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'task all' will display all of your tasks with the status (e.g. pending/active/completed).

'task reports' lists a number of all the premade reports that will give you some of the information you are looking for. You can also list reports based on status by doing 'task status:pending'. Please see the docs page (http://taskwarrior.org/docs/tutorials/filter.html) on using filters.

The burndown reports are pretty useful too (they are graphical and can help you visualize that status of a project very easily).
The thing plain wikipedia links lack is context. eg why is this relevant now, what is the angle here, why should I be interested in this etc
I believe the largest tile you manage to get is 65536, that is if every random number falls in the perfect place.

And this would be the largest score you could get on the board:

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512 1024 2048 4096
65536 32768 16384 8192
That's noble and I respect that. Unfortunately it fails to address software patents at all, and that doesn't make the problem go away.

Copyrights are essentially about copying. Patents aren't - you can write a clean-room program that's entirely your own work, absolutely guaranteeing that you aren't infringing anyone's copyright, but it could still infringe a patent you've never heard of. Or you could accept code from a friendly company which has a few defensive patents on it, and some years later the friendly company comes under less friendly ownership and the defensive patents turn offensive.

Apache, being based in the US (which has many software patents) and accepting code from many companies that have patents, has to deal with these scenarios. OpenBSD, being based in Canada (with far fewer - but not zero! - software patents), isn't as affected by it so Theo calls it bullshit. But it's not so black-and-white.
Zuckerberg and Gates did not skip college, they dropped out of college. Big difference. Even Steve Jobs, who I'm not sure ever actually matriculated anywhere, spoke glowingly of a college calligraphy course he audited--and was a huge proponent of education, including college.
Of course there isn't a "white culture" because people are not homogenous in their customs by their skin color alone. Finnish culture is separate from Polish culture is separate from American culture and so on.

Black culture isn't a thing, either. What, you think all people have the same traditions and customs because they have a common skin color? What idiocy. What frivolity. What (inadvertent?) racism.

Being overly attentive to race is not an embracing of their culture. It is a fallacy, a misunderstanding of how the world works under the lens of this Western postmodernist narrative that people as an entire superficial group are responsible for misdeeds of their ancestors, whom they share no relation to whatsoever beyond their whiteness.

You're not embracing culture. You are erasing culture with your narrow, Western-centric guilt narrative where everything works in binaries. That being black dictates a common culture, and that Irish people have no culture, because they're white.

You sound like a racial nationalist.
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Law school has been the fall-back for moderately smart liberal arts students, but law school has gotten the crap kicked out of it over the past decade. It's no longer a "well, I guess I can do that if I can't get a job in literature" plan.
fish2000 probably remembers an earlier version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gD-JnD1DCo
That's like saying locks are one more thing that can be broken, just like the doors. So why do people have locks on doors - in security you put up as many deterrents as practical and hope one of them saves the day. It's generally worth it.
Such pricing on higher education is not a scam, it's a rip off. No matter what Eric Schmidt says, these prices are just crazy. People should not go in debt to gain education.
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It depends on what you want from college. For me, I got almost nothing from the "getting in" but a ton from actually "being there" (in fact, I liked it so much I went back after a few years). One of the problems I see with the debate about college is that people have come to view college as a purely economic investment.

If you are totally self-interested and simply looking to make money, then sure, YMMV. But from a social standpoint, college has great value beyond the economic value it produces for individual students. For example, forcing large groups of young people to come together in a (at least somewhat) scholarly environment exposes them to new ideas and cultural norms and produces adults who are better able to handle diversity and change.
If one person is drawing a paycheck and another is supporting them in that role, then the supporter is putting in a ton of resources, but if the marriage ends, the breadwinner owns the entire "career". So the breadwinner reaps the long term benefits of the career, and the supporter loses everything but whatever skills they gained.

For the supporter, the advantage of legal marriage—where the supporter owns half the assets plus some rights to future earnings—is obvious. Smart, capable supporters know this, and won't make that investment without legal protections. Anything else would be reckless.

The advantage to the breadwinner is that this is a way to get a smart, capable supporter. If you're not willing to provide the legal protections, you're just going to get someone who doesn't really understand the situation and doesn't understand the risks. There's some chance you could find someone who was generally capable, but who was naïve on this point, but that's a smaller dating pool. And I'd argue it's ethically wrong, and the unfairness will eventually degrade the quality of the relationship.

People think alimony is just someone sucking someone dry while doing no work, but it's really just a dividend being paid out from a shared venture that you were both equal partners in.
Ask HN: Why are command line apps the new hot thing on HN?
I've seen close to a bazillion 'X: A command line tool for Y' posts on here - why is this? Surely web apps are much more easy and accessible for users?
They do not pay competitively, especially for people that live in California.

There's a ~5-10x cost of housing difference between where I live now (Texas) and where I lived in California. $22k would not make up that difference.

They're denying themselves access to better people because they can't avoid politics without using blunt instruments. That gives me less rather than more faith in the management.

Their base salaries aren't even competitive for a middle-of-the-road remote expat programmer working out of Thailand.

That having been said, I'm all for more experimentation. Good on them for being willing to take a risk and be open about it.
I totally agree that we need display manufacturers to keep innovating and pushing forward. I'm not certain what I wrote that implied I am satisfied. I am the furthest thing from satisfied with desktop displays. The other rants on my blog should establish that if you have the stomach to read more ranting. :)

I very much want high-DPI in my desktop display. I've repeatedly echoed the point made by henk53 elsewhere in this thread that holding a modern mobile device up to a desktop display shows how divergent the technologies have become.

All that said, I value usable real-estate foremost. So for now, I want my 4K display to be about 40 inches. I don't want to zoom. While I would certainly like high-clarity text and user interface controls, if I am forced to choose between that and real-estate, as I am presently, I will go with real-estate without hesitation.

Both, though? I am sold, where do I send my money?

You inspired me to write a quick follow-up: http://tiamat.tsotech.com/ideal-desktop-displays
The version I remember (from the Mac Classic) didn't do any of that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWV-que3tRU#t=99
I want to say that maybe Sbarro charging $5-8 for a single slice of pizza might also be partial killer, especially in mall food courts where there are generic other selections for far far less.
Sorry to say I don't think dogecoin is going to skyrocket.

I don't think anyone is expecting it to. Hence people are actually using it rather than stockpiling it.
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"My journey into hell began about two months ago when I purchased a new HP laptop computer..." That'll teach you. Next time don't buy HP. Those super cheap laptops come at the price of quality and decent support. You pay for it one way or another. As for the UEFI being bad or not working well with Linux, I disagree. I think you just don't know what you're doing and HP support is bad with no documentation.
Hah awesome, this car was put together in my father-in-law's garage. Great to see them getting some recognition finally.
What makes you think people will hold the same career their entire lives? Or that that is even a desirable goal?

A major advantage of college is that it teaches people how to learn, analyze, and reason generally--skills which make it easier for them to change careers later in life.
I've been meaning to try tracking what I do throughout the day and then keeping a log of that in a journal like Day One and/or service like iDoneThis.

This looks like a great way to accomplish that. Will be trying it tonight while I work on some stuff.
I believe this is a myth. The product key is stored using ACPI, not UEFI. Even MS mentioned that you can switch to BIOS mode in order to install 32-bit Win8.
And it's already enabled in Firefox OS on devices that have seccomp support in their kernel.
"shut the hell up, strategize, build and iterate"

I've got a few rules like, "personal autonomy trumps most bullshit", "strict separation of church and state (means .gov and .mil and .edu)" "lots of checks and balances (judicial, legislative, executive, media, direct democracy)", um, and so on

I do not believe in innate human rights, I only believe in asserting ideals but I am completely aware that your ideals and my ideals may differ.

Most days I sympathize with the anarchist ethos, I align myself with organisations like the FSF and EFF and ACLU (and the global and European equivalents: FSFe and so forth)

What does that make me I wonder? Do you mean consequentialism in the philosophical sense - as in, to be contrasted with deontology?
Nowhere in this article does it say "Don't go to college".
Hi-- thanks for the answer, it seems a lot clearer now that you've written it down.
I don't really have a need for the whole map though but if I could integrate a google maps powered input with suggestions, that would be ideal. Is that possible?
have you heard about PathGL?
Nah, I think they're just enabled here by default to show them off. You can fiddle with them with CSS3 font-feature-settings properties: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-featur...
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>The whole education process, at least for the technology field, should be revamped towards apprenticeship.

Disagree, at least in the case of developers, and possibly ops/sysadmins. I simply don't want to work with people who don't understand the basic underpinnings of our work. I expect my co-workers to understand things like the relational model and relation algebra/calculus, SQL, OOP, DRY, writing reusable libraries, the OSI stack/model, some basic data structure/algorithms (trees, searches/sorts, graphs, Djikstra's algo, TFIDF, etc), complexity analysis, some basic design patterns (pub/sub, consumer/producer, MVC, DI/IOC, and various other Computer Science and Software Engineering concepts. I haven't learned the most abstract stuff in my time in industry thus far, and I certainly don't think most devs/engineers have either. We learn things like frameworks, languages, platforms, and sometimes a design pattern here or there, but the basic underpinnings were all learned under formal study in a university CS (and sometimes math) program.

In the end though, maybe this is just my subconscious "elitist CS grad that wants to believe his time in university was worth it and well spent" speaking.
Loaded question much? Sounds like you already have your mind made up.
> Law school has been the fall-back for moderately smart liberal arts students...

So what happens to the "smart" liberal arts students if the "moderately smart" go to law school and the "not smart" presumably get jobs flipping burgers? Or were you just casually insulting people who decided, for various reasons, to study fields other than engineering?
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This sounds like secure boot's "Custom Mode." 'Certified for Win8' requires that all non-ARM machines support either Secure Boot Custom Mode or SB disabled. I would hope they would support custom, but that's the manufacturer's prerogative.
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Fixed in 1.2.0, should be up on Google Play soon. I've added it as a achievement by the way, You're a real master.
Not quite true - the expensive private schools will make sure to suck you dry as much as possible before filling in the rest. One of my colleagues while I was in grad school mentioned to me that he went to Princeton for undergrad, and the school pretty much took all spare $ they could, even his inheritance once his grandmother died.
> Did you not read what I said?

Have you?

> And people wonder how people who aren’t white or male (or straight, or christian) make less money.

And you're suggesting that therefore I, too, should make less money, even though my choice not to do so will make no difference in the world.

Sorry, but I don't think your demands are reasonable. I'd rather make the most money I can (without abusing others), and help others when I'm already in power.

Speaking of morality and supporting the evil status quo, how many loafs of bread did you throw away this year (while people in India are starving), how many Chinese T-shirts have you bought (while the child workers making them are worked to death), how many times did you not donate your hard-earned money (while the children in Africa are dying of malaria), how many times did you not protest while your government's agents were abroad, killing "terrorists" and their children without any judicial (or any other) oversight? Morality is a bitch.
No, I'm not. You're twisting my words to fit your agenda.

By dividing complex social issues into dichotomies of "oppressor versus oppressed" and allowing double standards as a perverse form of reparation for past injustices that current generations no longer have to suffer from, you are exacerbating the issue of race.

The ultimate goal should be to render race as a non-defining characteristic, one that should not cloud peoples' judgement or fuel their insensitivity. Instead, what's going on is that we're turning race into an emotional circus.

The fact is that being white by itself does not mean your ancestors were involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Mine were too busy being under Ottoman rule. Conversely, being black does not make you exempt. Many tribal warlords traded slaves with the Europeans voluntarily. There were some few thousand or so black slave owners in the USA before abolition.

People are not responsible for what their ancestors perpetrated in the past, and the world does not revolve around the West. Yet these ideologies of white guilt and reparation act like it's exactly that way.

What you're doing is turning race into a novelty.
Actually, it is not that difficult to dual boot Windows/Linux with UEFI. You just need more understanding about this whole thing. I can recommend Arch wiki article:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firm...

And http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/

Kernels 3.3+ can be loaded from EFI partition directly without additional bootloader, no need to wrestle with grub-efi. This blog explains required configuration: http://wolfwings.dreamwidth.org/224805.html
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I am not a Lawyer, but I'm pretty sure in the US, she could sue as well.
Inland central and southern California need air-conditioned spaces to escape the summer heat. Coastal, not so much.

Or were you referring to the consumer productivity lost studying the grass or feeding squirrels and pigeons rather than paying attention to the fabulous product offerings in the mall curriculum? God forbid people obtain value without anyone profiting; think of the children!
support for downloadable fonts and google fonts in particular is in the works!
No installers and updaters popping up for me (other than the usual windows update one just like OSX/Ubuntu), tray has 6 icons in it (less than my Mac's bar at the top right), the install is 2 years old - no degradation, package manager - nope never I mean we don't use MSI's and MSU packages at all, alt-tab?, ruby I agree with, python is nice on windows (.chm help)...

I can't open windows on AWS when someone digs up my Internet connection...
Completely agree on your #2 - even in cases where management sincerely believes that they are "open and honest", if you haven't established trust at all levels the rumor mills will fire up as soon as closed door meetings happen.

Even worse (and I've seen this probably too many times): at various meetings talk about openness, transparency, etc. - then a day or two later announce a reorg, let a few people go and send vague boilerplate e-mail to all hands.

I'm always amazed at various managers/leaders that are totally oblivious to the fact that they are developing their own reputations primarily through their actions and the opinions of "ex" employees. If you're a shop in town with more 'ex' employees in the general workforce than actual employees, smart people will figure it out.
> spending 4 years on a campus with thousands of other young people who are all there to learn and explore is transformative. You don't get that once you hit the real world.

It depends on the school. Most colleges aren't exactly an intellectual environment where people talk about singularity and high tech over lunch. I'll have much better luck finding a qualified cofounder just living in the Bay Area and going to meetups than at your average college that's not Harvard or Stanford.
I don't think it matters whether it was reported. Unless the founder gives his wife an explicit role and tells employees where he ends and she beings, it's fair to assume that low-level employees are going to assume he is fully aware of her interactions, and she is acting as his right hand.

I realize that's a lot of assumptions, but that's why the founder needs to get out in front of these things and make them explicit.
What's not true about what I said? Princeton isn't one of the schools that has tuition reductions for middle-income families.
Greyp! Hey not bad! Personally I'm not a huge fan of the aesthetic, it looks very much like a utility to me. But it's cool.
Julie described the group of men as 'gawking'; as far as I'm aware, this is more or less interchangeable with the term 'ogling', in common use here in the UK. This is significantly different from just staring - it implies a sexual undercurrent, i.e. paying particular attention to someone's physical characteristics. Maybe this is a cultural thing, but the clear implication in the original report was that the staring/ogling was inappropriate, particularly because it was undertaken by a group solely consisting of men.
Sorry, I was thinking about installing Win8.1 with a Win8 product key.
Talk about double standards. Get chastised for relationship with co-worker, When other co-worker impedes company growth (reverting commits) out of spite for rejection, they do nothing? Holy crap.

It's hard to imagine this level of social dysfunction. Doesn't help for the reputation of engineers and technology being socially inept.
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Yeah, I know. But it's possible they'll go a bit more mass market in the future. But, like I said, I doubt it will happen any time soon with such a big jump.
Well, you could include the standard file operations (launch program by doubleclicking that file, save that particular file; secure "save-as" selection provided by OS) as managed parts of the sandbox; and have a functional app that is unable to open&change any files that the user doesn't intentionally choose.
Doubt this logo transitions well to print.
I took a business meeting in Houston one time, and my colleague kept telling me that the office was "in the mall." That seemed very odd to me, but there was a massive office building attached to the mall. Not a bad idea I guess considering the summer weather in Houston.
That's true, but this particular problem is not representative of the value of college in general.

I would have no objection if Peter Thiel and others were saying "hey maybe it's not worth all that debt for you to go to a top school." But that's not what they are saying. The message is "college is not worth it at all."

And Thiel might be right that some people don't need college--and those are the people he wants to fund. But that is a tiny tiny slice of humanity.

Do we really want tech to be like pro sports or music, where millions of kids make bad life decisions because they assume they'll make the big time? If Jay Z told high school kids they don't need college because they can become hip hop superstars like him, you would probably mock him. But that is exactly the same as saying that kids don't need college because Zuckerberg.
Without saying anything about the question of sexism at Github (which I know nothing about), I get the sense that Horvath is a complex character. It is difficult to know what is fact and what is spin.
> The Ministry of Defence is developing a secret, multimillion-pound research programme into the future of cyberwarfare, including how emerging technologies such as social media and psychological techniques can be harnessed by the military to influence people's beliefs.

They should rename it to Ministry of Truth, then.
The CLIs in these languages are mostly not widely used, provide only few features and are poorly integrated in the language.

Plus, most don't implement Lisp's READ EVAL PRINT LOOP, but a simpler command line interface.
Bit of a me too comment, as in, that is what I was thinking as well - I have come to the judgment that the number of libertarians in HN is small though larger than other such communities. It makes you wonder.
Count me as interested. I've been trying to think of a distributed solution to squatting and fraud but I've had very little luck coming up with anything workable.
While you are right to note that the person signing your checks holds many of the strings, it is also true that each employee is an autonomous unit with values that they live by and advocate for, resources that they control and steward, and a contract for value exchanged.

An HR department absolutely works to protect the company, but a good HR department will also work to protect the employees, because in the long view that is also beneficial to the company. And many HR people who I've talked to specifically enjoy their jobs because they like working to make employees lives better. Where their directives conflict with that they will try to fight the directives.

Certainly in some cases where there is a unresolvable conflict between employee and employer, HR will work against the employee. But for a good HR department those situations should be very few. A good HR department will be able to project forward into a long enough view that they can find ways to move forward amicably that protect both the employee and the employer, to everyone's benefit.
In that case, it's not that college isn't right for you, it's that you're not at the right college.

I live in the Bay Area now and have gone to many meetups, and I have to unequivocally disagree that it's better than college for meeting people.