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> Given how inexpensive it is to ship food (see: any out-of-season vegetable), expensive water in dry regions like CA seems unlikely to have a significant impact on overall food prices.

Sure, shipping food may be cheap, but you can't ship food that isn't being grown, and there's not an extra unused lot the size of California's agricultural land lying around waiting to take up the slack that differs only in the cost of shipping to the end consumer. Lost production in California is lost supply, and will effect prices.
I already understood your point, but your argumentation is a little to black and white at times.
That's been my experience. The few times I've seen a link because someone actually set it up correctly I was disappointed when I got to the actual content.
I have several friends who work for recruiting/staffing companies. They're all dying for IT, especially developers.

Give a few staffing firms a call and leave them your resume. Don't take anything until you get at least $80k.

Future employers won't know how little you're being paid. They'll see that you took on increased responsibility and assume you were making a lot more.
2 important factors which helped were

1) The health workers who treated the index patient were a major factor in preventing the spread of Ebola to the rest of the city. This is because the index patient initially lied he had been in contact with an Ebola patient, the Liberian Ambassador tried to pressurize the hospital into releasing the patient to attend a conference in another state. The doctors treating him refused and 2 of them died after contacting the virus.

2) A group of volunteers set up a website [1] to pass across information to the public. Their aim was to stop the spread of false information, reduce panic and help socialize government message about Ebola. Stars of the Nigerian film industry (AKA Nollywood) also helped in the media campaign.

http://www.ebolaalert.org/
I'm Allan Branch, I bootstrapped a $1M/year consulting and LessAccounting.com.AMA
That's because you usually have a speed limit. If you have a car with say about 100 hp your top speed will be about 200 km/h and that is a speed you can drive at for extended period on an Autobahn in low traffic. A more powerful car will of course make it harder to keep the pedal at the metal.
What strong fundamentals? Low growth rate and rising competition plus P/E ratio through the roof.
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1. sure ask for a raise or equity every 12 months its common. as a programmer you should make at least what the other employees or the last employee hired makes

2. this actually plays to your advantage when u ask for more money. "im going to need more money since there is no carreer growth here"

3. imho - name recognition of employees matter. also try to highlight the successes of your employers that you helped achieved (made 500,000$ site or brought on $600,000 client or whatever). also would stay current on tech (nodejs go c# clojure etc - pick 1) or specialize really strongly in one thing (fortran expert etc)

An alternative idea is to try to reduce the amount of work. Tell them to hire another programmer or 2, expecting you to do all the work is unrealistic. then try to automate and delegate and outsource(?) your actual work until you just have to come in and collect your check.

I would definitely push for more programmers, and advise you to make sure u get at least as much $ as the new guys they've hire(d). source: I've been in this spot 2x, quit one and stayed on at one, both companies folded shortly after!
As it is not my day job, can you elaborate on what is bot traffic?
I think it does. I didn't know any Ruby before I started the tutorial, and I have long since forgotten the Ruby that I learned (because I don't use it daily). But I think a lot of the value depends on what you are looking for and how familiar you are with web development generally.

The magic of the tutorial (to me) is that it tries to package together the entire development cycle for you. It gives you the foundation for building a real usable, launchable application. Concepts like authentication and authorization are extremely important and usually not covered very well. You learn to set up heroku and push updates. You learn testing, version control etc.

For someone who has finished codeacademy, javascriptissexy, etc., I think a common problem is, "ok great ,I understand for loops, and while loops, wtf do I do now? I have this CRUD problem I want to solve that no one else is solving. How do I put it together? I want a login page. I need to input information. How do I connect all this?"

Once you finish this tutorial, you know what the process looks like for Rails. Then you can genericize your knowledge and explore Sails, Meteor, Django, Flask, Ember, MEAN, Play, etc with a foundation and an ability to start asking questions.
I don't think Netflix has to worry about Amazon Instant Video at all. The problem with AIV is a total lack of consumer awareness. If I'm talking to a friend about the movie they saw last night, or what TV show they binge-watched over the weekend, they're almost always going to say "Netflix" (and it's not like "Amazon Instant Video" exactly rolls off the tongue). And there's not even any discussion about how there's an alternative. As far as the majority of consumers are concerned, Netflix is the only player in its category. It's basically like iPhone vs. Android in the US, but a lot, lot worse.
Sorry not relevant to the subject, but who is allowed to trade after-hours? How come some people are allowed to take advantage of trading while the general public is not allowed?
Great book! I've been going through the draft chapters the past few weeks. I organized a study group on Reddit to go through v2 of this last year and I'm going to try and organize something again soon maybe do something locally this time.
> Won't somebody please think of the gangsters! How are they supposed to earn a living now?

It may sound funny, but to me it's one of the few reasonable arguments against legalization (or at least something to think about). I don't know in the US, but where I live (in France), there are a lot of people that live from selling cannabis. They're not Al Capone or dangerous criminals, just poor people that don't have better opportunities.

From our leaders perspective, this may be one reason not to address the problem of legalization (that, plus the fact that it's still largely unpopular).
Anyone is allowed, but there is lower volume and more volatility.
Apple (and others) have clearly double downed on an app-centric metaphor. This is obvious from App Store and home screen only showing apps--interestingly they did add recent people to the multitasking menu). They're also struggling with trying to reinvent documents (and haven't done much). Services/Workflow-centric and people-centric are the other approaches I've seen attempted[1] with only minor success. I don't blame Apple, none of the other approaches have gained any traction and Apple has really streamlined app centric management: centralized finding apps, purchasing, encapsulating installing/uninstalling, updating, etc. All of those things were pretty inconsistent and terrible before OSX/iOS.

I also wished they refined more of the Bluetooth integration that OSX had 10 years ago (sending/receiving txt messages, using it as a remote, etc). Sadly, it only now seems to be coming back and in an iPhone-specific way. But other than the iPhone tie-in, what would be different? If you had your phone Bluetooth paired to multiple devices, wouldn't they all buzz? If you don't want them to buzz, can't you just disconnect them (as you would un-pair bluetooth)? If you had a remote tethered to multiple devices, would "Play" trigger them all at once?

[1] http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WhyIsntPeopleCentricUIDesignTa...
> Not only do they not own that IP, the companies they license from can just keep increasing their rates as Netflix makes more money.

HBO ran into the same problem (with a different delivery platform) once they ran into competition as a premium cable movie channel, and they responded much the same way Netflix is -- transitioning to increasingly prioritize first-party content. OTOH, when HBO didn't, there wasn't anyone doing basically the same thing on a different tech platform around -- which makes HBO Go being made available independently of cable a big threat to Netflix.

> On the other hand, people do seem to just watch whatever is on Netflix. So, maybe they can get away with licensing a less-expensive mix of content plus of course their in-house stuff.

Netflix being one of many "internet channels" with a limited library of mixed first- and third-party content is clearly where things are heading, the question is how they grow a subscriber base with more and more entrance to that space, some of which, like HBO, have a lot more experience in pretty much every aspect of that kind of operation except the internet delivery end.
iOS 8 does this weird thing where notification banners half the time can be dismissed with a swipe up (the normal way) and half the time with a home button click (they don't respond to swipes). Same app, same notifications.

Also don't even get me started on the orientation confusion (in app - clicking back to the home screen is fine) and general lagginess and freezing on 8.0.2 on a €999 phone that's a week old.

It feels like it's missing even some of the most basic QA.
Google TV is also Android with modifications to run on TVs. https://developers.google.com/tv/android/docs/gtv_documentat...

I think this is just a rebranding to distance Android TV from the failure that was Google TV. I'm taking bets on what the name of the next revision will be when Android TV fails.
I suspect known IP address ranges like DO, Rackspace and AWS are more or less constantly scanned.
I asked for a raise once just at a student job then when I didn't get it I left for another student job. My boss didn't care too much, he was really nice about it all but I still felt kind of stupid. Anyway, I'd say if there are as many factors as you stated that are prohibiting you from loving this job, I might just bank on getting a new one. Money can only appease you for so long even if you did get the exact raise you are looking for.
I still have heard no word on whether this will support a Moto X like 'always on listening'. Anyone can comment on that?
> code that has to be more convoluted to put the exit at the top of bottom

Note I said only way out. The point is that if "the" (intended) exit can't reasonably be in the loop condition, then adding an escape hatch to have a second way out is useful.

Assuming C you can even just compress the whole thing to a for_x_tries(n) macro.

> What if the escape hatch triggers to early?

You'll get a helpful message and can bump the count. Easily-isolated errors are preferable to frozen/DoS'd systems.
How difficult would it be to get topo layers into OpenSteetMap?
When will this new edition of the book be published on SafariBookOnline?
Transmit for iOS 8 Provides File Transfer Everywhere
The risk I'm concerned about is it evolving to be contagious prior to showing symptoms. Which becomes more likely the more it spreads.

And of course seeing two US nurses get it from one patient illustrates that our healthcare system is not prepared to contain it. Hopefully that will be fixed within a couple of months.
> No. Shorter release cycles don't imply loss of quality. I claim the opposite in fact. Rolling releases are much better for quality. You're releasing smaller more focused features and battle-testing them in the field.

The jury is out on this. We have seen that longer release cycles with teams that take things seriously can be very successful (mission critical software). We've also seen that short release cycles can be very effective. The context of your software matters a great deal here, as well as the basic mechanics of how your software is delivered. You can't just take the philosophies of web sites and apply them across the board and declare it objective fact:

1. Take for example the fact that with a web service you can deploy quickly to a small subset of users, and grow it as it proves itself. This is quite ideal, but regardless of whether its even practically possible with OS software, its certainly not what Apple does. The combination of a short release cycle with a worldwide release means that "catching your bug" may mean catastrophic data loss for a large amount of customers.

2. With a web service you have the option of rolling back a bad version, or, simply deploying yet another release. Again, whether its possible with OS's or not, Apple certainly doesn't (or can't?) employ this strategy. The best they can do oftentimes is simply remove the update, but everyone that has it installed keeps having the bug until a) your fix is out and b) they actually install said fix.

> There are always stabilization phases. Not every major release will be an overhaul. Most will be incremental updates.

There certainly could be stabilization phases, but the proof is in the pudding and thats not how it feels. All the last releases have seen major additions, and most the regressions I run into either take years to fix (dual monitor support) or still remain increasingly broken (Messages to name just one example). There is a simple reality to having a year to stabilize without the pressure of a PR push of new features vs. balancing your stabilization with coming up with compelling things to slap on a website and show in a keynote.
Safari doesn't even properly recognize half the links on webpages now. I need to slightly zoom/unzoom the page to make them work...
To be fair, Quora has made very little effort to compete in SO's area. In a sense, both sites were created to solve entirely different problems, albeit problems that traditionally occur in the same space...

- SO is the answer to the question, "How can we keep useful technical information from being scattered among forum chatter?"

- Quora is the answer to the question, "How can we keep interesting forum chatter from being scattered among... less interesting forum chatter?"

There are countless other takes on both of these ideas, of course. Sites like E2 and K5 could be considered spiritual ancestors, while ExpertsExchange clearly had a much more direct influence on the designs of both SO and Quora. It'll be interesting to see which one folks still remember in 10 years... And what then-current systems have learned from them.
After hours trading almost always means nothing. Ignore such headlines. Reality takes place during normal trading hours. After hours is for amateurs.

If you want to get stupider than this article, I've seen some stocks trade down 50% after hours but open normal the next day.

Besides, the whole market took a nosedive today.

Means nothing.
I stated the problem with citing that research when trying to appeal to people familiar with Haskell-like type systems (as in the linked blog post).

My real point is that you can't really draw strong conclusions from this research when talking about type systems in general. If you wanted to say "It doesn't seem like type systems like Java's improve productivity" then I wouldn't have any issues, and would probably even agree.

> You sound like a stuck-up jerk rather than a thoughtful person.

I will agree that I phrased what I said a little harshly, but damn.
On a 5s with iOS8 I have seen the Touch ID system completely vanish. It wouldn't lock and I could launch Mint without any kind of authentication (the mint app has integrated Touch ID which previously worked well).
I think is this also what happened at Microsoft to cause them to put out a new programming framework every 18 months. They got some huge architecture team together to design .net, but then never disbanded them.
For server-side code, where Docker operates, this isn't an issue.
This is a planned feature in the future, we're internally calling it "recovery mode" (but not sure what we'll call it when it releases).

The basic idea is that you can give it provider credentials and it'll discover resources, or you can tell it a specific resource, and it'll interactively ask you just enough about it to recreate the configuration.

Terraform 0.3 actually laid a lot of the foundation for this, but there is quite a bit more to go. We'll get there sooner rather than later, though.
To be clear, the price of energy goes negative because of government subsidies. For example, a wind plant with a $30/MWH subsidy can afford to run at a price of -$30.

Similarly, if you're in California and you ever wondered why your electricity bill is 2x that of any other state, it is because you are the ones footing the bill for those subsidies. Without subsidies, wind and solar are far more inefficient at a $/MWH basis.
Completely off-topic, but I can't help but notice how posting a new-device link gives you a lot more Karma in one day than I earned in a few years. :)
It mentions extending Docker to support numbers of distributed Docker containers. I am building a PaaS around Docker so can I get a hint how that will work? I would rather add value than duplicate an existing effort.

Is it something like an integration of Mesos, Fig and Docker?
> I find it perplexing anyone thinks legalized recreational substance use would actually cause more harm than drug enforcement does, even aside from the metaphysical harm of having your freedom reduced.

People who think this don't have rational arguments. They are generally deep in anti-drug dogma and have no understanding of the harms that enforcement causes. They have not stopped to think about the issue at all and usually are just regurgitating what others have told them. Sadly this is still by far the most common point of view, despite being irrational and uninformed. It's preventing a lot of medicines from being studied and put to use, not just cannabis (psilocybin, LSD, and MDMA come to mind as some with current evidence for medical efficacy). Not to mention a ton of other problems related to the enforcement itself and its impact on society.
I can tell you why we're going with a Baas (Firebase).
Some people in my lab have samsung tablets (including myself), and others have a surface 3. The samsung tablet has all the right hardware but the software is lacking. In general. I've tried all of it, really. Android onenote, lecturenotes, papyrus, s-note, etc. It all kinda blows.
The constructive nature of Idris makes it hard (at least for me) to express a prime under 1,000,000 as a type. For example, it's trivial to express a composite as a GADT:

data Composite : Nat -> Type where
factors : (x : Nat) -> (y : Nat) -> Composite ((S (S x)) * (S (S y)))

but there is no analogous construction of a prime type. Luckily most day to day programming looks more like the composite case than the prime case.
genuine question - how come when I submit an after hours trade through my bank it says "trading is closed, your order will be submitted first thing tomorrow" ?
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https://www.expeditedssl.com

A Heroku add-on I made at assist with SSL installation. Really deliberately chose to build in someone else's ecosystem where I wouldn't have so much to do myself.
As a paying user of MongoHQ (now Compose) for over 2 years, I have never known it was possible to connect via an SSH tunnel. Where is this information at?
Perhaps this will interest you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McFNkLPTOSY
I'm all about the space revolution, but the only way to stop wars is to have one so big there is no one left to wage them. In a way, fusion does have that potential, but I suspect you were going for something more positive.
We understand it, but its really hard to explain briefly. So many people assume Docker==Linux Containers. Throw in virtual machines and start talking about running a Linux app in a Docker container in HyperV on Windows and it only really works with pictures. And that's before you talk about multiple containers running across a public cloud provider. Demos will help.
Could be a bank issue rather than a market one.
"doesn't" - There's plenty of helpful/entrepreneurial kids still going to jail, and plenty of other drugs that are still harshly criminalized.
Amazon might get better later, but for now, the selection of free movies is very poor.
I've always, always had a hard time finding:

* A good Twitter app for Android (like iOS' Tweetbot or Twitteriffic)
* A decent RSS app (like Reeder - slick, w/ Instapaper + Evernote hooks)
* A reasonable SSH client (like Prompt, although I haven't looked too hard here)

I'd also miss Office - using Word + Excel out in the field for work (i.e. RF spreadsheets during field surveys) are a huge bonus. Not sure how good Google Sheets is on tablets/Android.

Otherwise, the Nexus 9 + keyboard would be great for travelling and I'm tempted to sell my iPad Mini Retina for one, if not just to experience Android L.
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At what distance though, without that your statement isn't helpful. We all know the human doesn't have resolution like a screen but if we ignore the optics of our eyes I think thats pointless. There are people saying they use their phones 6" away from their face. Ok, but that is not at all how anyone I know uses their phones at least distance wise.

My example of tv screen and resolution is geared more to this:
http://carltonbale.com/1080p-does-matter/

Take an 80" 4k tv, you need to sit about 5 feet for an average human to see the difference.

I'd like to see equivalents for phones and dpi/screen size and distance.
Oh come on, that's far from serious. There are 6 pieces of software there that are old because newer versions are GPLv3. Grep could be replaced with bsdgrep, and nano could be replaced with pico and nobody would notice. The other 4 aren't that important for day to day use except bash and OSX should have switched users to zsh a long time ago, or simplified the shell by using tcsh as default.

The older version of openssh is rather perplexing, though, but they haven't updated any of the other bsd utilities really and the pf firewall is ancient too.
Given that only a tiny percentage of iOS users jailbreak, this just means that your game is only being bought by a very small percentage of users.
There's nothing wrong with yearly release cycles, Apple's problem seems to be that they've tied their OS to the hardware cycle.

It doesn't really matter if the OS is completely done, or still has a fair number of bugs. It MUST release at the same time as the new phone.

Combined with this is the fact that the apps are bundled with the OS. While certain enhancements definitely need operating system support, there's no good reason they couldn't be updating Safari or mail or notes to quash little bugs throughout the year. Instead you have to wait for a .1 release or the next full OS (since they never seem to do .2s).
Oh good, so we're still cool. :-)
Being able to externalize pollution is a subsidy. Accounting for externalized costs, coal is about parity with wind in terms of cost, though gas is ahead of both.
Blame Popcorn Time. Why would people pay for far fewer selection and mediocre movies and tv shows when they can have unlimited access to every movie and tv show?
I disagree with the decline after Intel. I'd say their quality grew a lot more after the Intel transition. That's when Apple started picking up steam and gained a higher adoption rate for their operating system. Especially with developers.
People are doxing, harassing, and sending threats of various sorts in GG's name. All the cries of "false flag" are just making the movement look worse.
Oh that's great information. I just got started on AngelList. I went to StartupHire briefly but haven't searched there yet as I'm still intrigued by AL. I'll surely be giving all those places a try, though.
If Amazon prime's streaming interface wasn't so terrible I might agree with you. Occasionally I try to watch it (I have Amazon Prime anyway) but they make it so hard to navigate that I usually give up after a few seconds. It is obvious it is not Amazon's first, second, or third concern.
This is awesome! Now, if there were one for NPI and the CFPB...