vehicles to annex the Crimean Peninsula under the pretense of protection from ethnic cleansing, which anyone with access to Facebook and Twitter can easily see is completely manufactured by the Russian propaganda machine, without buy-in from the international community, is an obvious act of aggression. Putin keeps upping the ante because nobody ever bothered to call him on his bluff. The international community consistently let Putin cross boundaries with impunity, and he's been getting more and more insolent with each incident. There comes a time when enough is enough.
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It still amazes me that I'm still getting better as a programmer every day, over ten years later.

Unfortunately, I repeated the same year of experience in the middle a few times...
True.

She's well informed about it, and honestly better than the majority of people in the field, but it still doesn't make the field in general a rational decision. In the end her goal isn't to make money or have tenure, but to do science that changes the world; which I admire greatly.

I could say the same about my friend pursuing music professionally (I myself went to school for music, but I'm now in software and far happier)- I went to school with people who probably haven't made $500 in the past year on music, and also with people who won Grammies recently and are at the top of Pitchfork and Billboard's charts. By no means does it make it rational; its a broken system that hasn't caught up to the 21st century, but overall there are still people in it who will do well no matter how hard it is.

On average, you're right however that the best choices are often somewhere in the middle for most of us.