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I'm amazed how many people here say "everyone is on facebook".
Edit: Maybe it's like that because you've molded your social circles to fit those of your own socioeconomic status?

From my closest 20 friends (all of them I've known for 5+ years), 7 use facebook, most of them use IRC and the rest are on WhatsApp. I've never made any new friends through facebook, as a matter of fact, the posts made by people on facebook push them further away from me, because I'm a cynical bastard and their shameless self-promotion is disgusting to me and I see through their bullshit.

To me, facebook always seemed like a public display window of your life, to show off those old high school classmates that nowadays you live in the cool downtown hipster district and you've gotten laid. Nothing to do with actual friendships or socializing.

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Except when it breaks. And what about feature branching? I think the name "feature branch" is an implementation detail, but I really do like that Git enables me to "only ship features that are considered somewhat 'done'", so that I can ship often yet not ship half-finished work.

SVN and CVS make this notoriously difficult. So I need a DVCS. But those are all super complex. I think Git/Hg/etc are great innovation and obviously the step forward compared to SVN and friends, but I'm not convinced were there yet.

There has to be a way to get the major tangible advantages of Git with the ease of use of SVN.
If 50% of people did not speak French, what did they speak?

I am extremely skeptical of this claim (but I haven't looked at your cited sources). I mean, the French government worked to unify the language used in the country well before the time you are talking about.

I can't imagine that langue d'oil was actually a different language(s) than "French," and not properly considered to be perhaps French dialects, but maybe I'm wrong.
I just thought 'maya' would be the perfect name for something that is temporary and largely illusory. And a search for `maya dsl` gives appropriate results, so it's fine by me.
Interestingly enough, my local Marriott has this quote posted on the wall:

"Wifi should be like air: Free and Everywhere"

And they have a totally open wifi network. I live in Karachi, Pakistan.
Job title has in my experience strongly affected my ability to influence entrenched company and engineering cultures.

Titles affect how you are perceived by others, including engineers, no matter how often we like the repeat the "but we're a meritocracy" BS. People don't work that way, not even engineers. There are a lot more variables that go into how we perceive and treat people than just their technical output.

So the question "how will my job title affect my ability to do X?" is a perfectly valid one, and meritocracy buzzword bingo is not a valid answer.
This is the link to MinimaLT (it runs on top of UDP instead of TCP). As of today I haven't seen an implementation and MinimaLT being a paper there are some ambiguous parts, but overall this looks like a really well defined spec. It tackles at least the cookie issue. It supports tunneling and it deals with DOS. The other real benefit is that it is RPC based, which means that the protocol is easy to extend (think about NFS and SSH alternatives) and maybe it could be the foundation of a new HTTP. AFAIK it doesn't deal with the CA certs / trust issue.

http://www.ethos-os.org/~solworth/minimalt-20131031.pdf
For practical operating systems development, you want to use a bootloader on top of BIOS or UEFI. In particular, the Multiboot[0] protocol is very useful, because it is supported out-of-the-box by bootloaders (like GRUB) and there's built-in support for multiboot in emulators like QEMU and Bochs (qemu -kernel mykernel.elf).

It is rather easy to build a multiboot-capable ELF file that can be easily booted on real iron as well as emulators.

This will directly set up your computer in protected (32 bit) mode (NOTE: working in 64 bit "long" mode is a bit more difficult, for educational projects, it's best to stick with 32 bit mode). The protocol also has specs to set up a video mode and provide you with a pointer to the framebuffer (otherwise you'd need to fall back to 16 bit real mode, and use BIOS interrupts for setting up a video mode) and provide some information about the machine in a structure provided to the kernel on boot.

Booting directly with UEFI might be more and more viable option as time goes by, but I think that multiboot is still more viable (things might have changed, I haven't done OS development in a few years).

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot/multiboot...
The Linux community uses it heavily.
Indeed. It took me over a year to get off Credo's mailing list. They even followed me to other addresses. I only stopped getting their ads in the mail after I moved overseas. No sense selling cut-rate "libwashed" cellphones to foreigners who can't use them, I guess.
I know many hotel chains have outsourced their wifi handling to third parties, who often gouge the hotels at least as badly as the hotels gouge the customers. So while the Marriott no doubt makes a lot of revenue from wifi I wouldn't be surprised if they make basically no profit.
Here's a review on (probably) all boxes available:

http://beejuboxes.com/box-list/japanese-snack-boxes/

After some comparison, looking at sample boxes, weighing pros & cons, I signed up for a taste box from TasteJapan, and I'm very excited to see what it's like!
Sourceforge has been doing this for years. I would never download anything from there these days.
Main problem with that is it depends on if MS are still pushing metro. If it can't install proper desktop programs, it's worthless.

Also, if it silently autoupdates, it's worthless.
Surprisingly shallow article. What I take from it is that Instagram really resonates with people - and that accounts for most of its success. There might have been similar apps (indeed, photo sharing is obvious no matter how you look at it)... but none so charismatic.

The design of Instagram - the colors, the icons, the filters - makes it very personal, which might in part explain why people love it so much.
Sounds like a classic premise for a horror/crime movie.
May seem like a basic question, but I'm curious what different use cases your users us your service for. The obvious to me would be to sign up for a service that requires an email and use the fake one. What else is it used for?

Thanks.
This blog post - "JSX: E4X The Good Parts" - covers what's in and out for JSX:

http://blog.vjeux.com/2013/javascript/jsx-e4x-the-good-parts...
Can you elaborate? Perhaps things have changed since I lived in the US (two years ago) but most people I knew were more or less completely ignorant of pre-colonial American history, and had only a passing familiarity with Columbus' misdeeds.
I hope indeed it has changed.
I can offer my own experience. I went to a meditation retreat, we were supposed to sleep only 2 to 3 hours a day. I probably slept around that on average. The rest of the time it's just meditation and breaks with occasional meals.
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> They're very popular as a child distraction technology

As the author of the comment you're replying to, I can agree with that. I also own 2 tablets, both of which are used by my 4-year old to play educational games. They are great for that. However, I'm limiting his time spent on these games and overall they are gathering dust.

This is because, while they seemed useful to me at first, they are big and bulky and not good for productive work and all the use-cases I had for them (i.e. reading websites and email, watching videos, playing some games from time to time) have been fulfilled by my smartphone. And here's the problem with a tablet - I always have my smartphone with me, whereas for a tablet I have to make the conscious decision of taking it with me wherever I go. And if I have to make such a decision, I would rather take my 13-inch MacBook.

Of course, one could talk about a convergence of smartphones and tablets. Heck, I just bought a Nexus 6 last week, which is a freakishly big 6-inch phone. And I love it, precisely because it lets me do things that are comfortable to do on a tablet.

But here's the problem that I'm seeing, from personal experience of course - screen size matters a lot when speaking about things you can do with a device and a 6-inch phone is already too big to fit in my jeans pockets. I'm not seeing phones getting any bigger than that, because of portability. I love my Nexus 6, but I'm already wondering about how I'll carry it with me in the summer. But 6 inches is also too small for many use-cases.

This translates in my mind in one thing - phablets like the Nexus 6 or the iPhone 6+ will take over the tablets market-share. But because of their size, PCs and laptops will still rule supreme, these classes of products (smartphones and laptops/PCs) being actually complementary.
I always found the diversification by the supermarkets into car insurance, broadband and mobile phones distasteful. At least with mobiles, though, it was because customers were buying talk time in the store for other providers.

But streaming services is not where they should be. Tesco, in particular, has a poor security approach.

They even tried getting into the Used Car business but couldn't secure a supplier.

The problem for food sellers is that growth is constrained - they have managed to make plenty of people fat but even then, there is a limit.

The pressure to grow has ended up damaging Tesco but I doubt it will be much of a lesson to others.
I think "social layer" means it's supposed to be integrated into every Google service. Google wanted everything they offered to be a single unified G+ experience that would dwarf Facebook. Which of course worked out brilliantly for them, especially on Youtube.
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Forgetting the location of a file is one use case. Another is that it's just convenient to type 'som' and have somefile pop up. Or to extract 500 similarly-named files from some program's convoluted directory structure. Frankly I'm surprised that we still store data resources as 'files' in rigid hierarchical databases after all these decades.
Genius move. Partner with Firefox, compete with Chrome. Move the search fight to the browser, something that can be won unlike trying to force people to move away from typing google.com vs yahoo.com
The web search feature in Spotlight is equivalent to the search engine of your default browser.
I don't find that convenient, I find it creepy.
I, personally, feel like this could be solved by a 'good' team. I work in a team of 2. I usually come up with the ideas while my partner executes them. I usually hang over his shoulder while he codes, he does most of the coding, 70/30. For us, this works, for others, it might not.
I have an EyeX. The eye tracking is very effective -- spookily so. Imprecise but low-latency, which is the right tradeoff to make. It can be faster than mousing, if the UI is set up just right.

The main limitations that keep me from using it:

- Mac is not supported.

- Very small active area. You basically have to keep your head within about a 2x2 foot cube. You can't lean back, on an armrest, or even slump.
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You have to realise you're in a minority there – at least, I think that's the case.

I expect most search engine users (i.e. non-tech-industry users) are interested in 'typing things into the internet to find stuff'. The ability to build a useful search query isn't something a lot of people can do – it's dependent on understanding concepts like verbatim strings, quotes, modifiers… not that complex, but equally not common knowledge. Instead, Google is going to use the vast resources at it's disposal to guess the intent of badly-worded queries, and unfortunately that's not going to benefit people who can word their queries well.

Here's a tip though – I've configured my browser to search using Google's 'verbatim' search mode by default. It's not perfect, but it's much closer to how it used to operate. Unfortunately, as much as I'd like to try using another search engine, they've been much less useful in practice.
Sampling my own experience, both my mom and my dad are using laptops, even though both of them are as technically illiterate as they come, plus they don't even speak English. Both of them tried tablets, but it didn't work out - I don't know why, I wasn't besides them to notice.

Your point is that casual PC users only need a PC for email and Internet shopping and things like that and that they would be better served by a tablet. My point of view is that this assertion isn't necessarily true.
Should be of no surprise considering even passenger ships raced to increase capacity to where some are near city like.
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I don't think that's the point though – more that a decline in market share for Google may result in improvements. Nothing government or regulatory about it.
Darcs. Super easy and has a formal theory behind it.
what third party org is used to validate the petition count number?
I did turn it off, then it turned itself back on. As in one day I noticed my right click over highlighted text suddenly said Yahoo again.

Perhaps each upgrade resets the choice, I cannot confirm as I haven't seen an upgrade since 34.x (I do wish they would have handled the ssl 3 issue with more care, having to use the about page to neuter protection to access many devices is a chore)
I'm not at all comfortable with the Economist using such facile titles
If that's creepy, grep must be downright sinister.
> How so? And more importantly how much antibiotics make it to the gut, vs if you take it orally? I would guess it would be a lot less.

I have no idea what figure or percentage it would be, but for most common antibiotics which end up distributed in total body water, there will be a component that leaks into the gut through capillary action; if it is metabolised in the liver then a proportion of it will end up in bile (if fat soluble) and then enter the gut that way; either itself or a metabolite of it - it would be impossible for me to quantify and likely depends on many many factors such as molecular weight, structure and a host of other features.

Patients on IV antibiotics develop diarrhoea from IV antibiotics at a similar rate (from what I have experienced) to those on orals. hence it undoubtedly kills bacteria in a similar fashion.

And we use IV antibiotics to kill bad infections of the gut. So whatever the mechanism, if I have elucidated it or simply done some hand-waving, it clearly affects it significantly.

The only instance of antibiotic use that touches on what I feel you are pushing for is the use of oral vancomycin (It is almost always IV) for severe bacterial infections of the gut - we use it oral because it is not absorbed systemically (as opposed to other specifically oral antibiotics) so doesn't cause systemic effects.

> then spreads through horizontal gene transfer.

Sure. But if you look at how they tested this particular antibiotic for the ability to develop resistance, they exposed TB and Staph to sub-theraputic doses for 27 days, or (for Staph) or 810generations (assuming a rough rate of division somewhere around 40 min to 1 hr in ideal conditions). An epic number of cell divisions if you work it out (and I can't).

The commonly accepted knowledge, as far as I understand it and as far as I have been taught it, whether or not bowel bacteria have a significant role to play or not, is that exposure of antibiotics to sub-lethal doses for long periods of time promote the survival of strains that have a competitive advantage against the agent in use, which over time allows the strain to survive in otherwise-lethal doses, and that gene becomes incorporated into a plasmid and then ends up spreading to every other organism capable of horizontal gene transfer.

Anyway, I am at home and not going to see the next MD, PhD in Infectious Diseases until tomorrow but when I do I will ask him and reply here. So, check back in 24 hours if you're interested
the petition site is nothing more than most manufactures support forums, designed to let people vent. The difference with manufacturers sites is that people can solve problems there as they become nearly self running.

The Whitehouse site was a trick, something to appease the masses who themselves wanted to feel good, feel like they were being heard, fool themselves into thinking they mattered. As in, another use of effective marketing which this Administration was very good at during elections
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In my opinion Instagram worked because it algorithmically hides flaws in photographs so everyone's pictures look "good", or more accurately "not as bad as usual". Down-sampling an image hides noise and smooths tones, which hides the sort of blemishes people hate in photographs of themselves. Immediately pictures of people are closer to what they want to see so they'll like them. Filters hide even more, especially if they boost the yellow and red tones to add warmth (aka 'happiness') to an image. Further to that though, there's an element of creativity to choosing a filter (sort of like the Ikea Effect[1]). People love that.

The fact that the pictures are subjectively better coupled with easy social sharing and sensible tagging made it a relatively likely success.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_effect
There are lots of people writing blog posts complaining that their apps don't earn them money. Conventional wisdom right now seems to be that it's normal that developers don't make any money.

But it is very much possible to make a money selling apps. Just identify a market that you can serve, then make a good app, then advertise it effectively. Profit!

However, it's not easy to become a billionaire with your app; for that you need lots of luck among other things.

I think the comparison with acting is actually pretty good. There are a lot of people who make money acting. It's not that difficult. You need a bit of talent and a lot of commitment, but I happen to know more than one person who managed to become professional actors.

It is of course unlikely to become a world famous super-rich actor; but making a reasonable living from acting is absolutely achievable.
I bought a i5 NUC [1] which I use for work (in the places I contract where I'm there for a bit longer than a few days). It's such a cool little device, the build took all of 15 minutes, and now Intel release this!

The NUCs come in a few sizes, the cheapest costing around 150 AUD. They make great media, desktop replacements or linux servers!

As soon as this little guy comes out I'm totally buying one (a stick), I like what they're doing with this stuff!

[1] http://www.intel.com.au/content/www/au/en/nuc/overview.html
I thought it was pretty obvious, it plays at a pitch higher than the rest of the chorus and doesn't fit the rhythm. But then again, I was waiting for it.
I've never had any problem reading any book, obviously with the exception of ones written in foreign languages I don't speak at all. You can't fake it if you don't know anything at all. (trying to read chinese characters like Ezra Pound who squinted at them for obvious pictographic meanings.)

But there's one exception, my black horse.

I tried to skim the Bible (Old and New Testament), in multiple translations. Including easy ones, dumbed-down ones, ones for deaf readers, etc.

I thought that as literally millions of people have read this stuff for literally hundreds of years, and it permeates every part of western culture, it would be a walk through the park. Much easier than "more difficult" or specialized stuff.

This is not true. I found it absolutely horrific to try to read it from beginning to end. It's very difficult and basically I gave up, even in situations where I had no other reading material and absoluetly nothing else to do except drink some coffee and try to read it. I found the old and new testaments are unreadable.

This is not just because of the subject matter. For example (I've said this elsewwhere) I found the Qu'ran an incredibly easy skim. You can do it in an hour. (easily, and for meaning.)

Just try it:

http://www.nooresunnat.com/Audio/Complete%20Quran/Quran%20Tr...

This is just 566 pages triple-spaced with mostly blank lines, it's like 180 actual pages. It's incredibly repetitive. You can really stop on the parts that say something.

The whole thing doesn't say much, there's not all this useless geneology and history and names and such. It's easy.

Start skimming now and you'll be done by the time you get an answer to a quick email you just sent. 20-40 minutes if you're fast.

So it's not me. It's not hte subject matter. It's just that the old and new testaments are not the same at all. they're incredibly dense books that somehow made it into our culture while being totally unreadable sequentially. (for understanding.)

obviously it's fine to look up specific verses in. but as a book? Forget it. Even if you're stuck on an island with nothing else, it makes for the most impossible reading you'll ever find in a language you speak.
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And, if you're in Europe, you can thank the EU, who limited portable audio players to 150 mV max output at the phone jack and 100 dB (A) peak level with the included headphones.

This renders my iPhone almost useless as an iPod replacement when travelling with big headphones, it's just not enough juice for a train or bus ride (not to mention a flight).
I think the metaphor is OK, but in my own experience I think it misses the mark a little bit.
From what I have learned, you need to GC because you generate too much garbage; one of the ways that meditation helps is that you simply generate less garbage (less scattered, less thoughts) thus you don't need to GC/sleep/whatever that much.

And why do you generate less garbage? It's because you become better focused (concentration) on whatever you do (which by the way brings mindfullness as a side-effect, not on purpose). With proper concentration, you also become aware of the "dirt" (word that was used in the article from the atlatnic) and will tend to avoid this dirt. This is important, because if you want to get better at something, you must be able to recognize what's wrong. The problem with having these insights is that if you don't have a teacher to help you, you will get stuck at best or regress at worse.

Also there are alot of different meditation techniques, and although they are similar, the devil is in the details. I'm sure this definition is not appliable to every type of meditation, and that's OK.
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My first experience with a close friend who had partial hearing loss lead me to realise how much lip reading helped her. If she wasn't looking at your face her responses would often be nonsensical.

Also, I work in a noisy environment where hearing protection is mandatory, and I find I have less trouble understanding people if I can see their face.
When smart engineers try to guess what non-smart non-engineers would be looking for on the Internet, they end up with an over-algorithmized mess that Google has become lately.

And now, among other things, Google is losing power users. They shouldn't forget that they gained popularity in the beginning by word of mouth which in this industry literally means: by power users' recommendations to others. It's the power user who would (or wouldn't) be replacing Bing with Google on his family member's new laptop.

This is crucial in my opinion: don't try to guess what people want to find, just guess how they want to be looking for something - anything.
I don't think the choice is that binary (git OR dropbox). I've needed to use both mercurial and git for different jobs. From that experience i would say mercurial is just as powerful as git but more intuitive and easy to learn.