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First, XCode's build system can at times, not always, deliver total interference in platform portability. You are using a tool designed to lock-in to the platform. There is little use for XCodes' huge taxonomy, but for XCode.

Second, you don't have to worry; you can quite easily port and maintain a cross-platform solution if you treat Xcode as the third-class tool it is: xcodebuild, and its all you need. Use it to build, only. So, for example, a C++ app which carries along its own well maintained source code, can quite easily be 'plugged in' to an XCode app and delivered on the platform. Fortunately, their fancy features are easily glommed .. at least, for now.

Anyway .. The Issue, of course, is API and Framework usage. If you avoid the tweaking of things by Apple, and use known standards bravely (i.e. avoid their candy, "use GL for everything"), you can treat Apples' platforms as a build target, and it works. Take for example: games, game engines, etc.

But of course, if you take the Apple Way (tm) and get the hooks into you about their IDE, delivering Apple-only/-specific style Apps with their GUi-based development .. and face it, its quite comfortable right now to just do "Apple-mostly" development .. thats a different story.

Xcode requires a bit of push and shove, to maintain different build products. Use it (Xcode, specifically, I mean) only to configure the Build product - which after all, is not a bad thing to also do manually alongside the automated build-server directives ..
There's at least one other well known agency that focuses on cyber security.

The uniformed forces might have hackers, sure. The Coast Guard has heavy machine guns, but the US doesn't rely on them for naval defence - it's also got a whole other force (the Navy) which can do the heavy lifting.

If the Army doesn't have hackers to win cyber wars, it has hackers because it's a huge organisation that needs internal cyber security expertise.
First alternative: take photo of receipt using phone's default camera app, e-mail photo to yourself putting tags in subject line, file in "Receipts" folder of your e-mail app on PC. No need for this or any other app you don't already have, and no risk of exposing your info to third party (any more than you already do with e-mail).

Second alternative: throw receipt away and record info in Quicken/Quickbooks/etc. when you get your monthly statement. Assumes you can remember details at that time and that you use credit card for all but insignificant expenses. You could also save receipt just long enough to enter details as above ahead of your statement.
People in India hate their Neighbourhood due to http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/opinion/sunday/caste-is-no... and http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-is-india-...
If he's going to do that, how about everyone here who's a Google employee mention that, too?

It shouldn't matter?

Well, then it shouldn't matter for d2p, either. Let's argue facts, not personalities.
Ask HN: If FB/Tumblr were developed today, what programming lang should be used?
If Facebook and/or Tumblr were to be developed today for the first time (both predominantly PHP/HHVM), what language should be chosen and why (and if it's a framework, which)?

Python seems to be the go to response, but given the recent performance increases and reduced memory usage of Hack/HHVM - I'm not certain Python is such a clear cut answer.

Then theirs frameworks like Rails, but having a long running process scale to the concurrency levels of FB - doesn't seem practical.

Node.js?

What about languages like Lua/LuaJIT/OpenResty, or Erlang Web?
Could you elaborate on what "the way" means? After all, there are such unions now, like the International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers. IAM represents employees at, among others, KSC. Eg, they voted to strike at KSC back in 2007. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06...

Ariane also has to deal with unions. You can see direct evidence at http://www.space.com/13037-ariane-5-launch-postponed-labor-s... .

(I mention these because strikes are easily reported in the news. Behind the scenes of course many of the engineers who built Ariane and the Shuttle are union labor, but that fact doesn't have the conflict that brings in readers.)

Since I don't see how union labor implies what you think it does, could you clarify?
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Thanks. And yes, we are Taiwanese. We'll be more careful.
The same reason the Army has mechanics to fix their tanks, not some "US Tank Repair Agency".

Also, if you were an officer, how willing would you be to trust a hacker from another agency, if you didn't have someone you trusted to vet their advice?

There'd also be concerns about red tape. If a low ranking officer isn't sure about something, can they put in a tech support ticket to a three letter agency?
I mean it's a hole and a spout. I don't really see any other easy way to pour something into a container that has a small opening.
I am happily using Scanbot [1] with direct Evernote and Dropbox integration. Why should I use your service over that? Try to sell it to me :)

[1] https://scanbot.io/en/
Not a question, just a comment that this kinda reminds me of WUPHF.
Also, how come this hasn't been done earlier, or am I just missing out?
I guess someone copied and pasted from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowshardware/Toaster-7d256...
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Yes, but think about one specific person who found out she has it. Prognosis - 60% that you'll die if you don't try the drug. With such drugs there are just not enough statistics to come up with odds so early. So do you take it?
Seriously, though, this looks a LOT better than the other services that provide this. They're often based on "acceleration" and direction of the cursor. So, I usually set them off just while going to click on a link. If this really only goes off when the person takes their mouse off the screen, bravo. I also noticed in a comment on here that it only goes off once per user per site: again, the competition have (at least it seems to me in memory) hit me with their "don't leave us" screen multiple times on the same visit.

Summary: this has 2 superior functions their competitors don't have.
My words. No imprimt, no contact, nothing. It's hard to build trust, but it's not hard to not build it.
It's more likely that whoever wrote the driver and used the default package didn't even notice the icon - after all, it's a keyboard driver - it should just work when it's plugged in.
Not really; that comment is incorrect. For example, in C# there's a JavaScriptSerializer.Deserialize<T>(string) method that does just this.
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I've been to a small (physical) business where the receipts are only emailed. They ask you at the end "would you like the receipt emailed to you?" There's no printer.

Of course that also means you have to annoyingly enter your email address. They just hand you the "register" to type your email address. The "register" is an iPad.
A simple preview video just added to the website. It demonstrates how to collect texts from other apps.
Protobuf is static enough. And the claim that everything will be broken or abandoned in 6 months is rather chicken-and-egg; at the moment Dart is a young, relatively obscure language, it doesn't have a mature, reliable library ecosystem. But the only way it's going to get there is if people start using it, using its libraries, writing their own libraries, and figuring out what works and what doesn't.

> Doesn't it seem strange that a Google-designed language for the future of the web (that's supposed to make development faster and easier) doesn't handle this (basic) requirement easily?

I don't think it's fair to call this a basic requirement. Scala is a 10-year-old language and the state of JSON serialization is still a mess (it's taken the recent macro system to put us anywhere close to sorting it out). Converting between typed and untyped at the boundaries like this is a hard problem, not entirely solved in any language (Java has basically given up and just used reflection and annotations, which is an answer, but not a very pleasant one). I think Dart is entirely right to take it slowly and make it a matter for third-party libraries rather than a core language feature.
Personally I agree with your statement, there is a lot about the build structure that can just be held standardly on already-working systems .. its nice to have for example, the known debian/ tree structures, etc. 'make dirs'/&etc.

Seems, though, that we humans are infinitely packaging things, at least in the OS space. There are a nearly insurmountable number of ways of setting something up so the computer can execute something for us. Tree-structures, package formats, .desktop files, and all of these things .. its an infinite taxonomy.

Personally, I yearn for a very smart OS which boots straight to console, and yet then implements everything - everything, desktop, games, etc. - in a single language context. In a lab full of beagleboards and arduinos and so on, the desire is to reduce the language-load on the smaller machines. I think that a single-language, wide-open, for these platforms would make for a new OS opportunity.

Not much of a jump from booting a working kernel+load81 "./main.lua" to a new directory structure to follow. :)
Every USB toaster I've had has been too slow to be practical, so I always switched back to a conventional toaster eventually. Maybe when USB 3.0 toasters start coming down in price I'll give them another shot.
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I use the sent emails sent feature if an "oh shit, something went wrong" moment happens as i develop.

Regarding your question: why would people not simply email a /dev/null email address and achieve precisely the same effect?

That is a hacker way to solve the problem.
Before receiptapp, I kept track of my own documents via gmail.
Setup a filter for myusername+document@gmail.com to tag and auto archive it.

It worked okay but didn't feel quite right.

The end result I'm trying to achieve is:
A place as reliable and simple as your shoebox at home.

For some reason, sent email doesn't feel right in that regard.
The docs reorg you mentioned happened Christmas of last year and most people are really really really happy with it now. We haven't done a major reorg sense or needed to, but the company was only a year old at that time, and it got to the point it needed to be done. Definitely took a while to appreciate all the different learning styles of people using the docs to find something that works for everyone and took some wrangling with Sphinx too!

I don't think it's fair to say we declined community help because one of the most amazing things we have in docs - the module docs generator that builds half the website, is a community addition. There were also various attempts to build Angular JS versions that looked crazy awesome, but the search engine problem wasn't solved at the time, so we were unable to use them.

I'm not sure why people don't like the template, but it's a common feature in Bugzilla - frankly, we spent so much % of our time asking what Ansible version was, this allowed us to service everyone's GitHub a LOT faster, and gives us the ability to work through everything so much faster and ensure better quality.

The bug template is important. As for lag in GitHub response, there's a priority system for tagging tickets, where we hit P2 items first, and then some others. Ultimately, we're devoted to stability and hitting the biggest things first, and have to avoid "hey look, a squirrel" syndrome. Part of the cost of having one of the most contributed to projects in GitHub in terms of users is does take a while to review everything and we spend a lot of time on triage.
I think we can all rest easy knowing that the ultra wealthy are safe.
I'll bite your bullet. I think people who are Google employees should be declaring that.
I misspelled it. (not a native english speaker) thanks for noticing!
Fibonacci grid spheres look really cool. But...

The surface geometry is not very important in this task. You can easily push out a million triangles or more, so you're going to get a pretty round shape in the end, no matter which primitive you take as a starting point.

The hard part is texturing and area distortions. Ideally you wouldn't have texture boundaries crossing the triangle boundaries. Since textures are rectangular, using the "cube sphere" is a very popular choice for planet rendering.

Things get more difficult if you have to use real-life imagery (satellite images and aerial photography), because then you're going to have to stitch several layers of textures on top of each other. There are texture splatting techniques and other tricks that need to be done to get proper texturing on the planet.
Imagine if you could only fill up your current vehicle at certain gas stations. If EVs don't come to a standard charger they will be severely hindering that market. There are a ton of obstacles why not put one more out there for arbitrary reasons.
> Prepared statements, by contrast, are also a form of string concatenation. And they have some understanding of type and syntax, but only because they learn them from the server:

Prepared statements are NOT string concatenation. The server parses the SQL, creates what internal representation it does, and then uses the parameters more as arguments to that executable statement than checks them and sticks them in. At no point does a SQL statement exist with the parameters and SQL.
Thanks for the clarification. I thought it was a typo for bucket.
I think this is a cool idea and maybe even something I'd use, but the landing page has what I find typical, cliche, sluggish load-on-scroll animations at the moment.
The stupidity of the question is causing me to have neural pathway executions that are akin to an electoral storm.

Actually thinking you could rewrite 1mil loc and end up with something useful is fallacy enough but choosing an experimental language and then complaining about it?
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What I think might be more interesting for Mr. Kim is a hybrid model. He could start shedding medallions, and only use them for the airports or potentially a downtown core.

The rest of his dispatched traffic could be in vehicles without a medallion. If most of the rides don't require the medallion, he could shed a significant cost. It sounds like with 204 of 2000 medallions, his decisions could personally have a fairly large effect on the marginal cost of the medallion (so he is paying less per medallion and for fewer medallions overall).
I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm being a dick; but I'm incredibly frustrated to have poured so much effort into trying to make Dart a viable option for a rewrite where I work (I've even been working on a Visual Studio extension since all the devs here are primitively .NET devs).

To find something so fundamental missing with no reasonable solution (and no information from the Dart team) is frustrating; it's not going to make selling Dart to my colleagues any easier.
It does do something:

> in Dart ... Decoding JSON will get you Maps and Lists
Great tool. Simply Awesome.
I wonder how long it'll take before we have actual USB toasters and grills...
How are you building your AMIs?

We're using Ansible and building the AMIs on a dedicated ec2 instance (started for a build and shut down afterwards). The AMIs are fully baked and environment information is configured via user_data in the launch configuration.

We use SSH to communicate with the build instance as a result, but I'd rather spend time during the build than during start-up of a new instance.
In the UK we have (only a recent thing, so afaik it's not massively common yet) "average speed" cameras - they take a photo of you at two points along a road, and calculate your average speed by how long it took you to get from A to B, then ticket you for speeding if it was too quick. That prevents people from just slowing down when there's a camera coming up.
shhhhhhh... you are giving away my secrets.
The cool kids have a new fad so you're not cool unless you dump puppet. No technical reason at all as near as I can see. Its pretty much the same as "Perl hate", why do we hate Perl? No reason at all, other then being cool means hating Perl! Very middle school social dynamic.

My puppet manifests is 16K. My modules is larger but I've got some large files stuck in there (long story)

There are meta questions like:

What are you doing with 15000 lines of puppet? I have a couple thousand and feel a bit over extended, like why am I doing this.

How are you replacing ten lines of puppet with 1 line of alternative when all I'm seeing in the examples is replacing 3 lines of

group { "logusers":

ensure => "present",

}

with

- name: Ensure groups exist

group: name={{ item.key }} gid={{ item.value.id }}

with_dict: users

Like, where is the big win where those 3 lines of puppet are being turned into 0.3 lines of Ansible?

There is also the question of why I'd configure individual groups on individual machines instead of just tossing it in the LDAP once, probably by hand. Or distributing a system wide /etc/groups much as I used to share a division wide emergency /etc/hosts (like, this is the minimum /etc/hosts required to conveniently fix DNS if DNS breaks).

(edited to add actual numbers. I have ldap and getent group | wc -l reports 76 groups. I could replace that with 76 groups * 3 lines per group plus a blank line between entries = 304 lines of hand maintained code. But in 3 lines I could distribute a golden /etc/group to all machines. Or in a few more lines I could make all my machines use LDAP and get passwd and some other stuff centrally controlled for free (and yes I use ldap for passwd and no I use kerberos for auth, so passwd just holds home dirs and stuff like that). So I could write hundreds of lines of puppet to get out of editing one golden group file or get out of running ldap, but the alternatives are so much easier...)

There exists a meta question of allocation of resources. You can do "everything sysadmin" in puppet. Or make a universal does it all gold image that is well backed up and enables or disables parts of itself based on role and never automate its configuration at all, just spin up images and give them "special" hostnames and they sort themselves out. Or not automate trivial parts. Or place some weirder config stuff in a shell script technically not part of puppet other than being distributed, run, and tested for error free operation. Or a mix across all. So I could see a "gentoo-like" start with an official distro image and use nothing but puppet to do everything taking 15000 lines of code, maybe. But that sounds hard... do it a different way, no need for different tools.
To be honest, the standard for a gasoline nozzle is pretty easy. The hole needs to be bigger than the hose, that's it. There are a lot more variables with an electric plug.

The standard for the actual fuel composition must certainly be the harder part when considering a classic ICE.
The middle two lines never happen.
NoteBox or Draft,Which one do you like?
There is quite a bit of variation possible in hole diameter, and spout length.
I took a Machine Learning course this past winter and this article in particular would have been really helpful since I struggled most with this concept in particular (and gradient descent in general). While most resources show you the mechanics of neural networks, none I found were very good at explaining (to me) the purpose and meaning behind them. Sure, I could follow along and eventually figure out how to write my own neural network, and I did, but I honestly never completely understood what was going on. The problem with most ML texts/resources for people like me without a strong math background is that a lot of high-level math is presented without an explanation of what mathematical concepts are being used. I admit that the onus is on me, the math dummy, to go out and learn the concepts involved, but it's difficult to look at a confusing algorithm chock full of unfamiliar concepts and know where to start. This article explains things nicely and I hope to see more like this in ML.
One needs a way to override the deserialization though, as often the correspondence between that JSON map and the fields on Person is not exactly one to one - starting with something as simple as having camelCase in your Dart code and underscores in your JSON. Of course, it's not that hard to build such a library and it's fairly useful too.
Why not create yourself a code generator, which analyses the class and generates code to perform the manual map<->object transfer?
A very astute observation.
That's strange. In Europe you may request a card without magnetic strip (chip only). And, once chip is present even on a card with a strip, PIN entry is mandatory.
This may be easier in C# than in Dart because in C#, you have type declarations for all the members. In Dart, type declarations are optional. (And, IIRC, not supposed to change the behavior of the program, except for type-checks performed while running in "development" mode; even these are disabled in "production".)
A safe travelling distance can also be enforced in an automated fashion.
That's a very selective quote. You failed to quote the very next sentence: "But we can see the benefits of encouraging developers to factor both Ubuntu and Debian into their packaging efforts, so we're open to that."

> This is in contrast with Canonical refusing to build packages for Debian...

False, as demonstrated by reading the full quote. There is no refusal there, just resource allocation in sorting out the infrastructure.
I'll just mention that although many mAbs have been tremendously successful in controlling various diseases (and being a staple of many lymphoma treatments used currently) there are indeed very good reasons for caution, see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGN1412#Clinical_trials

In this case this was a phase I trial. For those unfamiliar with trial design, phase I is not meant to assess the efficacy of the drug but just its safety in humans. It was provided at 1/500th of the maximum safe dose determined in macaques.
I don't have much to say, but your idea is something I also thought about a year ago when it comes to managing social media accounts and being able to publish posts simultaneously all on one platform. I'm happy to see that somebody also had the same train of thought and made it a reality.

A couple of questions;

1. Is there a desktop platform?
2. Any Add-on for Chrome?

Great work by the way.
Most of the midwest looks like that - even in Colorado. Here's a streetview I randomly grabbed just outside Ft. Collins: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fort+Collins,+CO/@40.33618...
Really helpful blog, really good to see some numbers!

Just wondered what are your next plans for the app? Android?
They don't know that the patients will die. There is a survival rate of somewhere between 10-50%. The patient will likely die if you do nothing, but it isn't a certainty.

That said, I don't think there was anything wrong with giving it a go when they have pretty poor odds.
Is the statistic NYC posts a lie? For a few years they've had signs up claiming that 80% of pedestrians hit at 30 mph survive, while 75% of pedestrians hit at 40 mph were killed.

That seemed like a pretty good reason to have lower speed limits in pedestrian areas to me.
This would never happen if they implemented toast-driven development.
Imagine if there had been a negative outcome. Like they went into a vegetative state.

News at 6: "Poor Black People In Third World Country Maimed by Being Used As Guinea Pigs for American Pharmaceutical Company."
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