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$20 to rent the Amazing Spiderman 2? Are you fucking daft? It's not worth $20 for the blu-ray or god forbid a DRM free download.

What a farce.
That's interesting... is the latin alphabet your native script?
You mean kind of like the public pneumatic tube transport in futurama?
I was surprised to see this today as I want to use slides!

I am actually a fan of the simple, anti-powerpoint editor - that is why I use slides.

I hope you keep the old edited as an option so there is still the easy way to make WOW slides!
Mind telling us why this is so important !
I have failed to adopt it as well, and am still using Vagrant, but as my desktop is Linux, vagrant is a little bit of overkill.

The primary stopper for me is run vs start I think - and persistence of the most recent change I made in an environment.
That is true-the lead-crime link seems compelling. But I've been browsing a fair amount on the subject, and the lead-IQ link is always quite heavily featured.

Some studies claim differences of 5 IQ points between children with blood lead levels between 5 and 10 micrograms per deciliter. Since blood lead levels are far lower than 5 for the majority of children nowadays, and much lower than they were when we were kids, these IQ differences should be clearly apparent between generations.
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): Nothing sadder than profiting off death.
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It's probably only available "to own", not to rent.
Crawling is the new API – a legal and tech rough guide for the travel industry
The problem with ENV is that you can't change server IP on the fly, you have to restart the web server to apply new ENV
They didn't, I just brainfarted. You know, http://vt100.net/dec/alpha_era_logo_small.png and all that.
Opera's data compression app can save you some Vietnamese dong
I was always baffled by the notion of "internal network". Why do so many admins think that it is secure, that the device on it should be trusted more than some random PC on the Internet?

Usually there are PCs and mobile platforms on it, handled by more or less naive users... many of them could be / are turned into unsuspecting adversary to attacks.

One should always treat internal devices as potentially compromised.
Really good talk. In today's modern web apps the most common types of performance bugs tend to be either external http requests (buried inside of APIs that often times you're not even aware of the multiple round-trips), or inefficient DB queries (mostly thanks to abstractions by ORM's). There are exceptions, but in most typical modern web apps performance bugs live in i/o and network calls, not in native code.
This device in its usefulness reminds me the squid gun of the infamous Vector superhero from Despicable Me. Normal people build cascades around dams for salmon. Once built these require zero maintenance.
I feel like this was the highlight;
http://gfycat.com/SophisticatedFarawayEthiopianwolf
The old editor will be around for a long time since old presentations can't be opened in the new editor. To create new decks with the old editor, append ?version=1 to the URL: /username/new?version=1
There's Nothing Selfish About Suicide
Appreciate that you posted without self-promoting, but I'm curious: what's your bootstrapped project?
Insanity. Even the author thinks so, by the tid bits at the end of the piece.
I saw a talk at a conference last week (BSidesLV) focusing on the technical problems with educational technology. BSidesLV is a security conference, so the talk was mostly focused on the privacy and security of student data, but the message was clear: educational technology is (in general) poorly funded, poorly secured, and, in many cases, poorly developed.

It's exciting to see Google Classroom going out into the wild, because (given Google's track record), it will probably be none of those things.
I've watched all the videos and I still can't understand how that thing can possibly work. They say it creates vacuum and transports things using atmospheric pressure, but both ends of the tube are open! What vacuum are they talking about? Is there a pump at one end sucking air? Am I looking at an elaborate prank?
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For the bears this company will supply intrastomach vacuum feeder, once supplied from the salmon cannon, it will fire every fourth salmon directly into bear's guts.
Things seem to be more expensive than amazon, and then of course even more account fuckery from Google:

> Purchases are not available
>
> Channels linked with a Google+ page, such as codemac, can't make purchases on YouTube.
>
> To watch this video, you'll need to switch to your codemac@gmail.com account.

I'm not even sure what that means.
Um, I don't think my GCC was that old, it was for an Android tablet from about two years ago - GCC 4.3 or 4.4 if memory serves me correctly. But yes, it was definately a failure to optimise that was causing the problem. To be honest, I generated my "hand-written" assembly by taken the output of gcc compiling intrinsic-based code, and then removing all of the dumb, unnecessary shuffles to main memory by better use of the registers... That said, there were clearly bugs in the compiler - you could crash GCC by doing certain innocuous things in your assembly code...
Not to mention web sites that use a graphical icon in the background instead of a textual one or lack a fallback X on pop up windows. I'm forever groping around trying to shut these overlays in the dark.
In 2006 they also gave ARIN a /23 and APNIC a /20. Then, one month later they expanded some previous RIR allocations into /12's; separate from the previous two allocations I mentioned. They are also allocated in a seemingly random order throughout 2000::/3, which they've decided to constrain their allocations to for some reason.

To the point that the linux documentation project still recommends the following as an ipv6 default route example:
/sbin/ip -6 route add 2000::/3 via 2001:0db8:0:f101::1

Yea.. it's /workable/, but a lot of decisions with respect to IPv6 feel like wasted opportunities that have only slowed adoption and promoted general confusion.
Far from exclusive to them though, and it seems to be (/have been?) a very common thing for IM clients to do. I can live with it as long as the devs put in the appropriate options for the behavior you want, but I'm not happy about it.
Wow - genetics has changed a lot since I finished my major in 2009 (as you would expect). Back then all the rage was siRNA and I had never heard of CRISPR despite many projects and a deep interest in bacterial and bacteriophage biochemistry
>SNES had the familiar ABXY, but mirrored with AX on the right.

Those of us that grew up with Nintendo consoles would say that B on the left of A is the natural order of things ;)

>Meaning, one console used the bottom button for yes and the one on its right for no (Megadrive)

Actually, almost every Megadrive game I've played lets you use both A and C for accept in menus, so you could use whichever orientation you were more comfortable with.
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Watch the second video, You will see what they talk about. The first video is not clear at all.
Everybody wants that next generation 10x battery, but that's deep in the world of experimentation, chemistry, physics... very pricey, with no guarantee of return, and well outside the specialty of nearly any company that would be looking to use such a battery.
Upvoting this for the beautiful storytelling of the true craftsman. However, FF Franziska definitely lacks Cyrillic glyphs.
It's a great and touching movie, and people thought they would watch it again. There are no hidden motives.
"This video is not available in your country.

Sorry about that."

No problem. The Pirate Bay is still available in my country.
The main repo is online here: https://github.com/kritts/HandWave
Isn't this from Google Play movies?
I know that! I mean... what's the code licensed under? I don't see any mention of a license in it!
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the support site where you can download stuff to reprogram the CPUs is passwored protected but runs on wordpress.

i hope it's up to date!
Sophisticated Faraway Ethiopian Wolf?
How do they implement the "rental" part, with some sort of DRM? Rental is a nonsensical practice for digital media really. Being bent on this idea leads these renting services to employ DRM. It's not only stupid, there is no real reason for applying the renting approach to begin with. Digital goods aren't limited like physical ones are, so there is no point in renting them out to get them back for reuse.

Simple pay / purchase approach works for digital goods the best, and that more naturally can remain DRM-free.

It has the "Buy" option there by the way. Is it DRM-free? Why can't they just make one option with lower price for "Buy"?
Completion of a formal proof of the Kepler conjecture
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Firstly, your implication that patents are only supposed to protect the weak from the strong is incorrect. That is a common ex post-facto rationalization of patents, but not the only one. Simply preventing copying by a competitor, regardless of size, is perfectly fine.

Even then, empirical evidence suggests that the use of patents by small firms against large ones is not as "extremely rare" as you think it is. From http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1396319:

"... public and large private companies initiated 42% of all lawsuits studied, 28% of the time against other large companies... 4% of the suits were initiated by individual inventors (David v. Goliath), 18% of the suits were brought by small private companies against public or large private ones (small v. large), 16% pit one small- or medium-sized company against another (limited stakes), and in 8% a large firm sued a small one (predation profile)."

So at least 22% of lawsuits involve a "small guy vs big guy" scenario. But considering that trolls (who, surprisingly, file a relative minority of suits, the study finds) often buy patents from individual inventors / small companies who cannot litigate themselves, that number may likely be higher. Now this says nothing about the merits of the lawsuits, but there certainly are a lot of small firms taking on bigger firms.

Now setting aside your strawman that the intended use is only small vs big, at least two-thirds of the time patents are used by operating firms against a comparably sized or larger firm. That indicates that the majority of the time the system is not being abused, even if you make the questionable assumption that all big vs small and troll suits are completely meritless.

> I feel like China and India are doing quite alright without overburdensome strong patent protection.

Really? I don't see many notable technical innovations come out of those countries, and I say this as a citizen of one of them. They are very good at reproducing technology, no doubt, but invention is rare.

> And Europe seems fine with a hamstrung software patent system.

If there's one thing the smartphone wars showed us, it's that other countries have software patents of similar quality as the US. The litigation environment is very different, though.

Also, citation on the Fish & Richardson lawyer? IANAL, but that sounds like shenanigans that could lead to disbarment.
If you want to see the UI of GEM for yourself, here's an in browser emulator of an Atari ST with GEM:

http://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/atari-st/
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I predict the Facebook page will get shut down for displaying porn in the next day or so. Neat idea, though.
It's an ID or hashcode, but in English words rather than hexadecimal.

Easier for humans to recall, communicate, and error-check.
I had almost the same idea. Here there is something called facebook zero which is available at 0.facebook.com, it's facebook without images but it is free for T-Mobile users.

There would be a possibility to do some browsing if a user sends a query message to a page/other user-bot which then downloads the information and responds in a fb text message. Like that google sms feature.

Fortunately I have internet on my phone so this is not really a need anymore :)
I don't think that's fair at all; F#'s integration with the .NET type system is one of its best features. I find that creating class types (and instances) in F# is usually easier than doing so in C#. And with object expressions, you can even program in an arguably purer object oriented style, declaring only interfaces but never concrete class types.
As I said in another comment, almost every Megadrive game I've played lets you use both A and C for accept in menus, so you could use whichever orientation you were more comfortable with. I think anyone who started with Nintendo consoles would instinctually rest their thumb between B and C.

My guess is that Sony thought that X and O wouldn't have as obvious connotations outside of Japan, and figured that people would assume the button closest to the player (X) would be the OK button. In practice, I have found that people with very little exposure to Japanese culture still have the same association with X and O in their heads and get confused when using Playstations ("you press X to accept???"), so I'll curse Sony forever for this stupid regional change.
This is a great paper! It was given at HOPL 3 (History of Programming Languages, a conference which runs every 15 years). I'd recommend all of the HOPL 3 papers to aspiring language nerds, but especially the ones on C++, Lua, Haskell and Self.
The chapters C/C++ Compatibility (7.6), Sun and Java (7.7), Microsoft and dotNet (7.8) and Retrospective (9) were very informative. It's a history lesson every programmer should read.
Looks really cool, congrats. By the way, I love your hakim.se experiments lab. Such a treasure trove of cool ideas. Really, really inspirational. Best of luck with Slides!
Yeah, for a somewhat longer paper, it's eminently readable. Very human in tone.
You're wrong on both counts. B is still to the left of A on N64 controllers, and the PlayStation launched a year before the N64 in America.
Depends on what you define as reasonable time. From what they tell, this does not seem out of reach for the interested layman. 5000 processor hours, most of it perfectly parallelizable on a typical modern desktop takes 1250 hours, or about ten weeks. Divide he work with a couple of friends, and you can do it I thin a month on your spare cycles. "From what they tell" is a caveat, though. Those processes might need a Terabyte of RAM each.

Of course, all this would do (if their claim holds) is run for hours and print "Yes" or whatever that system prints when you ask it to prove that A implies A (Prolog afficiniados will feel at home)
Indeed, if the Internet were a JPEG, we could just put it in our pocket and carry it around...
Gfycat seems to use a randomized adjective-adjective-animal_name for their URL structure. Certainly more memorable than the imgur six-character alphaneumeric string.
This actually sounds nice and not too difficult. Thanks for pointing it out. Unfortunately, I barely have time to improve my existing packages anymore, let alone create new ones.

So yes, it is something I've considered, but I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.
It's freely distributed, there's no license.
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Now, I'm surprised. My country is supposed to be the one that has to always encounter, "Not available in your Country."

But these movies are available in Indian Rupee and they're cheap. ₹100 ($1.63) for Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

I'm India. :-)
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16oz Ball Jars, I prefer the wide mouths, will fit perfectly in most cup holders. I've got it next o an Arizona Iced Tea can and it's only a little bit larger.

I just wasted a ton of time and energy measuring the circumference of each item and the ball jar is about 1" larger. The Arizona can was a rough 9.5" making the ball jar 10.5"
However I tried I wasn't able to import 25 gestures project to Android Studio. Has anyone succeeded?
Once they get elected, cops have to answer to them and behave in ways to placate them.
What caused today's Internet hiccup
That's RISC OS 3, which is several years later. Arthur already had the X in 1987, see for example http://mobile.osnews.com/story.php/18941/mobile-opt-out.php . (Later than the 1985 find in Atari OS of the original article, but still interesting.)

As far as I know, Acorn's RISC OS also pioneered the icon bar and the context menu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SDzJ...

Look at 0:14. This thing is put a little bit after the start of the pipe, creating a draft. The fish's own body becomes the "plug" that this air pump pushes up.
Probably a precursor to Play Store Movies: https://play.google.com/store/movies
I'm praying at the alter of simplicity too. Replacing shell scripts, daemonizing techniques, supervisord, and tools to drop privilege more easily with .service files makes adding services simpler.
> You know the patent doesn't cover the "gist" or any particular figure. It covers the claims

It seems like whenever anyone criticizes a patent by summarizing it, someone points out that the patent is defined by the claims, but if anyone criticizes a patent by reading the claims, someone points out that the claims have to be read in the context of the rest of the patent.
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Great way to initiate people to the art of crafting a truly remarkable font. At this level, we're really talking about art... And I love the font - well done!

Unless I missed it in the article, I'd be curious to know how many hours / weeks / months it took from v1 to final version?
An utter bitch to type compared to a short string of garbage, though, and typing a URL manually (friend gives you a URL over the phone or in person) is the only case I can think of where the URL itself matters.
Actually , measles are having a grand comeback in the US, case numbers rising [1]. The reasons are erriely similar to what makes fighting the Ebola outbreak so hard: People distrust the medical system and do not vaccinate.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6322a4.htm?mobile...
How's it insane? I think it's a pretty cool triumph of will over adversity. And it takes away every excuse I have for my poor shooting if a blind man can be a good wing shot.
I see that, but it's the same symbol as pre-NewLook RO3, and is only charitably described as an "X". It's more of a splat.
> Wouldn't they have the same incentive then?

The incentive was tempered by the fact that state legislators don't like expanding federal power since it interferes with the exercise of their own power.
Windows versions prior to Windows 95 lacked an "X" button, but double clicking on the left menu icon would close the window.

A behavior still present in modern versions.
Wide adoption isn't an indication of merit - look at the wide adoption of Windows for an example.

Anyway, for all the developer convenience and technical merit systemd has, it doesn't support an open OS environment - it restricts freedom in favour of convenience, which is precisely the opposite of what many users prefer Linux for.
The difficulties of construction for one, and such large structures are vulnerable to buckling I would imagine.
There are a couple implementations of userland ip/tcp out there. As I recall at least one or two are fairly direct ports of a BSD network stack in to a library. These pair up with concepts like intels dpdk to move networking closer to the business logic.

Here are some slides for one version: http://www.bsdcan.org/2014/schedule/attachments/260_libuinet...

Edit: with regards to motivation it's always been something along the lines of a network appliance that I've seen. The mainline linux network stack is more than capable of doing many millions of packets per second over hundreds of thousands of concurrent streams. The network stack will not be the limitation in something like batch processing.
nano is from 1999, so hardly relevant.
But when you realize that these moments are built into the profit model when deciding to fund films, it is a bit sad.
If there's no license, it is not 'freely distributed'. Copyright is automatic.[1] Under the Berne Convention, this implies all rights reserved.[2]

I'm assuming you're the author. Good work, but please choose a license for your code so others can use your code as you see fit.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention#Content
[2]: http://www.iusmentis.com/copyright/allrightsreserved/
It all started with a belief that writing unit tests is a much more deterministic process than writing app code. And it still holds true.

Do you think its possible to build writer in such a way so we don't have to write tests anymore?

Running it would LOCK the class API in tests as it is. So all we would have to do is writing code, locking it, writing more code, locking it too and so on.
Another good read is the book "The Design and Evolution of C++".

http://www.stroustrup.com/dne.html

It does provide a very clear rationale why C++ became the way it was (C++98), given the design goals and the constraint of being C compatible as much as possible, both in language and compiler toolchains.
Cannot upvote this enough. When most people say "idea" (including you here), they are not talking about something that is a non-trivial patentable invention (which you cover later). NDAs are for such IP, not for simple business "ideas" about making this or that app. Probably because what one encounters 99.9% of the time in the simpler class, most of the comments here are biased against NDAs.

I am working on some that are non-trivial, and some that aren't. For the non-trivial ones, we closely examine everything we find or come across for potential overlaps to constantly assess its potential. It is also true that these are very hard to find because people across the world have already worked on many different things. Sometimes the unknowns involved do not resolve in your favor, as in, the technical solution you were investigating does not work out. And this could very well mean that other people may already have tried that path too without resulting in a story that would be found over the Internet.

I have no reason to believe that "such" ideas are dime-a-dozen. But yes, for the same reason, chances of those ideas working out becomes rare by definition.
just awesome! "maybe" helpful to some and at the same time it's satirical and funny. This just made my day :)
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The book is available for free from Microsoft.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh314518%28v...
I wonder how this affects the fish's slime coating, which is important to preserve. It seems like this would be rubbed off on the material as the fish is propelled along the tube, no?
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I sort of understand the point for IM client, that people won't close it unintentionally. But that is solved by showing a dialog asking do you want to close. Breaking Alt+F4's functionality is such an abomination that it is impossible to understand the thought process behind the decision.
Is there empirical evidence that "capitalized" numbers are more difficult to read? I'm genuinely interested, but I do feel like a lot of typography is based on aesthetic assessments of individual glyphs, sentences, or blocks of text as opposed to studies of legibility.