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The comment you are responding to has been deleted. Based solely on what you said, Maya Angelou was definitively never a "United States Poet Laureate" but the argument can be made that she was a "poet laureate". A United States Poet Laureate is an official, appointed, and titled position that is typically held for a length of time [1]. However, at Clinton's request she did compose and recite an inauguration poem, so in the general sense that she was officially appointed by a government official to compose a poem for a special event [2] the argument could be made that she was a "poet laureate".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Poet_Laureate
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet_Laureate
Neither.

They are raising money to create a subscription web service of their current subscription tablet app.
Definitely this, the linking and binary size restrictions are simply stupid, do they really expect me to try the product with only "hello world" demos?

I don't mind the timebomb in the binaries, but seriously, if you want me to take your product seriously, better let me evaluate your product with real-world apps.
And yet, there is something Apple knows about it, which you don't, that leads Apple to prevent general use thereof. They are in a position to abruptly change how it's used in their own software, but are not in a position to make you abruptly change how you use it; not letting you use it is fair in this situation.
Heh, I worked with Axciom's API at one point.. it was terrible. SOAP API with out-of-date and error prone documentation, and wildly inaccurate information on any phone number I tried.
No.. i´m finishing my second year there.
I have trouble with depression. It really hinders my progress.
I'm afraid i´ll be stuck here for a while then.
I'm aware of this and it's rational choice, but whata opportunity. They (just maybe) could also add compatibility layer on top of something else, like other projects do, but nvm.
We support a number of layout managers that allow you to create responsive UIs.

This is very important on Android since there is really no single form factor/screen resolution to target. You really need to build UIs that work on various kinds of resolutions.
I believe it is to make new ones and/or extend the current iPad app to the web to reach more people.
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I use car2go in Austin, and already love the system. A car2go that could drive itself to my door would make my commute perfect.
People who have a Leap: does this work as well, in terms of tracking the hands, as it appears to in the demo?

If so, I may have to buy a Leap...
Who can sing the theme song? And, are you singing it now either in your head or out loud? *raises hand
Horizon 2020 is giving out 80 billion Euros between 2014 and 2020. That's a big amount roughly $15 billion per year. In the US, private venture capital being invested is around $4 billion, per month, or $48 billion per year.

Plus, there's the baggage of accepting public money. In private money, your failures are fairly private. Its not front page news when Kleiner Perkins put $30 million into a failure. But Solyndra failing was a huge deal in the US. In Canada, where I grew up, public money going into failures is always newsworthy.

When 50 million Euros of that 80 billion goes to some fraudster, it'll put the whole program at risk. That's why its difficult for countries to legislate innovation. There's a large party of people who are rewarded when those investments fail.
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Actually, if as you approach a traffic signal, you cede control of the car to the signal, you can avoid red lights altogether as the smart signal shuffles the cars through without any of them hitting each other, handing off control back to the car after it passes through the intersection. A similar technique could be used on on-ramps.
I often revisit my recurring costs to pare the services I'm using down to the bare minimum. Here are the ones I can currently think of off the top of my head:

Hosting/Email:

Prgmr.com ($8/mo)
AWS (~$0.60/mo)
Hover.com (bunch of domains, ~$120/year)
Fastmail.fm ($80/yr for 2 family users)

Entertainment:

Netflix ($8/mo)
Hulu ($8/mo)
Amazon Prime ($100/year)
Spotify ($10/mo)

Misc Apps/Services:

Pinboard.in (~$9 one-time payment)
Draftin.com ($36/year)
Backblaze ($100/year for two pcs)

Some that I have used in the past and since abandoned:

- Pandora
- Amazon Cloud Player
- Google Music All Access
- Easynews (NNTP)
- Ghost.org
Considering it's per-developer:

Imagine an enterprise of 20 devs hacking away at various Xamarin projects with one dedicated "deploy" person. They'd get away with not paying licenses for 19 of those devs.
Ok agreed it is not a solution but since the functionality mentioned depended on the service Apple was providing, apart from telling the users that there is a problem with Apple or switching to an alternate service (not as easy as it sounds) during a crisis what other solution would you propose? Granted building a fallback into the design at the beginning would have been a better way to do things but I would forgive the OP not doing this since it is Apple they are dealing with and there is a certain expectation that your support tickets will be addressed.
MSMQ is a colossal PITA to set up. As is RabbitMQ, etc.

I've wanted something like this for a very long time.
3, 2, 1 contact was sooo good. Mathnet? ^_^ & Mr. Wizard - my little elementary school mind was blown when he showed me water isn't wet.
I don't know that it affects points, but it definitely affects ranking. A post with more comments than points is likely to trigger the flame war detector and have the same effect as the post being flagged severely.
That's exactly how Google does it. Please see http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/safebrow... .

Periodically, Chrome will download a list of hashed URLs believed to be dangerous. As you surf the web, Chrome checks client-side if the URL matches anything in the hashed list. Only if the hash matches will Chrome initiate a more in-depth check.
For something like a web API I think most people would support mocking. If it's just a library it's a lot less clear-cut; my approach would be to use the real thing until it gets to be a problem (because it's making your tests slow, or because it doesn't expose the right interface, or because it's too hard to get it into the state that you want to test). Certainly use mocks when you need to, but the rest of the time there are arguments for both sides and you probably need to figure out what you prefer yourself.
While I agree that parent used some words like hipster 'poorly', I completely disagree with your assessment of iOS and Android development. What you said is just pure FUD.

Both platforms have their share of problems and neither of them is 'simpler' or 'harder'. It just the way it is.
They attacked Go how?

They used a checkbox, blanket argument against GCs, where the discussion was specifically about Go. It is just something I've noticed about the Rust team -- they overwhelmingly hold Go as their foe, and most if not all advocacy seems to be targeted at Go.

EDIT: I should add that a quick perusal of their comment history finds them engaged in many, many Go threads, always dismissive of Go. Again, to be active in Rust seems to be some sort of call-to-arms against Go.

Good.

In a past engagement I developed the real-time, QNX Neutrino-based control systems for power plants (not nuclear, but a very large power facility all the same). I certainly don't expect you to know that, but it does make your dismissal rather humorous.

However literally you decided to take that comment, the point of it is that certain benefits are very important in certain domains, and unimportant in others. GC as a simple checkbox is something that matters in hard real-time systems, for instance. It matters when every cycle is important.

In many other domains it needs to be analyzed, and there are no hard and fast rules. As I mentioned, the overhead of GC in most real-world Go solutions is close to if not completely irrelevant. Simply pointing it out as a checkbox, especially compared to what is effectively vapour right now (meaning you can't coherently compare solutions because one player is entirely unequipped to do so), is vapid laziness.
> A simple social pressure like that can work wonders.

So would variable pricing based on how often you leave the car a mess (with appropriate filters to mitigate against the trolls).
Please, please, how about an affordable option for hobbyist/free app programmers? The current free Starter version isn't it.

Edit: Wow, natfriedman. If you could only see the uparrows this comment is getting :)
I actually went to an interesting talk on this subject.

The speaker was a classicist and the subject was the debate which happened in the 1860's about what the focus of education should be: technical training (ag & engineering) or the classical education, which was more focused on "well-roundedness".

The technical training camp won. Most of the universities founded at the time (including schools like the Midwest Big Ten, MIT, and Cornell) focused on agriculture and engineering and still do to this day. The classical education was tacked on the side.

I think there is a huge swath of the population which isn't represented on Hacker News whom this technical education still serves quite well. The gentleman farmer still benefits from learning about soil chemistry and how crop rotation affects it, and the biology of the livestock he raises. Engineers (real engineers, who use differential equations) and technicians still learn the foundations of their craft needed to start the modern day apprenticeship.

Programmers are weird outliers.
> Americans need to recognize that the purpose of innovation is ... to sustain productivity and employment growth in order to ensure real income expansion.

That's a highly dubious criterion, one which Germany's inelastic labor market certainly has an advantage in. Since strong unions make it much harder to lay off employees in Germany, German manufacturers have substantially less incentive to invest in labor-saving innovation. Their American counterparts do, which contributes to our GDP continuing to grow steadily. Also, US manufacturing is certainly bigger than Germany's—it's just taken as a percentage out of a bigger whole: the US GDP per capita is nearly $10k higher than Germany's. [1]

For the rest of us, it's well-accepted that one of the key drivers and outcomes of innovation is to increase output without increasing factors of production, including labor. Put simply, a more innovative society is almost certainly one that's losing jobs (particularly jobs in traditional sectors). Keynes, a favorite of socialists and liberals, absolutely acknowledged that the expected outcome of technical innovation is less and less work. [2] Though we've continued to invent new jobs for people displaced by disruption ("social media manager"), it's completely expected that employment is lagging in traditional sectors like manufacturing.

By reasonable criteria, the US dominates Germany in innovation. We innovate people out of jobs.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_...
2: http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/keynes/1...
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Interesting project. The biggest question though is: can VLC/omxplayer/ffmpeg utilize the GPU for h264 decoding/encoding?
HangFire provides you a unified programming model for background job processing on shared, dedicated and cloud hosting. It takes the complexity of background processing itself and lets you to concentrate only on background jobs.
There's a difference between private APIs which are convenient for Apple to use and inconvenient for Apple to let others use but developers can create alternatives without much difficulty, vs private APIs which give Apple an outright unfair advantage over others.

Are there any private APIs which really do amount to "unfair advantage for Apple"? or does the whole issue amount to sniveling about not being able to play with all their toys and having to bring your own?
Possible interpretation: Germans engineer, but Americans invent.

I imagine the most successful German companies are more like GE and IBM and not like Google, Apple, or Uber.
I've been using Pure for a few months now and really like it. Design and organizing CSS aren't my forte and Pure is small, light and easy to extend. I don't use their grid system because I prefer grid mixins[0] over grid classes, but the rest of Pure is really a pleasure to use. It's nice to see the project gaining adoption, back during Pure 0.2 I was worried it might be abandoned.

0 - http://neat.bourbon.io/
Yeah, I really hate this. I have some relatively unpopular opinions (e.g. I believe that porn, strip clubs, and prostitution are the core problem holding back equality of women) but trying to express these opinion penalises me. The downvotes eventually hide my opinion.

I don't know if there is a better model for human discourse on the internet. Maybe it's a good thing that unpopular opinions get silenced, unless they're phrased in very careful, smart-sounding ways. I have to go through great lengths to convince my voters that I'm not a complete idiot for believing some things, and it's a lot of work. It's just easier to express unpopular opinions very selectively.

edit: Wow, there's a very good-looking response to this by lostcoyote which is marked as dead and will probably disappear. What a weird coincidence, very à propos.
They could do that right now anyway with a single license and a shared computer if they were really interested in circumventing the licensing.

I think a much larger issue is the current (and onwards) generations of indies, enthusiasts and kids who are actively prohibited from trying Xamarin.
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Yup. It works just like that. Now, keep in mind that it's not going to work perfectly ALL the time. If you get into complex occlusion cases it may not be able to reconstruct the skeleton perfectly.
That's a good point but really this just punishes honest developers for the potential lost of income from dishonest developers. It's really no different than any other tool being installed by 20 developers using the same license key.

Most software firms take licensing very seriously. I'm not sure it's worth crippling their trial offering just to try and deal with the ones that do not.
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Regardless if you choose to stay or leave this position I think it is better to learn how to deal with this kind of people.

This kind of people think that everything happens because of them. They think everyone is replaceable, etc...

Don't try to proove anything to her and don't necessarily do things because she asks you. Center only in your job and in yourself. If possible, create side projects and succeed in these side projects as well. Free yourself from this single position and from this mind game.

If you center in your career (job + side projects) and in yourself, she'll not be able to play her game with you and everyday you'll see you have more control over your career and over your life.
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I didn't try to do so, but there is nothing to prevent HangFire to run on Mono. I also consider to support OWIN instead of System.Web for HangFire Dashboard, so Linux and MacOS will be supported.
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How is having to re-write the abstraction layer a "cost of abstraction"? That is work that you would have had to do anyway.

I think the "land mine" metaphor is unnecessarily disparaging. Abstractions are more like roads. They make life easier, as long as you can stay on them. But if you have to go off the road, you're going to have to make a road for yourself.

Generally speaking, roads only reduce the amount of work you have to do to travel, unless you use them inappropriately (like going too far out of your way when you could have taken a shortcut). On the other hand, land mines only increase the difficulty of traveling.
True. Here's the actual Greatest Hits disambiguation page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Hits_(disambiguation)
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I think you could make a reasonable case that at least 7 of the 10 largest US cities were not "major cities pre-car". Depending greatly, of course, on exactly what "major" means. Note that none of these cities resemble older, denser cities like NY in their layout.

LA
Houston
Phoenix
San Antonio
San Diego
Dallas
San Jose

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
100%. Its called efferent coupling.
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/ˈæn.dʒə.loʊ/ in IPA, if that confused anyone else. (I misinterpreted it as representing /ˈɑːn.ʒə.loʊ/.)
Pure core contributor here. Thanks for the kind words fellas. There are still some rough edges in Pure, especially around extending Menus but that's next on our list of things to tackle.
Working for a company that is a direct competitor of Reading Rainbow's app, yet growing up with Reading Rainbow my feelings are mixed and diverse.
"Coye Cheshire, an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information, thinks part of the solution might be for people to take responsibility for tracking public data about themselves."

The perennial solution in the new neoliberal world: general, pervasive problem that affects everyone systematically? Take responsibility for yourself and damn everyone else!
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I really feel like this is off-topic.
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Your point #2 implies that there is a short list of fields that require a degree. I think you have that backward. I'd be interested in seeing a list of middle class career track jobs that don't require a degree to get in the door. Web developer? "Entrepreneur"? As far as I can tell, the economy is largely divided between service jobs and jobs that require a college degree.
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I am pretty sure I would spend that money right away and not have much down the line for operations.
Do you believe that Video dating is the new space for eliminating cat-fishing?
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Split that problem into two problems:

1. Your collaborator cannot be reached.

2. Your client has a network connectivity problem.

I've never seen a client who needs to know #1. All they care about is that there was a DataStoreGateway::TransientInsertError, and that TransientInsertErrors mean retrying and notifying the UI that their work hasn't been committed yet.

#2 isn't a problem the DataStoreGateway should be responsible for, because it will affect almost everything in the system in one way or another, and you don't want to have to write that code repeatedly. It's more likely a kind of Alarm--the kind of thing that gets pushed out from wherever it is to a global alarm handler, which then does something like putting the UI into a different root view-controller state, e.g. darkening it and covering it with a modal saying "lost connection."
I'm not german, so I can't easily find a link in german law for you, but in general privacy law in most of europe provides substantially weaker protections for "public persons", which includes politicians and celebrities.
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I signed up to play around. It seems nice, but totally not what my team needs. It's a little too cartoony and cute. Creating rooms is a little awkward, I think. I see where they're going with it, but I don't think it's really a "better chat for work".. maybe a "better chat for friends"? I dunno.

Also, I tried to delete my account and the AJAX request is getting a 500 error. Kinda funny.
I remember well upgrading my computer with a 3dfx voodoo card. Nothing short of revolutionary. It's hard to explain, but imagine going from what was at the time normal - incredibly pixelated, slow gameplay, to crisp, clear, and fast gameplay which up until that point never really existed. Not buying the card wasn't even an option, there was nothing remotely like it at the time.
Brazilian here. The brazilian politics already bought the World Cup. It's 100% chance for Brazil to win. Mark my words and make some bets.
I wouldn't wind myself up too hard about something in HBR. HBR's editorial policy seems to boil down to the following:
1) If America sucks at something, it's because Americans are dolts and/or the US government is run by incompetents.
2) If American is good at something, it's because American businessmen are geniuses whose excrement tastes like truffles.
It's possible that both 1 and 2 are true for a given piece one might find on HBR, but their pattern suggests propaganda, and we already have Fox News, thankyouverymuch.
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Given the title I was expected a comparison with the Raspberry Pi.
How is this technology so much more accurate than Microsoft's Kinect? That's awesome! I love seeing the new guy develop a better product than a old giant.
None, because developers have learned that lying to the OS is a fast track to App Store rejection.
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And the best part is that "taking responsibility" in his view means participating more in social networks, and being proactive about sharing.

It's as if he sees people's concerns about privacy as just being about not having wrong information disseminated. That's not what it's about at all - it's about keeping private information private.
Nonsense. In industrial applications there's mostly german SW controlling the world market. They don't care that you never heard about it.
You could use JS to make AJAX calls to PHP, since it has a JS library.
You bring up an excellent point against all the folks on here saying Dark Skies should just have had a fallback geocoding service in place. By that logic every application that uses a third party service should code in a primary and a fallback. That is unrealistic!!
Since Go can do generics via code generation [1], I'm not convinced that it can't also do ORM via code generation.

OTOH, I'm not particular fond of ORM as a universally right solution for dealing with DBs (its a solution which makes sense for some DB-related issues in some OO languages, but isn't something that should be reflexive "deal with DB, need ORM"), and its probably not a solution I would reach for for any problem in Go even whether or not you could reasonable do it in Go.

[1] https://github.com/droundy/gotgo
I saw her speak once in college. She was a brilliant and engaging speaker.
I am also skeptical about Mr Morgan's claim. I am, therefore, really looking forward to his talk!
Looks like they're on Amazon Instant for $2/episode, and iTunes for $2/ep or $15 for a 15-episode season.
If I am sitting, my hands get tired very soon. However, if I stand up it works very well for me. I guess you get used to it anyway.
Unfortunately the software support seems seriously lacking for a lot of these RPi competitors, I'd be reluctant to get one without seeing a sizeable community behind it. Parallela looks to be another interesting alternative.