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I'm really surprised, it seems pretty much on track with iOS7, that was 58% after 7 days [1].

I thought that the space requirement would slow down adoption (I still have to change because of that).

[1] http://9to5mac.com/2013/09/26/ios-7-adoption-rate-much-highe...
So, I really like this idea. It's similar to https://www.workingon.co

I like the idea of an e-mail based solution, but with such a simple concept I don't want to be tied to e-mail. I want it to be web based, I want it to be email based, command line, and I want to use hubot in campfire.

At the end of the day this gets rid of the daily standup, which I personally find tedious. I typically get little to no value from them, and feel they are more of a management tool. This sort of thing gets me out of meetings, which I'm all for.
Funnily enough, one market for those is people who want them for testing; iOS6 in particular is a problem, because the only device that got left on it was the 3GS.
Job at Google in 6 months recipe
The low-quality of all photos always made me wonder, too.
The steam engine also did much to promote distant relationships and increase genetic diversity. You were no longer limited to dating someone from the local town or county -- in a few hours journey you could meet someone far away.
Yeah bit of both as usuals but the first as engineers know what they risked.

As any dramaticals events you had stupidy , petty arrangements, manipulations and heroism.

Still glad for the heroism of the first people on this event.
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And this is why I always use PHP as an introductory language if I have to teach web dev; the setup part is much more straightforward than it is for Rails/Django/etc., and you don't have to spend a ton of time teaching dozens of concepts (MVC, routes, templating, git, unit tests, ORMs, etc.) before the students can have mini web apps written.

Some programmers balk at the idea of teaching PHP with plain HTML/CSS instead of teaching using Rails + Angular + all the fancy crap they like, but I've taught web dev to over 500+ students in the past 7+ years (and programming/CS to about twice that), and it's worked like a charm (and the people who get the most upset by that notion are often those who have taught 0 students).

My girlfriend is an art teacher, and when they teach new students they don't start right away with watercolor or oil paints; rather, they start with materials that are easier to handle for beginners (e.g. plain pencil), so they can focus on the basics before tackling the more subtle and advanced techniques. Why are we trying to teach programming using all the fancy tools and technologies used in production systems?
But it does if I have to buy it at higher price just because Avis knew a that I and a few fellows where to buy the car 2 min in advance because he saw us asking about that car, bought the available stock of car we were interested in to the car dealer, propose them at a slight premium to the the car dealer who then finally sell it to me and my fellow 1 minute later at another premium because, you know, it has to make its own margin. The whole thing happening just under my nose.

That's how I (unobjectively I concede) feel about HFT.
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It's stories like this that get the brain thinking in different directions than we do in a typical tech day. I absolutely love stories about ants and bees in general, so very refreshing to see here.
Telling people my location or if I am driving is not a feature I want just like never used the status feature on any IM/text client ever had...

People should never expect an instant reply to any IM, text, or phone call. The receiver's status is totally irrelevant. Society is going to hell from this type of technology.
Thanks for your great feedback! Some of the major problems we were facing with standup meetings were, that in "the real world" team member come late, work remotely etc... So the email-based solution always works for everyone (who has an email address...) without interrupting them from what they're currently working on.
Very nice article. A very interesting approach on the industry and the struggle of non-tech founders in a market fostered by technology.
Irrelevant to the content of this article, which discusses historical What If scenarios, but this title and another front page story today (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8353881) reminded me of the following:

Not all languages have built in counterfactual constructions, an example is Chinese (Mandarin). Starting in the 80s and continuing into the 90s, there was a big debate about whether Chinese speakers were at a disadvantage in quickly understanding complex counterfactual statements. During those times such suggestions were relatively taboo (especially due to Chomsky's strong anti-linguistics relativism stance) but that has relaxed considerably due to the work of many researchers. A recent paper summarizing the debate on Chinese counterfactuals can be found here (http://groups.psych.northwestern.edu/gentner/papers/YehGentn...).

An example from that paper that compares a counterfactual statements in English and Chinese:

“If I had gone to the movies that evening, I could not have
had dinner with my mom.”

The counterfactual mode is signaled by having the verb of the suppositional clause in the past perfect tense and that of the main clause in the conditional form.

The Chinese equivalent is

“Ru guo wo na tien wan shan qu kan le dien ying, wo jiu
bu neng gen wo ma qu chi wan fan.”

This translates roughly to the English: If that night I go watch
(past particle) a movie, I then cannot accompany my mom to
go eat dinner.

In Chinese, which lacks verb inflections, a counterfactual
is signaled by comparing the tense information—e.g., the past
tense particle (le) after the verb—with contextual information
as to whether the event actually occurred. The second clause
is simply a consequence clause; it has no internal marker of
counterfactuality.
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Mean no harm? They're predators. They eat scary monsters for lunch, literally. They just don't consider us prey.
Agreed.
This movie possibly has the best EQ to IQ ratio I've seen.
In other words the balance of heart or emotional content to stuff that requires the main character to have brains and dare I say, a hacker mentality, is just superlative
The fact that financial industry as a whole just recently in the 2008/2009 crash and it's aftermath were able to extract obscene amounts of money from our governments (i.e. us) to keep the world's finance system from collapsing makes the suspection that most financial products purely based on a material advantage (be it monetary or technological) are akin to a scam very reasonable.

I think you're dangerously conflating HFT with the financial industry as a whole. For example, iIn 2012, the whole of HFT firms earned $1.25 billions in profits. In the same year, Goldman Sachs alone earned $7.5 billions.

HFTs, good or bad, are not the big players.
Is there a way to tweak the frequency of the digest ? We're currently working on a weekly report basis with my team, and I'd definitely try the solution if we can keep it weekly
I thought that you couldn't use the App Store if you jail broke your phone? That's how Apple gets it statistics.
Suspend/hibernate on free unixes is a nightmare of incomplete support and buggy drivers, so not much of a solution. I'm don't know a single person who has a working laptop suspend/resume setup on FreeBSD (though it's theoretically possible), and it's not usually recommended to rely on it even if you could get it working. Linux has somewhat more complete support, but it's still very hit or miss, and it's common for stuff to be wonky after a resume, even when it does work.
It's like going to the premier meetup event, but as meetup's go, it's really random and depends on what you have to offer as well. If you are impressive and have traction, you get more ears. That said, you shouldn't go thinking you will find co-founders or investors. There are SWARMS of people and it simply isn't set up for that except for brief breaks to network. In the end, the benefit could be little, so it's really a personal decision. How much is ~300 dollars worth to you? Do you have any other reasons for the trip? It was nice to talk to other potential founders, but personally it didn't jazz me one way or the other. My business was still my business.
Yes, self-experimentation and knowingly risking the most precious thing there is - your own life, to advance science and help others, is one of the most heroic things. I'm not sure if Jim is doing anything as heroic and with the same admirable motives, but I really hope he's and other self-experimenters contribute to medicine and science, because really the pace, cost, and the moral concerns of studies slow progress down tremendously.
Rackspace's post does address this as well:

>We are still fighting some of the trolls that have come after us and we expect to win those cases too. Without changes in the law we believe that the only way to end the plague of patent trolls is by fighting every troll that comes at us – and we encourage all others to do the same.

with a link to http://www.rackspace.com/blog/a-sad-day-for-patent-reform-a-...
Easy and good integration. Small and very efficient.
Can someone give real world examples when this would be better? It seems to be copy-on-write in a way.
iPod Touch 4th gen also tops out at iOS 6.
I'd argue that nuance is harder to determine through voice on a phone when you can't read body language and have a harder time hearing them. It's pretty easy through text when you know the person or use an emoticon. Videochat is definitely better than text for that reason though still don't have a log or ability to search/copy.

By digital I meant communicating with some sort of digital device and not face to face or through a letter.
The 19th century Indian culture depicted in those dioramas is extinct now and definitely does have a place in a history museum - in exactly the same manner as the (now extinct) 19th century white American frontier town culture or the (now extinct) 19th century Bavarian farmer culture.

The fact that there are living descendants of all those cultures, and some of them [try to] follow traditional aspects of this culture does not diminish the historical value of illustrations about the culture as it was back thin.

There may be valid reasons to remove exhibits - for example, if the depictions are misleading and based on assumptions now known to be false; or if the depictions are irrelevant and boring. But if some people are offended by their own history, then that's not a reason worth considering, much less acting on it - if the depiction is factually accurate (which, as much as I understood from the article, isn't disputed), then it should stay.

If the current treatment seems unfair, then producing more relevant dioramas of the other cultures would be a reasonable response - such exhibits can be very effective illustrations about all the "non-native" populations as well.
INFOGRAPHIC- THE CHANGING ROLE OF THE CIO
50/50 especially does not work in that situation, where the split has been decided already by one side before any developer shows any interest.

Find a developer first who is interested. They'll tell you their motivation. Maybe they believe in the idea like crazy and want to build this. If so, maybe 50/50 could work. Maybe they are just looking for an item on their empty resume and can commit only about a month on this project. If so, 50/50 definitely is a recipe for disaster.
This. I have a github account, and when I wasn't working as a developer, it was more active. Right now, all my code contributions go to closed, company-hosted repos. I'm coding more now than I was before, but you won't find any of that on my github. It's the -- possibly unfortunate -- nature of private industry, but that should be a surprise to no one. Sure, I'd love to work somewhere that lets me contribute to FOSS projects during my work day, but that is a much smaller subset of all jobs that involve software development.
Yea but the male usb still goes inside the female. It's really crude but the designations are supposed to mirror human reproductive organs, male goes inside of female.
Wow, that's amazing. Did you learn all of those languages when you were a young child or did you learn them as you were getting older? Also, are you from a country that is bordered by a lot of other countries with native languages but doesn't have a native language of its own, like Switzerland?
yes! You'll be able to individually setup when the digest (and reminder emails) will get send out. This could be daily, weekly, monthly or just on choosen days like every Tuesday etc...
This is a really great idea--bravo, xtrmntr! Are you traversing a SoundCloud playlist, or pulling randomly based on tags? It's quite cool.

If the police feeds are too dramatic, there's that excellent (archival) NASA audio one as well: http://youarelistening.to/nasa
By contrast...

https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
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There are a few options, but the most fully-formed is probably purescript-react. I'm also interested to see where the virtual-dom bindings go. The last chapter of the book covers how you might go about writing a library for working with DOM elements in PureScript.
Great design. Keep it up guys.
Not having experience is a huge barrier to clear. When trying to get my first job I only had a minor in CS. I had 13 interviews before I got a job, and I had to continually revise my resume. Don't give up. Focus on breadth vs. depth in terms of jobs and knowledge. And don't worry about minimum years experience requirements on job postings. You can get a job that is for someone with 3-5 years experience; they just won't pay you as much.
Yes. Indent per issue. One .otl file with all issues in it. No format enforced although I'm pretty consistent at writing issues. Once complete the issue is simply deleted. I've done this up to 4 people and it has worked wonderfully even though they had to learn vim :)

You can pipe it through awk to remove any lines starting with a space/tab, sort it then then diff the result with earlier versions to work out progress etc as well.
If we don't see a large-scale military-invasion-sized response in the next week or so, I don't think they're going to stop it. Western Africa is screwed, along with other any country that lacks the ability to handle the plague or close its borders.
> I fail yet to see what advantages PureScript brings compared to Elm.

I think they fit different use cases. Elm is excellent at interactive web apps using FRP. PureScript is a little more general purpose and has a few type system features which Elm currently does not (type classes and rank N polymorphism). Also, PureScript's generated code is a bit simpler and doesn't need a runtime library.
Looks good. Could be a nice revenue source for those who develop a legit web app.
No, people are choosing to upgrade to ios8 if it is required by the applications that they chose to run.

They could also choose to run comparable software that does not require ios8 and not upgrade at all.
As an Indian, this headline intrigued me to draw a click. Then I realized that the article was about Native Americans and this usage, as always, filled me with a mild rage for a few seconds. Is it really that hard to just use a non-confusing term for native americans in written language now that it's clear that India is somewhere else on the globe altogether?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9VMY8X9rU8
I recently came off of a string of startups being CTO and I can attest that the attempt to recruit me has increased 10x since the last time I was on the market.
Sometime, somewhere, in this world in which we live
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Nephorider the AWS cloud infrastructure visualization tool gets more polish
The Look and Say Sequence (and Conway's Constant)
Solaris guys certainly wouldn't tell you that, unless they haven't used Solaris in the last decade. Since Solaris 10 (2005), it has a unified process supervision and init system, with declarative config files, dependency boot, and all that other good stuff that's just now coming to Linux. It's part of the Service Management Facility (SMF), which replaced the old init-script-based system. The Illumos distributions all use SMF as well, not BSD or SysV-style init/rc scripts. A few design decisions are now seen as warts (today, XML probably wouldn't have been chosen for the config files), but I think SMF is pretty widely seen as an improvement vs. managing services with shell scripts.
> If you are including third-party code in your patch,
> commit it separately.

Sometimes I'll do that with changes that involve new service client libraries. First commit will have the new library fooservice_client along with its config files and such. Once that gets deployed I can open up a production console and verify that the app can query the service and display the results. Then a followup commit will contain the actual change that I want to make - "query foo service for a list of bars and display them" - and I'll put a note about how the connection credentials and setup have already been verified.

Of course that depends on an environment with more or less continuous deployment. If deploys are two weeks apart this approach is just going to take to long to get anything done.
I like the concept, but the very first Javascript problem statement starts this way:

Bob is a lackadaisical teenager. In conversation, his responses are very limited.

Bob answers 'Sure.' if you ask him a question.

He answers 'Woah, chill out!' if you yell at him.

He says 'Fine. Be that way!' if you address him without actually saying anything.

I'm sure this is my personal biases (and possibly age) showing, but this caused me to walk away shaking my head.
What's with the entitlement? How about being thankful that they have a free plan you can use, that's useful, and continues to be available?

A referral is - unless an arrangement has been made - a service to the person you're referring, in that you're making a recommendation built on trust and aren't misleading someone.
I'll give you that to a degree. It does suck on FreeBSD with my X201. Nothing works but I'm being cheeky now and running it in VirtualBox on top of windows (which I need for other work).

OpenBSD however works wonderfully.
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The question is whether the listener understands that the statement is counterfactual. E.g. If an English speaker says, if Gore had been elected in 2000 we never invaded Iraq, most English speakers would get the meaning anyway.
Nice and exactly latched on to the users who hesitate to use scrum/agile process. Good work.
I doubt that Europe has much inter-Europe nationalism already. That is, between different nations of Europe.

And I'm not sure this program affects nationalism between locals and immigrants. It may do so, since a lot of university students are immigrants. But on the other hand, it is also true if you study locally.
I helped out on a nice photobook editor that is here:

http://pook.io/auth/login#designStage=demo

Its particular advantage was that web-to-print was very accurate and reliable, so you could depend on getting a book that looked like what you saw on the screen.

The owner eventually decided not to bring it to market, but he might be interested in hearing from you. You can read more about the project here:

https://github.com/atotic/pb_server
I work at a huge company named after a big river in South America. I don't know of anybody in my org that has a GitHub, and maybe like 1/10 of the resumes I see for interview candidates have one. Is this "expectation" a San Francisco thing?
You do have a choice, but it's between an OS with unpatched vulnerabilities and iOS 8. If you care a little about security, you're forced to upgrade. Attackers don't necessarily need much time to compare the two versions and understand the vulnerabilities that were fixed.

It's not about Apple being evil, it's the nature of computer security today. However they could backport security fixes, if they wanted to leave a period of time where people have a meaningful choice between freshness and stability.
That includes the USA, right?
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Hi Folks! Four quick survey questions that'd help me out a lot.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GhDiZoNLqft2F57OTJYN_023vmBHpz2oi6-bF8kL0h4/viewform?usp=send_form

Gist of the Survey: Techies & formal education
My recommendations when checking in a new feature or substantial change:

1. Meet in person

2. The coder should print out copies of the diffed code for each attendee

3. Have roles in the meeting - someone to read the code, someone to capture bugs + severity, and the rest are there to review the code

4. Coder takes documented defects, fixes them and reports back to the group with diffs.

5. Metrics can be kept, used as feedback to improve process.

Usually 4-5 people are sufficient for a large chunk of functionality.

Is this process slower than gerrit? yes. Do you get better feedback, and better understanding (at a team level) of the code base? yes.

I haven't seen software that really emulates this experience - there is an interesting opportunity here.
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I wouldn't say it's bleak. The next version of Red Hat's PaaS is based on docker containers.

"The OpenShift v3 Cartridge format will adopt the Docker packaging model and enable users to leverage any application component packaged as a Docker image. This will enable developers to tap into the Docker Hub community to both access and share container images to use in OpenShift."

https://www.openshift.com/blogs/openshift-v3-platform-combin...

https://github.com/openshift/openshift-pep/blob/master/opens...
" Exercises consisting of a test suite and a README are available in Clojure, CoffeeScript, C#, C++, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, JavaScript, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl5, Python, Ruby, Scala, and Swift."

I wonder why no plain C?
This has been brought up before and lots of issues were raised. Including multiple 0s and lack of normalization.
Microsoft Azure introduces new machines with SSDs and faster processors
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I wonder how low we could get friction for one of these things. An evacuated tunnel and magnetic suspension are probably decent, but I'm curious how much additional power would be required to get the train all the way up the uphill portion.
It's not that Chinese listeners do not understand counterfactuals. The original researcher's (Bloom) hypothesis was that Chinese speakers have more cognitive load analyzing such statements so if asked to analyze complicated small counterfactual stories under time pressure they would perform worse than English speakers.
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From my preliminary tests on a Solr server, using the SSD drive leads to worse performance than using the normal drive.
In that case, then maybe people who are refused jobs in this industry due to some superficial reason like age can simply take the course and instantly get a job, right?
Those seem like two somewhat distinct regions of definitionspace. But yes, they sound about right for what I usually mean by "open-ended". X-Com would be mostly an example of the latter, while a sandboxy game like Minecraft would primarily identify with the former.

But at this point I think it's more convenient to ditch "open-ended" and find other words to associate less confusingly with those notions. "sandboxy", above, is my first candidate. I have no good ideas for the other kind at the moment.