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You sound like the classical nowadays ron paul libertarian.

> How can you create a bureaucracy to track millions of products and expect to 'compete' with a bottom-up approach of free enterprise?

Because real, ground breaking research is truly expensive. Making a new product is not research. Kickstarter has its flaws because it's often made of non-experts. Meanwhile, the IT field is mostly filled with codemonkeys making products, who will only end up doing "innovation" who can benefit them but not their competitors or the whole industry.

The true innovators are entities like intel, nvidia, IBM, AMD, ARM, the IETF and IEEE who are able to create standards like USB, wifi or bluetooth. You won't see Kickstarter pushing new standard that would have a real impact on markets.

I don't see kickstarter to help funding something like bittorrent, the raspberry pi, firefox or docker for example. Kickstarter is great to give a chance to broke, talented hackers so they can get some experience in the business, but I don't think I could expect anything else really meaningful. Everything is patents, and real research is gloomy. It's lego prototypes at best, against patents holders.

That's why I think the capitalistic, patent holding investment model is doomed to waste money over and over until you might end up with some groundbreaking product. If a new product can threaten a company market, it will most surely land in a trash bin one way or another.
Not to feed the trolls, but I've been thinking a lot about my relationship with my smartphone and the societal expectations of availability lately. Phones are effectively tracking devices.

Are you saying you don't carry a cellphone? How has that decision impacted your daily life?
Not the op but I think I can explain. In rural areas a home gardner may have more an acre garden and a high tunnel (green house) and produce more then they can use or eat so lots of people will donate/share/sell for extra money a few things.

Where I live in Montana they can sell at the farmers market or roadside stands without jumping through too many hoops but for whatever reason they need to package things to sell it in stores (a store owner explained that otherwise too much liability falls on the store but i'm not sure that is it).

So I can go to a small locally owned store and buy a one pound bag of spinach grown just down the road and put in the bag by the farmer but I can't say, pick out a few local apples (or squash or bulk salad mix) unless I actually drive up the road to the orchard/farm or go to the once a week farmers market.
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The magnesium source in that brand is listed as "magnesium citrate/oxide." Citrate is great, but oxide is relatively useless as per the study I referenced. Without knowing the exact ratio of the two it's difficult to say whether that would be a quality source.
Seriously, how is this downvoted? It's a sincere question. I enjoyed looking at the site, and I loved the interface, but I didn't get any insight into the data. Can someone enlighten me?
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No, and I never said or hinted that they don't exist. We are trying to establish how much of the research budget is spend on them.
I do find it an interesting article, I don't want you to think I'm entirely negative. I just kept stumbling at the punctuation. It's more about me than you.
A good test to see what the article is about is to remove the actors and states then re-read. After doing that, your analysis of the article being mostly about a cool new technology (or neat use of existing, either or) is pretty much spot on.
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if so. contact me. michael [at] mherman [dot] org

i know a a few people interested.
That could also describe the process by which the majority of computer code is written when you consider everything that involves coding these days. The situation is not likely to change with new tools.
what if Israel paid the other side to fire rockets at them to create the excuse of invading Gaza.

How unlikely is that?
No, they aren't real problems. And he would know that if he were trying to be constructive, as he would have then posted it to tech. The fact that it is a snotty and incorrect blog post indicates that he is not trying to be constructive.
Today. Parking Meters have a lifecycle of up to 25 years.
The software design is particularly interesting. I recommend this article:
"Typical command-and-control software for military gear is highly customized and hard to modify. The key to MPrest’s success, Barak says, is that the command-and-control software is simple and modular, so customers can quickly adapt it without reprogramming. The Israeli army was able to recalibrate Iron Dome batteries almost immediately, without a software rewrite, when Hamas fighters began to fire longer-range missiles.[1]"

[1] - http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-21/how-to-st...
If a smaller kid is throwing punches at you but you are able to avoid being hit by holding him at arms length, is it acceptable to throw punches with the other arm?
> [...] organic crops and crop-based foods are up to 69% higher in a number of key antioxidants than conventionally-grown crops.

This immediately made me wonder if organic crops are also "up to 69%" more expensive? If so, it kinda balances out (you eat less organic food to compensate for its price).
> animations (which are webkit only as far as I can tell)

So that's why people were calling it pretty. It does actually look good with all that prefix nonsense fixed.

Seems odd to use prefixes for things that were unprefixed 2years ago in Firefox.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/07/aurora-16-is-out/
This is a preview specifically intended to find problems. Hence -Werror should be on. It is supposed to be off for a production release.
Will you make your code public on GitHub? I checked https://github.com/charm and nothing there.
I haven't read the specific paper, but the press release skips over the finer nuances in the debate.

First, how is the European standard of "organic" defined exactly? Both the UK's and US' seem to cover the basics (no growth hormones, limited herbicides and pesticides use, must feed the animal organic foods, etc.), but fertility and biological standards in the soil might vary. It is possible that that UK might have naturally less-polluted soil than the US (fewer heavy metals?), contributing to the difference. Also, organic doesn't mean hormones or pesticides-free; rather, it just defines which pesticides can be used and are not as detrimental to the environment. There might be different standards here too.

UK's standard: https://www.gov.uk/converting-to-organic-farming

US' standard: http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/NOPOrganicStandards

Secondly, most organic studies in the states dive into which fruits/vegetables are subject to the most pesticide use. Apples, strawberries, and grapes seem to have the most in the US, but avocados, corn, and pineapple have the least. Studies that make blanket statements like "organic foods are better for you" without acknowledging the differences in the cultivation and biology of different species are lacking in my book.

Extensive List: http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/list.php

I'd buy organic, mostly for the more humane way farmers treat livestock and lower environmental pollution, but I'm still not convinced that organic is nutritionally superior or has levels of pesticides that prove harmful to humans.
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Say its 200% more expensive. Is it still worth it? I mean, you can't just eat twice as much of the other food to balance ..
I'm impressed by how good of a job Israel does at painting itself as the victim despite being the perpetuator of 50 years of ongoing occupation.
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As part of a open-source marketing experiment Friedman-Nixon-Wong Enterprises, LLC has been test marketing a trivial app to test the effects of various web marketing methods.

The experimental content:<p>http://hood.agilejavatools.com/excuseMinder/index.jsp<p>The results:
http://hood.agilejavatools.com/excuseMinder/results.jsp
From a regional warfare perspective the relative success of Iron Dome mitigates the use of stand off offensive technologies. This forces the combatants to develop alternative delivery strategies. When there is a lack of control on the ground, IEDs and operator delivered munitions seem to be the next step, but that works poorly when there is a functioning police/local military presence.

Given the constraints, I suspect the next standoff weaponry will become drone based. Something flying fast enough and high enough to be immune to small arms fire, but low enough to keep out of the kill zone of anti-air and anti-missile defense.
How wikipedia is different from any other website useful for victims of police state?
What programming languages do you know and like?

1.Figure out what language or community you are interested in and go to a Meetup? Usually there are people who are hiring.

2. Find a side project and put it on github. This might take a little longer, but when somebody is going to ask you your experience, you say that you've completed your degree and you can point them to your github account.

Good luck!
I am on my phone and do not have the time to find a reference, but some people believe an acute drop in magnesium is the cause of a hangover
But since the meter would know the current difficulty level and with the auto-adjustment of difficulty to the amount of hash power in the network, the meter would be just as secure in 25 years as it is today even with incredible advances in hash speeds.
> Small-town bookstores never carried more than a handful of programming books, a couple of short shelves of science fiction, and none of the strange specialist material I buy today

When did you start buying? I lived in a small town (roughly 40,000 people) and in 1981 I could buy Lance A. Leventhal's "6809 Assembly Language Programming" on order in less than a week. The 6502 version was in stock.

The problem is that chain bookstores emerged right around this point in the local malls (Waldenbooks, for my local area) and killed the local bookstores.

So, in my town, the local bookstore, right off the downtown park, went under in favor of the chain store in the local mall--neither of which now exist. So, now the damage can't be undone without a significant investment by somebody, but the upside profit is limited by whether Amazon is willing to undercut you.

Don't get me wrong. I loathe most local businesses in small towns. It used to be that they were slow, but they were reliable. If they said it would be done on date X two weeks out, it would be done on date X or they would start moving heaven and earth. Now, they tend to be slow and unreliable. The last car repair I had to deal with was: "Well, it didn't come in the shipment. It will be another week." "Um, no. Get the part tomorrow." "Not gonna happen." "Actually, yes, the part will be here tomorrow because I'm having it FedEx'd in. And me, my lawyer, your manager, the dealership owner, and GM are going to have a conference call while you are fixing the car you've already had for a week." Those kinds of businesses should go under post haste.

Nevertheless, there are some local businesses that get it and do a great job serving the local area. They don't deserve to get wiped out because WalMart, Amazon, etc. can force things that the smaller businesses cannot.
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>Every few years Hamas launches rockets at Israel

It's not every few years, it's every few weeks. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_rocket_atta...
My first thought when I saw this letter was that it was Richard Feynman himself, perhaps appropriating the name of someone he knew had been interviewed. It would be entirely consistent with his character to smear himself in order to convince the government that they didn't want him -- just like the letter he wrote to the draft board proclaiming that he was not truly crazy, but was instead precisely crazy enough to not want them to think he was crazy.
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It is not plain stupid. It's actually a good opportunity to figure out what the Grundgesetzbuch is (yes, it is actually not a valid 'constitution')
Even Scheuble said the sovereignty issues went into 'ad absurdum' since ww2. There is contract after contract after contract. Germany is in so much need of a rewrite of its law books. Everything is corrected by extensions and special rule. The amount of paperwork germans produce is INSANE and should easily push someone to think "Wait there is something f'ed here".

- Say anything they want: Unless you mention the H with the J's... and cough Horst Köhler cough

- No evidence of tampering in elections: mmmmmmh there are always issues in the east and there is always something coming up in small districts or states. They are not major but important nonetheless (Read: Local press)

- The press is free and extensive: LOL!!!!!!!!! Axel Springer and Spiegel dictate the opinion here, everyone else is a jew-baby-eating holocost denier.

- people can largely do as they please: yes, if they can afford a lawyer to help them with the paperwork.

Not getting into this stuff and just accepting everything would be plain stupid.
Thanks for the advice. I would still consider at least trying them, as I've seen VPS providers change a lot over time. I did see the links posted here to other cheap VPS's, so I'd check those out too.
check your local city/county governments - governmentjobs.com - they got good benefits and I always see these type of jobs sitting for months. I don't think they give a damn if you have any side projects - just that you have CS degree.
Brazil world cup app for philips Hue. Something you wouldn't see 4 years ago
hashtags too.
If you are programming something that doesn't want people to cross the street except at crosswalks (for safety and traffic efficiency reasons), then you would code in a wall along the roads with gaps for crosswalks.

Reality has many more variables, like cost, beauty, physics, etc.

There are many minor laws that are necessary (don't show your penis to children, don't poop on the ground) then there are some that are driven by other reasons such as greed, self-interest, and population control (drug laws, surveillance laws) then there are other laws that are a grey area such as congress being exempt from insider trading. Safety is important too, (seatbelts, shining lasers at airplanes). Then there are the religious laws that are probably unnecessary (can't buy alcohol on Sundays).

I think that laws should have mandatory expiration times or a review process to ensure they are still relevant. The great thing about the US is that each state can have different laws and each can be a test-bed to see what works out best, it's not necessarily used like that but it's a good idea in theory.
Why would someone working at Caltech be interviewed in Idaho? The ex-wife theory seems a whole lot more credible.
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Better Than Groupon? Spending Karma is supposed to be...What do you guys think?
>and economic efficiency includes things like social programs, health, the environment, etc.

Long-term, yes. Quarter to quarter? No, and that's partially why we're in the mess that we're in.
Something worthwhile is matching the types of jobs you want in the future as well as now and creating a list of the experience or skills they want.

After that, look at what you are lacking or need to learn to fill in those gaps. Create a list of projects and just jump in. Make a blog/journal to track your development for your own sake as well as a good resource to point at. Often grads have lots of good solid skills.

Also worthwhile getting a friend to look at your CV. It might not be highlighting the right skills. Similarly, have a base template but ensure you tailor it to each company and job post (I'm sure you do that but is an easy mistake).

A nice tool (UK job posting only but good none the less) is http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/ which lets you see what is trending and important in IT job posting. Have you got what is the new hotness?

Make sure you create a compelling cover letter for your CV. Place I work they just hired 3 new people, a bad or boring cover letter killed the chances of many amongst the hundreds of applicants.

Job hunting can be hard. I remember finishing my Masters, having a newborn to look after and no other income coming in and pressure on me to get a job. Took longer than I wanted but I got there and I am sure you will too!
> I'm still not convinced that organic is nutritionally superior or has levels of pesticides that prove harmful to humans.

I'm curious what convinced you that they are equally healthy in the first place?
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Feynman was in fact critical of the Soviet Union:

>I think that Russia represents danger in saying that the solution to human problems is known, that all effort should be for the state, for that means there is no novelty.

(from 'The Meaning Of It All', Ch. II)
both sides are victims. both sides are aggressors.
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At least looking at its current featureset it looks much closer like it wants to be Logstash or Apache Flume, but with an included frontend. They note the deep inspiration from statsd as well.

Also all communication is over UDP at the moment, which could be bad for poor quality links, but probably OK for most servers.

The main difference from just a log shipper is including a frontend web service to look at data, and a library to link in the app to deliver stats instead of using a more standard protocol like syslog / collectd / ganglia, etc. and having the server parse / ship it.

So it's more of an integrated solution than combining different logging pieces.
Surely that's the null hypothesis? It's up to proponents of organic food to prove a benefit.
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It's probably not a race condition
I guess the same way you would compare Skyrim to Tetris.
Shill for a pill? Nothing against Paul Nickerson, but why isn't this a blog post or something else attributable?
Not sure but my point stands either way.
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If a smaller adult is swinging a knife at you, and you're able to mostly avoid being hit by the knife by holding him at arms length, is it acceptable to respond with force to disarm the knife-wielding lunatic?

Yep.
Why is the difference between US and UK regulations important for the results? As far as I understood from the press release the study was conducted in the UK with UK products.
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Well, if he keeps at it for 8 years, and occasionally manages to throw rocks at your brothers and injure them as well, then .. yes, I think that kid has those punches coming.

Kid doesn't seem to have any parents to educate/restrain him, and the police is not interested. Not many other choices.
You carry a cell phone right? Use it to communicate too? Use the internet extensively? Those are the best tracking devices in the world. Your heart rate, the fact you eat burritos and exercise is relatively minor compared to the ubiquitous cell phone usage of the past decade.
"The company also launched an iPhone app earlier this year that also helps ween the startup off of Google’s teat."

Wow, really weird word choice.
I would later have a talk with the kid about "futility," but maybe only after finding some way to engage in an activity together.
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You're going a little bit strawman by the end there. There are many types of diets that qualify as 'balanced real food', and the questions are in why they have different health benefits and trying to find the bottleneck compounds so that you can have more benefits at once. So you would still eat real food, but for chemicals whose ideal quantities require extremely biased diets you would put some in a pill and focus your diet on filling in the rest of the concert evenly.
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Building defense at the cost of numerous innocent lives out there in Palestine. Collateral Damage is a means to achieve this. What i find more interesting is that Israel is using Hamas as a cover to clean-up the complete Palestine state. It would have been justified if the casualties were adults, real Hamas members and not kids, women.
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OP's beef was with the existence of complex rules - not that the complex rules have force of law. You and the other respondent gave examples of where complex rules will arise even if the state doesn't come up with them. Presumably the "coder in Sacha" would hate all those "if/else" statements just as much.

But they just don't apply to the OP - unless the OP becomes a football coach or starts operating a fishery, he can just ignore them.

(I did mean to start my original comment "You're just not encapsulating reality properly".)
A few groups of HAM Radio operators have been experimenting with what they call terahertz communication for quite some time now.

The transceivers got pretty sophisticated, with very complex optics. There are reports of successful conversations over distances of >150km.

Apparently, many of them are in Germany so quite a few of the sources are in German.

http://modulatedlight.org/optical_comms/optical_index.html

http://www.db6nt.de/laser.html

http://modulatedlight.org/optical_comms/SDIM8379h.jpg

http://www.dd1wks.de/laser.html

http://www.dl2dr.de/6.html
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This seems to be a clone(?) of Patrick Davidson's [1] Phoenix for TI calculators [2,3].

[1]: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~pad/main.html

[2]: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/148/14876.html

[3]: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~pad/frames-ti83p.html
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At one point the E4X standard (back in 2007?) enabled a cool multi-line string hack by promoting XML elements to language entities. You could say:

var htmlFragment = "" + (<r><![CDATA[
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- e.e. cummings
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]]></r>);

And then `htmlFragment` would contain your multi-line string. (The addition with the empty string coerces the <r> element to output its `toString()` value, which happens to be the innerHTML).

This is largely a historical factoid, though. I don't think browsers beyond Mozilla ended up supporting E4X.

Really clever hack with the function's toString method!
Whenever you get a chance, would you care to share some of the main pain points to look out for from your experience as well as the workarounds? I haven't encountered major issues (small issues yes, major issues not yet) so far implementing protos , however my projects scales are typically not as massive as Google's. So for the sake of my quest to expand my horizons, any feedback will be greatly appreciated
Yes, but now they remove the underlying text too. It was fun while it lasted.
Yes, that's what you're supposed to do, and it sucks. A good library should provide you with more than a box full of hammers and thumbs; it should actually help you and not just punt whenever a hard decision shows up. The RAND interface was one of the first things gutted.

The presence or need for a stir() function should be considered a serious design flaw.

(forks are detected by calling getpid() if you don't have inheritzero.)