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Hijacking this:

Is is possible to replace system parts with 3rd party stuff? I'm mostly talking "change the keyboard" here?

If it is, is this possible by modifying/replacing the current keyboard only or can this be something out of tree?
The difference is that money has one central source (e.g. government or independent organizations). Power can be procured from many different source and still be good (nuclear, heat, solar, you name it).

The bottom line is that we can't really cut off the supply of power to a machine that is autonomous enough.
When patching IC, first set code page to W. Patch. Then set code page to X.

It sounds expensive, and it is. ~3% regression on SunSpider is reported. Mozilla is probably not okay with that, but OpenBSD probably is.
Many of the online universities have 'data management' sections as part of their statistics or big data courses. Often using Python/Pandas. Just google'ing for Pandas tutorials will also get you started.
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I'm absolutely sure they're deluding themselves or lying. What i rationally want and what my lower systems want are fundamentally at odds. My inner passion for overeating threatens to overwhelm my logical mind every day.

I think when people say they want to lose weight, they mean that they wish they didn't have that extreme compulsion to eat that overwhelms their rational processes. Or that they could overcome it.

What bugs me is that people view it as a simple matter of self control, when it's actually about self control versus strength of desire. If your desires aren't that strong, it's easy to look like you have an iron will.
If you end up failing it's only the CEOs fault for either (1) not mentoring you correctly or (2) thinking of this idea in the first place. And I think he'd probably feel the same way. Take the offer and hope for the best. Just be honest with yourself and everyone else throughout the project but don't let that turn to fear or excessive doubt.
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Yes. I meant (lack of trust in teachers) and (standarized tests).
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Work on improving your English. Right now, it's a little weak. Better language skill will be useful in every job for the rest of your life, open up many more choices, and help you to learn faster because so many resources in the IT industry are originally written in English. Also, improving your human language ability will strengthen your brain in general, and make the computer language skills evolve naturally - the technology will take care of itself.

Start reading the Economist. It is published once a week (not too often) and it is the best-written periodical in the English language. Also, read English language fiction to get a better understanding of speech patterns. You have a good basic ability, developing it will give you a valuable professional skill.
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Nice 'feature'
"front" ... "war"?! Mozilla is taking a knife to a gunfight with the 800 pound gorillas out there. This is going to be a really long and bloody war ... NOT.
It only had limited raid5/6 support. With embedded checksums and mirroring available that's not a terrible situation to be honest.
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It's valuable but you're asking it in a way that's kind of tricky. For ayone who's anxious, you're going to be testing their interviewing skills more than anything else. Why not just say, "what do you think makes a good programmer, and in what ways do you fit that, and in what ways can you improve?". Your current question is like "Choose a door: A, B, C". It's a game the way you're asking it.

However, this whole style of questioning bothers me. I'd rather you just come right out and ask the most direct questions about good programming. E.g., "tell me what refactoring is, and about a time you did it", or "tell me about encapsulation and how you've come to value it".
This is why I use the word "margalised group" instead of "minority". Black people in apartheid South Africa made up up the majority of the population, but were very definetly margalised.
In France it's rated 12+.

It's almost the same for all movies with just violence/blood in it. When I was 11, I used to watch a lot of them. I guess it's okay if the parent is there watching the film with them.
Previous discussion from a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8947603
no remote?
> Isn't the "analytical" way the exact oppisite, learning to write in a predefined style?

Nope. In my case "analytical" is the way I naturally write. King explicitly advocates throwing the kind of analysis that comes to me naturally overboard. He doesn't advocate exploration into how a writer best creates stories. He advocates a specific, narrowly defined method of creating stories, which involves intuition and instinct.

The important fact is this: I don't have any instincts in the sense that King means. Or so few that they are useless to guide my stories. This is true of lots of people, and I daresay that there are people who lack both "instincts" in the sense King means them and "analytical skills" in the sense I mean them, and find some other ways to create stories.

It's important to recognize that King means something very narrow and specific by "instincts" (in fairness, I'm not sure he actually uses that word, but he definitely talks a lot about intuition as a guide to story.) King is all about letting some inner emotional compass guide your story, and personally I hate the kind of stories he creates. I recognize the genius of his craft, but his stories are medieval emotionalist gibberish, and that is reflected by his process of creation: he lets the idiot darkness within tell him where to go next.

There is nothing wrong with this: by saying his stories are decidedly not to my taste is not to say they are "bad" in any objective sense. They move people and are meaningful to people; they are well-crafted and emotionally engaging. I find grapefruit repulsive as well, but would hardly condemn anyone for enjoying it.

But this does mean that King's method of creating a story is very restrictive. He is intuitive and exploratory with regard to creating stories, not with regard to the method of creating stories.

So my advocacy of self-exploration is on a different level than King's. He is telling writers: "Explore your story intuitively and emotionally." I am telling writers: "Explore your method of creating stories by any means you see fit."
wow still struggling to get this trough, any hint?
> Doing that is still abuse

Based on what?

I'm not for drugging people and using them as zombies. And obviously drugging people against their will is already forcing onto them something they don't want. But, striping away all human context such as dignity, culture, etc., and assuming an absence of opposition from the person/entity in question, I can't think of any actual reason why it would indeed be "wrong" to drug someone/something into happiness.

There is no absolute measure for happiness, and many already seem to give up some of their freedom in the range feelings and desires they experience in order to feel happier (with anti-depressiva) or be more successuful (with things like Ritalin).

Taking someone utterly unhappy with their life and putting them in some matrix-like environment where they can both experience joy and still be useful is, I think, an alright thing to do.

> the ability to reflect on your own existence and the existence of others

We exist.

You can't make any stronger claim than that without involving some form of (arbitrary) value/belief system.

Why would an all-knowing entity bother with having a set of beliefs it values, if there's no formal reason/need for them?

> I'm advocating we'll bring AGI up in a culture

Culture is a slippery slope.

There are so many different ones of them which conflict, creating the potential for conflict and retaliation. Which is where we imperfect humans are at.

But culture is also arbitrary (as far as I can tell). Why would some all-knowing entity prefer one culture over another? And if indeed it did, what would hat say about those other cultures? Would genocide all of a sudden be aceptable? Slippery slope..
Could you explain a bit more about how it works.
Ever had e-mails disappearing in spam/archive or other folders?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615957
You're absolutely right of course; just about any facility's shortcomings can be overcome by redesigning that facility, but that's how we get Greenspun's Tenth Law. :)

Unfortunately, redesigning for safety/correctness in C almost always means a loss of place-of-use conciseness. For example, you'd have to manually wrap each argument to your hypothetical printf replacement in a "struct type_wrapper." Plus, there's no way to enforce that your format string has the same number of placeholders as you have arguments.

Speaking of which, you can actually do that in C++. It would look something like

#include <cstddef>

template <std::size_t N>
static inline constexpr
std::size_t num_args (const char (&fmt) [N]) {
// Count args
}

template <std::size_t N, typename... Args>
void printf2_impl (const char* fmt, Args&&... args) {
static_assert (N == sizeof... (args), "Wrong number of arguments to printf2");
// Interleave args into fmt and print
}

#define printf2(fmt, ...) (printf2_impl <num_args (fmt)> (fmt, __VA_ARGS__))

You could even just typecheck the format string against your argument types and forward to printf. The biggest problem with this what happens when you give printf2 an empty __VA_ARGS__, but such is life when you're using the C preprocessor.
Actually, it does. For example, you can run them on the Samsung Z1 which runs Tizen (not Android), thanks to OpenMobile's compatibility layer: http://www.androidcentral.com/samsungs-tizen-powered-z1-riva...
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Teaching systems thinking is hard. Even higher institutions of education haven't figured out how to teach it properly and they are in the business of teaching stuff. Sprinkling computational magic dust over it will not help.
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Tilde-onorism? Approximately-onirism? Binary inversion-onirism? No, I just don't get that one. :|
In the same vein you have this site [1], with misc type related algorithms and implementations in OCaml .

[2] is a paper with a modula-2 implementation. Written by Luca Cardelli, a type fellow, it really helped me to understand type inference.

[1] https://github.com/tomprimozic/type-systems.
[2] http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/BasicTypechecking.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freikörperkultur

Relax and join for once? :)
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Pretty much the only license that CDDL conflicts with is GPL, and that's because of differing approaches of both licenses rather than one being non-free (IMO).

However, that doesn't really prevent it from being used with linux in any practical use…
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As a Dutch guy I'm happy it's the other way around for once.
Conservatives brainwashed liberals into brainwashing conservatives into liberals. It's a giant ironic conspiracy cooked up by Anh Rand and the U.S. Government. I read it in an article on Wikipedia.
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The concept of "innocent until proven guilty" is generally not used in warfare. This isn't an American thing; it's long been part of the customary / traditional rules governing lawful conflict.

To provide an easy to understand example why; you would not have to have a legal proceeding to determine that someone wearing a grey uniform with an iron cross on it was in fact a German soldier during WWI. Visual recognition, even from a distance (of the kind that would cause serious cross-examination in a domestic court), is sufficient to make the call that he is an enemy combatant.

Soldiers are absolutely empowered to act as judge, juror, and executioner, and are given significant latitude in determining who is and is not a lawful combatant.

It is worth noting that this Marine officer was acting under not just US rules of engagement, but also NATO ROEs. Those ROEs would have been vetted by the lawyers of all the NATO members, who already abide by some of the most historically rigorous applications of the laws of war.

As for whether Kudo knew anything else about the men digging on the side of the road. The answer is probably not. But, he also knew a lot about the cultural context in which they were operating, and leveraged that to make an informed judgment call about how to proceed. Regardless of whether you personally think that was moral or not, the fact is that it was legally permissible under internationally agreed upon laws of warfare.
No matter how much you prepare, you will never be ready for everything. Most of things you learn arise from real problems you encounter on the job. So don't try to figure out if you're prepared. Analyze it from an opportunity perspective. Opportunity is knocking. Are you going to answer or are you going to ignore it? My advice is to jump on every opportunity. Because they never come in groups.

With that aside, sounds like the CEO wants you to build his app for free. I may be wrong. But the wording is pretty standard. "Common vision" and "any developer can do it, but I like you" are usually red flags. You want to hear things like "Here is what we want to do, what are your thoughts about it?". You want to be involved. Not a disposable code monkey taking orders and instructions.
I believe that was Ghandi.
Not in a meaningful sense, given that the species should probably have a next generation. It's work that needs to be done.

Society can make the work a lot less onerous, restoring that time-choice. (And various societies through time had quite sensible solutions, though of course war and violence destroys sensible living arrangements.) For instance, the common atomized family is incredibly inefficient duplication of work.
>No, lines following a line ending in a colon must be indented.

Except if you have, for example, an if statement. if x: y() is valid.
No no, unified is important, but if you are going to put all your eggs in one basket it had better be good. And hey, you don't have to get it right the first time, but it needs to grow and evolve as you see the weaknesses.

I totally agree that g+ should not have been shoved into every google product, instead it should have been a place you could go to access every google product.

I'm still convinced that the power of facebook is there is one url for everything an everyday person needs from the internet. People want one website that has everything.
Men to get a lot more help from their contacts than women?
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This can be an editor of choice for something like http://hackage.haskell.org/package/asciidiagram or http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/
Easy. You just get message from the people you "follow". So if you want to send a message to someone, you must make them add you to their "list" first.
Apple didn't keep Flash off the iPhone specifically. They made a blanket ban against all scripting languages when they realized they needed native apps after all and opened the App Store.

Adobe could have struck a deal there, given Apple their 30% and only allowed blessed scripts through the App Store. But they didn't. I would be surprised if there weren't neogiations about this, but in the end Adobe refused.

(Other scripting languages budged, which is why you can find Unity games in the App Store, but not Adobe Flash games. Unity was also banned at the same time Flash was.)

So if anyone kept Adobe Flash off the iPhone, that honor should probably go to Adobe itself.
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Private citizens carrying arms to protect the rights and property of other private citizens through the mechanisms granted to them by the state. I would have thought Libertarians felt a little conflicted.
The source of all real insight is, of course, divinity. True understanding is not generated by the brain but rather received in the Plexus Solaris and then works it's way up to the brain, where it is turned into action, language or memory.
I agree wholeheartedly.

We have some QA folks at work. Our best is a former database programmer from way back in the day, and she has a REALLY good "systems way of thinking" and has a mental model of how things work and are united conceptually. This ability, her "systems way of thinking" sets her far and away above every other QA person I've ever worked with.

Being able to come up with a mental model of a system and encode it, either in code or as a document or description is truly valuable in today's increasingly complex and nuanced world.
And they are absolutely freaking dreadful.
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Well it's back up now. SO looks like it has a Wikipedia problem[1].

[1] http://www.themarysue.com/wikipedia-losing-editors/
Ola buys rival TaxiForSure for $200M (Ola is Uber's competitor in India)
No to mention they could have integrated the office suite as well (docs, spreadsheets, presentations), oh and TV with youtube.

Then you haves News, Social, Photo, Video, Files, and Office too. Add some games and there is pretty much everything anybody does on a computer.
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Why would Freescale become a "used to be good" company as a part of NXP? NXP is a pretty cool company IMO. They make lots of cool tech and they got out of the "split off from Philips and take all our debt with you" turd of a deal remarkably well.

(For the interested, NXP used to be Philips Semiconductors. Philips wanted to cut them away because it was an unprofitable division so they sold it to some hedge funds, including a shit ton of debt. Afair, something like 20% of their annual expenses were interest only, putting a big damper on their freedom to innovate. So NXP in turn cut away its unprofitable subdivisions, and became or stayed remarkably competitive in the others. With an inheritance of relatively expensive R&D (no Chinese wages) and a Philips culture (= highly bureaucratic and hierachical), that is no small feat)

To me, an uneducated observer, the fact that NXP now feels in shape to do big acquisitions is a pretty good signal. These guys are on the rise, and that may not be bad for Freescale at all.
> I can't think of any actual reason why it would indeed be "wrong" to drug someone/something into happiness

You switched out the original premise on me there ;)

> You can't make any stronger claim than that without involving some form of (arbitrary) value/belief system.

You can end any discussion by invoking this principle. This is the essence of the incompleteness theorem applied to every day reasoning. Somewhere at the bottom of every perspective, there are some arbitrary axioms. It's a way of saying "that's just your opinion, man" and you'd be right of course.

> Why would some all-knowing entity prefer one culture over another?

Why would a human? I suspect the word culture might have different connotations for either of us.
When you get to the end of the article, it turns out that they're building the next generation of Visual Basic.

That's not a fundamentally bad idea. It's also interesting that they focus on modeling and simulation. That's what Alan Kay thought personal computers were going to be for. But all we got is the VisiCalc/Lotus/Excel world. That's useful, but limited.

The problem with visual programming languages has usually been that they don't scale. You end up with a huge collection of lines and boxes. (For a good example, find a game implemented with Blender's game engine and open up the wiring diagram.) They have a chance of solving that problem, because program interconnection has made some progress since the days of Hypercard and UNIX pipes.

There are a lot of line-and-box programming systems in domain-specific areas. LabView, for industrial and research control systems, is one of the most successful. But no one has yet solved the scaling problem. On larger problems, things just get too tangled.
It's just his business, he wants to keep making IDEs with a visual aspect to them, so he has to produce posts like this to justify it to the investors. Would be great if he finished the previous one before starting the new one though. Finishing is a skill mankind would benefit from even more: http://makegames.tumblr.com/post/1136623767/finishing-a-game
Very nice.

One tiny thing: I was unable to draw a (totally horizontal) arrow connecting one box to another box to the right. The arrow head merged with the left border of the target box, becoming a "+" instead of a ">".
Much more recently, from around 1600 BCE, amber from the Baltic coast seems to have found its way into Egypt.

http://books.google.com/books?id=NAwGLzAfyhEC&printsec=front...
Have you read any Derrida, Lacan or Foucault?