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> Every single sentence is factually wrong

You don't believe ISIS would kill as many innocents as possible? It is practically their mission statement.
We recently ran into the issue of Google sending all of our new client emails to spam. At first I chalked it up to Google launching a competing service but we switched to Amazon's SES service to send email and it entirely fixed the issue.
On the other hand, in theatre, a false positive is better than the alternative for mission success. Just like anti-virus software. You're better off flagging calc.exe as a virus than letting a 'maybe' through.
That was really cool.
But your headline reads as if it's a general problem.
I've ported several reasonably complex jobs (files delivered to FTP at arbitrary times to be run through several Hadoop jobs) to luigi and it's been very good. Much more resilient than trying to use something that can only schedule jobs at specific times of the day.

It also has few dependencies and is lightweight (i.e. it's all python, so no JVM tying up resources).
Not wanting to be too blunt but how're the Linux Foundation ensuring that if this guy dies [or decides to quit] then the situation is readily recoverable - do they have a system where they keep credentials recorded and have access to the data-centres and such?

Wouldn't it be considerably cheaper to hire someone at the data-centre to do the reboots or whatever it is he's in situ to do? [What do they call that "remote hands" or something.]
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Apple has, on occasion, made very expensive versions of its products - expensive because of materials (solid gold headphones) or color (the [RED] Mac Pro), not technical achievement. These were usually one-off versions; now Apple is doing the same on a larger scale for those who, for whatever reason, want such extravagance.
How much does Apple charge for something with similar weight/size and the same screen resolution?
And I went over the 300 spam messages from the last month and found 6 false positives. None were important, but one could have been.
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Spirit is the US equivalent of Ryanair.

http://www.spirit.com/
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/02/14/276973956/episode-...
Once a week. I live in Hong Kong where eating out is plentiful and compared to groceries, surprisingly similar in price.
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This has happened to me too, several times with increasing frequency over the last two years. My messages end up being labelled as 'spam' even with people that I have long standing relations with and that blindly rely on gmail to do its bit. Extremely frustrating because even though I'm not a gmail user this still affects me.
What about just the headers, no body?
I said this in another comment, but I think the interesting aspect here is that this will be a gateway-to-computing device, just like the BBC Micro was of its time.

Sure, its not comparable in terms of richness or depth of a machine to the Micro, but then all schools have PCs now. Its just they're used for Office and learning how to be safe online. Not for coding.

Let's hope kids then start asking their teachers how to do more than blink some lights, and ask their teachers to learn how to build websites, apps etc. Then it'll be a success.
Maybe this is cool for some and not so cool for others, but it bugs me that they are calling them "coding devices". Feels somewhat degrading to encapsulating software engineering and development into "coding".
It is general enough that it affects me too. Also, if with a service the size of gmail someone has a problem you can bet that that problem affects at a minimum thousands of users.
I run my own mail server. I recently started finding out that my friend's gmail account has been classifying my messages as spam. I suspect the general trend is going to be increasing hostility to emails sent by small servers.
Expensive gold watches in general are for douchebags. All the stuff about hand-crafted etc. is just a rationalization for spending absurd amounts of money to get worse performance. Gold is less physically durable, and mechanical watch movements are less accurate and require more maintenance than quartz digital in a plastic or steel enclosure.

For me the Patek Philippe marketing line is like a smell test for common sense. If it's quoted unironically, then I know that the author is inside the weird expensive watch bubble.

Probably a more accurate title would be "The Gold Apple Watch is Perfect for Other Kinds of Douchebags."
I've received 3 emails from Apple in the past about requesting promo artwork for my app for a possible feature, and every one of them landed in the spam. The first time it happened, it was only 2 days before the request expired. Ever since then, I check my Spam everyday.
There is unfortunately no way out of this mess. Every war makes new combatants to kill, and every war enriches the military-industrial complex. Now there are new enemies to kill, and new lobbying to justify killing. This creates more enemies, and enriches the defense industry further. And so on and on it goes.

This country is fucked.
> Another thing to keep in mind is calculus has had much more impact on history/society than linear algebra.

Yes, it was amazingly important during all the wars and conflicts of the last century.

I don't think it was for the memory of Newton that they choose Calculus, but because it was more useful in a war machine than the alternatives.
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Due to the simplicity of my email address, I get emails almost everyday from stuff other people have signed up for and mistakenly put in my email address thinking it was theirs. Sometimes if it's in a foreign language I can't tell if it's spam or just normal stuff that came to the wrong address.

I have had moments of frustration where I've selected a whole group of these emails and marked them as spam in the hopes that they would stop showing up in my inbox.
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Brilliant point.

TL;DR - everyone's talking about the $10,000 price. Nobody is talking about the $350 price any more. Of course you're not going to buy the expensive one ... you're going to get the cheap one, having unconsciously accepted its price.
> Hopefully ARM based rather than AVR

ARM, Freescale and Nordic Semiconductor are partners of the project. While the chip in the photo appears to be Atmel (my eyesight may be failing me here), the material seems to suggest that the design is still being worked out, so an ARM device seems likely.
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What happens is that Google decides to show me the Google search engine in exactly the language I did not want, despite all my settings on all my accounts specifying one and only default language.

It will do so even if I explicitly type google.de, google.nl or google.fr. Whatever language I expect or want, I will get a different one.

This makes me suspect all requests to google.com are routed through a routine with the name "because_fuck_you()".

To add insult to injury, this does not just affect the UI language, but also the content, functionality and sometimes even navigation, and not always in the straightforward relationship between language and content you may expect.

And I'm not even one of those poor souls that lives in a multilingual country...
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Lack of optical drive is still annoying. And I still have a good laugh every time I watch an Apple user trying to give a presentation, struggling to connect to wifi because they don't have an ethernet port, and then not having the right adapter to connect to the projector. Or failing to find a charger for their phone.

You're right that this is classic Apple, but I wouldn't call any of those decisions obviously right. And there have been plenty of bad calls along the way - remember when Apple tried to get you to use Firewire hard drives rather than USB? Remember PERCH? Remember those magnetic ethernet cables? Having fun adaptering back and forth between DisplayPort and Thunderbolt?
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You have too much faith in the "things have to get better before they get worse" myth. The major record labels, which hold the rights to most music from the last few decades, will simply agree not to sue each other. It's in their best interests. But surely they will sue the pants off independent artists who pose a threat.
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This was an interesting read. It is pretty crazy, and easy to parallel to something like Youtube, how the Manwin empire is built on linking to work that someone else produced and using the ad money to buy the creators of that work out. I wonder if Manwin makes an effort to keep content that Manwin-owned properties put behind a paywall off of the tube sites.
It has been obsoleted in favour of getnameinfo. (The vulnerability in glibc has been fixed.)
The version in the photo seems to use an ATMega32U4, which is used in the Arduino Leonardo, so there is a good chance it will be compatible (or if it isn't out of the box it could easily have the bootloader added). This will be a lot cheaper though. Looking at the photo, the BOM cost would mostly be the micro, which is available at around $3.5 at 10,000 volume. Probably quite a bit less at 1,000,000. It has on-board USB, so there's no need for a pricy FTDI chip. It doesn't look like they're using an external crystal so that's another saving over the Arduino. Beyond that it's mostly LEDs and passives, plus the two tactile switches. This should be very cheap to make. Should be under $5 or less.
I'm not sure history can be repeated so easily. Back in the eighties you were impressed when a program managed to change the screen from blue to green. With today's kids playing Counter Strike on high end computers, it's not likely they're gonne be very impressed with what they see, much less motivated.
Here's one. This was in spam too: http://code.activestate.com/lists/tcl-core/14455/

"Be careful with this message. Many people marked similar messages as spam." is what Gmail reports. I've been subscribed to tcl-core for years, too.
Might be a good idea to make a folder and a filter for Apple mail :)
Box's problem in a nutshell:

> The company's operating expenses grew $23 million (33%) from last year's quarter, to $94 million, while revenue grew $24 million (61%) to $63 million. That's barely $1 in additional revenue for every $1 in additional operating expenses.
I think you mean Robin Thicke. But now I have the theme to Growing Pains stuck in my head, so thank you for that. :)
I don't use gmail, and that's how I've set up procmail custom filters with spamassassin for nearly the past decade.

The nearly certain spam is delivered to /dev/null. The very likely spam is delivered to Junk.
Fanfiction.net disabled selecting text. I stopped using it. It's just so frustrating.

Fortunately the only story I read there is available on its own page (hpmor.com).
I applaud for doing that, and your request.

Reading that article was horrifying. One one side, the banality of it all. On the other... I can't even imagine what it was like to experience that, and I think I am happier that I can't.

The statement 'war is a game' has never been more true.
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ntimed is a weird project IMO, because it's not different enough from OpenNTPD: both are small NTP daemons written in C. He could've created a fork of OpenNTPD with more precision and without privilege separation instead.

If ntimed was written in Rust though... THAT would've been excellent.
Hmm... seems interesting, I still like the idea of this foreign-linux, it seems like the idea has a lot of potential. Thanks.
Living in trilingual country here. I suggest u to try google.com/ncr to get English google wherever you are in the world.
There is no "correct" answer. Explanation is multifaceted: explanations of one kind are grounded-in or reduce-to or supervene on explanations of another kind. Each kind of explanation explains different things.

There might be a "final" explanation in the sense that we talk about quarks, strings, etc. - an explanation which doesnt explain very much but is irreducible.
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Enterprise software is often picked by committee, who will find it easier (at the same price point) to go for the product with more features rather than the product with a better design.

Hence, most of the negative feedback enterprise software vendors receive from the sales process is usually "We went with competitor X because they could do more for us.", which pushes the vendor to add more features at the expense of taste.
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I've been working at this "big" company for nearly a year now and I just can't take the politics of it anymore. It seems I was naive to think that as a developer I should work to improve the product by finding bugs, fix them, build new features fast. But I was wrong. People don't want you to build new features fast because they won't be able to test it in time and they frown if you find bugs because they somehow think you're making them look bad. And this behavior goes up the chain, to senior dev, to manager and may be up. Hiding mistakes, disowning bugs and what not.
I feel like I'm neither getting recognition, nor the reward but think I'm getting the satirical blunt of it (I don't get it most of the time).
How would you guys proceed to quit this job ? Yearly performance review is coming up but I'm not sure if I can make it past the regular 5% increase. Should I say it's not enough and just quit ?
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Something else that bothers me immensely about such interfaces (admittedly i avoid Google mail but i have another paid email service with a similarly misguided modern web UI) is that my browser blocks @font-face CSS directives (security-motivated), and these days the fashion is to load “icons” from external fonts. This leaves me with a Unicode box-character, forcing me to hover over buttons to discover their meaning, or guessing based on their placement. I would go as far as to say that this trend (of fonts-as-resource-repositories) is perhaps my least favourite Web n.0 evolution: most evils (e.g., popups, blinking lights, horrible stylesheets) i can circumvent relatively effectively with NoScript or whatever, but this truly has me stumped.

Needless to say i use a proper email client on my own machine as much as possible, but obviously this isn't an option 100% of the time.
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Problem with apt-cyg is the occasional need to "rebaseall" to keep the cygwin dll's happy. a proper package manager would be nice, though it is a good solution all things considered.
I agree that the collection of the license fee is often heavy handed - but wasn't that outsourced a while back?
This I understand, but that sentence with "cliché" in it I still don't get.
Enterprise software is designed to demo well (that means lots of well exposed one dimensional features) and differentiate against competitors in demos/shootouts. Everything else is secondary - design, usability. This makes it easy to sell, but leads to high levels of dissatisfaction - (i.e. the 80% failure rate of CRM or ERP or ATS software).
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This is being done in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia and probably other countries too - the U.S. is at war and no-one seems to have approved it or noticed. Personally I think it's terrible strategically as well as morally, and most of the regimes being backed by the policy are dubious at best. This will not end well.

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this may be true in some cities and for some top hosts, but for the rest of vacation rentals owners Airbnb is just another provider.
It's an extremely fragmented space.
The big problem with MobaTerm is that it includes really old versions of the standard unix utilities, and it's difficult to integrate with newer & missing utilities. This isn't a problem that's limited to MobaXTerm, but the way MobaXTerm does things makes it harder to fix.

Let's say you want to set up a standard dev setup. So you install MobaXTerm, vagrant, emacs, msysgit, and rsync. Each of these require SSH for full operation, so in the interest of making things easy, the installers bundle SSH. You now have up to 5 copies of SSH installed, all storing their private keys, cert stores and configuration in different places. What a mess. And some things aren't compatible with each other. IIRC, vagrant is built with cygwin, so you have to make sure you use a cygwin rsync with it, the msys rsync won't work.

To keep everything sane, start with the standard cygwin or msys installer, and install everything using that.

Does conemu include mingw-get? If so, that sounds like it might be a good solution. If not, I recommend avoiding it.

Or just reformat and install Linux. That's what I ended up doing. Putting up with poor HiDPI support in Linux was much more tolerable than the horrors of trying to use Unix utilities in Windows. And HiDPI support is improving quickly in Linux land....
The only thing Sam Smith's song has in common with Tom Petty's is a chord progression and a vaguely similar melody. Compare that with 12 bar blues, where every song has the exact same progression, and limited melodic possibilities. In fact, there are thousands of songs guilty of the same crimes Smith's is accused of, and none of them were put on trial. Smith wasn't a gentleman, but a coward.

Blurred Lines has even less in common with it's inspiration. It does what music has been doing since the beginning - updating the best ideas of the past with a twist from the present. If writing a song like Blurred Lines is against the law, I don't see how music can thrive.
Babun provides an nice layer over cygwin (preinstalled oh-my-z and other goodies) along with an excellent package manager as well. https://github.com/babun/babun
Reddit AMAs generally have verifications - https://twitter.com/redditindia/status/575475976454336512
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The biggest downside to this is that the names of your sites are in plain-text.
How does it compare to Chrony[1]?

[1] http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/
Yes the article seems to be based on screenshots which are deemed to be too 'busy' or have too many gradients, rather than on actual usability.
I've developed many enterprise software solutions over the years. In my experience, there's a fundamental tradeoff in enterprise software (and software in general) that has to do with the number and sophistication of users.

Basically, if you have lots and lots of unsophisticated users, you HAVE to spend time on design to make it intuitive so you are not overwhelmed with customer support issues. If you have a few, more sophisticated users (that often require a more complex interaction with the data) you can get away with a simple interface and make up for it in training or customer support.

It's a simple cost-benefit tradeoff that enterprises with limited resources make all the time.

Given that, I agree that much enterprise is needlessly badly designed. I can look at systems and tell that nobody even mocked up the screens before the programmers started coding.
Ultrasound is typically in the megahertz range. Calling it "sound" is really kind of a misnomer.

From the article:

Parameters for the ultrasound delivery were 0.7-MPa peak rarefactional pressure, 10-Hz pulse repetition frequency, 10% duty cycle, 1 MHz center frequency, and 6-s sonication time per spot.
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I am not sure how this cannot be seen as insider trading or market manipulation?

You buy stock through a loan. That loan is going to take time to have an impact on the business and therefore the stock value (I assume the trick is in the timing of the granting of the loan and when dividend are handed out). In the short term they drive down the price of the stock through dumping, hoping to get it as low as possible. Keeping enough of a ratio to make it a massive win.

Knowing more than other penny stock investors because they granted a loan to the company. They are more like an investor than a creditor.
This reminded me, with some nostalgia, of a long time ago using Cooperative Linux on my work Windows machine with sole intent of being able to use Amarok as my media player.

(Version 1.4, before Amarok turned to crap. I use Clementine now, which has a native Windows port.)
It's a shame - it looks like the work was started, it probably isn't too much work to fix the 64 bit stuff ??
"Ironically, I am a paying customer of Google as of a few days ago, in order to have extra storage space."

I don't believe paying for more space changes your free Gmail in any way. I too used free Gmail and paid for Drive space but it's not comparable to paying for Google Apps.
The article is about taste, not usability. It is intentional. It is possible that usable solution still ugly. But in ideal world we should have both.
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IT affects me do; I manually clean out my spam filter daily now just to keep the volume 'low'. I easily get at least one false positive daily.
Guessed as much. They're a lot like GoreTex.
Exactly what it's the advantage of an "írregular" laptop, which sells at the same price point of a "regular" one, while crippling most of the things you can do with it and offering basically nothing in return ?
I think gmail spam filters were OK at the beginning, because spam was so blatant at the time. Nowadays we have both more use of commercial services in valid email, and spam became more sophisticated. As a result, whatever they used to do is just not enough to flag email with high certainty.
I regularly get emails (from Apache mailing lists if you care) that go to spam. No amount of flagging fixes it. The way to deal with it is regularly check the spam filter, train the filter every time it makes a mistake, occasionally sacrifice a goat and pray to Google that they'll fix it.

Then again, you could say it's just a cost of using GMail, and it's offset by all the correctly identified spam emails.
Is Scoop better than Chocolatey? I like chocolatey, but things dont install semi-regularly.
I wish I could write like that.
In general installing GNU/Linux on devices not meant for it is, indeed, a bad idea. Bad drivers will usually make your computing experience a hell filled with non-REISUB-able freezes and other goodies. If you're like me and you can handle all the crap then it's fine. Otherwise stick to Windows. Or, better yet, just buy a Mac. A Dell developer's edition or a Thinkpad might be problem-free. Might. I wouldn't put money on it, though, especially with future regressions likely to fuck something up.
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I run a small server that's never been an open relay and never spammed, yet deliverability to Gmail has long been poor. Very frustrating and from what I've read all too common.
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Pulling a Louie, I see.

Good. More people should.

If this works out for Stoya like it did for Louie, you should see work from new/upcoming artists coming from her studio soon after the business method is validated.

Porn and comedy. Really the same, when you get down to it.
What the US should do now in Iraq is learn some restraint, diplomacy, and humility.

In other words, we should learn the lessons everybody but the military had already learned from Vietnam.