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Alcohol is addictive. More so than pot for instance, which is often classified as a drug. To be honest, alcohol is a drug also. This is not just my impression: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_dependence#Addictive_...
14.04 has very good HiDPI support per monitor unlike Gnome. I've been using 14.04 for months and am loving it on a retina display for the last few weeks.

The shell scales perfectly, GTK3 apps scale as well. Firefox has the `layout.css.devPixelsPerPx` setting in about:config that you can change to 2 or 4 to make it scale properly.

Chrome doesn't yet support HiDPI screen but setting the default zoom level to 200% does the trick.
You miss my point... how do you "over produce" education?

It is not a 'product' it is a pursuit. It's like saying "Over producing exercise, or happiness".
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Well I think your reply comes off as highly judgmental :P but hey its the internet.

I actually think her general points about the problems in academia are correct but her particular story just smelt wrong.

The common place academic line of reasoning is hopefully to check the facts behind claims.
Almost got the wording perfect! (under shield vs underbody shield)

1 point by utefan001 175 days ago | link

I am sure it is easier said than done, but it seems like the batteries simply need to be better protected. Something like a carbon fiber or titanium under shield.
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Things I would like:

>>> 1) drop the ridiculous Unity desktop. maybe I am old and out of touch, but that was <i>horrific</i>.

1) They continue to not listen to you. :)
Irrelevant. The tech community is not a representative sample of Facebook's user-base.

And looking good and working well are two completely different things.
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I was thinking the same thing. I wish the author didn't single out any group for using this tactic because up until that point, it was a legitimate critique. After that, it felt a little like he was attacking a straw man himself.
I think Ingress is a close match to your description. Also, Lyft and other ride-sharing apps work along the same principles, I think. Similar techniques are also being used for the new-age anonymous messengers, but I may be wrong about those.

I knew of people attempting to create 'discount floats' based on geo-location - as in, a retailer with the app would 'float' a specific discount at a specific point and anyone with the app who happened to pass within a certain radius would get a notification/coupon of the discount.

However, it didn't pick up here in India because smartphones and app downloads weren't all that ubiquitous two years ago, when they tried to implement this idea. Now, the results may be different, who knows.
doesn't disappoint on the title 'responsive', great!

off topic: this is the FIRST site I've seen that used Samsung mobile image to show the responsiveness of the page instead of an iPhone or an iPad

edit: the favicon is not right, when the page is not in focus, you'll see pieces of the white-background left (i have OCD)

http://i.imgur.com/z0LAmnJ.png
Ok may give it a wirl. Have xubuntu at the mo which is not bad.
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THAT'S the problem I had since years of asking and bashing on the nvidia support forum.

And that's why, when a mate asks me which laptop to buy to use with linux, I ever suggest not to buy one with a nvidia gpu because even with bumblebee the user experience is shit.
I live in Brazil, a continent-sized country just like the US and I don't see this phenomenon here.

I don't think this is the problem.
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So you are telling me that its finally becoming feasible to have a Retina Macbook with Ubuntu?

Thats awesome news!
"We believe these changes will also help prevent a fire resulting from an extremely high speed impact that tears the wheels off the car, like the other Model S impact fire, which occurred last year in Mexico. This happened after the vehicle impacted a roundabout at 110 mph, shearing off 15 feet of concrete curbwall and tearing off the left front wheel, then smashing through an eight foot tall buttressed concrete wall on the other side of the road and tearing off the right front wheel, before crashing into a tree. The driver stepped out and walked away with no permanent injuries and a fire, again limited to the front section of the vehicle, started several minutes later. The underbody shields will help prevent a fire even in such a scenario."

This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
Also about Dawkins, while I agree with all that he says, I don´t think he is behaving in a scientific way with religious people.

I mean that if he wants to make people see how the scientific method is vastly superior to religion, I don´t see that pushing them and calling them "dumb" (not literally, but you can feel that´s what he is thinking) is not having just the opposite result, and is making creationists more active in their positions.
It's very different.

Tab, comma, semicolon are actual characters people DO and need to use inside records. So not only they can be typed into records, they absolutely HAVE to be typed for most textual records.

ASCII record separators are not needed inside records at all. If someone adds them "for how it looks", it's his problem.

One (not using a record separator inside a record) is a matter of choice and doing the right thing. The other (not using comma, semicolon or tab) is a non starter.

Obviously there's a difference.
Not all companies are equal.
I'm sorry, but they fix EXACTLY that problem. If you need a UI to work at different sizes... that is what media queries are for.

The design can change quite drastically using media queries. I can look at facebook for about 2 minutes to see how they could improve at different sizes.
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Lost bolt versus a lost $40k battery pack? I'll take the bolt option, please :)
The only difference between alcohol and "drugs" is that alcohol is legal. It's one of the most addicting drugs you can find[1].

Withdrawing alcohol improperly can also lead to permanent brain damage and death[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rational_scale_to_assess_...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_withdrawal_syndrome#Pr...
I recently switched to Fedora 20, and my Optimus is working well there with the nouveau drivers...
That's sad, but you are not doing drugs

serisously, this nonsense has to stop. Alcohol = drugs and whoever tells otherwise doesn't properly understand what drugs are and how they work on your mind and body. Note: I tried a lot of stuff out there, and in the end alcohol is just one of the others, sole difference being it's 'accepted', sort of (btw same is true for quite a lot of the prescription things as well)

- you can quit easily

it's not that easy at all, highly depends on your mindset

just do it!

at least that makes sense :]
Always impressed in the companys ability to push things further. They will do to some of the current manufactures what Apple did to Blackberry and Nokia.
I hope some of some of bankrupt engines go into FOSS domain, and sell support or are supported by community (e.g. Blender).
It took over a year for the whole community to switch from 1.x to 2.x, and the differences between those is much smaller than the UTF-8 system.

(Eg, one of my clients had code with "import *" inside of functions, which no longer worked with 2.x. This syntax error alone was enough to keep them on 1.5.4 for a long time, before finally committing time to make the change.)
If you read Pollan's actual formulation, he deconstructs it further:

• Eat food: real, minimally processed produce, grains, or meats. As opposed to highly-processed, vaguely food-like substances.

• Not too much: addresses the point that, at least as concerns obesity, quantity is crucial. So get that quantity right.

• Mostly plants: here arguments vary, but Pollan's big on vegetables (less so grains and such), and the complex compounds, many apparently helpful, they provide.

His books are quite a delight to read. I recommend them strongly.
Why would Elon choose to post on Medium and not on the blog of Tesla? It would definitively bring more credence to post it on their official website. Until reading near the end I wasn't sure it was a Tesla employee/official or a third party story (and I use the term story here and not article on purpose because usually on Medium it is more stories than facts).
I think your point that everything is oversimplified because of summaries could in part be mitigated by having high schoolers take one philosophy course. I took a couple in college, and I quickly learned there's a reason that simply stated argument have enormous treatises written on them to avoid ambiguity through simplification.
Working in the game industry, I see "what would the market buy?" generating much more crappy content than "what would I like to play?"

Usually it's a mix of both that makes it happen, you start with what you want to play and adapt it so others want to play it too.
I downvoted GP assuming that indeed the GP would tell a depressed person to "stop externalising a blame" and "grow up".

Which is actually quite a good advice for depressed people. Repeat it enough times and watch suicide rate grow rapidly... And depression rates declining!

On a more serious note, people need to understand that the perceived "only in the mind" problems are actually illnesses which are much more deadly than many physiological ones. And that, by telling such things as "stop externalising a blame" (which depressed person doesn't do, anyway), you become partially responsible for the suicide if it happens. Yes, YOU GP are responsible, stop externalizing a blame and live with it. Or better yet, stop spouting nonsense.
here's one right out of my mailbox (edit added subject):

Subject: CORE HOURS -- effective NOW

Group,

It seems my efforts to communicate to you the importance of putting in the time and focusing on * your * research -- again, your, not mine -- are being ignored. I just saw a group of three graduate students going merrily to gym at 4 PM. At the same time, the lab is empty -- most of the day, not to mention evenings.

Here is what is going to happen, effective immediately:

The CORE HOURS for EVERYONE in the lab are from 10 AM to 6 PM. If you prefer to come early I can -- on an individual basis -- allow 9 AM -- 5 PM.

During core hours, I want to see EVERYONE WORKING, if you are not at your desk, you must leave a note where you can be found.

Saturday is the SAME core hours as the rest of the week.

The minumum number of WORK hours I expect -- not schmoozing around, going to gym etc -- is 60 per week,
This means that in addition to 6 * 8 core hours, I expect to see you in the lab for at least additional 12 hrs a week.

Vacation in the group is TWO weeks a year -- in line with the Grad School policy. In special circumstances, I might consider an extra week.

There are NO exceptions to the policy outlined above.

If you have any questions s to the "legality" of these requirements, I suggest you talk to ____ or to the Graduate School officials.

I am sorry it had to come to that but it appears other means of persuation simply fail.
Alcohol is a drug. Unlike most other drugs though, alcohol withdrawal can be life-threatening and often requires hospitalization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_withdrawal_syndrome
Worse, we are now clearly in a world where many developers are entirely unaware of the history of computing before the year 2,000 or so.

I mean, we had "NoSQL" before we had SQL. Tons of schema-less, hierarchical etc DBs, talking directly to your program and such. Anybody that uses them without massive scaling needs doesn't know his history.
I noticed that too but can't tell whether it's a plastic "rivet". If you look at the plastic fairings on your car, you'll see that many are held to the body with a snap-fit plastic connector. These are also used as blind fittings on many interior panels (such as door panels). They break and detach often enough that my local hardware store carries the more common ones.
drinking is just a symptom - real problem is between your ears. you drink to quiet it. until you find a replacement you are fucked. you can't just 'stop'. maybe for a few days or weeks or months, but the consequences of your drinking won't really change.
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I can't find any links ("Yahoo finance 2013" is exceedingly useless) but wasn't that $600M partially/mostly from them selling off stakes in things like AliBaba and not from the core business?
The name was SPECIFICALLY picked to refer to that animation, it's an inside joke kind of thing.
Speaking as a recovering addict and alcoholic, trivializing alcohol addiction and the effort it takes to recover from it is both incorrect and potentially harmful.

Speaking personally, alcohol has been incredibly hard to break away from and did as much or more damage to my life than my other drugs of choice.

Speaking more scientifically, alcohol withdrawal has the potential to kill you if you don't seek help[1]. It's absolutely miserable even when you don't die, of course.

I understand that people can be addicted to all kinds of things, and that some addictions such as gambling have the potential to ruin lives just like substance abuse. However, alcohol is a powerful, absurdly common, physically addictive substance.

Quitting was necessary for me, but a phrase like "you can quit easily, just do it!" is wrong to the point that it's almost offensive.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_withdrawal_syndrome
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Why is this ridiculous? Without Apple/Google, how would you distribute and market your apps?
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KDE is a sane switch. Completely customizable.
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I spent five years on a PhD programme at an elite institute in one of the top four research universities in the UK. Some of the graduate students there were genuinely brilliant. But some couldn't think their way out of a wet paper bag. They still got PhDs, though, because they did everything their supervisor told them to.

Since leaving academia for industry, i have met a few more genuinely brilliant people. But they don't have PhDs, because that's not what you do in industry.

You can't make inferences about people's intelligence from their possession of PhDs. All it tells you is that they are capable of sustained hard work in trying conditions and on low pay, given a sufficient supply of coffee.
Being powerless over alcohol is similar to saying your powerless over a nuclear bomb going off next to you. You have the power not to pick up the first one. Once you start it sometimes can be really hard to stop, and admitting that is the key to not starting. And for most drunks theres no point in drinking one or two drinks anyway. the point is oblivion.
There is nothing modern about that. That's how journalism has always worked.
It helps you frame your point of view and, true, avoid cynicism.

Stupidity can also be more subtle. It's not always clear cut idiocy, there's a continuum between total and absolute head-desk stupidity, and ignorance or information blindness that's outside one's control.

Whereas malice is much less a continuum: the only question is, to what degree is this person an asshole, and when will they strike next? Intentionally and willfully hurting others is another world from anything unintentional.

The law treats it the same way. Hence, I believe it is helpful.

In any case, it's a razor: it separates illogical conceptual rabbit-holes from that which is more likely to be true.
Why would you use Ubuntu if you think Unity is ridiculous? That's like getting a Mac and saying that Apple should drop OS X.

It's very clear that Unity isn't for everyone, but I don't understand why people who know it's not for them seem to still want to use Ubuntu.
I was wondering the same thing, perhaps they're just giving it a go to see if it's a better platform for getting people to read their blog?
Minor quibble - the "here" of "Request one here" is black text on a dark blue background and therefore invisible to me.

Another minor quibble - print the rules for passwords before people submit an invalid one. And if you do force a resubmit, persist all the form settings or you're going to annoy me^Wpeople.
100% agree!

This is very Deming-esque, you know? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
I'm sorry but my first reaction is "What a waste". Titanium is ridiculously expensive for various reasons. The best these engineers could come up with is to put a sheet of metal under the car? You got to be kidding me. I see why they have to use Titanium for it, anything else doesn't work, but it shows how far away this car is from reality and from true mass production.
Ejecta seems to use OpenGL to implement canvas. WebKit (thus Safari) does not do that, and there is significant performance gap there.

Company 100, Inc. maintains a patch to WebKit that use OpenGL to implement canvas. It is not yet merged, but I have tried it and it is significantly faster than stock WebKit for game scenario. So I have no trouble believing Ejecta is faster.

http://www.dorothybrowser.com/portfolio/canvasgl/
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Are there any other car manufacturers that have similar levels of clearance? I'd be intrigued to see how they perform in the same test scenarios that the Teslas were run against.
Check again. Ejecta doesn't support webGL.
But for now you have to adopt a NodeJS to get this benefit, right?
To you and others - i didn't know it's not a drug. It was my opinion, apparently wrong. Thanks for clarifications! Will do beers only on fridays then!
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Yeah, I am pretty sure that Xamarin compiles down to Obj-C on the iPhone, but on Android it includes a VM in java that runs .net (mono).
Is someone able to explain this more?

"Default ground clearance" means the distance between the ground and underside of the car, yeah? How are they able to control that with software?
Honestly, you sound unnecessarily paranoid about this. There are tons of mainstream remote-controllable locks these days. Walk down the door hardware aisle of HD or Lowe's and you'll see multiple options from Kwikset, Schlage, and some off brands as well.

Your insurance does essentially protect you from yourself. As long as you don't do anything that intentionally makes your house more attractive to burglars (like a neon sign in the window indicating door lock status) the likelihood of what you describe (a claim denial) is nil.
Add that to Julie Zhuo (Designer @ Facebook) doing the same thing just a few hours ago and it makes for a very curious confluence, in both cases diminishing the immediate credibility of the articles.
it's good that aa uses the 'god as you understand him' which most people just use that as meaning 'something outside yourself'. its a way to have a consciousness shift and perception change away from negative self talk and see reality as it is not as you interpret it. it can be religious for some, it can just be 'the great unknown' for others. really makes no difference. just that theres something other than your own mind telling you the answers in your head with great authority. its really just a mind trick/hack to get out of a thought loop that leads to harm.
Definitely a plastic rivet. It's too pointy to be a bolt, and you can see the thin 'head' separated from the flange which releases it.
Why not use v8 and make the runtime run "everywhere"?

Edit: Sorry, just realised the development is done in Objective-C.
You'd think this, but it turns out not to be true.

When a person is working under good management, with the autonomy to do what they need to be successful, the ability to get better at their work and master a field, and a clear purpose, responsibility is a given.

It is when individuals are falsely given responsibility for things they cannot possibly control that personal responsibility loses its credibility.

You don't have to blame management (or the system you're in) every time (and most people don't), but you should every time it is true, to preserve the very idea and value of responsibility itself.
"With a track record of zero deaths or serious, permanent injuries since our vehicles went into production six years ago, there is no safer car on the road than a Tesla."

I recall one Tesla caused death[1], and I'm sure there have been more. Not that I really think Tesla is any more dangerous than any other car in this regard though.

[1] http://blog.sfgate.com/energy/2014/02/07/tesla-driver-blames...
Hm, how to differ "i'm addicted and can die" and "i just like beer"? Is there obvious symptoms ?
>This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

ridiculously awesome?
Funny how her screenshot is cleared of ads.
People want to test this car to extremes, it is as if they are subjecting it it the coding equivalent of DDOS attack with some sql injection payload of a Stuxnet virus. Let's see what else the media find wrong with this car, e.g.:

'After flying into a cloud of paint and superglue the windscreen wipers failed to work resulting in a dangerous collision'.

(As if that happens every day and as if any other car would do better.)

If the naysayers keep up their petulant trolling then this car will be good for a road trip in Afghanistan some time soon.
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8gigs of RAM :) ? in my experience not a single byte over 4GB RAM matters in linux desktop. I have (Ubuntu 13.10 on an old sonny vaio core 2 duo) 4GB and with all the workspace open and a virtual box with 1.5GB RAM allocated to it, i didn't reach 3GB (it stays around 2.7-2.8GB).
The Higher spec Model S' has active suspension that will lower the ride height at high speeds to reduce drag. The active suspension's control system was changed to lower it less.
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"With a track record of zero deaths or serious, permanent injuries since our vehicles went into production six years ago, there is no safer car on the road than a Tesla."

I don't doubt that the Tesla Model S is a very safe car as tests have shown. With that said, how many deaths and serious injuries would have been expected considering the same number of miles driven with normal cars? Are Teslas actually substantially safer than other cars or are there just few enough out there that no serious injuries have happened?
V8 only has C++ API which makes it quite inconvinient to use if you aren't using C++.
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All the suspension is electronically controlled for stability and responsiveness. Most expensive cars to that these days.

The software must tell the dampers to ride a bit stiffer stopping the car body being pushed lower at high speeds.
As soon as I have funds to do so, I'm buying a Tesla Model S. I'm amazed at the dedication to the process of building a superior product.
Modern luxury/sports cars have active suspension systems that allow for adjustments in firmness, response, and in this case the ground clearance of the vehicle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_suspension
Exactly why. They're gently poking fun that Tesla vehicles are extremely safe, especially compared to fires - and then sticking it to critics further by actually announcing improvements to further reduce the already very low numbers of fire and further increase the already highest rating ever for a safety check for a vehicle. Well done Tesla and Elon.
Ubuntu is a fairly decent base for a desktop no matter your favorite DE. Their packaging XFCE, KDE and Gnome are as good as any. They are pretty good at getting things working out of the box. Their software is reasonable up to date, and their collections of PPAs are in my experience really up to date on even the most obscure packages. Basically Ubuntu does a lot of things right totally unconnected to Unity.