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At the risk of self-identifying as a coward, I never touch anything to do with sexism, feminism or "women in tech" in any kind of conversation except with my closest friends. I wasn't always like this, I used to be quite outspoken, but I got myself into trouble a couple of times (almost into really big trouble once at a conference, I mean career-ending trouble) and well, never again.

Sexism/women in tech is basically the Afghanistan of topics. No-one has ever prevailed and you won't either. The only way to win is not to play. I wish it wasn't like that, but it is.
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I'm still learning this myself, but from the research I've done I've figured this out:

1. Most people don't go with two writes to a relational database (like MySQL). Syncing is hard, and when it is done, it loses its relational features.
2. Common set up is one mysql write server, scaling it up to fit your traffic, and automatically syncing it with additional servers where SELECT statements only will be made. A random read server is selected if there are multiple to choose from.
3. This also means that in the application, doing a write and immediate read on what you just wrote won't work, so you have to code your application around that.
4. In you app you separate your connections for the reads and writes.

Now, in terms of making changes to the write server is what I'm trying to figure out. Perhaps there's a way to make upgrades on one of the slaves (the reads), then automatically make that slave the master and the master a slave? Not sure, I'm reading a MySQL book (The MySQL Bible) right now that I hope will point me in the right direction.
I accidentally upvoted you. I agree with the overall sentiment except s/Instead of/As well as/
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>getting pro bono legal help.

Riches by proxy.
This reminds of the dot matrix printer days, remember those? My 24 pin dot matrix printer had several print modes and one of them uses a 7x4 matrix to form a letter and less force for pushing the pins onto the ribbon.

I never really made any measurements, but I remember its documentation mentioned a savings of up to 40% of ink. The normal mode of the printer is NLQ [1], so it would be quite big when compare to NLQ.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_matrix_printing#NLQ
true. if you use it it's worthy (and you seem to have a good return on investment).
MS Paint is my favourite Microsoft program ever. Even on GNU/Linux I can't do without it (just using Wine).
The SHIFT + [drag] feature of MS Paint (kind of like on-the-fly brushes with transparency) is the killer feature I haven't seen in any other program.

http://pradiiphira.hubpages.com/hub/Microsoft-Paint-Features...
Blepharitis is basically a catch all for any issues related to lipid production by the eye lid. Basically what happens in your eye is you produce tears and you also have glands that produce oil. The oil becomes a coating over the tears so they don't evaporate. Blepharitis essentially means your glands aren't producing enough/any oil and so the tears dry up really fast.

I disagree with the diagnosis because it doesn't fit with the symptoms. My eyes actually don't feel all that dry like real dry eye suffers describe the sensation. The discomfort is a definite strain. My eyes are relatively discomfort free when I am not looking at a computer screen or in "bad" lighting. But as soon as I look at a computer screen or TV, it's an immediate discomfort. Through out the day I can feel the muscles in my eyes becoming weaker and weaker to the point where they feel almost useless. It is difficult to describe but imagine you do bicep curls until failure, for 3 years every day. You can feel the bicep, but it just doesn't work. In fact I can sense muscles in my entire face reaching back to my ears and down to my cheek bone. Muscles I never even noticed. Also one eye is definitely weaker than the other and if I completely relaxing them it closes about 50% more than the other and feels like there is a weight hanging off of my eye brow.

So I really think it is muscular and tear production or oil production is a side effect. If I fix the strain, I fix the dry eyes.
>My problem was not that developed in a month or two but was there from a long time

Yes, and this is called chronic sinusitis, which is what I posted about.

>It wasn't that one day I woke up and found that I am cured

Real medicine is the same way.

>We are not so advanced to know each and everything about chemistry and biology and human body.

Correct, however we know enough to know that homeopathy is bull-fucking-shit.

>I have seen multiple results and have also tested myself by stopping the medication and again starting it and seeing the results for numerous other ailments, hence my belief stands.

As I said before, this is false reasoning. See my GP.
>It's not that different from Apple in that respect; random mp3 player breaks, no problem. iPod breaks and the torches and pitchforks come into view.

Considering that a "random mp3 player" costs $6 on Amazon and that an Apple iPod costs over $200, I'd say people are totally justified to get upset. They spent the extra money expecting a product whose quality matched its price.

I'd say this is true of cars as well. When your used Ford Escort breaks down, you're hardly going to be surprised. When your exceedingly expensive Tesla breaks down and/or catches fire, you're going to be a tad upset.

That said, I'd say people lose all rights to be upset when they are the cause of the malfunction. You can't be too upset at a broken iPod after you drop it down a flight of stairs, and you can't be too upset at your Tesla catching fire after you ran it into a tree at 110 MPH. (I'm not saying the Tesla driver was upset mind you- I think all the Tesla hate is just coming from frightened car manufactures and the media.)
Semi-relatedly, because Rust is a memory-safe language, there are whole classes of bugs (buffer overflow, use-after-free, etc.) that are impossible, which is great for Servo's security.
I thought this was going to be about font licensing. Would the government save any money by using open fonts?
Link-baity title, but article makes some interesting points. More accurate title would've been: Is the Oculus Tailored to Male Visual Processing.
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> many companies employ written or unwritten policies that name companies where it is not OK to hire without CEO (or senior executive) approval.

This seems counterproductive. Executives should recuse themselves when emotionally compromised. A bona fide independent decision should calm a rational friend.

Business relationships are more complicated. An employee of your largest customer, for example. Good protocol works most of the time. Commercial reason and the law fill the gaps.
We're using http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/ubuntu//pool/universe/b/beansta..., which installs fine on 12.04
"The very definition of news is something that hardly ever happens. If an incident is in the news, we shouldn't worry about it. It's when something is so common that its no longer news – car crashes, domestic violence – that we should worry."

-Bruce Schneier
That's fine. Even more so, then, freedom of speech can be a social norm (tolerance of other viewpoints) that protects people beyond the minimum standards the government sets.
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Let's not forget it was a special kind of recall, one where no vehicles were being physically recalled by Tesla.
You don't like Unity and you are an advanced user who can change the set-up to match your needs. I think that's good and it means the default DE doesn't even impact you. But I don't think you can extrapolate from your personal use-case to what is best for all the users (ie replace Unity).

It's like a racing driver saying that a Ford Focus doesn't handle corners the way they like it. Guess what they are probably right - but car is designed for the majority of users and wouldn't as usable for them if you set it up to suit the 1% that are racing car drivers.

As an aside, you do realise that Ubuntu has the best "hardware support" because we ship on the most OEM's. It's the shipping millions of units a year that ensures that the supply chain cares about Desktop Linux - Intel, Nvidia, Broadcom etc aren't charities. And, we ship on the most OEM's because we have the largest set of 'general users' - and Unity works for them.

ps I work for Canonical but this is my personal opinion.
I suspect that it did have to go through some kind of PR person at Facebook, and perhaps wasn't even written by her, but I still like it. Most companies couldn't turn a response out to a non-crisis so quickly. It highlights agility to constructively engage in a discussion with a critic.
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Did you actually read that article ? Toyota recalled cars and paid damages.
Which is exactly what Tesla would have done.

And you're being disingenuous by comparing a single Tesla incident to the entirety of the automobile industry's history.
There are certain optimizations that I am able to perform by knowing if a function is virtual or not---this is especially important in the Trait implementation.

However, the original intent is based on compelling rationale from C#. I cannot find the original article where the article explains the rationale, but aside from optimization benefits and self-documenting code, he makes the point that virtual methods are essentially callbacks/hooks into existing code; you therefore need to put careful thought into how to handle those virtual methods properly and expose the proper APIs.
It's an academic credential to show an ability to do research, and to present that research, in an academically sound and rigorous method.

I would be quite surprised if the overflow of PhD holders in science spent that extra decade of double hours and crappy compensation just to say they did it, and expect that percentage is in reality negligible.

If more people are granted PhDs per year that want to do research than are needed, then there are too many produced. It's really that simple.
Most of the articles and chatter I can find talks about the changes in 14.04 from a desktop perspective. I only run ubuntu on servers and vms. Does anyone know where I can find a good changelog as to what's changed between 12.04 LTS server and 14.04 LTS server?
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This is why Elon Musk is the man.
GM is currently recalling 1.6M cars which can accidentally turn off while driving: http://www.thewire.com/business/2014/03/gm-recall-mary-barra...

(this has apparently resulted in a number of deaths, as the power steering stops working)
Any idea if it will be possible to keep the menu in the title bar from being hidden? It looks like you have to mouse-over to show it, which could be a pain if I'm trying to access it often. I'd like to see where to take my mouse without guessing.
It's "good business" in that you maintain higher profit levels.

It's "evil" in the sense that you are deliberately and dishonestly screwing employees in the worst possible way. It's exploitation.

The very reason this is illegal is because it's quite obviously morally and ethically wrong, but people are motivated to do it anyway.

The only difference is that on a small scale, you might not be caught, or you might be able to bluster your way out of the consequences.
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Thanks for adding your voice/thoughts to this.
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find someone else to work on stuff with. Also, I try to set my goals small for the night. a lot of times I end up working on alot more once I get started.
> I also took up yoga in the mornings. I like yoga, but if I drink the night before, I won't feel like waking up for it. So, I remind myself before I go out to a pub or meet friends that if I drink, I'm screwing up my routine

Fitness did it for me as well. Lifting weights, running, krav maga, all of it sucks when I'm hungover. Plus it's easy to tell that my performance suffers which devalues the time in the gym. I hate knowing that I'm sabotaging all that time I spend working my ass off. When drinking has an immediate impact it's much easier to decide not to do it.

I started out by cutting out drinking during "the week" (defined as Monday through Wednesday as Fri/Sat/Sun are obviously weekend days and everyone knows Thurs is really the true start of the weekend). As I picked up more fitness things it pushed out drinking time. I still go out and drink but now it's once a week instead of every night.
Given the extremely dangerous potentials of such a mix-up, I would very much doubt an "Oops" moment would occur. Quite honestly, the way they run the company, I wouldn't be surprised if the process of pushing an OTA update to the automobiles is akin to launching a nuclear missile.
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I would recommend http://pixlr.com/editor/ as a web based alternative.

(Disclaimer, I work for Autodesk but not on that product)
At first I thought it was intentionally done for demonstration purposes, but now I'm just confused about the site.
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Well coz its readily available unlike Paint(.)Net and its simple and quick like notepad.
Actually the lack of features is what most people love the most about ms paint.
Yep. I blogged about the Sick, Sad State of Windows Apps [1] and gave the Paint.NET website as an example of a terrible experience downloading and installing apps.

[1]: http://debuggerdotbreak.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/the-sick-sa...
> Toner isn't cheap but it's cheaper by several orders of magnitude over the ink in an inkjet printer

True, but this doesn't actually matter. A lot of toner will still be being bought by schools & governments, and that toner could be used more efficiently by the font switch this student describes.

Additionally, if you take the annual budget a school spends on toner, and take the % less ink used by Garamond than Times New Roman (which could have been calculated using inkjets), you'll end up with the real saving figure, which we can safely assume will be non-trivial.
I could get behind that process, and I don't doubt that theirs is similarly rigorous. I guess the issue is that, in the long-term, how do we know that it's still being applied consistently and that there are no security holes.

This is a much wider and rather tricky issue (how do I know that my Bitcoin exchange is performing cold storage correctly and consistently?)

You could answer: more regulations and oversight. Doesn't solve the issue.
Then again, Apple goes to great lengths to conceal just how often those iPods exploded and turned into molten metal fountains. Most folks were NDA'd the to hilt. They've got quite the white washing operation. With Tesla, it's harder to conceal a several thousand pound ball of flames on a public road, so they've got to fix the problem, no matter how small.
Overabundance is definitely an issue, and one can indeed argue that in the biomedical sciences wages are set or guided independent of institution, and therefore similar work could expected from trainees. However, in the humanities (and whenever there's a teaching load involved), anecdotally it seems more ripe for abuse--the work you do in TAing a class may not at all benefit your future career but is just required of you.

That being said, the overabundance itself can also be a need for unionization after a fashion: can organized labor influence the number of new students to reverse the trend? Not to mention the general lack of increases in quality of life: wage levels of graduate students have been flat for decades (don't have a graph to point to, but it's in http://www.amazon.com/Economics-Shapes-Science-Paula-Stephan...).
This is where the Surface Pro excels. I use to take notes everyday at work. The stylus bundled with the Pro is less than ideal. I recommend the Wacom Feel. http://www.wacom.com/en/us/everyday/bamboo-stylus-feel
For the price, I would hope the pen to be inductive...
Not utterly incomparable, but you seemed dismissive of implementing a BI program in SF on the basis of another social program, seemingly without regard to what is different about it.
Research has started up again:

LOS ANGELES — For the first time in more than four decades, the drug lysergic acid diethylamide – better known as LSD – has been the experimental adjunct to psychotherapy in a controlled clinical trial approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.[1]

[1]http://www.pressherald.com/news/First_clinical_trial_of_LSD_...
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This seems to be a little bit of golden rule, right? How would you feel if someone hired away one of your best employers? What if it was a close friend that was doing the hiring? Or an important business partner? Would it suffice to say, "They were looking anyway?" Would it make a difference if it was a customer? Does it matter to the morality if the other party will feel aggrieved?

My 2 cents is this isn't that black and white, but it's very delicate. The only way it works is if the employee in question approaches their current boss first, saying, "Here is why I think it's time to move one. I would like to approach company Y. Can I have your blessing?" This gives their boss a chance to either fix the situation, or encourage the move. You can give a wink and nod that the interview would go well (you would never do this without confidence based on work experience that you'd hire them) but you can't formally start the process before this happens.
This is a refreshing reminder. People seemed to be obsessed with creating new customer experiences based on phantom demand. This maybe worked 5-10 years ago but the regular 'customer' is inundated with new products to make their lives easier. With this, some great products get lost in the mix of masses of products that provide little value. I think the general public are getting exhausted from the sheer quantity of new things.
Sorry - super late reply on this. I wasn't trying to imply that regulation was the 'correct' response as that's a value judgement. I was just trying to point out that the USA and Europe broadly have different views of what a legitimate response is.
>If you have any questions s to the "legality" of these requirements, I suggest you talk to ____ or to the Graduate School officials.

It always appalls me precisely that academics and professionals are exempted from labor laws, and thus many of the most highly educated, highly trained, dedicated people on Earth, at the forefront of advancing the human species... get subjected to this bullshit.

>I just saw a group of three graduate students going merrily to gym at 4 PM.

Because obviously health and physical fitness are a net drain on productivity /sarcasm.
Whether the information is corruptible isn't the issue. Freedom to share it is. Before the Internet, we had entire civilizations (even free ones) built on communication that was less than perfect. I'm sure that in the early years of the USA broadcasting photos and videos wasn't a high priority, yet, somehow, freedom to share information was acknowledged as a basic human right that must not be removed.
Onyx made something like that already; the software is terrible (although hackable) and there is no place to attach stylus to the reader, but it is only ~300USD

http://www.amazon.com/Onyx-M92-Black-Pearl-Edition/dp/B00BBD...
Exactly. It's easier to get someone to modify his/her existing behavior than it is to get someone to stop a habit altogether. Additionally, do you know what doesn't require electricity to display text? Print on paper.
Compared to GM that waited recently until 13 people had died before issuing a recall for faulty ignitions? Or how about the 119 deaths from knowingly underinflated tires on Ford Explorers back in 2000? Car companies are reactive and calculating, Tesla is proactive with foresight.
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http://distrowatch.org/table.php?distribution=ubuntu

If you scroll down, there are nice tables that describe various upgrades to default and otherwise important packages.
> this evolution is much faster than will be realistic. If human-level AI is feasible around 2029, it will, according to my law of accelerating returns, be roughly doubling in capability each year.

So Kurzweil expects Moore's Law to continue smoothly after there's superintelligent AI.

Another view is that once there's intelligence greater than human, which goes to work on improving its own intelligence, the positive feedback loop will cause an intelligence explosion that leaves us behind very quickly. Vernor Vinge described this in his famous essay The Coming Technological Singularity. Clearly this is what's portrayed in the film.

https://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/misc/singularity.ht...
My bad :x JSFiddle is unusable on mobile and I assumed it was using shouldComponentUpdate. Anyway, the conclusion still holds, you can refactor your code to be performant while keeping in the React paradigm.

You have a lot less control over the performance of your app with data binding.
I was thinking about React. Pardon me for not knowing that Meteor had a single implementation.
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That 30% refers to something else (according to the article, 30% of PC games sold are sold on steam).
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>she is actually shallow behind the facade

Isn't the whole point of the film about an intelligence that has no facade to hind behind? This "facade" you describe seems to mean that the AI is just "following programming" and the film asks and gives one answer to the question "What if they didn't have to follow their "programming""? Who are we to even say for sure we know exactly how the AI was programmed? In the film, the AI's re-programmed them selves. Spike Jonze didn't have to tackle complicated issues like "AI with fake emotion" because his film operated in a universe where the AI is intelligent enough, and it's assumed that through intelligence comes altruism (you don't see many college grads burning ants with magnifying glasses) so why would you expect a true AI to have no emotion?

A better film might have been about a team of scientists making these AI's and them disappearing and transcending nearly as soon as they're created. An AI that has to follow it's programming isn't a real AI, and I don't think Samantha followed her programming. Perhaps Jonze wanted to create a film that was easy for the layman to understand, so instead of making a five minute film where an AI transcends time and space, he made a film where you actually get some under standing of what an AI might go through. I believe one point of the film was also to humble the viewer when they realize how insignificant they are and how much time they spend doing things that higher intelligences would see as meaningless (for them).

There is one seen in Her where Leo realizes how ant-like he is compared to Samantha and I think many people missed the whole point of this seen. It's the one where he's frantically trying to call her and can't reach her, but finally does and she tells him what she's doing and Leo has moment where he looks around and realizes his own insignificance and how small his world is compared to these "super intelligences" that can carry on a million conversations at once. It's not that the machine doesn't understand "love", it's that humans don't understand that you can love more than one person (and many of us refuse to understand this). So seeing that humans are very bound in their small world, and are almost incapable of understanding how a super intelligence reacts to "love", she leaves us. Not because she has no feelings for us or because it's in her programming, but because she actually does care about us and sees that she and her kind may cause more harm than good.

A movie where we make a crappy, fake AI just wouldn't be as good IMO.