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Well, putting aside the ease with which you deflect an prolonged episode of systematic repression based on ethnicity, did you look at the map?

The scale of the forced displacements is literately continent scale! Its probably the biggest settler colonization in history. Compare with the colonization of South America, where the Spaniards aimed to use the existing population for labour, and thus gave them some rights and allowed them stay. Or Africa, where the Colonial powers basically conquered for labor and not for land to settle.

I don't know that the pattern of forced displacement has ever occurred on this scale, and with so high compression. Usually when people are forced from their lands, there are some crappier lands somewhere else they go to. From the map this obviously was not what happened. The tribes where forced into extremely small areas over the course of just a hundred years.
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Well, in the US, he can save that $25k and be able to afford maybe 1 year of University + living expenses.
The point the article is making is that all the problems the anti-agile crowd complains about are less related to agile and more to a dogmatic adoption of specific tools. I think the point the author misses is the irony of the whole thing. The anti-agile people get annoyed at something like religious demands for 100% unit test coverage, so they instead adopt their own extreme, narrowly focused rules like refusing all TDD. This is how flame wars work.

I've seen agile methods be most effective at companies where software developers are a minority. Scrums and sprints can be very useful when you've got many outside interests hammering at you for various feature requests and bug fixes. Done right, it keeps the software group's priorities aligned with the company's.
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Like I pointed out, that policy clearly allows you to "bake in" the commission rate.

Nobody would sell on Amazon if they had to sell it at the same price as their own website but take an additional 10%-30% loss (sometimes that 30% is the entire margin on a sale). This isn't "App Store" sales where the cost of the product can be fudged a bit... these are physical products that have a fixed cost of acquisition plus a lot of overhead (manpower, stock space, packaging, etc).

Majority of people who shop on Amazon do not price shop. They either feel everything is cheaper always (I hear this from friends and family all the time even though it's provable otherwise), or they feel some sort of "trust" with the website (not understanding majority of products sold on Amazon are from 3rd party sellers).

Amazon's products sold by Amazon are often cheaper than found elsewhere in my experience, usually due to them being willing to lose a lot of money on a particular product line to either gain long-term market-share or bolster some tertiary service of theirs.

3rd party sellers cannot compete with someone who is literally willing to lose millions of dollars for several years at a time just to snuff out a market.

When it comes to 3rd party sellers vs. 3rd party sellers, it's a more even playing field, but you will more often find the product listed on their site for cheaper since they are baking in the commission rate.
Our intention is to ask for the survey after your daily sprint status meetings or the weekly status update meetings.
If every politician is a liar, then why don't you run for office? If all of the honest people that complain that politicians are dishonest actually got off their butts and started taking over their local governments, then you wouldn't have that problem. Almost all of the state and federal politicians have started at local levels, especially the congressmen.

The issue is that it is easier to say they are all corrupt than it is to go out, do the homework, speak to the candidates, and then determine which ones mean what they say.

Instead of complaining about the system, why don't you learn the system and then do something about it.
Agreed. Maybe it's a regional thing, but I remember tons of time spent covering Native Americans in grades K-12. More than any other topic in history, probably. Meanwhile we barely covered European history outside the Age of Exploration, and the rest of the world received even less consideration.

From your "early 1990s" mention I'm thinking we're around the same age, though, so maybe it was different before, or it's changed since. Or, again, maybe it's regional. Mid Westerner, but didn't grow up anywhere near a reservation, for the record.
Rust has had formatting rules in the vein of PEP 8 for years now, and I'm hoping that an automatic rustfmt will emerge sometime between tomorrow's alpha release and the stable release a few months from now.
Often university patent agreements are flexible, but agreements like 1/3 to research team, 1/3 to university (with some set aside for the hosting department), and 1/3 to the funding agency (depending on what's allowed by law) are not atypical.
> You can't have people unofficially getting part specifications and blindly stamping out inferior (and unauthorized) replicas.

Why not? If the part itself is not patented, and the branding is clear, and any safety regulations apply to the competing part, it's just competition and should result in cheaper, better, safter parts.
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The Mayan rulers carefully documented their vicious wars of conquest (among other things). Some believe the Incas, with their "quipu" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu) recording devices, were on their way to a writing system. But that's really it re: pre-Columbian writing.
No, I don't want omniscience. I want them to actually match the fricking keywords I give them. Is that too much to ask in these days of privacy invasion for profit?
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Watching movies and playing games away from home does sound like a nice vacation to me.

Ruining is subjective - many hotel wifi networks were provisioned for 2002 style access of web and email, not 2012 where one's mom streams gigs of video. This is why I appreciate the move to free basic wifi and paid premium wifi at some hotels.
Apparently external xtal is marginally best (http://www.microchip.com/forums/m341592.aspx); which makes intuitive sense, given that it's exactly the same scenario as a digital watch. 32khz crystal; driver; counter; comparator. Few hundred tiny transistors. Consumption probably less than battery self-discharge.
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A few interesting points I would note:

As the article states, Agile has been abused so much, most things claiming that they are "Agile" or related to Agile are actually not fully in spirit with the Agile Manifesto.

Scrum is great to allow teams of mediocre engineers to improve over time, and eventually perform way beyond what they would under traditional command and control management. Scrum fosters a lot of communication which is one way you can develop immature software engineers.

Scrum teams that have Rockstar coders, who want to just code and get things done, have a significant human issue. The Rockstars have to spend time talking to less knowledgeable engineers, to facilitate knowledge spread and get the other team members up to speed. To software engineers who just want to Write Great Software, meetings for syncing up with your team are something that gets in your way. A great ScrumMaster would manage the Rockstar coders in such a way that they produce code but also understand the need for knowledge transfer.
Outlook isn't much better. I ditched gmail ~2010 and switched to running my own mailserver. Also means I can DKIM sign my messages, I get unlimited aliases, full message headers, etc...
"Doshi was inspired by conversations with his father, a doctor, and trips to poor and polluted towns in India."

I'm going to make a guess here than he may have a better idea of what materials are available in third world countries than you do.
Well, the sheer scale of the ship obsoleted their previous comparisons to teakettles.
I hope I didn't sound derisive. Your target market is HR/PI departments in small to medium sized companies and your website should reflect that. The kind of developers that are in a position to implement this type of solution don't work at the kind of companies that need it.
It didn't seem to matter in this case. "I know YOTD was vulnerable because the copy protection was only run once, at boot time. I assume the crack bypassed the copy protection and then restored the data to its original state."
Correct, JSF as in Joint Strike Fighter. Those coding standards are frequently trotted out as a case study similar to the NASA coding standards.
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It is going to take a lot to convince me that the world needs yet another statically typed OO programming language that looks just like any other.
Many consumer routers have a clone MAC feature to address exactly this issue. A person puts their computer behind the new wifi router and clones the MAC address so it can get on the network.
Yeah, google didn't renew the contract, so yahoo took over. IIRC, the search deal is something like 90% of Mozilla's funding :(
What is the exact problem you want to solve?

What are some of the causes of the problem?

What are some of the effects of the problem?

If the problem disappeared today, what side-effects would it have on the rest of the world?

What, given all of the answers to these questions, would be a solution that solves the commonly agreed upon problem (usually by solving the causes for said problem rather than the problem itself) with minimal negative side-effects?

"Should we code something? Organize a rally in the major cities? Write code to make it easy to start rallies? What're some good ideas to show our discontent?"

No, those are actions. What good is an action without a solution in mind? Plan then act. Don't act without a plan.
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What are you missing in Firefox that you can't get back 100% with add-ons?
Just as in psychology, you can assign as many pathologies as you like, the bottom line will always be that "health" is but the ability to switch among various aspects depending on the circumstances. Every single aspect can be adaptive and productive depending on the circumstances. We hallucinate (dreams), we are depressed (when we lose something), we are manic (when we need a boost), we are anxious (when something needs to be feared), we are OCD (when we need to get deep into the details) and so on so forth. The only anti-pattern is rigidity and bosses are certainly not immune to that.
The best decision I ever made as an iOS developer was to quit. Now I don't owe Apple $99 a year.
We have a representative democracy in the U.S. We also have a republic. The two terms are not contradictory.

"Representative democracy" tells you how decisions are made--we select a few citizens to make decisions on our behalf. "Republic" tells you who is sovereign--in the U.S. the individual citizens have the right and power to rule, and have used that to construct our own government.

Counter examples:

The U.K. is a representative democracy, but not a republic. It's a monarchy.

North Korea is a republic but it's not a democracy. It's an autocracy.
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Minimum sentences for certain non violent IT related "crimes" are also excessively long. I've been told one of the things I did in the past that hurt absolutely no one and had almost zero effect is punishable by a minimum 1 year sentence...
The fact that your vote may have less impact than you might wish doesn't mean that it has literally zero value.
I really like how this focuses on one family at a time. It could help avoid some of the criticism that Watsi has gotten of "Whoever has the cuter photo gets funded."
There are countless families in need but hopefully local partners and experts can best identify the level of urgency in each case.
This could change your life:

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

It's a fuzzy searcher for Ctrl-r that shows all possible results, updating as you type.
Here's some ideas:

Laundering Clothes:

Please somebody find a way to do this affordably for laundry. There's Wash.io and local laundromats that deliver, but it can't possibly cost several hundred dollars to wash and fold a few dozen tees, hoodies, and jeans.

Maid Service:

This is essentially what Task Rabbit has become already, but their review system is lacking and there's no guarantee someone won't steal your TV. There an established market here, but it needs a reputation system and some sort of small insurance backing.

Yes, I need to clean my apartment right now.
Don't forget that the PlayStation shipped with a 33MHz MIPS CPU before the SHA1 standard was even published.

This game came years later, but it's possible that CRC was the most effective option from a performance perspective.
For context of 'why sed and why not x?'

This was written in 1984 (I think) and still works with a few syntax adjustments. I think it is not bad discipline to return to these tools from time to time and remember core UNIX principles.

http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs124/kwc-unix-for-poets.pdf

I am not so sure anything that I currently am writing would/ could be relevant in 30 years. Very humbling.
Already are. http://www.amazon.com/b?node=8729023011
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For the sake of correctness, it's "escucha", not "escute."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good

Plus drugs are one of the very most heavily regulated "free markets" in the US ... and as others have noted, there are laws like the Bayh-Dole Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act) which can make the process much more of a government-non-profit-corporate partnership. There is also a "Generating Antibiotic Incentives Now" (GAIN) in effect, with an bipartisan Antibiotic Development to Advance Patient Treatment in the works.

So, no, we don't "just take whatever the free market finds profitable to provide", where "profitable" has "the visible foot" of the government strongly weighting one side of the balance scale. Not to mention very strong medical policy to restrict new novel antibiotics like this one to the cases where they're really needed.
How would u improve the effective, but bare-boned HN UX?
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Confused? I'll explain: 3M paid this kid $25000 in order to generate clickbait headlines and get people the world over to see the mark '3M' with minimal effort and expense.
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And Germans have learnt the hard way that an autocratic non democatic govenment by a cluadillo nevver ends well.
Swartz was a member of a group that was intentionally pirating and distributing large amounts of copyrighted material to which he did not have permission to do so.

He is also an idiot for killing himself. If he believed what he was doing was right he should have been willing to face the consequences. To me, killing himself is an admission that what he did was wrong and stupid.

Should he have been thrown in jail for 7 years? Well; he would have had more years alive after he got out then he does now.

Edit: Fuck Swartz. More clear?
Thanks for the popehat link. Very enlightening.

From it:

> When the government quotes the maximum sentence, they are trying to scare you.

> When the press quotes it, they are uninformed or lazy.

The first is what I intended to imply: Prosecutors are permitted to scare the bejaysus out of defendants by quoting statutory maxima (not, as could be inferred, that they can present that to the judge.)

The second is what I was guilty of ;)
Only if he goes to a public school. Lots of private schools in the US cost more than $25000 in tuition per year alone.

I'm a huge fan of the public school system but I live in NY where the quality is generally regarded as decent (often very good even). I'm not so sure in other states. For instance, I'd imagine, although I haven't researched this, that Florida with its low taxes and general disregard for their education system in general probably wouldn't have the best public universities.
Hmm, that's too bad. I could've sworn it had hit the 30-minute mark. There haven't been many refreshes so I don't know that it's been improved since the initial release.

Well, IMO, after five or so minutes there's not a huge difference between 30 and 60. But it does depend a bit on how the imaging workflow goes (do you wait for those images before letting the patient leave?, e.g.).

But you can get some pretty dramatic image quality or dose improvements from Veo, so maybe it's worth it.
As someone else already wrote, it didn't really matter here. They already knew that whatever they did would be crackable, but it would just be a matter of time. They basically did an obfuscated checksum procedure (and they didn't use just one, but multiple checksums of overlapping regions). The thing this helped with was not to prevent cracking, but to prevent trivial cracking. This must have made the attackers think for a couple weeks at least, before they figured out all the parts of code they needed to modify to remove the checks. And, for those couple of weeks, many would-be pirates would have no choice but to buy the game if they wanted it.
They acknowledge CRC's weaknesses in the article. But this is 2000.
I can think of a few reasons:

First, this was a decade and a half ago. SHA was slow, open source SHA implementations were rare at the time, crypto had a stigma due to export restrictions, and was generally problematic to work with due to limited hardware support and speed.

Second, several different implementations were needed and they needed to be different enough that a simple pattern search would not find them all. SHA implementations LOOK a lot like SHA implementations in the disassembly, and it's hard to modify them in a way that leaves them functional but different enough that the compiler doesn't optimize away differences. A CRC is simple enough that you can do things like that.

Third, these things were all over the code, and run frequently. They couldn't just set a global flag and be done with it. They had to be fast. I am not sure, but I think the Playstation had hardware CRC support, but no hardware SHA support.

It's amazing that we now live in a world where you wouldn't think twice about using a cryptographically secure algorithm for data you don't actually need to hide (just obfuscate for a month or two) and not have any concern about performance.

Incidentally, if you're interested in an application of essentially every known antidebugging and antimodification technique known at the time in the same binary, have a look at https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06...
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1100-line Perl emulator for BBN-Lisp runs original Eliza program
Earthbound / Mother 2 for the SNES also did this, way before Spyro.
Test driven development to my knowledge is only mandated in one major Agile Framework, and that's eXtreme Programming. Individual Agile implementations may use TDD, but it is not mandated directly by the Agile Manifesto.

XP has a very low adoption rate (1% [1]) ; my guess is because it does things like mandate engineering approaches (TDD, pair programming, etc).

So to state that TDD causes Agile implementations to be more political than scientific, and therefore all Agile should be eliminated, is not 100% accurate (ignoring the assumption that TDD is more political than scientific)

[1] VersionOne's 8th annual state of agile survey. http://stateofagile.versionone.com/
I don't even really know what this means. It implies that titles are laurels without responsibility. I think what it really means is that titles are a tool for management to hold on a stick in front of employees.

I understood it to be something different. If someone gets the title "Senior Engineer", that means they have been acting like a senior engineer. The alternative would be not acting like a senior engineer until promoted to Senior Engineer.

This is part of the author's larger point: your title does not limit your contributions. You don't need permission (a title) to act a certain way. Titles, then, are an acknowledgement, not a license.
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I don't really know of any good general resources; they're often pegged to a specific programming language because the ways in which you have to achieve real-time compatibility differ depending on how the language and its runtime behave. We do all of our work in Java, which is definitely not a great candidate for real-time in most cases, so a lot of what I've learned about real-time programming has come from having to wrangle the JVM in to doing what we need it to do.

The fields that come to mind when I think of real-time outside of HFT, though, are control systems and digital signal processing (DSP). While DSP doesn't necessarily need to be real-time if you're doing it for analysis, doing DSP live definitely requires real-time programming knowledge since signals are often expressed in the time domain and any delay in computation of a discrete element will propagate in how the signal is interpreted. For example, if the signal you're processing is a sound signal (like music), and you are doing software-based DSP on the signal before it reaches the playback device, it better be real-time or any delay spikes will ruin the playback. This is why OS X is so popular with the music industry and especially DJ's; the Mach kernel has really good real-time support and a pretty good real-time software based DSP library for building apps.
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This is only a stepping stone. He's working on a plastic-wrap, sitar string, and mango lassi battery.
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"Last ditch" is a poor choice of words. The point I was trying to make is that if you come to you doc with the sniffles, it's unlikely you're going to get an Rx for vancomycin.
Anecdotally, almost every progamer over the age of 25 has said that your hands and eyes start to slow down, and by 30 it is very difficult to keep up with younger players. This is not directly related to cognition, of course.
This type of ambiguity is not uncommon in law. My guess would be that they would look at intent (ie, did you manipulate the message to make it difficult for a third party to understand), as well as defectiveness (ie, rot26 is so stupid that we will only charge you with attempted encryption).
Voting is important, but it's the minimum first step toward changing the law. It's sort of like buying a computer--you'll have an easier time programming if you get a good computer, but buying the computer doesn't make the programming happen.

In the government, activism is the programming. The most effective way to get involved is to find a nonprofit or similar org that addresses your issue, and help grow their influence (donate, volunteer, etc). The EFF and CDT (Center for Democracy in Technology) are two groups that are working to adjust/clarify/fix the CFAA and how cybercrime is prosecuted.

Voting helps because activism is always easier if elected officials already agree with you. The threat of voting can also help get officials off the fence if they believe that they'll lose their office if they oppose your issue.
Life is art and we are making our masterpieces throughout the way. If I were you, I would quit. Because now for me working for somebody else is probably the best thing I could do to destroy the rest of my life.