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After seeing his work in person Van Gogh immediately became my favorite artist. It's sad to read this news and makes me want to travel back to Amsterdam to spend another day soaking in his paintings.

If you have any appreciation for art and you get the chance, you really should take the time to go see his work.
Fantastic. Everything works out of the box on ubuntu and fedora.
Amongst other things, it's about 1/4 the size, and sticks to plain JS for those not familiar with ClojureScript.
I've met these hacker school/self taught types. One of them worked as a programmer for 20 years and didn't know what was recursion until about a year ago. He gets away with it because in programming there are many ways to solve a problem. Usually you only need to solve the problem rather then find the best way to do it.

A CS graduate will know about a 50 ways to solve a problem and will have the ability to find the most optimal way to do it. He'd probably take twice as long as the hacker school graduate who'd solve the problem using the one canned method he was taught in hacker school.
The nice thing from backblaze's perspective and their customers is that downtime is far more tolerable than it would be for most businesses. Most disasters that are going to impact a data center aren't going to destroy the physical hard drives, assuming the data center has the usual safeguards in place.
Thanks. IMHO the greatest risk of data loss is bugs in the homegrown software and/or operator error during maintenance operations, not a natural disaster. We infallible software engineers always underestimate that stuff, but it's usually the cause.

Also, I'm not worried. If that probability only concerns data loss on Backblaze's side, even if it's 1/10,000, then that's still not the probability of actual customer data loss. Because for that to happen there'd have to be a simultaneous loss of data on the customer side as well. That probably extends the durability considerably.
Believe it or not, there are already large swathes of people that get engineering degrees because it is a good paying, stable, respected job. Probably 1/3 of my graduating class would have said their primary motivation for getting an engineering degree was the solid salary.
32-64 GB of SSD is plenty enough for a serious work environment (unless you're not into photo-video editing), and you probably run heavy computations that require high sustained CPU load on a server / cloud anyway.
News blogs have started to out and out change the subject by putting a break in the article and then a "SEE ALSO:" link to a completely different story which may or may not be related but probably won't cause you to understand the current story any better. It's very distracting and is also very self-serving as they are just trying to get more page views out of you.
I disagree. I'm not sure what the added value of college is aside from graded evaluation.
Did you get touch features working on your older Pixel? I'm very curious about whether the Pixel series would be a good machine for Ubuntu .. care to share your experiences?
I know more about computers than most guys I know with a CS degree. Then again I know physicists (Google has a huge number of them) that know more about computers than I will ever learn.

I don't think that a CS degree is all that important. It's the self-drive that makes the difference IMHO. Then of course, having a background helps a lot, but in todays world there is little that you can't learn by yourself given the right amount of (free) time and effort.
I get around 6 hours on the old pixel after a few tweaks in Ubuntu. I dont use suspend / resume so cannot comment on that. Wifi and sound work beautifully.
I was just making a point. It is mostly what you would call a "smart remark." But not entirely. It's also just an intesting observation. I mean, if you happen to have a company with 20 or 100 men, you'd be crazy to make the 21st or 101th hire a woman. Or vice versa.
I've never had my Pixel overheat per-se, but it frequently gets hot enough that it is mildly painful to touch.

My issue was the shit warranty. The sound card on mine completely shit itself (no working speakers, and no working headphone jack. Even while using ChromeOS on it) a few weeks after the warranty expired. I can't remember if they offered any sort of extended warranty at the time, but I think I would have got it if I had seen it, so I think they didn't?

I am also starting to become concerned about the battery life. I googled around for battery replacement and did not find anything. Mine is okay so far, but probably won't be in a year or so.

At least the price of this new iteration is more reasonable.
I think the article mentions how in the good old days, conventions didn't have (or need) codes of conduct and a politically correct squad on standby to escort people out of the building if they made innocuous jokes that anyone turning on the TV to watch a sitcom gets peppered with (followed by laugh tapes to make sure people understand that it was supposed to be funny).

What was said code of conduct? Saying things in a certain tone of voice is not allowed? Referring to a dongle as being big is not allowed? Their claimed violation was all very up for debate TBF.
$999 (2.2GHz i5, 8GB RAM, 32G SSD) and $1299 (2.g4GHz i7, 16GB RAM, 64G SSD), 2560x1700 12.85" touch screen, Intel 5500 graphics, 2 USB 3.0 ports, 2 USB Type-C ports, SD card, audio jack, 720p webcam, Bluetooth 4.0. Really a very nice machine; seems a little overpowered for the cloud-oriented ChromeOS. Stingy SSD can be fixed with a generous high-speed SD card. Presuming it's dual-bootable, I'd be tempted though. I'd been planning to spring for the new Macbook Air but now that Apple's declared war on ports, this looks more my style.
>Generally in newspapers you don't read part of an article, move to another one, and then to another one...

I actually do this more when reading a physical newspaper than reading newspapers online. With several articles laid out on the same physical page and articles jumping from one page to another mid-article, I read articles uninterrupted beginning to end much less frequently than when reading on the typical newspaper website. Or am I misunderstanding what you'er saying here?
Methinks it's for people who are going to put Linux on it.
On the last pixel I was unable to install Windows 8. Dont know about this one.
Sutro Tower: San Francisco's least appreciated landmark
Heck I ran straight Ubuntu on mine, and Firefox was less janky than Chrome on ChromeOS at the time.
> alternative to electronic attack, which is airplanes dropping munitions from great heights onto buildings with people in them.

I'd actually like to see the outcome of that. By all means, please go ahead and do this -- in Brussels.
You're confusing 'development cycle' and 'pushing code'.

Pushing code too fast is clearly a problem that causes bugs, and neither developers or users are a fan of.

The 'development cycle' includes the total time to implement something, including time taken to fix resultant bugs.

Where you can speed up the development cycle without introducing more bugs (eg. by implementing comprehensive testing and QA practices), then no one is going to complain.
Is azure has the product like this? Usually cloud war start from amazon, then google, and then azure is the last one
I definitely agree that the UI of buttons in iOS is broken now. The blue is only a useful hint if you are 1) a long-time web user, and 2) not color-blind.
> He gets away with it because in programming there are many ways to solve a problem. Usually you only need to solve the problem rather then find the best way to do it.

"Getting away with it" == using another solution.

> A CS graduate will know about a 50 ways to solve a problem and will have the ability to find the most optimal way to do it. He'd probably take twice as long as the hacker school graduate who'd solve the problem using the one canned method he was taught in hacker school.

Disagree. I rarely find someone with a degree to be substantially better than someone self-taught on the job. I've even seen developers with degrees do far worse.
> I served my country to get it.

Served the intersts of the military industrial complex maybe. Killing random people on the other side is not of any use to the rest of us.
USB Powered Laptop was first by HP Chromebook 11.

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/ads/chromebooks/overview.html
iCloud sync (the pre-iCloud-drive incarnation) has been fraught with issues. A lot of folks in the iOS dev community have been griping (and writing really great blog posts) about this for some time now. There are times when iCloud just goes off the rails. For quite a while I'd been one of the "lucky" ones, but since then I've had to jump through workaround hoops to obliterate all of an app's iCloud data to fix syncing errors, seen things like two Macs on the same Apple ID that couldn't see each other's files and so on.

Imagine the furor if you could log into the same account from Dropbox in two different places and not see all of the same files.

AFAICT, the iCloud Drive revisions were essentially an acknowledgement that the first iCloud backend API and implementation was just a great big mess. Seems to be a huge case of overpromise and underdeliver, which sadly seems to be the banner motto of Apple's cloud offerings.
There's something to be said, though, for the standard that Apple have set with the unibody design of the Macbooks .. its a very functional design and can take a beating. I wish more manufacturers would just copy this feature, personally .. the only reason I persist with the Macbook is that its not at all a creaky, plasticy slab .. but rather a more functional, industrial-strength product.
Historically, the solid pay and good prospects have been a primary driving criterion for people going into engineering. The Silicon Valley idealists who want to "change the world with food delivery" is the new phenomenon, not the other way around.
I'm an Android user since v2 and have watched it become so much less usable over time. The average person has no idea what is clickable and what is not in v5. This causes fear and confusion. My wife (aged 30 and intelligent) cannot reliably send SMSs on her Nexus 5.
Google balloons, “cell towers in the sky,” can serve 4G to a state the size of Rhode Island would be more accurate.

To have a minimum coverage, you would need 140 of them to cover Texas, ~2,000 to cover the USA, ~6,000 to cover Africa (each balloon covers ~5,000km²)
Could anybody archive the the bloody page so people can see ? stupid google.
Would be cooler if they were using <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-compute-module-new-p....
Thanks checking it out and for your comments! So I definitely don't see this as really replacing Soundclound (also considering that only SC songs are supported ATM so its a subset of whats available on SC). Like you said lots of people out there use SC and have a nice stream of music based on the artists/labels/whatever they follow. This is more for aimmed at discovery and solve a pain point that I had and I don't think the trending sections for EDM in SC is that good.

While I normally use the usual SC/Spotify to listen to things I already know about, there wasn't a good way for me of finding new and perhaps lesser known remixes/artists/tracks. I normally checked a number of blogs manually and that became a hassle. Especially when you can't "play through" the songs on a blog in sequential order because it stops after each song. So I'm aggregating the postings from a number of blogs and other sources together so I can just check one source, play the newest songs, and save the ones I like.

I think you hit the spot when you said broaden [your] horizon, thats definitely one of the key points. The goal is that the feed in The Daily Drop is more varied than your personal SC stream so hopefully you find some new artists/tracks to follow/favorite. And you're also right, I myself also run into songs I just don't like and that I just skip. When building it I tried to add the features that I wanted and what it ended up being was a different features from services that I liked but didn't have in one app (aggregation from Hypem, queue/history from Spotify, shuffle from Spotify/SC, remixes found on SC vs 'mainstream' on Spotify, etc.).

The social and control components are definitely coming in the future when I have the time that will hopefully make it a more compelling product. As well as other genre within the music. (I'm a big hip hop fan too!)
> A CS degree is one way to learn about algorithms and core CS concepts. It is not the only way.

This is a dangerous idea to those who spent 4-6 years of their life in school before they started receiving real life experience.
>>Who makes these decisions?

Americans.
Would be cooler if they were using these:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-compute-module-new-p...
Adventure Capital: Fundraising Can Be Fun Again
Touch sorta works on my Pixel running Debian. By which I mean I can tap on the screen to click, but all of the multi-touch gestures don't work.

I have put absolutely no effort into getting it to work though (honestly I'd disable it entirely if I wasn't too lazy to bother), and a desktop environment like GNOME might be able to configure it to work. I'm not sure there.

Edit: (Multi-touch on the touchpad works fine for me.)
Jibo’s coordinated expression mechanisms: Behind the scenes
Awesome, let me know if you get it done (contact in profile), would love to try it out.
What I don't understand is why can't somebody love to code and not maintain a public github repo? Sometimes you want to keep things private-- it shouldn't have to mean the best stuff you developed has to be on github in order for you to get a good job as a programmer. It's on the technical interviewer to test out programmer's skills. Too many non-technical recruiters these days are passing on candidates because they don't have a big github repo. That's a cop out and an insult to the profession.
Have somebody else pull with an Android pull from your local repo and push to CloudFares system.

It is an interesting variation of the Airplane situation, but no connection is no connection.
A good question.

I can't talk for all "weirdos", but let me tell you about my personal fears.

I fear that I will have to give up my intellectual honesty. I fear that I will have to start caring about politics (which I consider waste of time and something that shows the worst parts of our nature). I fear that I will have to start playing signalling games. I fear that I will have to censor my words and my thoughts, so that I don't express an opinion that is unpopular this week (winds on the Internet change fast). I fear that I will have to accept and participate in absurdity and irrationality I try so hard to stay away from.

I'm a very open, tolerant and accepting person. Just like every other "weird nerd" I know. But the crowd that tries to overwhelm us is not open, not tolerant, despite waving the banner of "diversity" and "equality". I fear I won't be allowed to be a nice, honest, decent person with interest in technology anymore.
How much does this thing cost? I clicked on the purchase link and got a 404 (badly implemented regional restriction maybe)?
It looks heavier than it's spec'ed for (3.3lbs). I'm not sure what it is but it just looks really thick, like a 2011-era Macbook Pro. I too wish they went a different direction with their industrial design.
> You can install linux on it. I own the previous version of the Pixel and I run ubuntu on it and its close to perfect.

Yeah, just like buying a Windows laptop to install Linux, meaning using the laptop for another purpose than it is being sold for.
A graded evaluation is valuable, agreed. I submit that instructors, peers, and an instructional environment are also of value in aiding the learning process.
I always see these spec lists and can't help but think that if I replaced the SSD with a much larger one and installed a real OS on it that this would actually be a tolerable machine; though I remain unconvinced that it is worth the price…
So covering the whole of US could cost them somewhere around ~$1 billion?
Data Backup 3 [1] + SuperDuper! clone + Crashplan + Arq (to S3 Glacier) + DropBox + Tarsnap (Subset) + Aperture Vaults.

But I would still prefer not to be hit by any Meteors.

I have a fondness for Tarsnap and Arq, but I find Data Backup 3 from ProsoftEngineering to be one of the best for doing local backups. At the end of a day, I just toss in a 64 GB USB Key (with FileVault Encryption), and no matter how much data I've created, it usually is less than 10 seconds for a full versioned backup. SuperDuper Clone about once every couple weeks.

I originally quit BackBlaze because it fired up my CPU to 100%, no matter how much time I spent trying to tweak it, but now I'm running into the same issue with CrashPlan which, after a couple years, has started constantly scanning my filesystem, forcing me to sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.crashplan.engine.plist, and then remembering to sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.crashplan.engine.plist before I go to bed to let it run overnight.

What is it about Crashplan not letting you just shutdown everything from within the application.

[1] http://www.prosofteng.com/databackup3/
Some of the weirdest nerds I know are more progressive than I am, and I'm pretty good at checking my biases and listening to people unlike myself.
Keeper: 256 bit client side encryption to Amazon S3. You can save passwords, files, autofill website logins, fastfill to apps on android. Easy to share info between other Keeper users. The app has a password generator and a strength meter. All you need to remember is your master password. Free if you only use it on one device, $9.99 if you sync it to the cloud and use it on another device.
This has always been an idea/fantasy of mine. This just shows how utterly worthless an (very valuable) idea is without execution behind it.

I hope that access to the web will become available for everyone as soon as possible.
But I would contend doing this tends to put you at a genetic disadvantage, and that some types of confrontation are essential for growth.

Fully formed adults have confrontations all the time. The difference is that the result of the confrontation is not threats, backstabbing or whining later. We've all worked with the engineer who thinks they are the smartest thing around and acts like a 2 year old every time they are challenged. That's the person I assume Netflix says they will not tolerate, and I agree with them.

I have heated discussions with co-workers all the time and at the end of the day we are all still respectful of each other and our ability to get the job done.
Why I don’t (yet) recommend In-Memory OLTP to my customers
The error bars on relativistic affects we can expect to experience on earth are pico seconds. So we can pack millions of transactions per second if we get our clocks syncs correct and reliable. The future dbs will be not like we have now.
Please note my other comment. I'm talking specifically about the overpriced frames, not the lenses.
She reads the NYTimes / New Yorker on her iPad. (I'm the author of this post.)
> For a reference point: The hardware cost for storage servers with full redundancy is in the order of $0.10 per GB (plus electricity, rack space etc.). Buying your own hardware and throwing it away every year is price competitive with Nearline (and you get full online storage, no three second delays and slow retrieval).

Well, it would be price competitive if you considered only the hardware costs and not, e.g., the labor cost involved.
In terms of gameplay, it is exactly the same as Dots https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nerdyoctop...
I guess all the "everyone must code" propaganda, to lower labor prices by increasing supply, is working.
Is this really as good as they claim it to be? I remember using 'haptic feedback' with the Samsung S2 and it really wasn't very good - definitely not like a real button.
If you are the type of customer for whom this is actually an issue, you are not backing up your data on BackBlaze. You are going (and paying) for someone like http://www.zetta.net/architecture.php.

This type of service starts at around $175 for 500 GB of SSAE16-audited datacenters, but you get all the things that consumer based backup systems don't - such as Plugins for SQL, Exchange, Hyper-V, NetApp, as well as Backup & DR software licenses for an unlimited number of servers - and, most importantly, 24 x 7 US-based engineer-level support.
Apparently it has two fans instead of one now and doesn't overheat like it used to:

Another quirk of the first Pixel was that it could get quite noisy and warm while running. No more: Thanks to a revamped cooling system, which features two fans that spin at lower revolutions-per-minute than the original model's single-fan setup, the new Pixel stays near-silent and doesn't get hot while you use it.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2895014/new-chromebook-...
Probably want to link to the blog, which I think is available in every country: http://chrome.blogspot.com/2015/03/for-whats-next-new-chrome...
IP Address Managment – PhpIPAM No More Spreadsheets
The Detour app has a great tour of SF taking you in the footsteps of some of the Beats and their contemporaries, including Ferlinghetti. Took it last week when my sister came to town, highly recommended.
Brian from Backblaze here, I wrote that comment so if anybody has any questions, fire away!

I think the MOST IMPORTANT THING is that an online backup provider like Backblaze is totally transparent to their customers about their architecture and what we do and do NOT do. If our design is not reliable enough for your particular needs, then you are then able to make the choice not to use us. I never want to mis-lead customers and hide exactly how durable their backup really is.

Finally - what I recommend to my very closest family members and trusted friends is that for data you feel would be catastrophic to lose, I recommend you have at least three copies including the primary copy. That is two separate backups with TWO SEPARATE VENDORS who did not share any code, hopefully managed by two separate UIs. For bonus points, one backup should be "offsite". For example, many Backblaze customers use Time Machine on the Macintosh for a local backup, and Backblaze for their remote backup, and that is what EVERYBODY should be doing. I can show you many support cases where Time Machine failed to restore a file and Backblaze saved the day, and vice versa. The fact is that users make mistakes, UIs are hard to use, your 14 year old son decided to unplug the Time Machine USB hard drive to free up a USB port, or your 14 year old daughter decided to uninstall the Backblaze agent - in other words, stuff happens!!
Another factor to consider here is a rise (if any) in engineering undergraduate degrees. I know that grad engineering degrees to law degrees seems like more of an apples-to-apples comparison, but there's a big difference. A history major who goes to law school goes from not lawyer to lawyer (assuming he or she passes the bar).

Engineering graduate students, on the other hand, almost always have a background in their field of graduate study. This is often very substantial - for instance, an EE major doesn't need a grad degree in EE to get to work. And even if a student is using grad school to build some general knowledge of a new field (such as a physics or math major going to grad school in CS), they're much closer than a history major would be to law [1].

In this case, the growth in grad enrollment might understate the transition, since a student who wanted to be a lawyer who instead decides to become an engineer might just change majors and avoid grad school altogether.

[1] I actually think that if people were allowed to take the bar without attending law school, you'd find that a lot of people could become extremely talented lawyers without the graduate degree.
Multitouch on the touchpad works out of the box on ubuntu including gestures. Touch on the screen works too, but I dont use it since I dont like smudging my screen. If there is interest.