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Also look into xeriscaping (frequently pronounced "zero-scaping"): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeriscaping

It's "landscaping and gardening that reduces or eliminates the need for supplemental water from irrigation," frequently with native species.

We xeriscaped much of our yard in Austin, Texas, and if it can work in Texas, then it can work anywhere. My wife took great care to make sure many of the plants were attractive to wildlife (bees, butterflies, hummingbirds) which was an added bonus. (Did you know that hummingbirds are crazy aggressive and territorial? They are!)

"Native plants" doesn't just mean ugly scrub brush either: plenty of beautiful plants grow natively where you are - but you'll probably have to look further than Home Depot to find them.
does this method work if the APIs are passing data that is encrypted? I believe Waze does this ...
Neat! Although if you were just writing to a framebuffer you would probably use much less code. OTOH, the graphics drivers are doing the rasterizing right?
In complex systems low-level efficiency is far less beneficial than high-level efficiency. To achieve high-level efficiency you need to have a clear understanding of how the system works as a whole. That is impossible is the code is unintelligible bag of tricks.

I've seen this a lot when working in PHP. I wrote some websites from ground-up (using something similar to my own framework). I optimized int multiple times to great results. The biggest benefits didn't come from making a particular function faster, they came from realizations that large chunks of complexity in templating, routing and permissions checking subsystems simply weren't necessary. It doesn't matter how clever those chunks were written, because I got rid of them completely.

I think this is what the author speaks about.
I'm trying it out for 30 days. So far this is what I've found. I'm syncing out of google into flock. My plan is to at some point delete all my contacts and calendars out of google. But we'll see. Yes it does allow syncing multiple accounts. And multiple calendars from the same account as well. Groups are not supported (yet as of v0.51) but hopefully this will change in the future.

Not sure about the answer for your other question.
Right. But the fact that one has to become a member of the group means that it's not an open protocol. You have to join the group, there's no indication that membership will be free, and membership rules may change at any time.

I agree that there may be good reasons for this, but the existence of those reasons doesn't make the protocol any more open.
When I bought my house, my grass was a mess of thatch and weeds. My neighbors all thought I was insane letting it grow so tall every year before mowing, and for not hacking it down to the dirt like they do. The first few years I would let it overseed itself. Didn't take long to produce a healthy lawn with minimal effort. Now my neighbors tend to follow my lead on grass height. Their yards are coming in nicely, too.

The key isn't infrequent mowing, it's letting the grass grow tall, especially in the spring, before bringing it down. I mow just as often as others, just not as short. The article nicely lays out the reasons why one would do this.

Nature doesn't need hacking. It needs to be understood. Learn about the root systems of grass, and that stuff on top everyone seems to care about is simple.
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Well, that's what I'm asking. On a modern system, isn't most of the actual rendering being done by the gfx stack? Even lighting, right? So the app code might send out a definition of some polys and textures and the stack takes it from there. Right?
Somewhere in the middle, but leans towards Java.
How about when Russia returned the data recorders after years of refusing to South Korea - made a press spectacle of it - and then South Korea discovered the recorders were empty and missing the data tapes when the press was gone.

Or the US navy crew who received medals after shooting down the Iranian airline.

Once there is loss of life, it is 100% politics afterwards with little to no practicality, just look at all the mass shootings where there were zero changes afterwards. We simply do not value life, it is politics first.
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I can't find information why the design(s) were as they were. The design of Ctrl-Alt-Del was intentionally unintentional.

Gates noted Ctrl-Alt-Del should have been one button, not three [1]. David Bradley, the inventor of the trifecta, did make it deliberately difficult to reboot, however, it was also originally an Easter Egg which made it to production [2].

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/26/4772680/bill-gates-admits-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-Alt-Delete#History
This was neither first, nor highest nuclear explosion in space[0]. There was a good reason they stopped detonating nuclear weapons at high-attitudes.

[0] See Argus III. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_nuclear_explosion
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Sounds about right.

At the risk of exposing my slow transmutation into a hipster programmer, I and a colleague found that mocking in Go was much easier than we anticipated, thanks to the way interfaces work.
Android and ChromeOS are very different operating systems, with different hardware platforms, different ergonomics, different channels, different network connectivity, etc, etc.

Not everything needs to converge unless you have a dogma like "Windows everywhere." When people say sh*t like that the first question should be "Why?"
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> What is the term for unpythonic in the Go community?

stoppy
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You could run something like TAILS in a VM or docker, I guess.
That's exactly what I meant. The piece uses parallel construction as a device to explain the sense of freedom. Uber is the starship of the present, compared to the the car or the taxi, in the same way that a bicycle is the starship of the past, compared to walking. No, it wasn't explicitly stated, but easily inferred that to the younger version of the author, the bicycle is a starship.

In reading the piece, I thought it would break the parallel construction by joining the present back to the past. It didn't. But it didn't explain why those couldn't be connected other than "We aren’t children anymore and things cost money."

I took that line to mean that the author recognized a need to separate the worlds of childhood and adulthood. I didn't like this explanation because bicycles do cost money. Eg, in the jwz link I posted, jwz points out that bicycles will get stolen, so use cheap bikes and don't get attached to it. If the mean time between thefts is 100 trips, then that's about $5/trip, or well below the cost of a car, taxi, and Uber.
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Do you really believe he didn't know what it was being used for? He acknowledged it was using to sniff traffic, if not for credit-cards? What? Account details?

Unless there were logs or talks of them doing it for purely academic/educational purposes, which as we know Gonzalez isn't that "sort" of person, it would be unacceptable to think someone of Watt's intellect wouldn't be able to put 2-and-2 together.

He's been around the scene. He knows the scene. He's been a part of the scene.

I agree in terms of law, this all goes into a very grey and fuzzy area - if he had a better lawyer he may have came out in a different situation. Looking at the recent backlash for hackers, he may be looking at an apology (or even a payout) in the future.
Don't all of these objections equally apply to driving in the city? Well, except hills. The link I gave, however, does point to maps for how to avoid the hills, and a route called "The Wiggle", at http://localwiki.net/sf/The_Wiggle .

I've never lived in SF. I have bike commuted in a city with hills. Low gears, go slow, and your leg muscles quickly build up to it.
Lots of fields are like that. You generally get paid better because of the risk. (I hope he was!)
I have a lot of love for python but when I want to achieve something that is easy in other languages but not available in Python because "thats not Pythonic" for some reason I think Stockholm Syndrome.
Wired used to have fantastic long forms like this, I wonder what happened. Some of my favorites:

Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street
http://archive.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-03/wp_quant?...

The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist
http://archive.wired.com/politics/law/magazine/17-04/ff_diam...

Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine http://archive.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-10/mf...

Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World’s Most Ingenious Thief
http://www.wired.com/2010/03/ff_masterthief_blanchard/all/1
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They use WebGL to render text. The OS, browser and video card can produce different pixel values.

See Pixel Perfect: Fingerprinting Canvas in HTML5 (http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~hovav/papers/ms12.html).
100k at startup (+stock) vs 100k at bigco. Tells me I would make 100k more at bigco. Explain?
I'm all for standard file formats where they serve a purpose, but they don't really fit here. The point of tmuxomatic was to completely break away from the structure imposed by tmuxinator, tmuxp, and fundamentally tmux, and deliver something so simple and automated that tmux becomes almost transparent. Where any user, expert or novice, is able to create complex arrangements of practically any conceivable layout so intuitively that documentation is unnecessary.

However, if you prefer to do your editing in an IDE or graphical editor, a known file format is easier to deal with, and syntax highlighting is nice.

I'll add YAML support in version 1.1.
Yep, amazingly during BETA a major competitor dropped its monthly fee ;).
That doesn't help if (as stated above) there are a lot of duplicate issues. You still have to figure out which test case applies to each report.
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Subscriptions in particular are very well designed. Their documentation is outstanding. I was up and running with a multi-tiered subscription setup in 1 day. The checkout flow is particularly awesome.
One would think after the first two times you'd find a better way to do this, realizing your infrequent but habitual mistake. Why didn't you change any of your practices after the first two screw ups?
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While true, your statement is completely irrelevant, as is that section of the law to which you refer. Local governments simply switched to leasing right-of-way access; cable companies now simply pay for exclusive access to that, instead of exclusive control of a given franchise area.
Yep, still true. We lost one Intel 910 drive (PCIe SSD), and that was very abnormal - died so soon it was almost DOA. We hooked up directly with Intel for them to The replacement is still going strong as is another 910 we have.

All of those 2.5" Intels though, still trucking along! We're looking at some P3700s PCIe NVMe drives now, blog post coming about that.
I want Unicode strings that support

1. Opaque cursors pointing somewhere in the conceptual sequence of code points, with constant-time dereferencing,

2. Ranges, defined by starting and ending cursors, and

3. The ability to move cursors forward or backward by either code points or composed grapheme clusters.

This would be a saner interface than any other I've seen, and it puts very few constraints on the underlying encoding.
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Both of your ideas really good - a 'paper of the day' or some other way of narrowing content so achieve fusion. hacker community is also a great focus, since there is a lot of first-adopters, willingness to use new things etc.

Even more unsolicited advice:
I would NOT assume it will happen naturally - in fact restriction is your best friend. Stackoverflow did not allow people to simply create new communities, it restricted this quite a bit. Even GitHub initially cultivated its roots in the Ruby community, which then spread to adjacent communities.

Likewise many communities delineate borders and delete user content. Stackoverflow likes concrete questions, for instance. Tumblr doesn't allow comments. Limits are your friend.

"Papers for Hackers" has differentiation & a lot more likely to succeed. I think it'd be awesome to cultivate this actively. Perhaps it comes with code examples linked to github etc.
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Maybe it's libudev.so.0 issue.
You can get information about this issue. - http://haroopad.userecho.com/topic/226287-linux-ubuntu-1304-...
I think you're forgetting BizSpark here, which we were in: http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/

IMO, it has one of the best tooling sets of any platform out there (Visual Studio) which saves lots of programmer time and increases productivity. With BizSpark the initial cost argument is out...so how's that not pragmatic?

I'm biased of course, but I think it worked out pretty well.

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Actually, your timing is really fortuitous: Just yesterday, the aforementioned Farbrausch member/NOWHERE developer posted a progress report[1] for the game. Somewhere near the end, he mentions that they had to delay the game's Steam Early Access release to finish a few things, that they had factored the release into this month's revenues, and that they are now borrowing money to pay the rent on their home (the developer and artist are married).

Please check the game out and do consider supporting Paniq (apparently Patreon[2] is the most convenient way to do this). There really could be no better time for a small bit of exposure!

[1] http://blog.duangle.com/2014/07/nowhere-progress-report-its-...

[2] http://www.patreon.com/duangle
I did the same thing but had remotely SSH mounted some of our production servers.

Won't make that mistake again.
Much, much, much the worse is "rm -rf ~ /blue". I don't give a crap about 99% of the stuff outside of $HOME, but of course, the stuff in $HOME is the stuff that's trivial to destroy.
Traditionally applications have asked the user if they're sure they want to quit. That's a no-no these days, but it's still a reasonable choice in situations where the cost of quitting might be high (there's unsaved content, or the app takes a long time to start, or it's impossible to persist the current state of the application).

For some time, the Chrome team refused to implement a 'Sure you want to quit?' popup due to a general anti-popups consensus. They also refused to implement a checkbox to enable that behavior due to a general anti-configuration consensus. They've since relented on the latter.
This is definitely the case. Every writeup from those in the trenches I read and share with coworkers.
This comment by Pat Saison on that page was so funny: "Alibaba and the 40 Thieves. It is even in the name..."
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Wow, didn't realize. That said, it's functionality is very limted, requires an API key, requires people to subscribe to you, and likely has rate limits - none of which are problems if you just pose at the Yo app and use private APIs.
What you suggest will fast become confusing and difficult to follow. It's better to keep layouts in an immediately recognizable form. Also, I've built in a flexible window scaling feature to assist with fine tuning layouts. For example if you create "123", and want to change the "3" into a 2x2 grid, instead of copying lines or retyping the layout, you could just "--scale 1 2x 2x --scale-replace" (assuming window 1), then edit the session file and fill in the details. It also has the ability to down scale. Play around with it and you'll see how helpful it is. Once you get the hang of designing layouts, you may find most general use layouts can be typed up pretty fast.

As mentioned in another comment, there will be support for YAML in version 1.1. I don't know how soon that will be, since I am working on another project right now, but keep an eye on tmuxomatic, it should be soon. Thanks for the feedback!
Why not compared with other browser like chrome etc?
I remember the time I rode an elevator top to the attic of a university building where we found about a ton of mercury and an old radioactive waste storage area. That sent us to the building core of a building next door to sneak into the graduate lab and borrow a Geiger counter.

A few years later they cleaned the area out and moved the Latino studies department in.
> Redis has 2 slaves, SQL has 2 replicas, tag engine has 3 nodes, elastic has 3 nodes - any other service has high availability as well (and exists in both data centers)

Does this mean the 2 Redis slaves, 2 SQL replicates etc. are in a secondary data center?
I like the length of the New Yorker and the accuracy. I often find myself reading a topical article on the internet -- example: the plane that was just shot down-- and I go from one internet post to the next. The same three or four facts and maybe some sketchy analysis, but really everybody rushes to post without doing much research. If there is an article about it in the New Yorker I think I would learn a lot more.
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I never understood the rationale of "you made a mistake, so you're fired". By making a mistake, the employee has increased her value in that she will never make that mistake again. If you're going to replace the employee you have to pay to hire someone even better (to recoup costs of talent hunt, training) and someone who somehow won't make a typo. It just seems like a situation that is strictly worse than keeping the current employee.
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That's great that the drive unit was covered under warranty.. that was Edmunds 4th drive unit in 30,000 miles. Of course, once it hits 50k miles, the warranty period is over, and it's $15000 to replace it.

MotorTrend reported the same problem.. they've already had it replaced twice.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/2312325-tesla-may-have-a-hug...
The most interesting thing about this to me is how similar it is to other long-term road test articles -- IOW, how well Tesla has built a car that conforms to people's conceptions about how cars should operate. That's extraordinarily impressive; to me, it's more impressive than the (admittedly impressive) technology in the cars themselves.

I'm not a fan of the Musk/Tony Stark schtick, or of SpaceX, or the hagiographic treatment he receives from the technical press, but I am a fan of Tesla as a carmaker.
Think about the resource constraints of systems back then.
One car isn't enough to form a true conclusion, but what about 76? [1] This poll is biased in the sense that "0" isn't an option; still, it's an alarming amount of failed drive units. If this is a real problem, it won't scale---they can't keep replacing these things under warranty.

[1] http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/29834-Drive-Un...
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Ctrl-Q typically preserves the session though, so all non-ajax sites will come back as they are, including partially filled forms.
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Whenever I implement a bulk delete feature I tell the user how many records they're about to delete and ask them to type it back in.

If it's possible they're trying to delete data from the wrong place (say, an administrative account that manages many customers) another safeguard is to have them select the name of the context (customer name, etc.) out of a list of four or five nonsense alternatives.

The user experience tends to involve a lot of double takes and rereading, which is precisely what I want.
I do believe these results are an outlier.

I've had my Model S since December 2012 (one of the first production models in the state of Georgia) and have had no major issues with it. I've only ever had proactive maintenance (12v battery system replacement, coolant pump upgrade, and improved sealant on the sunroof), all of which I haven't paid a dime for. They even provided loaner vehicles while they worked on it. I've driven it up and down the East Coast and a 260 mile straight shot from Atlanta to Savannah.

I've heard similar stories from most other owners. It is a tremendously easy car to own, as you barely have to do any work on it. Yes, cases like this will happen. But no different from any other car out there.
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It's not a dream either. There are still plenty of places in central London you can't get decent broadband, never mind the countryside.

It's also relevant to note the background for LLU: the cables were almost all installed by a government owned telco, so there's a clear argument for the infrastructure being owned by the taxpayer. LLU came into existence as government telcos were privatised in the 90s to avoid creating a private monopoly.
That car has been driven 30,000 miles in ONE year.

How would a gas car do with that kind of non-stop driving?
While this is an extremely interesting story, I'm curious how much these blog posts help in generating sales for priceonomics. It's one thing to write blog posts relating to your core product, but this seems way off base. I'm not complaining, though... this story in particular is fascinating, I agree it should be made into a movie :)
mu is more like "you've made a category error" or "the question makes no sense" rather than "technically yes, but you wouldn't want to" - which is what the post you were responding to seemed to be aiming for
I don't know why, but I'm amused by the fact that there's no disclaimer about warranties, express or implied.
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