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The "X considered harmful" construction has a long history in computer science, going back to Dijkstra's "Go To Statements Considered Harmful" paper. Wikipedia even has a page on it[1].

It can come off a little arrogant, but he's really just following tradition.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful
Are you really trying to claim that there are many more new languages than 150 years ago? Or are you saying that there are many more literate people trying to learn a new language than 150 years ago?

The first claim is clearly absurd; only a handful of new languages have arisen or been invented in the last 150 years.

The second claim is best described by the wikipedian "citation needed". Whether it's true probably depends on what part of the world you're restricting yourself to. The US? The West? The world?
I'm not sure I see the irony in a simple editing mistake.
Wow. I think you mean broken X, which makes sense because it isn't based on X and X isn't included by default. The command line vim uses the X clipboard.

UNIX is a separate standard from X. IMO part of really appreciating UNIX is appreciating what is part of UNIX and what sits on top of it. I think that most server-side UNIX installs have a "broken" clipboard in vim too.

The standard distribution of vim includes integration with X11 and Windows, and that's where console vim on linux gets its clipboard from. MacVim on OS X integrates with OS X and I just fired up the console vim and saw that the "+y and "+p use the Mac clipboard.
I'm not sure the quality of what you get for $850 a month is the same as a 290k house. For 290k you could easily afford double and rent one side out for $850. $966 of your monthly payment in the beginning is interest with a deduction. So if your in it for the money buy a double rent it out: you'll still have the money to invest in the market. plus your taxes deduction of about $400 a month. .
I was talking about these driver/update packs for Surface Pro 2:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3882....

I've never seen these updates come through standard Windows Update for the Surface Pro 2.
iCloud e-mail addresses are free with 5GB storage. I have a mac.com, me.com, and icloud.com address. Haven't paid since MobileMe.
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We all have constraints in our jobs and potential jobs; things such as location constraints (house, family, etc), specialty, and level. In my field, at my level, and in my geographic area, there really aren't a lot of jobs. Even more unfortunate, the 100% remote jobs in my field don't pay even remotely what I'm earning now (they are literally topping out at 1/2 of what I'm currently making). Employers in my field that allow 100% remote do so because they see it as a source of cheap labor, not high-quality labor. I am always looking, but so far I haven't found any comparable jobs that meet my constraints. At this point, my best option is my own start-up, which I'm working toward as fast as I can given my other obligations.
Works for me on 3.14 with the nvidia blob driver. Definitely sounds like a video driver issue. File a bug report?
The "program manager" my not understand quite how your deal was worked out and just be an old fashioned butts-in-the-seats manager who still believes that his job is simply to make people come in.

His superiors might be very upset if he ends up prompting you to leave. They may have no clue this is going on. Talk to the original people and tell them it's not working out.
Good read, BUT the advice is stay away from Drama and especially work Drama. Seems to me 50% of people are damaged immediately by work Drama and the other half die slowly with maybe one or two sort of winners.

I would go work somewhere else and stay happy.
So the earth would take the shape of of an egg and the ocean would ride over it with a constant depth?

I wonder how that would effect rocket launches? Would it be better to launch on the far side of earth or the moon side?
I think it also comes (came?) in a large multi-volume encyclopaedia like set. The small print with magnifying glass version was a cost and space efficient alternative.
What till she finds out there's chlorine in that salt. She'll probably have a stroke.
The reason from the article: “The development team selected lead-carbon batteries over lithium-ion equivalents as they require no active cooling, are more easily recyclable at the end of the vehicle’s life, and can function much more efficiently in sub-zero temperatures.”

Is this line actually true: "An often-overlooked feature of most Li-ion cells is that they cannot and must not be charged below 0°C, and have poor output current below 0°C."
Thanks for the response! So in theory, a player could game the public leaderboards by returning incorrect results for a simulation? This seems like a reasonable choice.
>Elm isn't FRP

What do you mean?

http://elm-lang.org/learn/What-is-FRP.elm
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How do they avoid lock-in? The site makes no mention of the concept whatsoever, and I don't see anything about an ability to export, in a non-bespoke form, all the data you've painstakingly collected in Findings.
First of all, L3 doesn't actually provide Netflix content, I don't think, so your video stream is unaffected entirely by L3's agreements with any ISP.

Second of all, you have no SLA with your ISP, so your quality of service is, "best effort". If you want an SLA, you have to pay, otherwise you're going to get the best that the ISP can give you, which means some degraded performance. That's what you've paid for. If you want better, pay more money.

Third of all, you really should read the submitted article. It's very clear you haven't. When you do, you'll find that L3 is the only backbone provider not playing ball, and the other backbone providers are paying, which means that there actually are nicely upgraded connections (I don't know about "plenty of bandwidth to spare"), paid for by the network backbone providers.

When you read the article, you'll be much better informed on this topic. I do recommend also reading L3's blog post. There's some good info there, and it provides all the "sourcing" you've asked for.
This is pretty cool.

This title as posted on HN (not in the article) is silly, though. The Linux kernel does not have "interns", this person is an intern for GNOME's OPW (Outreach Program for Women):

https://gnome.org/opw/
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Meanwhile there's not a Windows Phone version of Google anything.
People keep claiming that there should be a "free market" for bandwidth...but then they say that the ISPs should have to absorb the costs of peering (which can be significant -- the hardware isn't free) without passing the costs on to anyone. The backbone providers complain when the cost is passed to them; the consumers scream bloody murder when the costs are passed to them in the form of a bill.

Obviously, there's no free market in the status quo: we (consumers) basically expect to pay a low, ever-declining price for bandwidth, while someone else eats the costs of a growing network infrastructure. There's an economic disconnect, and legislating that it shouldn't exist seems worse than futile.

I say: pass the costs on to the consumer, and break down the monopolies on last-mile cable service. If the cable companies had to compete for subscribers, they could still pass on the costs of improving their infrastructure, but they'd have to compete with everyone else to do it.

In other words, the problem here isn't "net neutrality" -- it's that we've got a monopoly at the last mile that we need to destroy.
Have some self-respect. If this was any other profession, a contest like this would not be tolerated. If people get the idea programmers work for free, as long as you have a clever contest, that idea becomes popular and it's bad for all of us in the long run. The fact there's lots of prizes here doesn't change the underlying problem. Contests, in any field, devalue the profession.

Even if I was a high school teacher (winning this might look good on a resume) I would still tell my students to avoid contests because: Why work for free when you can work for money and have an even greater feeling of accomplishment? When I was in high school (20 years ago) I had paying clients and paying subscribers and had won programming contests and I still value the real-world work experience more than the contests.

As someone who won lots of contests in school: sometimes they are rigged, often the prizes never materialize, often it's free publicity (great photo opportunity) for whoever organized the contest. Live and learn.
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This is Google Wave. The "chatlets" and all the philosophy based on bits and pieces point to that.
I remember there was an open "wave" protocol exposed somewhere and an Apache implementation of that protocol, though I cannot seem to find the link anymore.
Was wondering if this is compatible with the general "wave" protocol or it's something proprietary.
It's not simply about getting permission, it is also about prominently attributing credit to the original author.
> The alternative to Windows 8 is presumably some older Windows.

Not necessarily. There are other, more secure, free, operating systems.
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I clicked on a few links for Paystr and couldn't find pricing information (even on the FAQ). Even a Google search yields nothing. It's a gorgeous layout but I don't think I can bring myself to sign up for a website where they won't be even remotely transparent about their pricing.
> Custom CodeCombat Wizard (est. $500 value)

Really?
FWIW, my brother uses* (and I have used, briefly) a non-thinkpad Yoga daily, and it's a very nice machine. He's had it since ~August 2013. Like any device I could come up with complaints about it, but nothing really springs to mind. It seemed to be responsive, light, mechanically well-designed, and sports one of Lenovo's awesome warranrties.

*based on the context of this thread, I should mention that while he is a technical person, he runs Windows and does not attempt to run linux or anything else natively.
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This is awesome!

In these days when information is a plenty, curation is more important than ever.

If you ever start a "math" category, it would be awesome if you can add my book: http://minireference.com/ It's not on amazon yet, but if you prod me I can figure out some other referral program...
This doesn't sound right to me. There are 256! permutations of the set {0, 1, 2, 3, ..., 255}. 256! is much bigger than 2^128, so I see no reason that each key cannot produce a unique mapping.

> So the block size needs to be near the key size

Note that AES-256 has a 256 bit key, but the block size is 128 bits, which is not near the key size.

I believe that the main constraint on block size is that a small block limits the length of messages you can safely encrypt with a given key. If the bad guys see a lot of cipher text encrypted with the same key, they have a better chance of a successful attack. What "a lot of cipher text" means depends on the block size. The bigger the block size, the more cipher text is needed to constitute "a lot of cipher text".
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Is this really "tutoring", or is it more akin to "being available to answer questions"? (Maybe there isn't really a difference.) Do you ever do in-depth sessions for an hour or two? Or is that too time-consuming for the price tutees are willing to pay? Is it always / usually job-skills-related or do you see interest in more fundamental concepts as well?

Thanks for taking the time to share your techniques!
By that theory, we present as more busy because other people are being more demanding of our time. Who are these people? Is it possible to identify and isolate the people who are the root causes of projected busyness and slap some sense into them?

If we translate "I'm busy" as a conversational token with attributes REJECT_INVITATION, TONE:NEUTRAL, RELATIONSHIP:STATIC, BLAME:EXTERNAL, DOMINANCE:INDEPENDENT, HONESTY:FACE_SAVING, there's really nothing better for that niche.

"I don't want to," could possibly be RELATIONSHIP:DOWNGRADE, BLAME:YOU, DOMINANCE:INSUBORDINATE, and HONESTY:BRUTAL, or some combination.

A simple "no," would be TONE:CURT and possibly DOMINANCE:INSUBORDINATE. Upgrading to "no, thank you," takes you back to TONE:POLITE, but still leaves you at possibly insubordinate and still leaves several contexts undefined. That might require futher explanation.

The PREVARICATION:FACE_SAVING attribute is rather important. Anyone trying to dig past that is venturing into TONE:RUDE and BLAME:YOU territory, and a more polite response would be another HONESTY:FACE_SAVING as an honor-preserving disengagement.

On deeper analysis, busyness often turns out to be a defense around selfishness, but we protect it as a blameless social disengagement because everyone has occasion to be a little selfish sometimes. If everyone around you seems busy, it may be that you are too pushy yourself. People may be willing to make more time for you if you make that time more pleasurable or less painful for them.
Yes, virtually all batteries perform poorly at low temperatures. IIRC, the Tesla can actually heat its batteries to increase performance.

Most consumer-grade lithium ion batteries have a charging window between 0-45C, totally unacceptable for a car. 0-60C is more common for automotive batteries, but still isn't that large of a window.
I really like Snappy (from what I've looked at briefly) but I feel like the pricing options need to be on the main page...
>Why would you buy some clunky classic notebook when you can get a Surface 3 for virtually the same price?

Well one of the reasons why I got my first gen Surface Pro was because none of the OEM's were making a similar product. Did you notice how awful the options were before the Surface came out? The OEM's were doing nothing but cashing in on the "Windows" name, throwing in a crappy product with Win 8 and some their own proprietary bloat and call it a "Windows Tablet". This was the only way MS could save their name, introduce itself to the tablet market and step up the game. I am all for what doesn't cause stagnation in the market.
One of my favorites, which I read as a teenager in the 70s, was "The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed", about a startup that tried to commercialize a hybrid airship/airfoil craft. It provided the first description I'd read of using a computer approximation to solve a real-world optimization problem (in this case, finding the shape that gave the best combination of volume for helium and aerodynamic lift with the least drag).
Alright, perhaps I shouldn't have quoted that, but let's continue with the 2 edits of my post where I found real figures on revenue and costs. Video revenue is (in absolute terms) higher than internet revenue. Video revenue growth is slower than internet revenue growth. Video customer growth is actually shrinkage, they're losing customers (hundreds of thousands each year). Internet customer growth is actually growth (over one million each year).

The primary video cost (programming) is approaching 50% of video revenue, and it's growing at a pace that has literally equaled or exceeded video revenue growth for each annual period in the linked document. So, making an assumption here that's likely untrue, if we consider that the other costs are distributed equally between the two (marketing, tech support, physical support, etc) then the internet service is approaching parity with the video service, and will exceed it in several more years as the higher profit business component.

I suppose if someone else has more time to dig through this document or other insight from being in the industry they could chime in with which has the greater costs once programming is removed from the equation.
Social should always be Global and on every device possible. But I did love that part of the episode, it's so true to the current times.
There are larger villages than that in China. Still you can visit a computer market in China and about 40% of the computers will be displayed with Ubuntu. So the average Chinese consumer is getting exposure to Ubuntu which is a good thing.
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Those customers aren't getting depeered, only Comcast.
That's a great point. If you are willing to have a tenant living with you it would definitely be a way to leverage your real estate investment for a better return. I think most people aren't willing to do this though.
That's if everyone particpates on a Comcast/TWC/Cox/etc. boycott. If my parents can get to Amazon Prime but not Netflix, they'll assume the issue is Netflix. (ok, maybe not my parents, but the idealized tech-unaware parent)
I wonder if the marketing copy of this is inherently biasing it away from women. This isn't to say that there aren't plenty of women who like to "crush foes" - but societal norms are definitely still in the realm of associating that with men.
Well sure, different implementations behave differently. It still has nothing to do with being OoOE...

A 486 and an original Atom are both in order implementations the i386 architecture (though both also implement other extensions), but knowing how code runs on one tells me nothing about the other, and if I just have an ISA reference the i386 without additional documentation or hardware to test on I won't be able to predict how code I write performs on either of them.
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They wouldn't be knocked off the Internet, they'd just have to route their packets through less efficient paths, which would slow everything down significantly.

The Internet would more or less shut down from traffic overload if all of Comcast's customers lost all the shortcuts that Comcast has created for them to content.
Logoturn has a pretty good collection of logos accompanied with domain names, some are cheap, most are around $500.
Yep, they could.

If people start doing that to mess up results, we have ways of remedying that situation. We haven't had to deal with any cheaters thus far as our users are pretty awesome (and there really is no reason to cheat).

We'd probably send each game out multiple times and require consensus or run all the simulations ourselves. I don't anticipate having to do anything of that nature, but it's interesting problem to think about!
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my current work laptop is a first-generation lenovo x1 carbon (seriously, best laptop i've ever used, though i hear the new version is a step backwards), running ubuntu and xfce4 with xmonad as the window manager. i'm happy and productive with it. as you say, 99% of the time all i'm using is web browsers and terminals anyway, and the ability to tile and move them around desktops with a few keystrokes is wonderful.

the bit that surprised me though was this comment:

> The thing is that you no longer have to apologize or feel guilty for using an Apple doing linux work. In fact, not using Apple makes you look like an unenlightened fool and a cheapo that is unwilling to pay for decent tools. There is nothing sexy in using a linux desktop and plenty of social pressure for buying a mac.

do people really think that way? i mean, i have no problems with people using macs, but my perception is just the opposite - that they picked a mac because it was there, it worked and it was a convenient, utilitarian option. there's nothing particularly "enlightened" about it.
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They don't have to say CDN explicitly. They can simply say Netflix or Hulu. For example, "Dear valued customer. The recent slow down of your Netflix service is the result of an issue with Netflix servers. ISP_X service is fully functional. Please contact Netflix customer support for further assistance"
This mechanism actually sounds like it could solve this problem. By making it policy that citations used in periodicals must link to these versioned pages, there is at least a traceable record about when something cited incorrect information.

I could also see this being a service to inform authors when their citations have been invalidated. A truthiness score of an article or blog post could be based on citation accuracy and could be assessed by a third party that specializes in fact checking, but initially it could be done by measuring when a particular like in a Wikipedia article has changed and whether or not that change affects the meaning.
> if you had $500 billion to spend and you had to choose between overhauling the nation's education system (which desperately needs it) and providing better Internet access to people, which would you choose?

They'll choose D. Build a new sportsball arena
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I just don't get how OSX is so popular with a developers. It is essentially a "user's" OS.

I have been a Linux user from 1994 to 2007 (mostly Slackware, some Debian and CentOS later), Mac from 2007. I switched to OS X, because: (1) I don't want to mess with hardware and drivers anymore; (2) I don't want to update my whole operating system to update applications; (3) in my work environment people do use Microsoft Office et al.,; (4) the hardware is nice; and (5) I have nothing against Windows, but it is not a UNIX, so not for me.

If some of the advantages go away, I'd be happy to switch back to Linux.
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Feels like it should be said like sift.
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I don't know why you're so down on this. It's a competitive game that looks fun, no one is forcing you to take part. The code created here isn't even useful for any other purpose! It's not some 99 designs contest for code, it's like the Stripe CTF challenges if anything.
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It kind of negates your first point.

"Passwords? No. We don't. Everything is a certificate or key."

...

"We have sets of accounts ... accessible to anyone who knows the well-known standard passphrase."
I've read both the blog post and the linked article. Can you provide specific quotes for the claims? Because the only thing that came close which I saw in either the post or the link was a graph of a different connection which isn't fully saturated, but has very little head room, certainly not enough to handle the spillage that L3 is dealing with. There's a mention of capacity upgrades in the works for that connection, but no specific numbers; it's not clear that the upgraded connection will be large enough to take on the lost packets from L3. And I didn't see anything in there about L3 pushing other providers out of the way.

So like I said; can you provide sources for those claims? Because you also thought the bakery analogy was a good idea, so I'd like to read your primary sources instead of trying to explain myself to you further.
Decreases CO2 by 15%? Almost too little to matter. Other than as a marketing ploy.