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We are in a drought, regardless.

A quick google search seems to indicate that agriculture accounts for something like 80% of the water use in California. So, in a sense, you are correct that we probably wouldn't have to worry about the drought from a drinking water point of view if not for agricultural use. However, we would have to worry about food supply issues nationally and economic issues in what is already one of the most economically depressed areas of the country.

Besides, most cities, including where I currently live, are not actually all that worried about water for domestic use. There have been no restrictions with any real bite. It is agriculture that is going to hurt first . . . well, no, it is the natural environment that is going to hurt first. Agriculture should probably take a hit, but that is politically difficult and certainly not consequence free as posts like these seem to indicate.
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My last blog was making ~$250/mo with its highest month being ~$750.

I opted to switch to video, because I realized its easier to engage your audience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gJlyzHwFtA

One thing I learned was don't monetize until you have content worth monetizing. I don't know if I'll ever seriously monetize the YT channel at this point now that I have a stable income, but as long as I produce high quality tutorials I will have the option in the future.
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Currently no, as I own a Nexus 5 as my daily driver. If I end up upgrading to the iPhone 6, then I may pick up a sport if I have an extra $400 burning through my pocket.

I love the fact that it has built in NFC, WiFi, and a speaker, and do hope this carries over to the Android Wear ecosystem.
It's not the farmers' fault that it's not raining.

However, agriculture does take 80% of the state's water. Industry and residential take the remaining 20%. (Recent accounting shows habitat restoration taking 50%, farms taking 40%, and residential/industrial 10%, which is just a misleading way of saying the same exact thing).

If it wasn't for crops, California would have enough water for decades of drought. They're making things tight now, and it's going to get a lot tighter once the groundwater is pumped dry. When that's gone, it doesn't come back.

Reminds me of those "Food Grows Where Water Flows" signs along I-5. I've always wanted to scribble on the bottom: "and water does not flow here."
Ditch your friendfeed & head over to http://www.youtube.com/devfactor and code with me :)

The web has enough social outlets, now we need more productivity outlets!
You're example is obvious because Newegg can't tell the difference between market research because you're about to buy versus research because you're about to sell.

But it's always amused me (in a not very amusing way) that immediately after I purchase something I'm inundated with advertisements from the same vendor trying to sell it to me again. Big data is supposed to be about finding statistical relationships between events, right? In what world would the probability of someone buying something be highest when they're holding a brand new one in their hands?

What it really makes me think is the web advertising folks are pulling a con on their clients. They're not actually doing the critical analysis they promise but simply sorting by linear distance in n-dimensional space and hoping no one notices how useless the measurement is.
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Complete and utter lack of real-world industry experience?
It's even Ctrl-Shift-N in Windows. I use that command almost every day.
I would like to see someone make a treadmill desk for less than $1000.

If you can buy a poor-quality treadmill with rails for $200, why can't you buy a poor quality one without rails to put under a standing desk which you've made out of PVC, lag bolts, and IKEA parts?

I would love to know where to get a cheap treadmill without rails though...
Swappa has a 100% refund if you get burned by a bad ESN. I too bought a premium used phone through Swappa without any issue.

>" If you were to buy a device on Swappa that could not be activated due to a blacklisted ESN then you would be entitled to a refund no matter the seller's stated return policy."
Central Valley farms are a big consumer of water in California, but bear in mind that this article is about a desalinization project in the San Diego area. That area of California gets its water largely from the Colorado River and the eastern Sierra Nevada range, whereas much of the Central Valley is in the western Sierra watershed. So the two regions don't have as much relative interdependencies as you might think.

I don't really know what the Colorado's upstream usage breakdown is, but it's significantly over-allocated.
Wow great improvement. I actually understand what your product is now. I really like that you made it clear it was for both teams and single users as this answered my first question of "Who is this made for?" after understanding your product's purpose.

As for the web design side of things I would look at maybe changing out the images with all those arrows at low screen sizes as the normal body text in those images gets too small to read. Lastly, from 770px to 795px wide I get a horizontal scroll bar in Chrome 40 on Windows.

Good Luck!
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I had no idea their headcount was 70. It would be hard to maintain such a large staff unless research + events + advertising + other were doing really, really well.
There was a web site game that dealt extensively with shadow selves solving puzzles that I ran into many years ago. For example, opening a door might involve ten selves all piling onto a button, while the eleventh ran through. Does anybody remember that? Have searched for it for a while unsuccessfully.
Any source on the 70+ people?
Author should check out Chronology. A much simpler version of Braid for iOS. Not nearly as challenging but provides time travel gameplay that is different and at times quite intriguing.
> Newegg can't tell the difference between market research because you're about to buy versus research because you're about to sell

I agree. I think it would be very difficult for them to tell the two states apart, but I found it amusing.
This was a very strange report. Skipping to the middle I thought it was about wealth in general, which seemed like a nice counterpoint to the study of poverty. I'd be very interested in reading about trends in people earning above $60,000 a year, and how the rest of the world can get there. But this was really about "Ultra high net worth individuals" which doesn't strike me as a very interesting topic.
Blame the patent trolls, not Apple for that.
Sorry, that's simply not correct.

For one thing, the Soviet Union dumped all of their scrapped reactors into the ocean whole. For decades.
That's very interesting.

Back before the internet was huge I used to subscribe to 3-5 computer magazines. PC Magazine, Wired, ... I don't even remember the other ones, probably mostly video game mags.

I used to look forward to the ads just as much as the articles because it was a way to find out about new products. Now though I need no such ads. I see the announcement on the various tech sites or from friends that read the tech sites. Almost zero need or interest in ads anymore and pretty much do my best to ignore them.
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As opposed to selfless angelic figures like headline-hungry politicians and click-hungry journalists?

You must be trolling, dude.
Do people in California water their lawns? Cosmetic grass must be one of the biggest users of urban water - the last time I left our sprinkler system on for a day (I turned them on to humour our landlords, never turned them on since), it drained our 2500L tank, which is not ideal when you 'only' get 900L a day.

I like the Las Vegas approach of painting rocks green, no watering and best of all, no mowing.
I posted it because when the question was asked in 2009 it was very hard to do it in js, now the comments says:

> You can easily create files in JavaScript these days. (I'm from the future)
No one died because of Fukushima.

A statistically insignificant number may die from cancer in the future.

Compared to the risks assumed in everyday life, it is a trivial number.
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"What will be your new belief about $GROUP's technical talent"

Hopefully the most reasonable one: that there's no such thing about the technical talent of "$GROUP" per se, though our society might presently be so organized that it's easier for members of $GROUP to excel at certain kinds of tasks.
Thanks, my original question was what actually is a flag. Is it an atomic object that can actually be captured.would be great if it was something unique like say Nixon's are.
Assuming that it succeeds...
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" Nuclear waste is an essentially unsolved problem of already epic proportions."

No, it isn't.

After a couple of hundred years it's no more radioactive than the rock from which it came.

The people who told you it was going to be lethal for umpteen billion years?

They were lying to you.
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The Three Gorges Damn in China displaced 1.3 million people.[1]

Before the evacuation Chernobyl had a population of 14,000.[2]

All dam sites are uninhabitable.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl
I have a work laptop (chunky ass dell from 2010 '1366x768') and a gaming rig at home (built early 2012 '1920x1080'). Both are on windows 7.

There are a few things:

* I've had iPhones since they came out, love them, but nothing has compelled me to go to the Mac. (also have retina ipad mini)

* I don't want to upgrade one of my main machines to retina if my other machines don't have it. It's bad enough switching back from the phone/tablet.

* I've also just recently gotten into photography and video editing.

I've been waiting for a laptop to be 'good enough'. The retina macbook pros are excellent machines, but if I upgraded I really wanted it to be to an air-like device. My main tasks for the laptop are using the web, using skype and using email. (& I might add, carrying it ALL THE TIME)

As my main 'need' for my desktop has essentially transitioned from gaming into photography / video.. the 5K iMac is just.. i mean.. have you seen the screen in person? Goddam its nice. The games I would play will run on it at 1440 with no problem whatsoever. I have seen the scaling issues on windows at 4K and am just not interested in dealing with that crap these days.

OSX Pre-Yosemite just never appealed to me. (although I had used macs previously at various jobs) It feels like the OS and the Hardware have each now hit their point where the effort of switching is going to pay off much sooner than any time prior.

I have a feeling the mac market is going to continue growing, as there will be more and more people in a similar position (main PCs need an upgrade, etc) that will finally be saying 'time for a mac'
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a bit sensationalist. Sure it may mean a shift in UX - but an "action" is just another layer of abstraction on top of the apps people still need.

Again, the only real 'innovation' here IMO is allowing developers to continue to innovate - they will make billions off it though and that's the goal.

We've seen smart watch apps for years - most of the 'novelties' of smart watches have been played out on android devices - so I'm not really one to think that the concept of a smartwatch is going to make apps an afterthought - actually, the apps will be on your wrist all the time so it might have the opposite effect.
" However, we would have to worry about food supply issues nationally and economic issues in what is already one of the most economically depressed areas of the country."

The impact would be relatively minor. For example, we could simply stop growing rice in the desert and more than recover all water saved by urban use: http://www.kevinroderick.com/rice.html

There's more water lost to evaporation in rice fields than LA uses in its entirety all year long. We could very easily move California rice production to wet areas in the south which don't suffer droughts and which already produce most of our rice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_production_in_the_United_S...
It's not advertising that's the problem as many in the comments seem to think; it's the shitty type of ads these 90s websites were all built around.

The recent Marissa Mayer piece in Medium [1] made much of the fact that her big accomplishment so far was transitioning from the old dying Banner ads model to a mobile/video/social/fake content friendly model.

Also consider this bit from buzzfeed [2] which I first saw from stratechery's great article [3] on them.

The banner ad, whose decline Farhad Manjoo recently celebrated, was also born during this era and created a business model in which clicks are tied directly to dollars — something many people assume is still how all online publishers make their money. But BuzzFeed has never sold a banner, and I couldn't even tell you how many monthly page views we get. And so our business model at least moderates that incentive to drag every last click out of our audience.

[1] https://medium.com/backchannel/marissa-mayer-has-completed-s...

[2] http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/why-buzzfeed-doesnt-do-clic...

[3] http://stratechery.com/2015/buzzfeed-important-news-organiza...
From the GigaOm media kit (1)

Display advertising:

Charging $35-$45 CPMs, depending on the channel. Rates dependent on campaign duration, budget and targeting. 300x250, 300x600 and 970x250 ad units available.

Flipboard campaign: $55 CPM, over 1.5 million readers/month

"1-week channel takeover" - Gigaom homepage channel (1M+ impressions per week) $22K per week - includes two sponsored posts.

Mobile channel $15k, cloud $8k.

Sponsored posts:

$3,000 250-word sponsored post
$5,000 800-word sponsored post

Event sponsorships:

$5K–$85K

Research:

Annual cost appears to be $10k

1. https://gigaomabout2.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/gigaom-medi...
Absolutely. I run a rather large (non-tech) site that doubled in traffic from Feb 2015 vs. Feb 2014 and AdSense revenues were actually down about 6% year over year.

Uniques and pageviews were way up, click-through rate was near constant, but CPC got clobbered. It's incredibly frustrating and I can only imagine we'll see a great thinning of the herd across verticals very soon.
Selecting a bunch of files and having it tell me how big the selection is

This one does have a solution: Select your multiple items, then use Command-Option-I instead of Command-I. If you're not careful to include Option in this chord, you'll be highly displeased with the results, especially with many items selected.

With the File menu open in the Finder, holding Option reveals that this feature is called "Show Inspector". And since it does follow an "inspector" metaphor, it's a persistent window that will remain in place and update its display as you continue changing your selection. Useful.
Here's another alternative for the frugal technologist: Get a secondhand phone.

In 2012, I bought a used Nexus One for $30, wiped it clean, and put Cyanogenmod on it. The phone was already two years old when I bought it, and it had scratches all over the place (except, thankfully, the screen itself), but it served me well for another two years.

Recently, the Nexus One finally broke, so I replaced it with a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini. The previous owner had only had it for 6 months, and it was in an impeccable condition (not a single scratch), so I had to pay a hefty $100 for it. Again, I wiped it clean and put Cyanogenmod on it. It feels twice as fast without all the Samsung bloatware and carrier garbage. I fully expect to keep using the Mini for the next two or three years, at which point I'll probably buy another used phone.

Sure, it takes a fair amount of research and luck to find a phone that has been well cared for. And I obviously won't take any chances with the stock ROM, who knows what it might be infected with? But as long as you're careful, and if you buy locally from ordinary people (not professional dealers), you can get last year's mid-range phone for the price of this year's shitphone. Why get a $80 shitphone if you can buy a non-shit phone for $60? People in wealthy countries switch phones a lot more often than what even the cheapest phones are designed to last, especially if said phones are kept encased in lots of fancy fabric, rubber, and plastic.

In addition, since you're no longer a slave of your contract, you can also save a lot on the monthly phone bill. I only pay $8/mo on average, while everyone else in my country seems to be stuck with $40+/mo two-year plans.
Skepticism was a reaction mostly against the excesses of new age mysticism and later religious fundamentalism. Those were also huge parts of the 70s intellectual meltdown. Now that both those movements seem on the wane, dogmatic skepticism can join them. Maybe we can finally be rid of the entire post-70s zeitgeist. Then we'll dream again.
Battery and weight are tomorrow's battlefield unless revolutionary holography tech arrives to kick everyone's collective ass. Here's hoping!
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I think the newer RDP versions uses TLS BTW.
It will not replace Pro series.

The CPU for the new MacBook (1.1GHz dual-core Intel Core M processor) cannot even out-perform current MacBook Air, let alone MacBook Pro.
Agriculture uses about 40% of the total water supply in the state and industry/municipal use is about 10% [1]. Of the human uses of the state's water, 10% goes to water almond trees [2]. While an important industry, agriculture accounts for only 2% of the state's gross domestic product [3].

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_in_California

2. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/0...

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_California
Interesting, I have the same sentiment but the opposite conclusion. The plastic case on my most recent Thinkpad spontaneously cracked around the fan vent. Never dropped, babied it everywhere, no idea how it could have happened. The laptop still works, it just can't be moved anymore.

So I switched to an aluminum laptop. Life's too short to put up with crappy Lenovo plastics.
I really think people are underrating the heartbeat/drawing communication as the 'killer feature' on this thing.

As someone who has been in 2+ year long distance relationships, the thought of being able to send something like that in a quick few taps on the way into a meeting, or receiving similar, can be something that actually is as 'intimate' as they keep saying in the keynotes.

The hundreds of mild conveniences are going to add up, I reckon we'll get to the point where people need to have used a similar device and then 'go without' to realize what they've missed out on
Tom and I disagree on how much of the underrepresentation of women in tech is due to skill deficits. His new platform can answer that question quite effectively.

My disagreement with you stems from the fact that I don't believe in any privileged population groups - I only believe in individual rights. I may or may not disagree with you about "power" but so far you've yet to provide a clear definition of it. (I did read your wikipedia links, but they provided multiple disparate and unclear definitions.)
> The license description at choosealicense.com actually misrepresents the GPL. The GPL doesn't actually require that the source of modified versions be released to the original author.

Where are you seeing a description that says sources must go to the author? I only see

> requires anyone who distributes your code or a derivative work to make the source available under the same terms

and

> When distributing derived works, the source code of the work must be made available under the same license.

Those both seem accurate, if maybe a little less clear than they might be.
Your absurd and patently false assumptions about me convinced me to not give a substantive reply to a dishonest person like you.
This is a great idea. Victoria, Australia built one and the drought conditions immediately abated making the entire thing pointless. I'm sure someone here can find a term for describe the sense of 'fate' created by seeing something created to protect against a now non-existent issue.*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_Desalination_Plant

*I realise Australia as a whole is likely to lapse into drought again and make having a desal plant good but until then it's amusing.
Definite possibility but it feels like the 'air' name is like 'Pro'. Something that's building up a lot of brand value, awareness, understanding, culture, a segment is forming around it etc. They've adopted it now for the ipad lineup, too, I think it's here to stay. The air has been a massive success at capturing teenagers and college age adults who also have an iPhone, literally a new generation of Apple users. For them the Air is a big brand.

Don't forget Regular vs Pro might not be as powerful as Air vs Pro, as Air doesn't just differentiate it from Apple's Pro, but also from competitors 'normal' laptops. i.e. a consumer might reason: even if I don't get Apple's pro product, I still want to get their Air, as that's better than the competitor's 'regular', as air means lighter, more battery, more portable.

That sounds really simplistic and silly, but I think these processes are a genuine part of people's buying decisions in the non-professional sector that the regular/air line caters to.

Which is why it surprised me a bit that they didn't go for naming it the 12' Air, especially it being the lighest and most portable and quiet. Of course that would've been a very tricky lineup as some Airs are on the Intel M chip and fanless and expensive and retina, while others are not, and with just 1 inch difference between them it'd have been too busy.

But yeah I agree, definite possibility. Had kind of expected the Air not to get a refresh, and for the Air 12' to be the Macbook Air Retina, and that in 2 years the 11 and 13 would be discontinued while the 12 kept getting updated, reduced in price and with 10h battery and decent performance for anything not professional. Would make a very simple lineup. 12' air, 13'/15' Pro, and iMac/Pro/Mini for any bigger form factors.

We'll see!
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Sometimes, yes, but non-grass yards (landscaped with concrete and succulents, etc.) seem to be far more common here than other parts of the USA.
1) We have our own private npm that can optionally include a caching layer. This has been invaluable since the beginning of our company to manage internal dependencies.

2) We use StriderCD, the self-hosted CD/CI, and it too supports caching node_modules. 2 minutes is a 'long' time for us from git push to autodeploy.

3) We use gulp and npm always. Grunt and bower are a mess.

EDIT: Also, we npm shinkwrap projects. It avoids numerous issues and makes module caching a natural part of the process.