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Yes I definitely feel I'm not being utilized properly. However, I've been making strides to correct that. My current work went from full software dev with cool new tech like WebGL to having to repeat data entry work (3 or 4 times) because of incompetence within corporate. To get myself out of this I work on side projects and currently attending grad school via OMSCS at Georgia Tech.
For what it's worth, in Psychology (by APA standards) 1st person voice is discouraged, but so is passive voice. In the passages you use, removing 1st person (almost) requires using passive voice, but I would say removing 1st person voice is what discourages a very informal, prosey style, while the frequent use of passive voice often feels indirect.
Why do you believe BECU would be any better?
Spin-offs and spin-outs are not normally accounted as lay-offs.
> And drivers actually follow the signs. As an American driver it's an amazing thing to see.

Speed control flashes are a common sight :).
My theory is that the discount is precisely because of the sign. I am convinced that that part does 99% of the work at actually deterring crime. The local alarm won't do anything once you are in the building: just go and turn it off. In fact, get a shirt with the ADT logo, then go rob a house. Nobody will question it.
The difference is the same as the difference between the skills neccessary to be an ambassador and to wipe your bottom - one is trivial, but is a subset of the other.

In order to safely run an internetbank, there are a thousand of small things that all must be done right. If they can't even set up (and test, and verify, and maintain) https, what makes you think that they can handle 100% of the much more complicated computing security issues without missing something?
"Additionally, these STUN requests are made outside of the normal XMLHttpRequest procedure, so they are not visible in the developer console or able to be blocked by plugins such as AdBlockPlus or Ghostery. This makes these types of requests available for online tracking [...]"

So the extra effort to get around adblockers?
Our Incredible Journey: Acquired Startups and their Swan Songs
Electricity generation is only a small part of carbon dioxide emissions. If you're worried about global warming, I suggest becoming a vegan.
> You might compare the sword to a pistol.

Indeed, there is a reason that both are generally referred to as 'sidearms' in military parlance.
Here's a link to audio of David Foster Wallace reading the speech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYGaXzJGVAQ
Check out Alphasmarts. They're ~$40 on ebay. I have three models: Dana, Neo, and 3000. They have:

- sunlight readable display

- no internet temptation

- full keyboard designed by former Mac engineers, so it looks and feels good

- no moving parts (journalists take them into third-world countries)

- long battery life. (Dana: 24 hours, Neo and 3000: 700)

- They're recognized as USB keyboards, so you can output to computer easily.
I have spent many hours looking, only to come up empty. Discourse looks great, but I do not like Ruby and it runs like a fat pig with a lame leg. In other words, it needs decent hardware and careful tuning to get it to run well. Their only supported platform is Docker under Ubuntu, which is a bit restrictive. All the PHP forums look ancient and I hate PHP with a passion, too.

I would love to have something like the D language forums (http://forum.dlang.org/). Very snappy performance. But last time I checked there was no documentation whatsoever for the software.

Muut is an option, but I much prefer hosting it myself. Less expensive and more control.

I would love to see an open source forum coded in a high performance safe language like Haskell. In another year or two, Rust might be an option, too.

I get so frustrated about it, that sometimes I dream of launching a Kickstarter campaign. That is how the blogging platform Ghost got started, and it looks to have worked for them.
I think its because they never intended to be linked to without the www.
Modern instructive writing (as oppose to creative writing like novels, short stories, erotic fiction, etc.) all suffer from lack of pictures. I know that sounds incredibly childish, but bear with me on this one. Unlike our computer overlords, us lowly humans are ultimately visual creatures with brains that have been evolved through the millennia to be extremely optimized at processing and storing visual / spatial information. In fact, we're so much better with visual information compared with words or equations, that even our language reflects this: when we understand something, we exclaim something like "oh, now I see it".

But, because of how hard it had been to serialize, transfer, persist, and unserialize drawings, we had no choice but to resort to shoddy words and equations to overcome the problem of communicating over large space-times. And so even now, in the era of image boards, instant messaging, etc., most of us still can communicate only with simple letters and numbers because we never learned how to communicate with colors, shapes, and lines when we went to school.

This is especially true in certain regions of academia (and professional fields like law, accounting, math, gynecology, etc.), where picture books, diagrams, comics, and the like are viewed with patronizing disdain (though fields like Mech Eng. seems to do better as they focus a lot on 3D modeling, 2D diagramming, isometric views, etc.).

In my opinion, the only way to improve academic writing so it's understandable, intuitive, and interesting is to improve how we write - with more pictures and less words. And the best way to do that, is to teach drawing like we teach English in our elementary, middle, and high schools
You do realize you're talking about 110k people losing their income?

Including dependents (averaging 2.4 / wage earner) that means this would affect ~ 250K people plus those laid off so 350K people.

Funny definition of a 'good thing', there is more to life than stocks.
not sure of your exact circumstances but I find it important to not let anything sit in the sink. If you can get your spoons and bowls washed as soon as you are done using them, then the dough remnants won't dry out become a cleaning issue.
If the Surfrider Foundation wants access to the beach from the highway, they should purchase the land. Not steal it.
I'm sorry, but what you're implying is that these companies have sub-par products that unscrupulous writers have been willing to treat as well-made in exchange for cash payment. As someone who (very happily) uses both Backblaze and Squarespace I can safely say this is not the case, and that they're not just "buying their way into" bloggers' good graces.

I'm pretty sure that if they're in anyone else's good graces, it's because they provide a great product with solid service at a decent price. It's absolutely not because they had to bribe people to overlook the fact that they weren't really any good.

In essence, DF is an endorsement-based model. This is one where a justifiably trusted source uses their hard-won credibility to promote products that reinforce their credibility. It's pretty much the opposite of a model that allows people to "buy their way in". Indeed, that's the whole point. You can't buy your way in. If you don't have a decent product, you're not getting listed.
That's extremely interesting. I'd try it if I had a smartwatch.
This is so completely out of Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother". Brilliant book, highly suggest reading.

Goes to show how accurate his estimation of what censored youth will do was.
Sunshine. They talk about a 5kW system, but do they use some theoretical cost or do they consider the amount of sunshine in each location. When I see Detroit at #25 I'm suspicious because we have a lot of grey days.
I stopped decades ago.

Note that his wikipedia article says he finally figured out "[A] new fact has now become painfully clear to me: you don't say you have the Ph.D. unless you really have the Ph.D."

Rather cringeworthy, I would say.
What exactly is your problem? That they didn't publicly flagellate themselves to your liking? That they "sold out"? That they build something valuable, but the next Google? Or you just get kicks out of being a snarky ass?
Rust RFC 517: Reform the “std::io” and “std::os” libraries
It's shit like this that makes me want Bitcoin or one of the alternatives to succeed. I don't care if it ends up being worth $10 or $50K, as long as many people use it. The banking system is rotten to the core.
Heh, I was actually looking for those very words. While similar in style, this lacked them, which I found unsatisfying. Maybe people are more careful now to stay away from some specific keywords...
Is this backwards compatible? I thought Evergreen browsers meant IE10+
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For what it's worth, diphenhydramine (mentioned in the article) is Benadryl, and it's widely known that it causes hallucinations in high doses:

https://www.erowid.org/pharms/diphenhydramine/diphenhydramin...
Phantom is unreliable, barely maintained, and brutally slow. I think one of the reasons Angular has seen such remarkable adoption is because it made testing easy, quick, and idiomatic.
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The pikes would generally stand only in one direction at once, and their drills had diagonal forms, so the corners would not be a weak point.

When people think pikemen, they think of very static formations, with little mobility. This is true of a lot of historical pike units, but the Swiss pikemen are the opposite of it. They drilled as small companies of ~100 men, and they were so successful because they made mobility as an unit into an art. A swiss pike block was drilled to change facing in seconds, and they liked to charge pikes levelled at near running speed. Many a condottiere got their last surprise when they were at the last stretch of their charge against an exposed flank or rear of a swiss block, and suddenly all the pikes rise, everyone turns, all the pikes come down again, and the swiss start charging the would-be attackers like madmen.
Going back to ratification of the California Constitution in 1879, the beaches belong to the people.

> Article X, Section 4: No individual, partnership, or corporation, claiming or possessing the frontage of tidal lands of a harbor, bay, inlet, estuary, or other navigable water in this State, shall be permitted to exclude the right of way to such water whenever it is required for any public purpose, nor to destroy or obstruct free navigation of such water; and the Legislature shall enact such laws as will give the most liberal construction to this provision so that access to the navigable water of this State shall always be attainable for the people thereof.

If he doesn't like that he can undertake an effort to make an amendment to the constitution; otherwise, he's in criminal violation of it.

Pure and simple, Khosla is stealing the beach away from the people of California.
Illustration is harder than writing and mostly untaught outside if very specialized circles. Still, it is something I wanted to learn to improve my papers (Bret Victor being a huge inspiration here), and I can depend in my art school background wife for help, so I'm looking for oppurtunities to play around with it in my writings.

I once wrote a paper [1] with embedded QuickTime videos. It worked really well, but I found out quickly people don't use acroread on macs with QuickTime installed by default. Also, some people still print things out.

[1] http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~mcdirmid/mcdirmid07live.pdf
>We started Pixelapse with the mission of building the definitive version control and collaboration platform for creatives.

Ugh, stop calling them that.
An aircraft on Mars would be quite an engineering feat. The average atmospheric pressure on the surface of Mars is 600 pascals, which corresponds to an altitude of 35km on Earth. Since that's all carbon dioxide, oxygen-consuming jets aren't usable. The only propulsion options are battery-powered fans/propellers and rockets. And even with huge wings, any aircraft would have to be going at hundreds of meters per second to generate lift. Looking at altitude records[1], I see NASA's Helios UAV got up to 30km. Pressure at that altitude is only twice that of Mars, so a battery-powered Mars aircraft seems barely doable with current technology.

Edit: I was curious about higher altitudes on Mars, so I looked that up as well. Pressure at the top of Olympus Mons is only 30 pascals. That corresponds to 60km altitude on Earth. Good luck getting anything to fly up there. It's effectively a low-grade vacuum.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_altitude_record

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Helios
I hope webrtc isn't authorized by default by browsers.I want to give explicit consent.It should even have been that way for ajax requests.
Selections from this speech were used to create the "This is Water" video (which I love) that made the rounds in 2013: http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/story-behind-water-inspiring-v...
Paper is back: Why 'real' books are on the rebound
Fair point.

However, places like Sacramento, Denver, Houston, Austin and other large cities with quite a lot of jobs have great housing affordability compared to most places.

Find the first Australian city....
Because it's often of no interest for the customer. At all.

It's like a star at the Oscars saying thanks to all the fans that supported them, except that there is no film, no Oscar and no fans.

From a customers perspective, it's probably for the worst, even.
Assuming we're ignoring obviously separate definitions, like bees and sounds, all drones are UAVs. The word "drone" in the aviation context means "an aircraft without a pilot on board." A few dictionaries throw in "autonomous" as a criterion, but I'm not sure where that comes from, since "drone" referred to remote controlled aircraft at least as far back as 1946. Also note that the "drones" that became infamous in the American military were largely not autonomous, but rather were remotely piloted (most American UAVs can loiter autonomously, but as far as I know attack missions are always remotely controlled).

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=drone
On the other hand, repetitive ads are less interesting for the reader (at least, I feel that way when reading DF), so they have a higher 'cost' to Gruber. Though this is more relevant to multiple consecutive sponsorships than a few of them spread over months.
Since the site is now down...

Original text is published here: http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/chase-just-handed-ove...
Ask HN: Can I get some job advice?
I'm a front-end dev with a lot of experience in html/css/jquery but no experience with mv* frameworks. I also have a lot of experience building custom WordPress sites, digital marketing some project management etc. etc. but that doesn't really apply here.

My current job has been less than challenging and hasn't given me a chance to learn something like Angular or Backbone. I would like to start looking for a new job in about three months but every front-end position requires at least 1-2 years experience of an mv* framework. Most of the openings are looking for Angular experience but how much is necessary? I mean, if I take a month or two to learn the framework and a month to build a couple small apps, would that be enough experience?
Coming from a complete novice; can you expand upon the "NGS" technology, particularly the temporal aspect?
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What about an IBM Selectric? http://www.robotdialogs.com/search?updated-min=2012-01-01T00...
I can use it to change the Arizona State lottery site so I win the lottery!!
The government will take what it wants. If you have a house, they will take it. If you have a car, they will take it. Bits on a hard drive don't help if you can't hold property. They even got the Swiss banks to cough up American accounts.
This seems highly unlikely.
I only spent one year of law school in MA, but i distinctly remember that any sort of prejudgment attachment required a court order.
Props, but this should've been the lead sentence in the post:

Pixelapse as a standalone product will
continue to operate and be supported
for the next year as we work towards
this goal, at which point we’ll offer
a migration plan for your work.
Well here's a short story of mine going from a horrible designer to getting featured on top blogs - http://kickassinwebdesign.com/blog/featured-on-mashable/
Well the No was a direct answer to a direct question. :-)

And I think that putting ads onto an otherwise nice and coherent personal site sends out all the wrong signals (it makes us judge this not as a personal site but as a commercial entity - which demands higher production standards (and oddly lowers the trustworthiness of his opinions on Intel die layouts etc). The small amount of advertising income is unlikely to ever pay for that trust loss - and if the OP is ever likely to find that income vital then they should fight for a pay rise today.

I am negative on the value of broadcast style advertising - I would say that going for advertising dollars when you don't think they will pay for the young graduate you really ought to be hiring to do ad sales by phone is a bad idea. I really cannot see advertising being democratised by giving tiny slices to smaller and smaller outlets. Maybe affiliation sales will work at those levels but probably not.
Honest question: what convinces you that over-the-counter drugs have a negative effect rather than a neutral or even positive effect?
https://theapp.co.uk This would interest me Jadli
Those skills are converging over time.
Hi, we're running gocyclo with "-over 10"

Test coverage is definitely something we want to add but we weren't sure if we could figure out how to run them in a sandbox properly in the amount of time we had. I'll probably research how the Go Playground does it :)
My local Asian supermarket sells the alkaline McGee is talking about as "lye water". Check if yours does as well. A lot easier to just buy a bottle rather then screwing around with baking soda in the oven.
As an IBMer I still cannot understand how the "IBM Alliance" can have a website from '95.
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Seattle actually gets a decent amount of insolation compared to Germany: http://www.greenrhinoenergy.com/solar/radiation/images/World...

As we know, Germany isn't shy about its solar investment.
Honestly, the older I get, the more tempted I am to attach a safe to a corner of my house, close my bank accounts, and just store cash in the safe.
I'm glad these new projects are coming on, and this one seems to be very forthright about its limitations, but I'm just putting this in the bucket with all of the other messaging systems that provide a minimum feature set.

I haven't seen much on the market recently that offers things like (first-class) persistence, guaranteed ordering, guaranteed delivery, or any of the other more complex distribution patterns. That's why I'm still using ActiveMQ. I'm pretty happy with it, so I suppose I'm not really looking for a replacement, but I still wonder what benefit people are getting from these newer systems.
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The more jobs technology makes obsolete, the better, amiright?
Review coming for you as well!
That's what civil asset forfeiture is for. That's drug money you got there you see.

(Never mind that if word gets out you will get robbed.)
Power is almost always more expensive in the middle of the day. You can see this if you look at the energy component of the hourly electricity price (day ahead or real time) for any of the organized electricity markets (though you aren't totally wrong, the winter load profile does have a local minimum 14-17). Residential use lags in the midday but commercial + residential almost always peaks midday. In other words, solar generation occurs closer to peak pricing (i.e. solar electricity is more valuable electricity).
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This can be disabled in firefox's about:config page by setting media.peerconnection.enabled to false.

The problem with disabling all these features on a case by case basis is that you contribute to a richer fingerprint this way. Browsers will become increasingly more vulnerable to fingerprinting and there doesn't seem to be a way to stop it without going back to the dark ages of the web.
Perhaps this is where a good blog about the market for spectrometers would be useful, and if the suppliers were far-sighted enough is one of those cases where affiliate links, correctly and honestly put out, would work.

I don't know your profession (Ok now I do - vulcanology - cool!) but if you need this equipment and need to search hard for it, others are too.
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I'd believe that, I didn't do a thorough search. But the document that claims to describe Mass DOR collections doesn't cover it.
I had a student once who is British but worked for a Spanish university. He was (is) a very good writer, very clear, good structure etc. He had a paper reviewed once by someone who, probably because he saw the affiliation or the study area the paper was about (which was in Spain), assumed the author was Spanish, and put in his comments 'the author should consider having his writing reviewed by a native speaker to correct some of the obvious mistakes'.

I LOL'ed that day.
Google is pretty good at security, but pretty bad at privacy.

Yeah. It's almost like the direct opposite of Assange's "privacy for the weak and transparency for the powerful". Just sayin'.
United States of America v. A Medium-Sized Metal Safe Containing $86,320.00 USD.
I think you're right about Go's memory model helping a lot when compared to e.g. a typical dynamic language, but I have to ask: if you're going to be using manual memory management techniques like object pools and avoiding heap allocation whenever possible, what exactly does a garbage collected language buy you? I'm more of a C guy myself, but presumably RAII with smart pointers in C++ would get you most of the productivity benefits of garbage collection for the parts of the code that "don't matter" with much more reliable soft-realtime guarantees, while providing you with much greater memory management controls and optimization opportunities for the parts that do, and having far superior debugging support to boot.
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Isn't the problem that there is no judgement? They just filled out a form saying they're owed money.

And your scenario doesn't fit here because the 'debt' is from after moving.
In modern foil fencing, a riposte (B in your example) gets the point. Also, the only way to get a hit is by thrusts to the torso. No other body parts count, and no slashing or cutting.

It's very interesting that modern fencing is so "ritualistic" and far removed from actual sword combat. I wonder how that happened?
http://www.thebrewoutlet.com

While we are at it... what is your website url or are you youtube based?