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Geocolor.io: a web app for creating and sharing choropleths with geojson
> You can't 'get Wine on the phone' when there's a problem

Actually you can: first item in the help page

http://www.winehq.org/help/

Of course if you meant "support on the phone for free" that's not gonna happen.
Buy it and do physics down by the river.
CentOS is of course downstream directly from RedHat and there's no evidence that RedHat is any less subject to pressure from the US government or that it is any less likely to make decisions motivated by some sense of patriotism. One might even make a case that as a company with a more Angolophone market orientation and vastly less global reach than MicroSoft, RedHat is more likely to see its interests aligned with US security policies.

Keep in mind that Ballmer had just become CEO when this decision was made, and going out and collecting facts on the ground is the sort of thing a CEO should be doing in unusual circumstances. If MicroSoft had been on a wining and dining mission, they would have sent Gates because in the early 2000's it was "Steve, who?"
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Dr Dre confirms $3.2 billion Apple acquisition
At the time apparently the doctors Were his guardians? He was institutionalized without relatives. So conflict of interest is clear.
They published a LibreOffice extension to help working with forms http://www.wollmux.net/wiki/Hauptseite
Those two sites are not meant for inexperienced people. You can certainly find a scams there, but they're fairly easy to spot: unbelievable prices, payment only by western union, sellers with no/little reputation...

Personally, I've mostly had mostly good experiences with those two sites - almost all of the items I ordered arrived and worked well. The two exceptions was when I bought a very low price product, but I got a refund for it, and another example was when I bought a large lot of items at almost a 5th of their price, and paid by Western Union... it was my fault for not knowing better.
Money, prestige and the promise of future success makes 22 year olds do stupid things.
We should never have let it get this far. Computers have been around for 50 years, nobody in the work force today should have thought that they could avoid them.

So yes, after getting 50 year olds to sit down and mess around with a computer for a couple months to see if they can "get" it, they should be let go. We fundamentally hire people to do a job. When they can't effectively utilize technology they are holding back society. It would be better to put them on welfare or to have them transition to a lower tech position. I don't want the local police chief installing some browser spamware and having all the juvie records leaked.
That was my reaction as well. At the conclusion of the story, they said:
>> Surprisingly, the success of LiMux hasn’t resulted in a flood of similar projects across Europe

I haven't been to any council meetings at major cities, but "we can maybe save a few million with a ten-year effort that may alienate lots of workers and requires winning hearts and minds" doesn't sound like a winning proposition.

Good for Munich, though. Maybe they can take the people who ran the project and set up a consulting gig to make this easier for other cities?
Travel Alone, Not to be Alone
That's one way of looking at it.

The other way is that we treat the FCC as an entity. We make it tough for that entity to do everything in order to put pressure on the top. It's not like the employees have zero power there. And while it may indeed be near-zero power, I still feel that they have more power as an employee of the FCC than I do as a member of the faceless public. Maybe this will empower a scared employee to come forward and speak out. Or maybe you're right and they do have zero power there, but maybe they'll understand what's at stake and call their representative.

Also, it's not like we're throttling these employee's home connections. We're not slowing down their daughter's access to Wikipedia at home, we're slowing down their connection to Facebook while at work.
Why was this downvoted? If it's nonsense, could someone have the good graces to say why?
I don't think there is anything wrong with pointing out people's petty behavior.

Petty people who don't take the time to make an argument or don't have one to make might feel differently.
The existing power grid is also still available when solar power is insufficient.
That was part of their phased transition plan.

1. Transition to LibreOffice on Windows
2. Transition to Linux
So the type depends upon the initial values, which might not be representative of your full intent? A list of strings doesn't guarantee you won't want later to put something else in there.

I guess you'd just have to declare it explicitly in that case.
I imagine that this is just one of a number of uses of extra capacity. When we deploy servers, we don't like to run them at 100% for a number of reasons (extra capacity to handle spikes and failures, unpredictable behavior of components at full load, breathing room for planned maintenance, etc.). I bet a large-scale solar deployment is no different.
The article mentions some weapons that were mounted on Jeeps - but doesn't mention that there were Jeep mounted nuclear weapons! The Davy Crockett "tactical nuclear recoilless rifle":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_%28nuclear_device...
And his parents were dead. He was institutionalized. So who were his guardians? The doctors perhaps? The conflict of interest would then be clear.
A couple of questions: Do they move the panels to follow the sun? Are these thin film panels more efficient than solar thermal collectors?
All Lisp Machines booted and saved images. For the Symbolics Lisp machine it was not unusual to boot into remote image and save/load incremental images. In Genera one typically loads a software into an image and then dump a new incremental image and use that later. Source code was typically stored in files (with versions) and maintained by a tool called 'system construction kit'. There were some higher-level tools like KEE, which developed knowledge-based systems mostly inside the image using GUI interfaces under program control.

The first thing you do when setting up a personal Lisp Machine, is loading a bunch of software. This is typically done by typing the name of the software and the machine finds it in the software repository and loads it. 'Load System 'FOO''. Once the software is loaded one writes a new image, often an incremental (delta) image. 'Save World :incremental ...'. After that the Lisp machines asks whether to modify the boot sequence to use the new image... The systems itself, were usually stored on a central file server and registered by name. Often also a bunch of preconfigured images were provided.

Working with images AND files was already available in the 60s for example in BBN Lisp. BBN Lisp could dump images, which one later loads for further use.

But what you think of Smalltalk as image based development was available in Xerox Interlisp and Interlisp-D.

See: http://larry.masinter.net/interlisp-ieee.pdf

> The file package removes from the user the burden of keeping track of where things are and what things have changed. For example, the file package keeps track of which file contains a particular datum, e.g., a function definition or record declaration. In many cases, it automatically retrieves the necessary lisp system during the interactive session. During this process, the primary copy of the program (the copy that is changed during editing operations) resides in the programming system as a data structure; editing is performed by modifying this data structure. For this reason, Imerlisp is called a residential system.'

> In a residential system, it is important to be able to take procedures represented by data structures and print them on text files in an input-compatible format for use as backup, for transporting programs from one environment to another, and to provide hardcopy listings.

...

> By this point, the Interlisp user did not have to worry about maintaining his source files, save for occasionally calling cleanup.

> The file package supports the abstraction that the user is truly manipulating his program as data and that the file is merely one particular external representation of a collection of program pieces. During a session, the user manipulates the pieces with a variety of tools, occasionally saving what he has done by calling the eleanup function.

> The user can also operate in a mode where programs are treated as residing in a data base, i.e., the external file system, with a variety of sophisticated retrieval tools at his
disposal.

Btw., there are also current Common Lisp systems which make more use of images.

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw61/IDE-M/html/ide-m...
1.7 is not stable, I think. The last time I had issues with wine, I learned that 1.odd is unstable and 1.even is stable.
It's acceptable to automate twitter activity per the rules here: https://support.twitter.com/articles/76915
ROI with and without subsidies would also be interesting.
Thanks for the tip! I'll try that this afternoon.
I have very low expectations for an article that leads with a photo of two “MBA candidates” at Princeton. (Princeton has no business school, so doesn’t award MBAs).
Heh, I actually don't have any icons at all, I just like having everything I need out in front of me so I use awesome window manager and open a bunch of windows with tons of tabs, multitasking at its finest.
Are startups not another area where working silly hours is considered somewhat normal?
...move to startups and 120 hour weeks.
"The comparison with Windows assumes that Windows systems must be on the same technological level; this would, for example, mean that they would have been upgraded to Windows 7 at the end of 2011"

That's a big assumption, and one that no doubt helps push the price of the MS solution up considerably.
It's a great tool for memorizing things that need to be rote-memorized. Chinese characters often fall into that category. Arcane Chemistry vocabulary probably do as well.

It's just a flash card system on steroids. If you know how to use a flash card system appropriately then this is a pretty powerful substitute.
Yep, like if you wanted to put a list behind an IEnumerable interface or something like that, instead of an actual list. It's just a very useful shortcut for the thing you want to do 90% of the time.
This is awesome! I can't wait to try it. It would help to have some samples on the front page though. Maybe a loginless demo of ankiweb with something like GRE words.
Beats headphones are crap, sure. And their streaming service isn't as mature as Spotify. But three billion dollars isn't about headphones or online music streaming or Dr Dre's drunken celebration. It's about growth.

Apple has a chokehold on the iPod market. They've rocked the market with the iPod, iPhone, iPad and those products will be cash cows for a long time. But where is their next growth going to come from? A watch? I doubt it.

All the granola 16-year-old white girls already have their iPhone. There's no room for crazy growth among middle class white people. Apple needs to use it's expertise to pursue new markets, which is exactly what they're doing.

Tim Cook isn't afraid, he's strategic. Beats by Dre is a high-end consumer lifestyle brand that GREATLY appeals to black, hispanic, urban-context, young men and women. They sell expensive products. They care about design. They represent a way of living. They're Apple in another market.

Beats is about to be Apple's international foray into a completely new growth segment. And it's genius.
I have been experimenting with the idea of learning Urbit through Anki. No useful decks published yet. Hoon has a complex set of runes (~& |- $_ ++) and several rich vocabularies of three and four letter words, and for the most part it's made by one man.

These (unique?) properties make Hoon language a prime target for an Anki deck. Programmers learning languages with less byzantine syntax (like Javascript, or even Brainfuck) might not benefit much from Pauker-style study and deck creation.
A Cheaper Tool for Virtual Sculpting
I've been using a similar method to learn some German vocabulary for about 8 months now (using Flashcards Deluxe, not Anki, though), and I could specially relate to the "Two-way connections" section of your friend's article.

For example, my deck is currently German to English. As an experiment, once I reversed the deck for a while (making it English to German) and suddenly it became much harder. Maybe the solution is using two-way decks for vocabulary acquiring, so that you can not only read a word in German and understand it, but also want to - for example - search for something in German on Google and know it.

Or, maybe the way to go (for languages, at last) is just set the deck to Source Language* to Destination Language (in my case, English to German). Anyone has experience with that?

The linked article about "Why" questions was also a good find for me (http://rs.io/2014/02/25/why-questions-reveal-structure.html).

* Actually, English is not even my first language, but I'm comfortable with it enough to consider it a strong enough base to build on another language, mostly because there's more material in English than Portuguese about pretty much anything.
>and corporate executives

Sure why not, all they did is take money from willing people called customers. While we're at it let's add...

Basketball, baseball, football, hockey, and soccer players, golfers, Hollywood stars, and successful book authors like Steven King.

These people are so greedy because they make millions a year! All while their viewers/readers/hot dog venders/editors make so much less. It's not fair.

Seriously, I don't understand why people complain about executive pay when the folks I just listed make more for adding less value to the world.
The project, which cost a total of $1.8 billion to construct, received a million-dollar loan from the DoE as a part of its “SunShot” initiative (so-named in the spirit of president John F. Kennedy’s “moon shot” program).

That's generous, getting a loan for a massive 0.056% like that must have been a real boost. Also: wut?
Distributed system reading list
This Online Teleporter Takes You To Random Places Around The World
What happens when you break up with Facebook: nothing
I understand the problems with checking-in as you go places. What I don't understand is the value in checking in as you leave. Why publish a check-in at all? What do users gain by checking-in?
Personally I feel that Gnome Shell is far more appealing than Windows (anything) or MacOsx.

I just showed a MacOSx user the alt-drag window resizing.... totally blew his mind, as in he couldn't understand why that wasn't a feature of MacOSx: "The Simple Operating System"
A Guide to Computational Geometry in Python
I really enjoy the radial arm saw, but it does seem like the sliding compound miters are taking their place. I figure if these work for most of the work I need to do, then it'll be easier to justify things like a planer & jointer.
The US is actually quite a bit ahead on serval conservation efforts related to wildlife. The only real areas that the US misses on is energy usage and that is mostly due to a few groups of very well funded groups that stand to lose their cash cows. So they are working hard to stop green energy movements.
8th Graders Reaching 11th Grade in RI
Following 8th Graders in RI through 11th Grade or Graduation
Be very very careful with this sort of thing. Try "the better part of a decade" if you want a phrase with a similar ring but actual truth behind it.
Has anyone found or is willing to share an objective-c or cocoa deck for Anki?
FPS isn't really an issue for web games, it's input latency. Current browsers add something like a 60ms delay to every input event, and there isn't any fast path for translating inputs to events on screen. This makes it very difficult right now to create fun and fast paced interactive games in HTML5.
For a type system, being Turing complete is a disadvantage: you can't prove that your typechecker will always terminate.
Will Movies Move to the Cloud?
I must say that I find it difficult to read beyond the first sentence which says "I adore weapons. Of every sort." This honestly creeps me out a bit.
I've been using Anki to remember the books I read. I take notes as I'm reading and then transfer the important parts to Anki after I'm done. It's a pretty effective system.
>Firefox is faster on Windows than on Linux.

Not on any of my computers. I have windows 8 installed on a separate partition on my laptop and have literally only used it to upgrade the system and I installed firefox to browse the web while I wait for updates.

This pristine OS that has almost never been used boots up fairly fast, but then when I login it takes 3 minutes to load the start screen. Then of course the first thing I want to do is go to my desktop, but guess what? The whole OS chokes when I click the button to bring it up. I've gotten use to giving windows 8 a "warm up" period of about ten minutes, but this still doesn't help. I go to open Firefox on the desktop and literally nothing happens for 3 minutes, I end up pressing the icon again, then I get 5 FF windows, 2 mcaffe pop-ups, some crap from dell, and oh look! more up-dates. This is on a brand new dell with integrated graphics and an intel core i5 with regular HDD. Linux doesn't have any of these problems. Now I'm sure you can tell me all the tricks to getting Windows to run faster, but if I wanted to spend all day configuring my OS I would use Arch.

How many people work in your company if you don't mind me asking? In my experience, a lot of companies that have thousands of computers are employing people who aren't important enough to have a company Outlook account. Believe it or not many companies still use dos (and train the employees to use a command line dos interface in 3 days).

Plenty of companies can switch to Linux, maybe not your 15 person start-up where everyone has a specialized task, but plenty of others can.
The business school is located right behind the medical school
Also, they (CA+cert) are broken beyond repair. I understand lulling users into false sense of security because they don't understand what they are doing, and scary message is scary. But CA chain is so insecure today, that I would rather trust cached cert, my 'convergence' setup or luck than happy green lock icon.
Startups are rarely as bad as banking, where you can do 100 hour weeks several weeks in a row, have vacations canceled, miss weddings and funerals. Even though you're expected to work more at startups, most founders realize their employees need time off. I could be wrong, but I'd say a majority of startup employees work less than 60 hours per week.

Also the work at investment banks is boring and monotonous. Doing 100 page pitch decks, knowing very well that 90 of them are going to get thrown out.
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record the timing in MS for the update and draw stages of every frame

This tells you nothing about when the frame actually makes it to the screen. It's ok for optimizing your own code, not so useful for comparing across devices, platforms & browsers.
Only problem is the 10M they "saved" was based on the assumption that if they had chosen Windows, they would have had to keep upgrading/paying for new versions.

This assertion is dubious at best. I would imagine most computers/departments would not have been required to buy each and every new Windows/Office release.

A great counter argument to mine (not that any of you need help) would be to point out a specific Linux feature needed in the last decade that was "free" whereas a comparable Windows/Office feature would have forced an upgrade.
Well I think Gruber himself actually summed it up quite well:

"There’s almost never a good reason to use a different word to describe a woman’s job than the words you’d choose if the position were held by a man."

I don't think it really matters what specific connotations you personally have for the word "queen". What matters is how the conversation subtly becomes about the person's gender instead of their job in these articles.
One option is reading the FAQ...114 line items all on a single page, and then going to the User Guide, and then the man pages and some online community forums, etc. and developing your own expertise. Maybe, after something between a few minutes and several months, a user will discover some of these tools to which the above post referred. But only maybe.

The other option is hiring a consultant.

A copy of Windows is $200. The reason for using Wine is running Windows programs. The business case for Wine becomes weak for many people pretty quick when time is money, e.g. how long does it take before the cost in cash and time associated with consultants costs more than Windows?

The quality of support for non-technical Linux users is why a company can make a business out of supporting Wine. Indeed, it's why RedHat can be a public company.
Input latency is an issue, sure, but saying that framerate doesn't matter is just ignorant. The existence of attempts at improving throughput (like asm.js and NaCL and Dart) demonstrates that performance is still a serious concern for developers.

Also, keep in mind that high throughput - necessary for delivering a consistent 60FPS - will naturally reduce input latency by reducing the length of frames and the amount of time spent not pumping input messages.

P.S. It's my understanding that gamepad input in both Firefox and Chrome is not buffered in any fashion, so that's going to be low-latency.
I'm still disappointed however that there is not greater public awareness about the problems of over-fishing. Infact, I'd go as far as to say there is zero public awareness about where fish actual come from. It sounds silly I know, but fish is consistently touted as a healthy food and how we should eat more and more fish because it's good for you. Correct, it may be good for us, but it's simply not sustainable to eat more and more. I'm always surprised when I ask my friends where they think the fish they're eating came from and they're nearly all unaware that there even was huge problem with fish stocks. I mean come one, Pacific Bluefin tuna has declined by 96%!!! and it's a similar story for North Sea Cod.

There should be a greater focus on 'sustainable managed fisheries' vs open sea fishing, in the same way as people are aware of the difference between factory farming and free range.

also, it wouldn't hurt if everyone ate a little less fish (and meat for that matter)
Frame scheduling delay doesn't matter for performance benchmarking. Modern browser compositors literally grab the frame you hand them and display it at next vsync. It's irrelevant.

Note that a browser can also run rAF ticks at 60hz even if it's dropping half your frames to hit 30hz vsync. You won't be able to tell.

It is the case that some browser compositors fuck up the presentation of frames (hi Chrome), and that sucks, but you can't programmatically detect it.
All he's doing is smartly parsing the results of Twitter searches. This isn't really groundbreaking, it just requires some legwork.
We did. That just made them even madder because they knew we had a TV in there and now we were lying to them about it. They're definitely sending a guy out now, you'll see.

We'd answer them and ask, yes, please do send somebody out. We'll show you around. That really pissed them off, since now we're not only lying but calling their bluff.

Eventually after several months of this, a very angry looking man came to the door, stormed upstairs, looked around a bit, searched a few cupboards, and apologized.

I often think that if they took the time and effort they spend harassing people who don't watch television and instead directed it towards making television programs that people might want to watch, they would actually get more people to pay them for a license to watch television.