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I'm Irish and I'm still not a fan. It tastes of boring, Irish guilt and dread. Most of my designer friends are very partial to it, but it's more a case of having the one Guinness and then moving onto other beers.
I learned a TON from booze. But at some point it stopped helping and started hurting. Dunzo.
Neither. I started drinking beers with my buddies when I was in 9th grade. By my early twenties I started to realize that there wasn't any new ground to be discovered via alcohol and a few years later the choice between reading and drinking after work became more obvious and reading more often won out.

I reached a point where drinking as an activity ceased being an interesting hobby.

When my beloved quit three years ago, pretty much any reason to drink socially disappeared and other than a weekend in the mountains with some 9th grade buddies and a beer at a couple of dinner parties I have abstained.

And that's pretty much the essence of it - I tend toward abstaining from alcohol, not teetotaling. I'm fortunate that I can take that approach. Some people have to forswear alcohol completely in order to avoid its potentially destructive side effects.
You must not be familiar with the recent history of Northern Ireland - widespread gerrymandering, suppression of civil rights, massacres of civilians by unaccountable armed forces of the state, illegal torture/detention camps for political detainees etc. A lot has changed but all of that is the very recent living memory of the UK.
Any idea why the market punished Target stock so thoroughly but doesn't seem to care about Home Depot?
The problem is: these applications are not designed with the end user in mind. They are always designed to convince the CTO/ CFO/ whoever is in charge of spending the annual IT budget. The designer is rewarded to increase the complexity of the app and add meaningless features to justify spending the millions of dollars that are usually associated with these contracts.

SAP is not buying this because it is a wonderful piece of software engineering, it is buying it for the CTO/ CFO contacts it can now target to sell other SAP products to.
this is great, well done, I've really enjoyed playing around with this.

Does twitter-stream-channels support the follow [1] part of the of the twitter streaming api? Didn't see any mention of it in the docs.

What I'd really like to do would be to give it a big list of users to follow and then filter for keywords on that list. I did try changing "track" in channelsDescription.json to "follow" but to no avail.

[1]: https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/overview/request-parameter...
>>I can leave beer in the fridge untouched for weeks or even months, but I can't do the same for chocolate in the house.

same here :-/
Just gonna leave a quick link to my favorite general-purpose academic journal: http://www.jasnh.com/

The Journal of Articles in Support of Null Hypothesis collects experiments that didn't work. Not very much volume, not a huge area of prestige, but there should be no shame in publishing there. The content is very diverse and pretty fun.

Titles like "No Effect of a Brief Music Intervention on Test Anxiety and Exam Scores in College Undergraduates"; "Parenting Style Trumps Work Role in Life Satisfaction of Midlife Women"; "Does Fetal Malnourishment Put Infants at Risk of Caregiver Neglect Because Their Faces Are Unappealing?"; "Is There an Effect of Subliminal Messages in Music on Choice Behavior?". Plenty more cool stuff.
A drink a day makes you a "heavy drinker"??
Umm.. virii is not a word.
Daily drinker as well. Although it varies. Sometimes I'd have a week without taking a sip without realising and other weeks I'd get through a bottle of wine over the course of a night after work.
Well for that matter so is the assurance that only you can purchase a valid SSL certificate for a domain you own. At some point, you gotta trust some people!
I drink, in fact I brew my own beer, wine and cider, but I've never been drunk. My opinion has long been that it's a pity beer has alcohol, and that it's a pity that alcohol contributes so much to a beverage's unique flavors.

Actually, I'm just a big beverage guy. I get just as psyched about a tonic and infused simple syrup combo as I do about a great beer.
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For an instructive insight into the dangers of only publishing positive results, see http://xkcd.com/882/
Why don't the Americans do it on state or city level then?

Sincerely Swede
I think this applies much more as you get older. Recovery from a few pints used to take a few hours out of the following day in my early twenties. In my early thirties it takes a few days.
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> OK, how can I replace its shitty editor with something decent, like Vim or Emacs?

http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/2802/jvi-vi-vim-editor-cl...
CyaSSL - http://www.yassl.com/yaSSL/Products-cyassl.html
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> all of whom have complained that it is ridiculously difficult to hire good engineers.

Thanks. I guess I was mostly wondering if that trend is changing.
He is? Shouldn't a machine be even better at overwhelming puny humans on an 'easy' game?

The basic rules of poker and chess are pretty simple. The deeper strategy is nonobvious in both of them, too.
There is a quantifiable difference between poker and chess, at the highest levels.

Both do require up-front study and memorization. But in chess, the amount of up-front study and memorization is orders of magnitude higher; the sheer number of openings, variations on openings, variations on variations, etc., followed by tactical/positional situations to study in midgame play... just dwarfs poker.

And both do require sustained concentration and high mental performance. But in poker there is a certain amount of forgiveness -- you can make a mistake and you just lose that hand and some chips, and still salvage the game with good play from that point. You can even make multiple such mistakes and still frequently be able to come back. But in high-level chess, even a single tiny slip is absolutely fatal.
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Was a cheerfully enthusiastic social drinker until I had a bit of a "long dark teatime of the soul" (unrelated to drinking) three months or so ago, at which point I gave up everything but coffee while I needed to focus. Am surprised to report that I haven't missed it. Have had a drink on a couple of special occasions since, and didn't enjoy it very much.

In the future I can see myself drinking on special occasions, but not habitually - I really hadn't realised the extent to which I was doing it out of habit rather than for pleasure.

As for coping, I'm now spending over an hour a day in the gym on workdays, which is a much better deal!
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Thanks. Yeah, I don't have anything really substantial to add. I was just connecting some dots and wondered if there was an underlying trend.
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I'm a social drinker.
Like a lot of Gladwell yarns, it's a lovely theory with some nice stories (and wonderfully written - a real New Yorker burying of the lede). And he's more hypothesising than suggesting this should be the case.

But still - 'except when they were killing people, the PSI was an example of American exceptionalism' won't fly with me.
Unfortunately the link is down but I seriously doubt it would convince me to switch from Idea or any other JetBrains IDE.
I'm not a teetotaler but rarely drink. I think I started to drink very occasionally after 30. My parents were alcoholic when I grew up which may explain why i refrained from drinking when I was a teenager. However, I vaporise weed about once a week.
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This is my difficulty with J as well.

APL has a better mental "feeling" for me, more like mathematical symbols. Oftentimes, these are pretty direct.

Want to drop the first element of a vector?

APL: 1 ↓ 1 2 3 4 5

J: 1 }. 1 2 3 4 5

The APL version looks like a drop to me. The J version looks like two characters that I have to remember the meaning of.

I'm sure if I was deeply proficient at J, the two-characters would stand out by their meaning, but it's hard for me to get that far when APL is so much cleaner for me to read.
I found this interesting:

>Avellino’s mission was to rationalize the industry, to enforce what was called a “property rights” system among the carters. Individual firms were allowed to compete for new customers. But, once a carter won a customer, he “owned” that business; the function of Avellino’s P.S.I. was to make sure that no one else poached that customer.

It kind of reminded me of Peter Thiel's monopoly theory. At some point, competition for certain things becomes counter-productive. If the need is simple enough and adequately served, better to let it be served than waste energy undercutting and re-negotiating customers. There's a bigger world out there anyways. Obviously this colusion is all in the interest of the businessmen, rather than the customer.

But the point stands in (at least how I interpret) Peter's mafia theory: don't get into a line of business where it's easy to poach customers and competition is incredibly fierce. Like the restaurant business in San Francisco. The antithesis of this is something like Palantir I suppose, selling specialized solutions to governments.
I can't argue with you there. I'm fortunate that my current organization isn't this way, but I have worked at places where this has DEFINITELY been the case. It was mind boggling then and it's mind boggling now. The only explanation I can think of is the (at least perceived) speed and impatience of the modern customer / market. Maybe businesses feel a pressure to make these sacrifices? I'd even go as far as to say the marketing teams for these various "services" capitalize on this feeling of urgency, and try to perpetuate it culturally (e.g. "If you don't use <insert ultra insecure SaaS app here> your company is going to fall behind. Here, look at this list of all of the other companies that aren't yours that use our service!"
Who on Earth uses Windows Store apps on Windows Server? We would totally consider using this if not for that.
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I think in many cases 'Enterprise' software simply isn't designed at all - it just sort coalesces out of the darkness and the screams of thousands of tormented users.
My guess is that the customer for whom they developed this has crypto-acceleration hardware that is supported by OpenSSL. Also, this is only doing the actual crypto operations, not running the whole SSL protocol.

Edit: I guess it's also exposing SSL publicly for talking to CloudFlare, which is I guess why they suggested IP firewalling as well (in case of another HeartBleed).

And it's only a reference implementation!
You are implying something fundamental: that the encrypted traffic could be adequately analysed for insight without the need for decryption.

Yet to do so would be to defeat SSL itself, or at least to declare it as insufficient to adequately protect secrets.

What CloudFlare is doing isn't defeating SSL or any kind of attack on it. They are merely working around some prior limitations on requiring access to an organisation's private key.

As a proxy that is charged with DDoS protection (and other types of protection and performance improvements), they are being asked to terminate and work on the unencrypted data to a very strict set of complience by the end organisations, but they need to do this in a way that does not involve possessing or having access to the private key.

Their solution works extremely well given the multiple constraints (technological and legal) that they have.
I think Corvettes were used for some sort of on-runway operations involving planes and whatnot - maybe as a chase vehicle for some planes with landing-gear issues, or something like that.. I can't remember the details, but I do remember that there are Corvettes at some American bases for things like this.
Ben Goldacre has been rallying around this cause for years now. He has:
1. presented a TED talk (http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_battling_bad_science?l...),
2. authored books (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0007350740/), and
3. written numerous articles (http://www.theguardian.com/profile/bengoldacre)
on the misrepresentation of statistics within the pharmaceutical community.

Probably the best summary post of his is this one: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/nov/04/bad-sci...
The answer is no. It was fallout from to the financial crisis.
Grew up in a family where drinking is totally accepted as long as you don't get wrecked. I picked social drinker. I used to be a regular drinker at university, but when I finished I had no desire to drink regularly.

What I found interesting in my family is that, we all enjoy drinking and insist on having a couple of drinks whenever we meet up. I also think that because of the relaxed nature about it, it has contributed to my lack of desire to drink all the time. But then I have friends who drink like there is no tomorrow and their parents/family strictly practice teetotalism.

Something I try to live by: everything in moderation is fine. If I had a long week, its always nice to get out your favourite whiskey and have a glass with a mixer. It relaxing, the same way going to gym, playing on your gaming console,walking or meditating is relaxing.
Could you please elaborate on your caffeine-related anxiety attacks?
because of a complex interplay between Federal and state welfare programs. But also, they do more in some states and less in others. What I am saying is, if every state went to a Swedish model, it's not necessarily true that we would be better off. Paradoxically, the Swedes themselves could become worse off. Americans consume more because they have more disposable income, which means they can import things from Europe. What will happen if taxes are so high that Americans start consuming a lot less ?
Pop quiz - what is the most litigious (i.e. liabilities issues) country in the western world?

Hint: they speak German.
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states do have very different welfare policies. Some more generous than others. Texas has comparatively little relative to Massachusetts. Guess which way the net flow of people that are supposed to benefit from those policies happens
Sometimes 'dispose of' means 'accidentally drops in a lake'. Accidents happens, and inadequate backups are part of the human condition.
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CDNs are used to deliver static, highly cacheable content, like assets, images, media content, stuff that will be delivered to many users.
It is very rare that a website serves this type of content under the same domain as the dynamic content (think cdn1.whatnot.com, assets-myapp.com).
In fact for applications with a lot of assets this is a must because of domain sharding and to avoid the overhead of sending the cookies on every single request. Since you need a different domain, you can (you don't have to) use a different certificate, so it's not a strech to use a different private key.

Then there are the applications where security is more important than latency - online banking, payment gateways, tax filing.
Those applications don't have too much cache-able content so they simply won't benefit from CDNs.

I also don't see how is this faster. Sure, CloudFlare Keyless SSL is faster than serving the content yourself, but sending that packet over the internet
is always going to be slower than not. So now I have a slower (compared to the CDN having my key), more complicated option that requires me to run an additional keyserver and doesn't provide me additional security. The only upside of this seems to be good PR.

Depending how sensitive the content is, in fact if I could I would choose to deliver it over plain HTTP and sign it somehow. That would be best of both worlds.

Edit: I admit I totally missed the point about DDoS protection.
I never lose money when my credit card number is stolen
maybe. We just don't know. To assume that cultural factors have zero influence on success of such policies is probably incorrect.
> Nearly 85 percent of the universe is made of dark matter

It's a bit ambiguous too: 85% is the proportion of the total mass made up of dark matter. Normally we'd say that 26% of the universe is dark matter, 5% is baryonic matter and the rest is dark energy.
I don't believe more than a small fraction of all gangsters and criminals ever made it. Most were poor, stayed poor and had children that also grew up to be poor. Focusing on the few who became millionaires is an extreme form of survival bias. It's writing history so that it fits the rich.

What they had in common with others in the upper classes is that they found a way to make other peoples labour work for them. Maybe that's called "working hard" but it could also be called "getting others to work hard for you." It's how wealth is amassed and it doesn't matter whether it's on the legal or illegal side of the law.
So few people and places can allow for this level of vulnerability and authenticity. This post is going to help a lot of people.

I have even more respect for Rand and Moz. We can say Fail Fast, Fail this, fail that ... but this kind of writing is the true embrace of failure, learning, wisdom, humanity.
I think the metal tracks are a deal breaker. I have seen rubber tired military vehicles owned by civilians at car shows, but generally trucks and humvees.
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I can relate to that. The first few times I smoked weed, I noticed I was able to listen to music much more deeply. Somehow, it taught me how to appreciate music in a different way.
One of the other good things with Netbeans is using it as a platform like in rich clients.

We have developed some quick and good tools on this platform and it seems to work out neatly on our overall structure.
This is entirely unsurprising if you've spent time around enterprise software. I once worked in a very large, global (non-IT) company that was interested in software made by a very well-known, large, global IT company. We wanted to see a demo of their product. They pushed back saying "we don't need to do a demo, we're XYZ company you know we can do it. A demo isn't worth our time. If you want a demo, we will have to charge you $XX,000 of professional services". My employer at the time paid it.
I didn't ask "how to configure its editor to use vi-like mappings", I asked
"how can I replace the editor". Mere clone will not have even one third of
the features and functions I use every day.

NetBeans' editor is shitty not because it's not vi-like, but because it lacks
plenty of editing functions fully featured Vim has.
It was 7 years from XP to Vista - and 9 years to Windows 7.

Now it has just been 5 years since Windows 7 and apparently it's already completely outdated. It's only 2 years since Windows 8.0, and it's already out!

If this is the way Microsoft is going, then it's a huge change for anybody dealing with enterprise. I used to be able to develop on the same system using the same techs as my customers - now I may sit on Windows 8.1, but I can't use any new shiny features as my customers are still on Windows 7. Many of them just upgraded.

Sure, this may be the way others are doing it. It may be the new normal. But I still think Microsoft is shooting themselves in the foot big time regarding anything related to businesses.

In this case I'm actively researching an OCR solution. Tesseract is annoying compared to a nicely integrated .NET solution. But I'm not able to choose the solution from Microsoft. It will be at least 5 years until our customers have upgraded again, and by then - well, we're probably not going to switch OCR tech.

Instead we will be relying on third parties, open source projects - things that are not tied as much to Microsoft or the .NET ecosystem. I didn't mind being tightly tied to MS tech, I often preferred it as it was easier and worked great - but in this case I don't even have a choice. Basically I just wish Microsoft would stay Microsoft instead of trying to be Apple.

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And regarding following MSDN. I develop WPF/C#, and I don't follow anything at all. I don't care about hype or news. I care about solid techs that are mature and sticking around for a long time. Most of the stuff being announced will significantly change or be cancelled anyway. When a product has stuck around for 3 versions and is having a pretty good following, then I might be interested. If my customers are actually able to run it of course.
What would the 5th dimension be?
Unfortunately it looks like screenshots can't be edited (or even rearranged) until a new app binary has been submitted. I'll make this change when I get some new levels cooked up.
Hmm, I think there are two possible meanings of meritocracy:

a) those who can compete, succeed by merit
b) everyone can compete, and those who compete, succeed by merit

It's clear that Silicon Valley doesn't fit the latter definition, but it's possible that it fits the first definition.

Even if 100% of American citizens could compete in the Silicon Valley's start-up culture and it would be a 100% perfect meritocracy, it still wouldn't necessarily be a global meritocracy. Just being born in the United States increases one's probability to gain access to this market.
Good point - I believe U2 pilots need to be talked down the last few feet by someone in a chase car:

http://jalopnik.com/5537629/the-140-mph-chase-cars-of-the-us...

Maybe U2s were operating from RAF bases and they thought it was polite to use US cars?
I am a binge drinker (once or twice per week but usually in large quantities)
I think it's called "working hard getting others to work hard for you."

If it was not hard work to get others work hard for you, it would be more prevalent.
Link is down:

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I've tried to switch from NetBeans to IDEA for quite some time (I use IDEA for Clojure), and I just can't. IDEA is probably more powerful, but I find NetBeans so much less annoying (you don't have to restart the IDE three times whenever there's a plugin update that might clash with another, or restart the IDE when you need to change the project's Java source version, or open a new window for each project, or click 10 GUI elements to install a plugin -- none of which is consistent with any other desktop app, etc.), and the UI is so much cleaner, less cluttered, and more intuitive (a right-click usually gives you the options you'd expect). Also, NetBeans' Gradle integration is really great. They're both terrific IDEs. IntelliJ is more powerful, but NetBeans has a much better UX.
This is my understanding of the issue too. Polls don't just ask the question. Each cycle they take their input, the actual results, and refine their model. Over iterations the model should get more and more accurate.

This event is a one-off. No cycles, no iterations, leaving a model which is essentially a best-guess.
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> It's unlikely that Scandinavian style policies scale linearly.

I think it's likely. In fact, by default policies should scale linearly from 10 millions upwards.
> Recently, I tried a "semi-dry July", where I told myself I would drink only once a week (with no limit on that day, i.e. binge drinking allowed).

I appreciated this part isn't the emphasis of your story, but I feel I should point out that the above approach is worse for your liver than having a couple of drinks everyday.

That aside, there's been a few studies (though I can't recall how scientific they were) which follows a group of drinkers who abstain for a month, and visa versa, to monitor the after effects drinking has on a persons cognitive abilities. Those studies also supported your anecdotes.