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I guess it's a cultural thing (I'm not Anglo-Saxon) but for me, asking for money is not about being offended : it is being greedy.

If they pledged this money on a charity or something it would look entirely different.
"Microsoft uses bad performance reviews (“The How”) as a tool to eliminate the elder (40+) and senior ranked employees."

Current Microsoft employee here. A few years ago my manager at that time did exactly the above. The review process in use at that time rated employees on "What" you accomplished and "How" you accomplished it. I had done really well on the "What" and the manager still gave me a low rating because supposedly I did poorly on "The How". The "How" gave managers tremendous flexibility to rate employees however they want regardless of actual performance. So why did my manager do it? I believe he discriminated against me for age reasons. There is evidence to support this: This manager rewrote ("reinterpreted" according to him) the HR-supplied expectations for SDEs (Software Development Engineers) at each level, and he raised expectations for those at higher level, while leaving expectations for lower level employees the same.

While I believe this manager discriminated against me for age reasons, I don't believe there is Microsoft-wide, corporate-sanctioned, age discrimination going on. It might be happening at the level of individual managers, however.
Those bug fixes get back-ported, and the bugs fixed may have been introduced in versions of systemd released after whatever got included in RHEL/Debian. Speaking as someone constantly frustrated at the glacial pace at which RHEL and Debian-stable update themselves (which is admittedly a feature), it's nice to see them adopting somewhat modern stuff when they make major releases (if systemd v208+backports could be considered modern).
One way to manage the boundary between "minimal" and "supported" is to use a VM-based system like Qubes.

You can simultaneously occupy multiple "timelines", e.g. hand-built Linux from scratch, Ubuntu LTS, bleeding-edge Debian, and even Windows -- each in an isolated VM.
Honest question, do you feel a little ridiculous with that setup? I'm a coder and have 2x24" monitors, and found that to be borderline ridiculous with neck strain, thus the reason I'm going 27". But unless you're running security at a place of business or something with 50 security cams, I can't imagine what you're doing that requires a wall of monitors?
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> So despite there being a lot more money behind net neutrality

Well,net neutrality is a federal,FCC related issue afaik,while most taxi laws depend on states. So you dont have to lobby the whole legislative body to influence it. It's always easier to lobby local legislators.

I dont think one can compare the two. Now does it show that Uber has some power,sure they have,especially when they are able to mobilize their drivers to lobby politicians. Politicians want to more jobs not less.

I'm not taking sides in all this.What matters is,if the laws change,the legislator makes sure there is a fair competition this time and not that Uber becomes the "new boss".
I think it's an okay attitude to have early in your career. I don't think I would have gotten a foot-in-the-door where I am geographically if my price hadn't been so low. It's very hard to genuinely argue that you're worth $X when you have no professional history. The alternative is essentially socially engineering your way into a position to get the initial experience, and that can be rather underhanded. It's relative though, because even though I am underpaid compared to the USA national average, it's still higher than the median individual incomes for my state. Once I get a year or two under my belt, that experience very quickly pays me dividends by giving me skills and experience that can take me almost anywhere in the world for decent salaries. For the second job, I plan on negotiating much more aggressively. The critical error is maintaining this initial attitude AFTER you have the experience to back up the talk.

The advantage to this attitude is that it appeals to HR and Technical interviewers. You're an upstart with some introductory skills and you probably have the competency to learn on the job and become productive within a decent time frame. It's better than working retail or fast food.

If we move towards an environment more like doctors and lawyers, we'll lose some of the self-taught crowd and probably rely more on paper credentials. I'm sort of talking out of my ass at this point because I've never seen or heard a doctor/lawyer interview for a job, but I imagine it's a little more involved and cautious than our industry's technical tests, puzzles, and quizzes. Our education is also far less involved. Our industry doesn't seem to want to move towards more in-depth technical interviews to establish competency, so unless some heavy regulation comes down the pipe, I really doubt the industry will become professional like the industries of doctors and lawyers

(And besides, why would we? Not every position in the industry will require extensive skills and education. We don't need BAR examines or peer interviews or board examinations or state licenses to build websites)

Another facet of this is that doctors/lawyers are somewhat gated by the time and money costs of education. In 6 months you can crank out one unit of basic programmer through bootcamps or whatever for a fraction of the cost that it takes to produce one unit of doctor or lawyer.
Even more, "having visas available" implies that they are at his disposition, which is extremely unlikely.
The skills and positions are drastically different. You're probably looking at Silicon Valley "chosen" startups as examples. In those cases, the technical cofounder didn't need to actually perform the REAL duties of a CEO - they relied on venture money and VC firms to do the heavy work. A real CEO, in a non-VC rocketship needs to be fairly different from a technical cofounder - especially if you're B2B.
> In fact, you can always observe which slit the particle passes through, so measurement has no effect on the wave interference pattern.

The first half of that sentence is true, while the second half is not (unless I am misinterpreting what you are trying to say).

Empirically, nobody has (yet) managed to come up with an experiment that measures which slit the photon/electron/other quantum object passes through AND preserves the wave nature of the double-slit effect. In other words, when you set up an experiment to measure which slit is traversed, the characteristic double-slit interference pattern disappears. Again, I'm talking about this purely in practice, or what people observe when they try to perform this experiment[1].

Theoretically, this is result is completely expected. To determine which slit the photon traversed, you must interact with the photon to observe it. Any observation has two results: First, you know the state of the quantum object. Second, the quantum object is in an eigenstate of whatever operator you used to observe it. Since you have forced the photon into an eigenstate, the interference pattern disappears.

[1] Not that you can still see two superimposed single-slit interference patterns, which might confuse some people into thinking they are seeing a double-slit pattern.
Aside - I'm very surprised that this comment got enough downvotes to gray it out. It's sad that someone asking an honest question (and I had the same thought occur to me as well) about a seemingly strange result loses karma for it, when this sort of debate is what should be being encouraged. Fortunately there are a couple of replies that do explain why randomness and luck are a factor in computer chess programming...
> I can't imagine the neck strain that's going to occur.

I was wondering about this too and the impact on your eyes. For a 39" monitor it's recommended you sit over 5ft away, so the optimal desk environment for such a large monitor will be interesting.

http://www.rtings.com/info/television-size-to-distance-relat...
I ran the Seiki 4K as a monitor for about a year. Overall the quality is fine however the 30hz and mouse lag make it less then optimal for anything other then static content. Even scrolling a page is not easy on the eyes.
You keep touting brain surgery as if it's the yard stick by which all other endeavors (including pure mathematics and astrophysics) should be measured for difficulty and cognitive ability required--it isn't. The brain may be immensely complex, but neuroanatomy at the macroscopic scale isn't and has fewer inter-connected components than a large software project.

The only reason you think brain surgery is so complicated is, again, because doctors have excellent PR.
what display outputs does it have? I didn't see any in the summary, which makes this a different market than the raspberry pi
The downside with prosecuting the agents is that it would be an admission that the United States government can do wrong. The primary factor in the US government's decision matrix is "admit no wrongdoing ever, to anyone, under any circumstances, for any reason." Don't apologize, don't prosecute criminal wrongdoing by agents doing the state's business, and do not change. This has further implications: if the government has decided to do something, then it is by its very nature correct. And if the truth threatens to come out, such as in the CIA torture case, then the strategy is to fight disclosure every step of the way or, if that isn't possible, to minimize the damage through manipulating public discourse.

I believe this has something to do with sociology or some unspoken theory of governance that is understood by those with the most authority in government. I don't know if it is conscious or not, but intentional or no it's as if they believe that alpha males triumph, for governments to be successful they must be alpha, and the United States is the most alpha of the alphas. And if you're Alpha Alpha, you can not admit wrongdoing: that would indicate that maybe you shouldn't have been alpha in the first place and makes future decisions harder to convince people to accept. If that pattern continues on for long enough... Well, maybe you won't be a government anymore.

The Senate report was a great step. But the US will do nothing significant in response, because it is not in the nature of governments -- especially this one -- to attack themselves. Any changes will come as a result of external pressures, not from existing bureaucratic ones.
Drawing lines of carbon nanotubes with mechanical pencils
1.5 GHz Quad core and 1Gb RAM not enough difference?
Low-level grunt takes a bullet for the team, during one of the most revolutionary periods in American history. There were some low-level prosecutions (and even convictions) of American even during the Iraq war. But the higher-ups were never held accountable.

How could they have known what the people they command do? They could never possibly even dream of doing anything wrong, and if they did, they always did it in the best interests of those they lead and governed. And if it was illegal, well, they'll make it legal; and if convicted, the conviction will be overturned on appeal, or you'll get pardoned.. unless you piss off the wrong man in power. Then you could get shot in the face, and made to apologize for being in the way of the gun.
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That makes the price knowable, I don't think that's the same as fair.

Lyft and Uber will both tell you if the price for the ride you're requesting will be higher than usual so in that sense their prices are just as knowable.

I think a fair price would be one that an informed and unencumbered buyer and seller reach. One reason why it can be hard to get a Taxi in New York if you're trying to leave Manhattan is because the prices aren't always fair and that drivers would rather seek a fairer transaction (in contravention of regulations).
Micro HDMI. You have to go to the technical details tab to see it mentioned.
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I agree for the most part, but I don't believe that the people who design critical software are being screwed by their employer. They also make up a fairly small segment of what's considered "programmers" imo. I'd say the vast majority of programming is web/mobile applications which I would argue takes about six months to learn and maybe two years to get pretty good at it.
The problem is when the spying relatio is not balanced. One country having so much info of another, which is blind.
Personally, I just don't enjoy developing in it. And really, it's all the "meta" features that I can't stand, like the package/module system that is too opinionated and not intuitive enough, the annoying install system, and the folder structure. The language itself isn't fun enough to warrant looking beyond these downsides.
and a 3D hardware acceleration... this thing is so cool.

For $35 you can get a really decent computer. Makes it really viable for people to run a small unix dev machine or buy a bunch of these to run a miniature server farm.
Maybe a large monitor should be like a large desk. You only work on what's in front of you but with a glance around you quickly see everything that needs your attention. With a small monitor or small desk, things get stacked and buried, hidden in drawers/folders etc.
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This is Yet Another Example of the amazing utility of being able to easily and stably extend one's environment. emacs is just a text editor, but this project is changing it into a Stack Exchange client. That's useful!
Similar philosophy, except archlinux, systemd, wmii (no destkop), no office suite. Emacs, Chromium, mpv, moc, transmission.
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Why would a non-nation state actor need a lawyer? I could see returning the Taliban fighters to Afganistan since they were representing some sort of government. For people who have been picked up as part of Al Qaeda and its affiliate networks I don't really have a problem with holding them indefinitely.

I find the use of drones to kill Americans, and the casual acceptance of collateral damage to be far, far worse. Those Americans may have done terrible things but were still Americans with Constitutional rights, unlike someone we picked up in Yemen or Somalia.
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This makes me think that new "open source" fight in the AI future will not be about source code or patents but the corpus used in the training set.
It still sounds very unlikely. Michael Brown was huge and you are not exactly well positioned for pulling people when you are sitting in a car.
I'm interested, please let us know what he says :)
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I forked the repo, and used github pages to host the sample-app code. You can view a live demo here: http://www.mrdrozdov.com/focusable/sample-app/index.html
Less, not more.

Too close and the pixels are going to be "big" and too far away and the pixels are going to be invisible.

For example, at 15 feet away the high res would be a waste of money for that screen size, you can't see better than 480 lines at that range.

Extending my arm, I seem to be around 2.5 feet from this screen. Doing the math, higher that 4K at 40 inch screen would be visibly noticeable although its kind of borderline, so 4K should be good enough.
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Our philosophy in the office is that alt-tab is for suckers. While my setup is the most over the top we have three other people with five monitors or more. We are all security researchers and find the configuration saves a bunch of time in reviews. As an example, I can associate a MitM proxy like the Burpsuite or Fiddler 2 with the server side application which might communicate to web clients as well as to additional web services behind the scenes. That takes up one monitor, typically the one at the far top left. Under that monitor I can then associate another MitM proxy with the client. I can then run the client from my laptop display. If I'm working on a fat client, on the 30" I'll then run Wireshark which will effectively be watching the client. On another monitor I can run sysinternal tools. What remains I use for writing code necessary for the review, running additional tools like Metasploit, e-mail, chat, and research. I arrange my workspace for the task at hand. On a daily basis do I use all nine? No.

Interestingly enough, with this sort of setup it's pretty easy to visually see what's happening when going after an application. Before going to the monitor extreme I'd constantly alt-tab between my monitoring & exploit tools with every action. Now I can run an action and see the results within one workspace. Of course there is a massive downside. It makes competing in CTFs a pain in the butt as I can't drag that setup with me to physical events.
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Gnome and KDE support it, but sadly there is still a lot of software that doesn’t :/
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That's a different question from accessibility which I was answering.

As for will people do it? The popular ways to do this (localbitcoins, mycelium) have actually showed record amount of transactions lately, so more people do it than ever.

Does that mean everyone does? No, but that has more to do with the fact it's a nascent thing rather than a shady reputation or a lack of accessibility.
what do you mean by rocketship? A growing start-up?
I spent years on a "bonded credit card" with limit $1k (i.e. they held $1k of mine in case I ever defaulted on the card) and kept a healthy amount in my savings account, and always paid off my card in time, until they slowly started to trust me.

I also had to put down deposits to get phone, apartment, electricity, etc. etc.
How well is it supported on Linux?
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And audiophile idealists should be using flac anyhow, in which case the conversion to mp3 wouldn't be causing any major issues (obviously mp3 encoding itself causes some lossiness, but it isn't nearly as bad as lossy->lossy)
Second this. Moved to Germany over an year ago. Lot of companies looking for programmers. You can find some jobs here - http://berlinstartupjobs.com/ and the super simple visa process here - http://www.make-it-in-germany.com/
Oh, that's not fair. Answers, please.
So you can ask question about emacs on emacs.stackexchange while using stackexchange for emacs in emacs.
html5 audio's current implementation in browsers is surprisingly memory intensive. It is getting better, though.
The thing about CTO is we would prob want to externalize that. I have a hard time thinking bobby of snapchat is the "real" CTO and not their VP of Engineering.
America hasn't been an example in their actual behavior to the world basically ever, that is just what propaganda and indoctrination wants you to believe. Not that most other nations did behave particularly well during their history either. The actual conclusion that has been more widespread during history than it is today, is that a world revolution by the oppressed and exploited would be necessary to disrupt the current power structure and bring about meaningful global political change.
A single Merlin engine, even at low throttle, has quite a bit more thrust than a (nearly) empty F9-1 stage has weight. Thus, it cannot hover; once it slows to 0, it quickly starts going up again.

Thus the landing profile is the "hover-slam": the engine is started at the exact point in time necessary to reach a "landable speed" (from 0-several m/s) at the ground, and is cut off when it gets to the target.

While modern avionics are quite good, it's still coming in pretty fast and from far away and will have some variance in location and speed, just because that's the real world. Probably they don't quite know how much yet, but it could easily miss the target by multiple meters and a few meters/s. And that's a heck of a condition to build some sort of giant grabbing apparatus for.

Perhaps once they're routinely landing on land, they may be able to determine they can hit the target well enough to build a grabbing contraption. Or maybe it's too hard. Or maybe they'd rather keep their infrastructure to a minimum: a concrete pad is a lot cheaper to build and easier to operate, and SpaceX wants to do a lot of flights.

Besides, the 4000lb of the legs is on a 40,000lb rocket.
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Curious about the power consumption.
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I wound up with something resembling this installation by going in reverse. I installed Ubuntu, confirmed that all my hardware was working, including suspend, volume buttons, etc (Thinkpads) and then started uninstalling or disabling things, leaving me with no desktop environment, dwm, and a very responsive experience on old hardware.
While he didn't write it, he did choose to include it. Still, as someone on the fence, I'd really rather just hear about the software itself.
It's taken a few years to build up to this. To mitigate neck pain I:

1) Have set my chair so that it rocks as far back as possible with little force.

2) Sit directly across from the gym and try to visit it twice a day for at least two 15 minute HIIT cardio / body weight workout. I do lots of pull-ups, archers, and have been working up to the iron cross.

3) Only use the upper deck monitors for security reviews where I need "eyes on" resulting actions. I don't use them on a daily basis.
> It would be nice to see the US government forced to actually pay up.

Or, if they don't, to keep things consistent, then nobody should ever have to pay up again.
Good to know. I almost bought a 2011 MB.

Is Apple avoiding to openly acknowledge the defect to stop all 2011 MB owners from preemptively asking for a fix/replacement?
This (along with striving to get good PR) is one of the main reasons the US government is so keen to redefine the word "torture" to mean something that they don't do. The same goes for the words "terrorism" and "terror".

"Shock and awe" == good
"Terror" == bad

"Torture" == illegal
"Stress position" == legal

decapitation with a knife == horrific and evil
decapitation by shrapnel == worthy of a medal

assassination by the American govt == good
assassination by other governments == bad

killing by poison gas on the battlefield == bad
killing by poison injections in a prison == good
Emacs certainly is not just a text editor. Emacs is just a big REPL, a REPL with a powerful text editor instead of minimal command line interface. Right on the homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/, it is written that:

"GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing."

Text editing is a subset of Emacs and Emacs Lisp, not the other way around.
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Wow, not just airplanes: http://www.flightradar24.com/HBAL296/50a38f2