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I'll also say that my favorite tactic was often labeled a griefer tactic although I'll still vehemently disagree with that assessment.

In the first couple of months I had a lot of advantages. I'd already been playing for months so was familiar w/ the ins and outs of the game - this led to me being one of the first GM mages on the server (when magery was the only way to really fight). I had a fast connection and single digit pings when most people were just starting to get 28.8 modems - I was often accused of cheating as I'd appear to warp around people's screens (from my perspective I could easily overtake people who were riding horses when I was on foot). While I wasn't particularly good at PvP from a player skill perspective, I had enough advantages that I could count on 2 hands the number of people I actually feared.

At the time many new players would find themselves dastardly due to clicking on the wrong thing once or twice - they didn't even mean to do anything wrong and half the time it was due to lag. So what I'd do is dress up in newb gear, hang outside the dungeon near Britain and pretend to be very lagged. At the time you couldn't see people's skill levels (stuff like this is why they put that in) so you'd just see my character name, that I was dastardly, I appeared to be a n00b and I could barely move.

So then these brave souls would attack me, often in a pack - not because they actually thought I was a bad person but because they a) could and b) I was an easy target who couldn't fight back. I'm sure you can see where this is going, after I'd wipe the floor with their whole crew they'd come back and call me a cheater and a horrible human being. Sorry, I wasn't the one attacking a defenseless n00b.

And yes, one could argue this from an RP perspective that in fact my char was a criminal and they were meting out justice but approximately 0.1% of people actually were doing that despite what they'd claim, the rest were just being turds.
What's its ultimate tensile strength of the OS?
I completely agree. This was a struggle for me -- I wanted to show off features on the homepage, but adding a Gif slideshow added a crap ton of load to the page.

I wanted to create a video, but my video editing skills are pretty poor and I wanted the experience to be great (even my gifs have a few bugs in them if you look closely). I'll work on this for sure.
These scooters are designed for a different use case - toys for kids. The power, reliability, and design reflect that.

If you longboard, you would LOVE the Boosted board.
What window manager/etc is http://i.imgur.com/7Tu2i6W.png?
I like this. I don't like it because I like Material or even Linux. I like it because I want to build a compelling user interface for my own app. The two best reference UI's I've seen (and yes, this is subjective) are Office and Visual Studio. Nothing else out there that's even vaguely mainstream and on a desktop pushes boundaries like those two. And yet I like neither of them. My own design (https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Entry.aspx?id=bc4a9a14-cdd5-4c0...) reflects the best I can do. I'm not creative, nor am I an expert at UI or UX, so its really useful seeing what others come up with.

And that is why I appreciate both the effort it took to put this together, and a new perspective that someone was generous enough to share.
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At this point there are at least three fairly major "post-sysV" integrated launch/supervision/config systems that I would guess the FreeBSD devs will take away some lessons from (especially because I know there are FreeBSD devs with experience using each of them): Linux's systemd, Solaris's SMF, and OSX's launchd.
> What does Material even offer to a Desktop OS?

A unified design language for a desktop OS is desperately needed in the Linux community.
We do quite a bit of Java development and particularly with regards to Java EE 7. In the past I've had bad experiences in terms of a stable Java environment on production servers on FreeBSD.

It appears that OpenJDK is the best option on FreeBSD right now - but is it something one can trust as much as Oracle's Java on Linux?

These are mission critical servers, so I would hesitate to take chances. To put it in perspective, even the latest Java 8 has a serious bug (on Linux) that we've recently reported to Oracle, so we'd like to be as risk averse as possible.
Based on the name, wonder if the gel is an extract from an ancient medicinal oil from the plant Vetiver (Tamil)? The medicinal properties of this plant are well known since ancient times and are chronicled in ayurvedic practice and ballads of India.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysopogon_zizanioides
http://ayurvedicoils.com/tag/vetiver-oil-in-ayurveda
Sorry about this, my guess is it's the slideshow on the homepage -- there's about 30MB of gifs in that slideshow (terrible, I know), and it should be "lazily loading" them in, but it looks like there might be a bug with either the slider code or the way I'm doing it because it keeps taking up more memory the longer you have the homepage open. It's on my bug list.
This is common rhetoric from America's own left but it isn't entirely accurate, and is largely offset by the fact that American use of the term Liberalism differs vastly with the rest of the world and history. Actual socialist parties have waned to a barely marginal existence in most European countries, and often have at most a "tea party" like relationship to more center-left social-democratic parties. America's Democratic Party is closer to a European Social Democrat party than a centrist European Liberal Democrat party, as America's use of the word Liberal is far to the left of European use of the term. Many European countries have sizable centrist 'classical liberal' parties that would actually be considered 'to the right' of American liberals, oddly enough.

So no, America is not really a right and far right country, it's more a polity of extreme Conservative and progressive ideologies lorded over by two centrist parties with a heavily authoritarian commonality between them. What the U.S. entirely lacks is an anti-authoritarian centrist Liberalism akin to that in Europe.

To illustrate, if we were to align US parties to those parties in the UK, you'd likely get the following: the conservative Republicans (US) align to the conservative Tories (US), the far right Tea Party aligns to the far right UKIP (UK), the progressive Democrats (US) align to the social democratic Labor party (UK), and then the UK's centrist Liberal Democrats do not align to any recognizable political organization in the US. The UK Lib Dems at best might loosely align to a combination of US civil libertarians and classical liberals, both of which belong more or less to the politically homeless. Some might say those fall under the Democrat tent, and yet the most vocal proponent of civil liberties in the US government right now is conservative Rand Paul, so go figure.

To come full circle, a US equivalent of the UK LibDems, were it to exist, would likely be the most vocal opposition to the NSA.

Appropriate username btw :)
Some people value autonomy and freedom from obligation more than money and influence.
If they don't go after people now, they might change their approach later. If they truly don't intend to enforce it then they shouldn't need you to sign it.
One approach would be for browsers to send a string that is along the lines of a uuid generated at compile time, or an MD5 of the executable.

That way, analytics vendors or libraries could maintain a database that maps IDs to specific browsers releases, platforms, features, etc if they care about those things enough, but short-sighted web admins would have no hope of doing anything with primitive regex matching of the UA string.
How easy do you think it would be to acquire just a single page of these and replicate it was an inkjet printer? $35 for a paper notebook isn't worth it- I tend to make a hundred drawings for every one I actually vectorize and use as is, so it this wouldn't be practical. Anyway, an expensive notebook is always intimidating, I go for cheaper ones with tear out pages so I don think about being wasteful when I'm creating
That would be the standard string. It would just be an ugly legacy string that tries to be all classic UA strings. You just stop updating it past that.

The main goal isn't to break backwards compatibility, it is to make the point that there won't be FORWARDS compatibility. That UA string is static forever.
UWB is making steady progress in active tracking systems and passive tracking systems. I work for a company that does active tracking: http://pluslocation.com/.

PLUS is an offshoot of Time Domain, http://www.timedomain.com/. Time Domain does radar; I don't think they do any active tracking (could be wrong though). IIRC Time Domain is the company that did the see-through-walls system.
For some context -> The MVC Music Store was the default project that you would build to learn ASP.NET and EF concepts. You can build these projects yourself with the tutorials here:

http://www.asp.net/mvc/overview/getting-started/introduction...
It wasn't working in chrome as well. Loading forever.
Is it actually practical to use ruby for mobile apps as a contractor? I imagine most folks will want you to code native, no?
The team chef will often buy food locally - sometimes because they have to. Team Sahara Force India spent $3700 on just their first trip to Costco in Austin.

> “We couldn’t ship anything here to the U.S., so we had to start from scratch,” said Freeman.

http://kxan.com/2014/10/29/f1-team-grocery-shops-for-race-we...
Browsers can do "broken website" detection much better than websites can do "broken browser" detection. (Few browsers with frequent updates vs. many sites with most "dead", etc.)

Internet Explorer (of all things) already had the right idea with its "previous IE" mode: if the renderer emits standards errors while parsing the site, offer to retry with an older renderer (and send that renderer' original UA.)

The newest Mobile Safari has a similar idea: if a site seems to force certain mobile viewport constraints, then offer to redo the request with a desktop UA instead of expecting the site to know how to set a sticky-session parameter of "desktopness."

In fact, Chrome's "Translate this Page" popdown might be the best example: you get a page you might not understand, along with an offer to magically fix the issue (which is nevertheless optional, because the user might speak that language after all.)

To wit: let old UA-detecting websites break. And then notice that they did, and offer to send a "compatibility UA" only in those cases. Turn a cost browsers were eating into a light punishment (but not impairment!) of the websites responsible. A carbon tax on archaic coal-powered websites, in a sense.

(And note that this wouldn't have to be work repeated by every user, or even seen by many at all. Google could build a perfect pre-seed database for this just by doing comparative search indexing using Googlebots that send differing UAs.)
Big issue is that professional designers don't typically use linux distributions. It's a real shame because Linux really needs some attention.: https://www.kde.org/announcements/4.6/screenshots/46netbook2...
Arches Paper from France is a personal favorite. Hot pressed, so it's smooth but not quite as smooth as Bristol, it still has some tooth for dry media
As an additional point: in the spectrum between centralization and decentralization, there's a clear difference between Linux and FreeBSD. This is what I highlighted in my post: FreeBSD's greater degree of centralization seems to me to be more efficient and leading to a better integration. That much is a correct observation.

But I did not want to imply that "decentralization equals less choice". As an example: Android is as centralized as you can get for an open source project. That does not stop people from customizing it to bits, so much that it's barely recognizable as Android anymore. The beauty however is that people can do that without influencing the direction of the original project (although that happens to a limited and uncredited degree), or bitching and moaning about it.
Seeing as he explicitly referenced launchd, I'd say it was an argument for something like launchd, NOT systemd.
Responsive Web Design vs. Mobile Site: Which Approach Works Best?
Given the article, it sounds like he was baited into giving a sound bite that could be taken out of context, by a reporter at an off the record dinner. Given the full context, it sounds like they were discussing how a company COULD deal with reporters who write biased attack pieces (in this context it sounds like the reporter in question wrote an attack piece and didn't disclose a conflict of interest).

That might actually make for an interesting dinner conversation. What could a company do to protect itself from attack pieces written as actual journalism. It's bias masquerading as fact. A possible solution to that might be to investigate that bias and expose it (if someone writes an article for a company who has a major investor also invested in a competitor - maybe the public SHOULD know that, even if it's not disclosed because the writer isn't really a journalist but is pretending to be one on a blog). In fact, that shouldn't be too contentious of a position.

The problem was that 1) the quote makes it seem like the Uber Exec somehow advocated actually doing that (it sounds like he didn't), and 2) It requires knowing the context (that it's with regards to unethical bloggers who write biased attack pieces because of a conflict of interest they don't mention and not applied to ALL journalists). It's a complex point that requires context. The buzzfeed writer intentionally misrepresented that for clicks, but that's what buzzfeed does.
People wanted better apps that are not just a sequence of static pages?
This strikes me as the "there are too many standards"[1] approach.

You're not going to get that by adding yet another standard, and anything not written to that standard isn't going to look all pretty and Material Designed anyway.

[1] http://xkcd.com/927/
> You may disagree that OSS should move fast, of course, but why should you want to slow down others?

This is a nonsense false dichotomy.
You are giving out appalling advice.

Do not sign things that you do not wish to abide by, no matter what HR says about it being a standard thing that is unlikely to be enforced.

If you do not agree with something in a contract you should always cross it off the contract and have the amendment countersigned by the other party.

Employment contracts are between two parties, they are not one party dictating terms to another and any employer who thinks they are is not worth giving your time to anyway.
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There are two things which I've heard a lot:

1. Every program rolls their own format, so you end up with a bunch of custom rules for configuring each application on the system. This makes life tedious for anyone automating system management and, on a practical level, increases the chance of human error when someone forgets the precise ways in which their experience with something else isn't quite portable.

2. There are a wide range of supported features – e.g. interaction with environmental variables or external defines / defaults, ability to reference other config values, ability to either include a file or merge config parsed from a different location – and this leads to more tooling to paper over the gaps.

3. Hierarchy and discovery: in Windows or OS X, the preference system has the concept of user, system and domain config so you can set sane defaults at the domain level but a user can still override one of them just for their account. (There's another interesting tangent here where it's useful to have config supplied with a package which can be selectively overridden by a sysadmin without forking the entire file)

This works, at least for certain values of "works", because there's a single standardized API for working with the registry or plist files.

I generally dislike the details of plists but the fact that I can e.g. run "defaults read [scope] key value" and get the same effective config value which an application will use without knowing at which level it was last set or even whether the file was the older XML plist format or the newer binary one is really handy.

The fact that a config tool can simply run "defaults write [scope] key value" and not have to worry about those same mechanics is even nicer for sparing me time worrying about e.g. editing a text file safely, knowing whether I can just dump a new value at the end or must purge old values first (oops, FooD stops at first value while BarD uses the last and BazD does either depending on quirky rules you'll just have to learn…), etc.

Similarly, launchd has a regrettable config syntax but I've forgiven it at lot because it's a relief to use the same tool everywhere rather than needing the accumulation of different hacks and kludges which sysv init/cron or, absurdly, upstart still require in practice.

What would be really nice would be someone building a library with plenty of language which supported configuration based on the classic Unix config files but with a defined syntax and well-documented strategies for error handling and hierarchy and started working to help popular programs migrate over on the next backwards-incompatible release. There's certainly no technical reason why any of the good parts should require Apple's XML cruft or the accumulated bad culture around the Windows registry.
I for one think it's time we saw bold and ambitious attempts at changing the desktop.

Most desktops today are arguably variations of the desktops we were introduced to in windows95 and OSX (v10). The colours, placement and names change but rarely does anything new show up (save for metro desktop).

With wayland and mutter/qt+ this is a great time to try out wild and out-there concepts. It's the only way to break out and really change the desktop.

I can understand peoples frustration; the desktop, after all, wraps up everything we experience when we use our machines. However I will approach this with an open mind, and I certainly hope others will do the same.
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> Pulse Audio, Unity, Gnome 3, systemd (along with anything else Poettering has touched) are evil because they're new.

At least for Unity and Gnome 3 (including GTK3) I'd rather say: Great ideas but they're evil because they are badly designed, full of bugs that don't get fixed due to complexity, constant API changes, almost no documentation or only wrong and outdated documentation and a lack of flexibility that annoys even the casual Desktop user.

Nobody is against progress - most people love to use OS X as a UNIX GUI these days... it's not perfect but it's not that bug ridden mess GNOME became.
I don't think I've ever heard it clearly explained why you rarely need futures in Go. (The blog article doesn't explain it either.)

It seems to be because each goroutine has a single parent (which launched it), so there is typically a single reader for its return value.
I hope they package the desktop environment in a way that it can also be used on other distros. Going to an entirely new OS seems a bit much to me, but I'd be way more willing to try it out if I could just install it next to KDE or whatnot.
D-Bus is an amazingly crap implementation of this idea.
Yes, as much as I hate that term it really does apply here. And I'm really only thinking of 2, maybe 3 folks. These were the people who managed to be the most productive members of the team while dealing with all of the manager BS. When you find one of those you do what you can to stay under them.
This is mentioned a lot by Python newcomers but rarely turns out to be a problem in practice because, unlike GNU Make, Python simply requires you to be consistent throughout the same file.

That strikes me as an even more valuable property for configuration, which is more often accessed by multiple people and tools and more often as a distraction from other work rather than the primary focus.
> When Alice measures the state of her photon, Bob's photon changes state as well.

NO NO NO! Ten thousand times no! Bob's photon does NOT change state as a result of Alice's measurement. It is in exactly the same state that it was in before: entangled, which is to say, if you consider it in isolation, it is in a quantum mixed state. NOTHING changes on Bob's side as a result of Alice's measurement.

It's bad enough that the popular press chronically gets this wrong, but NASA really ought to know better.
Gandi offers three validation methods:

* DNS: you need to add a specific record to your DNS zone
* File: you need to add a specific file to the root of a HTTP server listening on the domain name
* Email: they send an email to admin@ on the domain

All three are pretty much ways to check that you are the person in control of the associated DNS.
"Collin" is wrong, it's "Colin".

Clicking on the images appears to be ineffective, although I can right-click and view the image.

And I still don't really see how it works, what I would do with it, or how it compares and contrasts against existing systems like EverNote, TomBoy, or a stand-alone wiki.
Salesforce does have a non-profit tier that's heavily discounted. May be overkill for your case but it's an option
I use to program in VB6, and it used reference counting. CPhyton still use automatic reference counting (with some trick to break cycles). In both cases, the increments and decrements are automatically handled by the compiler. More examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_counting#Examples_of_...

Reference counting is not a bad idea until you have to deal with cycles. Once you need to use cycle of references you have to be extremely careful to break it or the code will leak memory. And sometimes, with complex code, the cycles are not obvious. There are some methods to deal with cycles, but all of them are painful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_sc...
I could see this being an implementation interview question. Neat stuff.
That's what "Mozilla/..." already is and always has been, and it obviously doesn't work. All you need is for one browser manufacturer to break the rule and advertise their new feature via something new at the end, and then everyone else who continues to play by the "standard string" rules suffers.

Don't get me wrong, I am not advocating UA strings - but to get rid of them, there needs to be an approach where there isn't a punishment for following the rules.
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It seems that "Veti" just refers to the veterinary application. I've played with similar would healing biomaterials before, and from the (scarce) available materials, it looks like they're using a sodium-alginate based polymer, which can be chemically crosslinked with calcium ions. With some additional clotting factors and tissue sealing agents (tranglutaminase comes to mind), rapid wound closure looks pretty feasible.
You can change the shell for a user in /etc/passwd, or with the command chsh.

It's funny how little things like this affect where you go with systems. On the uni systems, emacs was set up to reformat your code by default (as you typed it in). This drove me bananas, and I didn't realise it was configurable. So I went off and found another editor, and I'm still using it.
If you can't decide yourself just stick with your current OS.
Just because you don't know more languages with reference counting doesn't
mean there are none. Perl, Python and Ruby use this technique (Python and Ruby
additionally use GC). I wouldn't be surprised learning that embeddable
languages like Lua also use refcount.

It's just that refcount has its serious drawbacks, for example inability to
reclaim the memory in the case of cyclic data structures.