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I am not a Windows expert, but generally, it's very hard to link against C++ code. It might need to expose a C interface instead of a C++ one.

I am pretty sure that it's still using mingw rather than VS as well, though eventually, VS support will be important.

> kept trying to build rust from scratch, which may be a mistake.

Yeah, there are binary installers now: http://www.rust-lang.org/install.html
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"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."
"Elements of Style" by Strunk (Not Strunk and White) is in the public domain.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37134
Maybe I'm being pessimistic, but those companies will go bust before they get any hardware off the ground. They won't want to spend $20 billion USD over a quarter of a century before making a dime in revenue. SpaceDev wanted to do that. Now they're a parts supplier.

(To be truly pessimistic...) Nor will NASA or any other governmental agency ever make use of asteroid resources. That'd be too useful. Instead they'll spend 400 years doing political stunts and in-space handshakes. In 400 years time, we'll all have uploaded ourselves into The Cloud and gone exploring simulated galaxies. The real moon will be empty, save for some smiley faces carved in it from Earth with lasers.

(To address the actual topic at hand, I think long-term research isn't getting done on either side.)
Nothing can link against MSVC++ generated libs, at least not the C++ ones. You can link to ones using `extern "C"`, though.
You're correct about the $1 syntax representing parameters, but the parameter indices start at 0:
sort(arr) { $0 > $1 }
Write once, read never.
Android's GC is not optimal/best of breed. ART is introducing much lower pause times for Android AFAIK.

Low pause GC is possible. See http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/189 or Zing/Azul (absolutely pauseless GC or so they claim)
If we are talking about technical blog style writing, only a few people write well at all, even out of those that have actual readers; in academic writing, it is even more depressing. Better to develop a critical eye that can recognize good and bad writing.
Killing children with malaria doesn't seem like an acceptable method of population control.
I lived (in a MIT dorm) in that area for 4 years.
>No wonder Apple won.

nice story, bro
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That example is horrible.

> Without a serial comma, the above dedication would read: To my mother, Ayn Rand and God, a phrase ambiguous only if the reader accepts the interpretation my mother, who is both Ayn Rand and God.

That's exactly the same grammatical interpretation (i.e. the comma indicates an appositive) that was suggested to be ambiguous with the Oxford comma present.
Then again, the experiment involves controlling the hot plasma of nuclear reactions using little more than a vacuum and magnets. Nothing like some miserable bureaucracy to separate the responsible adults from the children looking for new toys. I'll take one individual's disillusionment over a nuclear accident any day of the week. Not to mention that one year in college goes by so fast that it's pretty much over before it started.
As people said above, all of those things, except one or two, were already there in their entirety (in their combined form, like LG Prada) in the market before Apple released their first iPhone.
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A warm sentiment to be sure, but wonder if it also applies to the orcs marching across the Pelennor, whom you know are intending or enslaved to deal death. Do they also deserve pity and mercy? If not, then why do mosquitos?
Thanks for the insights, but what I'm really curious about is what happened to the older devs that DIDN'T go into management? Given that you say "whats left" doesn't include anyone over 45, where did those guys go? Given that there is not enough management jobs for all those guys to go into, what did they DO?
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What an immature post. I get what they;re saying, but it really could have been phrased better.
Without being too specific, you should assume that Large stores already do this. Any store claiming to have "in store wifi" is almost guaranteed to be tracking you through your mac address.

The system that I'm familiar with only tracks where you're going. It didn't (as of a couple months ago) have any way of linking your mac back to a consumer profile.
The funny part is, they don't really refute the claims made against them.

For example, they don't know how much the panels for roadways will cost them. But the back of the envelope calculation (for just the glass) is around $60T. That's a hard number to work around. Even if that estimate is off by an order of magnitude, then that's still a ton more than we spend on roads.

Also, they state glass is tougher than asphalt. I don't think anyone was trying to argue that glass isn't harder than asphalt, but rather that given enough wear and tear, their glass panels will likely smooth out and reduce traction significantly. The onus is on them to prove that their surface will last with some legitimate road wear tests.

Finally, they point out that LED lighting is clearly visible in the direct sunlight... well, it is from a direct angle. Again, the onus is on them to show that their LED lane markers will be visible from a natural driver's perspective. More importantly, they'll have to show why it will be important to have dynamic markers on highways to begin with, and that they'll be as effective as existing strips.

Really, I don't think that they answered their critics in any sort of meaningful way. Solar roadways are a sexy idea, but not all that practical when you get down to it.
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IANAL but I understand that this is required by law in China.

If an employment contract contains a non-compete clause, the employer must may some agreed percentage of salary (I don't know what the minimum is, but the agreed proportion could be something like 50%) during the defined period of the non-compete. The employer can decide to end the period early, by notifying the employee. At this time they can also stop paying the x% of salary.
I assume you mean "aneutronic fusion". There are a number of fusion reactions that do not yield neutrons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion#Criteria_and_can...

They are harder to initiate than the D-T reaction, which is why they're not the ones being tried first for fusion-generated electricity; but they're perfectly good fusion reactions which have been observed in experiments.
Exactly. Perl 6 was forever delayed, and along came Ruby. Or rather, out from the shadows came Ruby, which was already there before the Perl 6 debacle, and just needed promotion. The Pragmatic Programmer books were pretty good at pointing to this cool replacement for Perl that you never knew was already there (as well as all the buzz from the RoR folks for those of us who weren't in on the beginning)

I don't really think that the people who left perl all went to PHP.

Now if only there was a "Ruby lite" that ran more like Perl 5 (skipping the GC for reference counting and a few other performance shortcuts)
I think it's very hard to identify quality of people based on recommendations on LinkedIn. Having a well written (not too verbose, and gives a view of who you are) LinkedIn profile does send a signal - that you want people to have information about you.
Now that the MACs are random does that really solve the problem? A probe request sends out the real MAC of the AP it's looking for as well as the AP ESSID. By using anyone of many translators you can get a map of each ESSID with GPS co-ordinates. While many people will be probing for Starbucks and McDonalds they will always have a unique probe for their own home AP. So now there is no "neat" way of using the MAC as a primary key you can still infer the user by the AP least in common with anyone else, i.e. which probes are NOT McDonalds et al.

So if my home AP ESSID is Einstein, MAC=deadbeef every time I enter a store my home AP MAC is still being recorded as well as the relative movement throughout the store. As well inter-relational data could be inferred by other AP MAC addresses if I visit a friend or family member it's likely that probe will connect us.

TL;DR
Relations are based on unique data just because some of the data is 'scrambled' it's reliance on static data is it's weakness.
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Will they be disrupting the space launch industry by building concrete rockets next? lol
I've heard stories of politicians buying crowds to attend events. This just seems like a much more efficient means of doing the same thing.
To add on what @aktau said: soon we will have much more robust UI tests.

The current UI tests are hard to write and based on the ASCII output [2] of the commands of the test [1]. By using the Neovim API we will be able to rewrite these tests to look more like automated Sellenium based web app tests and make more fine grained assertions.

[1] A test: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/blob/39cdb5f214bcb1e4a918f6...
[2] The expected test output spec: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/blob/39cdb5f214bcb1e4a918f6...
I rest assured that services like this will be worthless when Twitter figures out how to algorithmically distinguish real followers from fake ones. They do publish research in graph theory as applied to social networks, after all.

They could even pull a Google and make it a net negative for your profile to have fake followers.
> As you can see, asphalt has a hardness of 1.3, copper has a hardness of 3, iron and nickel have a hardness of 4, and steel falls between 4 and 4.5. As you get closer to diamond, you finally come to glass, which has a hardness of 5.5-6.0. So if anyone tries to tell you that glass is soft, just remind them that even simple window glass is harder than steel. By comparison, it's asphalt that is soft.

Haha, this reply on that particular point is a joke. On the contrary you WANT asphalt to be soft, not hard on the road, because asphalt needs to be elastic. When a large truck goes on your road, you need the asphalt to show elasticity so that it can carry such weight and come back to its former state. Tensile strength and Ultimate tensile strength are the actual parameters you want to look it for such road materials and certainly not hardness. The harder your surface, the most prone it is to break when facing heavy tensions/forces.
so that would imply that college is then made affordable to both low income students and wealthy students alike since they can hide their assets. what a bonanza!
straight words just for you:

lets honor and mourn the death of those who we do not know personally but are related to well known public figures = pretty stupid in my eyes. feel good kind of crap.
...finding a technologist (or whatever) for such a company is a bit harder than finding a jQuery or Rails guy :)

This is LITERALLY the ESSENCE of supply and demand! The person is rare, therefore s/he commands a rare salary. End of story. If you don't pay well enough, you don't get to have the employee. Non-competes pervert the labor market.

Edit: formatting
I'm genuinely curious: is there data on how many or which retailers do this?
It's pretty reasonable to expect a store would think of tracking a customer's path through the store. Websites do that all the time.

In addition, if we find a good way to provide information to the store owner about how his or her store is being browsed and used, it is likely that stores will provide better shopping experiences.
It seems the submitter has passed your Turing test. ;)
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wikihow is awful. Because it is burying useful content with their superfluous garbage.

OTOH StackOverflow employs similar tactics but it is legit and usually useful content.

Should Google discriminate between these two? If, yes based on what criteria? (Remember, wikihow pages look like they're user generated, legit content) Is there any objective criteria?

I personally would like wikihow to take its place in hell, ehm I mean obscurity. Right next to w3schools.
The final section, which I was anticipating for the whole article, was essentially this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect

What killed Perl? An imaginary Perl did.
Speak for yourself! (or maybe, for annoying coworkers???)

It's certainly possible to write functions (subs) with comments about what they do, and use meaningful variable names. The built-in syntax/operators do require some study, though.

For the "Enterprise!" developer pool, there's Java. The 500 line methods are still hard to slog through, though. Too many never got the note about a "business logic layer" and abstraction, and just shove all the details in-line. In which case, the language of mandate doesn't matter much.
Atleast for twitter we can have a service which can list the fake followers a user has. This can predict fake followers based on some heuristics like following to follower ratio,tweet frequency, reply ratio etc.
Maintenance. I say this as somebody who loves Perl, quirks and all (actually because of the quirks). It's actually a beautiful language to work in in the same way English is a beautiful language -- it's a beauty because it's a goddamn mess. But it's a rotten language to maintain.

Sure, it's perfectly possible to write highly maintainable code (I have a few 30-40k line Perl projects that I can open up and get right to work on without too much fuss) and you can create some coding standards and stick to them, and write perfectly maintainable code. But Perl is a bit like C++ in the sense that everybody has different standards and those standards change and "non-standard" bits of the language start leaking into your code and you spend as much time unmessing things as you do writing code.

I don't think Perl will ever really die, it's too convenient, but it's definitely never going to enjoy the dominance it once had. It'll fall back to a very good one-off system admin and log processing language with some extra bits, but it's simply a language that the rest of the world has surpassed and Perl 6 just isn't a realistic offering, after a very loooong wait (nor does it fix the issues non-Perlers have with the language -- it's basically fan service).
Thanks, this was exactly the kind of finding i was asking for. So, at least at this stage of life, sounds like majority of your cohort is still employed. I wonder if that will hold up ten years from now.

I guess what I'm really worried about is that many are somehow "forced" into retirement or low paying jobs (ala Walmart greeter). This would seem really unfair, given that on the surface, this kind of age discrimination shouldn't happen. At least the military is up front about how this works with it's "Up or Out" policy.
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It's like watching the Logical Fallacy Olympics.

He took the dumbest obviously wrong arguments and "demolished" them, while actually ignoring the valid ones.

His cost argument doesn't make any sense. He is comparing some mythical 12x12' $10k panels to the same size of asphalt and is magically breaking even.
The more elementary the question, the more upvotes you get. So your credibility is also dependent on the superficiality of the questions you are answering, even more so I'd say.
Alternately you could make all your data available publicly at a price set in Bitcoin units. Gathering all that data from everyone would be extremely expensive.
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Some points they don't address:

* Maintaining the high-friction surface of the glass as it is worn down
* Keeping the road surface transparent to sunlight as it is abraded away and covered with dirt, motor oil and ground rubber
* Huge energy requirements for melting snow, especially in areas where snow, ice and winter storms would reduce the energy generated by the panels
* The _actual_ cost of their road surface compared to asphalt
I think there's some good points in this article - and I relate to it, 'cause this is exactly how I learned Perl.

The one other item that I'll add is that some of the characteristics that make Perl awesome for sysadmins, like extremely flexible syntax and the ability to freely access data sturctures in a variety of contexts, can make it more difficult to build proper software development projects.

Maybe it's just my limited experience, but it seems like Perl organizations spend a lot more time on mandating coding styles and debating best practices compared with more structured languages like Ruby or Python.
I'm a big fan of MIT, and consider it a national treasure.

My question - will this type of political play create enemies? I can't imagine that the politicians who were overruled were happy, and they can make MIT pay with 1000 small cuts.
In the quote above, Gandalf only advises that one should not strike without need. In the cases of both mosquitoes and orcs, it's not at all clear that xenocide is requisite to ensure the safety of humans or the many dwellers of Middle Earth.
I'm quite surprised to see HN as the source for some of the naysayers. Sure, there are a lot of hurdles still in their way, but I don't see why they are insurmountable. This work is definitely more meaningful than the latest advertising algorithm or social graph analysis most of us are working on, even if it doesn't pan out in the end.
I thought the premise of the "Solar Freakin' Roadways" video was to pit the solar roadways against a direct competitor like, solar freakin' panels above the roadways.
I'm not seeing many actual rebuttals here. I don't have a hell of a lot of context because I don't know what the exact initial claims were, but take this:

"False Claim: we can't afford to heat roads"

Their response doesn't actually talk about the feasibility of heating roads. They don't mention how much energy their solar panels will have stored before a snow storm, and whether or not it would be sufficient to melt lots of snow.

My half-assed guess is that there's maybe enough energy in theory to melt an inch or two of snow, but they don't really provide sufficient detail:

(From their website):

"Currently, the full size hexagons are 36-watt solar panels, with 69-percent surface coverage by solar cells. This will become 52-watts when we cover the whole surface when we go into production. When we add piezoelectric, they'll be capable of producing even more power. Also, as the efficiency of solar cells increase, more power will be converted.

We tested the heaters over the winter with a DC power supply that provided them with 72-watts. This was an overkill and made the surface warm to the touch on most winter days. We still need to experiment with different voltages at different temperatures, to determine the minimum amount of power required to keep the surface above freezing. Remember, they don't have to heat up to 85 degrees like the defroster wire in the windows of your car: they only have to keep the surface warm enough to prevent snow/ice accumulation (35 degrees?)."

You need what, like 300 Joules to melt a single gram of ice/snow/etc. So their 50W panels could melt a gram of water per 6 seconds.

I can't figure out how big the panels are, but their website seems to say 4 square feet. So each 2'x2' square area (hexagon, whatever) can melt 0.166 grams of ice/snow/etc per second.

Say you get a hypothetical snowfall of 2" (not very damn much for some areas). That's 4 ft * 2 in of snow, or 2/3 of a cubic foot. That's about 10 pounds of water in solid form, or 4.5k grams. So assuming their 50W panels are 100% efficient at melting snow, it would take their accumulated energy about 8 hours to melt the snow. (Of course please check my math, I might be off by an order of magnitude on either end here)

That seems at least theoretically possible, but there's no discussion about how much energy a panel can store, or other factors that would weigh in here. There's no actual technical discussion whatsoever for that matter. So I was kind of disappointed by the article.

Edit, sorry: 'It would take their panels about 8 hours to accumulate the energy necessary to melt 2" of snow' (That's at least somewhat in the realm of possibility, though for many areas 8 hours of direct sunlight during the winter ain't happening, and a guarantee of a max of ~2" of snow in a day also ain't happening)
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> His cost argument doesn't make any sense. He is comparing some mythical 12x12' $10k panels to the same size of asphalt and is magically breaking even.

That stuck out at me as well. He's sort of saying "IF we could make these things for $10k per 144 sq ft section, then it would be cost competitive with asphalt." But then he completely punts on the question of how much it's likely to cost. It's not difficult to make some order of magnitude estimates for the cost of raw materials and the omission of such an estimate (even if just to show that the $10k per 144 sq ft goal is plausible) is, well... odd.
It can go both ways. When I was researching for the next car I was going to buy, I started getting a _ton_ of car advertisements; however, most of them were useless. What their simple algorithm failed to notice is that I was looking at a very specific class of cars, and I spent more than 1 hour on several manufacturers websites doing research and had mostly narrowed in on my choice. The proper move would be to see that and advertise different dealerships to me, but I only got ads for other cars that I already decided I _didn't_ want.

Also, I like to research, in general. Which means I can often come across and get deeply into some very odd subjects and it seems there are some odd correlations out there in society. For example, after doing a bunch of research on different world religions and their origin stories, I started getting ads for the Mormon church, and strangely, for all types of gambling websites, destinations and attractions. None of this advertising was of any use.
"Beer ticket" is hilarious.
I will be in the same situation up on arriving to my motherhood: I've been abroad for 3 years already and devaluation of the local ruble is about 10%/year.
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Not exactly a 'design pattern' (I'll find and report those cases here too), but these two examples should suffice to show you their unethically greedy intentions:

1) Apple tries to sue a small German coffee shop over logo:
http://gawker.com/5853402/apple-threatens-to-sue-tiny-german...
(Now tell me honestly, does the logo of the 'fruit' apple really look similar at all to Apple's logo? I mean, that poor lady running the coffee shop was not even in electronics business, just serving some coffee! What did they think, the fruit apple is their property now? This is inhuman to do that to a small coffee shop in my opinion.

2) Apple sues Polish Grocery store over name "a.pl": http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409669,00.asp - Apple said they are trying to use their 'reputation' by using a name similar to theirs. really? Come on, .pl is Poland's top level domain for god's sake. 'a' is the first letter of English alphabet. And they are in Grocery business! How would they snatch Apple's customers?

A company which can do the above, can sue anyone, for just anything. They have money, they are big. They're the electronics equivalent of Monsanto.

On the other hand, it's not that Apple doesn't copy blatantly. They stole Swiss railway's clock blatantly and 'exactly', without taking permission or paying. Finally Swiss railway sued and Apple had to pay $21 million for theft. Many, many other such examples.

The crux is, incremental evolution is the only way the industry learns and progresses. Suing others for getting inspiration (while doing the same yourself) is dangerous.