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As far as I know, all of the BSDs have adopted code from each other over time. It might simply be a side of effect of the common heritage and license, but it seems to be one that none of the people involved have a problem with and often consider desirable.

But that does not make Dragonfly a "research platform" for FreeBSD. Both systems have different priorities and goals.

(Although I wonder if any of the things that Dragonfly set out to do differently has been adopted back into FreeBSD?)
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yes, exactly

$2k in rent -> must make $80k/year
What about Newtons later career where he made the unlikely transformation from scientific genius to stupendous badass?

"Counterfeiting was high treason, punishable by the felon's being hanged, drawn and quartered. Despite this, convicting even the most flagrant criminals could be extremely difficult. However, Newton proved to be equal to the task. Disguised as a habitué of bars and taverns, he gathered much of that evidence himself. For all the barriers placed to prosecution, and separating the branches of government, English law still had ancient and formidable customs of authority. Newton had himself made a justice of the peace in all the home counties"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#Later_life

For an heavily fictionalized, but hugely entertaining, account of the times, I can strongly recommend the Baroque Cycle - much stupendous badassery.
And the fact that hydrogen molecules don't pass through graphene. Only hydrogen ions.
Public restrooms have a long history of challenges. Some cities take those challenges on, and some don't.

Things that I've noted as challenges (unordered) are; gang tagging/claiming, people sleeping in them, cleaning them, equipment damage, supplies (toilet paper, hand drying), and water wastage.

I wonder sometimes if squat toilets are a better solution for public restrooms with a varied population. Given they are pretty straight forward to clean from a distance with a hose.
Doesn't work with old browsers. And may want to make sure potential clients browser versions are compatiable with the site
I've encountered a lot of issues on Windows XP with QT/Angle but also quite a lot on Windows Vista/7 where the graphic drivers by default don't support properly OpenGL or pretend they do but don't answer properly to Qt's requests. This ended up with a big chunk of my users having a blank window or even no window displayed to them and no way to reliably detect this on our end.

This feature has been in the works for multiple months now and I'm really glad to finally see it ship officially with Qt 5.4, so congrats to the team!
We do (and did) complain about Microsoft giving its browser away for free; in the end, we got lucky that there was a well-funded nonprofit (Mozilla) and another monopolistic company (Google) willing to put in the massive investment to compete in that market, but it took years.

Similarly, I may happen to trust Wikipedia itself, but the tactics it is using are very abusable to keep a for-profit's inferior loss-leader product on top.
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Which browser did you try it with? Thanks for the heads up.
Sadly, SUA is only available in the Ultimate and Enterprise editions of Win7.
As a simple heuristic, count how many clicks and how many times someone has to scroll to get to the information that you think is the most valuable. I clicked many times, and still don't really know what you do :D
Indeed, but I have had better success with `--desktop`.
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Still cool, thanks.
Reality is: https://departmentfortransport.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/i...
did you put the new driver into it to speed it the heck up from slow to reasonable? ah, good memories.
Could you add a global variable to your site code with the fqdn of your assets to point to the origin for times like this?
I've had my eye on OrgMode for awhile - it looks awesome. But I use Vim. Is there anything on Vim that compares to OrgMode?
This is what most people fail to understand about Apple's methodology. They were probably working on the watch years ago but waiting for the technology to catch up to the point where they could deliver a compelling product.

Google, on the other hand, shoots first, releases often, and isn't worried if it totally misses the mark.

Perhaps this reflects on Google's aggressive start-up mentality.
I think the spec you are looking for is JavaScript.
What do you expect? Something (language) at some level needs to have physical access to the physical memory.
Really? Hardly any? I would consider it rude not to offer free restroom in a shopping centre, although it's far too common in a fast-food joint (they aren't really any better than the ones that are truly public.)
Yeah, pretty sure you could get WartRemover or one of the other static analysis tools to disallow these sort of egregious violations.
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Haskell also uses <> for combining any monoid, but of course in Python that was once not-equal... Maybe a dot? It's string concatenation in Perl, and function composition in Haskell. Interestingly, both of those are monoids...
> something near-linkbaity like "git 2.2.0 - almost a hundred contributors, 20 brand new, with dozens of updates and dozes of fixes! Whew!"

Titles like that are linkbait when the document linked is not actually worth the hype of the title. Actually descriptive titles like your example are great titles in my opinion, except possibly the last bit with exclamations.
I'll look into the link, sounds great.

Can give figures right now, but this is proper payment for qualified professionals.
Materials-science articles about a modest advance in surface chemistry (which is usually called "nanotechnology") are regularly being hyped into "big commercial breakthrough real soon now" articles. Nature and MIT Technology Review (which, despite the name, is a commercial company) are the big offenders. Super-battery or fuel cell articles appear frequently, but never seem to result in actual products.

Hydrogen isn't an "energy source", anyway. You have to crack it out of water or pull it out of hydrocarbons. Those processes are uphill energetically. At best, hydrogen is a storage medium.
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Wow, I initially thought it was the same name.
Agreed. I do not miss working in a Windows OS as I much, much prefer a UNIX system.

However I do miss working in a Windows UI. You could very quickly and efficiently do just about everything with keystrokes.

I much prefer the win2k UI over the OSX UI.
When it broke I was using IE version 9.0.8112.16421.
Why disassemble when the source code is available?

Because there isn't a one-to-one relationship between the original source and the compiled code. Optimizing C compilers (meaning all modern C compilers) frequently go so far as to substitute completely different algorithms for code sequences that they recognize. The source code tells you the intended behavior, the assembly tells you what's actually happening.

Why not instruct the compiler to stop after code generating assembly from C?

You are right that you could get the most of the same information by looking at the generated assembly (-S with gcc/icc/clang). There usually isn't a lot of savings in time, though, as assembling is a fast operation.

Also, the compiler generated assembly is often messy, and cluttered with machine generated comments. Disassembled code is in a standard format, and can be easier to read. The disassembly also tells you alignment and instruction length, which can occasionally be essential.
Americans are probably too fat on average for squat toilets to be a feasible solution.
Yeah, I'm think maybe head hunters are the thing. This thread has been great though - people have gotten in touch!

As in previous comment I can't give figures right now, but proper payment for qualified professionals.
It all depends on the kind of drone you want to build.

Just to make this clear, I want to not know what you'd do with it ;-)
most C++ jobs always need to be high skilled

sigh
I do exactly the same. Trying to replace Hansoft with Org-mode. And I'm super happy with my progress
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Many many people wear contact lenses rather than glasses for style reasons. I probably know more people who have contacts than glasses, and none of them are athletes.
People with "we should make it this complicated because we can" attitude. In other words, people who'd rather show off their skills instead of solving a problem.

This hurts the users because they have to spend more time/effort, it hurts the cause/business because some users just give up, and it hurts the reputation of the web design profession because people then associate them with complex solutions which is definitely not the outcome they are (or, should be) aiming for.

I'm not the authority on this subject but my idea is that the designers are more successful when they can present very complicated information in a more basic way without sacrificing usability. The problem could be getting paid by the complexity of the outcome, rather than the utility. Just a guess.
I'm confused too. Is this just bad reporting or am I missing something?
There is a clone (https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer) but it seems a little abandoned to me right now.
I use org-mode rather extensively in my own day-to-day work. I really like the table support! I create my time-sheets from my task lists and format it for HTML export.

I even publish books with it.

It's really powerful.
Interesting, when I switch to IE 9 it loads fine over here. What exactly broke?
It's not exactly a non-starter though. These days few people in the first world wear glasses or watches out of necessity, but some do wear watches or glasses for fashion.
I don't think F# is close to Python, quite the opposite, actually.
What does F# have in common with Python except for 'tabs instead of braces'?
A company I consult with has done a lot of research on Glass users over the past several months. I won't, and can't, share any of those insights, but I can say this: the office still has 40 glass devices sitting in boxes because not one of the employees is tempted to use one or take one home.

Most interestingly, Google is willing to simply write off "$70,000" in devices. Their budget is unbelievable.
Custom data generator (json,html,xml)
DNA survives sub-orbital trip on the exterior of a rocket
"At this point mechanical drives are pretty much dinosaurs, it would be only useful to tinkerers"

That may be true for end users / consumers, but I think that the advent of ZFS makes this particularly interesting for anyone that uses that filesystem.

The reason is, unlike most "RAID" that we've all used these past 20 years, ZFS does not want you to give it a raid set, or to put a raid controller between the disks and the OS.

Instead, the best practice is to present the raw disk to ZFS and let it do all the work. But that means you're more exposed to funny business on the part of the drive, etc.
It's far safer to not make bets: diversity in power generation is much better. I can't think of a reason why we wouldn't pursue each to the full. That way, a single natural disaster can't bring down the power grid; no hurricane or cloudy month or downed plant.
A part from video i think http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/android.html
is best on www Even my college teachers use to take help from these tutorials
It works awful in chrome under Windows too. Firefox is alright though.
Put simply: No, and there probably never will be. I was in the same situation, and eventually I just switched to Emacs. The switch is pretty easy with evil-mode, and spacemacs might make it even easier.
Oh god, I've always thought that i stood for "index". And j...Well it is the most logical name for the next index. :D
They do offer free SSL with SNI. But that's not viable for most people given the number of popular older browsers missing SNI support.
ha ha. good advice in general. but you never can tell... i'd probably do it all over again even knowing what i do now. Hey, I might not be with her, but I have 2 fantastic kids and a grandson as a result. I know a =LOT= about girls now. Life is weird and you don't need to follow ALL the rules...
Snipboard – iOS8 keyboard for text snippets
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With proper tooling, one could automatically upgrade a 1.x Rust compatible codebase to be 2.0 compatible (if such a version ever exists in the future).
Just some layout things. Everything is there but the layout gets totally screwed.

Works fine and looks good in Firefox though.
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I'm guessing it is a bit of both. There are story 'waves' as a story in a publication gets a lot of attention other publications try to out similar stories to catch some of the wave. I believe fusion in particular has a particular cycle as there seems to be a tendency to use 'in 10 years this is going to ...' and every 10 years folks come back and say, "Ok, its been ten years and ?" only to be disappointed.

That said, I read the papers on the UW design and the design seems a lot more credible than the Lockheed press release. The optimist in me believes that if you work at the problem long enough, eventually you will discover something of use. And of course once we do, well then a lot of intractable problems become tractable.
I feel skeptical to read about history of anything or anyone. People are complex entities. We have rational and emotional/irrational habits/reactions ...etc. Generally, historians look at the documents left or recorded and construct some picture. But I feel, no one or no entity records every emotion, every reaction, every action they do or involve ...etc. So there will always gaps/holes and there will always be unknown unknowns. Sometimes, we feel, we reached conclusions and may be awards are given and after few years, some new leads open up and it may change whatever we know till then making us feel like fools to trust in the beginning. Then there are many, who won't record anything, no trace at all. We are around 7 billion people now approximately and how much we record daily about ourselves for others i.e. future historians? I feel recording for future historians is overhead. Writing diary for yourself is different thing altogether.

So in conclusion, please do not conclude whatever you read as final w.r.t history even though it may be detailed or how well it may be written. There are always unknown unknowns.

Take whatever useful in your life and leave the rest may be the optimal approach towards history, if really required. Otherwise, in general scenario i.e. for daily life, just ignore history.
http://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode

I suppose an Emacs user will find it anemic, but I use it happily every day.
My daughter loves that stuff. I was pleased.
In a Lisp-1 dialect like Scheme, rel could easily and conveniently be a function. The call (rel a < b <= c) simply evaluates its arguments. The arguments < and <= are functions. The rel function then just operates on these values.
It's similar in the UK - large users can join the "frequency service", where they respond to demand-induced drops in frequency by disconnecting their loads, and get a discount for doing so:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_the_National_Grid_%2...

Another, unrelated, slightly bonkers UK power supply innovation is the ability for energy companies to remotely control their customers' supplies using secret signals embedded in Radio 4:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_teleswitch
More intuitive explanation.

Let's play a similar game with three doors, two goats and a car. But you get to pick one of two rules to play by:

A) You get to pick one door you want and get what's behind that door.

B) You get to pick one door you don't want and get the better prize behind the other two doors.

Pretty much everyone is going to pick rule B. So after picking the door you don't want I will open the other doors. If the car is behind one of those doors I will always open that door last. Does the last sentence make you wish you picked rule A to play by? Heck no. We already know that one of those two will be a goat. The order I open the doors won't change anything.

Even if I let you retroactively switch to rule A after opening the first door? This is what trips people up. They think they're getting new information and that their original door choice may be incorrect.

But in this version of the game it's easy to see that we're not changing our choice of door, we're changing from the better game rule B to the worse rule A.

So the correct choice is to always stick with rule B.

Now we map the rules onto the real Monty Hall game. Rule A is pick the door you want and stick with it. Rule B is pick the door you don't want and switch.

So the correct choice is to always switch.
I was homeless (living in a bus) with my girlfriend in San Francisco two years ago for 6 months and finding showers and shaving was one of the more difficult of necessities. There was a homeless facility in our neighbourhood (the Mission) that offered showers on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I usually went once a week. There was also girls only facility that my girlfriend used on Wednesday. Theoretically We could have taken the muni to other parts of the city for showers on other days, but the time and effort is usually not worth it (there is usually some 1-2 hours of waiting list involved). Other times we went to San Francisco State University for a shower. Although it's far away, the facilities are so comfy and sufficient compared to the homeless facilities that it is worth the trip, especially for shaving.

Toilets were less of a problem, we used cafés, public parks, constructions porter potties (non-padlocked), and grocery stores. And laundry was no problem at all (we just used the coin-ups).

I definitely agree with greater variability of sanitation possibilities. Especially when it comes to showers.
No matter what happens to RadioShack the stories were told masterfully. Stoned Craig is my hero, who reminds me of myself. Hacking the merchandise in an anti-social way is what being a RadioShack customer is all about!
After a while, the mental cost associated with Rust isn't that huge. Rust becomes a fairly productive language (even if it has some rough edges). I will say, however, that how you think of programming and structuring your application is very different from other languages. Especially when it comes to multi-threaded applications and how you deal with ownership and safety. But in the end, I think it pays off pretty well.
PolyBench/C is open source. Straight forward matrix multiplications in C. The code looks exactly like you'd expect it to look.

See the description for implementation details: http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~pouchet/software/polybench/#d...
And still the windows build remains 1.9.4. Am I missing something?
The domain looks so super trashy and spammy, is this an actual trustworthy journal?
Actually it can replace oil. Making long chain hydrocarbons through a process like the Fischer-Tropsch one is fairly straight forward if you have the energy. You would still have a refinery but sitting on the ocean with your fusion power plant your refinery would never need to have an oil tanker offload, instead your fusion plant would be supplying the energy to pull CO2 out of the air, hydrogen and oxygen out of the water and converting them into what the base for what ever the refinery needed.
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Thanks! Basically, everybody who's been here for more than 3 years is a co-owner. I just did a quick count (I might be off by one or two), and I think we're 36 owners out of 41 people. Our explicit goal when we hire someone is to keep them long term and have them become co-owner.
Our workers (including owners) who live outside of Spain (where the company is based) typically have an official status of freelancers, though they have only one client and are as involved in the company as the ones who have a status of employee in Spain.
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European parliament votes in favor of breaking up Google
Ah, now the number 8 (see my posting further down) makes sense, too. Its one of the chinese lucky numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_in_Chinese_culture#Eigh...
First grant with the word "robotic" was given in 1972.
they maintain that these are containers and it's only a matter of confusion: https://twitter.com/spoonapps/status/538038020755456000

looking forward to clearer documentation if that's the case
Wow. Did not expect this much awesomeness.

If you're interested in beta testin (helpin me find n swat the GOD DAMN bugs in this thing and givin me "clean up that GUI" tips, etc) please email me. I can explain the program better for ya and help you along with piano a BIT. (But, really, you'll want a piano teacher.) I want to keep the source to myself (sorry!). Some day, if enough people bother to use it (not so far), I may start chargin'. That's my dream. But I would not be chargin' any beta testers of course ever.

My android port is a long ways off. I'm juuuuuust starting it. Planning on using java for GUI only and NDK beneath. But it's going to take a long time.

oh, err, stephen.hazel@gmail.com (it's on the site, but, ya know)
Thanks for the advice... I will be bookmarking this and I think I'll load up a FreeBSD install on a Raspberry Pi or something[0]. I know C, but I don't know C, and it think learning about compilers and such would be super interesting.

[0] More driver problems are probably good, right? :)
shit, ok will look into it. Thanks!
"I really feel like you're selling an awful lot of the programming language design world short here."

You may be right about that :-) Although now I realize my words didn't exactly convey what I intended to say, see below.

"An awful lot of what programming language design is about is making it easy to precisely express what you mean, in a way that will make sense to future programmers, be robust in the face of changes, and so on."

Actually this is more what I was actually thinking when I said "the core
assumption remains unchallenged". There are ways to program that don't assume you're trying to build a robust, unambiguous and precise meaning (and which are therefore much more adequate for non-technical users). But these ways have not been explored in depth, and are not known to the general mass of developers.

There is a lively conversation at the original blog, would you mind to move the conversation there, to keep it at one place?

http://programmingzen.com/2014/11/27/programming-languages-a...

"Your mind must work fairly differently from mine if you find XML a natural way to reason."

I was not thinking of XML as natural, but of "creating instruction sets that work as recipies and can produce different executable code, so their meaning changes depending on the context on which they're executed". :-D This is the way that humans follow instructions when they receive orders. It's what makes the following a joke:

Q. How did the programmer die in the shower?

A. He read the shampoo bottle instructions: Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

P.S. (BTW, how do you create those intended quote blocks? I don't know how to do it)
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One or two other commenters mentioned there's a lot going on, but I feel there are MUCH worse websites for that.

I think all it needs is a little more negative space, and it'll pop. Good stuff!