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As long as they don't tie this to imaginary internet points I can't see a problem. If karma is involved they better have a pretty advanced anti-gaming algorithm.
Schemix was "a Scheme system implemented as a patch to the Linux kernel ... for exploration of the Linux kernel and for rapid, interactive prototyping of Linux drivers and other new kernel features"

http://www.abstractnonsense.com/schemix/

But Schemix has been inactive since 2003.
Ah, but that plays into the US's very strange views on sex. It feels like an exception, rather than the general rule.
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"a) Scala and the major.minor.patch version format predate semVer. You don't get to take the format that a lot of projects are already using and declare that it now has your particular semantics."

No. The major.minor.patch version format predates either semVer or Scala and Scala's use of it may predate the codification of the semVer standard but most of that standard was very widely spread long before that. Most importantly, the expectation that only additive changes would bump minor versions and breaking changes would be indicated by a major version change has been near universal for a very long time.

Scala to this day, breaks source compatibility with minor version bumps of the compiler. That is not a natural interpretation.

Of course the industry doesn't care about version numbers. You could call it Scala Foo, then Scala Bar, then Scala Waz and no one would care in the least, but having expectations around and controls around source compatibility is very important to a certain segment of the development world and Scala has historically been very bad at that.

I think that Scala has gotten much better in this regard over time, but for a lot of its history it was bad at this. This has made some people rightly leery of using it in projects with long time horizons.
You might as well have thrown in the term "patriotism" while you on that buzzword kick.

There is nothing in the actions of Apple or Google that will prevent search warrants from being issued. Now you'll need to go directly to the person who owns the device in question. As for what happens then is likely to depend on the country and how the courts view this, from a self-incrimination perspective.
I wish we could move away from the awful format that is animated gif and use something much better in terms of compression, color support and frame rate. Like webm.[1][2]

[1]http://blog.4chan.org/post/81896300203/webm-support-on-4chan

[2]http://blog.smartbear.com/devops/gif-is-dead-long-live-webm/

[3]http://motherboard.vice.com/read/what-is-webm-and-can-it-det...
Didymo is edible btw, and Rob Rhinehart has talked about future Soylent ingredients being made by bio-engineered algae.
You are correct, but from my (admittedly outsider) perspective, they are suffering from an identity crisis. They want to be a strong community where meaningful discussion takes place and drives real action. But their branding is still, "Hey, we're the front page of the internet!", which in practical terms means people go there for time-wasting entertainment.

I feel that they need to make a choice of being the "home page" for everyone vs. a meaningful community. I do not see one site serving both needs, as the branding, culture, and even tools needed to manage those two goals just don't match up with each other.
I think that just depends on who you ask. I agree with /u/tannerc that I find great fulfillment in being challenged every day and working longer hours to solve problems. I find vacation tedious! If I looked back and saw that I hadn't worked as hard as I could have, I would feel nothing but regret and disappointment. I understand this isn't true for everyone, and I'm not saying it should be. But this is way I'm wired, for better or for worse.
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> They had already offered a complete surrender, conditional only on keeping the emperor, which was rejected by the U.S.

Are you saying the Japanese offered to surrender, with the only condition being maintaining the emperor, prior to the bombing of Hiroshima? My understanding is that was the terms accepted after the atomic bombings and the declaration of war by the USSR.
Twoxchromosomes is a hellhole sub.

i) diverse people have a spectrum of extreme but sincere opinions, so they look like they are provocative trolls even if they aren't.

ii) A sizable proportion of Reddit hates any even mild suggestion that maybe women don't have the easy life and the sub is a target for that rage

iii) with the watter nicely chummed trolls have an easy time.

iv) a lot of the posters are just viciously unpleasant unless your posts aligns exactly with theirs.

The reality is that your sub is the dead-corpse human-shield used to protect other less awful feminist subs.

I really hope you mod some other nicer subs so that you get some pleasure out of Reddit.

(I've been a bit vicious a out the sub, but this doesn't reflect on the moderation or (mostly) on the real users.)
With the screwups in the release of iOS 8 it shows that such work habits do not guarantee successful software deployment.
so are these hardware that somehow people manage to sneak and install on a store's network? How would them monitor traffic and get the credit card info?

Edit: The articles does say: "Attackers installed these RAM scrapers surreptitiously on the point-of-sale systems used to scan and process credit and debit card transactions at Albertson’s and Supervalu. The tools make it easy to steal card numbers by the millions as they pass through the system."

But still a bit confusing if these are hardware devices or somehow they install software to do this.
>So I highly appreciate your insights in these matters.

it isn't an insight. It is propaganda.
It's great to finally see a serious alternative for data storage on Android, and not just one wrapping SQLite at that. While you may not be completely sold on Realm, competition is always a good thing, and from what they are showing, they're definitely bringing that - both on speed and usability.
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>Fast forward to 2014 and Chrome’s DevTools now leads the way in helping developers debug JavaScript

I wouldn't say Chrome's DevTools are significantly better than Firefox's native JavaScript debugger. Both are pretty identical in terms of features when you look at the latest versions.
"The investors have explicitly agreed to this in their investment terms."

So the investors have it in their contract and the actually talked to an ex-SEC lawyer, pretty sure that constitutes intent.
Still not open source.
> drivers and hardware managers on Linux distros (with my T420)

Care to elaborate? My lappy is a T410 and my roommates a T520. Neither of us have any hardware/driver issues.

As far as the UI goes, I somewhat agree. However when I use a TMW I am not looking for polish, I am looking for efficiency. That's why I only use a TMW on my work computer.

At home I run cinnamon. Looking to poke around KDE 5.1 once it is released but honestly I spend so little time in the UI of the OS it hardly matters any more as I spend most of my time in the UI of an app/website.

As an example, I didn't fire up MS word or VI to post this comment so UI polish is just that, polish.

>It feels like I have to put that extra effort in just to get things set up correctly.

And it should. Depending on what flavor of Linux you go with, you will have different defaults chosen for your OS.

From the developers perspective however they are just trying to not restrict you or your choices so that you can customize the environment to your liking. The trade-off is time and effort of that customization. This can be very overwhelming or feel unnecessary. Additionally some people find that the defaults "just work" for them.

Hopefully you give another *nix distro a spin in the future.
Actually I think Lua is a great candidate because of its openness and its similarity to C (predominant systems OS programming language).

Lua is open, as their about page (http://www.lua.org/about.html) states:

Lua is free

Lua is free open-source software, distributed under a very liberal license (the well-known MIT license). It may be used for any purpose, including commercial purposes, at absolutely no cost. Just download it and use it.
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> being able to encrypt your drive doesn't matter if your OS and its applications are exploitable

Because, you know, security measures that aren't 100% perfect are on equal footing as no security at all. Seriously? That's a huge fallacy.

In the end, it's all about the cost. When speaking of the NSA, we are primarily concerned with mass surveillance, because lets be honest, if you're targeted directly then you don't stand a chance, since they can always infiltrate your home then watch your fingers typing your password. And if these companies are raising the cost of doing mass surveillance, with encryption doing just that, then that's a good thing. It is in their interest to do so because the bad press they are getting is hurting their bottom line - you may not see it, but post Snowden at least governments and big corporations are starting to think of software/hardware stacks provided by non-US companies and now they have the ultimate argument for the balkanization of the Internet, which can't be a good thing.

But lets also think about things closer to home. I'm not from the US, I couldn't care less about the NSA. But I do care about my personal data ending up in the wrong hands - personal emails and photos, details on my accounts, projects, written down feelings and so on.

There are always organized crime syndicates looking for generating a quick buck. There are always incompetent clerks in your government institutions that out of an oversized sense of responsibility are doing stupid things. For example my personal identification details ended up in a local newspaper by mistake, because of a non-public contract leaked out of a public institution. Now how can I trust these people to handle my data? How could I let any cop inspect my laptop or phone on the spot as part of routine checks, which from what I hear, are becoming more common?

Yeah, encryption is not a good solution in the face of insecure apps, binary blobs and a potent global adversary. Thing is, for most people that global adversary is not the immediate threat they are facing and even for that global adversary, encryption makes surveillance more expensive.
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Or we could just limit people to having 2 kids, and most of our population/environmental problems are gone.
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"Going forward, Microsoft is planning to make regular, smaller updates to the Windows 10 codebase, rather than pushing out new major updates years apart"

Sounds familiar. Do all operating systems stop at 10 now?
Mainstream support means nothing. It still gets patched.
askhistorians and askscience have relatively broad appeal, have a very high level of quality and are extremely heavily moderated. In my experince (and it is extensive, I signed up in august 2006) the heavier you moderate a subreddit the better the quality, although a bad moderator can kill a subreddit fast.
The point about them not being Free Software heretics appears to apply equally well to Matchstick. If they aren't actually part of the movement they can't be heretical (I guess if you wanted to stick with that heavy imagery you could call them blasphemers or something).

I also stand by my assessment of Mozilla. They have much in common with "Free Software", but I don't think they 100% share the ideology (which was my intended meaning with the cloak statement, "to wrap yourself in an idea" is going past agreeing with it).
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If that's actually the case, then use KDE.

What does your comment contribute? It's about as useful as the apple/Samsung "my wiener was longer first!" Argument.

Who cares.
I'm just somewhat puzzled that twox is a default. It seems like a prime candidate not to be just due to these sorts of inevitable problems. Lots of people new to discussion boards tend not to understand there may be different rules, sets of expected behavior, or the like on different sub-boards, so making something a default is likely to attract lots of people who are new and don't understand the rules.

Once you couple that with the general population skewing fairly male, young, not necessarily good with social norms, and a strong pseudo-libertarian streak, it just doesn't seem like a good combination with a sub that's supposed to be by and for women.

I'm curious why the mods decided to let it become a default.
I might pull the trigger now. I was thinking about waiting for the Apple Watch, but I think it will take a while to work out the kinks there. This has a bunch of apps and great battery life, plus I need something right now to control/check my massive iPhone 6+ when it's not convenient to pull out, or when running.
> Melton: And that’s what I tried to explain to people. It’s very subtle. It’s not required of you, but let’s be honest, it’s expected.

Well, it's required then.
This was a bit of play of words from Jurassic Park, Jeff Goldblum's speech about dinosaurs. It wasn't meant to convent a theist view point, if anything it nearly quotes Nietzsche about Man killing God.

My point is when life evolves, what it evolves from is destroyed in the process. As I represent the lower step, yes I am afraid. Natural Selection is nature selecting the more competitive life form. Nature isn't kind about this if earthquakes, asteroids, super novi, volcanoes taught you nothing.

Have you ever wonder why there is only one member of Homo genius on earth? We killed them all. Our species raped and murdered its way to dominance. We were faster, smarter, and better looking. We out hunted their lands until they starved, we stole any member we found attractive, and we killed them over berry patches and watering holes.

The difference is 5, 10 million years ago. Spears, Rocks, Fists, Feets were simple weapons. Today, we nerve gas, weaponized smallpox, atomic bombs. The best part is, most of those things will barely harm silicon based AI.

I have no reason to believe any other step in evolution would be any less violent then every single step before it. And as I represent the old, I know the point of that step will be rid nature of me.
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Isn't this kind of backwards when we have tools like http://gfycat.com/ that can make MP4/WebM?

Animated GIFs are HORRIBLE in terms of file size and quality compared to actual MP4/WebM video files, which are supported by all modern browsers.
ISE isn't really a terminal emulator though. It's an IDE.
Definitely the end of an era, I'm listening to it right now, and always thought it was too good to be true.

They are up to their necks in litigation (though very realistically, rightfully so), it seems, and based on the endgadget article they've done some pretty bad stuff (deleting file lists, uploading music themselves)...
This is client-side JS solution. Completely different.
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http://www.theguardian.com/money/2011/may/11/terms-condition...
The author cites from the above-linked study that 58% of adults surveyed in 2011 would rather read an instruction manual or credit card bill than online terms and conditions. (I wish that study had clarified whether they had surveyed an equal number of men and women.) That link amongst almost every you read regarding reading contracts and whatnot always advocate reading through word for word, and making sure you understand everything. Two things prohibit this - time and ease of comprehension. If companies could bullet point, we'd all be able to get through it within a reasonable amount of time. Those bullet points would hopefully simplify the language and make clear for those who cite "difficult to understand" as the reason for why they don't read through terms and conditions. I imagine some might need to contact legal counsel for explanations every time they want to sign up for internet, use a new application, or even browse a website. These fees would be quite costly, and it is arguable that the total damages associated with failure to reading terms and conditions would not outweigh the expenditure for ensuring clarity and comprehension through legal counsel. However, despite the theoretical advocacy for thorough reading, companies do not actually want us to do this. If they did, I believe they would make it easier. Lawyers like convoluting things; they like leaving loopholes, and making language just abstruse and ill-constructed enough to deter even the most erudite from fully reading anything they've written. (I sound like I hate lawyers, but I don't. I took the LSAT's thinking maybe I would like to go to law school to learn that school of thought. But I digress…)

The article about the Londoners is just sad all around. Are they to blame? Are the companies writing these wandering tomes of terms and conditions? Surely there has to be a better way to outlay and convey the constructs of these user agreements.
PHP 6 was a real project, that a lot of people spent a lot of time working on (and writing books about). Just because the number was never used for a release doesn't mean it didn't exist.
I wonder if they aren't at least partly tweaking Apple here. Remember Apple also skipped version 9 of their operating system. Even system 8 was "phoned in". At least Microsoft didn't make us wait a decade between versions 7 and "X" while milking us for money with fake non-updates called "8" and "9" along the way.
Strange, with the Disconnect extension enabled, all I saw was the code, and not the annotation which I think is the meat of this submission.

If you don't see anything, try disabling social-blocking extensions.
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I wouldn't say Lua is similar to C as far as syntax and semantics goes (for example, arrays indexes start from 1). That said, Lua is great at working with C - its very easy to call C code from Lua and vice versa.
Why do you assume the fact will leak out? I thought the FBI disclosed they used parallel construction as an MO.
Maybe if they stopped working stupid hours they would stop releasing buggy software.

Time and time again there is good academic evidence that these working hours do not make productive and creative employees, quite the opposite in fact.
We could eliminate this guy's concerns by just shutting down the DEA altogether. End of problem.
8.1 is NT 6.3 (if your program declares the correct manifest, otherwise it shows 6.2). My bet is on 6.4, or perhaps a larger jump within 6.x (like how ME was 4.90)
This is excellent! Reddit is closer to the kind of online community I like to see and I'm happy to see what they have planned. Weren't they also giving away 10% of profits to charity?
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If the device is backed up in iCloud, Apple already has the decryption key and will have to provide it if they receive a supoena. The only way you're safe, even in theory, is to only do local encrypted backups.
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> increase the level of quality of content and discussion across the board.

Would this mean I couldn't launch this unintended pun into a long thread of puns that eventually winds up at "I did Nazi that coming"?
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I guess I have to take your word on that one. I haven't used a TV remote in years and I've never had to correct the aspect ratio.
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What about Xamarin?
If two users simultaneously edit the same file, one of them "loses" and shows up as a Conflicted copy.

From my perspective, that seems like a good feature to consider adding. Groups of artists are used to self-organizing so they don't end up conflicting in this way, but I think that's only because they haven't had tools to solve the problem for them. We're rolling Perforce out enterprise-wide, and trying to convince artists to start storing their working files in it (PSDs, etc) -- one of the big selling points is that you can easily see that someone else is working on this file before you jump in.
The purpose of criminalizing such activity is not to discourage people from engaging in it. It is to guarantee that everyone is a criminal, thereby ensuring that leverage is always available.
Apple did it first. Apple also skipped version 9 to go right to "X".
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But not enough to buy a smaller, more durable phone? One with a thick, rubber or plastic exterior case? No? I didn't think so.

I only just recently upgraded from an old feature phone to a Moto G. One of the major reasons I selected it was its relative cost versus other phones, and thus less worrying on my part about it (also, it was the cheapest phone Republic Wireless was offering). While that's not specifically buying based on durability, it's the same idea of being concerned about how much money you've sunk versus how easily it will break.

Even still, I don't go sitting on it (or, if I discover I'm sitting on it, I immediately cease the sitting action). I'm not arguing Apple should refund these people for their bent phones or anything, and I agree that people should take personal responsibility for their actions. I'm just fine with the potential lack of durability being discussed, which is the issue stevewepay originally mentioned.

EDIT: Upon further thinking, I agree that my comparison to "you're holding it wrong" is somewhat mistaken. While the grip one uses on a phone doesn't have any common-sense effects, putting a phone in your back pocket and sitting on it should have clear potential consequences, even if phones of the past typically had the durability to withstand it.
do people really think like this? it's just a phone at the end of the day
Some people enjoy it and some people are willing to put up with it because the rewards for good performance are commensurate. A good book that describes this philosophy is Dream Big [1], which is about the group of investors who acquired Anheuser Busch, Heinz, Burger King, and most recently Tim Hortons. Typically in companies where you see this level of commitment there is both a large opportunity for reward and people are rewarded in proportion to the value you bring to the table.

For a look at the opposite end of the spectrum you might look at Microsoft currently (although this seems to be changing with the new CEO). I have a friend who works there currently as a manager and he's told me about the bureaucracy there where people are promoted largely on seniority, rather than merit.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/DREAM-BIG-Brazilian-Sicupira-Anheuser-...
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(Clarifying I'm understanding your position): You're assuming that there are enough % of Apple employees who would refuse secrecy bribes || fear individual NSLs to leak something in public in a situation where they don't fear for their safety?
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