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This would be great if it worked on mobile (I.e not desktop optimized)
While that's possibly the case, it seems like it's going to be at least as bad as off-label prescriptions as far as legal liability goes, right?
Woman hit $326 on a routine Uber ride resulting in her inability to pay her rent
I think 64 bit support has had a lot of work recently.

NetBSD has 64 bit Linux emulation support.
This is called research and development. They're not replacing all the roads and cyclepaths with this stuff, they are testing and developing it because we will need it in the future.

Sometime the idea is just outright stupid, like flying cars.
On Linux just plug and play.

Really? Most common peripherals, like mice, keyboards, usb drives, etc, just plug and play (as they do in Windows). But I tried installing a (4 year old?) multi-function printer under Ubuntu 14.04 a few weeks ago and was never able to get the scanner to work, despite Brother providing Linux drivers. Some co-workers and I haven't had great experiences with webcams under Linux. Touchpad support is there, but whether gestures and multi-touch work is another matter. Overall, Linux drivers are a far cry from plug and play in my experience, and I really don't care if I have to run an installer once as long as it ends up working.
The changes to the keyboard and trackpad are being reversed in the next version.
> I don't think it is possible to hide your paypal email address when doing payments.

OK, thank you.

Regarding the Adaptive Payment suggestion, it seems that it's still under control of the merchant, and if the merchant site was nefarious they could fake an Adaptive Payment for me to log into.

You're correct in saying that I should never enter my PayPal password into the merchant's site. I also don't want the merchant to re-direct me. I don't want the merchant to open an Adaptive Payment window for me. I want to open a completely separate browser window and login to PayPal myself, and then pay the merchant by looking up the merchant's ID or using an invoice number provided by the merchant. Is there no way to do that?
So what? That is a typical use case for an opt-in platform with possible good outcomes. If you do it opt-out, it's unsolicited, unwelcomed and just badly setup. This discussion and the one on Github itself is a perfect example why.

You can't blame someone else for not having a responsible (e.g. opt-in) growth engine...
Are you suggesting a system where, instead of settlement-free peering, peering between networks is on a pay-per-bit basis? I suppose that would also be consistent with neutrality, as long as there is no discrimination between networks. In no instance should Netflix have to pay anything to anyone except their access provider.
Herman Kahn was most famous as a nuclear strategist -- he wrote On Thermonuclear War in 1960, which made him one of the models for Dr. Strangelove - some of the lines in the movie are direct quotes from his book. Later he became a utopian (or dystopian) futurist - when he wrote a book called The Coming Boom (which title provoked ironic comment, given his earlier book).

A biography appeared several years ago, The Worlds
of Herman Kahn by Sharon Ghamari Tabrizi. She concludes that Kahn was a sort of performer, a monologist working in a then-popular genre called "sick comedy".
And at a certain point you hit decreasing returns and should use another source of power. Once you are supplying 25% of the energy grid from solar, which has vagaries of its own, why would you pay extra for even more, er, exposure to that?

Be happy with 25% from solar, if you can sustain that. After that, work on wind or thermal solar or natural gas or nuclear or tidal or something.
Yep. I've got Arch (soon to be OpenBSD) on my 2nd-gen x100e and I put in an SSD and upgrade to the A/G/N wifi card. There are some quirks but it's a decent system. I'm ready to move on though. These have heat problems though and everyone I know with an x2XX has worse problems than I do.

Even with the $600 core i5s, it'd be getting the same OS. Hopefully they've switched to the newer Intel wifi cards because the Linux driver on the 5400AGN they were using has problems.
I ordered a Thinkpad direct earlier this year and was really dissatisfied with the build quality and shipping. The new clicky touchpad in particular was just horrendous. It went back and I ended up going with a refurbed Dell Latitude. The keyboards is reasonable, and I have my nipple and sturdy build, but even at the reduced price I had to drop back to Intels integrated graphics (on reflection I don't miss dicking around with NVIDIAs proprietary Linux drivers one bit). It also came with a decent warranty.
Why are you accepting such paltry wages? There must be something exceptional about your situation.
I'd love to know what kind of numbers http://bigassmessage.com/ sees.
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I think I've ripped my entire audio collection 3 or 4 times now. Back in the day I was naively convinced M4A would displace MP3. And depending on the disk size of the day, I've ripped with various bit rates (not necessarily VBR). Amazon and Apple seem to give you high quality rips these days, but I like having the flexibility of going back to the source material as needed.

Also, I guess I'm increasingly in the minority, but I really enjoy reading liner notes.
> It's akin to building a solar array and planting huge trees over it.

Not to mention that the lane pictured in the article has an adjacent row of trees that appear to cast shadows directly on the solar cells. Any solar technician will tell you that alone is enough to render any array nearly useless.
People immigrate/emigrate all the time.
I am trying to document some at mobilewebappsftw.tumblr.com because finding apps on the web is incredibly hard.

You also have places such as Chrome Web Store and Firefox OS Marketplace
Are there any similar e-mail providers to what was Lavabit?
I'm looking for a secure e-mail address. While I'm not sure if this is very realistic, I'm hoping someone may be able to point me in the right direction here. Thank you!
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I am pleased that someone else has noticed this. I recently purchased a copy of the Neal Stephenson book "Cryptonomicon" and it's full of errors where a word was hyphenated in the original text, but the digital text has replaced the hyphen with a space. You get words like "Pat tern"; I'm shocked at how little they bothered to proof read the digital versions before they sent it out. I'm inclined to ask for a refund.
I like your scenarios and I will add to it.

If you are off-shoring or out-sourcing work, you will always get Deepak. But if you are hiring an H1B , you will most likely get Shyam and here is why:

The hiring manager, the one whose project funded the salaries , can easily fire the H1B even more easily. If Deepak shows up when the hiring manager was expecting Shyam, Deepak would get canned in a less than a week.

>If you're an engineer at the top of your game working on some exciting new technology, the last thing you need is to have your project derailed by inefficiencies, bugs, or outright bad actions from someone who is not experienced or qualified enough to be involved,
...then why are you not hiring a local engineer or throwing a hissy fit when Shyam shows up and mucks up your code ? Even the worst mangers I have worked with realize that their own job is at risk when they hire a Deepak.
Not to hijack this thread, but I'd like to hear more about remote rates of other platform developers as well (php,nodejs,python,.net, etc). A nice comparison matrix would be awesome. Anyone know of a site that specifically compares these rates across the globe?

I could see a matrix like this being a great addon to remote job sites. Those of you who have created a work-remote job site and are competing to weworkremotely, etc... I would think that this would bring you a lot more traffic.
Even if all costs where exactly the same as those of a conventional road (probably not the case by a huge multiplier) maintenance costs would be massive. A conventional road can be full of dirt, scratches, dings, holes, cracks, bubble gum, etc. and still be perfectly good. Just looking outside my home right now I see that our street is probably covered about 25% in shade from the trees and homes on both sides.

The next issue is that in most developed countries you would have to first destroy a road before installing solar modules. I can't even guess at the cost of doing that, even if you recycle the materials. Remember that all of these activities have an environmental cost in burning petroleum. The trucks and equipment doing all the work and moving the materials and waste are burning fossil fuels. Even a hamburger has a petroleum cost factor due to transportation and manufacturing steps.

Is it a good idea for less developed countries where there might be no road? No, it's a horrible idea. The last thing those countries need are high-tech roads with 3x the installation cost and 1000x the maintenance cost.
Apart from the things other people here already mentioned. The speakers are the worst i have ever heard. I don't have high demands on laptop speakers to start with but this is way below any standards. Music you can just forget about and even in voip calls it's hard to hear what people are saying. And even when they are off they are bad! They keep sending out a faint white static noise, i first thought it's the fan but it's actually the speakers. Lenovos "solution" to this problem was to update the driver and turn off the spekers completely if there's been no sound for the past 5 seconds. Really annoying, any time you open a folder in explorer and the click sound plays it sounds like the fan turns on and then off again, same with intermediate IM notifications, i have to keep my laptop on mute because of this. So the speakers are useless for music, voip and notifications, what usage scenario is left? why even put them in?
Arch user here too. I see a lot of articles saying BSD is saner than linux, and you're tempting me even more to try it. If you ever write about it post the url here.
My rational to it is that I have enough clutter, in my house and on my hard drive, that I don't need to add to it with stacks of CDs or GBs of hard drive space. You and the Japanese should meditate on the nature of impermanence, everything in the physical world is rented so your music should be too ;)
That's right, you can see the shade cast by those trees on that picture. Almost comical.
The keyboard was, to me, a genuine attempt to improve things. But they did some very stupid things like removing LEDs, to be replaced by OS Notification. Nobody wants a corner of the screen saying 'CAPS LOCK PRESSED'.
Prices are generally higher than in North America. Most of the CDs that I would buy in the US for around $15-20 is anywhere from ¥2450-5400. Additionally, most of the "extras" are just advertising fluff. Books are priced similarly to the US, but the majority of them are Japan's version of trade paperbacks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunkobon) – thin paper cover, cheap thin pages, small format, and wrapped at the register with an additional protective cover (usually with the store logo). Nicer hardcover books seem to be priced about the same as in the US. The biggest thing going for the whole industry (despite everything feeling so cheap) is that there is a book for everything. Manuals for open source software, a biography for some barely known musician, etc.– and you can actually find them browsing a regular Sanseido, Yurindo, or Kinokuniya.
I wanted to say he could be from any country, but actually this shouldn't be a reason to pay less.
True:

https://source.android.com/devices/reference/power_8h_source...
Will making prosecutors accountable for wrongful conviction keep them in check?
They also charge like $6 for 1L of soda and force you to pay cash (ATM conveniently located in the back), but it is so good. I eat there at least once a month.
Having a few high profile companies reliant on FreeBSD has definitely helped. (Thinking of WhatsApp, Netflix and Sony).
Two problems here:

1. "I have to admit that Flux has a steep learning curve." & "But I don't see how Meteor is any easier to pick up..." are mutually-exclusive.

2. Most everything else you wrote does a pretty good job of representing why Meteor is so attractive to some of us.
Those are for application specific mapping of the special keys. They might appear mandatory, but aren't. Keyboards and mice run fine without any extra drivers. I own four different models.
But..But...What about vinyl?
> Several manufacturers have now implemented on-by-default device encryption with no backdoor.

Both Apple and Google's schemes are predicated on the assumption that you'll have a full phone backup stored in the "cloud." They also offer photo backup and sync other key data.

The whole setup is meant to make an individual phone (and Chromebook) completely hardware agnostic. You lose your old phone? You buy a new one, sign in, wait a bit and like magic it is all set and ready to go.

Windows (and OS X) aren't really designed with that model in mind, so if you lose your keys you may not have your data stored elsewhere (and indefinitely data loss due to a HDD/SSD failure is extremely common).

> With Microsoft's solution, you oay all the overhead -- and still get a much more limited form of protection.

In this context "much more limited" is against: almost every government in the world, private individuals, and against private companies. So, what, like 98%+ of the world's population?

You make it sound like Microsoft's device encryption scheme uses ROT13. Instead they're using industrial strength encryption and your only real criticism is that either someone with a court order or the NSA can potentially gain access.

That's still a huge win for day to day security. If someone breaks into my apartment and steals my laptop, I will be a bit less concerned about potential identity theft as it is reasonable to assume that your average street thief isn't an NSA agent.
For someone looking to run a social network, and valuing rock solid reliability and efficiency, what would be the tradeoffs between, say:

CentOS Linux

Debian Linux

FreeBSD
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$8.50/hr may be a lot for where OP lives based on their experience. I would think that OP is not living in the US. Hopefully OP can provide some insight here.
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Anyone willing and able to show me the <i>other side</i>? I am investigating to try and define industry standards for my own UI.
It does not improve motivation past the first few weeks (the honeymoon phase). Once your body is used to it you have to still talk yourself into doing whatever it is you need to start. Or even better have a routine to get you started on things so you can do it on autopilot.

The only rewarding feeling that has manifested itself for me is having more pride in the code I write. Completing goals otherwise feels the same as before I medicated.

Without medication the best feeling was post exercise, but this feeling is and was short lived.

The feeling of the medication is totally transparent now. I do not feel any side effects, or feel anything that would suggest they are kicking in.
I'm pretty sure everyone's understanding of monetary policy is "crude".

What you say appears to be right, but it's also rare if not unheard of. As I understand it, normally, as the US (and I and my family) experienced in the '70s, these policies would be viewed by borrowers in such a way they'd demand more interest for lending their money to the government, through combinations of perhaps rising inflation and perceived regime risk (which rising inflation is an example of, by eventually liquidating debts for less real value).

"This Time It's Different!", which they always say (and is the title of a recommended book on the subject, an 800 or so year study of this game). The theory I hold to as of now is that the world-wide nature of the Great Recession and other factors like the artificiality of the Euro have made the US dollar, and US government debt, the "least worst" place to put your money. Well, in any quantity at least, e.g. I remember tiny Switzerland (GDP ~1/32nd of the US) getting very concerned about "hot money" inflows into their franc and maybe taking some actions WRT to them.

The PRC is also something of a wild card: they watched the debacle of Indonesia, where a short term liquidity crisis was treated by the IMO as a typical 3rd World unsustainable government debt crisis, resulting in needless hardship and the ousting of its long term strongman. The CCP decided to make sure that didn't happen to them and have as a result acquired vast foreign wealth/debt holdings, including plenty of US government debt.
Bike dirt is less of a problem in the Netherlands because we have clean bikepaths. the bikes also have tires with less profile, (they are citybikes)
Worst case is that you put fabric mats in front and behind the lane for collecting dirt.
I have no love lost for CDs, but I still buy Vinyl, and the best thing about Vinyl is that the majority of new albums also come with a digital download, best of both worlds. At home I listen to the Vinyl for the experience but on the go I have my phone with MP3s that no one can touch but me.
$100/h is my highest rate, but frankly plan to increase it to at least $150, which I still don't have an idea of how to do :)

jus wondering: anyone followed http://doubleyourfreelancing.com/ rules and succeeded?
I forgot about this! Oh yeah. Their headphone jack is pretty flimsy too, but it seems to be on most laptops. I'm pretty much resigned to using a USB sound card/headphone amp these days.
I'm the OP of this comment thread and I bought the Zenbook as an impulse purchase because it was many hundreds of dollars cheaper then the hardware-equivalent Macbook air at the time.

I'm definitely willing to tinker, and it was certainly frustrating to get right, but now it's one my favorite devices. But if you're not a little tech-savvy it wouldn't be a good purchase.
I don't think I've ever seen a post that uses "politically correct" unironically and is worth reading.
Android has a fair amount of BSD code, as it has no GPL code in userspace, eg NetBSD is upstream for much of bionic libc.
I keep reading this as "screw me"

which, you know, with scrums, kind of makes sense
First of all my apologies for "you" I guess it should read "one" - English is not my native tongue.

I am just very sensitive about public funded projects.

To give you an example:

"XYZ is a project co-founded by the European Union that aims to validate how to approach Open & User Driven Innovation methodologies to the Public Sector in a scenario of Future Internet Services for Smart Cities. It will do so, by leveraging existing tools, trials and platforms in Crowdsourcing, Open Data, Fiber to the Home and Open Sensor Networks in seven major European cities: Helsinki, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, Barcelona and Bologna."

Would YC fund that? Would they get an interview?

The EU gave 3M€ for that. The outcome is three websites that nobody uses.

There are companies in the EU specialised for grant grabbing. They will get 10% of the funding if the application succeeds.

The EU funds 50% and the expected outcome is that the funded companies will create a viable product out of it. Now tell me, why do the same companies funded over and over again?

Just google for "Wetab". The same company of that miserable disaster was on plenty of EU funded projects.
Need advice about someone using my friend's name on a fashion blog
hi all, I have a friend and she has a fashion blog (around 10k followers). A few months back some jerk fashion photographer harassed her on instagram accusing her of stealing his photographs (she buys them from a fashion photographer).

Anyway, he went away for a few months and now it turns out he's started a wordpress fashion blog in her name.wordpress.com. Also, he's copying exact words from her posts but using his own photographs. Can someone familiar with these situations please give some advice?
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It seems we share a similar philosophy. My SQL code is actually generated by the client. The server also generates its own SQL code, and does its own DB admin (create and drop tables, insert seed data and so on).

I think I need to look into TCP/IP sockets though. I have a very simple WCF service that accepts a byte array, and returns a byte array. No more, no less. The back-end deserializes the bytes and does what it needs to. WCF configuration is a Night! Mare! I think someone got completely spannered on the dependency injection koolaid. My service is a single method, and I spend more time babysitting XML in Web.Config than I do writing the service...

And yeah, with white space and comments my code base is around 120 LKOC. Just under 140 if I include the Windows Phone client.
It is also very difficult and expensive to dig into the ground with your bare hands and fish out worms, but if you did so you wouldn't be able to charge huge amounts of money for your hand-fished worms. Why? Because worms have almost no subjective value.
I've come to hate physical media and I rarely buy it. Music is drm-free now and when I buy ebooks I only buy ones where I can crack the drm so I don't have to worry about licenses being revoked or drm servers going offline.

I've also moved a lot so carrying a couple hard drives is much easier than boxes and boxes of books and cds - let alone people that collect vinyl.
OS X's FileVault prompts you to upload your decryption key to Apple in case you lose it when you turn it on. It may be more transparent about it, but I can't speak for how the MS solution actually works.
Seriously? Asus still have this problem? I remember fixing it by removing the touchpad driver on a friends asus almost two years ago. The fan was always on max because the driver set min cpu speed to 100% at every reboot.

I feel for the non tech savy people who don't know how to fix this and think this is how the computer should be. No wonder normal people prefer ipads over pcs.
I think course materials should be there forever, sometimes being improved in some places, and discussion/reviews should be there forever as well.

So like a forum about a specific topic with learning materials available at all times. No deadlines, just people collaborating to improve each other's knowledge.
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my answer is already there($100 max, sorry didn't see your question), but I do RoR, single page JS and JS/Cordova mobile.
it's probably funded with some EU money, the spend a lot of money on all kinds of stuff to not have to depend on oil in the future..
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Mine are: radiolab, the economist podcasts, and the new yorker podcasts. Would love to learn about other podcasts that people love.
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Do you have a link for more information about the next ThinkPad versions?
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no. fwiw wrt icloud, i was referring to yosemite uploading certain pieces of user data outside many users' default assumptions about icloud's behavior to draw a general parallel in that some users may feel their trust has been violated when they don't know or understand how these systems behave and then find that out from someone else. i never claimed the systems behaved similarly in a technical sense--only that people might feel similarly.
Microsoft would still be able to access the data on your device remotely without this copy of the key. They would just need to push an update to your phone that pulls the data out when you unlock it yourself.
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