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This sort of discussion reminds me of the hypothetical: an alien race, passively observing the earth, notices people frantically shopping in December, and also celebrating Christmas at the end of the month. They thus conclude that the shopping caused Christmas to happen. Obviously they get the causation wrong: anticipation of Christmas caused the shopping to happen.

Now, when discussing NPE's, people say something along the lines of: "they can't create any value, because any invention they buy already exists." Obviously this is fallacious: the anticipation of selling a patent portfolio, to an NPE or some other party, can cause people to engage in expensive R&D. Indeed, all contractual and property rights operate in this way. Litigation might come after a transaction goes sideways, but anticipation of having the option to litigate allows transactions to occur that would not otherwise occur.

NB: The above should not be taken as an argument that the value created by the existence of NPE's outweighs the costs imposed by troll suits.
This is completely random and insane; but what would a jet like this in the hands of the "rebels" do in Syria? Would it allow the government opposing force to compete in the air, or would Syria's air defenses and jets easily handle something like this?

Curious to know how this jet would effect smaller scale conflicts, in the hands of small, well financed forces.
Sorry I should have been more clear - I meant the former case of finding vulnerabilities in a website/API/web-service/etc. Your answer was comprehensive in either direction though, and thank you
Don't be in the bottom 25th percentile for cancellations if you want to have a job next month, so you better use these shady retention techniques management pushes.
Nowadays one language isn't enough. But the java syntax styled langues like java, c#, javascript and swift will get you anywhere. With some additional html, css, and maybe xaml for the styling.
The place I work at does this. There is Core Engineering and Agency.

I'm on Core Engineering and we build the products. The Agency engineers figure out cool ways to use the products. Like they did a live celebrity selfies for the Oscars.

Are customers building things for the Oscars? Not really, but it shows the power of our products and helps marketing/sales. Which in turn let's core engineering experiment and contribute to open source projects. That leads to better products (and happy engineers.) Agency uses those new/better products to repeat the cycle all over again.
I'm also not sure if this is sarcasm or not. Chrome is the least configurable web browser ever made, completely hostile to power users.
Out of curiosity - what kind of more "local" stores would you like if GSX is coming from chains anyway? (I live in the Bay Area, so you can give precise names, and I might know them).
Thanks!
>is like saying this open standard is proprietary since the documentation was authored in MS Word.

And yes, that gives off the same vibe. It's a vibe that says, "we're not really into open source". I say that in spite of Microsoft's recent -- and welcome -- forays into open source. Their technology is still used primarily among people and organizations who are not very welcoming to open source technology.
ART is a JVM, it's just not a just-in-time compiling JVM.

The JVM is fine for multiple programming languages, as Kotlin nicely proves. And Kotlin targets Java 6 so it should work fine on Android, even though now Android supports Java 7 language features. The missing parts are the Java 7 API's: unfortunately the class library, being based on Apache Harmony (a dead project) does not move forward on Android. However this does not have any effect on Kotlin.
They're not magical. http://www.genengnews.com/insight-and-intelligence/women-sti... You don't need individual programs for men, it's the default. http://jonathanherzog.com/node/129 General trends http://www.businessinsider.com/7-things-keeping-women-out-of... Specific incidents http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents
I had read in the past that HEVC was probably the best for still image lossy compression. [1]

Does anyone have further information on this?

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#...
With lambdas, futures are quite easy to use and compose.
I like that you made this open source. I'll reserve criticism for GitHub issues / pull requests, but overall I applaud your efforts. :D
Well, it really is technically inferior to a gaming PC. And I say this as somebody who owns several consoles and does not own a gaming PC. In making that choice, I had to accept that I would get less power than a PC user, at least for most of the console's lifespan. I use a console because that's what I'm comfortable with and it lets me play with my friends, not because I want to be at the cutting edge of gaming technology.
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It's one of the few potentially decent paying professions someone without a college degree can get into without insurmountable entry barriers, so perhaps you should go a bit easier on them.
I agree. These PC/Console flame wars have been going on since the beginning of the internet. To say that either is "superior" is pretty meaningless, you can argue why one is better in certain respects, but in the end declaring one to be better than the other is totally subjective.
I'd like to see the same dark theme on Linux otherwise I'll stick to tree style tabs.
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Did you ever saw a GWT application that was not done using the GWT hierarchy of widgets, apart from Google Flights or Google Shopping Express?

Because I have seen many GWT apps and I never saw GWT being used that way, I can't see how a very large portion of developers completely misunderstood the right way of using a framework.

Usually the full GWT ecosystem is used in order to build enterprise apps: templates in UIBinder, GWT widget hierarchy, MVP frequently not always, Editor often, Request Factory often, etc.

You mention that the problem is compilation times, but this is not a problem. In Dev mode there is no need for compilation, the compilation happens in the background in the build server whenever a release is needed.

What you describe for GWT 3 seems way more complex that just using plain Html, CSS and Javascript with some framework on top.

I don't see how all that complexity of compilers and plugins and dev modes can pull it's weight compared to one 100k js file.
What's going on with the lead image? It's neat but the lighting is confusing my brain.
And example of what happens if you don't close all file descriptors: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=38915
"Perfect is overrated" - so true.
Should be coming, keep an eye on https://github.com/dhdemerson/VerticalTabs (he's putting a lot of time into it in the next few weeks!)
showing they're not this kind of person anymore

Because every employer will happily give you that chance. Right. Let's invite the guy with a questionable past to an interview and not just the others with a clean record...
"they'll gain a lot of brownie points (e.g. a promotion)"

That's the sugar coated version. When it comes to people who already have a lot of seniority and don't need the money for their own elections, the ability to transfer funds between their reelection accounts and those of others isn't about "brownie points". It's the raw exercise of political power, and is handled not to praise, but to bury.
I don't see how this belongs on HackerNews, pretty weird post.
I know I'll never follow up on that so I'm more focused on convincing the operator to give up on me with a minimum amount of grief and fuss (on both sides).
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I'd suggest the even more pertinent question to ask is: Who still voluntarily uses Outlook?

Microsoft arrogance aside: Gigantic, bloated, monolithic proprietary applications, written by a company known to be privacy-hostile and surveillance-friendly, handling your potentially sensitive communcations? I think not.
Microsoft is uniquely special in that they've built an empire on making second-rate versions of things other companies have done well.

Internet Explorer, Windows Server, Windows itself. Apart from BASIC, which they built independently, everything else has been ripping on someone else. DOS, their first big success, was actually a crappy clone of CP/M. Design decisions in that haunt Microsoft to this very day.

It's like the adage "good artists copy, great artists steal". Microsoft is firmly in the copy department.

In any case, this recent missive from Microsoft shows, at best, a tiny shift in strategy. They're still doomed to obscurity. They'll be around for decades to come, they might even be fairly profitable, but nobody will care about Microsoft. They'll use their products for lack of choice.

Few people today are choosing to use Microsoft and this couldn't be any clearer than their nearly complete failure in the tablet and phone market.

Until they reinvent themselves, divest themselves of all the baggage anchoring them to the past, they're stuck. IBM unloaded an awful lot to get to the place they are today. Imagine how crippled they'd be if they were still making PCs and printers.
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In GBP its only ~40k a year...
What does this provide that CoreData doesn't? Whatever it is, it needs to be clearly explained on the landing page. Otherwise it's difficult to understand what problem this solves compared to CoreData.
Oh yeah, that's one thing I miss from being independent. "Conference"? You mean "tax deduction"!
IMHO, you can't focus-group and statistically analyze everything. If your entrepreneurs can't even be allowed to pick their own favorite colors, for fear of making a sub-market-optimal decision, then why bother even going into business for themselves? I'd tell them that you're going to go with hot pink and hunter orange unless they give you other instructions by the end of the day.
I was recently talking to a founder about his small startup. They had initially hired a Marketer to help build audience and publicize their product. But what they discovered is that they weren't ready to have a dedicated Marketer. With only two developers the time needed to support the marketer was detracting from developing the projects. Now he's looking for a Marketing Engineer, someone who can fill the role of marketer, developer, and product engineer. While not be as good at any of these tasks as a dedicated professional, someone who can fill in the cracks is more useful to a new startup.
To me the more important part is the interface and thread safety.
Snarky.

The difference is that you can have a model that is not precise and which still makes useful predictions. You can't have a proof that's not precise and still proves P=NP.

Note that it is not "the existence of free markets" that is assumed and breaks things, but the existence of free markets with a particular formulation of a particular property. As strictly defined there, weak-form efficiency also allows seems to allow FTL communication.
So I could have some potential and I'm wasting it>

I was reminded of the U2 song "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For."

The search for that community is a worthwhile endeavor in and of itself. Perhaps if you could define certain desirable community criteria: Who, What, Where, etc... It might help connecting quicker.
How do you backup this database? Does it integrate with iCloud or whatever is available on the device?
It's less about the stability and more about data integrity. Crashes suck, but they suck a hell of a lot less than corrupt filesystems and backups.
Realm – CoreData replacement for iOS
Link to the slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/ShaneWilton/one-shellcode-to-rule-...
Awesome job by Stuart McKeown and the guys over at Gleam.io, great scientific process with effective results. This is true "growth hacking"
If they are still interesting, they will be upvoted again. If they are not, it will be a little extra noise in the system.
You can't just draw a printed circuit board, it's like in the name and stuff.
> $400.00 PC from your service could rival or beat a console.

I recently got the itch to buy the Xbox One. I had the 360 before it with the Kinect and it was a passable party game machine, but I usually game on an old-ish desktop that maybe I've invested $600 in over the past four years. i5, 7000 series AMD card, 8gb ram, etc. Seems to handle any modern game I can throw at it.

With a copy of Watchdogs that Xbox turned out to be almost $700. Um, sure Watchdogs was fun, but having both just feels extraneous at this point and if I wasn't beyond my return date I'd just get rid of it. Just the price of games alone is rough. With Steam I can usually find a deal, but for console games I'm expected to usually pay full price, usually with the understanding that I'm also subsidizing my console's low price. How is $700 with one game low? You can almost make two mid-range gaming PCs with that if you're frugal enough.

That said, I'm sure it'll be great for multiplayer and kinect games, but with powerful PC hardware being so cheap, it does feel like a rip-off as console prices haven't really fallen in line with PC prices.

On the plus side, it has impressive fit and polish, the media tv stuff is nice, xbox live is well done, and even though the kinect is optional now I really hope they continue to develop games for it, preferable another Star Wars game on the new hardware. I'm hoping I get 5 years out of this system to depreciate the big one-time cost.

I'm just surprised there isn't a competitive $199 console out there. Even if it was semi-disposable (say every 24 months a new model with faster innards) it would still be worth it. I can get a Nexus 7 for that much. Its incredible I can't get a dedicated gaming machine (sans display, sans batter, etc) for around that much. Consoles are starting to feel like those old Texas Instruments calculators that cost the same amount and have the same exact features as the ones sold 20+ years ago.
You understood it right - thanks.
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This seems more like a description of management failure than of a need for marketing to have its own engineers.

If the problem is that marketing and engineering can't talk to each other, the solution is for management to be able to talk to both of them, not for people whose skills would put them in one group to be embedded in the other. Going that way just creates "B teams": the good engineers (the "A team") are in Engineering; the ones Engineering doesn't want get shunted over to Marketing to get them out of the way. Which doesn't do Marketing any favors, since those are the ones least likely to be able to understand what Engineering is doing in the first place.
Even dedicated Windows applications get that wrong on occasion, despite the UX guidelines stating that Ctrl+Alt should never be used for shortcuts for this very reason. Alas, people with a vanilla US keyboard layout won't ever notice ...

Most recent thing that bit me in that regard was ReSharper.
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aggressive shadow lightening. Some sharpening too.
Slick. I've tried the popular tree style tab extensions a few times over the years, but this one feels the most natural. The others were always too complicated.

One nit: the target area to trigger the resize is super tiny. 1 pixel, I think.
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There are more axes to gaming quality than simply polygon performance. You have to be specific about what is superior.
TST is awesome. "Bookmark this tree" & "Close this tree" features make so much sense when one researches some topic.
Microsoft bans default Google search on some Lumia phones
I hate that Microsoft translates stuff like that.
Ctrl+h is find on Swedish Microsoft stuff.

And forget about finding useful excel functions online cause the are all English functions.

If might sound like a good idea until you try it.
Working just becomes really inconsistent, and hard.

The thing that the first letter is the keyboard shortcut helps a bit when trying to remember but it does not help initially when looking for the shortcut.
I am the web developer who works for the marketing team described in the article. I don't really know where (or if) to draw the line between web developer and engineer, but in my career before taking this job I was the lead developer on dozens of large, complex web applications that went way beyond your standard brochure website. I never felt that the kind of stuff I was working on was somehow less important or not real "engineering".

As for your the other points you raise about what to do when the marketing team is out of work: perhaps that would be an issue at other companies with less growth, but so far in about three years total working with Knewton (as a contractor and then as a full time employee) there has never been a moment where any of us were struggling to find something to do. There is a constant flow of large projects and firedrills and plenty of work to do in the icebox. These are projects that are important to the company's growth and vision, but would distract the product engineering teams from their jobs.

The product teams have their sprints planned out and aren't able to punt on an important feature because the biz dev team needs help building a mock application for a meeting next week. The marketing team has the ability to set our own priorities and timelines and adjust those as the business's needs change. We are better able to react to emergencies than larger teams because we aren't beholden to clients and product managers to meet timelines established months ago. I am not trying to criticize how the other teams work--I understand the benefits of that workflow, and I can't imagine how you'd build large, complex applications without that kind of organization. However, for the kind of projects the marketing team handles, that sort of organization would be more of a hinderance.
>That aside it is worth pointing out the advantages of a proper computer over cut down entertainment devices.

Sure, but calling console players 'plebes' probably isn't the best way to do it.
> Tiny nitpick: doesn't running asm still require an operating system?

The great 8-bit systems of the 80's - Apple II, C64 - booted their apps and games off of floppies all the time.
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Try running a usability test when you're the one that is drunk. It's hard.
Agreed. I've read a lot of books on sales and have tried many different things (many of which have been successful for others). I have not found a book that aligned better or gave me a framework for success that is better than SPIN Selling.
Oddly enough, the apparent lack of the setting (or maybe it didn't seem to work) drove me to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/side-tabs/ around six or eight months ago.
Well, thanks to that "url editing" we get to know about posts that have gone unoticed before. Or posts that always get lots of new readers interested, despite having been discussed before.

If anything, the "duplicate submission logic" is not needed, except if we're talking about real abuse (tons of postings of the same thing that interests noone).
Alexander from Realm here, all interactions with the database is through full ACID transactions, but it is a bit untraditional in that the interaction model is build specifically to mobile apps.

The transactions interact with the runloop, so that you are always in an up-to-date read transaction (which always give you a consistent view and never blocks, even when other threads modify the same data). To write, you have to do explicit write transactions.

So your data is always live, consistent and up-to-date without you having to do any explicit coordination (apart from the write transaction on changes) and notifications allow you to always keep your UI up-to-date with the latest changes.
Realm currently supports Swift, though we're actively working to improve our Swift APIs[0]. You can find Swift sample code throughout our docs[1], and in our Swift examples on GitHub[2].

We learnt a lot about Swift introspection and interacting with Swift objects from the Objective-C runtime. We'll share our findings in some upcoming blog posts, so stay tuned!

[0]: https://github.com/realm/realm-cocoa/pull/549
[1]: http://realm.io/docs
[2]: https://github.com/realm/realm-cocoa/tree/master/examples/sw...
I don't have any long term plans right now, but I'm always open to investigating all business opportunities. I'm not working on any new features at the moment. Those will most likely come about as people start making suggestions.
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AltGr+S (or Ctrl+Alt+S).
That isn't how it works at all. As per TFA, marketing interviews and hires their own talent, and there isn't any crossover between the engineering and marketing team staffing.
That would be a great question for Raymond Chen! I wonder whoever thought that was a good idea. Anyone who uses a localized Word version is likely to use an English one as well sometime, and the hot keys are completely messed up.

For bonus points, ask about the localized Excel formulas. And date formats! That is so brain freezingly stupid I can not for my life comprehend it. It causes no end of trouble when moving data between versions.
I feel this is a marketing gimmick and New Relic is hoping to get people to revisit the site and check the features.
>Light switches don't need to be wired either

Indeed, and sometimes can't be. There are a couple of locations in my home where there's insufficient depth to mount a wired switch and I instead have MK astral (z-wave) low-profile battery powered switches.
Thanks, glad to hear you like it :) Good call on the resize target, I'll look at that!
In most companies I have worked on, marketing has had its own engineers. It's not like engineering has a monopoly on hiring technical talent. In this world, technical problems occur everywhere in a company. The question is whether those problems are best solved by centralizing all devs in a single org or distributing them where needed.

In large companies, marketing is one of the largest spenders of technical / application budgets and resources. They need to run applications and experiments for usability, design and revenue generation. The problem appears to be conflict with "product" devs because of the common surface they must work on (the site, new feature testing, etc.)

I think the main issue here, regardless of small startup vs large company, is what org is responsible for what. I see in the article some sentiment of "finger pointing" which indicates to me that people have not answer that question. Once that question is answered, it would seem to be the accountable people should be free to design the best way to get something done. There will always be conflicts (some junior devs or product managers launch a tiny irrelevant feature and want marketing to stop everything to "tell the world about it," or product marketing wants Dev to prioritize some features higher because of revenue, without necessarily realizing the implementation complexities).

Fingerprinting is easy. Designing orgs and communication for tough problems is not easy.
Interesting concept of pseudonymity.

If your friend only has one or a few friends, there's a pretty good chance that they'll the identify of the poster.

In generally, I love the call to 'Enjoy openness and kindness'. We can definitely benefit from more of that :)
You can disable this in Outlook: Outlook Options → Mail → Editor Options → AutoCorrect Options