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Visual Studio is called like that since 1995 and XCode is around since 2003.

By the time is came out, Visual Studio was actually very visual in comparison with their competition.
I have no intention of leaving Facebook, and I use Google+ daily.

I have no intention of leaving LinkedIn, Hacker News, Reddit, CNN, Stack Overflow... They're different things, and I use them for different reasons.
> The "formal way" as you put it is complex and unnecessary. It makes things harder, especially once you hit algebra. If you can't do simple two digit addition in your head by the time you start learning things that involve larger processes like inequalities and quadratic equations you WILL slow down and possibly become frustrated and lose confidence.

But how do you learn to do two digit addition in your head? You learn by doing two digit addition on paper over and over again. Students who are good at this will begin to notice patterns and develop shortcuts. You cannot just skip the learning and go right to the shortcuts.

This is the kind of stuff they're peddling under common core:
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/346625.php
http://twitchy.com/2014/04/10/common-core-insanity-for-six-y...
Lots of places have a dedicated community outreach officer. It would be worth calling the local precinct and finding out if they have somebody who can talk about road safety. You guys might even have some bike cops who can share and commiserate.
IMO a unicorn is a full stack developer that also has design / marketing knowledge. the thing is about these guys, is most of them are savvy enough to create their own products, apps or startups and if you do find them it is a matter of time before they break off and do something on their own.
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No, it's not really "editable pages". I've just got an idea for a weekend project that needs unique, but book markable pages. I could easily use a guid, but wanted a shorter id, saw this and thought I'd ask. Thx!
The answer to that seems to be "yes, it would": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bach-y-Rita#Research_into...
Too bad -- several thousand words about this new, brighter lighting, but no mention of its effect on astronomy, or of the light pollution that keeps city-dwellers from seeing the stars and planets.
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Agreed. I have always read it as "meh" (closely related to "shrug" with asterisks), however I could agree with "what" as well. It's definitely not sad though.
What are your thoughts on this?
- Remote Working Groups (3 - 10 people)
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I don't think that's always the case. I ran my own company for years but honestly running a company gets exhausting. After years of doing it I came to the realization that what I really like doing is growing companies, not running them.

Once I realized that, it was an easy transition back to being an in-house marketer.
Considering the guy who personifies the "madman theory" was a disgraced guy like Nixon who was obviously a paranoid, etc. -- I'd take the theory with a grain of salt. :D
I don't see any of "these facts" as "scientifically absurd." Which are absurd in your opinion?
From what I recall, their efforts were strongly opposed by the community in large part because they were imposed on it despite being spectacularly broken, difficult to use, and leaving damage behind that other editors had to clean up. (Also, women are not idiots and are in fact quite capable of comprehending things like wiki markup.)
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Yes, you're absolutely right and most Indians seem far more literate in converting between the two than I ever would be. My generalization was way too broad and wrong - thanks for pointing out the specific cases.

It seems like, as with the examples you give, that certain systems are used for certain purposes which was always fascinating to me come from outside. In construction, in rural areas I've found it varying between different parts of the country whether metric or imperial is preferred.
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Could've been Polar soda. http://www.polarbev.com/
As a very casual Wikipedia committer (less than half a dozen articles ever, and a handful more edits) who also happens to be a programmer, I agree. Every single time I go to edit a Wikipedia article or make a new one I have to spend ten minutes familiarising myself again with the markup.

Just go read up on this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup

Even for a very basic article that won't be immediately nuked you'll need to know a lot of that including how to correctly cite, link to sub-sections, other Wikipedia articles, and so on.

I can honestly see that being a barrier to entry.
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Initial thoughts (duolingo on Acer C720): a lot of the UI design is pretty unintuitive, and although I'm sure I'd get used to using it with a non touchscreen and a physical keyboard, it just feels suboptimal. Also a weird feeling having Android-like prompts on a 'regular' computer. No fullscreen, so I'm left with a small window on an already small (11") screen. Functionality-wise, does what it should, but I'd much much rather have an offline proper chrome app. Currently, it'd be my last choice behind my android phone, iphone, ipad, and laptops I have with me right now (I realise I'm unlikely target audience).
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I'm not saying servers can be plastic worth anything, I'm saying that the role of the cerebellum is to assist functions that exist elsewhere, so missing it is not the same as missing a primary functional unit.

The motor cortex is still doing its original job, it just has to work harder.
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> Superficially the starter seems to be 25x more productive than the finisher, but without the finisher, the starter might not deliver any business value at all.

I wrote a post about exactly that:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/A+tale+of+two+programmers

Finishers are actually quite rare and worth their weight in gold. And starters need finishers just as much as finishers need starters, but I've seen tons of people that are good at starting stuff and only very few that are good at finishing. It takes real perseverance and dedication to see a project through to its conclusion.
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I find that the combination of distance updates and street name cover most of those cases, though there are indeed edge-cases where it doesn't work great.
That is nothing... I know of several politicians that have no brain at all, and no one has noticed yet. jk,jk
Not really. There's still a separate Chrome Web Store and Google Play stores for apps. Google has to approve specific Android apps for Chrome, and you have to package your Chrome Web Apps apps using Cordova and put them through the same Google Play submission procedure every other Android app goes through to get them onto Android. There's no integration, there's just Chrome on Android and Android on Chrome.
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No, that's why we have prescriptions, and education for doctors and patients on when to get one.

Making them expensive means poor people don't do their full course of treatment because they can't afford it (or want to save some for next time), increasing resistance.
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For just starting out, just focus on sending emails to your users directly and manually. Ask them for direct feedback on the product, experience, etc. and referrals too.

The video looks good and clearly explains the tool. And the rest of the site looks good for a launch.

As you scale, the manual process will break, but that's a good thing. Worry about tools and automation at that point.

Again, take the time to manually and personally email your first users so you can get direct feedback and provide that extra touch up front.
I guess YMMV... I also had to get my screen replaced because it was one of the small number of screens that had severe burn-in issues.
It is also because being a doctor is considered high status in India. Higher than lawyers, businessmen, engineers. Also they also command a high income. So what you did of offering a tip is more of an insult.
It's never surprising that the vast majority is wrong. The majority is always wrong by definition. I doubt anyone who has been to prison, even for a tour, thinks it's "too easy."
After working in F&B I think my greatest fear is my parents opening a restaurant. Why? Because they will build a restaurant/bar THEY want, not what the market wants.

For this reason, when the writer asks if you are selling something that actually helps a business, that strikes home to me.
I look forward to seeing them on http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ when they discontinue their service.
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There is a super good movie about Enron named 'The smartest guys in the room', highly recommended.
Was this developed during MHacks?
hmm..so I looked it up.

http://www.mva.maryland.gov/safety/mhso/program-bicycle-safe...

> This ride-to-the-right provision does not apply when operating in a lane that is too narrow for a bicycle to travel safely side-by-side with another vehicle within the lane.

> A bicyclist riding at the speed of traffic can operate in any lane, just as any other vehicle can..Where there is not a bike lane, a bicyclist may also use the shoulder of the roadway.

> Bicycles may not be ridden in the travel lanes of any roadway where the posted maximum speed limit is more than 50 miles an hour; however, bicycles may be operated on the shoulder of these roadways.

So it seems to me that if I ever go back to MD, I can take over the entire lane if I'm keeping up with traffic (which for me means speeds < 20mph at full blast). Between about 20mph and 50 I can also take it over if there's no safe shoulder or other place for me to ride. Above 50 I can only ride on an available shoulder, if there's no shoulder I can't go on the road at all.

Maybe that's what I was thinking of. Either way I don't like to get out in front of cars, except maybe in the local neighborhood on residential streets where they're not supposed to be exceeding 15mph anyways.
It's not surprising to me that women contribute to Wikipedia at a low rate, because women also contribute to open source at a lower rate than they program professionally. I suspect the same factors are at work.

My personal experience is that somewhere between 10 and 20% of professional programmers are women, and a similar or slightly higher fraction of CS majors.

I've heard the number 1-2% batted around for the fraction of female open source developers (i.e. 10x less than the professional rate). It's hard to find good sources, but this site suggests that it's higher now:

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/FLOSS

Although some of these numbers are about conference attendees and speakers, and is looks like there have been dramatic increases there, probably because of conscious effort. (I think this is probably a good thing; I rarely attend conferences, but an all-male dynamic can be depressing.)

What wikipedia and open source have in common is "text-based interaction", and I think that is offputting to some people, in particular women. I don't think it is surprising that female programmers would prefer interaction in a workplace or school to text-based interaction.

Likewise, you could infer that Hacker News probably has a lower fraction of women than the fraction in the startup/YC community, because it's very text-based. And looking at the top posters list, I think that inference would be correct!

(I'm curious who the top female on this list is: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders)
I am from India, and this is definitely something that happens very often. Doctors are very high in the respect scale.

Pinch of salt, don't be fooled into thinking there are no doctors out to make money, etc. A 5000 Rupee tip is humongous. It's probably what she makes every month. If you had offered Rs 500 instead, she'd have likely taken it happily.
Maybe I should retire there and teach. If the pay is at least enough to be comfortable, I can make up the rest in respect.
Compare QNX message passing, which has a much simpler API and runs faster.

The UNIX/Linux world has never gotten message passing right. It's inevitably built on top of files, sockets, or shared memory, which adds complexity and reduces speed.
>It's funny how people who kept warning that Reagan was going to start a nuclear war have never gotten over being completely wrong.

Just because we didn't actually all die in nuclear war doesn't mean people's fears were unfounded. That's a bit of a false argument you're making there.

Reagan nearly brought us to nuclear war. If anything, that proved their fears to be correct.

>They really seem disappointed that it never happened.

I can't speak for "they", but in my case I'm really "disappointed" that he brought us so close to nuclear war.

And while we're making false arguments here... If you're content with coming close to nuclear armageddon, then we'll just have to agree to disagree. :D
i just want to add, you have actually introduced a bug. if your program has any longevity, this misfeature of it will, i predict with confidence, break the program at some point, sooner rather than later, and for no reason other than "it's a hack".
Based on the apps listed, and on some other surmises, I'm guessing that apps that don't use the NDK and don't use 3D graphics will run pretty easily, and many of them should Just Work.

I was involved in a project that did somewhat similar things. I think Google got it right by doing a release that restricts apps to ones that use certain capabilities, particularly since, in Android apps, those capabilities are declared and can be filtered using the app manifest. Making GPU acceleration work in a system with a "hybrid graphics stack" instead of layering Android's 2D graphics on a native substrate is a ton of work for an incremental (albeit an important increment) gain.
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Could it be that the cerebellum is merely a communication channel for other parts of the brain which are more focused on cognition. After injury one would not expect immediate re-routing of these channels.
Interesting, but I want, in my lifetime, to see a more or less tax-based system that means I see my GP and pay nothing save what I'm taxed in my pay packet every fortnight. There needs to be caps on costs. Costs determined by government, not for-profit entities. In essence, health care is a basic human right. I don't mind a slight ~10% uptick in my taxes to pay for it. That 10% is still orders of magnitude less than I pay annually for health insurance, which is sinfully expensive. I'm praying Hillary Clinton, when she gets elected, will finish what she started.
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Agreed. It reminds me of people that say the TSA's security theatre has kept us all safe because there hasn't been another major attack on the scale of 911 again.
That seems hard to believe...sounds like doctors gobble up that type of information, are you in a very remote area or something?
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The wording on the page suggests that you get to live the nomad lifestyle while still maintaining your comfort-zone. I strongly believe that exactly the opposite makes this kind of lifestyle so interesting and worthwhile (i.e. being pushed out of your comfort zone on a regular basis).

I understand that it may sound very compelling to many and I absolutely don't want to advocate against their "product"; just think about what you want. "traveling without any of the risks" also takes away much of the fun, adventures and personal growth you'd experience on your individual, non risk-free journey.
I can't help thinking ~25 people and ~10 locations would be more of a sweet spot (100 people is too large a group for a lot of accommodation and easy booking on scheduled flights, for a start) but finding employers who want to guarantee 12 months' remote work for a given bunch of aspirant globetrotters on a relatively high-intensity world tour will be trickier still.

But still, it sounds like fun and does solve the problem of lack of friends and focus for permatravellers.

Might be easier to aim this at micropreneurs with runway as more of an alternative to the shared workspace/exotic workaway though....
Is the source for the app runtime available anywhere?

I've done a bunch of hacking on the Android framework to do things like multitasking before, so I'm really curious to see how they "put Android in a box".
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Are you saying this is bad, or just quoting the blog post for fun and information? I don't think it is bad. Spreadsheets are not meant as programming engines, just as practical editable tables.

As for "the wrong sum" he complais about in the link, people would know it was meant to be the eternally correct sum, because they will see the empty cells waiting to be filled (either by data or by imagination).
There are two issues:

1. Page table allocations use GFP_KERNEL, even when done for an allocation that used GFP_ATOMIC. This means that allocations that are needed to do pageout and other things to free memory can deadlock. There is a workaround in the SPL that will switch it to kmalloc when this issue occurs. There is also a new mechanism in Linux 3.9 and later that should render this unnecessary.

2. The kernel deals with kernel virtual address space exhaustion in vmalloc() by spinning until memory becomes available. This is not a problem on current 64-bit systems where the virtual address space used by vmalloc is larger than physical memory, but it is a problem on most 32-bit systems.
I agree. The best set of emoticons I've seen to date are those in Skype. The worst ones in Google Hangout.
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The government hospital can be poorly run and unsanitary and most people who can afford it go to private ones. I guess still better than nothing.
I've made the "loyalty" mistake before too. I stayed too long at one company, quit and then came back out of some sense of loyalty to the clients and my team. In the end, I would have been better off leaving as soon as I new it was going sour.

My recommendation:

1. Leave now. Give them two week as a final notice and leave.

2. Reach out to your personal and professional network with a clear ask for some freelance introductions to hold you over for a few months.

3. Put the rest of your time into you own idea and build it.

4. Don't worry about non-competes. They're nearly impossible to enforce, and it sounds like these guys won't have the stones to support any kind of legal fight past a stern letter from a cheap lawyer.
What fills up that space? Liquid? Scar tissue?
Interesting. I wonder if total recurring revenue is a better pricing gauge for something like this? What's your product?
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They don't really mention the sometimes toxic environment at Wikipedia.

They do mention controversial subjects. It's obvious that editing "the Russian Invasion of Ukraine" is going to be awful.

What people don't realise is that Wikipedians will argue about anything. Here's over fifteen thousand words about dashes and hyphens. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(poli... (sorry about mobile link).

This kind of pettifogging guff is common on a whole bunch of WP. See, for another example, the bizarre hostility aimed at users who chose the wrong username - two different admin boards just for names and holding pens and bots. (And the WP software filters out almost anything that you might want to be filtered out.)
Really they just play Bad Cop for the venues.

Maybe that's part of it, but it's certainly not the whole story.

TicketMaster aren't only criticised for the various fees, though they do take flak for those and it will be interesting to see how the new European consumer rights laws that have been coming into effect recently will affect them.

TicketMaster also take flak because their experience for customers is so poor. For example, I've had to make special arrangements at considerable personal inconvenience to get into a venue because TicketMaster hadn't sent tickets that were ordered well in advance in time to arrive in the post before the day of the show. In my experience they are also among the worst e-mail spammers I have ever dealt with, completely ignoring any request to stop, and they have been all but impossible to contact so you can speak to a real person who can get problems fixed before they escalate.

I don't see how any of that is just playing bad cop for the venues. If the tickets hadn't turned up as promised and we hadn't been able to go, we would obviously have charged back the entire cost as well as thinking ill of all concerned and being less likely to try again another day, and the venue would have had empty seats and lost money.

My last experience booking with TicketMaster actually made my last experience flying with Ryanair look pleasant. Neither is something I'll be doing again any time soon.
In my case, I just want a free tier that is incredibly low (10 customers is fine) that won't cannibalize his main products, because I want to test his services. Yes, there's a free trial, but I don't plan on rolling out major client work for 4-6 months. In that timeframe, he can have me as a subscribed customer (paying nothing) but I've already gone through all the hurdles, and he can send me monthly "Hey, you ready?" emails.

Right now I have to trust myself that I'll remember this service in six months with all the other stuff that goes on in running a startup. If I DO remember, I will pay $20-100/month easily and will save thousands. But I also have to remember that about 300 other things, too.

EDIT: Maybe a mailing list would be helpful, too.
My guess is that some app manifests might have to set tighter compatibility restrictions, and would run, but poorly, on this environment.

Non-game, non-SDK apps that don't have required accelerated visual transitions are probably the best candidates. But that's not a situation most developers are explicitly coding and testing for.
Thanks for replying!

> @font-face would definitely be the ideal solution, and hopefully something we can implement once the browser support is there, but at the moment we're trying to go for the most universal approach.

That's very reasonable.

I wonder if there would be any problem if, instead of generating image tags like:

<img alt="heart_eyes" class="emojione" src="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/emojione/assets/png/1F60D.png">

The JS toolkit would generate something like:

<img alt="😍" class="emojione" src="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/emojione/assets/png/1F60D.png">

This should be pretty safe i think, as it's only client side, and browsers play nice with Unicode.

That change allows the browser to copy, for example, the text "What's not to 😍 right?" from the Welcome page, instead of copying "What's not to heart_eyes right?" (tested on Firefox/Ubuntu).
When he was born, my son had cardiac surgery. Had another one 4 months later and a catheter later on. The two surgeries were done by one of the top 10 surgeons in the world. All in all, he was 6 weeks in the hospital. He's now in very good health. Since we live in Canada, it costs us nothing except the parking at the hospital (about $120 total with a pass) and the lost work time.