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Oh man, I wouldn't be half the hacker I am today without Login: (and a few other programming/linux zines I would buy in middle/high school). I was so sad when they stopped publishing it. I still have a pile of them at my parent's house... thanks for the memory :)

(France's press culture is much superior to any other country that I've been to - when I go back to visit family, I always grab a pile of magazines to bring back with me)
She had 6 grand lying around to pay for a mere 3 months of health insurance, so it doesn't seem like she was overly short on money. Her problem was that she couldn't keep her health insurance even at that exorbitant price.
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Developers can get started with Visual Studio Community 2013 here.

<<link is not working>>
http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-com...

I think they meant here?
http://www.visualstudio.com/news/vs2013-community-vs
That's a good point, religious texts also provide a git repository for changes in languages (e.g. English) over time.
I have used Stackdriver (http://www.stackdriver.com/) before and it works good. It can get a bit pricey. They got bought by Google few months ago -- something to watch out for. I really had a good exp with their product.
In 2004 I had 100 Mbps broadband.

I had a 3G phone.

I had a work laptop with a decent screen. Those actually regressed in the market for several years before a certain manufacturer popularized high-DPI again.

I also had a fanless laptop before that one. I'm still waiting on a modern one... (Apple, are you listening?)
> I use OpsWorks quite a bit but have found it very challenging, and the feedback cycle when attempting to develop new cookbooks is excruciatingly slow.

Yes. As a frequent Chef user, I was really excited about OpsWorks, but it feels quite beta, and as you said the build/test cycle is even worse than usual for config management.

Have you had any success developing your Chef scripts on Vagrant and then using them on OpsWorks? It seems like the real thing is just too different. The open source OpsWorks cookbooks don't match what's actually running, you've got a VPC environment around you, there are extra tweaks to the AMIs, etc.

For new projects I think CloudFormation + regular Chef is a better way to go.
For serious stuff that you need right now there is C++.
Exactly. It's actually hilarious to me how Harvard grads with Sociology or Women's Studies degrees wonder why they're unemployed and in debt.

It's not my fault you majored in Medieval Poetry. Why should I subsidize someone's ill conceived choices? Regarding poetry, it's interesting how the world's greatest poets did not get an expensive MFA in poetry. Hemingway didn't even go to college. Studying liberal arts is important, but getting $100k student loans to major in something like Sociology? Really? Some folks are just plain old stupid. In what universe do the numbers work for a decision like that? If I was a VC and someone came to me to fund their schooling with that sort of 'plan,' I'd laugh them out of my office.
You seem like a nice and rational guy, but it looks to me as if your post ended just after the introduction. Apart from the info that there are many profitable trades which success that cannot be explained by luck, I'd love to see counterarguments to other things.

For example, if you are a successful trader, it seems a kind of activity that scales very nicely. If you can be sure you are profitable in say a month (or a year), you are multiplying money, so using leverage or loans you should be able to basically have any amount of money you want (and what about trades in that case?). At least that is my understanding as a non-trader. I'd love to read some explanations for this, especially that I like your writing style.
It was a seasonal job (ie temporary) she was overqualified for. I don't see why that should be an issue.
There's also employment insurance from the government, disability insurance, etc... I grew up knowing someone who's been legitimately disabled for 20 years. She owns a house and gets on fine, not rich by any means, but lives a decent quality of life, without any family to speak of. Our social net isn't ideal, but its much better than most Canadians think (I know its a Canadian quality to be critical of ourselves)...
You can use variables in Haskell as well, no problem. It just forces you to stack your monad on IO, STM or some other mutable-value-supporting monad, of which there are several.

The only difference worth mentioning is that they type system won't allow "leaks".
Perl & linguistics, http://world.std.com/~swmcd/steven/perl/linguistics.html
Not all Germans wish to be useful, there are plenty of freeloaders. Assuming you've had a job, you get a good percentage of your salary for a while, and then once that's run out, you get a house deemed adequate for your family, health insurance, and about $500 a month. This is not enough for a great life, and no one with any ambition is going to accept that standard of living. That said, some do, and mostly, Germans are willing to live with paying for that. The flip side is that this is the worst your life can ever get. Having Hartz IV as a very deep backstop gives people a real confidence and peace about their lives that doesn't exist in the U.S.
You'll note that Elon Musk made his first few millions in a "YC-style" web-only company - Zip2 - that had nothing to do with changing the world.

Maybe starting a company with the ambition of SpaceX and Tesla is fundamentally incompatible with something like YC. I don't know. But YC is still useful if it enables the next generation of Elons to make their first hundred millions.
Not a book but Wikipedia is awesome. Just start with a subject and branch away. No book covers the breadth of Wikipedia. Of course a book might be better for depth.
> I'm talking about the Command Prompt, that window with which you get access to a shell.

You mean "a console window". Command Prompt is the name of the baked-in shortcut which starts cmd.exe in a console window.
If you mean biological viruses, it's not just possible, it's certain. In the two seconds it took you to read this, hundreds or thousands of viruses appeared that didn't exist before. Mutation happens at a very high rate, and there are a lot of viruses in the world.

If you mean computer viruses, it's not just possible, it's certain. Just that the rate is several orders of magnitude slower because it depends on human ingenuity :).
> Much like countries, it doesn't necessarily make sense to treat companies like people when it comes to reputation. You shouldn't hold a grudge against a country forever, many of the people inside of it may have disagreed with its actions and more importantly the leadership could be completely different now.

Sure, but it really depends on what and how much. Microsoft made their fortune by being ethically bankrupt and breaking the law. If the Mafia decided to reform today and go legit, it would be a long hard slough before anybody would actually trust them. And if they kept extortion as a side business, it would make it very hard to believe anything they have to say, regardless of the amount of money they give to charity.
Wi-Fi? Besides, what exactly is your point? People might have had access to SMS first, but it wasn't a good solution for much of the world. It seems to me that you're trying to argue that we haven't made much real progress in the past decade and that you're trivializing WhatsApp in order to support that point. It seems to me that you're focusing entirely too much on the longevity of specific apps and not looking at the changes that those apps actually represent.

As for Dropbox, it's sort of like the iPod of cloud hosting services. Yes, hosting services like Photobucket existed. They were mostly bad and slow and hard-to-use and special-purpose and didn't offer much free storage.
Also, the first thing I thought of when I saw the word Aurora was the 2012 shooting in Colorado. That's sad that the word is associated with that, but also a facet of the naming consideration.
Scala for .net never actually worked, at least when I tried it. I submitted a few bug reports and started leaning C#.
Done. Tepid feeling of unease was experienced that could be also be attributable to the grocery store sushi I had for lunch. To help put your mind at rest, USGOV bureaucrats oscillate across an ass-covering wave of incident driven threat detection peaks, and valleys of privacy right restrictions on their abilities. China, singling out just one state actor, operates unmodulated. There is a difference of level, accountability and transparency that makes your comparison invalid.
Can you give me examples of implicits in C# ? I am unable to see a parallel.
> If you can be sure you are profitable in say a month (or a year), you are multiplying money, so using leverage or loans you should be able to basically have any amount of money you want (and what about trades in that case?).

Its not that simple, sadly.

You can't buy $InfinteMoney$ worth of stock X in a single transaction, you end up moving the stock price as you buy/sell. This allows others to respond to your activity. At small scales, a system that appears to work will break down at large scales.
> kinda works

I think it does influence the market, but it cannot make them all profitable. Unless you think that group of TA believers act as a big pump and dump scheme (but I guess most markets are too big for that?)
I think most of that targeted IE users.
> they don't make dubious decisions (getting rid of semi colons) that are theoretically sound but screw up tooling

Wait WUT? I'm not sure you know what you are talking about ... that just doesn't make any sense.

Scala 7 years ago is fundamentally different from today's Scala, so I'm not seeing how your experience is relevant anymore.
There is an overlap with languages like C# and Java in areas which are usually supposed to be served by systems programming languages. It surprised me in the past, but I guess big amount of developers can be the cause of it. For instance, why would you write Hadoop / HDFS in Java? Or mobile systems in C#? I'd write such things only in systems programming languages. But I guess some thought it's OK. So overlap does exist because of what's used in practice, not because they are theoretically close in approach.
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That kind of "blinding" is entirely ineffective, I'm afraid. It just averages right out.
Nearly everything is open source; firmware, hardware design files, and an api compatible server:
https://github.com/spark
I am wondering why you guys don't see CodeDeploy as a competitor to Codeship? or eventually becoming something like Codeship?
As you say this news is great for C# developers. The rest of us couldn't care less.
A lawyerly reading still permits echo to qualify as a special built-in utility.

Two relevant excerpts:
"The following "special built-in" utilities shall be supported in the shell command language ..."

"... The term "built-in" implies that the shell can execute the utility directly and does not need to search for it. An implementation may choose to make any utility a built-in; however, the special built-in utilities described here differ from regular built-in utilities ..."

(the two differences are irrelevant to this discussion as they do not mention PATH resolution behaviors)

These quotes taken together do not preclude the shell adding a built-in utility and assigning it the "special" status. The standard does not say that only the listed utilities are special; it says that the listed utilities shall be special. Adding a normal built-in utility (not "special") not on the list is explicitly condoned.

It is my belief that echo being a "special built-in utility" and thus having magic PATH behavior is POSIX compliant, although the standard is not 100% clear on this.
I can't tell if you are serious or joking :). it is definitely a trade off to be made, the power offered by higher kinded typing doesnt come for free.
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That's far too easy to game, though, and even works on Wikipedia. Just the other day, I searched for a particular boutique marketing firm, and found they had a Wikipedia entry, complete with 20-30 references.

All of which were basically from the same small, inexpensive PR campaign.

Wikipedia runs a serious risk of becoming a commercial echo chamber (if it hasn't already).

What're you guys doing at Newslines to prevent it from turning into a vehicle for self-promotion?
> When you get a lot of users on your wiki you will have to make a lot of rules, or ban a lot of users

I'd like to hear your reasons why you think this will be needed?

As long as the edit is something useful to traveling overland, it's allowed. That's the only rule, and I think it's the only rule that will ever be needed.
Oh only 3 years of free software and services... Nobody should want that...
> There wouldn't be any problem for porting Scala to .NET.

Other than the fact that .NET reified generics and Scala's type system don't play well together, which was one of the big challenges facing Scala.NET.
Can you explain WHY an easy to follow, well-structured program that does not abuse language features is a bad thing? Even if it uses the functional language known as C++ templates to calculate a large amount of things at compile time? Heck, in this case, you could think of the compiler as a slow, purely functional, interpreter :)

EDIT: Note that I am not endorsing C++ or doing crazy things with templates. I tend to like C++ personally, but have also been finding the simplicity of C to be quite nice, and have worked with a decent number of other languages (popular and academic, with varying degrees of time spent from professional to a small side project). I'm merely curious about why using the template system to calculate things (even if they're large, complicated things) is immediately declared as "bad" if the code is well-written, rather than something that requires 6 months of study to really understand.
http://news.microsoft.com/microsoft-senior-leaders/

How many of the "non-criminal new microsoft generation" do you see there? My guesstimate: 33%
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Quote from the second paragraph:

"Learning and practicing something, for instance a second language, strengthens the brain"

So it is not just languages, but generally learning stuff. Who would have thought...
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I'm not sure what you're looking to do with bluetooth, but Adafruit has a few breakout boards using bluetooth:
https://www.adafruit.com/category/255

(disclaimer: I work for Adafruit)
I tried getting a Vagrant environment up but I'm not convinced it's worth it. There is at least one repo with what looks like a working config [1].

I was far enough along in development by the time I started messing with Vagrant that I never finished it. I started debugging using the opsworks-agent-cli as mentioned in zackangelo's comment. I'd just been `git push`ing changes, updating cookbooks and testing again - his method of editing cookbooks [2] directly actually sounds rather workable. I imagine in the future I will mostly edit and test cookbooks this way.

1. https://github.com/wwestenbrink/vagrant-opsworks
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8598255
Well, it's not a single event thing, but a series of events.

Upgrading IExplorer to something that can be called a modern browser and helping to estinguish IExplorer 6 is another event. Replacing Balmer was another event. Partnering with Xamarin (instead of crushing them with patents) was another event. Releasing Office Mobile for Android and iOS was another event. Etc...

As to why they are doing this, I don't really care as long as they are aligned with my needs. Plus I'm allowed to change my mind, depending on my mood :-)
Heck, back in 2004, I was using a Nokia 3650 to SSH to one of our servers and make configuration changes to our backup software. While riding in a car.
Issue fixed ;)
And this is really important to remember. For a good time in the 2000s I worked on software that only worked in IE because the "tech people" thought that "Windows Integrated Authentication", where you would just automatically be logged into a web app if you used IE + IIS as the server, was more secure.

It was a nightmare of coupling, and it's one of the reasons that IE was so hard to get rid of in the enterprise.
Nice effort, but judging from the non-sense emitted by jbooth, he won't understand the things you are explaining anyway.
> Humans already augmented their intelligence, their bodies, and their abilities with technology, and have done so for thousands of years.

Yes; it has often struck me that transhumanism is the unremarkable belief that new technologies will someday give our civilization new capabilities, mashed up with a kind of throbbing millenarian dubstep (these changes are imminent; they will transform everything; they will be our salvation; they will give eternal life or close enough; remarkable prophet-scientists will lead us to this promised future-land; etc. etc.) Wry G. K. Chesterton quote goes here...

(Forgive me, transhumanists, I know this is deliberately tweaking your nose; but so far this thread is light on actual transhumanists, and I thought gently provoking you might get you to appear! My research into your ways has been cursory at best, and I am perfectly amenable to being persuaded that transhumanism is a good thing to get behind... I settle back into my internet-armchair, and hope to be convinced.)
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Whatever, this part doesn't really matter. Just something that works within the browser and is completely isolated from any websites except for well-defined, narrow, simple and secure communication channels. However it's implemented - as a plugin or as a module within the browser's codebase or somehow else - this part is mostly irrelevant.

And IIRC, Flash is still a browser plugin. It's just that it's more commonly shipped with browsers. Or maybe I had missed something.
> You can't buy $InfinteMoney$ worth of stock X in a single transaction, you end up moving the stock price as you buy/sell. This allows others to respond to your activity. At small scales, a system that appears to work will break down at large scales.

OK, true it doesn't work up to infinity, but given how much money there is on the Wall Street, I would imagine that when your activities are big enough to move the market, you are way past the point of wondering what you can and what you cannot afford (say $1B+ not to be too vague). Especially given how many instruments there are out there.
That's a lot of inbreeding from a single pair.
> I believe that an individual has a fundamental responsibility to the society into which they were born

Why exactly?
you're focusing entirely too much on the longevity of specific apps and not looking at the changes that those apps actually represent.

OK - what change does Whatsapp represent over SMS?
I think one thing that people could do, as they could all over the internet, is be encouraged to spend more time in the new section. One wonders if perhaps users who have been slapped by an immediate revert should be encouraged to take up the new-page patrol.

As an aside, the first and only time I came across a bug in Mediawiki, back when I was pulling the nightly trunk, it turned out to be induced by a change of semantics in the minor version of PHP I had (which was well ahead of what Wikipedia was using at the time). Tim Starling not only weighed in, but took PHP to task. That semantic change in PHP was promptly reverted!

If you see him, say hi. He'll never remember me.
It would mitigate it slightly, but ultimately will be ineffectual - they can simple take more measurements.
Warren Buffet said the same thing. That he just couldn't take advantage of the same situations now that he moves a lot of money that he used to get to the top.
I should mention that I've managed to curb my addiction for the past year and a half now. Coming up to two years clean in December.
Dart's not statically typed. The type annotations are not used at all in production mode. In checked mode they're only used for run-time type checks.
Because then you end up blocking entire countries by accident.
Yes. If you own a gun it doesn't mean that you're planning to shot anyone with it or that it's bound to happen. If you say you use it as a defense weapon and you actually do that (which is what a lot of gun owners in the USA say) then its a defensive weapon.

It's not about shooting back with lightning fast reflexes. It's dissuasion, or sometimes against wild life too. It also doesn't mean its going to save you every time either. Nothing works every single time, we'd know by now.

Of course its also used to kill. For homicides, what not. Heck flower pots are used for homicides too.

The point is that the decision is in the hands of the human behind the trigger, if guns didn't exist, they'd use swords. If sword's didn't exist, they'd use blunts. and so on.
Thanks for the reply. Are the retailers cool with all of this?
I thought the same thing, I didn't see anything in the article that mentioned that learning a new language improved your brain, unless you already had a very good and connected brain to learn the language.

Maybe we can infer that if you try to learn somethign which you don't have the brain capacity to learn, it will be of no use. But if you try and learn something at your level of brain capacity, it will improve your brain.

Therefore, to improve your brain you need to challenge it everytime with something it's capable of solving. Sounds a lot like it's saying, just actively practice your brain.
It's blank for me, i'm getting the following error, http://i.imgur.com/hOgoySO.png (screenshot)
I personally like the idea of the Nymi.
http://www.getnymi.com/

There are plenty of NFC-like standards, and smart card-like authentication protocols. Can we just standardize on one of them, get the hardware out there, and solve this problem already.
Dart is built by the same team that wrote V8. They know what makes JavaScript difficult to optimize and made Dart much easier for make fast. Not only is the Dart VM faster than V8, but it's much, much simpler.
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You've pretty much described "Flagged revisions" (1), which has been in testing since 2008 or thereabouts and has been adopted by a bunch of non-English Wikipedias, most notably German. Despite years of debate about the pros and cons, it has not been adopted on the English WP, although a very watered down version called "Pending changes" has been live since Dec 2012 (2).

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Flagged_revisions

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:PC2012
The over the top friendliness that is desired, in my culture is off putting to me. It comes across as extremely disingenuous to me. I don't mind (I even like) "casual friendliness" but in a different, more muted, way that is socially considered good manners in my culture. I lived overseas and i was much more comfortable there because the interactions among strangers were much more comfortable for me and didn't seem forced, fake, or over the top. And i did make a lot of friends out of strangers there.

And i am CERTAINLY not opposed to engaging with strangers or challenging myself, in fact that is how i meet my partner, i approached a random stranger.

Connecting with other humans IS a good thing, but asking random strangers "what makes them tick" isn't culturally appropriate in some places and may lead to ostracism and embarrassment, not connection. Depending on your culture.
I did not attend a top-tier school, but I did attend a new school with something to prove. I feel like I got a great education. (University of Northern British Columbia, by the way.)
What is WiredTiger? I checked the github, but couldn't find any high level information other than it uses a LSM much like LevelDB. What advantages/tradeoffs have they made in WiredTiger vs. LevelDB?
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How hard is it to reprogram the device to use your own server using that back end? How about if you wanted to do your own back end?