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Not sure about other states but MN even has online "virtual" scratch-offs that you can buy. They even have "subscriptions" to this crap. It's disgusting.
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I'm sure CEOs have more to worry about than what type of watch they wear to the office.
Same here, except I typically use $(!!) to re-run the previous command. I find it faster than command-line editing.

$ find . -name "*blarg*.cpp"
$ grep -i "blooey" $(!!)
$ vim $(!! -l)

Granted, you can only append new arguments and using the other ! commands will often be less practical than editing. Still, it's amazing how frequently this is sufficient.

I've always thought it'd be nice if there was a `set` option or something similar that would make bash record command lines and cache output automatically in implicit variables, so that it doesn't re-run the commands. The semantics are definitely different and you wouldn't want this enabled at all times, but for certain kinds of sessions it would be very handy.

EDIT: lazyjones beat me to it.
"...It is our belief that over the 30 plus years of commercial computing has developed a series of sophisticated political games that have become a replacement for estimation as a formal process..."

No. You are confusing the natural inclination for people to negotiate with some kind of slippage into "politics" (The word "politics" is most often used to describe "system of people stuff that I do not understand and that does not make sense to me")

For thousands of years, people have had a natural way of dealing with commitments where incomplete information is present. It's called "negotiation", and it's done by various techniques and tactics such that when all is done both sides are happy. We've also had ways of numerically determining tangible things. It's called math or science.

These are completely different things. What I see all the time is scientific, technical people flummoxed at how business-minded people are treating them. And the reverse is equally true. The reason is that both sides are working inside a completely different universe.

I like this article because it shows how multiparty negotiations can lead to disaster, but I do not like it because it confuses the true nature what's going on.
What? From my experience startup investing is ruthlessly competitive. Every VC backed startup I have worked at had competitors funded by other VCs.
I think the difference there that goth is a subculture, while tech and software development is a job. Sure, there's also various subcultures in the software development industry, but there isn't one big subculture there. There's the abrasive brogrammers, there's the sensitive political correctness advocates, there's the quiet nerd that just wants to be left alone, there's the hiring manager looking for new employees, etcetera. All of those people are different, unlike goths which is a more clearly defined subculture.

Maybe the analogy would be a goth at an alternative conference, where you have emos, punk, neon-hair cyberpunk people, SM enthousiasts, etcetera. What's acceptable for one subculture (say, smoking in public, to use the South Park stereotype) may not be appropriate for the other.
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I need to buy a new laptop for development and some gaming, so I want a 'best'. I looked for 32Gb laptops but I couldn't find any (poor google fu?)

The default for a developer seems to be a MacBook Pro, which it may be upgraded this June according to rumours.

On the other hand, I feel I should try to escape Mac and use a Linux computer. Yes, I could install Linux to the MacBook Pro, but if I go that path I may as well get a different laptop.

Any recommendations on what machines should I consider?
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I can't commit code at CloudFlare because we use two-factor auth for the VPN (and everything else) and non-Apple apps on my iPhone are asking for my iTunes password. Tried airplane mode and apps simply don't load at all!

Total app-ocalypse.

Why do apps need me to be authenticated against iTunes to work at all?
Well it doesn't help that the startup world thumbs their nose at MBAs and seems to really want 26 year old founders. Inexperience + disdain for the very education that teaches that kind of thinking leads to a pretty obvious conclusion.
Why? ='(
Why ? :'(
perhaps those west coast guys arent awake yet? too busy recovering from their launch parties.
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NetBSD's strtoi and strtoimax seem like the better alternative to strtonum.

1. It is defined for intmax_t instead of long long.

2. It supports various bases. (At least I regularly need hex or base36)

3. It can deal with trailing characters.

4. There are matching strtou and strtoumax operations

It's of course bad if NetBSD introduces an strtonum, which behaves differently from the OpenBSD one. But maybe the OpenBSD folks should look into strtoi and strtoimax instead of blindly following their "invented here" principle...
Ethanol accounts for a large share of US corn consumption:

http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/521847/cornuse.jpg

http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/corn/background.aspx

The chart is hard to read exact numbers from, there is a table available at the second link. 2008 was the last year that feed accounted for more than 1/2 of corn use (it still accounts for nearly 1/2 today, I'm not trying to be pedantic there, just adding information).

Ethanol is clearly a big enough portion of consumption to be impacting the price of corn used for food, which isn't the same thing as burning edible food, but it's a reason to carefully consider what incentives are created by various government programs.
Yeah, they just have to keep you there long enough to get all the money you are willing to gamble with. Changing the odds a few percentage points one way or the other won't make any difference. The only reason the house needs an edge at all is to discourage investors with huge bankrolls.
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It's an interesting and complex subject but ultimately defining what makes a "true" nerd is a never ending debate. My professor in college was incredulous when he found out that I, a CS major, never watched Star Trek. The nerve!
I'd get one of these when they do the Ubuntu version: http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-13-9343-laptop/pd

I have the previous version, with Ubuntu, and it's a very nice machine.
I think what he means is that people should aspire to do more than lower costs for enterprise clients.
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This is what I think is the bigger news and deserves far bigger pressure than the downtime. Server downtime can always occur, but then you need to inform your paying customers (such as developers whose apps are counting on your services!) what the issue is. If you are paranoid and don't want to reveal information (for example if it is due to a hack of some kind), you AT LEAST should say something along the lines of "we know there are issues, we are on it."...

But it is absolutely unacceptable and inexcusable to have hours of downtime and have BOTH your end-user and developer status page still be completely green across the board.

Infuriating!
Yudkowsky's "An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem" is a good introduction as well: http://www.yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes/
Europe is tough for a lot of reasons. I think Techstars has at least London, maybe Berlin? Each country tends to have their own stuff.
This is a nice taxonomy of estimation games, but stopping the games won't address the root problem: Software development is complex enough to be fundamentally unpredictable. The games are just about hedging against people not wanting to hear that.
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It's a "nightmare scenario" downside of the iOS software model. When the device incorrectly decides that you are not authorized to run some binary, there's no way around that.
The decision whether or not to fire Nazre was above Pao's pay grade. It was also above Doerr's or anyone else's. If it can be determined that someone is sexually harassing coworkers, in this context, he must be fired. Otherwise the firm deserves the lawsuits it is sure to get.
I think the Author is saying that people often use BSD code or ideas and reimplement them to be fundamentally incompatible yet using the same name.

this means that, as a developer, when calling these functions you can't be sure of if you're calling it in a safe way.. openBSD makes code deliberately designed to be portable, and other BSD's make it non-portable by altering it in odd ways, yielding dangerous consequences by reusing the namespace.
Yeah, it's really ugly in MN. The MN leg even plans for gambling proceeds for future funding. They planned for video gambling in bars to pay for their $500MM donation to billionaire Zygi Wilf's sports team, and fell all over themselves when it didn't[1].

http://www.twincities.com/politics/ci_26579002/vikings-stadi...
Why would they blacklist DX? I use it all the time and my experience has been great.
if the manufacturer of the machine wanted to lower the payout without indicating anything to the player, they could simply adjust the probabilities of the cards as they are dealt

Having a different payout than the advertised one is definitely illegal in the US. What Oregon seems to have done is to find a neat loophole to get around that law.

(I assume that is how most video poker machines work anyway)

At least based on how I understand the law, you cannot tinker with the randomness of how the cards are dealt. The only thing you can use to alter payout percentages is alter the actual payout amounts for different events.
Beware though, process substitution is not POSIX and not supported in all shells. It isn't in pdksh or ash/dash for instance.

It's a ksh93 extension adopted by bash and zsh.
Or "nerd culture" could eliminate you and all the others trying to force change. There's no evidence that you are anything but a oxygen waster, so why should it hold back when you attack first?
When asked for an estimate, one good prerequisite is: "with what confidence level?"

Assuming estimating 100 tasks, how many can we safely go beyond the estimate? 20%? 1%? 0.001%

Then give the estimate based on some probability curve considering the known unknowns.
What about the environmental impact comparting to the US method?
Whenever I see someone shoehorning something into MongoDB or something else I ask the reasoning for not using a relational database. Its always something along the lines of "We don't do that now" or "schemaless" (which as the article points out means more work for the dev) something similar, with the "fast" added somewhere into the description.

The crazy thing is most of them are working on a single node, so no horizontal scaling. And they seem to think non-relational is the new way to do things.
Have you actually seen someone in your workplace reported to a manager or HR representative for holding open a door outside of a larger pattern of behavior? I've never in my life seen anyone get more than a dismissive look for holding a door, regardless of gender or attractiveness.
I did a specialized MBA, and for the experienced business owners, it did add value in the form of a "free" consultancy - they could use their own companies as case studies, run things past the professors and classmates (which were sometimes much more useful than the professors), have access to a wide pool of different skills.

And classes helped by forcing students to apply standard methodologies or tools to their existing businesses, you can always uncover some angle :) . It's not "just vocabulary", and yes, some of the classes can be fluffy/"soft", but I think that even the most jaded businessman can derive some value - in the case of the jaded businessman, maybe a fresh or naïve look at their business ! Or a honest assesment from outside you might not get from employees or consultants.

I think that you could argue the opposite: if an MBA is made up entirely of fresh graduates looking to enter consultancy, you're losing out. I think a good MBA student mix would be made up by diverse backgrounds, and I was lucky to have that.
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Java plugin required? :(
To give people something to talk about ;)
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If we got rid of oil and used ethanol for everything, we would indeed solve global warming because we would be fixing as much carbon as we release every year.

Edit: Not totally solve of course because that doesn't do anything about coal and natural gas emissions.
Show HN: Salsa – anonymous messages in your workplace
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The people who claim "hacking" today didn't start it. In fact "hacking", to the extent it ever had a common definition, has changed to accommodate the people that are more interested in being part of some culture rather than having an interest in technology.
Since "!!" are replaced when you hit the "up" arrow key (i.e. jump to previous command), you can go really wild with them:

https://oeis.org/A228162
For those who may not get the reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_Sam#Quotes
So Windows can run code simply by browsing to a directory with the default shell?

I have no words...
Tried to contact Apple via: https://www.apple.com/support/contact/ (As mentioned on the bottom of the page: "If you are experiencing an issue not listed here, contact support"), but that does not seem to work.
This just how Apple has always been, not taking care of what any sides want, until it brings money.

This concur with the #watchFiasco of apple, explicitly saying "you're pigeons, and we deliver"
"...It is our belief that over the 30 plus years of commercial computing has developed a series of sophisticated political games that have become a replacement for estimation as a formal process..."

If there was a planning process that was consistently reliable for new, complex software I think people would use it. And I think the adoption of agile methodologies in software development is an example of people trying to implement an improved planning process. Still, there is a lot of uncertainty.

So people negotiate, incentivize, and test conviction.. I guess that is what the author means by politics. Those same games happen in most complcated transactions and relationships. I think some programmers think this stuff happens to them because they are deeply misunderstood. But it happens to building contractors, real estate agents, lawyers, etc. too.
App Store download: https://itunes.apple.com/app/salsa-anonymous-messages/id9686...

Salsa is unique to other work related anonymous app in several ways.

Salsa is an open community -- any user can post messages about any company, not limited to their own employers. Messages can be anything -- thoughts, public news, rumor, or insider gossips. The intention here is to encourage sharing while protecting privacy.

Another interesting feature of Salsa is "Spice Up", which is an enhanced version of "vote up" with geographical information. Now the original poster can see where people in the world cheered for her, and how far the message spread to the world.

Salsa also provides a tool for anonymous salary survey. Besides providing a reference to anybody who are curious about how much her skill set values, I also hope this can capture the huge pay gaps between genders and different geographic areas.

Salsa is still in its early stage. After all, it's my side project from last two months and I'm the only developer/designer. I am really looking forward where the community takes Salsa to.
Makes sense. And this happened to me almost certainly because I upgraded to iOS 8.2 and my phone promptly crashed... hard.
Is someone testing their MarketSpeak Generator?

I absolutely hate dealing with vendors who use Salesforce.com. It's a red flag that support might be dismal. The only lesson to be taken from this is that you can build a business around a terrible product.
Everything seems fine here in Melbourne, Australia.
I am disappointed that their status page doesn't reflect the issues that it seems many are facing, I struggle with this a lot with Microsofts cloud offerings (o365 etc...) which go down or are partially unavailable every week - Yes you heard that right - weekly.

The model of trust with vendors, large and small alike has its downsides and the widespread impact of centrally authenticated systems is one of them. Is there an answer? I don't know but it certainly comes down to convenience vs trust in many cases.
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Nothing Secure, Always assume electronic/voice communication is public.

I would choose a better experience on an iPhone 6 and just accept nothing is secure.
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Couldn't agree more, transparency and admitting fault or failure quickly is key to trust with clients.
iTunes and App Store are both unable to connect across any of my devices this morning here in the US. Very strange.
I always heard good things about the BSD's and I was forced to use pf in my previous company..

but it was systemd that pushed me towards it, I'm not bound by random binaries that do random things with little documentation- everything is very clearly understandable and I can even guess what things will be doing with a large degree of accuracy.

the whole thing seems much more "sane", but- Linux is a better desktop in my opinion.
Funny that it forces me to pick a Google office where I would like to work, to complete the registration. They need to get it that not everyone are interested in working for them.
Curious, which apps seem to be affected? Anecdotally, I hadn't seen any issues on my phone this morning with anything asking for a password, but on my laptop I did see a login prompt when i woke it from sleep.
A lesson, perhaps, in why it's a bad idea to lock yourself (and your customers paying you hundreds to thousands of dollars every month) into third-party services (say, Authy) in order to get basic security features for which widely-adopted, standard alternatives exist.
> 10-20 channels worth buying at a price of $3.25-$6.50/channel is a better economical choice than 1-2 channels worth buying unbundled at a price of $17.50/channel.

It's simply not the case that spending more money to get more channels is always more economical just because the cost per channel goes down. Which is more economical depends on the value you associate with each channel.

If one channel cost $20, or I could get that channel and 9 others for $40, which is better for me? It depends on whether or not those 9 channels are worth $20 to me. If they're not, then it's not a better deal. Just because I might be willing to pay some money for those 9, doesn't mean I'm willing to pay $20 for them. If those channels are worth more than $20 to me, then it may well be a good deal for me.

Therefore, packages are good deals for some, unbundled channels are good deals for others.
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monoculture ....
I'm not sure if it's as simple as that, certainly OSX has been poorly neglected with 10.10 but generally their cloud services are rock solid (at least in Australia) where Microsofts alternatives suffer from weekly unexplained outages and poor performance on a global level. The number of Amazon instances that crash and fail to ever come back or new instances that start broken is also often dismissed it seems.
It isn't uncommon for Canada to quote a debt-to-GDP ratio based solely on federal debt. It isn't how most countries calculate their debt. Depending on exactly what you do include, Canada's debt-to-GDP is anywhere from 80% to a little over 100%.

Also, Canada has much higher household debt. It's well past 150% now.
This is just another example of Apple's severe structural deficit on their cloud engineering teams. From a user perspective, Apple's backend engineering is in desperate need of a management shake-up.
I strongly feel that React Native is going to come out right around F8, but cannot prove it other than that the React team seems to be speaking there and this comment on twitter https://twitter.com/reactjs/status/573872611853123584

I'm getting pretty excited to start working with React Native either way.
All non-Apple apps. So far have tested Twitter, Hipchat, BBC Weather, Wickr, Authy, Google Authenticator, YouTube and Citymapper.
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Don't even understand how this is an article, they flat out have a disclaimer:
> Auto-hold strategies vary by game, based on the particular features of a game and do not necessarily result in theoretical payouts

On smart phone games auto is often not the best strategy, just the easiest (Summoner's War with 30 million downloads, I'm looking at you).

Sounds like the guy was just ignorant and thought auto was something it was specifically declaimed not to be. If it was labeled "Best" I might feel something for him.
Windows has a bug which was likely a design decision made in Windows 95 development (maybe earlier, Windows 3.1 had CPL applets also). Security wasn't taken as seriously in that era.

While evidently their bug fix was a little hacky, I guess re-designing how Control Panel applet icons are rendered was considered too big of a change for what was essentially a security patch.

Hopefully they kill classic Control Panel completely at some stage in the next few years. Windows 8, 8.1, and now 10 are going down that road but there are a lot of legacy Control Panel applets by third parties which they have to deal with somehow.
The answer to that should be pretty obvious. How many different services relied on internet in 1980? How many will in twenty years?

And I'm not sure the issue still is in its infancy. It's becoming a problem and it's stopping further innovation. I think we really need to think about "internet 2.0".
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Do you have an axe to grind about Authy? Because I can't get into Google Authenticator either so this is an Apple problem not an Authy problem.
PDF isn't particularly well suited for kindles. epub/mobi would be better.
weird, I can open Google Authenticator (the only app we have in common from that list) just fine
If nobody is reading, you will eventually fill the pipe buffer (which is about 4k), and the writing will stop. It's a bigger queue than most of us would expect when compared to generator expressions, but it can and does create back pressure while making reads efficient.
It is better because as anti-feminism claims feminism is all about taking rights from children to give them to women. From language remarks like this, through having mom at home, to abortion... It is all about women right to neglect children to do whatever else they wanna do. A bit like male who prefers lying down on coach to doing any work -- disgusting.
http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/pipes/ . And there's a bit more about how pipes came to be in unix here: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/hist.html
iCloud is down as well. I am not able to edit my files. :(
What would be the alternative, should we just get rid of the laws then?
I think that would be an order of magnitude worse than having to wait.

Also, in my mind special would mean that the service is of great public importance, it doesn't seem likely to me for such things just turn up every other day.
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