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Unicomp (http://www.pckeyboard.com/) produce modern IBM Model M keyboard, with real buckling spring tech. Mine's been working beautifully for 8 years now. It is loud though, you won't make friends from the noise levels. I did have some issues with the quality of the caps, some of the function keys get stuck due to the tight fit between the cap and the bezel, but you can probably file down the bezel or the cap. My model doesn't have media keys, which sucks.

Anyway, if you want to feel like you're writing on a mechanical device, it's fantastic, and when you're in the zone you get that audial and tactile feedback to say "Yes! You're winning!".

I need to find a keyboard I can use at work, one with tactile feedback but a lot quieter.
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The title was changed after I posted. This kind of feedback was exactly what I was after.

> quick instructions should not be here in your intro

Yes. I'm not yet sure how much of it is self explanatory, but I'm getting an idea of it.
Could not find it at the standard resellers yet… maybe on Monday (Feb 2) morning?

http://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi

http://www.alliedelec.com/search/results.aspx?term=raspberry

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/generalDisplay.html?id=raspberry...
Afraid of being caught?
Will Mathematica still ship with it and will the 6x performance increase make it be actually usable? What's the per-core increase?
> Need a tiny bit of UI organization.

Any specific things you would have changed?

> Would also be awesome if there is a way to tell if there is any relationship between the two or not.

Could you expand on that?
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Scribd (“Netflix for books”) is hiring hackers and data people of all kinds
Scribd ("Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 50 people, San Francisco) is hiring talented hackers of all kinds to help us build the library of the 21st century.

We've hired EIGHT full-time people and TONS of interns from these Hacker News threads ... it really works!

We're looking for people who want to work with:
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* Product manager and design (UI or UX) roles too
* Internships: junior standing or above for all areas of engineering. We hire several interns every summer and year-round.

That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you. We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience.

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Does anyone really find it surprising that close instruction by people of similar age, who actually know math, made a difference? I remember my math teachers. I remember them talking down to us. I remember teaching myself how to handle quadratic equations after being made to look a fool in class. I also remember the joy of programming my first HP-48sx graphing calculator (donated to me when I got into an AP math 11 course). Like the old speak-and-spell, that little machine never insulted me, never said I wasn't trying hard enough. Math became easy. I still miss R-P notation.

Look at this from the UK a few years ago. Most teachers were found to lack basic math skill. I doubt US/Canadian teachers are any different.

"Only one third of the teachers tested for a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary were able to calculate that 1.4 divided by 0.1 is 14, while only four out of 10 could work out that 2.1 per cent of 400 is 8.4. "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/7236780/P...

"Fewer than four out of 10 of those who sat the test – designed for 11-year-olds – could calculate 2.1% of 400, and only a third answered correctly that 1.4 divided by 0.1 was 14. Overall, four out of ten scored 40% or below, only one got all the answers correct and the average mark was 12 out of 27 or 45%."

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2010/feb/14/primary-tea...
It's like in software, code review helps eliminate many of the worst pitfalls in doing stupid things. That is why the Linux Kernel is so damn stable, because it has so many people looking through the code on every level.

I think doctors should be in teams, and in fact, to setup a practice, maybe it should be the required norm, in order to practice, you must have a business partner, who can compliment your skillset in your profession, especially when it comes to the well being of others and their correct health diagnosis.
The odroid blows it away. I've had mine for about two months and love it.
git's smallest unit is a file - if your repostiory has one 3GB file, that's what is going to be hashed.

but bup[0] does so within a git repository to make incremental backup more efficient.

[0] https://github.com/bup/bup
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That looks pretty cool. I will have to try it out. I have been meaning to check out webpack for awhile anyway.
Cuaron wasn't super-famous in 2000. He basically had one mid-budget feature under his belt. Add in the fact that writers usually get left out of the loop on that part of the dealmaking and it's not hard to imagine he was more attached than not.
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$1 million today, at the cost of the average PC in a couple years. Think of the future.
yearly charge is 9000 usd.

server fees will be 600~800 for the year.

total development time will be 80~100 hours @ 45/hr.

they insist that the additional integration to their database won't take a lot of time, but I raised some doubts there.

it does a variety of things on the video but thats part of it.

this seems rather good http://www.saasmadeeasy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/MSA.p...
is there a template that's around.

what you described covers a lot, but in my case, I'm the only guy running the show so I don't think I can have all those things so probably won't be able to charge a high figure.
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> The propagating up to the "aunt/uncle" tasks (i.e. siblings of the parent) is a bit stranger

Time is propagated to siblings, if they have no estimates from their own children.

Un-estimated siblings will be given the average time of the siblings with estimates.

Time will also propagate down the chain, and will be split equally over the children.

In the end, it is mostly bullshit, but then again, so are all estimates...

> Still, it makes it very convenient and quick.

Exactly. Sometimes, the best way of getting the right answer is to give the wrong one...

> Have you thought about visually distinguishing autoguessed estimates from manually entered ones?

Oh, they are. See the icon in front of them in the tree view?

Bulls-eye: Your own estimate

Checkmark: Actual time

Arrow: Auto-generated projection

They all have a title-attribute with their type in case you forget.

> I like how the horizontal arrangement puts a natural limit on how deeply you can nest

:)

It doesn't though. Still, you can fit like 8 levels deep on a normal desktop screen, but in practice, I've never found a need for so much nesting.
Yeah I follow you. I am providing ways of trying to work around the lack of a higher level type class system. As a baseline, I would recommend not jumping outside golang's given type system just because it feels inconvenient for the programmer. That means you don't get to write a generic method for, for instance, all integers. Too bad :P This means the programmer does have to do more work, but the type system is always strictly enforced. That is better in my opinion.
Why is this gap more of a problem? Maybe boys just aren't interested in math, the same way they are naturally not interested in nursing.
Overall, I think Rust is easier to use than C++ but not easier to write than C++. Writability is a specific facet of usability, which is hurt by strict upfront checks.

Writability is a worthy thing to improve: GHC's -fdefer-type-errors feature is a good example. I hope Rust improves its writability in the future.
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I've found the Realforce to feel great and to be quiet.
I would love to have the numbers, supporting your hypothesis, as the would greatly help not only inform my pow, but that of my readers as well, as this would make a nice essay. A lot of times these last some years I read about the German middle class shrinking, mostly with people stepping down into lower income groups.

So I would gladly have numbers, supporting a different point of view, just to counter these reports.
I actually like this a lot and think with more dev time it could be a really competitive product.
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I never understand how people can seriously suggest calling your friends as a replacement for Facebook. How many friends do you have? Must not be very many. I have a small number of close friends, that I talk to at least weekly via some method. But then I have probably around 100 other friends that I talk to not that often, but still want to be friends with, and another 500 people that I like to know what they are up to, but thats about it. For example, I went traveling recently, and one of those 500 happened to post before I left about a trip they made to the same place. I asked them about it, and found out about some cool things to do in that place. That is extremely valuable to me , and if you have a way to replace that type of interaction outside of Facebook, I'd love to hear it.
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Why would anyone buy this over the much more powerful ARMv7 odroid-C1 for $35 that has been out for months now?
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The stories are not similar at all. The similarity is the title, that both are sci-fi, and that there is a female lead. Judge for yourself:

Book:
Dr. Emma Watson has been training for the adventure of a lifetime: to study living beings in space. But her mission aboard the International Space Station turns into a nightmare beyond imagining when a culture of single-celled organisms begins to regenerate out of control -- and infects the space station crew with agonizing and deadly results. Emma struggles to contain the outbreak while back on Earth her estranged husband, Jack McCallum, works frantically with NASA to bring her home. But there will be no rescue. The contagion now threatens Earth's population, and the astronauts are stranded in orbit, quarantined aboard the station -- where they are dying one by one...

Movie:
Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone - tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness.
> - When I mark a task as "Done", I would assume its sub-tasks to be marked as done too.

Right. Didn't think about that. Thanks! I did plan to mark the parent as done when all children are done.

> collapsed into the parent or something

Exactly what I have in mind.
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I like a lot of what I see with react except the lack of 2 way data binding. Mainly, I tend to have input data tables for forecasting, cost estimation, and so forth with a lot of data inter-dependencies and calculations. It seems going back to the method of handling data updates through onchange events in a manual fashion would be a colossal step backwards from say, knockoutjs.
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The way I heard the story was that they decided that it would be evil, rather than illegal. But I think that might have been pre-Schmidt.
The gender gap is mostly due to different interests, but some of it does involve women feeling unsafe in certain industries (ask them, not me). The other thing is that the pay gap also involves different personal choices, but some of it involves things that should be improved, such as the expectation of maternity leave, as well as women not feeling as strongly about negotiating higher pay, as many men do. These are things I feel should be improved over time. If this seems radical, then I see things a bit differently. I think we can discuss this civilly though, if need be!
They were talking about using information from the stream of search queries issuing from each company, as I remember the story. So they'd get advance knowledge of layoffs, diseases among key personnel, that kind of thing.
There are many reasons.

The large community that is involved with the Pi. The large number of tutorials, and guides available. The incredible amount of accessories available and customized for the Pi. The Pi has the momentum. The odroid-C1 may be fantastic, but it's the first time I've ever heard of it.
Of course you're referring to me. Arguing the whole openness of the video driver is a dead end [1]. If you want an open video driver use Intel, or AMD and be done with it.

Give me a hand-cranked universal Turing machine and I've basically got the same device as a RPi. The only difference, it's cheap, and I don't have to get a workout hand-cranking it. Video is just a (semi-)fixed functional unit. Sure, it'd be nice to have open drivers, but so would having the RTL of the processor, and the netlist and gerber of the board. Then they could actually talk about teaching kids something they actually couldn't learn with just having access to a hand-cranked universal Turing machine.

The fact that the foundation and Broadcom get their free goodwill from their claim of "for-the-sake-of-the-children" is the real source of my ire. Look at how many references to "industry" the article quotes from representatives of the foundation. Like the embedded SOM has anything at all to do with education, or the continuance of production of older models. Please...

[1] http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eZd0IYJ7J40
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GOES are geosynchronous, and used for imaging. They can't see parking lots, though!
Allow me to be the detractor to all the fanfare - what does this actually do? The demo site hints at what is going with it's tutorial but I don't see in plain english. It seems, if I follow the tutorial, that as I modify the includes in the editor the javascript assets are reloaded in real time to reflect the state of loaded javascript.

So, I guess I'm looking for a technical summary of what this does exactly because I don't understand the benefit.
Neither has anyone else who knows what they are doing.

I don't know the details of the contract, but I know that apparently it gave her a percentage of net, rather than gross, on the resulting film.

Which, when dealing with Hollywood, ought to be prima facie evidence of ineffective/incompetent counsel on the part of whatever attorney represented/advised her during the negotiations :)
Given how readily abused it is, it seems unwise. It's one of those things that works great... so long as it's only used by good people to do good things.

You know, for whatever local definitions of "good person" and "good thing" crop up today.
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Nobody got fired for buying RPi?
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* the way in which sounds from other languages (particularly Greek) were adapted into Latin

* the way in which sounds of Latin were adapted into other languages

* comparative reconstruction of the Romance languages

* evidence from metrical poetry, which provides particular clues about consonant and vowel length

A very readable book on is W. Sidney Allen's _Vox Latina_.

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Just curious, (if you can share) what are you doing on your RPi that saturates the 100Mb?
A few of these points are a bit off.

React isn't against templates - the existence of JSX is counter to this. React does choose to consume templates in an imperative form (via React.DOM), and JSX is meant to ease this flaw in productivity by giving tooling that corrects this unnatural form of development (for most frontend engineers).

React is also not against separation of concerns - even in the talk by Pete Hunt linked, he merely has a different view on what constitutes the concern of the view layer. His viewpoint is that the template and the state of the component are intertwined heavily, so as to stress that Facebook's approach with React does not break that principle.