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> mediocre languages, Groovy would fit right in next to Dart and Go

Groovy's dead for JVM scripting, and Grails is losing adoption share rapidly, but it's rebounding as the DSL in Gradle. I've yet to see a Gradle build script that actually drops out of the DSL to use Groovy to do any programming, though - perhaps Gradle's too good at what it does.

Developers like Gradle because it has Maven-depth functionality with a JS/CSS-like syntax. Gradle would have more uptake if it enabled developers to plug in other dynamic JVM languages, e.g. JRuby, Jython, Clojure, Nashorn, JDart. Even Scala's dynamic mode might work.

I've looked briefly at Gradle's source and Groovy seems to be entangled deeply in it - Gradle even manipulates Groovy's AST all over its source. I suspect Gradle was set up with the specific intention of promoting Groovy and making it difficult to work with other languages, despite the quote on gradle.org: "We happily support any community effort to create additional build script engines".

Gradle needs to expose an API for its use like other products do if anyone is going to believe they're not going to change their source to prevent other build script languages being plugged in, just like Groovy 1.7 and 1.8 source changed to give Groovy++ and others the runaround around 2010 / 2011. But I suspect the same people behind that are ultimately behind Gradle.
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Because the person in the video doesn't match the description of the registered owner of the car as recorded on their driving license. Think about it.
No, they know how to work in a lab because they learned that during the internship they had last summer. In school, they learned Chemistry, but it was the workplace that taught them how to apply that knowledge in a professional setting.
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That's my approach as well. He was quite wrong with "Lean and mean", where he predicted the layoff of 150.000 US employees in 2007 [1].

[1] http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070504_0020...
Very Very cool!
Thanks. I think it sounds like a bad decision, it can be compile time checked so won't cause performance issues. I wonder what the cost is in the mutable case for the fact that the length can vary.
The two explanations don't contradict each other. In fact, it's clear that self-interest and a "filter bubble" à la déformation professionnelle would reinforce each other. Why take such pains to differentiate between the two?
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1) Fines aren't criminal offenses

2) I suspect that there are more valid reasons to leave a child in a car, compared to reasons to not flush.

That said, the consequences are greater in the case of potential child neglect.
If any devs here think that educating students in CS is easy and disagree with the author, then there are plenty of opportunities for you to have a go at educating children yourselves.

Initiatives like http://codeclubworld.org/ will allow you to engage with children at the chalk-face. You could inspire the next generation of hackers, rather than just criticising those of us that have chosen to do this as a profession.
Is this vulnerable to a scenario where they have a bunch of coins in escrow and then they run off with them? If, for instance, the betting pools for world cup start filling up, whats to stop them from doing that?

edit: how in the world is this a dumb question / comment
I'm not sure that is a big distortion of what she's saying. It seems to me like she's suggesting that keeping up with modern computer science isn't necessary to teach computer science. With her all caps "WRONG"s, she seems equally incontrovertible. While I don't think teaching iOS8 beta dev is necessary in a modern cs curriculum (which I don't think many people are suggesting), not approaching the massive shift in the industry towards mobile is equally absurd. It's not about mastering every library or IDE or language (which again, the parent comment didn't suggest), but there is certainly no reason that CS fundamentals cannot be taught with a nod towards modern computer science.

Yes, employer expectations are often absurd, but so too is the expectation that teaching Java without ever building an Android app does everything sufficient to "equip students with skills." If a curriculum is going to spend a month on linked lists that's fine, but do something real with them instead of implementing stdlib over and over in a vacuum. Use some popular libraries as teaching tools to demonstrate good and bad code, ways things have been done in real life, etc. Don't pigeonhole on jquery widgets, but build a webapp in rails or node or go or c or jsp or whatever. Hell, build it in Haskell and teach some killer fp at the same time. But don't just spend 4 years teaching students how to implement x to do arbitrary y with no practical examples or connection to real life.
For number 3 and NBA players, wouldn't the fact that having to be so tall would trump the age effect? Being 7 feet tall is an extremely rare statistic event, so whether the player is born in January or December isn't material.
The fact that it's legal doesn't mean it's not morally objectionable. You can argue that not the choice not to make it illegal is a jurisdictional one, but that doesn't change the fact that European companies engage in the practice when they could choose not to. I think that says a lot about European attitudes towards corruption versus American ones.
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You can also synthesize gasoline with water + co2 + energy, not unlike this battery, but the global efficiency is very low (US navy is considering using it in nuclear powered ships for jet fuel iirc). The thermalization of the fuel (i.e. Carnot cycle) is also a significant limiter.
I, on the other hand probably couldn't work with more than two screens. I always had two screens at my last jobs but I always ended up using only one of them actually.

First I had the typical setup of putting the editor/shells on one screen and the browser on the other. But I found that moving the head and re focus all the time was more of a hassle than just cmd+tab. After that, I just put things that selfupdate and I can look at once in a while on the second screen. Like Mail, Twitter, etc.

Now since I rarely work in any kind of office anymore, I'm glad I never really got into the multi monitor thing:)

If I would do more design work I'd probably have use for more than one monitor. But as a programmer, having a editor with good split screen and code/project navigation support is way more important to me than the size or number of monitors.
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Yep, in assembly it's usually no question possible. That's why I specified portable C.

C has some interesting gaps for something that's long been described as a macro for assembly. A rotate operator would also be nice.
That doesn't help the victim.

I expect a significant number of people would characterize what the police did as bending the rules a little to catch a rapist on the loose. Many -- including me! aren't going to agree with that, but it is a legitimate point of view, and it does explain why police are very rarely sanctioned for actions like this.
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> Like Shanley Kane's claim that men have a much easier time getting a 6 figure job out of college... except that unemployment among male college graduates is 50% higher than women's

"A study of more than 400,000 graduates who left university last summer showed that 9% of males were unemployed six months after quitting compared with just 6% of women.

However, when it came to salaries, those men who had found their way into work were earning higher salaries than women with 32% earning more than £25,000 a year - compared with just 18% of women." [1]

Men are more likely than women to be unemployed or employed full time, while women are more likely than men to work part time at one or more jobs. [2]

Your statement is accurate, but so is hers.

> I'll just quote from the legal documents shall I

You quoted Schwern's accusation, which you seem to think bears more weight than Plunkett's accusation, despite neither being legally substantiated.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/male-graduates-mor...

[2] http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2011/2011236.pdf page 7 (document page 17)
So you're saying that this is mainly a political maneuver to further punish Techweek because they aren't bowing deeply enough? (Even though it's couched in the language of a moral crusade for sexual equality.)
Well, not really. It is a popular argument though.
In the case of the alleged steroid dealer, the feds seemed to compel Hushmail to exploit this hole, store the suspects’ secret passphrase or decryption key, decrypt their messages and hand them over.

http://www.wired.com/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai/

Technically, they were forced to collect the key which they would not have stored otherwise, so this does not count as "had evidence in their possession"
The chosen image creates the impression that women at parties are the "entertainment," and/or are sex objects. It also sends a belittling and hostile message to any women who may be planning to attend. And in general, it's in pretty poor taste for an industry event. It feels like the kind of flier I'd expect to have shoved into my hands while walking down the strip in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve.

As men, we are so frequently accustomed to seeing images like this that we don't really see what's so bad about them. That's more of the point of the blog post, at least as I read it. It's a good point. This sort of thing won't strike most male readers as all that big a deal, and that's part of the issue.
The clue is in the title: it is the drone!

Those people are just watching some wild footage of it on some tablet, the teaser is there to just throw people off the scent, gyroscopes etc: must be the drone.

Should I place a bet on that or would I be best to go with the 3d eye-tracking kindle-phone?
I'd add images of what it looks like. So far, I don't know what it looks like since I don't see anything on the README, and the landing page is just a plain sign up form.
Is it impossible for women to be beautiful and be competent and have fun at a rave party?

Can we not have pictures of people at a rave now? Or do they need to be boring? Or have ugly people?
I've never seen that video before, so thanks for posting it.

Yes, the head movement in the Amazon video makes it look like head tracking/perspective changes built in to the device. But what for?
What kind of graphics capabilities do you require?

My current MacBook Pro can switch between an AMD Radeon 6770M and Intel HD Graphics 3000. I've found that the Intel is fast enough, and the Radeon is hot and uses a lot of energy.

I usually don't play games, I don't do graphics development, and I don't use Adobe products. So in practice, I rarely need the Radeon.
Yeah, this immediately made me picture Steve Carrell's character from "40-Year-Old Virgin" trying to describe what sex must be like.
From the head moving and what they're saying about it, it's definitely this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K39Q9zvQoE
>As a boss, I’ve deliberately tried to hire women to counteract the male-dominated work tech environments I’ve seen and been a part of.

I'm not sure what the situation is in the US but here in the UK, that element of 'affirmative action' is illegal.
I like the layout of the site. I like that clicking links opens up a new tab. I like that comments don't pull you away from the main page. Seems quite well thought out.
In italics, the first line after the heading is "this is high school, not university". Since when did anywhere give recognised degrees as part of a high school education?
Is this case even remotely discussable as "middle ground"? There was no malice except on the part of the police and the bystander. Your responses to this thread show a deep lack of understanding of practical parenting or human resiliency.
The U.K. also has the UK Bribery Act which is appears to be more expansive than the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (the U.S. counter-part). Like the FCPA, it applies to acts globally for companies with part of their business within the U.K..
You could hackintosh. It's not that difficult, though that statement isn't true on some hardware configurations.

Also, how is Intel underpowered? Seems perfectly adequate for me.
It should be noted that the author is a UK secondary school teacher (ages 11-16), so comparing what she is saying with universities is sort of missing the point.
>Which means the thing with the Corvette? Probably wasn't a good idea in hindsight.

My dad even thinks that now. Still the irony is that a corvette of that age isn't safe in an accident with any type of seat for any type of occupant. However, put a child seat in it any we all can pretend that it's somehow safe.

Just writing that makes me think there will be a law soon that kids can only ride in child-safe certified cars.
Aha! My argument is weak because your neighbor is more trusted than the general public.

Read that again.

Why? Why would a random parent (taken from a hat that contains all the names of parents in the USA for this experiment) be less trustable than your neighbor? Because you don't know the person?

If that is the argument, you could probably call the police all the time, whenever there's a kid around that cries, is shouted at, throws itself to the ground and needs to be carried, etc. etc..

It's not my argument that is weak (my example might be crap, if you happen to really like your neighbor. But that also means that you missed the point of my post though, inserting real persons wasn't part of the thought experiment and is entirely irrelevant).
And then the sound will glitch and cut out, with the graphical FPS varying wildly in games and sometimes frames being delayed by hundreds of milliseconds or more. That's my personal experience, anyway; I really wish I could say Linux works well, but on a 2008 Dell PC with a common chipset the sound does not even work reliably with the latest version of Ubuntu, nor does a common AMD Radeon chipset with the official fglrx drivers.

It's not like it doesn't work, it worked fine 90% of the time. But 90% is not enough; when even Half-Life 2 is completely unplayable (on hardware which easily runs it in Windows), something's wrong.
What a wonderful strawman.
Legitimate implies legal, and legal it is not. It's a fine line between bending the rules an breaking the rules and any lawyer worth their salt will get their client off the hook if the police are found to be bending the rules.

If there is one thing more dangerous than criminals then it is authorities operating without any checks on their power.

So if you want criminals to be punished for their deeds you should be very much against police bending the rules to catch them.
An interesting tangent to this, in terms of trapping math operations, is that Swift added an operator for a non-trapping div-by-zero operation: &/

I'm not sure I've seen that in any other languages before.
How does it do that? Serious question! The people in the picture are having fun at a party at one of those photo shoot stations that is at every black tie party.
As others have said there are in fact general engineering degrees, they called it ESM at my university.

But as someone who took both EE and CS courses, I wouldn't consider the EE to be particularly more "vocational training" than the CS.

I think it's more of a level thing; higher-ranked universities will tend to be more theoretical and take umbrage at being thought of as vocational training. More prestigious companies will also interview more for your grasp of theory than your skill bullets. E.G. Facebook is a PHP shop but when I interviewed there they didn't ask a single PHP question. I bet they never do.
Apparently it's hard to tell the difference if you're untrained. Seems like calling for help if you are concerned about the safety of a dog or kid is reasonable, even if it means you could be wrong.
So we're not responsible for making judgments and we should now call someone paid to do it? Really?
Another way of looking at it is that CS graduates are overqualified for 90% of current internet jobs. They are also underqualified, judging from the number of CS grads and upperclassmen asking for help with a Rails tutorial, since CS programs do not actually teach web development. They are also likely to have a fair bit of debt from college loans. This is a great way for companies to prejudice themselves down the salary ladder while overestimating the potential of any one recruit, since the underpaid-and-overqualified are going to want a raise as they become more proficient in the vocational side of programming, and as everybody knows: the best way to get a raise is to change jobs. Rinse and repeat.
Debugger was a good hint for what to google, thanks. http://www.seasip.info/VintagePC/dualhead.html
I'm asking a serious question. Is it not possible to be smart beautiful and have fun at a rave party?

My experience is mostly with the JavaScript community where there are many smart beautiful people of both genders that have fun. Should we only show photographs of the males?

If so, isn't that sexist?
Not sure if you're the author, but I tried to follow the documentation and in the very early steps I get stuck. I've reported on github, it is basically a typo for the window object name MotroCortex and then .fire() method does not exist.
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One of the hardest things about these "escape from the room" games is keeping all the puzzles and clues organized, and sharing progress across the whole team. It's a pretty great exercise in project mgmt and teamwork.
And this is why I only got some spending money on my debit card. The question isn't when you get skimmed, it's when.
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We might be talking about different things. Soekris does this without IPMI.
The correct thing to do is also to check the carry and overflow flags after (I)MUL, which does the right thing even when only the lower bits of the multiplication are saved.

Here's an example where there is overflow, but your suggestion would not catch it:

mov eax, 0x7fffffff
mov ecx, 2
imul ecx ; edx:eax = eax * ecx
; edx = 0
; eax = 0xfffffffe
; overflow flag = 1

There is signed overflow here, but testing edx (the higher word of the result) would not catch it.
Risk minimization as an overriding strategy is fundamentally flawed as it is never complete. It also appears that people are really bad at understanding the costs for very small benefits.
I'm going to get downvoted for this, but this video is hilarious when you imagine they're trying out some sort of sex toy attachment. Just watch it again with that in mind.
No they wouldn't. The police are paid to check those things out, not to make facile assumptions. When they are the license plate they would have noticed that the person they saw in the video was not the registered owner of the car. That was absolutely something worth following up, which was why the author's mother found a police car waiting for her when she returned from dropping her daughter off at the airport.

The probability of a crime occurring is not the only factor that has to be taken into account here. There's also the severity of the possible criminal outcome. Kidnapping is actually relatively common in the US by international standards, and it is among the most aggressively prosecuted crimes. Until 1972, kidnapping was a capital crime, ie you could get the death sentence for it.
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And this is why Windows Phone is what it is. The only thing MS is actually interested in is what (they think) directly projects to sales according to analyses, which are undoubtedly mostly based on "automated feedback" from current users and other "big data". Where are the times they actually cared for the (vocal) minorities?
Those strike me as models, not party attendees, presumably paid to pose for that photo, or to be at some event in which the photo was taken. They are not dressed in black tie attire; they are dressed in a sexy, posed, clearly pre-coordinated "booth babe" take on black tie. I could be wrong, but that's the impression the photo gives me.
It won't go to the moon because it does not have sufficient velocity to escape the gravity well. Not because there is no lift in a vacuum (it will never reach a vacuum).

It will simply float to the top of the atmosphere (if it stays in one piece) to the point where the weight of the baloon is balanced by the buoyancy. Just like a rubber ball will not float 'on top' of the water that supports it but slightly inside it.

It's Archimedes' law applied to balloons.
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We still can't rule out a phone, though. For this type of video they don't necessarily use the real device. Another possibility (as suggested by the questions in the form) is that it's a sensor applicable to many types of devices.
Doesn't aluminum smelting use crazy amounts of electricity and emit significant greenhouse gases? So not only would we be doing that, we'd also have to ship these 220 lb modules back to the smelters every 1,000 miles?

Is there anybody advocating for this besides aluminum smelters?
Because the "self-interest" angle is intellectually lazy and in this case very attenuated. There's only so much self-interest you can ascribe to someone with a Constitutionally-guaranteed salary fixed by statute.
How about just "the glasses"?
> lambda calculus is a distant memory

This should be a core concept in CS education though.
> The CRL file(s) could be hosted on any CDN worth their salt for less than the price of 4 people regenerating certs. SNI is also an option for newer clients.

Have you seen the article with Cloudflare and Globalsign's CRL?
These typical ads portrait women as play-things to be gawked at rather than someone's daughter, wife and another human being. And they are plain dumb.

But it's so prevalent nowadays that it hardly registers in a conscious way, and I think that's the problem.

As an LDS Christian I go to church and won't watch R rated movies, but even I feel like I've become numb to this kind of objectification of women. And I think it's a serious, serious problem in this society.
Every issue you described are issues from 2-3 years ago. They have all been solved, especially in the major distros. A current version 14.x of Ubuntu, or version 20+ of Fedora will work "out of the box" with zero tweaking. Honestly. (I run full-time Linux desktops on everything from old repourposed warehouse workstations that were bought in the windows 2000 days, all the way through dual booting my modern gaming rig... it just works).

And to touch on your gaming comment -- actually, Valve has found the same games perform better on Linux using OpenGL than they do on Windows. So much so, that they were surprised at how well they performed. So much so, that many many other gaming companies are now re-releasing and/or planning future releases on Linux. The day of Linux gaming is here...