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That felt a little hostile; maybe I wasn't reading it in the proper voice, or reading the letter writer in the proper voice, but in my head the letter writer seemed to know that GRRM didn't owe him anything, and just wanted some more meat put on those bones of an idea.
How you define "too long" and "too verbose"?
Fair point. Except that for most of the history of the telephone, scams of this kind were prosecuted with immediacy and violence. Somehow they've become just another thing we have to tolerate—but we never tolerated them before. What changed? We've gotten used to spam and malware in the computer age, and the sheer volume and inherit openness of email (for example) makes policing that medium impossible. But the phone companies still have real control over the phone system—it's far less open—and the FCC has responsibility for policing it. You can report scams like this to the FCC, but what's the likelihood they'll follow up? So it's true we've gotten used to being scammed, but it's not true that phone scams are unavoidable.
Florida is closer, but the possible launch sites are not. Still, both those sites and the Texas site are far enough south that, as you say, going further south doesn't buy much.
> Don't update unless you have to?

We just starting hitting a bug in NHibernate where objects are GC'd that shouldn't, and it crashes. It was fixed in a newer version, so we updated. This minor update changed the way a bunch of queries work (optimisations that fail when a certain feature is used), and we've had to roll back. We either have Bug A or Bug B.

> How is abandoned 3rd party code any worse than code you wrote yourself?

I understand code I wrote myself and can easily fix bugs. The lsat thing I want to do when I find a bug in a 3rd party library is spend weeks debugging their code because it's been abandoned. In many cases it's a false economy.

> 3rd party code is almost always a win

I don't think you've worked on enough codebases you didn't write that are years old and had hundreds of dependencies pulled in without any thought; especially in something with no sound type-system like JS :O(

Try upgrading jQuery when you've got 150 jQuery plugins that have been abandoned and/or don't work in the new version of IE :-/
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Will you eventually be able to post the numbers from Android market as well? Just curious.
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This article continuously states that speed limit signs have little to no bearing on how fast people actually drive, and it says Lt. Megge is actually arguing this. If it has no bearing on how fast people drive, and changing speed limits actually doesn't affect the speed of traffic like they say in the article, why are they changing them? Why are they too low right now? Why does the 85th percentile matter at all? If people pay as little attention to speed limit signs as is mentioned in the article, wouldn't changing them have no effect on safety whatsoever - be it lower or higher, better or worse?
You obviously didn't understand the article. It didn't say that speed wasn't dangerous. It said that speed signs only give us the illusion of safety because the majority of people disregard them anyways.
alex here. After getting a question correct, you can submit the same POST request with the same answer, and a very large negative number for the time. I imagine they're just adding your newly calculated score (30?-time) to your session's previous score. A lesson in sanitising inputs!
Maybe so it can use Twitter. See MyToaster - https://twitter.com/mytoaster
Yes you can. And for debian, ubuntu, fedora, RHEL, SLES, CentOS, UCS. Of course all of them in multiple versions and in X86, X86_64, ARM, s390, PPC.

Have a look here

https://build.opensuse.org/project/add_repository_from_defau...

for a (shortened) list of popular distros the OBS supports.
> The moto of Dart is to make the life easier for developers.

The word your looking for is "motto".

> I think that moto doesn't fit Dart at all, I use Dart and I have to make some workarounds that I just shouldn't be doing, but I have to because the language doesn't have the functionality that other languajes already have.

Newer languages that are comparatively young are usually going to have a less complete ecosystem and its a tradeoff between this and the unique features/approach they offer initially as the ecosystem matures.

> In this case, I would be easy for them to add JSON serialization to objects, you know, but they didn't, why?

Perhaps because they would have had to not do something else to get Dart released on the same timeline to do it. Lots of things are easy considered in isolation, but there are always opportunity costs, especially if you try to do every easy thing before you release anything.
OK, it was a selective quote and there was no refusal. Ubuntu developers just want to fix first all the bugs that matter for Ubuntu users (which is as distant now as 5 years ago, in practice it's the same as refusal).

So there is a contrast. Ubuntu devs haven't made what would be a nice gesture toward their upstream distro. OTOH SUSE provides resources for building packages for several unrelated distros.
Yeah, I agree. The title is total linkbait. It's like "5 Python Features You Must Use Now" or something.
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Thanks. How about producing memory B cells from the patient's own stem cells, and genetically altering them to produce the correct antibody?
Well depends what you're looking for in suggestions.

If you're looking for something somewhat reminiscent of ASOIAF (huge worldbuilding, multiple complex storylines, etc…) I suggest Malazan Book of the Fallen (though it's by no means an ASOIAF copy). I enjoyed it (though I found it could have done with tighter edition and IIRC book 8 was a bit long in the tooth).
My guess would be: "Ok, let's pick something totally insane as an example so people won't just copy & paste it and do proper testing instead".
"Its pretty much the same as "Perl hate", why do we hate Perl? No reason at all, other then being cool means hating Perl!"

Ummm, no. Believe me, having worked in a PERL shop for nearly 10 years, I was ecstatic to start working in Java (!). And I have zero regrets. It's nothing to do with being "cool" or any other pointless patronising insults to other developers. It's that badly written PERL is the worst excrement ever to have been smeared on a computer screen. Yes it can be clean, clear and readable, but only in the hands of an experienced expert (using "modern PERL", which only started to exist ~6-8 years ago) backed by stringent code review and consistent team practice. Without the infrastructure in place, you end up with reams of unmaintainable, slow, buggy, eye bleed code. I've seen plenty of PERL from plenty of projects and plenty of different developers in different institutions and companies and the vast, vast majority is crap.

The last bit of code I had to rewrite (5 years effort by a weak PERL coder, replaced in 3 months in Java, maintained by someone with no previous Java experience quite happily) would have made you cry. I have never seen anything like it in any language (note, I don't work with PHP either), and I don't believe such a steaming mess would be possible in any other modern programming language, let alone from someone who had been a professional programmer for 10 years.

To me, your attitude is the problem the PERL community has. The language deserved the bad reputation. Until modern PERL appeared, it was almost impossible for a beginner to produce anything like good code. It is possible now (I have seen beautiful clean PERL), but instead of trying to educate and bring people back to the fold, the community has a massive chip on its shoulder, refuses to admit the problems PERL has (still), or that it ever had any, and proceed to insult everyone else. If PERL hadn't learnt from the trends in other languages (esp a decent OO system, Moose), it would be literally dead by now.
Have you tried to follow the simple video tutorial?

http://vimeo.com/30550722
Very cool. When I compare free http://circular.io/ to any product like this though, free always wins.
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Cops would spend less time issuing useless tickets and concentrate on the real speeders.

A driver looking out for cops is a distracted driver. You shouldn't be worried if you are following traffic and going at a reasonable speed. That's not the case at the moment.
You are absolutely right, the Inbox is Stacker's most used feature. We find users coming back multiple times a day to respond to incoming requests from their fans and followers.

We would be super happy if Google+ opened up their API. Its a great network, just needs to become more open!
Price is $192; link to buy is here https://developer.nvidia.com/jetson-tk1

Would be a great device for computer vision tasks. But it's not cheap enough to displace the Raspberry Pi on one hand, and it is unlikely in general to displace Gallileo and other trimmed PCs on the other. (Yes, it is significantly more bang for the buck - but until the ecosystem catches up, it's much less useful)
I think that even with free software authors, it's easy to act entitled to their work. (Undervaluing people's work is one of the world's great issues...)
Expectation is a fascinating thing.

Gaiman is essentially describing the dichotomy in expectation between products and consultancy.

This is particularly complicated in fandom, because creators often say (and legitimately mean) that a body of work exists because of (the encouragement of) their fans. That's true, but it doesn't mean that what they're creating isn't a product first, and not bespoke work on the authority of and responsible to fans.

Apple has fans too, but took basically no heed of complaints that the Mac Pro hadn't been updated in years.
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The reason for a rewrite is beyond the scope of Dart supporting sane serialisation. There are many reasons; but here is not an appropriate place to detail them.
> So you have the choice of abandoning the ORM in performance-sensitive paths and inserting raw SQL (making the code ugly) or living with poor performance.

Most people ask themselves the same question and don't care much about performance. I'm glad you choose performance over code aesthetic. Code aesthetic should only come second to how the system performs.
As for the ORM, it has it's downfalls. I've never heard of the N+1 query problem in the plain SQL world. It's a problem brought forth by ORM, because it's just stupid to even think about N+1 when you're trying to accomplish as much as you can in 1 query.
I did; but it makes no sense. That's like saying "Why does Dart even both having classes"?.

If you're writing a client application, you probably have data structures. Some of those data structures you need to send to the server (or receive). When you write code that interacts with those structures, you want code-completion; static analysis, etc.; that's kinda the point of Dart's typing!
Simpler trajectories such as basic orbits could once be calculated by hand, at least if you were Richard Feynman [1]:

>"The process of orbit determination is fairly taken for granted today. During the effort to launch America's first artificial Earth satellites, the JPL craft Explorers 1 and 2, a room-sized IBM computer was employed to figure a new satellite's trajectory using Doppler data acquired from Cape Canaveral and a few other tracking sites. The late Caltech physics professor Richard Feynman was asked to come to the Lab and assist with difficulties encountered in processing the data. He accomplished all of the calculations by hand, revealing the fact that Explorer 2 had failed to achieve orbit and had come down in the Atlantic ocean. The IBM mainframe was eventually coaxed to reach the same result, hours after Professor Feynman had departed for the weekend."

For more complicated paths such as the Rosetta mission, my understanding is that since the 3 body problem remains unsolved for general initial conditions, a numerical solution has to be derived. This numerical solution, at least until recently, seems to have required some fine tuning and intelligent guessing of initial mission parameters [2]:

> “It took only two days of computing time on an ordinary desktop computer and no other user input to reproduce the Cassini mission configuration — a trajectory that originally took extremely talented designers many months to develop.”

Since this mission launched before the development of the software in the above reference, it's likely that a team of experienced engineers spent some time fine tuning it from an initial guess.

[1] http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/bsf13-1.php

[2] http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-technologist-makes-...
Neal Stephenson books that had lots to chew on are his Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World) and Anathem.
Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen is a monstrous 10 book (finished) series with a huge, ancient, complex universe, a great mythos and some epic plotting. Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber is pretty dark and very well written. That's all I've got for darkdark fantasy. I can recommend everything Gaiman has written though you'd be better off starting with the Sandman, his best work.
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Please use ctrl-f to skip to this part of the article:

"So if drivers disregard speed limits, why bother trying to set the “right” speed limit at all?"

Then let us know what you think.
"for business networking purposes"

Why not online matchmaking / dating? Not being in that market I have no idea if this already exists, if not it sounds like a great idea for a startup. Or if it already crashed and burned that would be interesting to hear about.

So ... guys ... I have this unattached sister in law, kinda athletic, professionally employed, owns her own house, she is about as much of a PITA as her sister, aka my wife, so if I can put up with my wife you should be able to tolerate her little sister ...

From historical experience my attempts setting up blind dates between my SiL and guys I know, have all gotten shot down by my wife, aka her sister, with what summarizes to "WTF were you thinking". Assuming a similarity between matchmaking and business relationships, this might indicate issues with peer to peer connection building. At least a meta-moderation facility is likely needed.

Also if A sets up a hot date or business lunch between mutual friends B and C I could conceivably lose both B and C as friends if they hate each other. So in a game theory perspective the guy who does the least matchmaking comes out furthest ahead, right? But the purpose of the site was to do matchmaking, at least in theory and in PR. Although the real purpose would be to sell subscriptions and ads. I think I'm seeing another problem here.
>The US actually has one of the highest corporate income taxes in the developed world.

The highest, but that isn't the whole story. There are so many deductions and loopholes that companies end up paying far less than that rate.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/business/economy/03rates.h...
I'm not entirely surprised. Protobuf requires native code, and not many developers care about Windows. It's likely not going to take a lot of work to fix it. But yeah, small, immature language (and not a million miles away from the experience in vanilla JS - I've encountered plenty of e.g. grunt plugins that don't work on Windows either. Even in Ruby there are things that break).

I think you're expecting too much from Dart. If you want a rock-solid corporate language, it's not there yet; nor is any language of comparable age. You're going to have to get your hands dirty now and again.
Heh, the ticking clock makes it feel like that scene from the movie "Swordfish".

(Also I found the advanced questions much easier than the beginner ones.)
About a decade ago, there was a meme where people opened up livejournal blogs for various space objects. The most popular were the Spirit (spiritrover.livejournal.com) and Opportunity (opportunitygrrl.livejournal.com) rovers, but there were several other fun ones such as the GOES weather satellites (goes-sat.livejournal.com) and Mars 3 (mars3.livejournal.com).

I had a couple of friends who were running some, and they convinced me to open one up myself. I went digging deep for something a little out of the way and found Rosetta. I made a few fun posts for it (her) before setting the blog aside as more mundane priorities took my attention. The posts were a mixture of information about her background and such as well as long forward thinking to the day ten years hence when she'd be ready to do her job. And now, here she is, about to go to it!

It is interesting looking back on some of the spacer journals still archived out there. Fun times.
Founder of Scan, Inc. here (http://scan.me)

We've got 80 million+ installs of our app and it has been in the top 250 paid apps for the last half a year or so. We see millions and millions of scan events every month.
Compatriots?

If you mean the Swedes, they should be OK (except for the grief they create themselves). Sweden is probably not on Putin's top 10 list... :-) :-(

Or do you mean Emacs/Perl/JavaScript guys? :-)
Boy that title just screams quality coder. :|
Yep, however Dart was announced (and started getting feedback) 1020 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3092558
Maybe that was the meta game.
> Does anyone have any suggestions other than browsing Amazon or strolling through a Barnes and Noble?

As far as approaches: talk to people you know, understand their reading tastes, and get recommendations from them?

As far as specific reading suggestions for someone who I know nothing about other than that they like ASOIAF, maybe (though its very different) S.M. Stirling's novels of the Change (Dies the Fire and sequels.)
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Keep a running tally of time spent stringifying. If it passes 1000 msec over the entire life of the program, disable the feature.

As for length, maybe 100 chars? I think that's around what repr() often uses.
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tl;dr GRRM is not your bitch. Remember that.
I think part of this is the contract that exists would be between Martin and the publisher. They're the ones that would need to get the finished product from GRRM.

But what about kickstarter projects? If I'm now the one funding or partially funding does the artist then, in Neil Gaiman's words, "become my bitch"?

What the difference in expectations when you're a consumer of a product (GRRM to me) or a funder of a product (kickstarter to me)?
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There's an Afterdark joke in here somewhere, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
Interestingly, the nutrients which are typically deficient in vegan diets, are not typically deficient in vegetarian diets. Almost any animal protein source, like eggs, trivially resolves almost every nutritional deficiency in the vegan diet -- and at surprisingly small quantities. Often animal protein sources are not well understood as being part of traditional vegetarian diets as well - e.g. the Jain diet.
Later you will also get things like 'Not for use in your region' as a part of handshake and a heap of materials, that cannot be powered on.

Me, cynical? Nooo....
I really have never heard about a Tony Zhou. It would be great if the title could say anything about what to expect in the videos.
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Ironic, the entitlement he feels about having an adapter on his AA flight before complaining about entitlement issues from his/GRRM's audience... or was that the point?
I think 99.9999% experienced python devs do this.

Why can't PSF make it default?

At least some kind of commandline switch to break to last traceback context by default. e.g.

python --debug my_code.py
I don't think MS do easter egss anymore.

Wait, here's a post about why the OS division doesn't do easter eggs: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/10/21/483...
Dune - all the political intrigue and war between houses that makes ASOIAF so great, plus really interesting ecological and technology ideas (desert world where water is very expensive), minus all the horrific violence.
I tried to write something somewhat balanced, with respect to engineering a feature while leaning quite heavily on MongoDB. It has worked out quite well for us, and we continue to see relevant updates to the MongoDB product that remove some of the hoop jumping, which is encouraging.
Stacker has a very well featured Free-for-Life plan (everything that Circular offers and more)!

We love Circular, but it only posts to Twitter. Stacker posts to Facebook (Profiles/Pages/Groups), Twitter, LinkedIn (Profiles/Pages/Groups) and we are in the process of adding in many more networks.

With Stacker you also get a Universal Inbox that displays and lets you Like/Favorite/Reply-to incoming messages from across all your Social Media accounts in one place.
If I promise to produce a piece of work in a time frame and then didn't produce that work in that time frame then I would expect to take some shit.
Wow, how is that divided between Android and iOS?
Most of the discussion in the comments here have been about whether it is better to protect children or allow adults freedom. Yawn! The best comments here are those from jzwinck, termain, and rfatnabayeff, which provide possible technical fixes to the problem. I would have much more respect for Zen Magnets if they took a good product with a problem, and made it better by hacking around the problem, rather than just fighting "the good fight".
Given its power requirements and lack of anything wireless, I have a hard time buying the IoT moniker. I could see people using this as the guts of a MAME cabinet or an extra-beefy XBMC client, although a $35 raspberry pi would probably suffice just fine for both tasks.

I wonder if you could underclock the K1 enough to go fanless. Though given that the SoC is soldered directly to the board and is probably impossible to find a replacement anyway, messing it up basically makes the entire $200 board worthless. Kinda risky just to reduce noise and/or eliminate moving parts.
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Just a guess, Helvetica Neue is the new system font of Yosemite.
I have been nearly sidelined twice by underestimating C# and MVVM (which is what Xamarin forms uses).

If you think that C# is just MS version of java then please take a deep look at it again. The only big thing that I can think of adding to it would be pattern matching - it has pretty much everything else, even monads for threads (async await) which is crazy awesome.
Personally, I'm not a "strolling through a Barnes and Noble" reader, but a "been hearing about it for years" reader. Think about the books you've heard people talk about, mention, or quote and then read those. They're usually talked about so much for a reason. You've heard of Hitchhikers Guide, you've heard of Sherlock Holmes, you've heard of Lord of the Rings. Have you read all of them?