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> I'm just wondering if there's some set of variable assignments that actually behaves differently depending on which of these two presented patterns are used. So I'll need to do some testing I think.

You could be onto something, I'd love to hear if you come to any conclusions about that. Off the top of my head I can't actually think of anything since as far as I can tell, the only difference is that one `var` statement is used and in the other it's one for each variable - they are still declared in the same place.

As for the code smell thing, that's a good point. I think after roughly the same amount of time using multiple vars would cause the same indication but it's probably more obvious with single var.
It's not just the photo. It's the vastly increased hit area for answering.

I have photos for all the people I'm close to.
True, but (while possible) it's not straightforward to block access to specific files only. The same user agent is also used for Google Custom Search if you're using that. And it's still going to be hammering your firewall (although admittedly that's less catastrophic than trying to download a 10MB file repeatedly).
I was thinking of getting a new phone as well.
Thank you! Reading some of these posts, I was worried that it was some law of providence that when you've been writing software for some number of years (15-20?) you magically stop wanting to learn about new tools. As a new tools junky, I was worried. I'm glad to see someone who's been doing this since I was 1 year old still loves learning new tools.
Right but you have to pay extra for Windows instances. I think shuzchen is saying you can't install windows yourself at the linux box prices (EC2) whereas with a dedicated box can run whatever you want.
microwaves induce a current in metal. if there's a gap for that current to jump, you'll see it jump, and it'll probably cause problems including fire, but if there's no gap to jump, all that voltage potential just stays in the metal.

put a table spoon in the microwave and turn it on - nothing happens. i do this all the time when reheating soup.

i've won money on small bets like this too. non-technical people have no idea WHY metal poses a problem in the microwave, so i just bet them $10 that i can put a spoon in there without problems and they never believe me. they just think i have special spoons.
I don't understand, but I am not very knowledgable about this any of this. My understanding is that fsync is an instruction to command the physical disk to flush its write buffer to the non-volatile (platters/flash) portion of storage, so it is safe to yank the cord from the wall.

In your scenario, it seems like you could have a situation where the temp file and the data are sitting on RAM inside the HD.

I honestly don't see how multiple processes that share a single physical disk can't get trashed by a processes that instructs the disk to constantly flush the buffer. It seems like asking for a network interface that doesn't slow down the network due other processes.
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Thank you yarinb! Invite received.

I now have two invites, who wants them?

Edit: Sent one to lbr, I now have one left.
Have him write down his questions before he goes in for his visits. Get answers to his questions.

Excellent advice.

From my reading and personal experience, having a patient advocate significantly improves patient outcomes.

When I'm volunteering, and the patient wants my help, I first capture all the questions, I act as secretary during the doctor's visit (making sure every question is asked, capturing all the answers), and then I review the notes with the patient afterwards.

Doctors visits are extremely stressful for most patients. And they're medicated. So lots of details would otherwise get lost.
She doesn't come off well in those comments, but neither does the Forbes writer. Journalistic etiquette and best practice is to ask someone for comment if you're going to be writing about her. Ideally, you should make that attempt in earnest and in advance.

If, as alleged, he emailed her at 10:50pm the night before he went to press -- and then said "she could not be reached for comment" and/or "she did not respond" -- he was being either lazy or disingenuous in that regard.

Her Twitter comments make her sound petty, but at least one of her complaints seems legitimate. She felt that she got railroaded here.
Congrats on the pay grade! but you need to look at averages not anomalies like yourself

300k is definitely not the tract most programmers are on
Used this on many project, great library.
Sorry, it's hardly been unusable.

I've had almost zero issues with iOS 7.0 - most of my gripes are my dislike of the new icons and bad discoverability (e.g.: casting a song to airplay /bluetooth speaker), but none of that made the phone unusable. The control center by itself makes iOS7 better than iOS6.
Eventually the gas in the bulb expands too much and the bulb itself shatters. In my experience, other than having to clean up the broken glass, the microwave still runs fine. At one point we had a bulb where the glass expanded out enough to ease the pressure created. We could use it again and again.

Maybe it's a bad thing to do, maybe there's some horrific gas that's created. Someone on here could weigh in on that. It's an incredible effect though and I'd happily do it again.

Obviously, general disclaimers on looking after your own health and safety apply.
Edit: I've got 0 invites left - thanks for sharing!
re: "for the modern man"

> The use of man in this context is androgynous.

No, its not, even if it was intended that way.

> It's merely an abbreviated use of "mankind," which is an abbreviated use of "humankind."

"Humankind", "Mankind" (and "man" when used in a sense that is semantically-equivalent to the other two) are mass nouns that do not take articles ("the" or "a"). In the case of "humankind" or "mankind", using an article is just plain incorrect (consider, "one giant leap for the mankind" vs. "one giant leap for mankind"), whereas for "man" the use of an article can distinguish between the sense of "an individual adult male human" and "humankind" (consider "the story of man" vs. "the story of a man".)

So, no, in "for the modern man", "man" doesn't work as a shortened form of "mankind".
Radiation oncologist here.
It's impossible for me to say much, but his drop in estimated survival rate is probably not strictly related to his tumor being infected. However, he probably has some sort of genetic predisposition to have cancer at such a young age, which can also have an impact on survival.
That being said, a few things to keep in mind: survival estimates are notoriously bad. Moreover, oncologists tend to do a poor job of communicating those estimates. 35% chances of being alive in 2 years? in 5 years? alive but living with "active" cancer? Very important points.

A reasonable thing to do would be to ask his oncologist "if there are any other options he could think of". It's simple, but usually it forces us to reconsider the problem from scratch. I must warn you though that in a 19 y.o., we (oncologists) usually think very hard and rarely leave any stone unturned.

From experience, the best a friend can do is simply be there and "act normal" ie don't overdo it. No need to do anything special.

Good luck -- sometimes luck is all it takes
Oh, I hadn't got the part in which these small networks depend on a superset (ie university), I thought you were validating people yourselves.

In this case this change entails a higher leap. Then, consider talking again in how different is his proposition from what you want to achieve, and how better it is for him (as an investor who wants his investment to succeed) to go your way, not his way. Well, I assume you've already done that, but do it again. You should win him to your side or skip him.
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Thanks yarinb! I have 2 if anyone wants one!

Edit: corrius got the first one, one left
I believe http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/ is what you're looking for.
I'll have one if you have a spare

mersey@lime29.com

Cheers
Same exact thing happened to me! Brand new hot starbucks green tea spilled all over my 4 month old MacBook Air mid-2013. I was devastated. Stupidly I tried to turn it on right after the spill and it turned on for a moment then shut off and wouldn't turn on again. I put the keyboard face down on paper towels and indirectly in front of a fan for a few days and it came back to life! I now have a keyboard spill guard of course...
scriptcs, too: http://scriptcs.net/
One: this post is insanely douchey. Chill.

Two: it's much harder for a game developer than a web developer. (I do both.) Game development is much, much more like doing a soup-to-nuts startup than it is "a web developer", the demand is in aggregate much lower than the supply, and with entire segments of the market you can't even seriously playtest something for viability until you've basically built the damn thing. (So if you don't care much about the social space or something easily done with a tool like Unity, I hope you like sunk costs.) I'm going to have spent over a full year building out a vertical slice of this game and I can do so because I both enjoy the genre and have that kind of time and money to throw around.

There is no good way to compare "a web developer" and an indie game developer and you should kind of be embarrassed for trying to light up the guy you replied to when you haven't the foggiest.
Can you make one of those for MtGox?
Thanks, etjossem!

Got 1 invite.
Awesome, Thanks Chris
Why are there questions asking if people prefer having [feature] or not having [feature]? And more importantly, why are people voting for the latter one?
Hey Thomas, thanks for your comments.

1) Every username system has some limitation on usernames. Look at Twitter. There are 650 million twitter users, and all of them picked usernames in the same global namespace. This demonstrates that using a global namespace is quite doable.

2) You're right, people usually have multiple Bitcoin addresses and quite a few people prefer to use different addresses for different transactions. However, the protocol is extensible and is not limited to a single address. In the future, the protocol will support a list of bitcoin addresses instead of a single address. Further, you can use a hierarchical bitcoin address and direct people to different addresses in the hierarchy. In that sense, the bitcoin address listed is just a way to identify the tree of addresses the user owns. Last, the protocol supports data to be linked to from the blockchain, so if you want, you can have a next pointer lead to an API endpoint that returns a different bitcoin address every time.

3) As far as supporting only [a-z0-9_], those are the characters that most username systems support, including twitter. Some say this is due to the fact that those are the only "word" characters. Also, using this set makes it more difficult to confuse addresses. The domain name system has similar restrictions for similar reasons. I know that international readability takes a bit of a hit, but I'm sure we'll find ways to improve the experience. We're all up for suggestions.
Second this. My roommates go to an annual swordfighting festival and always bring back as much homebrewed mead as they are allowed to buy. It's the nectar of the gods.
I'm not sure what tech you'd use on Windows for that - there's no container-like concepts available on Windows as far as I know.
Fructose. Otherwise agree on low carb, especially no HFCS.

A buddy got prostate cancer, switched to only meat and veggies, survived (then 10 years). I have no idea it it helped. At the time I thought he was cuckoo (for Cocoa Puffs). But now that I've adopted the troglodiet (tm), I think maybe he was on to something.
>not anomalies like yourself

Several people I know are in that range. But they all specialize in one thing or another.
Ok, there's mainly negative of mitigated feedback here. Let's go further in the discussion with positive feedback.

So, I personally own some kimsufi's, and I run a hosting structure for CS students with another since 4 years.

The things you have to know about Kimsufi is:

- they are full dedicated servers, fully capable of handling a decent charge

- they are second hand hardware, already made profitable (that's why the price is so low)

- you should change change them every 4 years so that you won't run into hardware issues

- you can do whatever you want with them, there's really no chance to lose a kimsufi thanks to the remote control console which can make a reboot on a minimal image

- you can do whatever you want with them, really. The bandwidth is really free and unlimited, no bullshit.

- the OVH network is really strong. In 5 years of use, I've never seen any downtime of any of my servs.

For me, that's the best choice for non-critical hosting.
They are unbelievably much cheaper than everyone around (except online.net, who has a weaker network), with twice as many features, their greatest community manager is the CEO (checkout @olesovh), things just work everyday. When they don't, just check http://travaux.ovh.com . No bullshit about the problems (cc PlanetHoster, DreamHost and the like).

I'll be happy to answer questions if you have.
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For a browser that runs JS the author mentions PhantomJS, but looks like its Python support is iffy. Mechanize is super-easy in Python:
http://www.pythonforbeginners.com/cheatsheet/python-mechaniz...

Edit: so easy, in fact, that I prefer to just START with using mechanize to fetch the pages--why bother testing whether or not your downloader needs JS, cookies, a reasonable user agent, etc--just start with them.
Any idea how much it costs to have a disc pressed? For some things of mine it might be worth it.
The problem with EDA software is that, to a first approximation, the number of users of EDA software is zero.

This is why EDA software sucks so badly. The bug discovery rate is abysmal. Couple this with the fact that the number of EDA programmers is even closer to zero, and you have a recipe for a horrible industry.
I see no reason to ditch Perl. I've been using Perl for years and I use it at my company with little problems. For our SaaS web application Perl is a perfect fit and allows us to code very quickly.

Also, Perl's CPAN gives us access to so much it's incredible.

I think Perl is still ahead of it's time and the best days for Perl are still ahead.
You use sat nav for your morning commute ?
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> maintaining half a million lines of code

10 young guys? Sheesh, back in my day it was just two of us, and that's how you started. Learned a lot about systems, architecture and most of all, how NOT to code. It really is a crime youts of today don't have to slog through legacy for a year or two before being given the keys to the sexy projects.

I wonder what all that google legacy code looks like, and how often the n00b says "I can't understand all this, I'm going to rewrite it all from scratch."
That said, de-biasing it by making it randomly switch sides would likely cause confusion. "Old" vs. "New" could probably be reworded pretty easily though to be more neutral yet still descriptive.
I didn't do anything at work today. Thanks.
Let me guess, you're a man?
Old cars used to have the high beam switch down there, a totally reasonable concept. A switch that instantly throws every pilot and controller in the area into panic mode? I want to meet the people who approved that and see what their Pro/Con list looked like.
This is actually a good method: by using this method (avoiding up and favouring down), you tend to cluster 2s and 4s towards the top while larger numbers percolate downwards (and towards the middle). If you encourage this natural tendency, you can do even better.

When you're nearly stuck, you can often pick left or right so that a new tile can access both 2 and 4 and save yourself.

I got comfortably to 1024 with one go of this method, scoring 16744.
Can you give an examples political considerations that are out in the open in a formal org compared to open allocation? I think you could make a case for the opposite.
I've never seen Mad Men, but your comparison seems at least a little unfair..."Seven proxies" should make your eyebrow raise whether or not you're aware of the original joke.

Because, in your words, someone should know on the face of it, that "seven proxies" is implausible? Please explain how I should know that. Would it be worse or better if it were 6 or 8? Please answer from first principles concerning network technology. (The fact that you are not accounting for the fact that there are multiple interpretations to the term "proxy" makes my eyebrows raise.)
I know for sure (because I was testing something where a contact had a weird photo) that on 7.0.6 it did the 'small circle contact photo on incoming call' thing. Was full screen photo only activated for high res photos?
I got a score of 12640, not far off...

Very simple strategy: propagate large values upwards (never press down).
Yeah, and the "experimental class" thing was why I never really understood why they banned the tunnel hulls. It's too bad in a way, because in some conditions they might have been competitive with the unstable skiffs that dominated until the foils came along.

I'm in Australia, and we just sail off the beach, and the Scow shape was perfect for that.

There's an excellent discussion of the design at [1]. I have to say I'd love to try out a foiling Moth one day though.

[1] http://www.moth.asn.au/forum/3-hull-shape/533-scows
Got 1 invite if anyone wants one?
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"What we have done is actually look into the recording on the radar that we have and we realised there is a possibility the aircraft did make a turnback," Rodzali Daud, the Royal Malaysian Air Force chief, told reporters at a news conference.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/09/malaysia-airlines-...

The problem I have with the above statement is that radar is unambiguous. Either the aircraft turned back, continued on, descended rapidly below radar coverage or broke in to bits. They all have different returns so you can't say "it may have possibly..."
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Thanks for mentioned this. My first time through, I definitely did the push away thing. It's normal. Fortunately, my family and dear friends ignored my bad behavior and kept coming back.
bump :P would be really interested to hear from you
Many people here work at companies that are on the PRISM list

And many, many more work at companies that would very much like to be acquired by a company on the PRISM list.
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Probably for more or less the same reason that you are using your computer to chat online, rather than dedicating all of its cpu cycles for science.
The answer call screen that only requires a tap and not a swipe is only used when the phone is unlocked, which is how it worked in 7.0 as well. A locked phone still requires a swipe to answer the call
"Okay, fine, downvote, but at least mention which part of that statement you disagree with."
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I found your post highly insightful, as a 20-something generalist. Thanks for sharing.
I think the biggest issue with nuclear energy is public trust. It was broken with Chernobyl, and broken again with Fukushima. I've always been pro-nuclear, and have spent a lot of time arguing why it's better than many of the alternatives, especially coal. But people just don't trust it anymore. It may not be a problem in China, but in democratic countries it's a big problem.

One of the things I and many pro-nuclear people claimed was that todays reactors were designed with so many safeguards and precautions and what-ifs that the risk of a large scale disaster was so slim that it could pretty much be discounted. Chernobyl was an understandable one-off.

And people believed this story. The public's perception of nuclear energy was just about recovered when Fukushima happened.

Fukushima exposed real problems with TEPCO and their planning that went undiscovered by Japans nuclear agency or the IAEA. You would think that they would have planned for this worst case scenario, but they didn't (they did not expect a tsunami to knock out the generators). So how can we expect people to feel safe about other nuclear plants? We can again try to explain all the safeguards, but they will remain unconvinced because the trust is again lost.

Like if you tell an airline passenger that it's extremely unlikely for turbulence to cause damage to the aircraft and then half a wing breaks off, they're not going to trust you again no matter what you say, even though what you said was true.

So now we will have to wait even more years to gain the trust back by having a perfect safety record. Except for the next 20 years or so we will have gradual news to remind us about Fukushima as they bit by bit disassemble the plant and learn more about what exactly happened in the reactors.
Or the reporter was talking about his previous work, and took the quote completely out of context. Or the reporter was told to deliver the story, and just plain lied. Have you ever dealt with an actual reporter?
I like Fritzing, I felt I picked it up quickly enough not to bother me. But It needs someone to update it with the latest sensors releases, or it's a case of just going through the time consuming motions of creating your own instances over and over. Anyway, I like it. I think it can be improved.
Is the Big Bang a black hole?
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Stanford's recruiting schedule seems to move earlier every year. There was a major intern-focused career fair at the beginning of October.