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> Elixir has been in development for a much shorter time than Clojure.

This is probably because Elixir is more like Erlang than Clojure is like Java.

You might see Clojure as a more impressive feat for that reason. But to me, it means that Elixir has less to re-invent and can focus on "programmer happiness".
I'd be interesting if those benchmarks were re-witten make use of the new Metal graphics API

https://developer.apple.com/metal/
You will eventually, no matter how careful you are, get a sting. Everyone does eventually when keeping bees. I'd get a checkup with a doctor to see how bad the reaction is. It'd be a good idea to keep an epipen around not just for yourself but also in case a visitor is allergic as well.
Starting from Scratch: Android – Fragments
My minor contribution, if you use the crosstab plugin in postgres to do pivots, this might come in handy:

https://github.com/makmanalp/sqlalchemy-crosstab-postgresql
Some religious people believe that some people are created to go to hell. Some people have strong minds and can open doors inside them on their own, without chemical assistance. Some people are bipolar and need hospitalization until one day their doctor tries them on lithium, and suddenly they can function again as normal, productive members of society.

I have never read PIhKaL or TIhKaL but I am aware of the 1-10 rating scale, so forgive me if I over-simplify but I'll explain it briefly in case you've never heard of this. Chemicals are rated on a scale of -10 to +10 based on the potency and reliability of the experience they produce. +10 is not said to be a linear extension of +9, instead +10 is said to be reserved for drugs that ingesting the substance can be shown to produce a "religious experience" where your perception is changed, you see God, and everything is right for you. (Not necessarily reliably, or every time, but enough for viziers such as Shulgin to have felt a need to document it in this way.)

Looking it up now I see the "Shulgin Scale" really only goes up to +4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shulgin_Rating_Scale

If you read the "canonical" interpretation of +4, it's clear that what you're describing as having changed you in these ways is similar, if not the same; probably you'd agree with this regardless of your position on God or religion. While I appreciate your belief, if I had seen positive effects on people using the drug then what you're saying wouldn't change my mind about the effectiveness or about a potential good that could come out of the drug. Maybe it's a shortcut, or maybe for some person even with similar experience to yours it's still the only way for them to have that experience and to open those doors.

(NB: I don't have any children, and I'm neither sure that I could build a decent house with my bare hands.)
Find writing that you love and deconstruct it. What techniques do they use? How do they tell stories? How do they start/end their writing?

Reading great writing will also influence your own writing as well, especially if you read before writing. It "primes" you to write in a similar style.
Same disclaimer as firstOrder. Throwing another opinion into the ring:

My immediate thoughts revolved around:

> 5k rolex

> 250k euro car

> tries to help people

> throws parties for them

> lets them use his pool

This could be seen as someone in a position of power, and someone happy to let other people know that. No judgement on anyone for rewarding themselves materially for their success. It's just not the same as sharing a box of doughnuts with your family and them then being ungrateful behind your back. It's more akin to showing people how many doughnuts you have, letting them touch them, compliment you on your good taste, but not letting anyone eat them. Just because you don't eat them in front of them doesn't mean it's not antagonising. Aware of how weak that analogy just got.

It would take an absolute buddhist monk of a person to not indulge in toy-buying, I can't imagine the self-control it would take, but I think that's the only solution to not end up with the comments. Can you imagine people making negative comments if the FU-money-guy gave 90% of his cash to charitable causes? No reason why he should, but it puts his current situation in contrast.

> We also live a decent life (near the beach, pool, etc)

> we invite everyone to spend some time with us for free in the summer (saving them 1000's in holiday rentals and food)

> We never show off

You're definitely not showing off directly, I'm sure you would never mean to, but I do think by virtue of you raising your living conditions up (way) above those of your peers (I'm assuming) and then thinking you're doing them a favour by sharing it with them, the net effect is the same.

As an alternative idea to saving them 1000s in rentals and food, you could just rent a modestly-priced house together on neutral territory. Especially if you're starting to think people are taking your generosity for granted.
Mind sharing any of your playlist?

I loved your explanation: "It invokes a mood. It distills a spirit of night and cities that never sleep. Urgent events from a police scanner play upon a feeling of social connectedness. Combining that with ethereal music plays upon senses of tranquility, danger, peace, haunting, calms before storms, and life transpiring."
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I'd describe this as "could have been written by a Markov chain" but that does a disservice to Markov chains.
Money Is Pouring into Tech Like It’s 1999–And That’s Not Good
Amazing Blacksmith Forges Real Buster Sword from FF7
“You can be a kernel hacker” by Julia Evans at Strange Loop [video]
This is why I always recommend new beekeepers start out with at least two hives. If the author had another healthy hive, he could have moved a frame of young brood to his queenless hive and they would have raised a new queen on their own.
I started with First Lessons in Beekeeping by Keith Delaplane: http://www.amazon.com/First-Lessons-Beekeeping-Keith-Delapla...

2 few things to know about beekeeping:
* Beekeepers disagree on everything.
* Bees have been surviving without humans for a long time.

So in general as long as you're not horrible and actively trying to kill your bees, they'll manage fine.
It's not about protecting the tabs from each other; when you separate the tasks into different containers, you can apply strong limits to what each can do, which makes it harder to "root the machine".

For example, see the Chromium docs: http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/multi-pr...
I feel like this article suffers a lot from multiple rant syndrome, which is what happens when you get partway through a rant and are so locked into full-on rant mode that every time you mention something that pisses you off you go off on a siderant about it. I'm only about 80% sure which of his rants is the one that embodies his main point.
"one view per user" - you can have a single VIEW, that filters rows based on user name ("owner_user_name" column in the base table). Or use some kind of mapping table for "user_name" <-> "table PK id". It gets more complicated with inherited user roles, but still manageable.
I have always picked up things because I have found them interesting but the sense of guilt of not doing enough plagues you when you see success and recognition of other people in those fields.

For eg, someone who didn't waste his time during grad years and was able to complete many awesome things, fetched a job that I could only imagine. Lately, I have been avoiding going out on weekends, because "I have to do build something for world to show". Has this been helpful? Yes maybe, but not certainly, "very enjoyable".
I don't think so. Given the huge amount that are still in circulation, and the number of people who are hoarding them for spare parts for machines they are still using I suspect you'd have to wait much longer than 10 years to profit from it.
Did you get the full story about artificial sweeteners and diabetes?
Am I the only one that just can't get over all the spam comments on the article?
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Point the entrance to the hive facing "out".

During high season, bees don't really hang around the hive; they leave and go forage. You can stand 2 meters in front of my hives and turn your back and have no idea there's a beehive anywhere near you.
Split up tablet and phone benchmarks but scaling by size is silly. Is it device size? Screen size? Screen resolution? Weight?
Reversible, tiny, faster: Hands on with the USB Type-C plug
Is Myst not really a game? Or are these people too young to remember "not a game" is not exactly an original accusation?
Wish they would include the iPhone 5 results. Most people keep a phone for two years.
Is there a book/resource you'd recommend to people who know absolutely nothing about beekeeping but think it sounds terribly awesome and would like to know what it takes to get started?
The problem is much harder, in fact NP complete I believe and there are indeed placing tools that do that.
AngularJS + Symfony 2
I agree that the 'false sense of security' problem is one of the biggest issues that SemVer faces, but it can be remedied in a variety of ways. Nuget, for example, is strongly focused on SemVer, and most (recent) packages tend to follow it. It's a cultural issue more than a technical one.

It's also very true that the responsibility is on the developer doing the upgrade, but the package maker should not make that job harder or more risky than it already is. Creating hard-to-distinguish variations that can have a big impact is not a good way to make upgrades easier.
I have built multiple apps in Titanium, and I have never experienced anything even remotely "horribly slow". The performance penalty is very, very small - undetectable to the average user. I am not sure the apps you were building, but, you do have to use common sense: you can't expect to build a highly interactive game with lots of complex calculations and animations in a dynamic language without a noticeable performance penalty. For 90%+ of the apps out there though, there is no reason not to use something like Titanium if cross-platform is your priority.
I was with you until you mentioned quick time events. I will quit playing any game that thinks it's more engaging to ask me to break my keyboard/mouse/controller by rapidly mashing a button for no reason other than the game designer's laziness. Just say no to quick time.
Some may be offended by your characterization of LSD as a "shortcut," but that's exactly how I see it. And that's a good thing! LSD (and other psychedelics) can give you a fascinating glimpse of what is possible -- then, a few hours later, you're back to "normal." It's an experience that has driven many to take up meditation, yoga, etc. in pursuit of achieving that same state of mind without drugs. If you believe you're already "there," that's great. But in my view, there is always room to grow.
JamVM – A compact Java Virtual Machine
In that case, prior versions are just in-securable. If less content was encrypted, however, why would investigators need Apple's help in getting to the data when the data is stored in unencrypted right on the device?
Myst is game all right, albeit made of a collection of silly puzzles. You have fond memories of it ?
> Also not sure why this is here, but it's always nice to see.

Because people found it interesting, and it's not politics, current events, an 'outrage article', or some other flame bait.

I hate seeing politics here, but quite enjoy articles like this.
"So what?" is that multiplayer games are a recent, online-only thing. They are not.
Thanks. Probably going to evaluate http://alternativeto.net/software/ublock/ instead next time I have to use chrome.
Getting text to reflow on window resize in gnome-terminal
Neopythonic: Letter to a young programmer (2013)
First beta of openSUSE 13.2 is here
I doubt it, the iphone is the handheld console of today, lots of people use that more than the browser. It's a shame that there's not really any good games for the iphone though (I'm looking at you, every IAP game ever).
Do not place iPhone 6 in microwave, no matter what anyone tells you
You think a 5.4 is well received?
If they weren't, would performance (score, battery usage) go even higher?
Some benchmarks are already scaled by screen size. Those have on screen and off screen versions.
I'd like to see some PC-phone comparisons now that they're starting to approach parity. By my calculations, the new iPhone seems to be roughly as fast as a 3 - 4 year old Macbook Air.
In my main rig, I have 8 currently, and would need to replace it all to upgrade (4x 2GB DIMMs) and presently can't afford to build a new one for at least a few months. I do not want a browser to waste 4GB where it would be 1 with all the bloat stripped out.
For any goal, there's only gone to be one (or a best a couple) optimal builds. Among players, the vast majority are going to have one or the same few goals.

In a MMO, most players are going to be chasing the most overpowered build. Which is why MMO developers change things all the time - not for supposed "balance", just to keep players on the treadmill.
Winning Methodology for Higgs Boson Machine Learning Challenge
I don't do a lot of gaming on my phone or on a tablet, so seems to me that the best bet right now (for me) is an iPhone 6 Plus.
Directory-as-a-Service (DaaS) launches as a service to cloudify AD/LDAP
Are full-device iCloud backups additionally encryped?

Apple possesses the key for most data synced with iCloud, or a huge number of iCloud features would not work. According to [1] Apple can still turn over iCloud data.

[1]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2014/09/17...
Doesn't the "offscreen" test do that? i.e. render something on an offscreen, fixed and uniform resolution on all devices?

Although battery performance should probably be normalized to battery size / amperage, yeah. Bigger phones usually have the same resolution as their smaller siblings but larger battery capacity.
Things They Don't Teach Software Engineering Students
The top apps include many graphic heavy games, your usage is most likely not typical (which should be fairly obvious considering what site you're on).

Currently top grossing for the US: Clash of Clans, Candy Crush Saga, Pandora, Game of War - Fire Age, Farm Heroes Saga.
Yeah, I've already done that - Status4Evar, Classic Theme Restorer, Old Location Bar, Switch To Tab No More, Show Go!, etc. My point is I shouldn't need that many addons to get a normal browser out of the mess firefox is becoming.
> 1) A passcode is probably not covered by Fifth Amendment protections. Thus a phone owner who refuses to lock their phone could be punished by the court anyway.

No, Kerr either doesn't know the case law or is completely ignoring a huge chunk of it to make his point. I prefer the latter, but regardless, his point about the 5th Amendment is completely wrong as this is far from a settled issue and other courts have ruled differently:

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/federal-appeals-court-fifth...
There is likely a beekeepers' association in your state/county area (see what comes up on a Google search).

They usually have meetings and education/demo days, or at least would be happy to answer any questions that you have about keeping bees.

I think this is better than reading a book, because there are often special rules or challenges depending on where you live, and these are things that the local beekeepers would know about.
Quick time doesn't mean "mash button", it means "press button at the correct time".
The Perfect Running App
Interesting to see that hidden text has been around for much longer than it has been on websites.
Also, a calorie is not a calorie. The body spends much less time and energy digesting simple sugars and starches, compared to proteins and fats, and because carbs are digested so much more efficiently, they contribute more to weight gain. It is possible to lose weight simply by reducing carbohydrates as a percentage of diet, even if total caloric consumption remains constant.

Satiety is also a major factor, probably the most underrated factor in successful weight loss. Because the body digests them more slowly, high fat and protein foods stave off hunger much longer than high carb foods do, so people naturally tend to consume fewer total calories on a low carb diet, due to reduced hunger and cravings.
It's at least the third article that spun off from the WSJ article (if not even an older article/interview).
I think an 86 is very well received.

I think hundreds of 0s and 1s in the User Scores is evidence of nothing but trolls.
Shopify's 5th build a business competition: A week on Branson's island
>In the game I work on, Path of Exile, we have specifically made respec something that has a cost.

And you made it so I have no idea what I should be taking and not taking. And you made it so the game heavily punishes me for unknowingly taking the "wrong" thing and not being perfectly optimal. This is why everyone stopped playing so quickly.
To anyone approaching Myst for the first time, I suggest picking up Real Myst on Steam.
Do you like web programming? Could you get up-to-speed in it again quickly? If so, do that -- there's a world-wide shortage of competent engineers. Resume is irrelevant (and yours is fine anyway)

If you need a quick job, talk to your customers, and see if they have any openings.
What are you afraid of? Go is compiled. You have the compiler. You have the libraries. You have your code. You have perpetual licenses to run these things, and even to fork them.
Construct yourself a solid build chain, the kind that works even when you unplug it from the network. Bundle it inside a virtual machine, and it'll probably still be runnable in two decades.

The dependencies that you need to avoid are runtime dependencies, the kind that can disappear overnight. Does my deployment depend on Rubygems or NPM being up? Did I accidentally build in a hard requirement for Google App Engine? Did I use a licensed piece of software whose license could be withdrawn overnight? Is there only one person who can even read my fancy-pants source code, and might that person suddenly decide to become a guru and retire to a distant mountaintop with no cellular access?

But there's no sense in fretting about what might happen on a five-to-ten-year timeframe. Face it: In ten years, the code you write today will look old. Using Java won't save you. The fact that Android is based on Java doesn't mean that ten-year-old Java apps support Android in any meaningful sense. Ten-year-old Objective C code is stale: It doesn't support iOS, it doesn't use new features of Mac OS. How do you even know which Python will be most popular in production in five years, Python 2 or Python 3?

Your code will evolve over the next N years, and if Go spontaneously implodes -- a very unlikely event at this point -- you'll do what the Docker folks are going to do: Keep using it for months or years while you port it to whatever comes next.
Programmers, have you ever found yourselves pigeonholed in your role?
I think the 750 words method is more of a morning brain dump than a tool to improve the technique of your writing.
EBay under pressure as hacks continue
I've learned the most from lurking around the forums at http://www.beesource.com/forums/. Some kind of beginners beekeeping book that covers the basics would probably be good too, but I don't really have any good recommendations.
Great Startups Are Where Soul and Technology Meet
I agree with the gist of your post but I think the author was making a deeper point with it.

It's not just that storytelling has taken over at the expense of gameplay, it's that we haven't even really developed our own storytelling capability.

When games tell stories they stop the action, freeze player agency, and go into full Hollywood mode. Game studios trip all over themselves to excitedly tell us about how their new technology will allow them Hollywood-like cinematic camera angles (see: Mass Effect), movie-quality camera effects. Hell, a lot of games even letterbox the screen to give it a more film-like quality.

It's one thing to take storytelling expertise and technique from cinema, it's another to clone it obsessively and completely fail to develop your own storytelling medium. Imagine if movies were invented only for "filmmakers" to simply film a book from top-down and a hand turning the pages!

One game I've been enjoying is Kentucky Route Zero - the story I find is fairly normal, but the way it's presented takes pretty clear inspiration from traditional stage plays. This is cool - even if it is still derivative, but at least it's taking another medium and adapting it appropriately to a game.
Apple Reservation Notifier in Node.js
Float Rating View in Swift
GPS tracker for Kids and Pets without monthly fees
Theory: Wallstreet has limited other domestic outlets for their investment money since the 2008 crash, and is therefore investing heavily in tech. This will continue until either 1) more sectors of the economy recover present new and/or better investment opportunities or 2) a crash occurs. However, in the case of #2, which everyone fears, unless the conditions change and wall street gets a new location to place their money, tech will still be one of the best domestic investment opportunities, and we'll see a new climb in spending after said crash.

That's my 2 cent theory, I'd love to hear some discussion on it.
Solar Panels Cost Less Than Electricity from Natural Gas
We have worked with a number of SaaS organizations to understand the goals and objectives of their business and their CSM efforts. As a result we have packaged our customer success solution based on company maturity and budget. Our high-touch solution designed specifically for startups is priced at $200/month. Pam - Director of Marketing at Amity
Most Influential 50 Are the Bankers, Investors Who Move Markets
It sucks to be kicked out of your own co. chton here has given good advice. Hopefully you still have some shareholdings/vested interest, right? Maybe remaining founders/investors are interested to purchase your vested stake if you're in dire need of money.

If there's absolutely no way you can avoid being fired from your co then it's better to accept that fact rather than keep looking in rear-view mirror and postulate 'what-if' scenarios. Own it and proudly include it in your resume.

"Grew XYZ from zero to $N until I was kicked out by my board and learned a few imp business lessons" - that's an experience most companies will value.

Since you're still in twenties, unmarried - you still have some time left on your side. Start hanging around on hackerearth kind of spaces where they combine hackernight kind of events with recruitment by actual startups if you want to remain on the tech path.

But looking at fact that you were able to sell airfresheners to SMBs (the toughest mkt) in Mumbai I'm sure you can sell pretty much any similar product to similar or (for that matter even same?) clientele. Enterpreneurship is 10x hard in India and so what you've achieved in oldschool product/mkt is no mean feat.

Is there anything that stops you from tapping in to your existing clients? If not, I'll suggest go back to purchasing managers of these SMB clients, be upfront & tell them you're out of your current co and ask them if there's anything else you can supply to them. If they were impressed by your capabilities/service in previous co, some of them will still like to have you around as vendor for a different product. Or maybe they can refer you to some other co. So take that up. Get some commitments, restart, bootstrap. But this time having learnt lesson from current misfortune, take care not to dilute so much that you lose controlling interest.

All the best.

I'm from Bombay. I'll gladly be your sounding board if you want to discuss any of this in-person. My email is in my profile.