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Don't learn to program, program to learn. Of course this is just an adage. You won't learn good practice only by trial and error; that's reinventing the wheel. Still, writing (and rewriting) a non-trivial project in one's spare time is the best way to learn. It's comparable to learning a foreign language - you need to have live conversations, not just study grammar and memorize vocabulary.

Create some app of your own - or several - and opensource it once it is of fairly solid quality. That's a ticket to getting a proper programming job, even if you're in your 30s or 40s.

Do not overestimate the role of a technology stack that you happen to choose.
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I wonder how big the market is for Arduino/Raspberry Pi kits at a brick and mortar store when it's so easy (not to mention inexpensive) to buy them online at hobbyist sites like Adafruit.
This is an interesting topic, but kind of a weird article. Wikipedia wrote a long article addressing the topic of Net Neutrality and Wikipedia Zero a few months back. This is worth reading if you're interested in the topic:

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/01/wikipedia-zero-and-net...

Kind of odd that the Washington Post doesn't mention any of these points. Personally, I still feel the Wikipedia Zero program violates net neutrality, but mentioning Wikipedia's self-imposed constraints here seems important.
"Will you say the governor of Missouri unleashed the shooting incident"

Actually, considering his ties to the police, I would.
I can't remember the last time I even bought a CD. It must be approaching ten years now.

Spotify sates my music needs. The CD reading capable devices I own I can probably enumerate on one hand.
It looks like a new address is generated for each transaction.
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There are generally 4 economic players at minimum:

Network service like Netflix.
Their ISP, like L3.
Consumer's ISP, like Comcast (also a Netflix competitor).
Consumer.

The end points are paying money to the ISPs in the middle.
What are the "countless obscure chorded keyboard shortcuts"?
And then there's this version

> There are two doors with goats and one with a car. You choose one door from the three. The host may select one of the doors with a goat from the remaining two doors, and open it. Should you switch doors if given the chance?

Now the probability can be anything from 0 to 1, depending on what makes the host tick...

Considering the usual ambiguity in the problem formulation, the only safe reply is "It depends".
Is there an underlying presumption that smart hacker-type people do not have spiritual interests?

I think a lot of smart hacker-type people would disagree with that.
I'm assuming this is because Go was migrated to Github?
Same here. No issues in more than two years.
+1 regexr is my goto tool for regex's.
The authors didn't address the point that all the current use cases for zero rating are on wireless, not on traditional broadband.

The Google-Verizon proposal from 2010 had this "wireless exclusion". I was opposed to it in principle, but now as a T-mobile customer I really love the fact that Spotify doesn't count to my usage limits. I can completely see how zero rating could benefit the developing world and even the elderly in developed countries - these demographics are very likely to own a cellphone even though they might not use home broadband.

I don't see anything wrong in providing a throttled experience for free as long as all paid traffic (including non-zero rated versions of Wikipedia that include pictures/video) is treated equally.
Exactly. It makes me sad that the only remaining source of electronic parts in many areas is likely to close down.

Even with other options nearby, Radio Shack is still the closest place to me that sells such parts -- and the only one that's open past 5pm, or on Sundays.

I wonder if there's a way for them to double-down on the geek side of their inventory. They're at least picking up a lot of "maker" inventory: Arduino and related kits, etc.

They just need to raise demand. They could, for instance, provide and promote free curriculum plans for schools or clubs that just happened to need the kinds of components you can't buy anywhere locally but Radio Shack.
No. Peer reviewers get: early access to articles of interest, the feeling of contributing to the community they belong to, the ability to demonstrate their knowledge, the ability to reciprocate other people for reviewing their own articles, and so on. These are not financial rewards, but they are not less strong for that (arguably even stronger).

Journals are heavily incentivized to maintain standards because otherwise good authors will stop submitting to them and librarians will stop subscribing (of course only the first incentive holds for OA journals).

The fact that system sometimes fails is not proof that it is a bad system - all human systems have a failure rate.
That isn't unique to the Internet though. That goes both for other technologies like cars, guns or publishing and "protected" activities like running a business, being a journalist or a lawyer. Maybe most importantly there has to be a reasonable balance between protection (liability) and enforcement (punishment).
Assuming the OP is just talking about voluntary github commits and stuff like that, no they wouldn't. There are standards that have to be met for something being defined as work, like requirements to show up at a particular time and being managed by someone etc. If you're doing stuff that could just as easily be done from elsewhere and which comes with no obligation, that's not work.
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The liquid's center of mass isn't xL/2, it's x L^2 /2. One factor of L for getting lighter, and one for getting lower.

I made the same mistake like five times.
No transaction was found to this address: https://blockchain.info/address/1GnkMmEjTHHrw8BaWzBxEzuNweUw...
Doesn't pressing Enter generally work? I'm usually surprised by how many people click a button to submit a form.
I'd like to see someone use progressive enhancement and create an app like google spreadsheets.
What about 2.2.8 ?
Nice bashing of a company fighting for their life. Point being it's easy if you are awash in profitability to do the right things, hire the best people in management, pay for the top consultants. [1] And of course give people massages and free lunch and all sorts of benies. Or if you have been funded with funny money that gives you "runway" to burn through.

The highest quality people don't generally decide they want to join a sinking ship (let's say a store manager or district manager). The quality people are either happy elsewhere already (and not looking) or they take advantage (as a general rule) of the better opportunities either because they can or because they are smart enough to recognize those opportunities and pursue them. At my first company there were people that didn't even show up for interviews. Maybe they saw the facility and didn't like the way that it looked.

Separately, presumably if the author had a better opportunity he wouldn't have suffered for "three and a half years as a RadioShack employee".

[1] But even then if your basic model is not viable you aren't going to stand a big chance of making it. This isn't something like "People still buy cars Chrysler just can't make a car that people want".
This is one of the problems we're trying to solve with Publons.com. We help reviewers to build an officially verified record of past reviews (which is great when it comes to getting tenure). Editors can then use those records to vett candidate reviewers.
Yea, I'm not saying it's a miracle cure, but in general I have found the following to be useful:

1) Break any functionality possible into a separate npm module - not just a separate file with module.exports. Keep the npm module small and break it up further if it gets too big.

2) This module will be small enough that it is trivial to debug, refactor, test, and document. If it gets to a size where these tasks are hard for any reason and you wish for strong typing or something, the module is too big.

3) Please make sure that you do test and document the module. This will make your team way faster in the future.
What's it like to work at Nvidia? Exactly how you'd think
You're absolutely right. However, the probability that meaningful competition will break through the enormous barriers to entry that Comcast, et al have erected before they manage to irreparably damage one of the few remaining growth industries in the US (tech) is near zero.
Try going sideways once things get too nested for callbacks not to be arduous: https://github.com/rpflorence/react-training/blob/gh-pages/l...

Another option (albeit currently an undocumented one) is to use contexts to obviate the need to pass things down manually: http://davehking.com/2014/11/15/introduction-to-contexts-in-...
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That may be true, but the timeline was short: The 6502 was introduced in 1975. The KIM-1 arrived in 1976, and the PET in 1977. There was really only a year where the 6502 was a realistic options without there being "proper" computers based on it.

That said, while I never wrote assembly opcodes by hand, I did know the hex values for most of the 6502 opcodes at some point. And I did later debug M68k assembler by annotating dot matrix printouts until '92 or '93 or so - I used to bring them to school with me so I could work on my compiler projects during recess.

The things you do when you don't have portable computers or network access.
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An interesting thing to realize about the problem is that there actually is a way to make your odds the "obvious" 50/50, and that's to flip a coin to decide whether to switch doors at the end. The probability of a win on the two doors isn't equal, but the probability on the first door is 1/3 and the probability on the door you can switch to is 2/3, so using a coin toss to decide whether to switch would result in a 50% win rate.

This is because the way the problem is structured gives you six choices, not three: [A, A], [A, switch], [B, B], [B, switch], [C, C], [C, switch]. 3 of these are wins and three of these are losses. If you choose from these six options randomly you will win 50% of the time, but if you only choose from the "switch" options you will win 2/3 of the time.
Paypal switched to Node.js from Java (I think) and they divided their amount of servers by two.
I've wondered for a while how they deal with situations like that. For instance, when they implemented stars, there was likely a user named stars, but then they reserved /stars for their new feature, presumably removing that user. I just wonder if they emailed the user and said, Hi, we need your username for a new feature. Thanks, GitHub.
There was no concept of 'zero-rating' before telecoms/ISPs established the concept of a 'rate-per-byte'.
Radio Shack at this point is a sad caricature of itself. I remember being able to buy all sorts of ICs, analog parts, interesting radios and kits. Now it peddles cell phones and overly prices things -- I recall needing a battery for my cordless phone recently, they wanted $23 for a battery for a $50 phone? Uh, no.

Two other bay area places that have changed a lot are Frys and the now closed Quement Electronics. Fry's still has a few components, but nothing like the 80s and 90s.

RIP.
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And he hasn't made a single commit yet, the bum!
And I think it might work more favorably for ants anyway due to the nature of the colonies.

For example, with the 'zombie ant fungus', once the colony detects an infection it will remove infected ants or prevent infections from continuing. Ants are remarkably good at clearing their nests of infections.

Naturally this kind of 'communal parasite insulation' would preclude the queen from having to constantly adapt to new threats, and can rely on simpler functions such as mutation to adapt to environmental changes.

And anyway, this asexual reproduction is (purportedly) only for queens. The males+queen still participate in sexual reproduction for workers. In addition, ants send their oldest members out the farthest from the nest, so in reality they're constantly being replenished by new variations.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-zombie-ant-fungus-is-ev...
All American cities, and nearly all international cities.
" I would also devote a small section of each store to used/recycled/surplus stuff. "

You are talking about something that sounds in a way like "Weird Stuff Warehouse" loved that store.

http://www.weirdstuff.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=sunn...

http://www.weirdstuff.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=weir...

Radio Shack has thousands of stores and they are located in shopping centers and malls. They have to get a certain amount per square foot to pay the rent. And mall shoppers (as only one example) aren't really fitting in to this particular market.
I still have a cuecat!!! I never intended to use it for it's intended purpose,but thought it was great to get a free bar code reader.
A long time ago, I read an article concerning mathematical problems and how solving them improves (probably short term) intelligence. It turned out that simple arithmetic was the most useful. Of course, I can't find the source right now.
Two Christmases in a row, I got a radio-controlled car from Radio Shack. Two years in a row, that car was dead by New Year's. I never asked for one again.
Especially considering the Eich kerfuffle, you think Mozilla would appreciate anonymous donations so this sort of thing won't be a distraction from their goals:

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignat...

EDIT: Why the downvotes? The biggest Mozilla news of the year hinges on the issue of donation privacy/transparency. Seems extremely pertinent to me.
Rightly down-voted. How dare you have a sense of humor.
My Dad worked there in the 80s between contracts for a couple months. "Well this contract ends this month, and I've got an awesome database migration contract starting in 6 months, so I've gotta find something to do meanwhile (decades before FOSS type stuff), and I've spent tons of money at RS since it was allied radio and I was a kid ..." This was before they turned into Cell Phone Shack. About half the time they got well over minimum wage back then, even on low sales stores. Sounds like they earn even less now than in the 80s, not adjusted for inflation! One thing that didn't change was the Shack expanding to own your life, so it starts as part time and somehow 3 months later you're an asst mgr (why?) and "working" 90 hours and then a couple months later you're all WTF am I doing here at 100 hrs a week, my contract job starts next week, bye!

The article had a lot of weird stuff about not understanding why people wouldn't leave a crappy job. Well, perhaps 90% of the time the only crappy part was the paycheck, you just hung out and screwed around and occasionally sold stuff to people. So I'd take the city bus to his store after school and we'd play video/computer games for HOURS during the slow times. We had kind of a game on betting when the last customer would come in, maybe 6pm or so most days, then we had the store to ourselves till 10 or so, literally a kid in a toy store. It honestly was a lot of fun almost all the time, just not much pay. You could make a ton of money at lunch and after work rush, and saturdays, like $40/hr (which in the 80s was a lot), but you had to hang out all night long at minimum wage if you wanted the plum hours. Sales were extremely uneven over time. I still don't understand why they ever opened before noon or were open after 6pm or so.

I can prove he worked there... in the mid 80s each shipment contained a hopeless VCR tape of sales blather not for public consumption. Sell Sell Sell!
It's amazing how much they look like electron orbitals. . . . Sometimes its seems like the reason we see nature reuse the same patterns is not from any physical mechanism but simply because math only has so many "shapes." I am perpetually in awe at this mysterious order to our universe.

Also: if these belts block high-energy electrons, can they teach us to build a force field that does the same? And can that solve the problem of fast-moving spacecraft being destroyed by the first spec of dust they encounter? Or of radiation killing the crew?

What if the only way to protect life against cosmic radiation is to build a planet-sized spacecraft?

Another question due to my weak grasp of modern physics: to a fast-moving spacecraft, are all electrons "high energy"?
Wondering why you don't see an issue with zero-rating - it's essentially making an unlevel playing field, with the big players like Facebook/Spotify buying an anticompetitive moat against any new entrants.

I don't see how zero-rating is going to help network congestion either - won't zero-rated Spotify for my neighbors causes my calls to drop or my maps to not update?

Is zero-rating some bandwidth somehow magically evading Shannon's Law?
Watcom was the best - with Dos Extender and 16-32 cross compiler. Worst IDE, though.
Food for thought: any organization is vulnerable to such stagnation and dysfunction, particularly when it was born for and evolved with a state of affairs that no longer exists. Either the organization must adapt, or it should die. Thankfully, the death of dysfunctional organizations is a given in free markets -- perhaps even a reason for bittersweet celebration.

Governmental organizations, in contrast, have no incentives to adapt, and no "recycling" mechanism. Failure is emphatically not an option. Worse, bureaucracy inevitably takes on the primary mission of preserving itself.
No, you can't. But I haven't seen the evidence. It isn't legal to scan a website for vulns without permission. I assume the have evidence that he did scan the site.
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Proof we possibly originated from extraterrestrial life!

edit oh, grow up, downvoters. panspermia is a real concept http://www.livescience.com/13363-7-theories-origin-life.html
...am I the only person for whom the intuition about this problem has always yelled: "neither! choose whether to keep the choice or switch it with 50% probability - in other words, flip a coin." ?
Awesome, thank you!

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We expect “Satoshi Nakamoto” is Japenese.
When you take out “I am Nash” you are left with
“sato” and “koto”
Japenese is the key because if you didn’t know the language then you could never match the words to verify the code cracking.
koto = japan’s national instrument
sato = the most popular japenese name

Bitcoin is the “instrument” for the “common man”.

This is worse than the 9/11 "truthers".
Apple's goto/fail bug could only exist because single-line then clauses work.
Thanks this is enough incentive to reinstall it and get vimming again.
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Was not disappointed. Was half expecting a 3 page long article about some epiphany over 10 seconds of math contemplation.
if (sliderMax > 100) {
sliderMax = 100;
}
score = Math.ceil(numAnswersCorrect * (sliderMax / 10 + numOperatorsEnabled))

Score multiplier and number of operators selected directly influence the score. So setting slider to 10 and enabling all operators gives 7 points per question and increasing slider to a 100 raises that to 16 points per question.
Further, this technology promises much cleaner, less sulfurous gasoline. Current gasoline is filled with all sorts of impurities, and needs to be significantly distilled to get the long-chain organic compounds that are needed for efficiency; This tech seems to create long-chain compounds from the base materials of carbon and hydrogen, meaning less impurities and less distillation.
While it's glib to say that Radio Shack was lost for the want of a space, the change in their corporate identity from "Radio Shack" to "RadioShack" -- 1995 -- coincides with their slide to irrelevance nicely enough to seem kind of symbolic. We don't really know what the Internet is, but we've noticed that cool companies are using CamelCase.

I suspect it's hard for people who are under 30, maybe even 40, to believe how different RS once was from the sad sack we have today. I don't think they were ever really cool -- that air you now get from their '70s and '80s catalog of old white dudes trying to be hip is an air you got from those catalogs even when they were brand new, trust me -- but they had big selections of really interesting stuff, most of which was exclusive to them, and frequently had salespeople who were genuinely enthusiastic about electronics and computers. And the importance of the TRS-80 in the early computer scene seems to be vastly underestimated today, I suspect in part because of that perpetual lack of cool. You might dimly remember "Trash-80" jokes, but you may not remember that for a few years it was the best-selling computer in the world. And unless you followed the company, you almost certainly don't remember that they had separate "Tandy Computer Center" stores, or that they sold an IBM PCjr "clone" called the Tandy 1000 that fixed all of the PCjr's problems and became so popular that big name games had exclusive Tandy 1000 features, or that they actually shipped a frikkin' Xenix workstation (The TRS-80 Model 16) years before most people had any idea what that was or why they should care.

And, really, that last one sums up Radio Shack in a nutshell, especially with computers: always either a few years ahead of their time, or a few years behind it. As someone who grew up with the TRS-80 Model I and later Model 4 (and who did a lot of strange mad science stuff with it up even into the early '90s), I'll miss RS -- but the RS that I have fond memories of has been gone a long time.
At default settings, only boredom makes me run out of time. [Actually, waiting a full minute or so for time to run out was too boring, too. I changed settings before that]

Addition up to 1000 is reasonably fun, but also feels like it would be doable for a really long time with a physical keyboard and at full attention (I got 3328).

That also is a weak point of games like this. IMO, games are good if you can play them without attending to them or when they provide interesting problems. Games with dull problems that require your attention fail. A prime example of the first game type is Tetris; I use to say that your spinal cord can play it. Examples of the second type are Sokoban and (a million times so) DROD (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly_Rooms_of_Death)

With all operations checked and numbers up to 1000, I find I need more time, and scoring seems brutal (only 16 points after 2 or 3 correct amswers?)

I also find it a bug that you get subtractions with negative numbers as answers.

Finally, is it a bug or a feature that starting a game gets you the same problem and partial answer that the last game finished with? It helps in doing a post-mortem, but can make it really hard to get that first answer right.
Mirrors could replace air conditioning by beaming heat into space
She wasn't as inspirational as Kirk.
This is the first time I've heard of a style guide that demands a mixture of tabs and spaces. I thought this was very much frowned upon.
Don't quote me, but, I believe the expectation was that when you linked to it, you would be linking with "luv". Hence

cc -luv myapp.o -o myapp

This is intended to be much like the effect of GNU libiberty [0] (cc -liberty myapp.o -o myapp).

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libiberty
This could make more plausible the theory that life on Earth is coming from space and then it evolved from there, rather than being born from scratch on Earth.