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Not that I hate the Firefox devtools, but at the moment I'm using Chrome because there's no way to disable the caching of XMLHTTPRequests in Firefox, and I'm developing a Google Polymer app.
If you've ever watched the documentary "Waiting for Superman" you'll see exactly why tenure shouldn't be allowed in public schools.
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I would love an example newsletter.
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What about convergent evolution?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_examples_of_convergent...
That's why lawmakers often want a voucher system, to give the lower income students the power of school choice.
Agreed. The sense of focus is lost in Tim's. While it's probably more accurate, a key part of art is selective distortion, guiding the viewer to focus on certain things.

I also disagree with his assertion that Vermeer is photorealistic. Very realistic, true, but not more than other Dutch masters, and there are many contemporary artists whose paintings and drawings truly are indistinguishable from photographs.
It isn't impossible to fire them. It just takes a mountain of evidence.

Generally the bullshit stuff doesn't stick long enough for that to happen while legitimate issues do.
I clearly need to make the link more obvious, here is an example: http://goo.gl/8GRHDm
How is that only LA? Sounds like "only in America" to me. Here I was thinking LA had a more laid-back culture, but it's definitely the same or worse in NYC.
The problem isn't rogue administrators, it's an abusive majority deciding en masse to harm/under-serve a minority.

You don't get an administrator seeking to ban the teaching of evolution without a majority of voters in the district (or at least political support) who agree with that.

So the ability for an administrator to be fired doesn't enter into it. Even if one were to go "too far", they're just going to be replaced by another who shares the same general values, but perhaps with a more tactful presentation.
I moved from Austin to Houston almost ten years ago. Was good friends with my Austin mailman, who lived down the block.

About a month after we moved, I got a package in the mail - a cardboard mailing tube, containing a poster, that I'd bought online a couple of years before but never gotten around to putting up. But how did it end up back in the mail?

It turns out that during one of our move trips, the poster was left leaning against the outside wall on the front porch at the Austin house, next to the mailbox.

Our mailman saw it, assumed that it had been (recently) delivered by another postman on his day off, and he knew that we had a forwarding order in place. So he put the poster back in the system with our Houston address on it (being properly packaged and all) and I got it a few days later.
Is Bryan O'Sullivan and the team from his Haskell-based startup Facebook acquired in 2011 still there? I sat in on a class of his a while back and remember him ruefully laughing about having to use PHP now.
Joe is right, you did contradict yourself. You originally said that tenure allows teachers to violate stupid school board decisions and to teach evolution anyway. Here, you said that tenure does not allow teachers to not teach evolution if the school board mandates it.

Which is it? Can the school board fire teachers for not following the curriculum? If so, then school boards can stop teachers from teaching evolution. If not, then teachers can choose to teach Creationism. Either way, tenure doesn't matter.
It would be under a voucher system, but the teacher's union doesn't like that idea.
Yes, actually. I have a cousin who runs a charity that could use someone to do their IT work for free.
This link is really a call for people to alpha test Groovy's Android support, which is likely a long time coming before it's not buggy. Just look at the 5 years it's taken for Groovy to ship with static typing actually used by Grails (though with an official Use With Caution attached) ...

mid 2009: Alex Tkachman began work on Groovy++, a statically typed plugin to Groovy's AST, which the Groovy project management said they didn't want [1]

mid 2010: Groovy 1.8 beta 2 broke Groovy++ which had to switch back to Groovy 1.7

late 2011: SpringSource employed Cedric Champeau to duplicate most of the Groovy++ code and renamed Groovy 1.9 to 2.0.0-beta-1, dropping other features like the Java 8 lambda retrofit and meta-object protocol cleanup

mid 2012: Official standalone release of Groovy 2.0 was really just another beta to encourage more people to test it

Dec 2012: Grails 2.2 released with groovy 2.0.5 bundled, after being tested by programmers who thought Groovy had any real intended use as a standalone language outside of Grails. Grails 2.2 doesn't, however, actually use the static compilation features of Groovy, just wanted to know it would run with Groovy 2.0 bundled without breaking.

mid 2013: Groovy 2.1 was the first release with most @CompileStatic bugs fixed

May 2014: Grails 2.4 released, the first to actually use any of the @CompileStatic features of Groovy, but with this strong caution in the doco: "Care must be taken when deciding to statically compile code." [2]

[1] http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/On-static-compilation-of-...

[2] http://grails.org/doc/2.4.0.M1/guide/introduction.html#whats...
How many 'product manager' groups and newsletters do we need.
Same here - Any account I don't care about has a password that can be easily typed using only my left hand. Everything else has a large randomized password that I don't even know.
At least at the K-12 level, teachers don't have a right to teach their students whatever they feel is appropriate. There are state and national standards -- backed by assessments -- that mandate what teachers should be teaching and measure whether those teachers are doing a good job.

Teachers are employees like any other employee. At my job I don't get to work on whatever I want whenever I disagree with the majority opinion about how my time should be spent, and most companies would be terrible if employees had "tenure" where they could work on whatever they wanted -- including "working on this sandwich before an afternoon nap." (And if that sounds like a straw man, Google around for videos like these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE5VkcwKwP0)
I went to a talk at AirBnB and they've already implemented and tested this with their price suggestion. Bit scary to know your entire business hinges on them not opening up a feature to everyone.
I'd argue that the rules are the same for the government and private citizens. Specifically in the law enforcement context, in Florida v. Riley, evidence obtained by observation from the air was admitted only because the police were operating an aircraft in a way that any ordinary citizen could: "Any member of the public could legally have been flying over Riley's property in a helicopter at the altitude of 400 feet and could have observed Riley's greenhouse. The police officer did no more." A slightly older but similar case, Ciraolo, said "The Fourth Amendment simply does not require the police traveling in the public airways at this altitude to obtain a warrant in order to observe what is visible to the naked eye." Both included an important distinction that the police were observing from a lawful vantage point, where anyone else could lawfully observe the same things.

So, there's that. Whether the government has more latitude to use airspace in non-standard ways during emergencies and exigencies is a different question, just as they can legally run a red light for the same reasons.
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Or you could, you know, use a more popular language.
This is the sort of thing that makes me glad I use Facebook. I find it interesting and don't know how else something similar could be achieved.
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I'm hoping this one will provide quality content, hence the decision to make it curated. I do agree there is a lot of noise in this space.
We're phasing out checks in the US as well. I have probably written 5 checks in my life.

I think the advantage is similar to cash, which is that you don't need to know anything about someone (except their name) to write and give them a check in person.

OTOH, that kind of delay on check cashing is only for very large amounts like you mentioned. I receive reimbursement checks from work because I never told them my bank account number for direct deposit, and I can take a picture of the check with my phone and have the whole quantity deposited in my account available for use immediately. Of course you also have to consider the time it takes for me to receive the physical check, so it's still much slower than a direct deposit.
> GNU Emacs was on version 1.x for so long they dropped the leading "1." and promoted the minor version number to the major version.

As did Java. Java 1.4 was released in 2002, and the next version was Java 5 in 2006.
By that logic, if a teacher is teaching in Manhattan they should be paid enough to afford a house in Manhattan as well?
"Companies like Verizon don't casually threaten legal action, this is really getting to them."

Are you sure? As someone who has dealt with more than 40 different threats of legal action from major companies, I would have guessed that this is more or less their default response.
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Bryan is still here. He's actually kicking off a Haskell class within Facebook at the moment - https://twitter.com/bos31337/status/475335956556705792
what video?
> web developers have long talked of "their stack", meaning what they use for server-side framework, caching, http server, as well as client-side frameworks and development environments.

I guess I would consider the http/app/caching servers to be properly the province of sysops.

As a web developer, I consider myself to be responsible for server-side code/frameworks, database schemas (but not DB installation/configuration/replication), and perhaps client-side HTML/JS/CSS.

I'm capable of installing and doing basic setup for things like nginx, varnish, and uWSGI or passenger, but I find it frustrating and I'm certainly no expert in configuring for ideal performance.
Does OSX Yosemite have the mac randomization like ios8?
Thanks for sharing a positive viewpoint. But this doesn't seem sustainable. Your job will eventually change, and since LA isn't a nuclear city at all, you may now have a much longer commute. And what if your friends are in other neighborhoods? Or you want to go to an event across town? I've also heard the schools in LA proper are pretty terrible, so if you want to have a family you need to go to outer suburbs which implies long commutes. Could you counter my concerns about this?

It's really a shame that LA ended up so poorly designed; it's in such a beautiful setting and has one of the best climates in the world.
Hopefully it will be easy to keep the CDM plugin from ever being installed in firefox. I don't plan on ever using it - if a website requires a DRM plugin, then I will just abstain from viewing their content. I just hope I don't have to recompile firefox on my own just to make this possible.
Wow you just made my day +1
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Cory Doctorow novel pulled from school reading for 'questioning authority'
_The Datacenter as a Computer_ [1] is a free book written by Googlers that helps get your head around that scale.

[1] http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00516ED2V01Y2...
It's apparently for sale via Amazon, iTunes and Vudu. E.g. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tims-Vermeer-Tim-Jenison/dp/B00K2YVA... It's not yet on Netflix (streaming) anywhere in the world. http://www.moreflicks.com/titles/movies_tim-s-vermeer_2014
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This story goes to show that sometimes the most important "hacking" of any system is to be in good graces with the people running it.
What is your definition of a huge classroom?

The number of public school teachers has increased by a larger percentage than the number of public school students over the past 10 years, resulting in declines in the pupil/teacher ratio. In fall 2002, the number of public school pupils per teacher was 15.9, compared with a projected number of 15.2 public school pupils per teacher in fall 2012. [1]

Of course I understand that some districts are different than others, and that this probably includes teachers that teach music, gym, and other classes, but still, there are more teachers per student now than there has been over the past few decades, meaning that even if classrooms are the same size as before, teachers must be getting more free time during the day to catch up on grading/admin work.

[1] http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=28
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Yup. Still challenging to get it to narrow areas.
Can Medium be tailored for shilling? Clearly it can.
Wrongful termination only applies if the employment contract, or some statute of employment law, was violated. The law has little-to-nothing to say about this topic, which is why educators fought for these protections in the first place.

And we're talking specifically about what can happen if existing protections are taken out of the employment contract.

In which hypothetical case, suing for "wrongful termination" would seem, to me, to be reduced to fishing for judicial activism.
Nahhh, it was a non-story actually. The company making the new trains had actually gone out and measured the stations before designing the trains. They had then notified the entity responsible for the stations, letting them know that the stations would need to be reworked. Work has actually already started on some stations, but is running behind schedule and not all stations will be ready when the resins come on line. This entity has tried to blame their scheduling mismanagement on the train manufacturer, but as there are written agreements to do the work on the stations, that dig won't hunt.
> When you get really good you can even start reprocessing a scene or a model, deconstructing it in your mind and then reconstructing it via some other technique. You can go from photorealistic reproduction to complete abstraction.

I think this is the first time I have seen an convincing argument for the value of abstract art. Thanks.
it would be great if you could apply this to tweets or something more generic like a personal blog. (i feel like tweets would be easy... blog would be harder to parse reliably).

As someone who uses twitter a fair amount, and barely uses facebook at all - this won't really work for me.
Command-Option-F! I learn something new every day, thanks!

I've always gotten tripped up by the fact that Command-F pulls up a local file Find toolbar when I've focused a JavaScript source page. I assumed that was the extent of the Find capabilities Chrome offered. I'm 51% angry and 49% embarrassed that I never knew this! :)

Agreed the Web Workers debugger in Chrome is very advanced and as I recall they had that available straight away when the Web Workers feature was first released.

I think the Firefox/Firebug guys have only just added javascript console output for web workers in Firefox 30 and the debugger protocol for web workers is still in development.

I agree that Chrome's developer tool suite is more comprehensive than other browsers. For my day to day development tasks, looking at network calls, inspecting html and debugging CSS/JavaScript, Firefox+Firebug is still the most user friendly and accessible to me.
Yes, "we" treat our teachers pretty poorly. And they often succumb to the assault on them. But, it doesn't really matter if they lose enthusiasm over night or over a 10 year period. If they have lost their enthusiasm and are no longer performing their job to the satisfaction of their employer, there should not be a long complicated process to dismiss them.
Yes, Evernote is down just when you need it
If you invest in something sentimentally and not in what will give you the best return, then you're not really investing per se.
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If one sends a letter while traveling, they certainly expect to be able to put their home return address on it and have it function properly.

I suspect like most non-Internet things, it's just not worth being dishonest. And if you implemented it to the point where it became lucrative, they would get wise and come after you.
I'd prefer they not. Nest uses fairly simple principles to make your house comfortable for you, such as working harder to maintain your ideal temperature when you're at home and by predicting when that's likely to be based on past experience.

Plotting the difference between inside and outside temperature versus time and looking for the intervals where they're closest together (that is, when Nest isn't working hard to make you comfortable) probably correlates very strongly with whether you're home at those times.

You might be comfortable with Google being able to predict when you'll be home. I can imagine a lot of people who wouldn't like that at all.
On the flipside, doesn't tenure allow teachers to defy a progressive administration and teach Creationism just as easily? Tenure doesn't help any particular agenda, such as science and evolution; rather it enables all agendas, and teachers can be just as bad as they can be good, like all people. The solution is to make teachers accountable to a curriculum and ensure that the curriculum is teaching evolution, via the courts if necessary.
Warning: Anecdata follows...

When I was a student, I had some great teachers who were tenured and some great teachers who were non-tenured. However, nearly all my awful teachers did have tenure. A lot of the people I know were in a similar situation. Some were good teachers who got complacent and lazy, and some seemed to have slipped through the cracks from the beginning. Small N, but I can see how tenure definitely creates some messed up incentives.

That said, I think there are two sides to this issue. Making it easier to get rid of bad teachers is a start, but it's also important that there's a good, transparent way of evaluating whether a teacher is good or bad. I know a lot of teachers, and they all feel as if the way their performance is measured is pretty broken. They're measured based on performance on standardized tests that don't test the right things, etc. I think if you want to attract and retain good teachers, you have to establish better metrics, too. With the wrong metrics, what you end up with is a big pool of teachers who are successful at checking off the right boxes.

(I realize this performance measurement thing is a hard problem in just about every industry!)
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If teaching in California public schools is messed up, what U.S. state is good for teachers?
It's been awhile (high school) since I've read about voucher system; how do they work nowadays? Is there a way to cover transportation cost and time?
You wrote "in theory, there is a type system that describes every system": I would be very surprised if this is true. It would a major turnaround in modern mathematics. What is this theory? Any link?
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The freedom to teach unpopular ideas also includes the freedom to teach that water has feelings and you can change its molecular structure by yelling at it, or that vaccines cause autism, or that global warming is all a bunch of bullshit made up by the liberal media. Pick your poison.
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However, I'm not able to buy it on Amazon, due to "geographical restrictions on the product". Searching for it on iTunes gives 0 results. So it's clear that they don't want me to buy it in Europe.
This solution looks way more elegant to me, thx for the link
Not particularly strong fields, you're not flipping water molecules like you are with CAT scan, and the point was that it can stimulate interior nodes of the brain without physically putting wires there.
From the Civ V Steam Listing:

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Not particularly unethical as described, but I'd imagine this is technically a federal crime.
Property taxes are based on a poor approximation of what a property would be expected to sell for. The relationship between that and the size or nature of the business operating there is highly attenuated, and it's almost entirely decoupled from how much traffic a business generates on any particular road.
The `unwrap` calls are all in the input parsing code (`slurf_file` fails if input is invalid), except for one on the result of `min_by` (`classify` fails if you pass it an empty array). I wouldn't say any of these "sweep bounds checking under the rug."
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Can you do a better job with the line breaks? It's hard to understand each item - I can't figure out what I can click and who tipped what.

Also, there are a lot of us enterprise peeps who are a little more lurky than our startup bretheren. Do a great job and Pragmatic is in for a world of hurt. Good luck!
Ah, I should clarify, "to those who can fight back effectively at every level".

It also depends on the domain, e.g. Disney protecting IP or ASCAP uncompensated public performances is one thing, and the latter's model can run into PR buzz saws, e.g. Boy and Girl Scouts sings at camps.

Whereas this is part of a big fight that goes right to the heart of a significant part of Verizon's business, and an even more significant part of their potential future business. When Disney threatens a day care center for having an unlicensed depiction of one of their characters, it's routine. Whereas I expect this threatening letter to Netflix was run way up the flagpole; Verizon hasn't typically been that maladroit with PR, have they?

In what domains have you received threats of legal action?
I have yet to find good tech job listings in the LA area. Anyone have leads?
Or to be able to social engineer your way into making them think you're in the good graces.
Wait, I thought the Mac Address was 1 Infinite Loop
I don't understand why people complain about this. It makes perfect sense: when you change your CSS (maybe adding `opacity` to `transform: translate`), you will notice this property and remember to update it. If it stays in your HTML or JS, you (or whoever changes CSS later) won't keep it up-to-date and the optimization hint will be wrong (which can hurt performance).
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Please cite examples of this actually occurring and the teacher not being fired for 12+ months?

I used the word immediate for a reason that seems to be lost on some people :/
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Indeed. For the historical investigation that forms the backbones of the story, they had to do an imitation of the original work.

The paint strokes on the canvas are literally the superficial aspects of the painting. There is much more 'art' in the choice of subject, perspective, layout and so on. But had Tim chosen his own subject matter freely, then comparison's with Vermeer's technique would have been almost impossible.
Thanks for the feedback :) - can you possibly upload a screenshot for me* so I can see the issue you're having? (It can be a little tricky with the Mailchimp template editor)

* e.g. using imgur.com
It took me a little while to notice it: http://i.imgur.com/kZBiHkR.png
While profiling I noticed the same thing about dateutil.parser.parse a few years ago. We standardized all our interacting systems on UTC so we have a regex that matches UTC and if that fails to match we call dateutil. That way the vast majority of cases are optimized but we still support other timezones.