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> It's also not a slippery-slope argument.

It is an argument that this is bad because of what might be done later based on it. That is exactly a slippery slope argument.

> Rate setting is a part of Title II, whether or not the FCC says they will forebear.

Rate setting is part of Title II, but if the FCC does forbear (not "say they will forbear") as part of the same regulatory package in which they find that retail broadband service is a Title II telecommunication service, the rate setting is expressly not part of this regulation package. Its a speculative thing that some future FCC might do, hence, a slippery slope argument. (And, its a speculative thing that a future FCC could do whether or not this FCC adopted Title II with forbearance on rate setting.)

OTOH, if the speculative future risk of rate setting is a real concern, I'm sure that many supporters of net neutrality would stand with you in lobbying Congress for a revision to Title II prohibiting, or at least establishing a long moratorium that can be reviewed later for a more permanent prohibition, FCC rate setting for retail broadband.
Regulations are the law. The thought they are separate is some technicality of the modern world. People get fined and go to jail over them.
His documentation and approach is priceless https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/process/guide.md
Anecdotally, referring to things that are not typically viewed in a sexual light, as "sexy" (or not), is fairly common parlance. Like so many things, the meaning of the word has evolved with its common usage to become more context dependent ; using it in this setting is perfectly normal.

Also - I have to ask (genuinely intrigued) - who is this language supposed to be offending, and why?
This is probably semi-off-topic but seeing all the helpful questions and answers in this thread I figured I'd ask:

Is it possible to create a play-along track (along the lines of synced subtitles in a .srt file) or just use a subtitle file with a transparent/invisible font that is either sent to or readable by another app or plugin?

I only ask because I've been trying to think of ways to create synchronized "lighting tracks" that control my Hue lights. Controlling Hue lamps is very basic and involves sending a set of valued to a given lamp that tells it what hue/saturation/brightness to display.

I figured since subtitle tracks are already built to display time-synched info and there are plenty of editors for captioning a video and saving the subs in a small secondary file, it would be an interesting way to trigger other things like lights or other electronics.

I just don't know how a plugin or "companion" program might read the string being displayed at a given time or a player like VLC might write that data to another program while it's playing.

Is this just me misunderstanding how it all works or is it something that could be done with another app or a VLC plugin?
Are you sure it's 2000mg, and not 2000mcg? There's a 3 orders of magnitude difference!
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Very cool, I am going to have to try out the C one. The only thing missing is HDL (Verilog or VHDL) but there are tons of those out there (e.g. https://github.com/jbush001/LispMicrocontroller)
I assume that if the Internet had been designed "correctly" with public-key authentication down to the individual user [1] (with $300 VeriSign certs, natch) then it would have been too expensive and brittle for universities, hobbyists, or home enthusiasts to use and thus a rebel hacker alliance would have created their own "insecure" network (with porn and worms! and rants about "the right to network"). Maybe it would have been some sort of real-time upgrade to FidoNet.

[1] This wouldn't stop attacks, of course, but it would provide strong enough attribution to create a deterrence effect (at least in The Man's mind).
Why are they calling this a crater when their theories don't include impact from space?
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> I was using MS-DOS back then. It had a command for changing the "code page", which would determine the appearance of special characters. (I imagine it was technically switching between preset character sets on the video card's character generator.)

It still exists in Windows, for the same purpose.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733037.aspx
Short version: "Siberia is warming. Permafrost thaws and spews methane, and blasts out a burst of highly flammable gas."

The consequences of that can include: Russia's economy being broken due to a main export literally vanishing into thin air. And worse: Green house gases getting into the atmosphere in vast amounts.
Do you have seen the monad of the article before? I would like to know your reference, please.
Once, maybe twice every year you have this blog post of how WordPress will improve, will be rewritten to a modern foundation, will reinvent blogging plastered with the sympathetic "WordPress gets the job done but the foundation is horrible". Fast-forward a few months and WordPress releases a new version, the project to rewrite WordPress didn't gather enough momentum and there you are, slapping in another function_exists in your module and thinking "man, why did nobody ever improve this horrible house of cards?".
Agreed, it did not get that far in but this is one of the better explanations I have seen.
There IS a nice ASCII bunny though.
Pronunciation. If you are not a native English speaker, the rules for pronunciation are really hard to learn. At least in Spanish, you can know how exactly to say a word just reading it, all the information is "there". This doesn't happen in English at all.
Locative case would be one of many examples. Dig around on Wikipedia articles on grammar and you discover how many cases (and other features) exist throughout language. I seem to recall Hungarian having eighteen cases, but I'm not seeing that in the article for them, so maybe I'm misremembering.
Actually, they want to maximize their return on investment. A cost-effective happy employee.
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The language statistics ribbon for this is beautiful.
I think you refer to the Olympics where there was the Unified Team (under Olympic flag). I think the Commonwealth of Independent States played friendlies only.

But I used wrong name for tournament: what I meant was the World Championships (played every year), not the World Cup (a rare event, now planned for 2016). There Russia was a successor to USSR after 1991.
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You're rolling along thinking this is just some bad web developer somewhere until you get to the last Disallow...
When I read it I also wondered: "Why noone is pointing out that methane emissions also increase global warming?"

I have no idea ho much methane can be released, since I don't even know how much Russia is mining or anything like that...

But it sounds a lot (since in Ukraine crisis Russian gas is a big point), so if all that leaks out it would greatly accelerate global warming no? (thus releasing even more gas!)
Craters can be created by any kind of explosion or impact, in this case it's by underground gas explosions.
My point is that with our massive amount of inner-connectivity today I want regulated assurances that my financial security or hardware wellbeing is handled by someone who is vetted professionally for being competent.

Oh, he will be. Of course, now you have to trust the vetting organization to actually do their job. And why exactly would they, if it's better to raise prices and vet anyone who can afford them?

I want an industry where there is a vetting process to prevent frauds or incompetence from creating issues prior to the issues existing.

And in which industries does that happen already? How can you tell it's the vetting process (and not any other factor(s)) that is reducing the fraud and incompetence?
>the recipient of engineering services is typically qualified to judge whether the product is fit for purpose.

I'm not so sure. Most people who want a building made, for instance, wouldn't know if the electrician did it right, or if the foundation was laid using the best methods, or if the right materials were used.

Instead, you have a inspector come and verify the work.
The alternative is people being priced out of the house they lived in all their lives. I consider that a worse outcome.
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Well, I'm on a list now..
I don't get it: is that disallow targeting some sort of porn spambot crawler?
No worries--it is very much a complex problem. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, a software engineer by profession, and I'm actually working in the medical startup space. :)

So, I absolutely appreciate that there are nuances to all of this, and I'm glad to see you thinking it over.

I think some of the things we absolutely do wrong as an industry:

-> lack of common nomenclature for problems (design patterns comes close, but then we look at all the buzzwording of other things, and argh)

-> lack of language-standard test suites for things. There are more than five or six, for example, for JS, all of which scratch a slightly-different itch. This is absurd.

-> lack of domain-standard test suites for things like numerics. We can't easily and reproducibly compare implementations across projects or languages for different problem domains.

-> lack of standard engineering practices for team development and project management.

Those are things that, I think, we could at least establish baselines for without jeopardizing our ability to deliver cool new shit on time.
We've made a page with all of the tutorials we've done so far: https://www.omniref.com/tutorials

I think this is the method dispatch one you're wanting:

https://www.omniref.com/ruby/2.2.0/files/method.h?#annotatio...
Microsoft has already announced that they will do their own 'spin' on WebRTC. Chrome and Mozilla WebRTC are not perfectly compatible in the field from what I hear. I predict failure.
Maybe that was their intention, but that's not how it's done.
Yes, but I think the point being made, (which I agree with), is that a huge amount of sites using WP, or another CMS, are updated rarely, and would be simpler, faster, and more secure if they were static sites instead. Also, there are a number of amazing static site generators out there.
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It's not empirical, but I have worked professionally in the mechanical engineering field and in the software engineering field, and the difference is stark.
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Ada does precisely this. (It also doesn't support assignment inside expressions at all.)

Modern Ada's a thoroughly nice language; I did a writeup: https://cowlark.com/2014-04-27-ada
I think C89 introduced 'trigraphs' for exactly that reason: so people using non-ASCII ISO646 systems could have symbols that at least vaguely resembled the ones Ritchie and Kernighan intended:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraphs_and_trigraphs#C
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It doesn't sound like that's proscribing user registration (account creation), more just stuff like e-mail newsletters.
I'm going to be honest. I did not really get a good value out of this article. It's written in sections but is extremely dry and generic. I'm not sure what makes it so, but just the language here seems like somebody wrote it for the sake of writing because they had to.

Read through the article but didn't walk away from any new insights or new angle. A good article in my opinion needs tension and a climax towards the problem and then a resolution, much like a good story or music.

This might sound harsh but I just wanted to add some constructive feedback. The title certainly was catchy but found it more of a clickbait.
As with all things, it depends on context. If you're trying to write a graphics or audio system in Ruby, this kind of thing can really matter. If you're writing a Rails app, it's rounding error on the time waiting for I/O.

Profiling is essential when figuring out how to improve your code. What we're doing here is explaining one weird benchmark result.
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Very interesting! However, I think the landing page should be clearer. No customer watches a 9:00 minutes video of a product, no matter how good it is. I'd switch to a 30 seconds promo (who are we? Why do you need us?) and keep the longer one for users who already know the product – they are hooked – and look for the nitty-gritty details.
Interesting phenomena. Presumably this happens every time the average temperature rises above the melting point of the water and clathrates. Given that Methane is a pretty powerful greenhouse gas, it makes me curious what the mechanism is that converts a 'warm' earth into a 'frozen' earth.I think understanding that would help us understand what to expect as the temperature increases.
Those diagrams are awesome!
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They probably made a product with that slug by accident and are doing that to try to get it removed from search engine results.
I have been wondering whether to go back to Subversion myself. The distributed option really doesn't apply to me, my minimal branching needs are met by Subversion, and oh my god, git's submodules get confusing.
Thank you! VLC is the best, can play even corrupted files. Congratulations on the release and all the best.
Maybe some mal-intended inbound links that they don't want to be associated with?
Well, I know what I'm doing this weekend...
Anyone have any theories on why they're blocking specific products?
Yeah you addressed it fine. It's interesting that priceonomics seem like a blog directed towards their web crawling service. This is a very interesting play.
I imagine that the "mothership" building could probably be re-purposed into condos without too much hassle.
In the mechanical engineering field the path to getting a PE requires:

#1) Getting an accredited engineering degree
#2) Passing the Fundamentals of Engineering exam
#3) Working as an engineer (typically under the supervision of a licensed Professional Engineer) for several years
#4) Passing the Professional Engineer exam

If you haven't done those things, you can't call yourself a Professional Engineer (capital letters).

I don't see how that is circular. Are you saying the people that have jumped through those 4 steps are potentially incompetent? I can believe the argument that some non-PE's are better engineers than some PE's, but I don't believe the argument that the people that are PE's are incompetent. I've never met a PE that was a bad engineer.
>only about $1400/month

Interesting how you refer to that as "only". That's like 40% of the average American salary. But if you work at Google and you indicate $1400 with "only" I cannot help but assume Google employees are far above the average national income.
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I would maybe classify Modafanil as a nootropic, but Adderall is a stimulant - Amphetamine.
Honestly, I'd rather just enjoy my life now than live like a monk until I'm older.

I'd rather have fun while my body is still in good condition. Besides, I could always get hit by a bus while I'm still saving money, and then it'd have all been for nought.

Living paycheck to paycheck in an extravagant manner is my ideal lifestyle, really.

Besides, I tried that whole "delaying happiness" thing. I'm transgender, and I didn't begin transition until just before I turned 29. Waiting so long was the single biggest mistake of my life. It wasn't until I was almost 30 that I finally had a face that didn't make me want to drive my fist through the mirror. I could have had that sooner, but I was stupid enough to keep putting it off and putting it off. I don't think words can possibly describe the depths of my grief over having wasted my youth living as the wrong gender. I cry myself to sleep almost every night, and I've contemplated suicide multiple times. No, I'm not wasting any more of my life sitting around and waiting.
Hah, I would have paid for that service. :)
Disallow is used to exclude certain URLs from being crawled, in this case it looks like a search query as the store's search uses this pattern: http://shop.nordstrom.com/sr/query .
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Any distinct bowl-like land feature is a crater. Volcanoes have them, too.
I feel like he voiced an audiobook of LOTR or The Hobbit at some point?
There are keywords in a number of those that would cause the Nordstrom products to show up when searching for more nefarious things. I'm guessing this was their way of keeping Nordstrom's out of the results for some of those searches.

Some of the other URLs though, I can't tell.
x86-64 is such an ABI improvement over x86-32 that it's always 10-20% faster, even with the larger size pointers. Win64's ABI is a little worse than other platforms for libavcodec, since it has some callee-saved SSE registers and everyone else is caller-saved, but still true.

Hardware decoding is much more important for power savings than anything else.
Personally not a fan of the Windows look. Looks like the old Zune player to me. I prefer the classic look.
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Yes. I've seen it both ways (just viewing the image without extra filters or the like), so seems like that would be the most accurate answer.
Very cool. With the same approach were you able to manipulate prices or surge/no surge?

Wouldn't be very useful in real life, but if they have a bug bounty program you could report it.
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In other forums, I have proposed to use DNP as a treatment for my condition (mitochondrial myopathy) and I am happy to see that there are lines of research looking into this. Using DNP to treat disease is scary with a reason; due to its narrow therapeutic index[1], it is very easy to overdose. However, its mechanism of action is clearly understood[2]: It decouples the electron transport chain, causing a signalling cascade that results in the activation of mitochondrial biogenesis.

In this particular case, it is sad to see that we need a pill for everything; in many cases, T2D is easily controlled [3], even reversed, with aerobic exercise (note also that the mitochondrial biogenesis pathway is activated with exercise[4])

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapeutic_index

[2] http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01868062#page-1

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2773368/

[4] http://advances.nutrition.org/content/4/6/657.long
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I do have interesting problems to solve.. and I do enjoy that part of it actually (agree with your point). Problem solving is the fun part for me (and for most who are in this profession). However, if you're any good at it, there is no shortage of problems to solve (or people that will give them to you).
I look very much forward to your post! I don't think I have depression but it's energy sucking and morale crushing. Then there are days where everything goes well, and then getting crushed.

It's like one step forward and three steps back. Slowly and I mean really subtly the momentum picks up but by no means is it a breeze.

I've seen the slow ramp of death and thinking 'thats not me' boy am I learning it now.
I was in high school when Star Trek was first on the air. In a typical geeky, asocial, teenage way, I told my Mom I wanted to be like Spock. Thank goodness I outgrew that phase.

Forty-five years later, he came to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and I attended a lecture on his extensive photographic work of nude, corpulent women. It blew my mind to see the massive sweep of his artistic and intellectual range. He was so much more than Spock, the character. The world tries to pigeon hole us in something that catches the popular fancy, and Leonard Nimoy very deliberately never let that keep him from his artistic pursuits.
>> Why noone is pointing out that methane emissions also increase global warming?

Methane produces a much stronger greenhouse effect than CO2, so the obvious solution is to capture it and use it for fuel, which will convert it to CO2.
And I just compiled LLVM+Clang 3.5.1 a few hours ago - could have timed that one a bit better ;)
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Designers often pull stuff from stores or negotiate exlusives with another store. This could have been some attempts of making sure some search results don't show up anymore.
>>> Is that last question wrong, and are there actually people that truly, unequivocally enjoy adware?

I used to think the same thing, then met a guy who was a fairly prolific ad spammer. He basically said the reason any type of adware exists is because it actually works. He said if nobody ever bought anything or clicked on any of the annoying pop-ups, adware would disappear inside of six months.

In essence, for web savy users, it's completely baffling why people would want this on their PC's. In reality, there are a ton, and I mean a TON of people who do click on the links and do buy from these types of invasive ads, which continue to be a very lucrative, very competitive market.