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Uhm, Apple does actually provide easy root shell access to what is essentially Unix.

And the APIs to customize your desktop experience are much more permissive than what Windows allows. Or at least the Desktop customization apps do much more than their windows equivalents.

I'd say that having usable defaults is better than having easy customization. People who customize to that level don't care about it being "easy"(myself included).
Actually, kids are born with lots of potential that are basically wrung out of them as they "develop." The public education systems in most countries were designed to create obedient factory workers, after all.
It could, you know, be useful. It could be developed according to the principle "form follows function", not the other way round.
It's already useful. See http://augmentedev.com/
(Well, it's not a really funny application of AR, but I wouldn't call it gimmicky)
I'm with you on this. iOS did go too far with all the skeumorphism that served no purpose (Podcast app being the biggest offender), but "flat design" throws the baby out with the bathwater in my opinion.

I'm already tired of guessing what is and isn't a button.
I have a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Master of Science in Information Systems...both from Midwestern "State" schools. I've never had a shortage of work/jobs/opportunities.
I was in a similar situation. As a long time thinkpad user, the first thing I did was check out Lenovos current thinkpad lineup and was also very disappointment by the hardware and screen quality.
After several weeks of comparisons I simply decided to buy an rMBP, and I couldn't be happier.
EDIT: Installing Ubuntu shouldn't be a problem on an rMBP, but you'll probably run into issues where you'll have to fiddle with font-size settings.
I believe they switch out daily.
Very interesting, I looked up the CEO to see if he had a Disney/Imagineering background, and was surprised to see I was familiar with his previous work, which was founding former public company MAKO Surgical (which ended up being acquired by Stryker). MAKO's product used a robot/surgeon hybrid + software for visualizing/planning surgeries for implanting joint replacements. Interesting career twist (edit: but one that makes a lot of sense)

edit: @glxc, completely agree, I just didn't know a lot about his background prior to seeing this news. Interesting guy.
I don't see anything to get excited about in the information which has been provided in the press. Hutchinson's comments are about the basic type of design. I presume they have some kind of secret sauce which they see as providing a better solution. I say, good for them for trying it.

Just like some of the other commenters, I suspect that the reason they went public with an information-lite release is due to internal politics at LM. When I was in the fusion research business, we stayed in stealth mode the entire 5 years. We probably could have continued if we had put out press releases like this to attract more funding. We didn't think we had any results worth having a press release about, however, and I didn't want to be that guy.

If I were to jump back into fusion, I probably would go with a linear, mirror-type, high beta device. They are easier to build, cheaper, and have one major design flaw (i.e. problem which needs fixing). I have had some ideas on how to improve the endcaps, which are the real weakness of the design type. I saw that dkirtley had some good things to say about the Budker-style Gas Dynamic Trap design in the last thread about this. I'm not so sure that I buy into that way, but I'm glad that people are following that path.

What the article really tells us is that there is one more group out there who is following a technical path that probably wasn't being followed before. That is good news, because there are many ways to build a fusion reactor that doesn't work, but there may be one or more ways to build one that does. It's good that we have a few more scouts checking the territory.
Yeah, the guy better check his ability privilege
Personally I hate when they hide or turn off entirely every possible option. They are there for a reason if someone wants to use them - if not - simply don't use them.
After such options have disappeared peoples that were using it are pissed and those who have not - don't even notice.
It's because flat UI looks good on retina / 5k.
This has been the case for the web since day 1. I can remember all sorts of trends that everyone followed, some of them examples of terrible UI. Anybody remember the super-tiny and/or monospace text phenomenon of the early 00s?
Hint: Think about the colors …
So why does the colour change on mouseover? Which colour am I copying when I click a rectangle while my mouse is hovering over it?
antirez, i recall you from the good old days, and i was pleasantly surprised that you hadnt given up on hacking around. this is great stuff, it opened up an entire cottage industry, and i am personally grateful. i had always been a radio guy with tons of heavy gear, using clunky serial interfaces to interact with my radios. now its all practically portable and multitudes more affordable. thank you for all your work, and for transforming an entire industry. i use dump1090 when i am not tuning pirates or -trying- to capture medical pocsag/flex.
Uh.. What the actual #%&@ ?? no no suggestions you're not going to be happy with anything.

You need to ask yourself why you want this..
You have to realize you aren't going to ahve the same level of display. Switching to Ubuntu you are going to have to make a lot of consessions.

What is that you like about the Macbook Pro Retina? The display? the weight? the size? Go find a laptop with the specifics you like and install ubuntu on it.
No need to be old, used blackbox on Linux for a while

http://xwinman.org/screenshots/blackbox.jpg

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/235/4/8/darko_blackbo...
On defaults, I agree completely.

On apple: look at the iphone vs android war. Android was and always will be a go-to for customization.
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I'm using a Sager - you should check them out! The best part is that you custom order it - the way you want it. I configured mine at reflexnotebook.ca and couldn't be more thrilled with the results, three months into it.

Out of the box all of my hardware is supported, though I'm running Mint 17 (same base). The keyboard is a pleasure to type on, though the laptop is a bit weighty. The trackpad is great under linux, something that was sorely lacking on every single other machine I've tried (System76, IBMs, Dells, everything!). Even the function keys are recognized - which was a pleasant surprise over my System76.
I own a twin-turbo BMW. The performance is great, but one day those turbos will go out. I hope that is the next owner's problem.
It could, and should, be a science. Or at least pragmatic.

If you look at clothing design, the fashion side is mostly outlandish and completely impractical. Eventually good ideas filter out of that and get into everyday clothing manufacturing, which is what everyone can actually wear.

The problem with UI design is that UIs need to be used every day, like ordinary clothing, but its becoming like clothing fashion: changing too often and usually full of flashy but unusable cruft. This would be ok if it was limited to a small number of fashionable websites, but instead everyone (but most developers) want the flashy.
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I like Firefox with options - better yet Firefox + noscript.

If your website needs with js, flash and need to load js plugins from 10 other ad domains to see, that's fine. I don't want to see it anyway.

I love to have choices.
Except most of those checkboxes don't exist anymore, the encryption tab is gone, etc. (http://imgur.com/YX4KyQL)
I always preferred Windows 95's "flat design", even if it did have occasional bevels.
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> I believe they switch out daily.

they don't. I've seen this page many times over the past year.. same colors every time.
> Decide on it already :)

You're saying, decide on the 2%, who need a rare feature, and who are technically capable enough to download an add-on... vs. the 1% of people who click the wrong thing, and are not technically capable to fix what happened. That's easy—pick the 1%, and move the browser-breaking things into an add-on, or something that a stray click won't trigger. Which is what the author is arguing.
I think there's a bit of nuance here - the point isn't entirely that you shouldn't have these options, it's more that it's extremely user unfriendly to have options in a primary preferences panel or menu that can be selected and will completely break the user experience, without any clear path to resolution.

I would say that since the code already exists to do these things, maybe the right way to deal with this is to move dangerous preferences to a sub-menu with warning signs, and then some sort of icon or notification to warn you that you've got a setting enabled that will break big swaths of the Internet.
Back in the late 90's I worked for a startup that used it as their core language.

Quite a good experience.
YMMV but I prefer cleaning the old tempfiles at start-up.
It allows you to get the content of the tempfiles after the program stopped, very handy for debugging..
I think it comes from trying to make screens appear like paper prints - some people love the feel of reading books/magazines and skeumorphic design elements feel disturbing to them.
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I find the current trendy 'flat' UI pastel-y colours, honestly, disgusting. Design is a matter of taste, and there's no accounting for other peoples' taste, but I am genuinely baffled about how anyone could like them.

Obviously someone does.

I wonder whether this is because flat design does away with all the helpful instinctive visual cues that were developed over the last decades (e.g. shadows, faux-3d borders etc) and needs to find new colours because there's no other way of expressing relationships?

Is it the case that designers have been forced to come up with 'more' colours under duress because of this, and have to try out new colours? Or is it that people genuinely like them? Or does 'like' not come into it? Or is there just one very influential designer at e.g. Google who has a different aesthetic to me?

EDIT: I'm commenting on the colours on the page linked to this discussion. Not colours in general.
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In case anyone with kids on the way is worried, I can confirm that once they get to a certain age you can rope them in help with the process. Then you get dad-kid time, a more fun brew and the kids get a respect for the brewing process which may help once they're old enough to drink themselves.
I wish there was a way to try it out a bit, or at least a video showing how it works without having to sign up.
In that rather technical article, I was glad to see that the author thinks readers need help (in the form of a hover tooltip) that explains the "&" symbol. It means "and"! Who knew?!
> As long as there have been GUIs, platforms have issued style guides to developers and expected them to emulate the look-and-feel of the platform's own OS and flagship apps.

There's a difference between having a platform-specific GUI/style-guide (which I support), and changing it every few years for no apparent reason (I understand e.g. the change from Apple OS 9 to OS X - they were simply catching up with the hardware improvements - but OS X to OS Y(osemite) seems quite arbitrary).
You're right, and here http://designmodo.com/flat/ are swatches with many flat colors.
Steeping your grains is all there is to it. You still have your specialty roasted grains, but instead of base extract you use a 'base grain'.

I got the basic process from http://www.amazon.com/True-Brews-Craft-Fermented-Kombucha/dp.... As a bonus, it also has instructions for mead, sake, kombucha, soda, fruit wines, and kefir. Each section includes a 'master' recipe and then 4 or 5 specific recipes. After a couple of batches, you will start making your own recipes without even thinking about it. I usually get 10 or 11 bottles from a batch, which is perfect for me. I'm not a daily drinker. The watermelon/mint soda combined with a good gin is dangerously good though, watch out for it.

The book uses the two-pot method that pyoung talks about. With such a small volume of water, the temperature is pretty stable, especially if you use gas. I found that the efficiency was a little lower than what I was used to, so I just used a little bit more grain, which increased my batch costs by about 25 cents. I ended up using a small sports cooler that I already had around - I wrap it in a towel and it stays remarkably stable, plus it has a spout on the bottom that makes sparging easier.

IKEA has 3 gallon pots for $12.
I think the blue eye bit should be the "youngest has blue eyes" and the answer eliminates twins. Thus 2, 3, 6.

Also you have the sign reversed. Should be x + y + z >= 10.
Not only is it possible, but it's utterly normal. As others have said, tell interviewers your constraints.

Hopefully, taking a vacation day (or half day) isn't impossible at your current job. Having appointments in the middle of the day isn't unusual. Make sure all phone calls are scheduled and step out to take them.
The Internet of things is here, but the rules to run it are not
"That’s right, you can’t even see the text box you’re supposed to type your search into. Congratulations, we just broke the Internet."

No, Google broke the Internet. If they've introduced a dependency between text boxes and images (?!), that's down to them. Web interface should work via progressive enhancement such that it's perfectly possible to browse and use a site without javascript, css, or even images.
While it is interesting to see all these efforts improving the Python ecosystem, I go straight to a ML language with native compiler.
Form follows function is incredibly undetermined. Multiple divergent designs can execute/allow the same functionality to the same degree.

This is especially true in software. Some additional constraints must be put on to narrow down on a single design. Maybe the constraint is developer familiarity, or developer laziness, or fashion, or whatever.

While there can clearly be 'too much' fashion, its not quite a given that current trends lie in that area, any more than previous trends have.
I wrote a blog post explaining my approach: https://medium.com/@chrisrodz35/a-guide-to-picking-up-new-pr...
Let me know if you have any questions.
He is being downvoted because he is in a denial mode, not because he is from India. I am from India as well, I didn't get downvoted.

Many Indians think this way: "Freedom of speech, it's not that bad in India. Modi will change everything."

Shocking thing is that a lot of Indians also believe that these people deserve to be jailed for speaking against politicians. Even worse.. they are beaten by a mob and their house is ransacked.
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It is quite a stylised ampersand - maybe some people won't recognise it? :-)
Setting aside the trivial arithmetic error, I think a simpler attack approach comes from the first two farmers collectively having 26 chickens and making twice as much money as the third, giving you a simpler starting point.
I was about to say, isn't this site a year or more old? It's been the same colors for a while now.
And then the farmers were arrested for price collusion and artificially keeping prices high.
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The author says "is it worth it for 2% of people?" thus implying that 2% is a small number.

Then later he says "it's 1% of people! that's a LOT of people!"

The point is that 1-2% of people is either a LOT of people and worth caring about, or it's not. If so, keep the options and make it harder to break. If not, delete it all and don't worry about it. It's self-contradictory to do otherwise.
"His blood showed antibodies to the virus"

Given that Zmapp is three "humanized monoclonal antibodies" to Ebola and from memory is therefore intended for early stage disease, giving it to someone who's had Ebola long enough that they're already producing normal antibodies could be pointless, except in terms of Stage I trials (the ones where you test a drug primarily to see if it's safe, and also look for evidence of efficacy).

It could be that most or all of the 7 people given it were at this point, and the testing was really just for safety. In which case we eeeevil white men are obviously going to first test it on ourselves for the political reasons you and others point out. 3 Liberians were given it later.

Just like the vaccine that's in Stage I trials is being first tried on Americans, with a second effort on "60 healthy volunteers at the University of Oxford in England and among 40 healthy volunteers in Mali" and then an expected "40 healthy volunteers in Gambia". (http://www.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2014/Pages/EbolaV...)

Important note: no matter how dire this Ebola outbreak gets, we still have to be very careful in vaccine trials, which are given to ostensibly healthy people. You don't, for an extreme, and unlikely given the current state of the art hypothetical, want to find out that it kills 99% of those given it 2 years later. Aside from the universally fatal stuff like rabies there can be worse outcomes than getting the disease.
There are lots of books on evidence-driven UI design.

It depends whether you mean fashion in design principles driven by evidence or visual fashions like in clothing. I think both are inevitable to some degree.
In terms of understanding neural networks, I generally point people to the same resource:

http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com

Reading that will give you a good idea of the capabilities and limitations of neural networks, as well as helping you implement your own in Python. However, if you want to see a neural network in action in browser, you can look at:

http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/svmjs/demo/demonn.htm...
Firefox can even break itself. If you deselect "View -> Toolbars -> Menu Bar" with the menu bar then the menu bar disappears. How do you get it back? You can't repeat the same procedure because the menu bar is not there any more!

It turns out you can right-click on an empty space on the tab bar to reenable the menu bar, but this is far from obvious.
My memory (admittedly, ropey) of Windows 95 is that it was very, very 'unflat' - e.g. the start menu alone was a hefty, three-dimensional button.
Think of whole chickens. The second guy sold a+6 chickens after lunch for the price of a chickens before lunch. Likewise #3 sold b+10 for the price of b. Since the price difference is constant, the common denominator is c+2 chickens for the price of c. The only solution (given the number of chickens) is 3 chickens for the price of 1. The chickens sold for one third the price after lunch. The rest is easy.
Whoa! That brings back memories. Even more than the NeWS interface I brought up on one of our Suns recently, just for fun.
I thought I just read a few months ago that we'd have superconducting EM drive hoverboards any day now?

How disappointing...
If you've confirmed an exploit, what I normally prefer is to send a followup message stating that you intend to publish in a month and request a comment. That gives them time to say “Oops, did we forget to tell you it's not exploitable?” or “It was quietly fixed two months ago”.
Again, this is confusing the MTM attack we're (and most people are) talking about in general with the 2FA mechanism we're specifically talking about here.

They're two entirely different vectors. If you wanted to hijack a token as part of a 2FA, that serves the purposes of initializing an account. In this case, the second MTM (intercepting communications) will not work, because the user will be unable to log in (as you initialized their account and therefor had to set a password).

Further, in the traditional MTM attack, there's no need to steal that 2FA token in the first place - not only because it prevents an active, working account, but because you can already get the information you want through data interception.
Wouldn't the control group get the current standard curriculum and teaching methods. You're not looking for changes wrt non-teaching, you're looking for changes compared to the current pedagogical form.

There's much to learn from non-school based education but I doubt most of it can be applied with the financial constraints we have [in the UK].

[I'm guessing you missed some links there.]
I use cProfile; for the Cython code you need to set profile=True as a compilation directive.
That's a bit narrowminded on your end. Regardless of what you think of Summers personally, he is intelligent and his ideas are at least worth grappling with even if you ultimately think they're wrong.
Then don't use them?
I've had colleagues refuse to give their phone number out unless management say they will pay towards the cost of the phone. Also stops the out of hours calls.
Yup, I know that building a docker image for every job can add a lot of friction to the project, but it adds lots of flexibility to the users.
I'm a programmer not a designer but here's my $.02. As a user I like the flat UI concept not because of the flatness, but because of the colours. I'm tired of looking at grey all day and these provide a welcome change.
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> A loud minority fight the change, often through intimidation, while the mainstream more or less accepts the change (please correct me if I am wrong I am not a big student of history!).

That is the narrative, the problem is that it isn't true. The vocal minority isn't fighting the supposed change so much as it's fighting the corrupt, hypocritical agents of that change (Vox and Gawker in particular)
Yeah, because we've all had 5K displays for, like, for-EVER now...
Fashion is a science, or at least it is governed by human behavior in their sense of time. "Freshness" provides a feeling of improvement over time, while "staleness", though more familiar and comfortable, provides a sense stagnation, that time is frozen. It is really no wonder why young people are interested in being "fashionable" (they want time to progress, they want change) while old people are often not so interested in it (they already have a lifetime of change to reflect on).

For many websites, sure, it is superfluous, but the psychological effects are massive; ignore it at your own peril.
We agree that if we can remove suffering in the world, then we should. But it's how we respond to things we cannot control that builds character.
In the US, such exposure may result in scandal whereas in China it is like to hit your meat foot into an iron gate.
If you want a website which works perfectly without Javascript, CSS or images feel free to pay for it. The rest of us will continue ignoring that tiny minority of people in the interest of getting real work done.
> X + Y + Z ≤ 10 (the sum is two digits)

I don't understand this part. Surely every number between 10 and 99 (inclusive) has two digits? And numbers <10 have only one digit? Have I forgotten how to count to 2?

If we use your interpretation then the fact there is an oldest child is redundant; but if we don't then the fact that the sum is two digits is redundant, and there are multiple solutions.

The 'oldest child' thing rules out 6, 6, 1 as the answer, but afaict 18, 2, 1 and 12, 3, 1 and 9, 4, 1 and 9, 2, 2 and 6, 3, 2 are still valid solutions as well as 4, 3, 3.
The sooner the Clipboard API is implemented across all browsers the better (specifically the newer synthetic events): http://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/#integration-with-other-... ! That will go a long way to eliminating the final use I have for Flash.
Right, because employees can take a bus, ride a bike or even walk. But if work is calling or requiring me to call and use up minutes that is a requirement. There is no alternative.
Can you give a source. That looks very made-up.