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I'm attempting some self-taught coding (my degree is in history), and after much dithering, have started with How to Design Programs (htdp.org). SICP is beyond me at this point, and I wanted to get a good grounding in general concepts and good design before jumping into some other more (theoretically lucrative)language.

HtDP is wonderful at what it does, and while perhaps a tad dry in writing style, it is, for me, a page turner in terms of engagement and presentation of new ideas.
Serious question: Is there a difference between a planet and an alien planet, or is it just a bit of flair added to the title?
I believe that should have the highest priority. It's highly unorthodox not to have it, especially for desktop users with a mouse.

I was so annoyed I didn't even listen to the audio and immediately shut down the page.
"Beauty is only skin deep" — "Looks only go so far" — and the plethora of other cultural restrictions on "beauty".

As is always pertinent to this discussion:

Do we worship the Gods because they are beautiful, or are the Gods beautiful because we worship them?

We could generalize this to those interests that particularly come from reports of these demographics, and subdemographics. Or we could go abstract into architecture: Xer functions, functions which are more "readable" or have more "examples"; or classes which have more "features" consistently have advantages in negotiations for place in a codebase, frequency of reuse, event-state participation.
Technically you could get the functionality of dual sim with software, so ultimately this will be an app on every phone.
I would use the volume control to control the volume.
Virtually all cultures have mechanisms for "firing" people, ranging from shunning to exile to imprisonment to execution.
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Because you're used to it from years of using Linux? Or have software from other unix-like platforms which expects a case-sensitive filesystem?

A good example would be MySQL. The case sensitivity of table names is determined by the file system on which MySQL is running.

It's terrible, I know, but if you're developing a webapp which is going to run on a Linux-server you might want to have a case sensitive database locally as well or you could end up with queries that run without a hitch on your dev machine but give a "No such table" error in production. That sucks.

Of course, nowadays, you could just use a Vagrant VM or something similar, but still.
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baidu sucks. And we Chinese know it. I guess it has to keep investing in relatively advanced tech to keep its high tech image for China market in U.S. stock market. This at least is one of the results baidu wants.
A very long time ago, I worked for a company that was having growing pains. They tried a few things, one of which was codifying the 'culture' in a list of present-tense statements that management wished to be true. It was originally called "the 40 points" but by the time I left, it was up to 66 points.

I asked my boss ('ask' is a euphemism, as I remember it) what was up with this list (given that the statements were almost entirely false in the moment), and he told me that there are two ways to guide people when an organization hits a certain size: with detailed and explicit rules like the military, or with concepts to guide smart people to make decisions roughly in line with the direction chosen by management.

With experience, I have found that there are more than two options (that was my first 'real' job after working at a gas station as a teenager). The "N points" were deprecated after a few years, and amazingly (to me, anyway), the company still exists.

As many people have said, culture usually comes from the leaders' actions, not from their wishes. Or their lists.
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I agree with you; my point was that while skrebbel spoke as if the point had never even been considered, it had in fact been considered.

I have to admit to a certain amount of pet-peeve-like sensitivity to people commenting in ways that make it look like they only read the title.
I haven't read the new paper†, but the original Joux paper that this refines didn't apply to the ECDLP. ECDSA and ECDH don't rely on the hardness of the DLP; they rely on the hardness of the ECDLP. Part of the point of the ECDLP is that it is less amenable to classical lines of attack on the DLP, like index calculus, from which this algorithm is derived.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7759441 --- who, as always, knows what he's talking about.

† Edit: 'pbsd suggests there may not be one.
What does the Guardian have that Twitter doesn't?
except when you're giving a fuck for all the wrong reasons. If all those keyboard warriors lashed out at the FCC over it's net neutrality proceedings recently, they would be overwhelmed. Whatever though, keyboard warriors will die off when the websites they've been arguing on aren't in the "fast lane" and take ten minutes to load a page.
That's a mischaracterisation of my argument. I am blaming the political elites, not the eastern bloc countries (who are blameless). If I had no qualifications and I suddenly no longer needed a masters degree to come to a country with a minimum wage 7 times that in my homeland - I'd be on the first flight there.

Your discussion regarding the situation in France and Germany is pertinent but widens the discussion beyond my narrow point.

Supply and demand is econ 101. If the supply of low wage labour goes through the roof, then wages are compressed for a section of the population (the young and low paid) that can ill deal with the effects.

Now you you might say, "well, we have the minimum wage in the UK" - but there are all kinds of tricks employers will use to circumvent this, and with high supply, they can more easily get away with this type of behavior. Finally, the minimum wage, is not actually a liveable wage for an independent adult in the UK in 2014 (despite protestations, I'm sure), and so offers little in the way of protection anyway.
Pretty sure it's supposed to mean extrasolar in this context - a planet not in our own solar system.
In Brentwood. Which happens to be a very tiny town in California.

Sonic's a darn good ISP, though. I wish they offered service in my area, I'd take them up in a heartbeat.
Or, we could rise up and demand total control of our own minds. Freedom of thought, things like that. We need to educate the general public before they surrender their mind to proprietary software, though.

And if people have no choice, there is still jail-breaking. And if jail-breaking is forbidden, I'll do it anyway. And possibly start a career as a runner. That would probably get me killed, but if I don't, I may not be able to look at my reflection in a mirror.
Yeah, these double walled cups work quite well:

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Hmmm, judging by the number of down-votes on my "it'll taste like chicken" comment I have the feeling I need to remind some of the evolutionary grandparents of the humble chicken. Remember that chickens, being birds, most likely are descended from small carnivorous dinosaurs. While the mentioned dinosaur is a vegetarian sauropod, both share a common ancestor.
I like it. It reminds me of a concept [1] I saw presented at Fluent Conf this year, called Sunset Tests. The idea is that when you write code which shouldn't be a permanent addition to the code base (for example, a poly fill for IE 7, or an A/B test), write a test that checks for the existence of that code and fails if it's still there past a certain date.

I wonder if the TODO method could dynamically generate a test case that does the same.

[1] Everything is a Polyfill: Automate Deleting Code for Front End Performance - Rachel Myers and Emily Nakashima

http://www.slideshare.net/eanakashima/everything-is-a-polyfi...
TrunkNotes - personal wiki - brilliant. Has great dynamic functionality, markdown, supports Lua and even though iOS based, has wifi access from desktop browser. Use for notes, tasks, etc. http://www.appsonthemove.com/trunk.htm
I never use TFA if it's SMS based. I don't understand why every company isn't using the standard TOTP TFA with a secret key, that way I can manage who has access to my TFA codes very easily. I just scan a barcode on my phone once and I'm able to generate TFA codes for myself, what's better than that?
We're getting way past my comfort level, but the impact of the recent DLP attacks on pairing curves is because they involve mapping the curve problem into a multiplicative finite field, right? The DLP attacks themselves don't directly impact the ECDLP.
I think OSX has been doing this since Leopard, but instead of forcing the update during shutdown, you can apply it whenever you want (it's already downloaded unless you turned auto updates off). I much prefer this route. Forcing the update on a restart or shutdown ends up being more annoying than you think.
Thinking about it from the perspective of an entrepreneur, even though it's just my co-founder and I and a couple outsourced assistants, I did write down a list values that I wanted to exhibit as a leader in my company.

As I see it, it's like writing down your goals. Having them written down isn't the end-all of the matter. But if you write them down, it makes them much more tangible and achievable.

Looked at that way, having aspects of "company culture" doesn't mean much on its own. The test is whether the influential people (CEO, vets, etc...) embodying and practicing those points on a daily basis.
What are you talking about? I'm talking about minimum wage, not minimum prices on food. There's no such thing as a minimum price of chips anyway.
Do you mean if you disable custom fonts in your browser? I was under the impression that all modern browsers enabled them by default now.
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This was perhaps the single worst place to try to flog his conspiracy theory book.
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Good points, expanding on the original article.

Now what? Take Berkun's definition of culture, and don't fuck up that. Culture could be the thing that stops future innovation? Make it part of the culture not to try to stop future innovation.

Culture sure is kinda intangible, but it's still good advice to founders to pay close attention to it. Whatever it is.
Now that's interesting. Could you lay out, or point to, some arguments?
Corporate culture is fancy word for lowering wages by hyping up a company and thus shifting bargaining power from employees to employer.

I mean, I'm all for that, but let's call things for what they really are.
A dirty little secret of HR is that "values" can be a defense against wrongful termination lawsuits. Firing people can be very risky with modern anti-discrimination and employment laws.

I've heard a number of horror stories: one from a private dental practice and several from a chain restaurant. Both stories come from individuals I trust when they say the problem employees needed to be fired... but they sue anyway.

In the case of the medical practice, the settlement could have been avoided by a 4 page "employee handbook" plus a few written notes about handbook violations. In the chain restaurant stories, some notes citing which "values" the employee failed to personify made for easy dismissals of cases about race or age discrimination.
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I do agree with freedom of individual,and free software is ok if it's authors want to free.
Note that Sonic does a bit of a con on the "free" phone service. They won't let you forgo the phone service. That results in additional $12 in charges and taxes on your bill, over half of which is a fee that goes entirely to Sonic. In the US phone companies are allowed to charge extra fees to comply with the law, and Sonic charges the maximum allowable. Not even AT&T does that! Of course they are very skilled at making it look like the fee goes to the government, but it doesn't.
If you're experienced making Eclipse plugins, it would probably be under an hour. If you're not, it could take you a day to learn how.
I'm not taking it personally at all. I simply dislike excessive generalization and unnecessary stereotyping of people, which you are clearly guilty of.

If you consistently have a problem interacting with certain people in the workplace, might I suggest looking inward for both the cause and the solution to that problem?
Those are ways to remove people from society, or existence, but not necessarily culture. Plenty of groups consider themselves to still be a part of cultures (be they national, or religious, or what have you) from which they've been excised or shunned or geographically isolated. My point was that culture tends to be emergent as much as, if not more than, imposed - in a corporation, the decision of whether or not you belong is binary, either you're hired or you're fired. With culture, the lines can be a lot more vague.
I think the parent commenter was agreeing with you. The English idiom "could do with" (which I think is somewhat uncommon in California, where I live) means something like "could benefit from", "still needs", or "would like". It suggests that someone doesn't yet have the thing that they "could do with", but that it would be good if they did, at least from the speaker's perspective.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/could_do_with
If it was flying around 20ft perhaps, but these types of quadrotor UAVs can fly higher than you might expect. Good luck hitting a small drone flying fast a few hundred ft above you
So if he stops his criticism of Google, he will be left alone? Just like critics of Scientology?
I think an example is in order because this really hits a spot on this cultural analysis debate that I think everyone is missing. We often lean on the side of innateness which the theory that we want to prove has a domain whose scope is really big — "innateness" is the formulation of words necessary to describe the phenomenon within the speech genre underway. The point behind Chomsky sentences is that truth plays a role in language, all language, even scientific language, which is not always necessarily and sufficiently conditioned by the morphological construction presently being given attention, or what can we call an object of intention. So, the point here is that lots of theories exist, but regardless of their linguistic narrative, they tend to fail at larger orders of abstraction.

There are two absolutely perfect examples.

1. Most families don't celebrate Mother's Day.

2. Cross-country runners are breed, not born.

1 not only is a combination of both, but we behave very often as if it were false. We have such a trait in virtue of an innate quality, namely of having a mother. Yet we all learned not by any conscious effort to warn ourselves from the principle; it's part and parcel of our "innate" characteristic.

With 2, I often hear this expressed in terms of geological factors. Does the environment at any given time contribute to the innate material our theory describes?
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A lot of people don't realize that there's an investment in physical attractiveness. People who are generally considered physically attractive have invested more in their appearance.

Your genes are only maybe 25% of the picture. Having good hygiene, being well-dressed, having a nice haircut, and carrying yourself confidently ("swagger") can get you pretty far toward the attractive end of the spectrum. These things take time, money, and practice, but they really affect the way people perceive you.
I worked with both men and women.

Some women are really good at their job, really professional.

Other women are not good at their job and unprofessional.

It is the later that are being talked about here. The ones that paint their nails at work and then refuse to do any work until they dry. The ones that gossip and lie about other people to stir up trouble. The ones that refuse to do work and avoid doing work by reading romance novels, watering plants, making coffee, bringing in food, walking around with a clipboard and not doing anything, and wasting as much time as they can just to get that paycheck.

Some men waste time as well as do some of the things some women do to be honest.
Silly.

I fail to understand how the developer getting the surprising out-of-context (with regard to what the developer is currently doing) build failure due to time-bomb-TODO-comments suddenly is expected to experience an energy burst and fix the issue right then and there. After all, the developer didn't fix the issue when the comment was written!

I think this just leads the developer to either a) delete the comment or b) increase the due date.
I submit that a negligible proportion of users is aware that voicemail may be used as a factor, so they're not actively making that assumption. I would say it's Google's responsibility to protect users from the many insecure voicemail systems of telcos, since extra security is the whole point of enabling 2FA.
"Example : $30 cables/connectors/chargers."

When it comes to chargers, you really do get what you pay for. See: http://www.righto.com/2012/10/a-dozen-usb-chargers-in-lab-ap...

Note that the HP Touchpad charger is rated slightly higher than Apple's charger, but it's not cheap either. Right now Amazon lists the HP charger for $17.99 and the Apple 12w iPad charger for $19.00. Not much difference in price.

The $2.00 chargers are gambling with your device (and maybe even your life).
It looks like you're right. After posting my question I clicked through to the GPI site (http://www.planetimager.org), which says the project is imaging and characterizing exoplanets. And, in case anyone else is curious, an exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system.
Wouldn't all these issues be present anyways if the thief simply turned on the machine?
You can't push updates on iOS without going through the app store approval process.
I would add the constraint that the surface is convex, too. Without that, one could build some 3D fractal, and get infinite area for any given volume.

Alternatively, complicate things by taking the width of the glass into account or model convection more realistically (a square meter of glass close to other glass of similar temperature will not lose much heat)
Many of the photo's are old and I remember seeing some of them before…

I haven't searched extensively but here's article from 2009 with many of the same images - http://www.businessinsider.com/unsold-cars-around-the-world-...
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I'm intensely grateful for the FDA.

I'm alive because of experimental treatments (bone marrow transplant), monitored by the FDA and others. At the time, patients with my profile had 90% mortality.

I will tell you firsthand, and watching my hospital friends die, that in most cases, the cure is at least as bad as the disease. Which is why doctors, who would know best, often choose to go out with grace (no heroic measures).

And yet science marches on.

Today BMTs are routine and in some cases are practically outpatient treatments.

The development and approval of new drugs and therapies are exactly as fast as they should be. Want something faster, then work towards it.

In other words: less talk, more walk.
In his defense, his chief concern, and this is true for all sorts of businesses, is the company's reputation - and traders sliding into locker room language in their email, instant messages and whatever else is a major vulnerability. Especially lately with a blossoming forex scandal.

I'd expect greater concerns of this CEO with respect to preserving client confidence in a company's reputation are incidents of failure to keep internal things internal, so there's a little irony to this leaked video.
The article omits a huge factor: In American culture, you are not allowed to say you are smarter than someone else, and nerds typically violate this rule. Thought experiment: turn to your officemate and explain why you are smarter than they are - it's not going to go well. Saying that you're richer, thinner, or more athletic is also arrogant, but I think putting down someone's intelligence is especially cutting.

I saved myself a lot of trouble in high school by never explicitly saying I was smart (even though it was obvious). If someone started shoving me and saying "You think you're smarter than everyone else", I'd say something like "No, not really. I just do well in school", and they would happily go on their way. (I'm sure this wouldn't work for everyone, and I don't mean to generalize too much. Also, this was my actual view, not just something I said.)

I hypothesize based on this and other articles that Paul Graham went out of his way to make sure people knew how smart he was, which would explain why he ended up at the "D" table. This seems more likely than the article's hypothesis that nerds spend all their time on being smart and just didn't have time to be popular. (Seriously, look at athletes who are practicing at 6am - they are the ones who are spending all their time on their craft.)
What movies do you think the western world watches? I live in an European country - Portugal - and all the films the in Top 20 of this year are from the US. Films from other countries are a rarity outside of the few more art-driven movie theaters.
Programming is craftsmanship, not really literacy. The difference is that most people don't like crafting, but they do like communicating. Most people are consumers.
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Thanks Andy, you are correct! The annotations are part of Rails / Rake.
> As I understood, the technical implementation is fairly straightforward, right?

As has been pointed out elsewhere in this thread, the technical and design challenges of offering a working subset of a game as a demo can be quite high for a small developer. Even AAA studios can't always justify the cost.
Depends on the people that are pushing this culture, and how phony the culture is. If the culture is "we always take care of our employees" and the company follows through (think people landing on hard times and the company helping out) or "we never work you into burning out", that can be pretty genuine. If it is "we let you nap in the break room" while underpaying and overworking you or "we provide free soda" while screwing you out of profits, then it is phony. Avoid the phony and be genuine. Best bosses I've had were genuine and took care of their own and those are the places I enjoyed working the most. The CEO that didn't show up for work more than 4 hours a week, then talked about how we are the thought leaders was phony.
As I understand it, the PlayStation Vita has a rear touchpad. I've never used one, does anyone who has care to comment on how well it works?
> You wouldn't know that if your mobile phone was out of range and didn't receive the missed call.

You could, actually. My provider sends a text message when that happens, which you receive when you're in range again.
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There's no way to know that the payload has been received - they're transmitters, not transceivers. The messages are idempotent anyway, so just retransmitting makes the whole system simpler.
another solution (solely to the updating problem) would be to disable automaitc updates, no?