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I like the idea of using the iPad as a second screen while I develop, keeping Dash at arm's reach all the time.

If you don't find the necessity for that on a Mac (or if your desk is short of space), use the OS X version, if you're on Windows, I suggest you take a look at Zeal (http://zealdocs.org).
It's a tricky subject, but the Microsoft exams (and such format, more in general) are not meaningful (I've passed several).

They're mostly based on memorizing dialogs, messages and arcane rules, with little space for (domain) reasoning. This can be argued of many types of exams of course, but this type of certifications are much more based on this type of "knowledge". In addition to that, preparation for this exams can be cheated by finding (widespread) packages/books which include the exact questions one will find.

Any person which doesn't understand anything about computers but have a good memory, will pass it.

Of course, it's notable that a child has such capacity, but given the nature of the test, it's nothing noteworthy.
> "The hardest challenge was explaining the language of the test to a five-year-old. But he seemed to pick it up and has a very good memory," explained Ayan's father Asim.

Maybe I'm just cynical but this made me think that the boy simply memorized the questions on the some of the previous tests that have been posted on the Internet ("dumps").
Are both versions of their apps open source and do they have equivalent features? Second question (maybe based upon old info) but I thought deleting email from GMail does not really delete the email which is retained for Google's purposes? These are sincere questions and not intended to be rhetorical.
I don't think that anyone outside the field can understand just how bad and pervasive this problem is, it is everywhere and harming patients every day. One more example - my wife is a surgeon working in a specialized field and in this field there are panels of 'experts' that get together and set the guidelines for how to treat the disease:

- The panel is stacked with visiting researchers working for the most senior researcher on the panel.

- The most senior experts on this panel recommend treating with a particular drug. It turns out that these experts also happen to receive money from these drug companies.

- These researchers then use the results of this panel when applying for NIH grants as proof that this is where the treatment is heading AND THEN, next time the panel happens, also use this research as proof that this is where the treatment is heading. Talk about self interest and circular logic.

What is incredibly sad about this is that the results of consensus panels are then quoted by doctors every day and used to lead their treatment of patients.
Just use Vagrant. It's so much easier.
Great app, awesome plugins.
Some did and continue to do so, they are usually the people labeled as crackpots, conspiracy theorists, and/or unpatriotic.
This is like Jiro Dreams of Sushi[1] but from a System's View. There are some takeaways in how to put together an exceptional product.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqz7RSw5030
I'm currently using D3 & TopoJSON to plot many things (including where our visitors are, since we have the lat and long of our users, by parsing the nginx log) and it's really great!!

Thanks for your hard work Mike!!!
Took a brief look at the front page.

- No side-by-side diffs? Didn't see any in screen shots.

- The scopes asked for seem very broad. I may be confused, but it seemed like it was asking for write access to all repositories, public and private. I have access to several private repos (but I don't own them) for which this is unacceptable. If the scope is limited to the ones under github.com/me then it's not as big a deal... In any case, the scary scope list prevented me from experimenting.
No, and I did not approve of a few of those (Iraq2 for example). Most importantly in those cases, those nations did it under real flag, and had to answer questions. People on the countries who helped overthrow Saddam could vote their politicians out of office. Parents of those soldiers could openly scream in free press.

The last time a NATO or EU country blatantly annexed a whole or part of another country I cannot remember.
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You can also view a summary of the video/features as a presentation: https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=http%3a%2f...
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How could this cause any sort of long-term hurt to the kid? It's not like young kids with technical skills become "child stars" like young actors or musicians.
You could treat the conversation as an endpoint that users have the option to subscribe to, and the @mentions as invitations.

From there you could also offer to exclude uninvited users from the conversation (maybe it is clearer to say, limit postings to the conversation view to people that have been @mentioned).
His father seems engaged in his future and the boy is enjoying the experience. I fail to see how that will hurt him in the long run.

Really though, there's almost no context so it's hard to tell either way.
Generators will be on by default (not behind a flag) in Chrome 39, which will be released to stable in the next couple of weeks I believe.

https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/4959347197083648
> my greatest fear is coming true: domestic law enforcement wants to play with the cool toys too.

Actually, the usual pattern is: surveillance and security systems are first tested abroad, then are imported into the homeland. So this is not really "domestic law enforcement wants to play" but the conclusion of a progression that is part of a regular historical pattern.
> People may indeed limit themselves to having only two, one, or even no children at all, but that will only lead to extinction of such self-limiting groups.

This is not "if" this is "when".

But it will take centuries, a lot things can change in the meantime, so we don't know what will happen in the end, but assuming constant growth when the growth in devleoped countries is over already is weird.

Prognoses for world population already show the growth stopping in next few decades.
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Yep, I played around with different GC settings for ~2 days before I gave up and reverted back to 2.0. I keep hoping pressure from other hosting companies will push heroku to up the default dynos to 1gb ram (current is 512mb).
PC AI sucks at Civilization, reads manual, starts kicking ass
Indeed. It's almost like the intended use case of a phone in your pocket, piggy-backing on the same device you use to call your friends or tell the time, is something other than computer vision.

I mean, I'm all for well-applied snobbery and picking the correct tools for the job. But, come on. A 30-second perusal of cute family photos on Facebook and a comparison to the photo album you used 15 years ago will tell you exactly what these devices are good for.
RVM/rbenv/chruby are generally discouraged on production servers.
There are now a few Android apps in development to keep track of the towers your devices use day to day to hopefully detect rogue IMSI catchers.

This one is the most promising:
http://signup.spideyapp.com/
low violence, is an interesting example to start with, since that's exactly the reasoning used to justify the lack of privacy and surveillance we now have. Violence is often individually actually low to zero, until you or a loved-one become a victim. But watch TV and be told how some people are a violent threat, and it can seem high and you become different ---ist.
Great detective work hunting down the culprit!
This would be my worry too, because I've seen it in a few others. Eventually, they make it to a place (top tier college, big name company, etc) where they are no longer consistently the smartest person in the room, and they are unable to cope with the sudden competition that poses.
Worked for maps :)

The same exact argument applies. The code was broken to begin with, the implementation behavior did not break anything.

And, just like with map iteration ordering, it's very difficult/impossible for the compiler to say "hey don't depend on this!".

The only way that I can think of to get this concept (that import order in code and init() order in runtime are unrelated) is to have things break.
What do you mean by SR?
Writing a custom framework is cruel to the maintenance programmers down the line. Whoever works the project after you is stuck with a buggy undocumented framework.
Anyone can build and release a compatible browser whereas one would be stuck with Internet Explorer (and no compatible browser) if something were only to work on IE.

As it stands, Chromium exists.
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So, it seems physics has imposed a correlation between lens size and pixel quality. Makes sense. I have seen snap-on lens attachments for smartphones. Can anyone attest that those do or do not significantly improve the issues that bsenftner described?
No source on handing out jail sentences, but I would bet you would get one if you defied it since you would be defying the law. Which would be when someone from the Justice Department would knock on your door. I would agree it's not quite the same thing.

As for "secret court" that you put in "scary" quotes. Just to be sure, no one says secret as in no one knows it exists, but that the public is not allowed to know what it does. Which is not FUD, some of us see that as a clear problem.
Parents should remember to praise effort and notjust good results. Parents should teach and model good habits - it feels weird to be talking about work / life balance for a five year old but he'll be attending primary school all day so it's probably important to be teaching him how to make and maintain friendships, as well as giving him time and support for his hobbies.

I certainly don't think publicity is a good idea. That just puts a weird skew and makes it hard to manage expectations for later life.
I use it in little ways, here and there. Its syntax inspires any tool-command syntax I write (see http://yosefk.com/blog/i-cant-believe-im-praising-tcl.html). I have a few Tk scripts around to launch tasks (generate a new data repo, run various forms of regression tests, etc.); nothing beats Tcl+Tk for "build your own tool" GUIs. When experimenting with C code, it's useful to just embed a Tcl interpreter to run bits of it. Sure, I could use Lua, but Tcl's even easier.

None of those are legacy projects, but none of them are the primary focus of my work, either.
Oh man I don't know what this says about Amazon's prices, that Wal-Mart had trouble matching their prices. And we know all the places where Wal-Mart has cut corners.

I don't even want to think about how badly amazon's warehouse employees are treated. (Although I've read one long account that wasn't good).

But Amazon has made the purchasing process so smooth, that it's hard to resist.
Weird little speculative fiction piece.

From Wikipedia:

Although some populations of modern humans share some nuclear DNA with the extinct Neanderthals, the two species do not share any mitochondrial DNA,[32] which in primates is always maternally transmitted. This observation has prompted the hypothesis that whereas female humans interbreeding with male Neanderthals were able to generate fertile offspring, the progeny of female Neanderthals who mated with male humans were either rare, absent or sterile (in line with Haldane's rule).

While interbreeding is viewed as the most parsimonious interpretation of the genetic discoveries, the authors point out they cannot conclusively rule out an alternative scenario, in which the source population of non-African modern humans was already more closely related to Neanderthals than other Africans were, due to ancient genetic divisions within Africa.
When I was a little kid I too aced anything I wanted to, without trying (granted I never signed up for particularly hard stuff, like this).

My parents, and all their adult friends were convinced I was going to be the "Brazillian Bill Gates" (I think mostly because I was the only person interested in computers at that time in their social circle...)

Now I am 26, unemployed, and desperately looking for a coding job... Now everyone is interested in computers, everyone is a gamer too (when I was a kid when I said I played computer games people looked at me like if I was an alien), and I did not even entered a CS course, so I am just a regular jobless coder.

It is making me very, very desperate to not fall into depression, specially when I compare my life now and my life as a kid, and realize that my life is essentially stagnant since I was 16, the same things I had while 16, is what I have now, except health (that now is worse).
Controversial U.S. energy loan program has wiped out losses
TweetDeck, which is owned by Twitter, handles it very well, too.
Is there enough information in the high-resolution blotchy images to get to a more useful lower-resolution image?
First sentence: "In October 2010, a Federal Bureau of Investigation system monitoring U.S. Internet traffic picked up an alert."

Oh look, a polar bear overthere!
This will end well. I'm sure of it.
I assumed they were both women. Care to point out which part of the text states otherwise?
Does anyone know what the procedure is with price matching at a store like Wal-Mart?

I know places like Best Buy had computers scattered all over the place and salespeople could bring up a browser and check the price themselves.

Wal-Mart doesn't have that. Do they trust you bringing up a price on a smartphone and showing them the screen? Do you need to go to the customer service counter and they look it up there? Could you show them a faked screencap/print of an Amazon page and they would trust that as legit?
I remember
We actually served election data ourselves there for a bit, but not with cache busting :)
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I don't follow; fixes making it only into -CURRENT is certainly an issue, but slowing down the major release cadence will make it take even longer for those to reach you. Ensuring fixes make it into release branches is something we need to (and are working to) improve.

If you're able, we would very much appreciate community effort in helping to merge and test bugfixes to stable branches. Supporting the FreeBSD Foundation also helps to ensure there are resources to help make this a reality.

Any change to major release cadence, minor release cadence, branch lifetime, and access to new features implies a tradeoff against the others, as is clear in reading through the responses in the thread you link.
These are very nice changes. Especially the ability to write a quick lambda for named functions (or functions which are needed often).

The elvis operator is useful to. Makes me think sticking to F# will cause fewer classes of bugs that can happen in C# (the onChanged example is quite interesting).
What sort of attack is this assuming? Would a dictionary attack be more effective than the "centuries" estimate?
Google needed to do either of two things: make the software good enough to be acceptable, or provide source code so that people could fix the issues bothering them themselves. They did neither of those things. Instead, they took the open-source Android operating system, made a closed-source fork, and proceeded to go around breaking APIs to stop regular Android software from working.

When I got Glass in November 2013 (XE11), I could run an ssh client on it and use it with a Bluetooth keyboard, along with lots of other Android software. A month later (XE12), they somehow managed to break the dialog box API. And XE11 was configured with the most aggressive auto-updater you'll ever see, so you couldn't stay back. Four months after that, they released the brick-half-the-fleet update (XE16). (That happened because Glass was configured with no swap, all their users had 1GB memory devices, but all their internal testers had 2GB memory devices. The updater would run out of memory mid-update and die, leaving an unbootable system.) As a side effect, that update also flashes a hidden firmware so XE11 won't boot anymore. Also, it strips out everything related to bluetooth keyboard support. Also, it disables touchpad gestures for Android apps.

Also, the terms of service for the Glass SDK are incompatible with the GPL, ban charging for Glass sofware, and ban advertising in Glass software, so there's basically no third-party software and none coming.

Oh, and it sends all your photos to Google (can't disable auto-backup even by rooting and messing with internals). And if you pair it with a phone, it copies any text messages stored on that phone, and sends those to Google.

This is very sad, because the hardware itself is excellent, and it (almost) does something that I really really wanted. XE11 worked well enough that I invested considerable time and energy into it, and I ended up walking away feeling like Google was constantly sabotaging my efforts.

Meanwhile the pace of actually-useful updates is utterly glacial; there clearly aren't enough developers working on it to have any hope of fixing the outstanding issues. So yeah, I've given up hope on Glass. I'll revisit it if they open the source code or announce new management with someone who understands software at the helm.
It's about how many restaurants a chef "owns". I do find it odd as well (how about the head chefs for each restaurant, do they also get Michelin stars?), but this is how it works.
TLDR: 1. Inbox currently using XSS right now, it is disabled by default in firefox. Refer: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/CSP
2. Firebox has option to enable XSS, so inbox can work on it. But that allows XSS attacks.
That's pretty interesting! I've been told at Walmarts they they don't even match walmart.com as it is "different".
Bad analogy. ELO isn't really a rating system, it's a ranking system. In order to be ranked 1200, you have to be able to beat people ranked below 1200. A 5 year old being rated highly (and I'd believe there are 5 year olds significantly above 1200) against adults proves by definition that he's extraordinary on an adult scale. Microsoft certs, on the other hand, are fixed. It's possible (although unlikely) that they're passable by someone at a 4 year old level.
Equivalent features that are not tied into Google services? Yes. Messenger does MMS/SMS. So does Hangouts. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that specific services (Voice calling over GTalk) should require the specific app (Hangouts)

And no, Google does not keep emails. After 30 days you cannot recover anything.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/112445?hl=en

>If you can't find your messages in All Mail, Spam, or Trash, or by performing a search, then they've been permanently removed from Gmail, possibly deleted by someone else. We regret that we are unable to recover messages that have been permanently deleted.

I can confirm that having emails permanently deleted, such as when I unsubscribed from mailings from a store I deleted my account from... I stopped receiving advertisements in the sidebar related to that store. When you stop getting ads about specific things after deleting all emails about those specific things, I would say that's fairly conclusive.
Acceleration in any form always begets an increased risk of crashing and burning.
I can't read yahoo here, but wallet.google.com works just fine. In fact, google uses it to pay android developers.
Nowadays, every time!, I am hearing some news about Firefox getting better, I feel that's a lie. I feel Firefox is actually getting worse and worse, from disappointment to disappointment. Either when it's a new feature or new UI modifications (I loved to have a separation between the URL and the Google search != Chrome), or new web services (Mozilla "Labs"?), or new dev. tool (Firefox inspector is at best full of small bugs and seems to be an ugly copy and paste from Firebug). Hopefully the Mozilla CEO being fired will make things better but I feel now being mediocre it's new culture trend @ Firefox.
A few months after that article was published, the scaffolding mentioned in the first paragraphs, custom-made (3 years to design and build) for the Hearst Tower in New York, broke and the window cleaners had to be rescued:
http://www.businessinsider.com/collapsed-scaffolding-at-top-...
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He owns several restaurants that have been awarded Michelin stars.
I wonder what the rule is here, one frustrating aspect of dealing with Wal Mart is far too many items are never in stock and ship to store only. Worse they arrive late. This includes current movie releases.

Their site is a real mess at times and just finding a store with the item you want can be a real hassle. If anything it probably drives more to other stores than the stores themselves
Seems like a small change but that nameof(argument) method for ArgumentXExceptions is incredibly handy.
Still, I suspect Google’s developers are too focused on development in Chrome-only. If true, this may have contributed to perf issues arising in Firefox, in the first place. I also suspect that Google’s web compat team is not sufficient to handle their products.
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I would be interested in knowing what kind of program will this child create in the next years. If his success relays mainly on his good memory then perhaps nothing outstanding is to be seen, but it could be that there are other great capabilities that could allow him to excel in programming.

Perhaps we will see some very fine art of work in the foreseeable future. Time will tell.
The lack of normal social life from being a geek in the eyes of other kids will likely do the kid more damage then the benefit he will receive from being a child computer wiz.

Let kids be kids and don't try to make them adults early, it usually doesn't turn out to be as glorified as the adults think it will.
It doesn't always need to send a bounce if it doesn't want to.
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Neither. He currently holds 21 stars. He has a few restaurants that hold 3-star rating.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Ducasse
So this is an improvement on the Luhn algorithm which is used for credit cards?