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"I'm not dismissing their experience (if any)"

Does that mean if someone doesn't like Win8, they don't have any experience? Or they're not serious? Sounds like an insulting dig at people you don't agree with.

"My point is that there is no discontinuity between lots of people loving Windows 8 on touch-based 2-in-1s and tablets and lots of people hating it -- or, more often, hating the idea of it -- on non-touch machines."

??? Not sure what you're trying to say here.

"Windows 7 Pro is still available from Microsoft as a current product"

Good news if you don't want Win8 on your laptop/desktop. I guess you'll have peace when Windows 10 comes out, and you don't have to hear any negative comments about Windows 8.
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Thanks for this comment!

Alas, the Victorinox itself is being pushed back into restaurant supply, with a less spartan-looking, "consumer-friendly" version replacing it at retail.
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Oh really ? Is that Science, in a non-controlled environment, no supervision of health care professionals ? I doubt anything like that is going to happen any time soon. Plus, the public does not have access to the synthesis or new materials, and I doubt that people would actually inject themselves with drugs that have never been tested on animals in the first place.
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I would love to see an open source architecture with a common underling storage and social capabilities on which we could build apps and interface with others in some kind of decentralized network.

Maybe something like app.net but without a central server with multiple apps. I could install it on my server, dump my photos in there, share with other people, be able to manipulate those images with another app for filters or something. Does that makes any sense? Is there anything like it already?

Sandstorm and portal are cool projects but every app that you install uses it's own infrastructure, it's own database, it's own architecture, and that makes interoperability hard.
I think syntax may actually be more important for adoption than semantics. But for just learning semantics is king.
Yeah- you're right. Pythagoras' theorem obviously isn't timeless; the fool took time devising the formula!
> given that industry insiders go back and forth between jobs in Industry

Very true, and there is very little done to reveal "Conflicts of Interests". Public Officials should be completely transparent (sources of income, past and present relationships, etc) if not I am afraid we cannot exclude corruption at any level.
So much for that pet theory. ;)
Both honestly and sadly, I think nobody is actually legitimately surprised by this. The pharmaceutical industry is a profit machine that will do anything to ensure that it remains profitable.

If anyone hasn't seen John Oliver's latest video, it's on the whole marketing to doctors thing and touches upon the pharmaceutical industry and I highly recommend watching it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQZ2UeOTO3I - he sums it up perfectly.
Accept no substitute for the rooster.

Same with Chili Garlic..
Hah! No for real! Iove this, while ago I worked on something similar based on Rails for a startup, but I left it half way through.

Any plans to provide updates and take it to the next step?
No I wouldn't. There are no words to describe how big of an arsehole he is.
Well, sign me up for that hehe. I honestly don't know anyone that gets that kind of cash.

Its probably a bit of a supply/demand thing, but that seems like a pretty obscene salary. This is what I don't understand - if you have in excess of 1-5m dollars, why do you want more?

Can't we put a cap on this kind of greed?
>An unforgettable experience where 40 of the best developers from all around Europe will revolutionize the world!

No, they will not. They will write code, have a fun time and get a bit tired of being on a train. At best, someone will build a cool app that might make a few people a bunch of money. It is a weekend of programming, not the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.

We need to stop with this ludicrous hyperbole. It's making us look foolish, and needlessly alienating people.
Exactly correct. Why play with cheaters?

The fundamental flaw in applying game theory to biology is to constrain the possible outcomes when unfairness is detected. In game theory, all you can do is change your strategy for the next round; in reality, we have multiple punishments to bring to bear, such as refusing to play, public shaming, fines, imprisonment, killing, etc.

Game theory is only an "ok" model of cooperation/competition in real life.
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A lot of the C programming opportunities come in firmware development. It doesn't all require working with kernel modules or EE. Think of things like Nest, fitbit, etc. You could get an ARM microcontroller board and build up some gadget with it to see if the work interests you.
It's because the Github 'repo' scope is for access to public and private repos, in both read and write modes.

The Github scopes are not finely grained enough for applications using them to ask for only the minimal permissions they need.

I do agree that Coveralls should explain this better, either before they ask for the permissions, or at least in their FAQs.
As a longtime OCW donor myself, I definitely hear you but would still say we still have miles to go until we've made OCW accessible to all. I could see how OCW might not feel very open to the blind and deaf.

I never said I supported the lawsuit or even its goals; but ignoring accessibility shortcomings for certain groups because of financial or other barriers sort of misses the point of aiming to make knowledge accessible to all.

edit: just noticed sensory references in first paragraph
The pharmaceutical industry is a profit machine that will do anything to ensure that it remains profitable.

But this isn't about the pharmaceutical industry, it's about the FDA. The FDA is clearly catching these companies doing wrong, so why are they covering it up?

And if you think the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry are in bed with each other, I would have to disagree (coming from the industry). The company I used to work for would never mess with the FDA since you could be shutdown in an instant.

To be honest, I think a lot of the FDA failings come from a lack of resources. Most of the drugs people take in the US and EU are made in places like India and China. The FDA is just starting to think about inspecting those plants. They just don't have enough inspectors to make sure each and every manufacturer is doing things by the book.
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Yeah sound points. I guess I'd just say it feels like we're relying on the foxes to regulate the henhouse, when its really not in their best interests.
He says it's free advertising for a company that's never had a marketing budget. It's unclear whether he's losing out: Sales of the original Sriracha have grown from $60 million to $80 million in the last two years alone.

Tran is so proud of the condiment's popularity that he maintains a daily ritual of searching the Internet for the latest Sriracha spinoff.

I like this man.
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Very true, and there is very little done to reveal "Conflicts of Interests".

Sure there is. If you sit on an FDA panel you need to declare all conflicts of interest. Panel members usually recuse themselves under those circumstances.

The tough part is that you can't stop folks from moving between industry and the FDA. Both organizations are looking for the best folks. It reminds me of doctors being paid for clinical trials. Of course it's always the top doctors getting paid because if you're a company, do you want the crappy doctors running your trial?
> Oh really ? Is that Science, in a non-controlled environment, no supervision of health care professionals ? I doubt anything like that is going to happen any time soon.

You might've misread me as condoning this, not at all, but I think it's inevitably gonna happen and in fact already is, if you dig around a little bit (all kinds of life extension forums out there, not to mention the current nootropics trends). You don't have to agree with or like things to see them coming you know.

> Plus, the public does not have access to the synthesis or new materials

You wouldn't believe how much is possible to do in a home lab and dna/rna based techniques are becoming more and more accessible as well.
I could be wrong, I can't remember fully. But if I recall correctly they don't start to see normally, i.e. the right rotation, they simply adjusted well to the upside down view.
not really, but it is interesting.
They have been moving into "sales intelligence". Their data/professional graph is a pretty big (maybe only) competitive advantage for the next year or two in that area. So, it follows that they would block off access for possible competitors and/or cordon off more data. This move became inevitable when they partitioned their API by "partner access" a while back.

However, this is great news :) It will just make linkedin irrelevant quicker. They are moving away from being a social network for professionals to being a source of sales intelligence. Most users wont be too happy with that. And, unlike facebook, linkedin is much easier to migrate off of. Really, linkedin was the first big professional network, not the last one.

IMHO angellist is more in line with what the future of professional networks is.
Break the project up into lots of little pieces. Attack the little pieces. Don't do little pieces from other projects until the little projects in your main project on the way to a major milestone are done. As someone who had your problem for a long time: Trust me, it's this simple.

Try using some issue-tracking service to keep things organized to help you plan. JIRA may be overkill, but there are other systems that help.
I would be completely blind to other hot sauces in this category, which is not really true of almost any other kind of hot sauce or product I can think of. I didn't even realize there were other people making "Sriracha" sauce.

I have some loyalty to Zaaschila salsa for my breakfast tacos, but nothing like my level of loyalty to Sriracha. I'd buy Cholula or some kind of habenero salsa or something, if the store didn't have Zaaschila. But, I would buy nothing to replace it if they didn't have Huy Fong chili sauces (I like their chili garlic sauce even more than the standard chili sauce for cooking).

This is a pretty interesting experiment in trademark choices. I'll be interested to see how it plays out. Certainly Sriracha growth has been spectacular, and they do have a trademark on the distinctive bottle and rooster (and many people call it "rooster sauce" or "cock sauce"), which is what I'm looking for when I walk down the grocery aisle.
There is a big difference: "set -u" won't reject incorrect bash programs, it will merely stop some kinds of incorrect behaviors by stopping the program and preventing it from causing greater harm. However, the program won't have completed its intended task, therefore remaining incorrect.

In contrast, using Maybe to indicate "possibly no value" in Haskell (as it is standard practice; in fact there are no nulls in the language) prevents you from even writing some kinds of incorrect programs in the first place. In this sense, a program written in Haskell is a lot more likely to be correct than one written in bash, because the compiler will force you to consider cases you may have missed in a less safe language (like bash).

Of course, neither language guarantees correctness. It's just that one is safer than the other by design.
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because being deaf is a disadvantage... you can't hear.
"Tran also said he was discouraged to seek a trademark because it would have been difficult getting one named after a real-life location...Unlike the name, Tran trademarked his rooster logo and distinctive bottle."
Of course - but the food and beverage industry can't serve you amphetamine-salts in your coke (well not anymore) just because it's profitable.

I don't know what soylent is (beyond just searching it in google). Wikipedia says:

Soylent is a nutritional drink, intended to cover all human nutritional requirements for an adult so that it may serve as main or sole food

There should be a very obvious test for this right? I think a large-scale controlled study would likely show negative effects compared to a randomly sampled population consuming the nutritional equivalent in natural products.
This is actually part of the problem - you'll never read about such a study. Why? Because there is no profit incentive for anyone to finance a large-scale study that proves soylent or hypothetical product X to be useless or harmful.

If soylent (or company X) finances a study of their product and the results are contrary to their expectations (assuming the researches are honest and do not engage in fraud) - they can simply shelve that material - and if eventually study i++ is successful they can publish that (without ever referencing any number of past unpublished studies).

The FDA is wasting my money and yours (if you are a US citizen), in a way that normally should address this imbalance of selective interest in research. That it does not - hardly surprises me.
Cooperating is strongly dominated by defecting in Prisoners Dilemma. This is an obvious and very basic game theory result.

Game Theory models strategic situations and doesn't offer insight outside what is modeled. If you think there should be communication supporting cooperation in the game, that game is NOT the Prisoners Dilemma and is in fact another game.

The Prisoners Dilemma is a model that is stacked very much against cooperation. Think about it, the prisoners are held in separate rooms and not allowed to communicate at all in the original story.
S/he was talking about adding chat to one of his/her sites(or customer's sites) using conversejs[0] which is indeed opensource.

[0]-https://conversejs.org/
not fare well in prison

Jeez - I thought you were joking, but nope :(

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/02/justice/delaware-du-pont-rape-...
As the author of the article, I'd like to comment that "Walking away" and getting another job is not as easy as it sounds, when you are in your 50s. And if I just walk away, some other person gets stuck in the same position. And that I'm not prepared to let happen.

Not on my watch

Sometimes you have to do the right thing. Not the easy thing.
That's really interesting! I didn't know that Barkley stacked up so well against those guys. I remember him more for his play post-2000's when he was on the decline.
For (2) can we add different domains to be used? It seems to be like it (from the screenshot, there's a select box for the domains) though I'm not sure. Thanks
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> if statements with bodies that only jump to labels and contain nothing else in their bodies.

For extra verisimilitude, you'd have to re-invent the 'arithmetic if' statement. Since most programmers working now have no idea what that is, I'll explain:

IF (A-B) 10,15,45

That is an 'arithmetic if' statement; it means "If A-B < 0, goto line 10. If A-B == 0, goto line 15. If A-B > 0, goto line 45."

That's it. You can't change which number it compares the expression to. You can't change the fact it's just a conditional goto with a somewhat more involved than usual conditional. (You can work around these things, but it involves doing more by hand, which languages should ameliorate.)

That was introduced to the high-level language world in an ancient version of FORTRAN, apparently copied by some BASIC dialects which didn't know any better, and then totally ignored for decades, a trend I heartily endorse.
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As the author of the articles. I'd just like to say that walking out and finding another job is not as easy as you might think in Ottawa at my age. And also if I leave, the system just continues. I'd leave my successor in the lurch. And I'm not prepared to do that.

Not on my watch.

Sometimes you have to go public and take a risk, and do the right thing. Not the easy thing.

cheers

Andrew

And yes, there is a real risk that I could lose the job. So before you condemn my actions, remember that.
The "real deal" is TUONG OT SRIRACHA made by Huy Fong foods.

I have been a bit of a chili pepper, hot spice and hot sauce afficionado for a few decades. I grow many kinds of chilis in my garden and do lots of different things with them.

I remember seeing the Huy Fong Sriracha in a store about 10 years ago and thinking that it was unusually inexpensive given the s8ze of the bottle. Upon first use, I was surprised... almost floored. I remember thinking that this is the best chili sauce I have ever tasted.

I brought it to work, to family gatherings and gave away countless bottles. It seems like most people that like a hot spice tend to like the sauce.

I am of the opinion that lots of people know the Huy Fong botle, brand and taste. I liken it to Grey Poupon, one of the best mustards money can buy--ok Stadium Mustard is better IMO, but GP is still A+ material.

I have a feeling that Huy Fong has little to worry about. I have tried several competetors (one was3x the price) and they are all inferior.
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It should be possible to run an entirely open source set of apps on Portal or Sandstorm and move between services freely.

With Portal, we're experimenting with things like Camlistore[1] running as apps that advertise their storage capabilities generically to other apps through a simple API. We won't have that for the first version, but it is coming. The complexity is mostly on developers modifying their apps, which is why we're avoiding initially.

1. http://camlistore.org/
Yes, you can have multiple domains per account and map paths on them to different apps. Thanks for the questions!
?? Barkley retired after the 1999-2000 season.
I remember this post because it outlined the limitations of informal, privately operated systems: They tend to have physically centralized hubs that are overserved, because the operators can guarantee customers at those stops, while outlying regions are missing direct connections - all routes go downtown, is the rule.
If he had spent his time vigorously defending the word Sriracha instead of making tasty sauce would there even be a Sriracha craze or would he have labored in obsucrity producing for a tiny lawyer-guarded market segment?

Sometimes you have to choose whether to be the captain of a dinghy or a deckhand on a battleship.
No mention of the fact that Tran's sauce is an americanized knockoff (made with jalapeno peppers) of legitimate Sriracha sauce from Sri Racha, Thailand.
It's remarkably difficult to find anything approaching hard numbers :-) However, I am going off:

* http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2015/01/14/language-rankings-1-15... (Haskell slightly ahead in their numeric ranking)
* http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.... (Golang slightly ahead in their ranking)
* Slightly more published books on Haskell that I can find (although obviously it's been around a lot longer)

I have no doubt that Go will eventually surpass Haskell in terms of popularity, and may even have a slight edge, but suggesting that Go popularized typeclasses smacks of fanboyism, and reminds me - in no small measure - of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzkRVzciAZg
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Some how the beauty of this reminds me of Lambda calculus and Church numerals.
eggbrain,

I really like Kanban and I am sad to see it isn't up to rails 4.2 yet. Are you looking for more contributors?

If so, how could I contact you to resolve a few questions so I can get the current repo up and running to work on?
That's amazing. I wish they had a picture of the proccess. What does "pour water through a branch" look like?
Our actual job is working on SD Elements (http://securitycompass.com/sdelements/). Let's Chat is just a side project, but it's also something we use internally everyday. The features you wish were there we also wish were there, no doubt. Lots of the developers here like working on it. I expect there will be updates from us for the foreseeable future. Hopefully we'll start getting more external pull requests as well.

I doubt we are going to pivot to a free chat client company any time soon.
Sriracha is one of the few generics that Trader Joes is terrible at.
> Having observed no actual evidence myself, why is one claim that morphine is addictive any more extraordinary than another claim that morphine isn't addictive

You haven't observed, but people in the Law and Health professions have and do on a regular basis. There have been plenty of studies on it. All consistent with its addictive nature. Your lack of personal experience does not make each side equally likely. One is clearly more consistent with reality, and the other is not. Thats why one claim is extraordinary, and the other is not.
It's impressive how many security bugs were reported on facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/thanks

About 725 independent researchers contributed.
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Airlines are already operating on such razor-thin margins that it's not surprising that Priceline can't extract much profit from those deals.
I think saying that cars are limited to the citys elites is overstating the case a bit. There are quite a few middle class families with cars. The problem is twofold

1: The collapse of the public bus system (KBS or Kenya Bus Service) in the early 90s
2: The lack of any investment in infrastructure since at least the 70s. There are a bunch of reasons (IMF structural adjustment, corruption, poor planning etc)

I'm kenyan and remember that in the 80s it was relatively quick for me to get to downtown Nairobi, or to School (for anyone who knows Nairobi, I was commuting from South B to Nairobi Primary School). I could either have my parents drop me (they worekd in the CBD and drove there), take a bus to downtown Nairobi and walk to school from there or take another bus to school (I used to opt to walk the 2nd leg and buy these really terrible SciFi books 'Perry Rhodhan' that were translated to English from German, but thats another story...).

In 1980, the bus/matatu ride from South B to Downtown Nairobi (near Standard Chatered bank) took about 10-12 minutes. The last time I did this (in 2010, I needed to get from South B to the National Archives in the CBD so I hopped a #11 Matatu), it took 2 hours, and that was not in rush hour traffic. I could have gotten out and walked there faster (and regularly used to do so in the 80s, but everything is fenced off and over-built). The next day I drove with my mum and same thing (South B to Kariokor), there is literally no way of avoiding spending a large amount of your life sitting in traffic, and it boggles my mind that there are cities that are worse (i.e mexico City)

There are simply too many cars for the infrastructure. And in a really bone-headed move, some time ago the government decided to solve this problem by banning public service vehicles (buses and matatus) from the Central Business District, but private cars were allowed. Of course this was so the rich could travel un-impeded. The plan didn't last due to the outcry, but that shows you the priorities of the politicians.

But if it meets its promise, this app would be truly amazing and useful. And the name (Hakuna Matatu), you have to understand Swahili to appreciate the pure awesomeness of that pun.
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if you haven't, you should visit thailand and vietnam.
A great feature on Sir Charles, http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/12289603/how-form...
I'm sure we'll find a way to wrap it up and shoot it your way soon, Galacticus.