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> Quite possibly my favourite feature of git.

Mine, too. Fortunately, mercurial has that feature, too. (Though you might need a plugin.)
Hmm! That's not a bad idea, actually. Once I finish with my project, should be a fairly simple graphics swap and metrics adjustment. :)
Wish there was a find feature to hilite matches. Hard to see where a particular model lives.
http://blakemasters.com/post/21169325300/peter-thiels-cs183-...
The ability to USE them? I for example can barely use my Moto G with one hand, most of the time holding it with two hands (one in the top left, one in the lower right) so I can access all of the screen easily. My hands are just too small, I can't use a Nexus 5 at all without two hands, really annoying.

So, for all us people with small hands, what do you think we should do? Buy a 5.5" phone and use it like a tablet? That's not really practical :/
Why not just have a non unicode string type and a unicode string type?

I think a better idea would be to have a string type that is encoding-agnostic (and internally might depend on compilation switches) but conceptually isomorphic to numbers in the range [0, 2^32) and a binary-data type which may have an encoding "annotation". And then the string type should be mostly not used, especially in the standard library. That way the cost of dealing with transformations among various encodings will be borne by those who care about those encodings, which isn't something that can be said of python3.

If one were developing a language from scratch, it would also be convenient that loads of legacy code doesn't assume the triviality of transformations between strings and binary data, or between different encodings of binary data. Obviously python3 couldn't rely on this convenience, but I wonder if we weren't making more trouble for ourselves by setting an expectation that str would be used all the time, and bytes only when absolutely necessary. I suspect the opposite custom would have been less troublesome.
Here's a nice write up about the results: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329872.600-artificia...

Note that the mice were given the human equivalent of 18 to 19 cans of diet soda a day.
potential revenue growth is the only factor that would make things go up considerably.
iOS library for Twitter oAuth integration
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>>love how git people like to shout "afraid of change"

Only when you don't give any substantive reasons and just talk about how difficult it is. It just seems difficult because it's a different way of thinking.

>>i known it's the open source favorite. because it solve that problem.

So you do agree that it solves a real problem, it isn't just a fad. Also, a lot of companies like to attract good talent by open sourcing some of their internal libraries. Since they'll be using git for that anyway, makes sense to use git as their main VCS.

>>but i guess I'm afraid of change/can't read a manual.

You're taking this way too personally. I'm just saying give it a fair shot and come up with objective problems with it. No one will take you seriously with "I don't like it because it's too hard". You're better than that.
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I've known Drew for a couple of years now and he's been working with travelers since before we met. Glad to see this take flight!
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What if it's a private interface, like a local function? Or a public interface with limited consumers? The language should allow you to write your code the way you want.

Requiring pointless verbosity on some hope that somehow that'll help bad programmers write better code seems like an odd conclusion.
I'm guessing they meant this:

* http://pcbunn.cithep.caltech.edu/bbcp/using_bbcp.htm

* http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~abh/bbcp/

* http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~abh/bbcp/bin/

I've not tried it, though.
One Smart Coin contest with a prize of 1 BTC is coming very soon
Seems like Dremel did the 3DPer first because it's all the hype, but with desktop CNCs like Shapeoko, OtherMill, NomadCNC, etc. coming out, and Dremel being ::the:: company of mini-router spindles, they'll probably come out with desktop CNC mill soon.
If you go the MS/BS route, you need find time on the side to actually learn to program. It doesn't happen in the coursework.

Disclaimer: I run a bootcamp in San Antonio.
Yup correct. Completely different WebView. And the bug is technically in the WebView.
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This is an impressive piece of work but I worry that a larger amount of work is needed in the relationship between glucose intolerance, diabetes and metabolic syndromes in general. The fact that glucose intolerance is induced by a high sugar diet and leads towards a path of clinical outcomes ending in diabetes, doesn't necessarily indicate that glucose intolerance developed via artificial sweetener consumption is indicative of being on the same clinical pathways towards metabolic syndrome and diabetes.
Sure the problem defaults to the package maintainer, but historically popular and/or useful packages have seen their way into the main GNU distribution. Just leaving the possibility open has some long-term consequences for the project.
man this CEO really has her shit together ... female CEOs seem to make companies that know their customer base ... thats sexest but anyway ... yahoo is looking better and better
ULA and Blue Origin Announce Partnership to Develop New American Rocket Engine
That feel when you see a Debian Security Advisory on the top of HN. Common guys, don't scare me to death. It thought this was going to be heartbleed all over again.
I would also recommend Mailbox for managing Gmail. It is one of my favorite apps I have ever used.
Because I remember iOS7 had the quickest update rate ever. It slows down the Internet as well as router around places.

However to have that kind of update rate their iPhone must have been able to update, I am not so sure everyone had 5GB free space
I chew way too much sugar-free gum.

At first I thought, yeah, this will never be a problem for me, then I realized the only thing I do consume with artificial sweeteners is gum. I do hope the doses are low enough not to be a problem, but I want to know!
I believe the effectiveness of search algorithms goes something like this:

Monte Carlo < Hill climbing < Simulated annealing < Genetic algorithm < Differential evolution
Does this mean diabetes could (in some cases) be caused by gut bacteria? Can we reduce diabetes risk factors with targeted antibiotics that attack certain glucose-intolerance-causing bacteria?
So the public funds studies, which they give to journals for free, who then sell access for $3.99/view. I'm really not sure this was the "free exchange of ideas" which science is based upon.

Even the New York times only charges $3.75/week (the nature price is per article/view NOT per week, it would be $4.14 if their $199 plan was weekly) and the NYT has to actually pay journalists to create the content. Nature gets all their content for free.

So what are Nature's expenses anyway? They no longer have to type set as it is just an identical PDF which is sent to them. Is hosting and management of the web-site really so costly that it is $3.99/article?
In many cases, that's OK. Obviously I'm not talking about a database of customers and their addresses, etc. But having that sort of use case drive the evolution of a language seems like the tail wagging the dog.
Don't forget the Sony Z3 compact.
Yea, now I'm seriously considering the 64GB version for my iPhone 6 upgrade.
It's a pre-diabetic state:

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/glucose-intolerance.html
I'm happy for you. It's great that you can buy the device that works best for you and I can buy the device that works best for me.
In order to enforce any liberty, coercion is the only way available to do so. Its an paradoxical aspect of liberty which exist when ever one try to enable liberty. A typical example is how the police is allowed to use physical violence, fines and imprisonment in order to enable liberty from violence, theft and enslavement.

When someone is given freedom of speach, it means restricting those who would want to stop your speach. When someone is talking about freedom from slavery, it means the restrictions of those who want to enslave others. Liberty as a concept thus do not address those who want to act onto others, but those who would be acted onto.

GPL prevent distributors from using copyright law to coerce a third party. Those distributors who want to use copyright for coercion is prevented, and the police will enforce it.
If this sounds fun, give microcorruption.com a try :-)
Sergey and Larry actually "just got a job" after graduation: Researchers at a university pursuing a phd. They used THIS JOB to develop the technology for their (later) company. Then they FIRST tried to SELL the (search-)algorithm and when they didn't find someone (to pay a couple of millions) they started Google. AND... Larry is/was the driving master mind taking Sergey (and a lot of others) with him to success. Well... it's an add.
Raised insulin levels are much more complicated than we once thought. You can get an insulin response from artificial sweeteners just swished in your mouth and spat out. Solution, eat real food when you can
I am glad that Yahoo is waking up to the mobile & platform revolution after sleeping through the most important parts of it. Glad that it is not pretending to be "media" company anymore.

Flurry acquisition was a good act. This should give them a great headstart against FB.

https://developer.yahoo.com/games/ - Yahoo Games network is positioned badly. The opening tag line is "monetize your games" but I find the monetization piece missing. What it is trying to be is a platform for mobile apps and games., it is positioned as a gaming platform to get developers on board I think.

Yahoo's play in the ad exchange space is still nonexistent; however not surprising considering that they spent insane amounts of money acquiring vaporware from Bluelithium and others.

The current ad execs are also clueless and absolutely not reachable, I expect this trend to continue.
this is almost like google getting rid of discussion search

atleast with maps you have alternatives but
with discussion search, there are no other options...

the voice of the people are forever banished in favor of SEO'd content
Let's not forget APNG.

https://twitter.com/stuartparmenter/status/51207180752061644...
Behind the Scenes of “The Princess Bride”
What Makes a Website Work?
It is no secret that some websites are better than others. A variety of factors can affect visitors’ perceptions of a website. If visitors don’t find the content they were expecting, don’t like the design, or don’t feel like they understand the image a brand is trying to convey, they are unlikely to use that website again.

Well-crafted web design helps Colorado websites meet these expectations in order to beat out the competition. We have all found ourselves on websites that fall short of what we were looking for when we clicked on the link. The best way for a business to avoid this lack of appeal to visitors is to implement strong web design that meets the needs of the website’s audience.

http://imaginethatcreative.net/web-design-development/
Would you install it on an iPad 2 with iOS6?
That's some impressive work. But then...

"The company send me another crack me for round 2 :) That's also interesting.."

That wasn't enough to get the job?
Or, bombard random people with Really Strange ads as collateral damage along with the pranking of one's friend. There are probably downsides to this, of course.
I've been using tpope's git hook ctags setup for a while, and it's fantastic. https://github.com/tpope/tpope/tree/master/.git_template/hoo...
I cant seem to get push notifications to work with the OS app, is there a way around this?
The headline is suspicious, but unfortunately, this article is paywalled, so I can't tell what's really going on. The main problem with the headline is that it lumps together "artificial sweeteners" as a category, when that is in fact a pretty widely varied class of molecules.
If Greed Is Good, Why Is Insider Trading Bad?
I find the following to be more effective.
http://forre.st/storage#ssd
Thanks for the link! Now I know what to tell my students next time. C++ is the language of choice for recognition systems development anyway, and with C++14 it's actually starting to become beautiful.
So, the assertion was "may make you more successful in funding"--you're moving the goalposts to "successful" after the fact.

Success and funding are not necessarily correlated, right? We saw that back in the 90s and are seeing it again.

I don't disagree that having these connections can ease certain parts of the fundraising (and even customer acquisition!) process--that said, I'm concerned that the emphasis placed a lot of times in the ecosystem is on funding and not the boring part of, you know, business.

My cynicism stems from the fact that, to me, the hip path these days has you going to an Ivy-league school or Stanford, starting a company, going through a well-known accelerator, raising funding from VCs, and then -~=magic startup time=~-. And for a lot of people, this path isn't about actually doing business--it's simply the thing that they're supposed to do and which it is implied is expected of them. All the while, spouting rhetoric about how they're going to "change the world" by chasing the same boring set of business concepts. I find it irritating.
This reminds me of the popular binary bomb lab offered in some computer architecture courses:
http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/public/labs.html
Having played around with 3d printers for the last couple of years I have to say that they are an indispensable tool for makers/hackers/inventors/artist types. However for mass market as many here have said we are just not there yet.

To get there we really need to have a few innovative large manufacturers start publishing replacement part CAD models for their products. Making that leap is obviously a big deal for a lot of manufacturers who make outstanding margin on their replacement parts, but that is the kind of thing we need in order for a printer to be useful to the truly mass market.

Additionally, and I think we're seeing this already, we need a lot more 3d printable products to come to market. For example, I just recently finished printing a Clug bike rack for a friend (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/834664305/clug-cycle-st...). This is a prime example of bringing 3d printing to the general public - they provide a high quality version you can buy, or a cheap 3d printable version which you can pay a lot less for just the 3d files. We worked out that with the model cost and the material cost you could print somewhere in the region of 30 replacements before it was more economical to buy the mass produced high quality version. Thus far the rack hasn't broke yet either!
It looks like the lecture videos are still available, however, they are somewhat expensive.

https://www.mckusick.com/courses/index.html

https://www.mckusick.com/courses/introorderform.html
True, it's hard to find the right category for it, so we call it "Data CMS". For some people, the CMS part might just be a nice add-on and the real value is the embedded graph database and the in-graph data model. Many web applications are 80% CRUD-style pages and maybe 20% (complex) queries, so using Structr for the CRUD pages and Neo4j's Cypher for the queries is a perfect fit imho.
Yep.

One very prominent example, which drives most of the sales at Binpress (the company I invested in, which I mention only to identify them rather than for promotion): if you GPL a library, that makes the entire app that includes that library not saleable on the App Store. This doesn't make the library useless, because you can still use it in internal applications or pre-release versions of your app, but "We need to ship to the App Store" is a fairly big bullet point for a lot of potential customers of e.g. a SDK which lets you edit PDF files on an iDevice in an arbitrary application. That particular feature occurs in a lot of enterprise apps, because the enterprise runs on PDFs. So if you say "Totally free for your geeks to use internally, and btw, $2500 if they want to put it on the App Store", you'll collect more in a single license sale than 99.99% of donationware apps make in a month.

This is called the dual licensing model. Mechanically, you control the copyright to the code, release it under GPL, and -- in parallel -- release it under a commercial license which restricts what people can do with it but which is "non-viral."
"from my understanding it's not thought to contribute to metabolic problems in reasonable quantities"

Xylitol is quite toxic to some animals, such as dogs tho.

http://www.vcahospitals.com/main/pet-health-information/arti...

edit: this snippet maybe worth highlighting

In both humans and dogs, the level of blood sugar is controlled by the release of insulin from the pancreas. Xylitol does not stimulate the release of insulin from the pancreas in humans. However, when non-primate species (e.g., a dog) eat something containing xylitol, the xylitol is quickly absorbed into the bloodstream, resulting in a potent release of insulin from the pancreas. This rapid release of insulin results in a rapid and profound decrease in the level of blood sugar (hypoglycemia), an effect that occurs within 10-60 minutes of eating the xylitol. Untreated, this [canine] hypoglycemia can be life-threatening.
Really nice overview of the process. I was hoping to get into debugging and breaking code, but my career took a wild turn away from that part of the job. It's still something I would like to learn, so I'm reading as much about it as I can.

I'm going to take this way off topic here, but it's a curiosity of mine. Please don't take this as an insult; it seems to be very common and as a language learner myself I'm just wondering where it comes from.

At first , it looks...

analyze.Lets...

debugger.Therefore , there...

mode.In my opinion , Intel...

So , those lines will basically scan the memory , if there is a 0xCC , it will crash your program and such ...

Specifically in these examples, I'm seeing a missing space between a period and the next word, as well as a space before a comma. As English is one of my native languages, I'm not sure how people go about learning English or what resources are available to anyone learning English.

I've noticed this with a lot of English as a second language speakers, and it doesn't seem to matter what their original language is. In this case, Spanish, but I've seen native Russian and Japanese speakers with the same thing. Can anyone tell me why this is?
> imagine an 'OK' button on a text message that lets the sender know you've seen it, without the need to send a message saying just that yourself.

That already exists in the form of "read notifications".

That's why I really like them. If I go away for 5 minutes in the middle of conversation, I don't have to tell the person about it, they'll see their messages were no longer read.
How did you decide on the vocabulary list and where did you get the example sentences?
Fair enough. I was caught by the "fun factoid I was discussing" bit. Since it seemed you were talking to your phone before and was continuing some conversation you had with it prior.
Thank you for coming up with a much less creepy/prankish application. I think it totally would be cool to have my wife's ad feed on our anniversary (or her birthday, etc) be sponsored by me. :)
You should never believe any of the "we won't close the doors" post-acquire statements. It's the exception to the rule when they keep them running.
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Yes, and he's said that in a few blog posts as well:

http://herbsutter.com/2013/06/07/gotw-92-solution-auto-varia...

http://herbsutter.com/2013/06/07/gotw-93-auto-variables-part...

http://herbsutter.com/2013/08/12/gotw-94-solution-aaa-style-...

He has some good points, but his perspective seems to be biased by a professional focus on writing libraries and more general-purpose code. He's also brilliant and can remember things like this:

const int& cir = val;
auto h = cir;
//The type of h is int.

It's difficult to make generic rules for how to use C++ (because it's used for everything from adware to nuclear reactors), but I can say that Herb's AAA (Almost Always Auto) rule would not fly on any development team I've ever worked with.
I was actually completely unaware that Youtube had ads for a long, long time. I'm not sure I could move to a solution where I would be forced to watch them.
I understand how that works given a lens (or pair of lenses) and a long standoff, but I have not found any information on doing this at the focal plane in the way that Canon does with the AF pixels, and that new phones do (ie iPhone 6).

Does anyone know where you can find information on a phase detection pixel?
> In order to enforce any liberty, coercion is the only way available to do so.

Sure, "enforce" implies "coercion".

That doesn't imply that coercion is the only way to acheive liberty.
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I use the Gmail app on my iOS device daily, it works great.
Do you have a source for that? The last time I checked this worked with mice, but humans showed no insulin response from sweet taste alone.
Secret Agent, anyone? I still love that game. In fact, all the old Apogee games had a sense of mystery and discovery that's sorely missing in modern titles. (Or is it nostalgia?) I remember playing through so many shareware titles and salivating at the new goodies that the nag screen promised from the remaining two episodes!

By the way, Apogee has released a lot of their old titles for free. You can find them at 3drealms.com, in the Downloads section.
Haha, if that's the one I remember you could completely trivialize that lab by fiddling with the program counter in gdb (skipping the line that sets off the bomb). Don't know if they were able to fix that in later versions of the lab. Good times, thanks for reminding me.
Do they compare pure sweetener diet with pure sugar diet calorie per calorie, and sweetness units per sweetness units? Sweeteners are still caloric, the point is that they provide the same sweetness for less calories.
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It is :) its just slow going :(

semweb makes a lot of things simpler in the long run. But it puts the hardwork right in your face because it did the simple stuff for you. The hard stuff thends to make people stop early. I.e. Instead of figuring out what to do with the data they rather write yet another parser.

also adoption is speeding up fast! More and more tools and data providers support sparql and rdf. But its not VC friendly at this moment.
This is the same thing with having good oral hygiene. So many serious health problems can be traced back to poor oral hygiene.

If you go nothing else, make sure you take good care of your mouth, gums and teeth!
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Ads are just a subset of the larger set of privacy invading techniques used by countless web sites. What is visible is a fraction of what is not visible.
poor grammar instruction in school. A space is normally after a period even in russian.
Being Techie I like the change Marissa is doing but Lets be honest under Marissa Mayer YHOO value has decreased if you remove AliBaba factor.
Should probably mention that it's PC-only.
De-qualifying people for smoking pot in their off-time makes exactly as much sense as de-qualifying them for having a couple of drinks in their off-time.

In other words, it has zero relevance.
No. It's completely context dependent.

A hill-climbing algorithm will take the lunch of every algorithm listed here if you have a clean convex optimization problem.