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Yesterday I was sitting with a friend's young boy who was showing me some math games on a tablet. These are games designed to teach simple addition, subtraction, etc to young children.

What amazed me was how intense the push for in-app purchasing was! Every one of the several games had a popup after each level or activity that would offered some in-game "power-up" for just $0.99 or various amounts. It wasn't just that you could make an in-app purchase, but that the app was very aggressively pushing it. He told me, "my mom says I can't do that", but the "no" button was much smaller and harder to press than the yes button, visually.

His mom indicated that he had made such purchases before, and so far she hadn't found a way (on this particular tablet) to disable in-app purchases.
Check out the teslamotorsclub.com forums, become part of the community, make some friends, crash^H^H^H^H^H drop in on one of their outings or get-togethers. While it isn't every single owner, a surprising number of them are very happy to give detailed tours of their cars and even test drives. In that aspect, it is a very very different population from other luxury or high-performance vehicle owners.
"As another poster mentioned, addiction is about getting away from some kind of unbearable inner pain"

Could you please give ideas how to id that pain?

To be personally specific, my mother never told me positive things, always comparing me to some perfect ideal, and I also was beaten up for not good grades. These seem a "perfect" explanation from what I've read, but still I don't really see them as the cause of my procrastination, addictions, and feeling tired, sometimes down, and with no energy. ..So, any ideas how to id my pain, if I have one? Thanks.
What about the support coming to an end for the desktop versions ?
This is why browsers show you the link target in the status when you hover a link. It reads "googleads..." when you hover it, so those who still think it's legitimate when they see that deserve to get pwned.
It may not be a new approach. But I liked how the kid experimented and tried to think of other ways to solve an issue.

It's the spirit behind that counts. It can lead to other interesting hacking endeavors down the road in that young man's life.
I'm just like you -- a developer with an addiction. But my addiction is different... and illegal. I'm not motivated unless I'm high on fake aka K2. If you haven't heard of 'fake', it's basically a really strong marijuana with research chemical additives.

Since gas stations started selling it 3 years ago, I became addicted and when they were banned from selling it I had to find more. I found it online and have been ordering it every since. I leave work early sometimes so I can go smoke it. The only downside I've noticed, is that I'm less sociable (in person) because of how I look when I'm high (red eyes, droopy eyelids) and it makes me tired extremely fast. Sometimes I will wake up at my computer desk wondering when I fell asleep or how long I've been out. I'm sure it's probably not good on my lungs either, but I smoke cigarettes so I'm used to knowing I'm harming my body internally. I just love the way it makes me feel, almost like a reward. I use it as an award for coding something beautiful. "Oh that code actually worked?! Time to smoke."

I hope we both find help. We need it.
Well the chances of actually penetrating the aluminum shell of the battery pack seem pretty low anyway. They are just answering the media shit storm they get for any little problem with an equally over kill replacement that will lead to media shit storm.
>Alcohol withdrawal can kill late stage addicts

This is correct and very very important. Your brain is physically changed. Alcohol's primary effect is the increase in stimulation of the GABAA receptor, promoting central nervous system depression. With repeated heavy consumption of alcohol, these receptors are desensitized and reduced in number, resulting in tolerance and physical dependence. When alcohol consumption is stopped too abruptly, the person's nervous system suffers from uncontrolled synapse firing. This can result in symptoms that include anxiety, life threatening seizures, delirium tremens, hallucinations, shakes and possible heart failure.[55][56] Other neurotransmitter systems are also involved, especially dopamine, NMDA and glutamate.[12][57]. Please do it with professional help, in a hospital setting. An addition recovery/psychiatric hospital, not a "normal" hospital. Search online or in the yellow pages. You may have to travel some to get there. I've seen many addicts withdraw and some have no problem, but some have life threatening seizures and other absolutely terrible physical symptoms. I heard one person say "this is the worst pain I've ever experienced in my life!" Also, not being able to leave prevents you from drinking to stop the symptoms, they are locked facilities, when you sign yourself in you agree to be there for at least 3 days. The hospital will provide you with proper aftercare as well, tailored to your needs. They will also control your symptoms with medication, depending on what the symptoms are. You get checked up on constantly. Getting the psychiatric care from the hospital (and followup) will help you get to the root of the problem - why you drink - and you can treat that, instead of just treating the addition itself.

All this care is generally covered by insurance.

If you aren't very religious, please skip AA and all the twelve step programs. They are really offensive to atheists and non believers. (I have read part of the AA "big book" and had to stop because I couldn't take any more. The section on "what if I don't believe in God" was especially offensive) Seek CBT or other non-twelve step treatments. Again, the hospital will help with finding a program for you and referring you there, often taking care of the paperwork for you.

You have acknowledged you have a problem and wish to get help. This is the most important step. Please note: this will not be an easy journey, this will be difficult. You will have to work for it. You probably will have to change many things about yourself, including your thinking.

Good luck and I truly wish you the best. I am always happy when addicts get better, I grew up with an addict parent, and I know what it can do to yourself and others around you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism
Why would an AI cause any more issues than any other malicious hacker? I'm pretty sure that humans can be assholes too.
An email address is required for healthcare.gov now. Internet access at home isn't mandatory as long as the Federal government funds local libraries.
Parenthetically, but recently it seems that academics have formed some kind of collective Stockholm Syndrome regarding their careers, where a tenure-seeking goonswarm piles on anyone who points out how toxic academia has become.

Not that the academy ever needed an excuse for its viciousness(to paraphrase Sayre's law, the politics are so ugly because the stakes are so small), but these days it seems like many academics compete to prove that they deserve abuse. Philosophy professor? You deserve nothing more than to eat dogfood in an unheated flat! Grad student? Be grateful for the chance to be sexually harassed and/or emotionally abused by a credit-grabbing tenured sadist! PhD candidate? You're a worthless drain on productive society, just like the rest of us! How dare you try to negotiate a job offer! How dare you point out that grad programs are human-destroying slaughterhouses of hope!

I've never felt better about my decision not to go back to grad studies. And I've never felt worse about never feeling better.
I was really hoping the "developers" portion would announce a Xamarin acquisition. Maybe at BUILD, but curiously as this talk was going on I got an email from Xamarin telling me to visit them at BUILD.
And they were aware of the problem.
I used to work as a web editor at a daily newspaper. One of my daily responsibilities was to write and post short blurbs about lottery results and beach surf conditions. They both were extremely formulaic, so I wrote push-button scripts that would fetch the data, parse it, and generate stories. Saved me time, which I used to do other, more important things.

Some people have said, "Why not just display the raw data?"

Well, to save you the trouble of having to analyze the data.

For instance, suppose I've written a Powerball results script that lists the winning numbers, along with which states had winners.

If I'm just spitting out the raw data, then people might miss the fact that one of the winners was from our state -- whereas if I'm generating a story, I'm going to make that the lede.

Similarly, the magic of a company like Narrative Science and its Quill service is not in taking a ton of data and filling in a bunch of blanks with the values, Mad Libs style. It's in analyzing the data and figuring out what the most important parts are, and constructing a story around those findings.

In other words, it's not hard for a bot to write, "The Tigers played the Wolves yesterday. The Tigers won 1-0. The Tigers' John Johnson scored a home run."

It's more difficult to write, "The Tigers' Tom Thompson pitched the first no-hitter of his career yesterday in a 1-0 game against the Wolves. Remarkably, the Wolves' pitcher, Dobbie Dobson, was moments away from forcing the game into extra innings with his own no-hitter, when, in the ninth inning with two outs and two strikes on the board, the Tigers' John Johnson hit a home run."

(I'm not a baseball writer, so I'm probably bungling it, but you get the point.)
Some nice points for action and the basics of interoffice communication. The article/blog misses a key item for 'web-workers' aka Developers where there is often a breakdown/non-existence of the understanding of development, testing, releasing especially around time costs. In my experience, it's the engagement of both the developer/development team with the wider business around a deep understanding of the solution and technologies involved.

Where I have experience conflict is when, for example, management/Product owner thinks (often misguidedly) that changing a service/web page can be done in an afternoon. However, this is not only the fault of the product owner. If he/she is unwilling to understand the details of what is going on, yes there will always be conflict. However, it is also the responsibility of the developer/dev team to take the product owner on the journey. Share all the details, show what is being done: taking the complex and making it simple.

In many cases, I have experience a dev team that wasn't willing to share the details, the 'I know best' position. In a principal/agent relationship with a short term delivery this is fine. In a long term relationship this engenders a lack of trust on both sides and is likely to undo any of the methods mentioned in the article.
Not even just companies, but also governments and entire countries.

Since the late 1990s, South Korea has had a law that any website transmitting any sort of banking/financial data was required to use a specific ActiveX plugin for encryption. This law was in place for years after ActiveX was officially deprecated, and I believe that it has only just recently been amended to allow other crypto implementations.
Thanks, the idea of using a shared GNU Screen session is nice. This means that actually instead of an RPi and additional keyboard, the e-ink screen could simply be laid on a laptop.
Do you deserve to get rich funding a Kickstarter project that sells for $2 bi?
So the first death Tesla ever had will nullify their safety record? Ok.

All the first death will do is have media go nuts, then Musk will make another blog post calling them idiots for making a big deal of 1 death in the history of Tesla, compared to the thousands of every other car manufacturer.
Didn't think about that.. :(
There are two types of sexism at play here:

One is blatant - i.e. sexual harassment, prejudice, and discrimination.

The second is latent - i.e. the "typical experience of every student," as you put it, impacts people differently depending on a number of things including their gender. By not taking those individual differences into consideration, the culture of STEM forces women to work harder to fit in and balance their gender-specific circumstances.
There are specific sub-fields of programming (embedded systems, real-time operating systems, etc.) that focus more on provably-correct programs and shipping non broken code.

http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

> What makes it remarkable is how well the software works. This software never crashes. It never needs to be re-booted. This software is bug-free. It is perfect, as perfect as human beings have achieved. Consider these stats : the last three versions of the program -- each 420,000 lines long-had just one error each. The last 11 versions of this software had a total of 17 errors. Commercial programs of equivalent complexity would have 5,000 errors.
Ridiculous fishing is a piece of video game art. It's really blows all of it's clones out of the water (pardon the pun). You can't clone talent and polish.
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This is definitely conceivably true but definitely not true in the current context.

80 million OSX (any version) users world wide in 2012
http://www.cultofmac.com/172693/mac-os-x-by-the-numbers-60-m...

110 million windows 8(just windows 8 not windows in general) users in 2013
http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/there-are-now-over-110-mil...

believe it or not their are 500 million windows xp users still
http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-to-cut-windows-xp-2...

Market share actually does in some respect account for a sum of existing products in use, how that is calculated will depend on the reporting entity.

Usage share turns out to be super easy to capture these days, we do it by looking at the browser string of a request to a web server. Most big sites are putting out this type of data so a relatively clear picture emerges.

For a company like microsoft or apple market share is a more useful measure because it helps them plan/predict their supply chain so that they have the right amount of inventory in the right place at the right time.

But from a developer perspective usage share is more interesting for obvious reasons.

In this case the numbers are still basically the same.
I think you also have a problem with gross oversupply. In our industry, you see it in the games programming world. There's just too darned many programmers who think they want to make games, so it doesn't matter how badly they treat the programmers, there's always a line behind anyone who leaves.

It's worse in the sciences, though; a games programmer can go get a different programming job. A slight tweak to the career goals and you go from a realm of gross oversupply to a realm of significant undersupply. What does a highly-specialized organic chemist do?

Per some other comments, the source of the oversupply doesn't much matter to the people in the field.
The image she presents is starkly different from what I see under one of my test user's Facebook (so no apps, groups, etc). Massive ads on the right, a very different set of links on the left, etc.
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>>> I used to think that mine was.. totally genetic and thus incurable; that I was doomed to the same death-by-alcohol fate as many in my biological family.

Mine actually was and I watched helplessly as one of my parents went to the brink of death before sobering up. It was a huge wake up call for me. I went cold turkey and never looked back.

I feel like I was lucky. It happened to me when I was at a crossroads. I had landed a nice corporate gig, finally had health insurance and a decent pay check. Everyone I worked with was like me. Young and loved to party. I could've easily gone either way.

After watching the near destruction of our family, I just felt like this was waiting for me if I kept going down the path I was on. In a sense, I was able to see my future before me, and had the wisdom to simply say, "This is not what I want. This is not something I want to put my future family through."

>>>> my test found the world a whole lot better with the brakes fully engaged at a complete stop, so that's where I've been for a while now.

Amen brother. Glad you found the strength and courage. Hopefully OP will too and make a go of it to get clean.

I've been dry for over 10 years and I don't touch the stuff at all, ever. For me, it was the only way I could and feel confident it wouldn't come back and get me.
My story is a bit similar to yours. I got diagnosed with ADD when i was 16 and was put on concerta during my high-school years.

I am interested on how you manage to get stuff done when smoking weed. I have tried to make weed a tool to manage my self, but its not just working for me. I get really confused in my head and do not manage to produce quality work when stoned. It also sometimes makes me super paranoid.
It's the #1 problem of the indie game developer right now- they're building games that they themselves want to play, instead of the games that actually work for the market.

It's the difference between a professional and a hobbyist. If you want to make money, stop being a hobbyist and turn into a professional.

This kind of thinking is the reason why the contemporary video game ecosystem is so dull. When you orient everything around profit and "working for the market" (appeasing to the lowest common denominator), you make crappy products that sell, but fail to leave a lasting impression.

It's the reason why demos are no longer released, a few levels or even core game functionality is shipped as DLC, games no longer ship with mod tools and why you get tons of microtransaction-focused games with predatory mechanics. Among other things...

I agree with the 90% thing, it is Sturgeon's law. But to say that the root cause is indies not exploiting their players for $$$ is ridiculous. We need visionaries and hobbyists who develop games they want to play.
It really depends on where you are in Sweden. Different regions have different public transport providers.

Never thought I would defend Västtrafik(public transport in south west Sweden) but here I go.

Their webpage http://www.vasttrafik.se/ is quite usable. It finds good routes and you can fiddle around with different parameters such as times for changes etc. You can say that you are willing to walk or take a bike part of the way as well. Overall pretty good as long as you are on a computer.

On a phone the default app is not so good. Instead use ResOplanerare which has a very minimal and slick interface.
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It’s easy when you see.
No ORM below us,
Only MongoDB.
Imagine all the people,
Coding for results…
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Not only were they aware of the problem, they did the calculus and decided to release a brand new model knowing this issue effected.

http://consumerist.com/2014/03/25/gm-knew-chevy-cobalt-ignit...
Curious that it doesn't mention battery swaps. Since this is a PR piece I'm assuming from lack of mention that you can no longer swap batteries after having the extra battery shield added.

Battery swap was always a gimmick -- you had to return to the same swap station later to get your same battery back or pay a huge fee. Come on.

It looks like they decided fires are worse PR than this gimmick is good PR.
Yep, I can confirm, there are hundreds of those throughout the car to connect pieces that are either cosmetic or not tied to the safety or performance of the car. For instance, the plastic shell inside the frunk is connected to the car with them.
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I highly recommend using an app like http://breaktimeapp.com. You set an interval and length of breaks and Breaktime will lock your screen so you are forced to rest your eyes. Use it to look outside the window every once in a while.

As a tip, definitely enforce the break. You are always tempted to get out of it if you don't.
Man, I wish I would have had that kind of support and encouragement by my school when I was 14. They were far more concerned with streamlining for the state standardized testing. I maxed out their math assessment test and all I got was a pat on the back... "Meh, fuck it", I learned...
Official blog: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tesla-adds-titanium-underbod...
The longer something takes to slow down the less acceleration it experiences.
Here is another good gem from 1999:

"Most books will be read on screens rather than paper."

If he predicted e-ink and portable readers by 2009 that might be a bit more impressive. But "screens"? Just vague enough I'm sure he calls it essentially correct.

C'mon, in 1999 everyone had computers, laptops, and palm pilots. There were audio books, e-books, and project gutenberg.

Many people reading books on a screen was bloody obvious. The _most people_ part of the prediction was still a somewhat reasonable longshot bet although it certainly wasn't true in 2009 and still isn't today.

So, does he claim this prediction came true or essentially true? Worse does he, or his blind followers claim he predicted the Kindle?

The prediction is completely false even though it was weasel worded.
He's making cars which are implausibly high-tech, ridiculously well armoured, have inexplicably low ground clearance, and look rad.

Elon Musk is Batman, and i claim my five pounds.
I'm sure it's not a totally original idea, but if this gets enough publicity it might push for actual innovation.

As a somewhat related anecdote I was repeatedly told by my professors that in Physics everything is named after the last person to discover it, not the first.
Thats how a lot of people tell the story, but I just don't agree with it. There is zero evidence that the market killed Itanium when Intel was already trying to kill it because it was eating into Xeon sales on high end platforms.
You're right, she was on the "Secondary Security Screening Selection" according to Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_Security_Screening_Se...
> ...but us poor biological saps will continue to die just like we did before. I plan on hating my copy out of incredible envy.

By the same reasoning we should stop all work on improving the world out of envy of the people who come after us. Those people who will enjoy longer and healthier lives without cancer, poverty, crime and environmental pollution thanks to the progress we're making today.
The counter point to you argument is the number of people who are driving right beside you at highway speeds who have been completely ignoring the TSB recalls or even general vehicle maintenance. Allowing a direct update to something computer related doesn't let these people continue to drive unsafe vehicles.

All you have to do is browse http://www.reddit.com/r/justrolledintotheshop and you'll see so many people are not capable of having general maintenance done. Like this: http://imgur.com/a/VEeR9 the guy wanted to only have the flat tire repaired even though a strut went through his hood! Or this that is supposed to be a brake rotor : http://i.imgur.com/xhz90Bq.jpg
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