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That's an interesting question, and I have two answers for it:

1. My dogs live a much longer, happier, healthier life with me than they would out in the wild. Their lives are orders of magnitude better here.

2. Have you ever shown a dog a leash? :-)
If you are using Java with a package/build manager like maven you can always automatically pull all the source jars and then any IDE (Intellij/Eclipse) will allow you to jump through all third party libraries. Are you targeting the non-IDE crowd with this tool?
One can still install a program to "somewhere random across the filesystem" on most OS's, even Windows. It just so happens that by convention, most programs get installed to the "Program Files" directory, but that is not a requirement.
No. It's because I don't think 1.5 billion people can easily be categorized by the actions of a minority.
People can be so insanely desperate to have children exactly in some arbitrary and specific way.

I mean, this woman went through a very dangerous and expensive transplant surgery that then required the use of immunosuppressant drugs to prevent organ rejection, when she could have used a surrogate or, gasp, adopted.

I hope they had to pay for this surgery with their own cash. There is absolutely no medical necessity behind it.

Edit: This comment seems to be eliciting some disapproval. I'm curious why; please let me know what you're thinking.
I watch this every time I want to restore my motivation and faith in humanity and its bright future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yijcWsLda8#t=10

While ST:ENT was widely criticized as "losing the spirit", I think that its intro - the images, the song, the message - is the perfect and most beautiful description of the spirit of Star Trek. Hope, curiosity, exploration, faith that we can solve all our problems, that things are to get better and not worse - all in there.
OS/400 systems (by IBM, also called AS/400, System i, iSeries, iOS, etc)are a database operating system, there are no files, only "libraries". The entire thing sits on top of a customized DB2 database.
There are a lot more bees in a hive than in a pod of whales or dolphins, we're talking potentially many tens of thousands of bees per hive. I think that's the qualifier here, scale of numbers
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It didn't seem to stop https://

Granted, I think it was overall a poor decision to introduce that scheme prefix as well. It's just that, many arguments against a new scheme prefix also applied in that case, and many arguments for that new scheme prefix would apply in this case.
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Thanks for the reply. One of my main issues is just knowing what the files are and what they can be used for against me potentially.

They are in ~ in a dir that is a .dir so hidden from 90% ( guessing ) of most casual DB users. If someone were to delete their home files, by putting them in the trash, they may think they deleted their DropBox data too, but they would be wrong.

It was that scenario I was concerted about, or at least, wanted to know more about so I could be sure to delete those files and know it is safe to do so, and won't harm the files stored in my DropBox on other machines, or in a recovery procedure.
I did not intend it that way.

If you, or anyone else has really thought of the matter and are satisfied (I genuinely would like to hear the reasons), that is quite different than doing something just because that's what everyone else does.

What I intended to convey was that as a society, except for people who either are or are portrayed as extremists, eating meat is not even given a second thought.

Every other ad on TV is of a delicious burger. Entire shows and channels are based on our ability to prepare meat in delicious ways. Hell, I live in Texas, and one of the many things people think of when they think of the state is our BBQ.

In this kind of culture it is inevitable that many people will go through their lives without for a second even considering what it would seem is an important ethical issue. Like I said, I don't mean offense, and it is unfair (and not my intention) to say that those who do eat meat haven't thought about it. It's just that people do need to think about it.
These types of assassinations don't seem to happen very often, so there probably isn't much actual data. But I would expect that a single shot of a rifle is quite difficult to pinpoint, especially in an urban setting. There are audio gunfire locators that some cities have, but even then, the assassin can be long gone by the time anyone could respond. Just drive a car into a nearby parking garage, do the thing, and leave. For a drone operation, the setup and "mission" time is almost certainly much longer. I don't think we're anywhere near fully autonomous missions that could assassinate with any appreciable reliability, so you're going to need to fly line of sight (very impractical because of the range) or FPV (still impractical because of the required skill, equipment and mission time).

Could a professional band of assassins pull off an assassination with a drone? Certainly. Would it be far easier to just use a rifle? I'd say absolutely.
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Yes, but when someone says they recently came from Liberia, and he outbreak is centered in Liberia, that is something out of the ordinary. I don't expect people to have all knowledge about the management of the disease at their fingertips, but yes I do expect them to be aware of it as a potential danger, in the same way they need to be aware of things like Enterovirus D68 and the current measles outbreak, to name but two. That might simply mean asking the patient to wait while spending a few minutes looking up procedures and arranging for an unusual blood test to be performed (which was apparently done last instead of first: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20141003-ebola-case-blo...)

What is the point of the CDC sending out bulletins on things to watch out for if the people with the relevant clinical and administrative expertise don't pay attention to them? I'm sorry, I am not buying the idea that having greater domain knowledge is an excuse for being less aware of a major risk factor that has been a headline news story for months.

While it's true that Ebola has only affected a few thousand people so far, it's also true that it's led to the collapse of public health systems in several developing countries, and is threatening the ability of the countries themselves to function. It's fairly fast acting, fairly easily communicable, and kills 60-70% of patients. It seems to me that staying abreast of emergent public health issues is a significant part of what people are paid for. Again, not necessarily knowing in advance what to do about every situation, but the ability to recognize a potentially dangerous situation as something out of the ordinary.
>Killing animals shouldn't be completely abstracted away from society - we need to understand what we are doing in a hands on way.

I agree, but I think its worth pointing out that in many parts of the country (esp. the non-costal areas), much of the population has shot and cleaned a deer, turkey, etc.

So to assume in modern America that this kind of intimacy with death is universally abstracted would be a mistake. After all an estimated 43.7 million Americans hunted last year [1].

1: http://www.conservationforce.org/role4.html
Which IDE is it integrated with, cool feature but not a game changer.
Very cool! If you combined this with something like blockly[0] I bet it'd inspire quite a few kids.

[0]: https://code.google.com/p/blockly/
If you plan to work remote, don't charge Phillipines rates just because you live there. People in the US will easily pay you 5-6x as much for the same work, and all you have to do is not say where you live.

On that note, I second the suggestion to improve your English. Most of your clients will know absolutely nothing to very little about technology and your ability to convince them will end up being a function of your command of English in your email exchanges, Skype chats, cover letters, etc.
From my experience Apple still ships products with lesser bugs in comparison to the competition. However, it is true that overall finish and polish of OS X is not consistent with previous releases. I remember my old iBook G4 that ran Panther and then Tiger. That thing was a solid, stable beast. It's the product that allowed Apple to earn my respect.
Congratulations to the EU courts. Through great skill and determination they have managed to construct the world's first self-Streisanding privacy law.
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Fragmentation grenades are presumably fairly difficult to come by. I think it's laughable to worry about an autonomous or remotely piloted drone assassinating people with fragmentation grenades when a normal firearm operated by a human is extremely practical and seems to work well enough. The latter is designed for nearly that exact purpose, and refined over centuries. They're cheap, easy to use, easy to get (in some places), and reliable.
The main use-case that I see for this is when an exception is thrown in production on some random server inside a third party library. Such exceptions can be excruciatingly hard to run down without the source code.
> How do you find affordable but capable remote developers?

You pay them more.
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"I also find talking on the phone is a great way to pass the time during a commute"

That's as dangerous as driving while (slightly) drunk, and "hands-free" devices don't make much difference, if any.

http://www.distraction.gov/download/research-pdf/comparison-...

I don't know of any studies with respect to listening to audiobooks while driving, but I would be surprised if they weren't also distracting (probably directly proportional to the level of interest the driver has in the book).

Conversing with a person who is actually present in the car with you is also distracting, but in that situation you also gain some safety by virtue of having another pair of eyes watching for danger, so it's more of a wash.
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Already down it seems, so :

https://archive.today/xviTV

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1y7wk6m...
It's safe to say that pet ownership is fucking terrible for dogs.

Over-breeding leads to painful life limiting genetic flaws.

Excess breeding gives a huge population of dogs with no hope of kind ownership, leading to thousands of dogs being killed each day and many others living in pounds.
Although sleep deprivation and apathy might look similar.
Point well taken - for people who abuse and mistreat their dogs. But I hope you're not tarring everybody with the same brush.

We rescued our three dogs through a wonderful no-kill shelter here in Redwood City, Pets in Need:

http://www.petsinneed.org/

I don't know what industry we were feeding with our modest adoption fees and donations, other than Pets in Need's mission of rescuing dogs from kill shelters.

So here's an example of how badly we abuse our dogs. Meet ThinkPad Dog:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/geary/12356111084/
It was more in response to "While this is obviously a perversion of justice, I'm not shedding many tears..."
Could I interest you in taking some short "gigs" at various startup businesses? Little problems in varied spaces.

I think a lot of us suffer from the lack of variety.

DO others think about taking some quick gigs at other places some times?
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It doesn't integrate with any IDE right now. As @arturnt noted, debugging and jumping to the right source code is generally not a problem when you're inside an IDE.
Exactly. That topics like these receive any attention is ridiculous. It shouldn't come as a surprise to us, however, that a topic so empty has appeared in what amounts to a lifestyle magazine run by first world, white, upper middle class slackers disconnected from reality. And perhaps most amusing of all is that these are exactly the same kinds of people that are pro-choice. There's something wrong going on here, some state of stunted development.

These are exactly the kinds of people who blather on about "speciesism" but fail to understand that there's a seething sanctimony to their moralizing. The official message is "we're no better", but the very idea of speciesism is speciesist and incoherently so. "We, the great moral humans, are better than these other animals for we do not behave as they do. Where they would have no qualms about eating us or any other animal, we, the morally superior, do not."

I suggest the author be shipped promptly to the third world, some war zone in Africa suffering from famine, without resources, without her Lexus, her cashmere turtle necks, and her credit cards, and be put in a position where she must learn resourcefulness and survival or perish. Heck, if we put all of our limp-wristed, hipster millennials through that kind of experience, there might be fewer hipsters. Reality is the greatest teacher.

Eat the damn octopus.
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Fingerprints, hair or clothing samples, asking nearby drone hobbyists if they might know anyone into drones who might want to murder the victim, sales records of retailers of drones or drone supplies, and of course the normal stuff, like who would want the victim killed in the first place.

I'm not a detective, but I suspect having the large, complex piece of electronic equipment that was used as the weapon would be a godsend compared to the evidence available in a normal murder or assassination investigation.
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Whats up with the down votes?

You may disagree, but that is no reason to down vote.
I love watching Shark Tank, Mixergy and Growth Hacker TV.

It's hard not to get inspired by seeing other passionate entrepreneurs talk about their business.
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TXR has some really cool features and seems very well suited to the domain. If you're going to dismiss perfectly good tool just because it "looks ugly" then you're just being unprofessional. And if it's "awkward to type" you can always write a transpiler if you really need it, or more likely a couple of macros/snippets for your editor.
It does not matter what I do. Of course I'm jealous. Who doesn't want $13 million? That's not the point. The point is that humans are collectively donating massive amounts of money to frivolous causes. I'm just trying to bring light to the fact that we could all be doing more to help people that truly need it (not me--I have a house, internet, food, etc).
You're saying that the specific manner of giving birth to a child you carry in a womb in your own body over 9 months that is of your own genetic makeup is "arbitrary," despite the fact that this is the exclusive mechanism of human procreation up until recent history.
Now that's an industry waiting for disruption. Automate them away.
> “We’re weeding out the stoners,” ... “We want to show the world that normal, professional, successful people consume cannabis.”

In other words, pot for elitists. It's not enough to just open a different kind of store, the marketing has to establish a hierarchy. And people will eat it up too, who can resist the opportunity to signal that you're better than some other group of people?
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This comment seems to be eliciting some disapproval. I'm curious why; please let me know what you're thinking.

I expect due to the implied tone. I agree with the general sentiment: there are much easier ways to get a kid, adoption arguably has more positive social impact, so why did they go with this route? But the way you phrase it, it seems rather like an attack that does not leave much room open for discussion.
Well the mature Granny Smith tree in my garden has nearly given me diabetes from the amount of crumble and pie that it has blessed us with and ruined the liver of many thanks to the reliable yearly cider production (affectionately known as "badger's arse" in the household). But at least my colon has friendly bacteria...

Nutrition: YMMV.
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Not disagreeing with you, but you have to consider the whole diet plus the gut microbiome. There's been a lot of focus on what we put into our bodies, we also need some focus on the organ that we weren't born with.
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I find mine on oDesk. Rates vary widely; good talent is always worth it. I'm paying between $12 and $38/hr.

I post a small gig, with well defined deliverable. Then I have like 100+ applicants. I use a tool I created to filter this down to four or five.

I'll do a quick interview, ask for code or something and then hire two of them for the same gig.

I evaluate their work over this short period (10-20h).

I pick the "winner"

The cost of this hiring via experimental gig is very low and I've had good results thus far.
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I wonder how much longer TV will play that role, considering Netflix's strategy of releasing whole seasons of their shows at the same time.
The quote from Teller pretty much sums up the situation: "You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlooker) would be willing to invest" (from an interview with him, it's a fascinating read http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Teller-Reveals-Hi...).
Interesting, thanks. I see the problem, but this paper takes as a given that individuals can introduce transactions that tilt the system in their favor. I can't immediately see a solution to this, but I don't think it's necessarily impossible.

An additional problem I just thought of, however, is that there will be some number of stakeholders that leave the network, lose their keys, etc., and there is a chance that they are the only ones chosen to sign a given history extension. So there has to be some way to recover from this, while still being resistant to denial-of-service attacks.
The other thing is that even with an IDE, I think folks may find this useful. Not everyone uses Gradle, Maven, etc, and also not every library on Maven comes with the source jars.
There are many (too many if you ask me) sets of medical codes, ICD being one of them. ICD-9 is widely used in US because Medicare uses it for billing purposes, but it is not considered very good for medical practice and ICD-10 isn't much better really. There are better ones like ULMS [1]. And many code sets have some sort of conversion to ICD-9 for billing.

The problem though is not really the particular medical code set a hospital uses, but rather medical professionals have to know the codes. Codes are for machines not humans. The doctor should just have to put into the medical record the diagnosis, location in or on the body, etc. The software then figures out the right code and sends the code to another system. Some medical software is built that way, but many medical systems require the input of the code itself. It is analogous to making users remember and enter their UUID rather than their username when they login or making users enter the IP address rather than a domain name. It is silly.

1. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/
There's a long history of wrist-slaps for huge corporate crimes. Two recent examples are BP and Bank of America, both hailed as massive, unprecedented fines for massive crimes, both of which barely hurt either company.

Proportionally, my cost for merely retaining a lawyer would affect me more than a $600,000 fine affects Marriott. Never mind the fact that I would probably go to jail and lose out on months or years of salary, not to mention freedom.
Under ICD-9, the current version, Ebola shares a code with "multiple viral diseases."

I looked into this, and Ebola is coded as "065.8
Other specified arthropod-borne hemorrhagic fever". The strange thing is that arthropod-borne means spread by insects, etc. It's puzzling to classify Ebola this way when it's not thought to be spread by insects.

Disclaimer: I don't know anything about ICD except that ICD-10 is the famous flaming waterskis version.
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"Hitler's diet was primarily vegetarian throughout the latter part of his life; however, he didn't adopt a vegetarian diet for moral reasons, but because he suffered from gastric problems."
When I learned the hospital which sent that ebola patient home was managed by Texas Health Resources I wasn't surprised.

I personally witnessed their incompetence when I walked to their Arlington ER 10 years ago with appendicitis symptoms.

It took them 6 hrs after drawing blood, an ECO and a freaking MRI but they weren't sure what I had until at around 2am they woke up some doctor and explained the symptoms over the phone.

Before the surgery, this doctor told me he pretty much yelled at them "it's appendicitis you morons, get him a bed and schedule surgery first time in the morning!"

Needless to say, that was the first and last time I ever voluntarily walk to a Texas Health Resources hospital.
Really helpful when debugging some random server!

My bits:
- Might want to mention the title of the file it is displaying.
- What does "versions" do?
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I use WebSharper at MSR and have been very happy with the results. We have substantial amounts of F# for simulation, modelling, and analysis of biological systems. It’s useful to be able to run this code in many places and WebSharper allows us to transpile into JavaScript for running directly in a browser with only minor changes to the core code.

Disclosure: I work at Microsoft Research but not on F# and have ongoing interactions with folks at Intellifactory
Oh. That's certainly true and OP should definitely try. However, all I'm trying to say is that clients will have expectations regarding price/cost working with someone who's located in the Philippines. Again, it's not my intention to devalue OP's skills and/or experience. What I'm trying to say is that the hourly rate doesn't have much to do with skills or experience but with the economy of the place you're located. I.e. why does a developer located in New York City charge more than a developer located in the Philippines? Both can be just as good at their job, it's just that "their" costs are different because their local economy is different. Therefore a client located in NYC who approaches a developer in the Philippines will have expectations regarding an hourly rate of that developer. I.e. why would I as a client want to work with someone far far away while I can work with someone face to face for the same cost? The primary reason a client located in NYC who wants to work with someone located in the Philippines will be cost and it's the reduction in cost that this developer uses as advantage over developers located in NYC.

I believe StackOverflow did a similar thing when they hired developers all over the world. The salaries of the developers were based on the local economy. Not on NYC or SF economies.
> Scammers use the “time principle” to persuade us we need to act quickly before we can think rationally and exercise self-control. They also make use of the “deference to authority principle” and the “herd principle” – our tendency to act like our friends or those around us – to convince people that the scam is legitimate.

> ...making use of physically attractive accomplices, for instance. They can use our deepest desires to blind our reasoning ...

Sounds like standard sales and marketing.