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Why It’s So Hard for Americans to Talk About Science
5  Database Modeling Books?
"G" works with a number for recalling shell history. For example, "4G" recalls the fourth command in the shell history. However, "G" alone without a number does not work as it does in vi (jump to last line). I suppose that was the desired functionality.

It makes sense for "gg" to be absent, as it is not a vi command. It is a "vimism". The typical vi command for moving to the first line is "1G".
Those are only a tiny part of what Broadcom actually has in terms of documentation for the SoC.

Look at the full set of documentation for a modern ARM SoC that does have it available (e.g. TI's Sitara series - which still doesn't have the GPU docs included) and you'll see that it is several thousand pages long.
I agree and at the same time believe it might not always be the case.

Supposing I've become an expert on flying model airplanes, I've blogged, spoken, done demos, it is my biggest hobby. I end up writing a book, of course I might reference it in the future, but I would never consider it advertising. Just a continuation of my fun and what I've ended up being able to also have an income off of.

I don't think I'd feel tricked in that case. I go to this persons site for their material, they talk about their book too.
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Has G-Cloud gone off the rails?
Maybe Haskell, a new book by thoughtbot
New Major Relase for Pyglet
I gave the same argument, and was met with things like "because unfettered access to old OS source code might reveal new vulnerabilities in our later OS source code." To which I responded "good, then you can fix them and have better source code"
Ah Jeff Dean, of Jeff Dean facts: https://plus.google.com/+KentonVarda/posts/TSDhe5CvaFe

And yes, it seems there's a split between the algorithm creators and the code maintainers, unfortunatelly research code is good for that usually (research), but bad in memory usage, readability, speed, maintainability, etc.
And what makes you think they don't realize that?
C-93 Virus Alert Email from Microsoft Is a Phishing Scam
> Use Javascript everywhere

And here I thought the author was trying to simplify their life. Using Javascript on the server is not simplifying your life.

By writing Javascript on the server, they have made it all but impossible to reason about code's execution order and performance - it's going to depend entirely on epoll and the underlying threaded IO implementations. They are also relying on the developer's ability to understand and use continuations properly.

There are some developers who can do this (just as there are some developers who can write threading code without any race conditions), but most others will rely on so many layers of abstraction (which they don't fully understand) that they are hardly writing Javascript anymore.

"In the past year I think I have finally come to understand the ideals of Unix: file descriptors and processes orchestrated with C. It’s a beautiful idea. This is not however what we interact with. The complexity was not contained. Instead I deal with DBus and /usr/lib and Boost and ioctls and SMF and signals and volatile variables and prototypal inheritance and C99FEATURES_ and dpkg and autoconf.

Those of us who build on top of these systems are adding to the complexity. Not only do you have to understand $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to make your system work but now you have to understand $NODE_PATH too - there’s my little addition to the complexity you must now know!"
I think the saying is more a commentary on all the useless crap we buy kids for their birthdays, holidays, etc that are played with for 10 minutes and then thrown in a corner. For many of these "filler" gifts the box literally is more fun than the gift.

Like you said though, there are some gifts that stick with a child... My Commodore 64 that I received in 1982 and my 300 baud modem I received in 1985 for instance changed the entire path of my life.
Also note that these books are available for purchase as actual official ebooks. If you read the content and find it helpful, I of course appreciate any purchases made. :)
Was beachten bei College Jacken?
I thought they'd finally cracked it with the touch-surface magic mouse, I really did. Solidly built, nice to the touch, perfect click action, responsive touch sensitivity. Wow!

To celebrate, I fired up Borderlands to see how well it worked in a game. Started out great. Accurate and responsive, effortless to use.

Then I tried zooming in with a telescopic sight (right-click and hold), then shooting with a left-click at the same time. You can't. Because the top surface is a roicker, you can either right-click or left-click but not both at the same time. Fail!

But they were sooo close this time....
I think you're looking for Ruigoord, NL [0]

[0] http://ruigoord.nl/
> something else that is harder to control and censor will take its place

I'd be curious what you envision such a thing to be, that doesn't rely on the infrastructure and tacit support of governments to exist.
The main point of the article was not so much that technology removes interaction with other people, but that it removes the right kind of interaction. Namely those that expose people to the "real world", in particular class and racial diversity.

But I disagree that these kinds of diversity are something that people need to be exposed to, or at least that we are below the optimal level of exposure. Racial diversity is something that has been forced on White working and middle classes for the last 4 decades. And yet the White liberal elite couldn't stomach 1/10th of the diversity they wish on others. People are actively avoiding racial diversity, maybe sometimes even consciously, because they don't like it.
Ruffus – Computation Pipeline library for python
Show HN: 2sli.de – presentations with SMS interaction and phone/tablet remote
RDPY 1.2.2: RDP tools in python (client, honeypot, MITM proxy)
"The proposed FAA rules for small drones would not apply to people who fly drones for fun or for recreational purposes. Small hobby drones have become hugely popular in the United States, but under a law passed by Congress in 2012, the FAA is largely prohibited from regulating them as long as they do not interfere with air traffic."

This is an interesting thing to see mentioned in passing. For anyone else interested in more details, here is official FAA guidance regarding personal drone use: http://www.faa.gov/uas/publications/model_aircraft_operators...
I'm glad you gave a summary in the comment, the article is pretty extensive.
In the UK it seems that politicians are guilty participants in the world of child pornography.
Just the other day we added syntax hilighting to http://doc.perl6.org/ backed by pygments. Yay!
Keys to SRE at Google [video]
Just curious, how do you believe that Apple is losing its way?

There were plenty of Apple weird/"failed" products during Jobs time: iPod HiFi, Newton, 20th Anniversary Mac, exceptionally buggy versions of OSX until Snow Leopard etc. etc.

EDIT: Apparently the Newton and the TAM weren't during Job's time! My mistake! Sorry! Time to go read Wikipedia.
No, why wouldn't they at least give it a shot? Is there collusion between NL hearing courts & US prosecution?
How to generate synthetic happiness
Cut 80% of your product’s features

lol

Yes, it's easy to be clear and readable when what you're trying to do is simple. The hard case is keeping the complexity managed in the face of complex demands. The real-world analogy for most software is not JK Rowling but the 60,000 page set of contracts running the privatised London Underground.
sigh so funny you had to actually clarify that.
Or a culture of informative headlines!

I have suffered downvotes for asking a question, weirdly.
It's not about pedophiles or catching terrorists. It's about the state having power.
I totally agree! Just would like to add onto that, why do side-projects have such low completion rates?

I struggle with side-projects as much as I do MOOC's, for the same reasons I think.
I 2nd _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_.
Nope, it still doesn't work for me, personally. I never played "You Don't Know Jack", and so I tend to interpret your title literally. And your title implies that no matter how much somebody knows about JavaScript, it's not enough.

Two decades ago, I was really into learning all the disgusting corners of badly-designed programming languages. I got really excited about C++ implicit conversions and clever template hacks. But that always proved to be a mistake, because nobody wants to read or maintain any of that crap.

These days, I try to focus on the essentials of a language: What works well and portably? What offers unique expressive capabilities that I haven't seen before? What's idiomatic? If I learn any nasty corner-cases, I only do it solve a specific problem, or to avoid pitfalls.

I really can't get excited about the implicit conversion semantics of JavaScript's "==" operator or the weirder points of how "this" get bound in callbacks. It's all just pointless technical arcana. If something neither expands my brain nor solves an immediate commercial problem, I'm happy ignoring it until it becomes obsolete. And my clients are usually a lot happier, too.

(That said, the actual books are nicely written. But you asked about the titles.)
On which note: http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2012/09/03/entrepre...
Yes, there is memory overhead, just like there is programmers overhead to create daemon doing what you need, instead of just piping existing tool's stdio into websocket. I guess each tool should be used for tasks it is good at.
Low barrier to entry. I've signed up for MOOCs in the past that sounded really cool, because why not?, only later to find that I didn't have the time, or maybe the MOOC wasn't as cool as I thought it was. In cases where there's actually some tangible investment required to sign up--Georgia Tech's OMSCS program[0] is a prime example of this--completion rate is much higher.

[0] http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/
Nano-Manufacturing Makes Steel 10 Times Stronger
You originally said:

If your house is nominally electric (using gas for things which gas is really good at, making heat) and your gasoline bill is non-existent because your vehicle is electric. It means you can cost out power with a depreciation/replacement cost model which gives you much better forecasting ability. One of the reasons given for taking 'energy costs' out of the whole inflation/cpi metric was due to its volatility.

I understood this to mean that you were saying that the risk to households caused by deprecation of batteries, was less than the risk caused by varying electricity prices.

You don't seem to be answering this point anymore. I'm not saying that batteries are especially risky. I'm saying that the risk from batteries isn't clearly less than that from electricity prices.

I don't think insurance can deal with this for the usual reasons that insurance involves moral hazard. But maybe batteries will not require any maintenance, or maintenance will be so standard, that moral hazard won't be an issue.
The game trains you to see circles as squares. You're looking at circles but they really act like squares so when you go back to reality it's like you forgot squares existed because the whole concept of square is made obsolete in the game's world.

I'm really surprised this works so well, it really shows how plastic and manipulable our brains are. This could become a reference example on perception or an analogy for higher level perception-shaping.
The Photoshop of Sound
Have you followed what's going on with the Mexican border? I wonder how so many pounds of cocaine & marijuana makes its way through the border every year..

If the USG is sending guns to the gangs in Mexico to aid in their survival, why not help them profit by letting their merchandise into the USA?

Then it gives the USG a reason to wage a "war on drugs" and harden the military-industrial complex industry to fight ever growing "threats" of criminal power "at our borders".
For much the same reasons that people don't finish books.

In the end the completion rate of a MOOC is a fairly meaningless statistic. It's completely reasonable to buy a technical book and only read a few chapters that cover what you want to know. If someone gains more from participating in 3 MOOCS vs finishing 1 then a low completion rate might be a sign that MOOCS are more useful than traditional classes not less.
I wonder how many lives would be lost due to failing drones vs lives saved by the timely delivery of medications/defribillators by waypoint-following autonomous air vehicles.

The data will most certainly come either from US military usage or from commercial usage outside the USA. Sad.
Am I the only one who thinks Jony Ive is a fraud? Let's examine the evidence, shall we?

Let's consider Jony's performance on software design first. This is what some prominent people have said about iOS 7: The Verge wrote in their review: "iOS 7 isn't harder to use, just less obvious. That's a momentous change: iOS used to be so obvious." In iOS 7 basic usability features such as making buttons look like buttons are now stuffed under Accessibility options. About this, Tumblr co-founder Marco Arment wrote: "If iOS 8 can’t remove any of these options, it's a design failure." (And iOS 8 hasn't.) Michael Heilemann, Interface Director at Squarespace wrote, "when I look at [iOS 7 beta] I see anti-patterns and basic mistakes that should have been caught on the whiteboard before anyone even began thinking about coding it." And famed blogger John Gruber said this about iOS 7: "my guess is that [Steve Jobs] would not have supported this direction."

And what about Jony's other responsibility, industrial design? The iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air and other Apple products are all amazingly well designed and breathtakingly beautiful. But these products weren't designed by Jony Ive all by himself. He designed them under Steve Jobs's guidance and direction. Steve was the tastemaker. Apple's post-Steve products are nowhere near as well-designed.

Consider iPhone 5c, for example. The colors are horrid, and when you add those Crocs-like cases it looks more like a Fisher-Price toy than like a device an executive would want to be seen holding. Then they released some ads for the 5c, and I kid you not, one of the ads had sounds of bleating farm animals. (It was titled "Every color has a story", published on tumblr. That the 5c hasn't done well in the market shouldn't surprise anyone.

Of late Apple has done phenomenally well, financially. But this isn't because of Jony Ive's design. It is because of the ecosystem created by Steve Jobs. The larger phone size met an important demand, and is not an innovation, and this is not repeatable innovation.

References:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/18/4741724/ios-7-review
http://www.marco.org/2013/12/15/button-shapes
http://fireballed.org/linked/2013/06/18/heilemann-ios-7/
http://daringfireball.net/2013/10/this_weeks_ipad_event
Eventually driving simulators should replace 80% of initial real-world driving instruction. It has the potential to be a lot safer, cheaper and environmentally friendly.

Not to mention that repetition-based practice of mind-muscle reflexes, like stick-shifting, could just as well be practiced in a fun context (like racing simulators).
the US spends the most resources on military every year.

"I wish my neighbors would tell the bully to fuck off when he demands their lunch money"

Here's what happens to countries who tell the USA to fuck off (spoilers: they get economically and militarily invaded):

http://www.amazon.com/Game-As-Old-Empire-Corruption/dp/15767...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit...
AT&T to match Google Fiber speeds, prices in Kansas City and suburbs
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Amusing summary. The "flushing" expression in relation to the toilet was witty. Perhaps it was "panned" by critics? Or he was told to "brush" up?

The new calendar app is like looking at a big white piece of paper that a spider has crawled across. I can't see anything on it.

The carpet thing will be interesting - impossible to keep clean.
Nix is just simply amazing, and there IS a distribution (NixOS[1]) which ships it. The big problem is of course keeping packages current.

Nix and SmartOS[2] are both really important in my book. Nobody's talking about them as distributions but they both have intense potential to completely change not just server-administration (which is what they solve right now) but having a nice desktop experience. It would look like the Windows desktop experience, where they try to hide C: from you and just give you a set of shared-across-your-applications folders: Documents, Desktop Icons, Pictures. When every application occupies its own universe, then the OS itself behaves just the way that the "window" metaphor suggests; moreover you can start to seamlessly include VMs and get Windows applications living next to OSX ones. The only cost is hard-drive space, but hard drive space can be shared if we can package the software and share packages with the same checksums.

Eventually, I hope that people will just assume that an application "comes with" its operating environment.

1. http://nixos.org/

2. https://smartos.org/
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> each $20

I'm trying to work with O'Reilly to bring down the prices on the books a little bit. I always wanted them to be priced so that price wasn't a barrier to entry. As you can imagine, there's lots of intricate details which restrict what I can do with pricing.

> none of them that big

Hmmm...

Page counts on the titles (so far) are: 65, 98, 176, 189, 296. The last book isn't finished yet, but I'm projecting it to be somewhere around the 150-200 mark.

I can appreciate that $20 for a 100pg book may feel "excessive", but what about $26 for a 296 page book?

Moreover, I'm working (still) on getting O'Reilly to release a box set for a flat price that will be much more reasonable than buying each book individually, so that if you want the whole series you'll have an affordable option for that.

And you'll of course still have the option to buy just one or two of the books if that's your fancy.
This article gave some pretty nice insights!
> But WaitForMultipleObjects has its own problems.

Could you elaborate on this? Even though, I tend to like Unix I thought that WaitForMultipleObjects was a better solution here.
How bad is age discrimination in academia?
Having played the "You Don't Know Jack" PC game from 1995 I found the title playful. From your preface I see you'll be doing exactly what I wanted from a book with this title. Going into all the areas I never would in a programming language. Not just how but why.

I agree with the GP though, on feeling some fatigue around people telling me I'm doing something wrong. Eating food, reading a book, tying my shoes, putting on a shirt. Anyhow it seems like you've just touched on that area a bit for this person. Experts don't like for Dummies books, not because they are rubbish, which they might be, but because owning or reading them visibly puts into question their knowledge and challenges their self image. In the same way someone might find your title a challenge to their knowledge, instead of seeing that you're interested in highlighting often overlooked things about JS.

For the love of God please don't put a giant headed person on your cover though. I've come to terms with every other book series having a positive quality with the exception of "Head First" and their distorted human cover photos. /rant

We all have our ticks when it comes to books and advertising around things we love.
I wish LE spent more resources on hunting the producers of child abuse material, instead of just attacking those who hosts. It seems like you play whack-a-mole and cite a victory because "megaupload went down" but guess what, the uploaders are still at large.

This is not a victory!
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I find it funny that I was down-voted so for this. I haven't maligned the project at all; in fact, I think it's incredibly cool, I'm just not a huge fan of node.
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Why would they have high ones? That's the better question to ask.
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This is a good place to start if you aren't already overly familiar with the principle of electromagnetism and circuit theory: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/physics/electricity-and-... After that the progression of a traditional EE education usually goes like this: transient and AC circuit analysis (phasors, Fourier, Laplace), linear systems, opamp and analog filter design, digital logic, some power stuff (3 phase, etc.), active devices (diodes, BJTs, FETs), RF basics. From there, the path usually splits based on your personal interest. Some options are usually power systems, digital systems (embedded systems), digital systems (IC design), AC design (usually mixed with RF).
From my personal experience: It's the first thing off the island when my schedule gets pinched. I can't cut back on work, don't want to cut out family or rec time. The MOOC suffers first, particularly the deliverables. I've started with the intention of turning in all assignments only to end up only watching the lectures.
I was merely replying to the parent comment, globally WWII was a disaster, economically the US profited massively, not just relative to the rest of the world and it could probably have carried on fighting the longest. For instance the war effort lead to the industrialization of a much larger part of the country than before and immigration of skilled labor towards the west coast.

As you said it did not suffer any damage to its industry and took over from Britain, France and Japan as the imperial power in the Middle East and Asia.

There have been plenty of conventional land wars in the following years with US involvement, the difference was that while WWII was fought to establish large American spheres of influence, the following wars were fought been to maintain the American empire.

It is pretty hard to quantify, but I'm confident that people in power thought that the net benefit of maintaining hegemony in South East Asia (Korean/Vietnam war) and the Middle East (financing Israel, the Iraq wars), outweighed the cost.
Maybe if the USA hunted child-abusers like they hunt "terrorists" then the abuse material would stop being produced.
There can be room for several types of nomad networks. People starting companies on their savings and freelancers starting their careers won't look for the same thing than founders who just closed Series B or $400/h Oracle consultants. Yet, a bit of nomad life can be of interest to all those people.

If there is market demand for some high-end nomad freelance network, it will probably happen soon. The hype is here.
ironic, no?
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Also there is 3D data for buildings that could be used.
I may be in the minority but I am actually pretty excited for this. I've been using Pyglet for simple graphics assignments in my intro Python class, and it has literally been the only remaining Python 2.x library holding us back.
What is your objection to that? Isn't that a pretty good description of Tor?

If you're trying to say that tor doesn't replace the IP in TCP/IP, well that's true, but I think the author used internet protocol in the wider sense of the meaning.
Was this a Oculus production?
My point was concerning the mainstream distributions adopting it. I'm well aware of NixOS.
Aeromock-a mocking framework for fast front end development
US are selling a shitload of automatic weapons and nobody bats an eye about it..
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