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Is this similar to Meteor.js' minimongo[1]?

[1] https://www.meteor.com/mini-databases
Excellent - since a lot of us work primarily in sass these days that would be quite useful.
Not sure why there was a decrease in the number of organisations, but for some time they have been not accepting organizations that have been in regularly before.

But there are a bunch of exciting new organizations - I am hoping to mentor for the first time this year for Lowrisc, which is a new organization (in both senses, GSoC and just started), see the projects here [1]

[1] http://www.lowrisc.org/docs/gsoc-2015-ideas/
Almost certainly just page visits. Or it's just made up.
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> but on Windows this is such a drag that

Get the keybase.io client, it sets up your GPG pretty nicely. I was able to confirm the downloads on Windows using the standard ``gpg --verify putty.DSA.asc`` and it just worked(tm) in a cmd.exe window. Using the keybase client does not, however, as the signing key for the putty binaries is not on keybase.

Not saying anything about how much sense it makes to verify the downloads, just saying that it does work well on Windows, without any cygwin, mingw or whatever.
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So it's like PouchDB, but doesn't sync?
I love Mozilla, but it would seem that they have a large enough budget to pay for any student interns they want themselves? Happy to see this go to smaller, less funded open source projects.
An attacker can't change the content without breaking the signatures and keys. If you can verify the keys from independent sources you can feel safe (this is where I don't have practice). If an attacker somehow can steal the private keys it's bad, but compromising the web page doesn't mean that they have access to the private keys used for the signatures. I don't know about common security practices for managing https keys but I would think that a compromised https server would mean a compromised ssl private key too in most cases.

Also https only verifies that page you see is the one intended to be hosted by the URL's owner. Even if the website had a valid cert signed by a trustworthy CA it wouldn't mean more. From that URL I couldn't tell if it's still a trustworthy site from I can download PuTTY.

I don't know the state of PGP though. I'm looking at http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/ right now and all I see are plain signatures of keys without any comment on the "type of trust" between the two parties (I'm really new to this). But it seems probable that if somebody signed the PuTTY master keys then it meant that "I trust that this key belongs to the PuTTY team who create the trustworthy PuTTY software" since I wouldn't sign faulty software even if I knew that it came from a valid source. It would be nice if people would sign certificates with comments like this.

edit:
Sorry, seems like I misunderstood your comment. For my defense you misunderstood mine too. I don't say HTTPS is more secure. I just don't have any practice in verifying keys using gnupg.

edit2:

download the source and build it yourself

I usually don't audit the source code I build from a random project. A compromised source code for me is as dangerous as a compromised binary (for me at least).
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You could probably partner with some of the groups in Africa on the ground now (assuming you have the time in your current life) and perhaps work with them in building software for free or a fee?

I'm working on an Ed Tech startup in Ghana myself (well it is my home land though I don't reside there) and that's mostly what I spend my time out of work on.

> Too bad I'm a software engineer.

No way, our skills are crucial for a continent that is rapidly embracing technology. The next billion to come online will need software that works for their contexts, and I think we're empowered to do that - while those more skilled in building solve those problems as well
Cross platform gaming equals to game engines abstracting graphics APIs.

Despite urban legends propagating the myth, games consoles don't feature OpenGL APIs as such, rather using more low level ones, even if inspired by OpenGL.
To be fair: f*ck Yale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush#Early_life_and_e...
Rubbish. Almost everything is recycleable. The cost of recycling almost everything at the moment is just massively lower than dumping it.
Nonsense. The middle men are part of the economy of real estate. Building, selling, reselling, tenanting… These are all economic activities with associated costs. These costs are higher where you are working within an existing cities where there are already people, property owners, residents, communities, local governments.

So, yes building in the middle of nowhere reduces your costs. Mostly because land is cheap, but also other reasons. The thing is, those reasons are both cause an effect of the higher value of those houses. people will pay through the nose to live in a roach infested box in central London, Manhattan & San Francisco fro precisely those reasons. These places have people, jobs, vibrancy and the tangle of all these that makes it very to build on a large scale but give these places an unmistakably organic feel.
I also think it's an improvement but I wouldn't call it "huge". My biggest problem so far was the lack of "support". By that I mean that a simple to medium difficulty Flat Design project does not require a lot of transitions/animations work. This in turn means that the development time is kept relatively low. In contrast, Material Design emphasizes these visual features.

In my opinion, this framework is the missing piece for MD. I only wished that Google had thought of that and helped speed up the development process.
Yes.

Now, why should we do that? Can you demonstrate that you've already tried to work this out? Can you show us your working so far? Can you tell us what you've tried? Can you tell us what you already know?

If none of that, how do we know what explanation will provide the greatest benefit?

For a quick answer, try working through the definition using your specific example - here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation#Formal_definitio...

Replace g(x) with n^3 and f(x) with n^3+n^2, work through the definition given, and then tell us where you get stuck. By doing that you will actually learn something, rather than just getting the answer.
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Neither was Blender, after 10 years in the program.
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Mozilla competes with Google in the web browser market and is moving into mobile operating systems. Why would people expect Google to commit resources toward helping them do those things?
It only took two people (Manning and Snowden) to remove any remaining credibility left in US foreign policy. You almost have to feel embarrassed for Obama and co.
It was rhetorical question :)
Will Playstation 4 support this? That would benefit it a lot. I'm assuming Xbox One won't.
I was planning to apply to a project under Mozilla and was very surprised too. But I also fully respect Google's decision and let's not take their sponsorship to the open source community as granted.

I also wish we could have an alternative SoC organized by a neutral foundation, but it probably won't have as much extra revenue to spend on as Google :)
You could write all files that need to be synced in the Dropbox sandbox?
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You make me ashamed of myself. Thanks for the ass kickin. It was well deserved. I will work it out myself
It depends on the method they're using to monitor for changes to files and the type of filter being used. They're probably trying to reuse code across clients, so I'm not sure what method they're using. --ReadDirectoryChangesW makes the most sense, but maybe they've done it differently. If someone really wants to figure it out, it's probably possible to attach a debugger to try and catch the calls being used, but since we don't have symbols, it wouldn't be the easiest exercise (although it might be fun if I could find the time).
The F-22 at least more or less accomplished what the program set out to do. It's hilarious to compare it to its "replacement", the F-35, a plane that attempts to shoehorn three mutually conflicting roles into one airframe to reduce costs, except it's going to cost something like a trillion dollars. The best (worst) one is the jumpjet version, designed to operate from temporary airfields and catapult-less aircraft carriers, except it melts anything it tries to land on [1], the fuel trucks that service it need to be painted white to keep the fuel cool enough so the plane doesn't fall out of the sky [2], and it can't even carry the bombs it was designed to carry [3]. At least, it's not alone in that problem though, the F-35A can't shoot its (pointless) gun [4].

[1] http://aviationweek.com/defense/opinion-f-35b-vertical-landi...

[2] http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/Article/5555...

[3] http://www.defenseworld.net/news/12313/F_35B__Incapable__Of_...

[4] http://rt.com/usa/219255-f35-fighter-jet-glitch/
I saw perl6 was not accepted too.
The core problem is that practicing law without a license is illegal. That actually is a pretty low standard to accidentally break unless you read and re-read your posts to make sure every statement is non-specific enough. I am perfectly qualified to discuss law (I took several law classes in my life, several from a top-4 law school) but I don't do it, since a post like this takes an obscene amount of time relative to a normal post. The same is true of many qualified non-lawyers on the Internet, so most of the people who do comment are either sufficiently clueless about the law to not know they shouldn't, confident of anonymity, Ina different jurisdiction, or similar.

In this case, there are many issues (indeed, most of what idiot wrote is not correct), but to give one: op is taking money from people in different states, placing orders with delivery services there, etc. Contrast that with idiot's statement about no jurisdiction and frivolous lawsuits.
Interesting to see the XMPP foundation and Pidgin on the list in the light of Gtalk shutdown.
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You are viewing the world through rose-tinted glasses if you think OSes were better twenty years ago.
With regard to Homeric interpretation of colour, i found this interesting.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bodysphere/feat...

Some of the comments are interesting as well, such as that Homer might have been blind.
The headline made me expect several things until I saw that it was Khronos, the group that gives us, among other things, OpenGL API's. Looks like the Next Generation OpenGL is getting more ready to show off.

With Metal and Mantle, it was clear that graphics programmers were wanting to use GPU's at lower levels of abstraction to more efficiently utilize the design of GPU's, which have a much different architecture than a decade ago. Without a corresponding option that is standards compliant, low-level API's are threatening to fragment GPU programming.

One operation I didn't see any mention of that seems to have some future role, albeit completely uncertain, is the Heterogeneous System Architecture Foundation spear-headed by AMD and having seemingly every chip-maker except Nvidia and Intel on-board.

As GPU stream processors get more CPU-like but are natural at parallel processing, it is a matter of time before we get the right abstractions so that map gets scheduled across many stream processors and is reduced by a higher-single-thread performance CPU and suddenly computer vision and many other naturally parallel data synthesis workloads are programmed in a less heterogeneous software environment and executed on chips where the stream processors and CPU's share a large amount of commonalities, possibly down to micro-op compatibility through something Nvidia could be pushing towards in their Denver architecture (as yet highly speculative).

To somewhat less than enthusiastic coverage, Nvidia has been building up their partnerships with automakers like crazy. Computer vision is obviously one of the applications that will be required in self-driving cars. Tango and other projects are also quiet beneficiaries of Nvidia tech maturing into the Tegra platform.

We have far from conquered programming and CPU design just because JIT's are good, 8GB of RAM is expected or GPU's can mine MHashes/s etc. We're in some future's bad-old-days. The idea that Khronos is involved in the unification of graphics and computing API's as well only makes the exciting question of who will drive our cars more intriguing.
There is the European Space Agency's Summer of Code in Space [1]. Not as general, but hey, space is fun!

[1] http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis/
At the moment they had been (in this context anyway) doing it for a number of years.
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Don't assume this is something political. A lot of very good organizations were not accepted this year, Mozilla being one of them.
If there really are a lot of new organizations, that confirms my theory on the GSoC board: they are trying to encourage student developers getting into less-loved open source projects. In comparison the big projects already get quite some love (likely still not enough, but already a lot), so dropping them once in a while is a reasonable tradeoff for helping out the smaller projects.
First full fledged 3d framework on a smart watch?
It's just a template they used. Take a look at this site: http://bitcommand.com/
Also their Client works really fine crossplatform
The problem is: there's too many manuals. We don't have time to read them all.

In fact, I think one of the skills you learn as you gain experience in software development is choosing your moments. When you can just google it, and when you need to get a cup of coffee and RTFM.
Not if they have been signed with PGP.
Nice tutorial!
Lua scripting is lovely.
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Not too surprising... their search engine is no longer the default in FF and there are legal justifications not to support directly (FF) or indirectly (YHOO) a competitor.

Could YHOO jump in with a similar program?
Looking over who else was not accepted and who was I would guess this more about spreading the love around than blocking out the competition. TFA says Mozilla has been in several times in the past and is encouraged to do so again next year.

I'm pretty sure the bad press generated by Google singling Mozilla out would be far worse than any gain they would get.
While it's usable in node, the only persistence strategies seem to be based on local forage which doesn't seem to support node. So can't save data in node.
Could you not just abandon it and leave it on the app store? Obviously, leave caveat on the app description that this app is abandon and no support will be provided. In this manner, at least if someone wants to use it, they can.
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I also agree. Today we need people who can miss the forest for the trees! I can't believe the lack of basic computer skills that people have coming into the workforce and someone that can use Word is considered a computer person. Even the new IT people only know GUI and Microsoft with no experience with Mac OS or Linux, and no idea about anything but the silo they are working in.

I was one of those kids who had to program games at 7 on a Sol20 in 1977 and than de-bug since every basic was different. When I found out if I could learn Assembly I could play more game I learned that. The day I got the 300 baud modem was life changing and I had to pay for a second line due to everyone else in the house being mad they couldn't use the phone.
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Seems made up. It's 1 to 1 same number as here: http://bitcommand.com/ which uses same template.
Looking at the website beyond the landing page, their current business is yuppie boardinghouses. Which isn't really building cities and doesn't scale in that direction because what makes cities hard is economic diversity...Greyhound Stations and methadone clinics have to go somewhere or it's just prettier gated suburbia.
Put it on Assembly (https://assembly.com). A great place where your project will continue to be developed by other interested contributors, and you will keep getting a share of the revenue generated
Thanks for the information! I like how their idea of "space-related open source projects" seems to be pretty liberal; I see octave, among other general scientific computing software, in SoCiS last year. Unfortunately their timeline lags behind GSoC quite a bit (organization application ends at 15 Mar this year), so I am going to apply to GSoC anyway and only use this as a fallback :-|
Well, in reality, the two people that removed any remaining credibility left in the US foreign policy are George W Bush and Obama. Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice helped, though.
There are many more distractions these days, but I'm not sure that it's as clear cut as you suggest.

It's really not that hard to get kids into some form of coding today. I've run a Scratch[1] club for 8-10 year olds at my daughter's school and every single one of the kids there loved it. By the end of the first hour, they were all producing some form of animation that they could control and all were desperate to come back for the following week.

Compare that with the steep learning curve of BASIC on an 80s 8-bit machine. It would take days to get anything more exciting than "Hello World!" out of it. Most of the people I know who had Spectrums (I'm British) as kids never went near programming. Their entire use of the command line was LOAD "".

[1] https://scratch.mit.edu/ - just in case anyone's never seen it.
This guy really has no idea how shell extensions work on Windows. Other apps that overlay icons over files work the same way, including Tortoise Git/Hg/Svn.

Every time Windows Explorer displays a directory, it must check if it should draw an icon over files in that directory. It doesn't know if the directory is "special" (aka, Dropbox, git repo, etc) so it makes the check every time for all files in all directories.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb7...
My experiences have been almost uniformly good, but I avoid re-sellers who don't have at least a 96% rating, and I'm in the US vs. Europe.
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Would you look at that, lol.
More on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3753_Cruithne

The yellow kidney bean orbit depicted only takes a year, but it doesn't actually form a loop, and the kidney bean moves gradually away from the Earth around the blue circle. When it goes almost all the way around, it's going to start going back in the opposite direction. 770 years is the time it takes for the yellow orbit to traverse the blue orbit once in each direction.

Not only does it not orbit the earth in any physically meaningful sense - it doesn't even trace a shape that goes around the earth, which is annoying because I'm pretty sure I've told people that it did.
>I need a search tool to find my installed programs and settings.

as if simply typing the name of or keywords for what you want to find into a search bar isn't fluid and inuitive?
You should brush up on your history of sports. The modern Olympic games alone are older than that.
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FWIW I bought the $55 Dragon tablet and it's pretty good for the price and works just fine.
Change journals are read from the volume directly and there's no evidence in the ProcMon logs (posted elsewhere here) that Dropbox uses them.

> I'm fairly certain that checking file properties (as would be done to check whether or not a filter applies) would be registered as opening the file.

Bzzt, nope. Wrong again. You should really try and not comment on things that you are not well-versed at. This part in particular - "as would be done to check whether or not a filter applies" - makes no sense. Dropbox has the file path readily available from the notification itself [1], and that's the only thing they need to look at to determine if the file is in their managed directory or not.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...

Point being that the app does not need to open files when processing file system notifications, which is what you stated in the top comment.
I was thinking it's a pun about japanese alcohol.
Come on, are Obama and W much worse than Reagan, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, Rossevelt? The US will keep using up the last of its credibility year after year, and of course that just means it isn't.
Last year there was a 10% increase in everything (orgs, students, money) as a commemoration of the 10th anniversary. That can explain the "decrease", since that increase wasn't permanent.

Though it's less than 2013 too IIRC>
Yes.

And so is buying cheap unhealthy food. Talking long distance. Hooking up. Being entertained (or at least, finding entertainment). etc etc...

My point being, humanities entire push to modernity is nothing but step after step of making things "too easy."

We are supposed to stop now?
AS someone that programs in R plyr is a major library for manipulating languages. It is one of the most popular libraries in use for R.

https://github.com/hadley/plyr
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They've been sponsoring them for years, they also still sponsor OpenStreetMaps which is a competitor used by bing and apple https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/ope...

They also sponsor Github and many others.
Some alternative mentorship programs, possibly too late for projects to apply this year though:

* http://semesterofcode.com/

* https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/
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Indeed. The specifics include a comparison to "Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell"

Stanford, UCBerkely, CMU and MIT are the world's top CS schools, everyone else including Yale has difficulty competing with them. Yale's CS department has always been small, if not idiosyncratic (I'm thinking of their AI professor who said everything else in the field was bunk). In the areas I'm most interested in, their development of T, the first production level implementation of a Scheme, was the biggest thing to come out of it, and that was 3 decades ago.
I'm conflicted. On the one hand, as a developer, it frustrates the hell out of me when people don't have the slightest idea how computers work on the level of the "just write a program that writes programs" point from the article. On the other hand, I don't know how a car works in any sort of detail, and I'm sure mechanics feel the same about me.

I (like to) think the difference is that I have some idea how to reason about cars, because I am at least familiar with the basic laws of physics and get the idea of internal combustion. The "it should just work" crowd aren't just incompetent as creators, they're incompetent as users, because there's no basis for reasoning.
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Someone else in this submission mentioned this thread: https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?52618-Large-S...

>In 4.6 maximum size of map is 20km x 20km.

>Now to put it into perspective. Single continent on Azeroth in WoW (exluding Northend and Pandaria) is something like 7x4km.
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Thanks for reading.

And really funny you say that RE failure... check out this tweet (of mine) from a few days ago before I wrote the post:

https://twitter.com/ryanckulp/status/572089334612041728