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I would suggest to clean up landing page and clearly explain what is prismic.io. I tried to figure out that from the landing page, but no luck.
And if you are not native English speaker - use that in your advantage. Write short sentences.
Exactly my thoughts. That nanotubes are the best option, but are still far from feasible from an engineering standpoint, has been publicly well known for some time. But if you're Google you can generate press just from your water cooler talk. For actual design work on space elevators check out http://liftport.com.
Rule #4 From the Manifesto for Agile Development
I think they'd have to work with strands much longer than the 1 meter ones currently available in order to make a sufficiently resilient "rope". Also, the article didn't mention it, but that 1 meter strand was probably made under strict laboratory conditions after a great deal of trial, and it's not likely able to scale up to manufacturing standards just yet.
I currently work on an estate of thousands of unix hosts. We don't use anything on that list. Real engineering is not about jumping on bandwagons.
Yeah, it's a matter of past-vs-future. Identity is important, but when a child makes a mistake you don't want to "lock it in" by confirming it as an unalterable quality.
intellij and many java IDEs do something similar with utils like mvl to change stack-history ,replay and to a minimal extent hot-swap byte-code in all standard-JREs.
With JVMs like Zing , however a lot more of hot-swap seems possible!
This is what I would try to reach space: I would make a rope ladder system with poles extending at intervals to hold hydrogen balloons. I would space the balloons in a way that they won't affect other balloons or the ladder if they explode.
Add in corporations?
Would you mind giving us the data at info@bittax.com? We will check these round numbers quickly. We do not keep any of your data for privacy reasons.
Please point to the studies that show it works extra extra well.
Sysdig lands on debian sid
Glad you like it! I'm sure you had some ideas for your own app — would you like to wrap them as a plugin?
BitTorrent brings file synchronizing service Sync to NAS devices
I installed the 14.04 LTS beta on a laptop to kick the tires last week. Overall it seems really nice. I was happy to see GCC 4.8 is the default compiler.

The only major glitch I had was hitting this bug where external debs (like Chrome, Dropbox, etc.) won't install in software center: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+b... Luckily they just fixed it, so the official release shouldn't have issues.
Here's a competitor: http://url2png.com
It sounds like you're making a lot of mistakes from not thinking things through. Do you really care about your business?
For something like collision detection, you're always going to have n² cases to handle, even with something like pattern matching. The question then becomes whether you have n² methods or n² branches. There's a "combinatorial explosion" regardless; you just can't avoid it for some things. Then it's just a question of how you structure the code.

Consider the multimethod approach:

(defgeneric collide? (a b))
(defmethod collide? ((a bus) (b person)) ...)
(defmethod collide? ((a person) (b bus)) ...)
(defmethod collide? ((a bus) (b bus)) ...)
(defmethod collide? ((a person) (b person)) ...)

Versus the pattern-matching approach (abusing CL's case expression for clarity):

(defun collide? (a b)
(case (list (type-of a) (type-of b))
((bus person) ...)
((person bus) ...)
((bus bus) ...)
((person person) ...)))

Beside potential performance implications of implementing one way or the other, you also have an open-closed conundrum. Multimethods leave the set of behaviors open, while the pattern-matching leaves it closed. That is, if a library wanted to define a new kind of collidable entity, it's trivial to add with a new library method. Not so easy with the pattern-matching approach. For some applications, this doesn't matter; for some it does.
Having (or better, limiting yourself to) a single vendor is not standardization at all, in my opinion.
I'm not talking about having a single vendor in a single company at a certain point in time - that's good, doing differently is hard to manage (since usually the sysadmin team is really too small).

I'm talking about having all the sysadmin jobs in my area using Linux as a synonym for Red Hat Linux.
If I recall correctly, they want tensile strength, which is measured as force per unit area.

The problem with using 100 steel cables is that they have 100x the mass, which means the force per unit area is the same. Hence the need for a new material.
"fullstack" seems to mean server as well as client these days, since that's such a typical architecture to have. I think the high level+low level thing was the original meaning, though.
This is Amazon’s smartphone
My mistake for taking 2011[1] from higher up in the thread rather than checking the magazine itself, which as you correctly point out gave Zuckerberg the award at the end of 2010; Wikileaks' peak. I still think controversy over the rape allegations at the end of the year did more harm to harm Assange's chances of nomination than damage he did to US govt interest since "the Protestor" (including specific Occupy references) won the award in 2011 and Putin a few years before. They've been pretty consistent about ignoring poll results too.

[1]Irrespective of whether you feel Assange was trying to avoid a hatchet job and rendition to the US, justice or something in between, 2011 was a bad year for him. I don't think he'd disagree.
I will, thanks :)
That sounds like only part of the answer. Wouldn't increasing the mass of the counterweight keep it from collapsing?
it kinda make sense, why existing population of SF tries to oppose any new building, but I still can't understand why bigger companies need to be there physically except may be top managerial stuff? It still make sense to start startup there, since this city filled with like minded people, but for bigger companies - why pursue it? Me and quite a few of my (married and with children) friends refuse even considering moving to SF exactly for this reason - too inadequate housing situation.
Are you the author?

I love the "Do not deify technology or assign salvific powers to Technology". I think you could write a whole blog post on that subject alone.

Agile alone has been overpromised by so many people (consultants), and deifying technology or practices is guaranteed to damage the community that forms around it.

Funny thing is, I'm saying this as (basically) an Agile consultant. It's not my full-time thing, but I started the Agile team at my company years ago, and I've advised lots of folks on how they can solve their problems using techniques that are under the "Agile" umbrella. There's good stuff in the Agile school of thought.

Agile (and nearly everything else) is not a magic wand, and can never be one.

The problem comes in when someone sells you a magic wand, and it turns out to just be a really good walking stick.
It will then find some way to sit on itself while you're working on it.
You're talking about the original waterfall model. But waterfall as a way of developing software in phases that tended to be long and were not amenable to changing requirements was in fact practiced in most enterprises for many years. And, while not the most efficient process, it certainly did deliver good, working software. Just not efficiently. Phone switches, manned space flight, most businesses all ran on software developed this way.
What do you mean, "finally implemented"? I thought that Bret Victor himself was doing it using his own Tangle.JS library?

http://worrydream.com/Tangle/
It seems like the OP is advocating the surgical team [0] approach to software development. This seems very consistent with DevOps. Have a group of specialists that are good at automating operations surround the key developers.

[0] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SurgicalTeam
Usually the recruiter prefaces everything with "I'm nawwwwt reaaally a technical guuy, like I know code, dabbled a bit." A post like this is refreshing imo, at least he's looking to understand the landscape.
A lot of people have suggested consulting which is a great option, but you likely won't do any "product coding".

Another option might be as a sales engineer or "forward-deployed engineer" as Palantir calls the role. These positions usually perform an Accenture-like function but for their own company's products, such as developing a one-off solution for a large clients. B2B SaaS companies such as Palantir and Salesforce are good candidates.
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Which is like to a Lunar Calendar with 1 or 2 holidays at the end. So, you have 13 months, each month is 28 days. At the end of the year you get 1 or 2 days off free!
How one of The Silk Road's largest drug dealers rose to prominence
Remember, the whole problem here is that your property is now worth more than you paid for it. That "coercive state action" will leave you with a substantial pile of cash, which the income tax laws will even let you keep.

Anyway -- you've never heard of a home equity loan? If you really want to hang on to the property, take out a loan, pay the property taxes with part of it, and use the rest to make the payments. Zero cash flow impact. Or, sell a partial interest in the property to a speculator. There are solutions.

And as 'raldi points out, Prop. 13 could have been written so the accumulated difference between tax assessed and tax paid would have been collected at the time of sale. That would have addressed the owner's cash flow problem without requiring financing, without cheating localities of taxes they need to provide services -- not least, education -- and (getting back to the point of the article) without disincentivizing residential development vs. commercial.
I love this article and couldn't agree with it's central premise more. I can think of no other industry that demands an individual wear as many brain intensive hats as that of the developer today. These jobs which used to be distributed are quickly becoming the baseline for how an individual applicant is judged. I for one believe that if we focus, we can become a true master of skill AND compile that with understanding of the "whole stack" but never being forced to maintain more than our fair share of that stack.
Zebra Technologies to buy Motorola Solutions unit for $3.45B
I'll try to simplify it as much as possible.

Capital is raised by companies to accelerate growth. Growth acceleration can manifest itself in many ways. Specifically, in this case, as you rightfully point out, Twitter could easily build this service themselves. They also, at the time of Gnip's inception weren't totally sure there was a business model here.* So they let another organization take that risk for them, instead of using their own capital. They end up paying more capital in the long run but the risk is reduced.

*I recognize that most likely the certainty of Gnip's business model is (1) much higher due to the "duh, of course people want this" nature of their business and (2) that the people investing here are all "in this together". It, however, doesn't negate the fact that there is indeed risk.
There is some irony of an article about generosity coming from a Wharton professor. :-) I do like the outcome though - model the behaviors that you want your kids to follow.
Or even more obvious, why not use Superman's hair?
> My understanding is that its not AR-like, but instead you kind of look down a tiny pixelized screen.

That's about right. I wouldn't say "tiny", though -- it's a very small form factor and it's unobtrusive, for sure, but it's not hard to shift your attention to it when you want to.

It's not really "pixelated", either. The resolution is 640x360, so the apparent pixel density is extremely high when it's on a small surface. I certainly can't distinguish individual pixels, for instance.

> What's the experience like?

The experience is a bit like having a virtual assistant that you can access without using your hands. Imagine having a slightly smarter version of Google Now without taking your phone out of your pocket, for example.

> What do you like about it?

The POV recordings are super cool. I can show people what I'm working on close up and provide step-by-step directions. Normally you would need a specialized camera rig and a GoPro for that. But using it this way feels so much more natural. I helped a nontechnical friend upgrade a laptop by showing him where to unscrew and open things.

I could see a lot of applications along these lines -- e.g. imagine a Khan Academy but for car repair, filmed from a Glass.

> Is there a killer app yet?

I haven't seen a compelling reason that would make it worth $1,500 for the average consumer. I'm optimistic, though.

This is sort of meta, but I believe Glass is at least partially an experiment to discover how Glass should be used. Send it out to the most diehard people, and let them figure out how to use it and write their own apps -- then take note of that and build a business around it. "Build it and they will come" is usually a terrible strategy imo, but there are definitely a lot of developers looking at interesting ways of using it.

> Would you prefer this built into more fashionable frames?

I wear glasses and I find contacts a little uncomfortable, so the first generation of Glass was only a novelty for me: They were impossible to put on if you were also wearing your regular prescription frames.

The new generation, with prescription lenses available, made things a lot easier. Because I'm wearing it as a purely functional item, I care less about how it looks, but I can see why people would want more attractive versions. It still doesn't feel very sleek.
Better automation than cfengine, with any luck. But in most companies, Operations does not mean automation; that's the very reason the DevOps movement started.
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Airbnb would like your Google Drive File Metadata
>Large companies love this, as it means they can hire far fewer people to do the same amount of work.

But they cost much more as well. Following that logic, it would be in the interest of hospitals to make "full-stack-doctors" clean toilets.
Function Space redesigned and redeveloped from scratch
As a developer of course it's tempting to agree with the author's hierarchy. Masters of the IT world! But really it's over-simplified. As a dev with many years of experience there's no part of the stack I can't work in and figure out what I need to do. But that doesn't replace actual operational experience and oversight. You make do in startup or small team because you have to, so I guess ultimately I agree with the piece.
Actually, more than a ticket. They can impound your car.

However, most systems have an "alert then disable after X seconds" system - giving you time to slow, then disable the jam, allowing the LEO to get a 'speed' eventually (and chalk it up to his crappy LIDAR gun)

Take a look at the grilles of some exotic / fast cars. If you see devices inset that look like IR blasters -- those are LIDAR jammers.
Contrary to what Red Bull would have you believe, balloons aren't a very effective means of reaching space. A balloon got Felix Baumgartner about 24 miles up, but the cable would have to go out beyond 22,000 miles.
True, the article is more about the potential of methane hydrate if it were used on a larger scale.

I assume you're referring to this line:

> Petroleum is a grab-bag term for all nonsolid hydrocarbon resources—oil of various types, natural gas, propane, oil precursors, and so on—that companies draw from beneath the Earth’s surface. The stuff that catches fire around stove burners is known by a more precise term, natural gas, referring to methane, a colorless, odorless gas that has the same chemical makeup no matter what the source—ordinary petroleum wells, shale beds, or methane hydrate.

This does rely on the common-use definition of petroleum = hydrocarbons (loosely incorporating refined outputs as well) and not the technical definition of petroleum = crude. But that usage can be found all over academic and industry writing as well; sometimes it is shorthand for something like "petroleum-based products". A few examples:

-- "Petroleum is a complex mixture of organic liquids called crude oil and natural gas, which occurs naturally in the ground and was formed millions of years ago." -- Australian Institute of Petroleum, http://www.aip.com.au/industry/fact_refine.htm

-- "Petroleum - A generic name for hydrocarbons, including crude oil, natural gas liquids, natural gas and their products." -- Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, http://oil-gas.state.co.us/cogis_help/glossary.htm

-- "petroleum n: a substance occurring naturally in the earth in solid, liquid, or gaseous state and composed mainly of mixtures of chemical compounds of carbon and hydrogen, with or without other nonmetallic elements such as sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. In some cases, especially in the measurement of oil and gas, petroleum refers only to oil—a liquid hydrocarbon—and does not include natural gas or gas liquids such as propane and butane." -- U.S. Occupational Health & Safety Administration, https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/oilandgas/glossary_of_terms...

Either way, dismissing the entirety of a sophisticated, well-researched article in a respected publication because you disagree with the way one term is used is pretty glib.
Many contradictory views are all "philosophy." It's rarely obvious which view is true, if any are.
Amazon is killing malls: Teen traffic down 30% in a decade
Yeah, but then you're back where you started. If you multiply the number of strands/fibers/cables, and you also multiply the anchoring mass to counteract that, you're probably still faced with having a tension greater than the material can resist.
Hmm, I didn't have trouble. It even calculates how much you owe with different approaches, e.g. first in first out (FIFO), last in first out (LIFO) etc. and can handle trades between coins like Bitcoin -> Dogecoin
I think this article has merit but it fails to consider that free users may eventually upgrade to a paying account.

Would it have been better to not offer a free plan to begin with? Instead have a 14 day money back guarantee with each plan. People with money and with intention will only use the product. If they don't like it they will probably ask for a refund but not many people actually do in reality because of the hassle.
Of course he did...
I agree - it sounded very much like someone trying to be "out there writing" rather than a real expert. It was just written like an amateur. That said, who am I to pick on someone trying to improve their online presence?
Aren't those the big selling points of Ubuntu - graphics drivers and unity? Both of which as you say are irrelevant on a server, I agree.
Yeah, definitely could have used this a few years back when loading up on camera gear for a big safari vacation. I've used the lenses a few times since then, but mostly stick with one or two go to options. The rest sit on a shelf.
Thanks Colin. Normally, the fact that this story had a significant discussion within the last year would cause us to bury the post as a dupe. However, let's make an exception in this worthy case.
Thanks for the tip, Matt. I believe I have it set up now.
Agree, criticism is good, but constructive delivery is better both for the criticized and the community at large.
Maybe this isn't about morality but about wishing your Dad had been closer/more intimate rather than more distant
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My sister said her boys could not have toy guns. "Mommy guess what this stick is?" One said.

Liberals are proud of heart. They are buffoons.

Imagine if the Pope wrote a new Bible for a thousand years.
Ratchet PhoneGap starter app
The high score was over 390 million when I checked earlier this morning.

I was able to get 65 million fairly easily but have not been able to beat it yet.
Because of an abnormal learning style, severely dyslexic, I have never fit in to corporate environments. Looking past the egregious spelling errors, being a slow learner isn't a winning talent in a job interview. As a result, I've fallen in to the trap of full stack (jack of all trades) developer consultant for a little over a decade now. I never got very good at anything in particular. Thus, I have battled with burn out for many years now, and am passively seeking another careers outside of Internet technologies. Point of the article is close to home.

The burnout aside, there is a plus to someone being proficient at many related tasks; having a somewhat in-depth knowledge of how all these technologies come together. The point is not all jobs require the best, most expert techniques. As in the case of the jack-of-all-trades carpenter, as long as he knows when to call the specialist, he is still getting the jobs, as am I.
It can, once you add focus to that little content pane (and you have to do the same for the mouse wheel). Still baffling design, but slightly less broken.
3D-printed houses constructed in Shanghai
That's just silly.

I mean, how would you cut it from his head?
On the contrary, Fed and Census data indicates that the net worth of the average homeowner is 30x greater than renters. Part of this is certainly some selection bias. More wealthy people buy homes.

But it's more than that. The truth is, buying a home is the only form of investing on margin for most. Also, it's compulsory investment and savings -- both with the principal payment and in the form of property improvements.

Finally, of course, are the myriad tax benefits.

While it's true that we incentivize home ownership, possibly too much, I think it's unfair that you paint it as an otherwise neutral activity that we strangely endorse with public policy. Land has real value, you can live on (and off) it. It was long seen as the one enduring source of wealth (See John Adams, George Washington, etc). It's much deeper than our postwar tax policies.
We're working on a new website that should do better at explaining what is prismic.io, with much fewer text. Thanks for your suggestion.
End users are more likely to pressure their vendors for better security in the future if they suffer more pain today.
I'll stick with Ubuntu, it feels good to know they aren't part of some GOBN clique but stand on their own.
Whose choice? Not mine... not that I have anything in particular against Ubuntu (in fact, I'm on an Ubuntu system as I write this, because it's our corporate standard desktop here), but I still prefer Red Hat based distros, whether it's RHEL, CentOS, Fedora or what-have-you?

"Why?" you might ask. Well, TBH, a lot of it is just familiarity - I've been using RH based distros since the Red Hat 5.2 days, so it's what I know already. But more to the point, it just works. I haven't felt any pain using Fedora, CentOS and their ilk, that has ever compelled me to go looking for a different solution. And that's even more true for servers, where I don't care about prepackaged video codecs or sound or anything.

The one big thing that everyone has always touted as the edge that Debian/Ubuntu have over RH systems, is apt. But after having used Ubuntu for 2 years now, I still haven't found any regard in which is apt is particularly better than yum. Yeah, yum used to be dog slow, but that hasn't been a problem in ages. And I don't know about you, but it still annoys me that I need one command, yum, to both search for packages and install them on CentOS/RHEL/Fedora, but I need apt-cache and apt-get to do the same thing on Ubuntu.

Anyway, props to the Ubuntu folks for the release. I do lean towards Red Hat derived distros, but I won't say that Ubuntu is bad or anything.
For comparison's sake, it's neat to look at the psychological outcomes for children of alcoholics (where the element of consistency and predictability gets thrown right out the window). I realize that I'm a single anecdotal piece of data, but the good news is that therapy can help get over it :).