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> This is what these guys are doing. And it's a good thing. To say "this is wrong and it should stop" is incredibly selfish -

This is done en-masse to my entire country, Australia. We call it "The Australia Tax". And yeah, it pisses us off.

In some cases it has been cheaper to fly economy from Sydney to LA to purchase sofware, than the local price. Even for downloadable products. It's not an exchange rate thing, nor a local tax issue, and it's not the tyranny of distance either. It's more to do with the fact that we are perceived as a rich country.

Using VPNs and also mail forwarding services to get around some of the more outrageous markups is becoming more popular. Australia Post even launched their own US address forwarding service this week to get in on the action.
I have one of these (it was my first computer too, as in the first one that I owned) and stuck a couple of batteries in it some months ago. It immediately booted up, I was quite surprised that it had survived 3+ decades in storage without any trouble at all. The weak point in old hardware is capacitors and my guess is that because it is battery powered and has no need for much power stabilization that all the caps in there are either small or non-electrolytic. Props to Sharp for building an extremely rugged product, I don't have any other hardware from that age but everything I bought after that has died by now.

This may come in handy:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/48707750/sharp-pc-1401-manual
I can relate to this. My Dad loved computer hardware. He grew up in Mauritius with not much, and I think the concept of getting rid of things which weren't broken was alien to him.

He lived alone, and when he passed away a couple of years ago I went through the process of clearing his house and I really got to see the extent of it. Two BBCs, two Amigas, a ZX81, a dragon32 and it seemed like every floppy disk from my childhood. So much of it reignited memories I didn't realise were still in there. Old floppy disks with my handwriting on, some for games which I recognised from the disk even if I didn't remember the title, 3.5 inch floppies with a hole punched in the corner to make them high density (remembers that?)

Despite always trying to encourage him to clean up his house I was so glad he kept it all. This time I took lots of pictures, donated the computers to a charity who takes old one, and most of the floppies are now in my loft. I tell myself I'll look through them at some imaginary point in the future. I also recovered over 40 hard disks from the various PCs in different states of repair. I went through about half soon after he died, and will go on with more of them when I feel the need. Like you say, it feels a bit like checking in with him.

I must have been 5 or 6 years old and I vividly remember staring as a screen of BASIC of some sort on a computer he'd brought home from a car boot sale or somewhere. I was trying to figure out how to assign a number to a variable. B = 1. Got that. B is now 1. But how do I add one to it? B + 1? Hmmmm, why doesn't B change? etc etc. I went straight from school to code, and I have no idea what I'd be doing now if it wasn't for having computers around as a kid.

It makes me think about the footprint I'd leave for my kids to discover now. It'd be pretty much all digital, but with storage being so plentiful these days, and with gmail's archive and things like Dropbox and cloud storage, you'd think it would stretch right back to their birth. I'm not deleting emails which I think might one day tell something about who I am, and am dumping the occasional thing in a Dropbox dir, so if I got hit by a bus there's be plenty of info to tell my kids about me.
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> I remember feeling sad that no one would get to use this last project he was building.

Why not finish it?
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Yes, seriously.

I understand your suggestion, but that seems to cost the same amount plus some hours of my time. And, the data is on a VPS, which is not under my roof (or a trusted persons roof). And I get another monthly bill.

I'm a user, this is what I want :)

Edit: Also, it should be easy to load the remote drive first locally with your dataset, before you drive to the summer cottage, so you don't have to wait days/weeks for the backup to be up to date.
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This type of thinking reminds me of the show Golden Balls: two parties get the same thing or no one gets anything at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0qjK3TWZE8
I still use 2.95 on my winders 'puters. Thank-you for the ZXCVB & J keyboard shortcuts, Winamp team!
Linking is a separate step from compiling. It's a lot easier and clearer to keep that distinction. Of course, it's not as convenient, which is why I've fallen for the lure of pragma's in the past - but at some point, it will come back to bite you in the behind (wrong library linked, no library linked because of unusual combination of preproc variables, etc).
> you seem to assume that the description of the neighborhood given was also the reason why it is cheaper

The OP wrote: "Sure, it’s 80% Chinese American, but [it's cheaper]". That made me wonder too why the ethnicity would be a drawback.
Very cool. Doesn't play music modules, though. Still, props!
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Honestly the only way I've found to make this stuff work is to use something like LaTeX, where the source is a text-based format, and then put it in a real version control system like git, that has proper support for merging and resolving conflicts. Then when the document is correct you compile it to a PDF, and that's what you actually send out (bonus: much smaller file size than something like word).

(Of course, the big downside is that all your collaborators have to know LaTeX, and not use funny macros that the others don't understand)
At least all he had was excessive syscalls.

At work, we had a problem where a computer was spamming the network with DHCP requests. It ended up physically locking us out; the embedded system which controls the card reader and unlocks the door locked up due to the load. I had to use an alternative way to get in, isolated the maglock, and later power-cycled the embedded system.

Needless to say, we enabled storm control on the switch after that.
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The Amiga still refuses to die. It's like the old man in Beau Geste, still hanging on. Some computers will always have their fans.
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Actually, it was purely a semantic objection: if race is important then why not ‘European-Americans’?
Please explain.

The concepts on Angular have nothing to do with JavaScript. The new changes they propose to JavaScript borrow most from Dart, which in the eyes of a JavaScript programmer is an attempt to turn JavaScript into Java.
Looks interesting. Does anyone have a comparison of all these plethora of C++ HTTP frameworks, such as Civetweb etc.?
Unscrupulous recruiters will sometimes add extra skills or bulk up your experience.
Please tell me at least one "very good" idea.
I've loved Paul Ford's writing for a long time now.

"If we do not have children, we will move somewhere where there is a porch. The children who need love will find the porch. They will know how to find it. We will be as much parents as we want to be."

I'm sorry, I think I have something in my eye...

This piece of his is also incredibly beautiful and moving: http://www.themorningnews.org/article/the-age-of-mechanical-...
So why are they "clearing the market" only on Android and Macs then? Shouldn't the same happen with other devices?
What do you mean by "modules" here?
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Sure, many of the decisions in the current system are 'impure' in some way. Everybody has a price, everybody makes mistakes, everybody is uninformed about things. The big difference is the decisions still come from the elected lawmakers. They're often wrong, and even more often just guessing, but in the very least the system is transparent, we know where the power resides.

In the case of a randomized group, that power isn't with the group, it's with the people who educate them on the matters and who frame the issue. There are a million ways to present any matter, and none of them are objective. You're putting the power to influence and even determine a nation's decisions in the hands of the experts that inform them, rather than the randomly selected people. It would become very efficient to buy those people instead of the voters.

The problem of the matter isn't whether it would function worse. The problem is that it would function less transparently. It would ostensibly be a fair and completely unbiased system, but that could be manipulated behind the scenes in far more insidious ways. That's very dangerous. Personally, I would rather have a more unfair but more transparent system.
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Thanks for the clarification about the FDR. Obviously, its calculation very much depends on the base rate probabilities and the sensitivity of the method. The method's ability to detect bias very much depends on the type of bias being applied. When only a file-drawer bias is being used the method is unlikely to detect the presence of bias (because the power values are dramatically overestimated). On the other hand, if optional stopping and a file drawer are used, the method has a good chance of detecting bias (because all the reported experiments stop just as soon as they satisfy the p<.05 criterion).

Ioannidis used some of my simulation results to calculate likelihood ratios, which are somewhat related to the FDR. Details are at

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022249613...
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Here's another idea: Do like 2 days a month of consulting and move to a more desirable zip code.
I got into a lot of credit card debt once in my life. It was not related to alcohol abuse at all. That's a pretty big assumption you make there.

Thankfully none of those other items have ever been in my life.
But it does mean I can't decide to delegate it to my friend who knows a lot about the trade situation with China. All the power would become consolidated in a few people again, and giving your vote to anybody else would be a waste of it unless they pass it on to one of those. Sure, the group could be different for each issue, but in practice it won't be. You'll need to campaign long and hard to be in that top N, and try to get a lot of people to trust you. That leads right back to career politicians and popularity contests.
Also, the Web Audio API makes a spectrum analyzer practically free: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AnalyserNod...
My teenage relative's schoolmate went from being an excellent student and actress to a severe down-and-out in a short space of time due to her marijuana use. Likely other things contributed but the change was radical.
Haha, having worked in the Indian offshoring industry for the last 9 years, I can only say that this is a joke. At least 100 of my co-workers have moved to US with wages much less than their American counterparts.
Yes, I do realise that. It's just that React on its own is only a small part of what people would normally use to build an app. People will therefore use React + <something> and I would expect a lot of people are using Flux as that something.
If you dont believe in technical analysis at all, what do you use to trade? Are you relying purely on fundamentals, following trends? Or are there other types of analysis that can be applied?
I think it is more Dart... At least the AtScript specification mentions Dart more often than any other language.
Don't worry. This always happens to me.
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I can't believe I'm defending Microsoft, as I was a hardcore Linux guy back in the days.

To answer your question, Microsoft is not only about mobile. Their work on Roslyn compiler, F#, Reactive Extensions, SignalR, ASP.Net vNext etc is high quality open source. Moreover if they make their tools open and play nice with Android/iOS etc, we all win, right?
Go actually calls them packages.

I just prefer the term modules, as it was introduced by Mesa and CLU in the 70's.

Only languages based on C's primitive toolchain rely on basic separate compilation of translation units with textual includes for symbol definition.

Modular languages, that make use of better toolchains, couple the concept of separate compilation, with strong type checking across compilation boundaries and compiler managed metadata for the exported symbols.
It specifically mentions Android apps -

> A total of 62 Android apps were examined and downloaded, however, only 4 apps partially met our criteria and were selected for additional testing.

> Android-based apps lacked the features and functionalities found in iOS apps. This is likely due to the iOS advanced audio capabilities compared to other platforms, the open ecosystem of the Android platform, and having so many different Android device manufacturers using different suppliers and components.
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IBM BPM (Business Process Manager): sold as a versatile enterprise system that can model even the most complex business processes in an easy way, it ships full of bugs that one cannot address or work around.
The actual most significant pain point is the inability to express abstractions that would facilitate the coding process, leading one to actually have to repeat code from time to time.

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"Financiers want to change the world too, namely, turn it into change and put that change in their pockets."

Bingo!
...and what exactly do you get out of a more "desirable zip code" if you're living the penniless startup life?
This is the original article from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism, which uncovered the secret tax deals.
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The undergrad core (and degree) is 90% Java, C, and algorithms.

To be fair, though, many undergrads take graduate classes and the department encourages it--the only difference is a 2XX course number instead of 1XX, and sometimes a bit more rigor.
By "the part that actually retrieves the results and ranks them" you mean the nodes of a cluster, that run the RPCs?

I guess the "hotspot" would be the code that has to merge the top results from the different nodes and actually deliver top rated 10 items to the user?
I've been using SPLnFFT for a while now, with consistent results and I'm happy to see a formal evaluation.

The problem that remains is that there are differences in microphones between iOS devices. SPLnFFT author should probably calibrate the app on every device that is out there on the market. I'm not sure if that's at all feasible.
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In North America what you described is true, where as in developing countries it is not.

Not true. The game was conducted in "developing countries" as well, and the results seem to be same.
I can't locate the references right now, but a little googling might help (Especially I remember the results being mentioned one of the TED talks.)
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All he is saying is that the demographics are heavily skewed, which is typically considered unusual. The ideal being an area that is representative of the population at large.
Stereotypes are ok as long as you're stereotyping straight white cis-men.
I saw the ad in hardcopy in The New Republic sometime in the 1990s. I replied but got no response. Sometime five or six years ago I applied directly to D. E. Shaw and came up empty. I believe that that these days Shaw himself spends his time on research in tool building for computational molecular biology. Has another company for that.
Super uninformed question, but is there access to beaches or the ocean at all over there?
”no one considers how much time and effort is wasted by the user”

It depends on how you valuate your own time. The CEO of a Fortune 500 company would probably not spend hours for a gain that is so low compared to his salary.
Read their paper ( http://scitation.aip.org/content/asa/journal/jasa/135/4/10.1... ) , it's free to read the PDF.

The hardware is at least as important as the software (I'm amazed to see so much scatter between apps), so the homogeneity of the iOS ecosystem is a boon to this sort of measurement. Figure three in their paper shows that the Apple hardware is quite consistent across all models tested.

They did test Android phones and apps; the final paragraph from their results section makes a general statement:

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Nice site.

You probably don't need the splash screen though. It a blocker to the user in getting to the information contained within. I clicked the the "Browse Knowledge" link first and spent a few minutes happily discovering information about the history of industrial design. However when I went back and clicked "Discover design" I thought I had landed on a poor pinterest clone for product design.

Personally I think the Commentary on the items is your USP and it should be front and center. Possibly allow users to filter between the imagery and the posts within in the same view.

All of this aside I have bookmarked your site I like it a lot.
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You might as well open a small restaurant. It looks like the presentation of your food is attracting enough. Not sure about the taste.
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Doubtful, and ios7 (and 8) tightened up on pairing probably because of the scare of leaking data when charging with an untrusted USB peer. But maybe one of the first high-profile, mass-distributed ones?

Also, don't forget that jailbreaking itself by definition proves the possibility of attacking a non-jailbroken device via USB (or sometimes, even via the web in mobile safari). The fact that you get a visible Cydia app icon and optionally an SSH daemon with a known root password just means this time the attacker (hopefully, you) was benevolent.
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Yes, there is. It's a nice beach for walks, but the water is pretty chilly, year round.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sunset+District,+San+Franc...
Yes absolutely the beach is right down the street, you can see it on the map. :)
Outer Sunset is right next to Ocean Beach [1]. It isn't that bad if you can tolerate the fog, and daytime temperatures in May-Sept will frequently be in the 12-16 C range. And it's only 20-30 min from the downtown hotspots, and maybe 60 mins drive to Sandhill Road (traffic permitting).

The real saving the author is getting is on rent, the Asian food shops, etc, are not that much cheaper than Walmart, but much more tasty.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Beach,_San_Francisco

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Hill_Road
I only see a lot of lines stretching up and down, left and right and sometimes some images and some text appears randomly here and there.
It's difficult to know where do I need to stop scrolling in order to continue reading.
I understand if some images take some time to load, I would wait for them to load if I had something to read. Having to wait a couple of seconds looking at an empty page while the text is loading? Come on, 14400 modems were faster than this page.
Good to see they're taking the resiliency issues as those pointed out by Aphyr in his Call me maybe series (http://aphyr.com/posts/317-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch) seriously.
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That's true, but when I said decoupling I meant "break the common misconception that one cannot happen without the other". It's more about breaking the idea than actually separating them. I don't think we can introduce Basic Income as a full income directly anyway, it will most certainly be gradual (start with e.g. a BI equal to the level of poverty, and go up from there)... but the most important part will be achieved: people will stop thinking that in order to live there is no other way but work, even in useless jobs.
http://www.passiveincomeaid.com/

I am trying to organize all here and there posts with passive/semipassive side projects.

I am adding new content from threads like this, so keep them coming ;)
Thank you very much for your feedback. It makes a lot of sense. My colleagues and I will go through it line by line.