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I was with Anytime Fitness until I moved, and I could only get out of my contract by sending them a copy of my new driver's license. I was willing to pay the ETF, but they demanded I show them my license in-person to get out, when I was hundreds of miles away. Finally I cancelled the card they were charging, let them sweat for a bit, then called and said "offer me some other way and you will get your money". They then let me email them.

But yeah, if I didn't have proof that I moved, I would have been stuck in the contract forever.
Have to agree, JSF is the worst kind of J2EE committee-designed, overengineered nonsense. It is the EJB of web frameworks. The component-based philosophy behind it is sound, but is much better executed by frameworks like Tapestry and Wicket.

That said, modern web apps are all about fat JavaScript clients, enabled by much better frameworks, GWT being one of them.
JP from Realm here, I worked on our (experimental) Swift support. Swift as a language is pretty unstable right now, but it's clear that Apple sees it as the future of iOS and OSX development. So we wanted to start experimenting with how to make Realm feel right at home in Swift.
Remote pasteboard twiddling is guarded by an off-by-default preference (prefs>general>allow clipboard access to terminal apps). Triggers are user-defined; while most people use them to change text colors, you are given enough rope to hang yourself, so be careful when creating a trigger that runs a command.
Isn't it better to have passionate users who love using your service along with haters that love to hate you as opposed to having a market that just kinda likes you. That said you can tone down the nazi-ism while having dog whistle trigerring http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics with something like PC Master Build or PC Uber Class (I'm not in marketing but there's something that works in there).
To be fair, I don't think it is limited to the younger generation. Last Valentine's day, my wife and I noticed at least 6 people from 5 different couples who were actively using a smart phone for a significant amount of time. This was at a restaurant. If there was any time that you might have thought that some undivided attention would be warrented, that would be the time and place. The offenders didn't markedly different from us age-wise (~40).
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In my eyes, the ideal rotocol would be one that fits, but doesn't need any router at all. While not excatly that, lora , a long range(kilometers) low power/cost protocol, seems like the right choice. Just find the right model for personal deployment some open routers(similar to wifi) and let nodes seek those open nodes , and we all win.

But i'm probably missing something here, since i haven't heard of anybody doing this. I wonder what ?
Nope, no restoration support yet. I'm concerned about the performance hit.
Assuming you have Comcast equipment if a local service center is accessible it might be worth your time to walk in and drop the equipment off when you cancel. There can be a long tail on these if you have to send back equipment. The folks working the counter at these places also don't have a "retention specialist" they kick you to.

I have to say I canceled Comcast for a few months between houses my experience was pretty painless, I called in and they in-fact even sent pre-paid shipping boxes to return my modem and cable box.

Heck considering the profile this call is getting I'm guessing their "retention specialists" are going to be pretty light touch for a while.
It seems as if the console makers have delivered developer friendly platforms this time but with that forgot to / decided not to pack in that extra punch they used to.

I'm talking about things like those sprite optimized graphics controllers when 2D still was king and the tightly integrated 3D chips later on (when consumer PCs were doing 3D exclusively with the CPU) - and let's not forget all those esoteric but very powerful CPU architectures (e.g. Cell processor).
not to shabby that would equate to a senior developer in London BTW
These are probably not very good reasons, however:

-It's slow

-It's annoying for testing

-It's run by Oracle

-It feels antiquated
I just read the comments on posts with "Microsoft" on the title so I can laugh at the people who says "I do not care about microsoft" (but I am here commenting on a topic about it anyway).
A well-executed and beautiful site, but it would be nice to have Xeon options for the professional builds.
And still smaller minds discuss the people discussing people, surely?
Designing a new language is the new designing a new framework. Ugh.
I agree - since I'm in the middle of building a machine, I would think that I would be the target market. One of the first things I noticed was that the power supplies were overpriced but the mobo combinations were entirely based on price as opposed to features. The site looks good but I think it needs more tweakability.
Tom Scott touched on this in his Computerphile video -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tITwM5GDIAI
It's good to see hardware startups be open about the challenges of being a hardware startup.
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I can never remember any details regarding the Intel chipsets. Is a given CPU a Haswell processor? Ivy bridge? Should I wait for Broadwell? Am I misremembering code words entirely? I would love it if this site helped me figure out which chipset I'll be getting, in case I care.
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A lot of modern languages look like this now. You could as well say they both look like Scala. But then, Scala also riffs off languages like Haskell in some vague syntaxy way.

Swift, I think, is strongly influenced by design trends in modern programming languages. I didn't see a whole that in it that was new though.
It's a really sexy skin on a cessna citation business jet.

Even the same turbofan engines...
> 30. In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.

> 56. Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.

http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
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That gets worse if Outlook pops up an appointment reminder while you are typing a message. Such windows show (http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu/comp/blog/2007/figs/bbf2007061...) that alt-S does Snooze, but Outlook reacts to that key press, too (or eats it before the pop up can see it)
So how does it work for Google to demand strong security principles of Adobe for their Flash product? Finding 400 game over bugs on their own then telling Adobe about them seemed to get more traction.
You might want to check out Quasar. (https://github.com/puniverse/quasar) While it might not be something built into Kotlin, I would assume that Kotlin's interop with Java would make it easy to use. There's also a library called Pulsar for Clojure that wraps Quasar nicely. (written by the developers who are making Quasar)
I am enjoying this on OSX. I tried Tree Style Tabs in the past, but was not a fan of how it looked. This looks much better and is working nicely so far. In the future it would be nice to see collapse-able tab groups.

Pinned tabs should have a visual distinction, rather than only being pinned to the top. An icon, badge, or subtle change in background shade would work.

Looking good!
The total known ground resources are estimated to be roughly seven times larger than the current mining reserves. So this gives you at most a factor of ten. Of course there are other unrealistic assumptions in those estimates. Realistically you would use other sources of electric energy for instance. I don't now if the Thorium reserves are roughly four times larger than the current Uranium reserves or four times larger than the amount of Uranium that could feasibly be extracted from the ground. In any case, both are only a solution for the near future, that is the next 50-100 years or so.
With current technology it would not make sense to extract Uranium from the Ocean, its concentration is $10^{-9}$, it can be commercially extracted from rocks with $10^{-4}$ concentration. It does not possible to filter huge amounts of seawater for such insignificant quantities of Uranium.
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More states are going to have to legalize before the fed gov will get on board.

Like our other wars, the War On (Some) Drugs causes the govt to spend a lot of money on contractors and equipment, has enriched local police departments through civil forfeiture, and feeds the for-profit prison industry.

There is an enormous amount of money and power with vested interest in keeping cannabis illegal and elected officials listen to campaign contributors until they fear that the voters might actually vote them out of office.

It will be interesting to watch it play out in the next couple of years, especially after the next congressional and presidential elections.
I'm pretty skeptical of this story. For one, it's just a transcript of a craigslist post. Secondly, a couple of those figures are hard for me to believe (e.g. "26 out of 45 customers spend an average of 3 minutes taking photos of the food", and "8 out of 45 customers bumped into other customers..."). This sounds more like social commentary than an actual report on findings. We probably won't know for sure, but even given the lack of verifiable data, I would argue this should not be treated as news.
It's not available in my area, but looks interesting. How does it work?

* Who delivers?
* Is it just local stores, or can it tap into warehouses?
* Can you get books?
Maybe the algorithm scores based on more than just cost and performance - perhaps review scores as well?
Even then you can upgrade the older Mig-29s. Same with the F-15, even a brand new one shares a lot of technology with the original model from 3 or 4 decades ago. And BTW a brand-new Mig-29K is $30MM, far more bang for your buck than this Scorpion.

As for the aerospace industry of those countries again you are missing the point: they would rather invest the billions it would take to buy a decent amount of modern jets in their own companies to grow the local sector than to essentially subsidize foreign conglomerates.

Case in point until 1994 Brazil had no domestic-built planes. Now Embraer is an international player in the aerospace industry with exports to many other countries.
Thanks, I will definitely look into this.
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You can implement those in Rust if you want.
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That would be nice unfortunately marketing doesn't value technical resource at all.

I am far too professional to tell tales but I know of large companies that have wasted millions on poorly executed systems.
Love the idea. A maybe tangential question for you or sites like yours...

So this might be all "tyranny of choice". But what is the difference between certain parts? Like if there are two motherboards and both of them cost ballpark $200 and support the same mainstream inputs/components, how do I know which one to choose?

It's moments like those that paralyze me from taking advantage of these services. Or why I like buying Apple where I don't really have a choice (implicit to the fact that I don't care which motherboard I'm getting other than Apple-curated).
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In the comments there is a link to a critique that I think hits the nail on the head:

http://www.mondaynote.com/2014/07/13/microsofts-new-ceo-need...
"show on the right" required a restart after being checked to work for me in linux. Perhaps that helps?
It really depends on how intelligently companies run their retention metrics. Rather than measuring if a customer was retained for that phone call, it makes much more sense to measure which customers are retained after a month or so. Of course the first metric is easier to run; also large corporations "competing" in highly uncompetitive markets (internet, health insurance, etc.) have little incentive to provide any sort of reasonable, adequate customer service to begin with.
I remember Matt Cutts from Google describing how he was putting up Christmas Lights, standing on a ladder and ordered more masking tape so he could hang more lights. Shortly he apparently had a delivery of masking tape, and the delivery guy even brought it up to him on by climbing the ladder.
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Thank you! Really appreciate it. My colleague's fork is tackling pinned tabs and some other cool ideas, check it out! https://github.com/dhdemerson/VerticalTabs
Put your money where your mouth is. Go to these people. Teach them how to get better jobs.
>You're confusing issues from pressurized reactors with LFTRs.

Nope, pretty sure I'm not. I'm well aware that LFTRs run at low (even sub-atmosphere) pressures.

>We built and ran LFTRs commercially in the 1950s in New York State and Pennsylvania

We never ran LFTRs commercially. If you know otherwise, please cite. I only know of two experimental reactors at the Oak Ridge facility: the Aircraft Reactor Experiment and the Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment.

> I don't know where you got that idea.

I got that idea from some pretty simple facts about nickel alloys (like Hastelloy N) under neutron bombardment.

When you bombard nickel with neutrons, you produce helium. When the helium builds up irregularly, the alloy becomes brittle. You can dope Hastelloy N with titanium or niobium to even out the distribution of helium deposits (this is what ORNL did) but that brings the maximum temperature down to 650C.

As well, tellurium (one of the fission products of a LFTR reactor) corrodes the grain boundaries of Hastelloy N. You can reduce this effect by doping it with niobium and keeping the UF4/UF3 ratio to less than 60.

You have to trade off lower temperatures with whether or not you want to deal with beryllium toxicity. You can replace BeF2 with a eutectic lithium fluoride/thorium fluoride composition, but that requires an increased temperature of the reactor salts. There are other problems with using beryllium, though - it produces lithium-6, which is a strong neutron poison.

You also have to filter out noble element deposits, because they don't form fluorides.

There are also serious design challenges with modifying current turbines to work with supercritical CO2 or helium. You can use supercritical steam instead, but it isn't nearly as efficient.

You also have to worry about tritium diffusion. It's small enough that it leaks through the heat exchangers.

There are issues with the rapid expansion/contraction the graphite moderator, but some are working on graphite pebble designs.

Once you throw the corrosive salts, strange reaction byproducts, and neutron bombardment into the mix, I highly doubt that 'the average body shop' could pull off the fabrication of a LFTR style molten salt reactor that could run safely for longer than a week.
Sadly, most cross-platform apps have a shortcut that gets triggered with altgr + key. I use US-International (a layout where almost every key has a symbol mapped to an altgr + key combination), and this is very frustrating, especially with accented vowels áéíóú and ñ (pretty common in Spanish).

This is why I always prefer dedicated windows apps over cross-platform apps.
Looks good. Would really like to see Swift support. Also, the example showing integration with REST services in interesting, seems like you could do more with that.
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And here's the study backing that up:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2346381

The other change that receives less attention is the Medimmune v Genentech case in 2007, which changed the playing field such that it forced many potential licensors to initiate a lawsuit to avoid getting preemptively sued for declaratory judgement:
http://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...

This decision also correlates with another jump in lawsuits in 2007 found by other studies. Not sure why this dataset does not reflect that jump.

Also, I'm very curious about the PWC result that patent troll litigation awards are rising. I've followed a bunch of NPE cases (many of which have been discussed here), and I consistently find that trolls get much lower awards than they seek. Case in point, the TQP vs NewEgg trial where, even though they won, they got only half of the damages they sought. And that's at the higher end... From hearsay, some attorneys claim the average is around 10% of the damages sought.

What I'm finding is that accusing the plaintiff of being a "troll", regardless of whether that accusation has merit, has an automatic impact on the damages received, if at all the plaintiff prevails.

But then most of the cases I've followed have been in ED Texas. Maybe the higher awards come from other districts, e.g. Delaware?
Kind of like theoretical free markets.
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I see--thank you!

I was thinking of this more from the independent consultant's perspective, not the FTE viewpoint.
That is the point...I only asked for an app that can tell me if X is available so I can call him and grab a beer and talk. The point is I want to know which of my friends or friends of my friends are available in order to talk him because I do not want to start calling everyone from my list and ask my friends to also ask their friends..and maybe I miss someone this way..also is time consuming and not fun having to call people just to bug them if they are available if they are not. Makes sense?
/dev/urandom is pretty slow on Linux. OpenSSL's CSPRNG is several times faster. On my workstation just now, I get 13MB/sec from /dev/urandom and 61MB/sec from OpenSSL's CSPRNG.

You can't just add the parent pid because that information is lost when the process's parent exits (the ppid becomes 1).
>although no one's going to fit a GAU-8 onto anything but the A-10 airframe I suspect

You're probably right about that one. The designers of the A-10 didn't look at the plane and ask, "What gun can we fit on this?" They looked at the GAU-8 and asked, "How can we make this fly?"
This is why I switched. Non lion style full screen is the the best of both worlds. Couldn't live without it now
It is trivially easy to influence interest. http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/06/25/more-women-pick-co...
Bouncy Castles. You just plug the air in and they get really big on their own
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Saw this earlier this morning, really cool to see.
In a similar way, a separate marketing tech team can also create tension with the rest of the developers when marketing gains control over various parts of a site/service due to clear success in moving the revenue needle. There's almost nothing more frustrating for a developer than starting on a great product concept, but being told to drop it because marketing doesn't want such a product or feature to interfere with what they're doing (A/B testing, etc.)
Always dreamed of a site like this when I was a kid, still do, but now it looks like it's finally here! Nice work.
I didn't say it was bad, just that it wasn't the primary asset that was acquired. Facebook could easily have built a massively cross platform mobile chat app in-house.

... and it wasn't the best, either... look up their single hard-coded AES key for example.
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Analytics I don't need to analyze? Who came up with that tag line? They're not analytics, then, right?

"Crashlytics - mobile data you don't need to analyze"

"Crashlytics - making mobile analysis dead simple"

"Crashlytics - even a caveman can do it"

Reminds me of that scene from Beavis and Butthead:

Beavis: Bunghole!
Some guy: What's a bunghole?
Butthead: You're a bunghole, bunghole.
Some guy: You can't use a word to define itself!
Beavis: Shut up, bunghole!

That said, the new stuff looks well done. I'm not much of a mobile analytics person, but if I'm not mistaken, a lot of services already do this trending / predictions thing for cyclical processes, letting you know when abnormal things happen smartly (without you having to manually set thresholds for alerts, etc).

It seems to me that the real problem with analytics is context. More granular data doesn't automatically answer questions, and the amount of time spent on a particular page vs page views doesn't necessarily mean anything without context.

I dunno. I guess I'm just not the target market, here.
It's funny that you would switch to Instacart if they (=google) charged you, when Instacart is already 20-30% more expensive of Google Shopping Express on most items already (this is how they make money).
94109 got me in.
The API approach vs. SQLite, etc. is interesting - particularly that it does not look to have very many moving parts. I'm curious about transactional semantics though. Are they 'always on' or is there API control (still haven't gone through docs completely yet, so I may answer my own question later).
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Hmm. I'm on Firefox/latest on Windows, and Ctrl-Q does nothing.

Is this a Linux thing?

I do accidentally close Firefox from time to time, though: The problem is that Shift-Control-W is "close window" instead of "close tab". Which makes sense, but sometimes I hit it by mistake, typically when I mean to hit Shift-Control-T. Don't know there's anything they could do to fix that.
You're right, that part of the interview really was more about the fear of pigeonholing for the independent dev/consultant, not the actual results of pigeonholing for the FTE.
Not enough choices in my opinion. If it were to implement close to the amount of hardware choices as PCPartPicker then it would be very practical. The site layout and design is very nice though.
Swisher may be a powerful snoop. She may even be the "best" tech journalist out there. I still think that tech journalism by and large is either a PR machine or an Entertainment Tonight for Silicon Valley.

Serious tech journalism is lacking - both in the mainstream media and from traditional tech sources.

IMO the topics that are huge issues that have largely gone uncovered (though some have now gained steam):

- Energy Use/Efficiency of tech
- Governance of the Internet
- Privacy (until recently - sort of [and it still gets buried])
- Software copyright issues
- Market/monetary prospects for new tech
(I think the article sort of talks about the fear of
"crushing innovation")
- Energy tech itself (new forms of power generation, batteries)
- Tech in our lives (and I'm not talking about the fear card)
- autonomous vehicles, medical devices, etc.

Simply put, there are huge policy questions and tech issues that the public needs to be educated about and need to be discussed - and very few journalists are doing it.
Most North American keyboards don't have AltGr, they just have 2x Alt keys.
OpenSecrets.org hosts a long-running effort to correlate the rate at which legislators favor or oppose particular industries with the size of the contributions they receive. Turns out, they track very closely. Like, to the point where reasonable people stop thinking "correlation" and start thinking "causation."

That's a very important point in public corruption debates, since there mere perception of corruption can diminish trust in public institutions. And trust, as it turns out, is their greatest asset. That's why effective anti-corruption laws are written to prohibit actions that simply appear corrupt, along with those that can be proven corrupt beyond all reasonable doubt.

When it comes to public trust, appearance really does matter.