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Here in Italy (Rome exactly) we pay around 1000-2000€ a year of tuition, but that's really what it's worth it. The education is good, but the structures are awful, from labs to classes and lecture halls. I've visited Caltech, Stanford, NYU and Columbia while travelling and they're light years ahead.

If I was born in the US I'd never move to Europe to study anything tech related, being in a major university like Stanford or MiT just gives you so many connections and makes you able to experiment beyond your regular coursework. Just like someone said on a post here a while ago, the difference between you and your friend who studied at Duke is that Tim Cook is just a phone call away because they walked to class together every morning.
When I started off with Ruby I tried reading through some freely available books (including Why's Poignant Guide) but going through the koans was by far the fastest and most effective way to learn Ruby syntax.

There are also Go koans: https://github.com/cdarwin/go-koans
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Ah, that makes sense.

It's funny, because some Americans grumble about the lack of focus on vocational training and trades, while OP was grumbling about the lack of breadth and liberal education in Germany.

The grass is always greener.
https://rubymonk.com/ is another good one. The theme got a little tiresome after a while but the lessons really forced me to mess around with Ruby in the console. I learned a lot.
Agreed, but I was merely replying to a post that argued that the MacBook and MacBook Pro are as different as Surface and Surface RT.
The first picture is from the color_coded source itself:

https://github.com/jeaye/color_coded/blob/master/include/asy...

The second picture is from my C++14 JSON library:

https://github.com/jeaye/jeayeson/blob/master/include/jeayes...
It is done but there is no control over rasterization and no possibility to add filters as in the demo http://pixelscommander.com/polygon/htmlgl/demo/filters.html
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But, really, most audio companies were never properly positioned to offer the type of product that Beats has anyway. Bose could probably have made the connection, as could a few other broader electronic brands (Sony, Panasonic, etc.), but most brands that are primarily focused on speakers/headphones operate by courting audiophiles, because traditionally that's where the money has been.

Certainly, Beats has done an excellent job of generating a brand image and marketing a product. However, many other companies in the headphone market would have had a challenge doing the same, because if they were to court the casual listener market, they may risk losing the traditional audiophile market.
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> Edward Teller supposedly designed (or at least contemplated) a 10 gigaton bomb

That guy was batshit crazy, pardon my French. I know that the Dr. Strangelove character was pretty much based on him, I know about and I partially understand the reasons behind the nuclear arms race, but when you read about plans like this you just start contemplating about the end of humans as a species.
The car that is known as the current Formula 1 Safety Car, has an all-electric twin:

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gFGX43vubM ("Petrol vs Electric" by BBC Top Gear UK)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_SLS_AMG

Mercedes SLS AMG Electric Drive (2013) priced at $544,236.

The production version of SLS AMG E-CELL includes four
synchronous electric motors rated 392 kW (533 PS; 526 hp)
and 880 N·m (649 lb·ft), 400V 48 kWh lithium-ion battery
from Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains.

The SLS car is also produced with a gasoline engine:

Mercedes SLS AMG's 571 PS (420 kW; 563 hp) M159 engine [...]
"the world's most powerful naturally
aspirated production series engine" ever produced.
> Should the US be surprised when China enacts similar legislation?

I wouldn't be surprised to see Obama label such an act by China as an "act of war".
You're missing the part where criminal intent is required.
Apple is going for a paradigm shift with how we view watches; similar to what they did with the iPhone. It is best not to think of the iWatch as a watch but rather as a 2nd screen for the iPhone with sensors and haptic feedback.
your analysis is flawed. it really depends on the valuation at which each round is raised.
Read the details of the attack. It's not a botnet. The attack works by injecting malicious JavaScript into common websites within Chinese borders, and doing this only for visitors of these files from outside China.

Only the Great Firewall (or the website owners, ie. government-controlled Baidu) can possibly do that.

http://www.netresec.com/?month=2015-03&page=blog&post=china%...
The problem is, there's no well defined way to tell which version of the word someone's using. That's the point. So best to just not use it.

(Obviously you do need to use it sometimes, in an academic context for example. It's a tricky one.)
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In this case, that's an appropriate attitude. If your environment is a mess and you add complexity with a CDN, you've got a complicated mess. But a local optimization like this benefits your entire organization and puts off the need for a CDN (a solution to a problem that no longer exists). They may grow to a point where a real strain is being put on their systems, they can't make local improvements, and involving a CDN is the right choice.
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There's a greater chance of that happening if you live there for 4 years!
> A top-of-the-line tiny house with RV-like conveniences can set you back $60,000 or more. The 30 dwellings at Opportunity Village, made of prefab donated materials, cost “around $3,300 a unit”. The savings come from the fact that they are basically detached bedrooms, with no utilities or running water.

Why do these things cost $3,300? They look like garbage and have no electric, plumbing, HVAC, etc. They also look like they are either on blocks or a large, shared, concrete slab, so you don't need to pour a slab for each one. You could put one of these things together with a few hundred dollars of material. These can't be much more than the shed kits at big box stores like Home Depot that run a couple hundred dollars.
>They were a battery company using luxury automobiles to fund battery R&D.

This seems questionable to me. I just don't see lithium-ion powering electric cars in an affordable or usable fashion. The density isn't great and after 4-5 years the battery pack wears out, making your $30-50k battery investment disappear. There's no resale value on a battery that can't even hold 30% of its original charge. Musk's solar city shenanigans are cute, but not a lot of people are moving to solar when electricity is so cheap.

Tesla just never got the battery breakthrough it needed and it will probably never become a hybrid engine company. All this talk of "just wait until Musk does this or does that" has been the same excuse we've been hearing for years. It hasn't materialized, at least for Tesla.

$300m losses in 12 months is scary. $100m loss in the past quarter is just bad. Musk can build this factory, but he can't improve lithium-ion tech nor can he raise the price of gas. If gas is under $6 or so, there's very little incentive to buy a pure electric. Fanboyism aside, Tesla just looks like a mess and making excuses about how its really not a car company stinks of desperation. Tesla is pretty much a failed company. Unless they pivot to hybrid engines and start selling a lower cost car, they'll just continue to be the toy of the idle rich.
Annual subscription in the US: $127

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In the UK, we're being charged nearly 1.5 times as much and The Economist is based here!
This is true. But a very low percentage of practicing software engineers, software developers, or web developers actually write compilers or operating systems. The demand today (e.g. what most companies need in terms of software talent) is pretty far removed from these activities. I believe this is what is driving the emergence of code schools and online software development programs.
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Is seems that rasterization happend before images loaded. Do not observe this on any devices accessible for me. Is there any specificity on system you tried it?
Without a jury trial [which isn't required for this], it is just the prosecution deciding the target has criminal intent.

There is no check or balance as you imply. The Treasury and Executive are jury, judge, and executioner.
Not necessarily if you're buying them as a fashion accessory, which is the whole point of the article. Beats saw a gap in the market, much as Apple did 10 years ago.
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Translated from potato.
> The entire fat-finger vs precise-mouse driven UI/UX divide now needs to converge and it takes time.

I have to wonder if this is why Google decided to implement Pointer Events.
Interesting, I did not know international building codes existed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Building_Code
How does she verify the certs she's getting?
I don't really understand the high-performance focus of electric car advocates. Sure it's an impressive technological achievement, and interesting on the race track, but I'm not going to buy a Tesla or anything else on the basis of a breathtaking 0-60 time.

For the mainstream market, though there's certainly a minimum performance requirement (keeping up with normal traffic) the much bigger practical concern is range.
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You seem confused. Watch a few seasons of Homeland and it will all become clear: no matter what atrocities the good guys are doing, they always have good justifications. Which may need to remain secret, just like the proof that NK was involved in the Sony breach, but it's all for the common good.
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I take the core of the article to be (paraphrased): "Your phone is ruining your life. You're subject to the tyranny of its notifications. You want a less obtrusive way to check your notifications."

A few problems with that:

1. Understand that Jonny Ive and the movers and shakers at Apple probably get an order of magnitude more notifications than most people do. They are, after all, important people with lots of scheduling and lots of communication. My phone isn't ruining my life. I don't get a notification every few minutes.

2. Android Wear is a notification device. We've seen how people like Android Wear: they think, eh, it's okay. What is going to make Apple Watch different? The people I know with Android smartwatches aren't saying, "Oh, god, I almost love this but if only the watch were prettier," or "If only the UI were a little more polished." They're saying, "It's nice to be able to get notifications on my wrist, but it's not a life-changer and it isn't worth hundreds of dollars."

3. And part of the reason for #2 is that if you're really getting lots of meaningful notifications, you're going to want to act on some of them, and the watch form factor is just fundamentally bad for acting on anything.

As long as smartwatches are just notification devices, they're inessential peripherals that probably won't get truly popular until they're sub-$100.

If there is a killer app suited to the watch form factor, it hasn't made itself known yet, and it may not exist. Or it might exist and just be hard to find. I think there are surprisingly few really killer apps on the smartphone form factor -- the only one that I think genuinely fits the bill is Uber and its competitors.

EDIT: As several people have pointed out, the browser, messaging, navigation, and camera of the smartphones are definitely killer apps, and are what made the smartphones obviously useful from day one. I agree with that and just left that context out. My comments about Uber are more to do with "new things that you can only do on a smartphone that weren't there on day one, that are also genuinely useful." There are remarkably few apps like that on the smartphone. I think that smartwatches are in trouble because the stuff that's there on day one isn't very compelling (look at notifications), and evidence suggests that it's very hard to create all-new highly compelling apps that aren't obvious on day one.
Conventionally audio engineers won't try for above/back of head sounds in stereo but they're possible (samples exist online), if you're wearing headphones or standing in the exact intended position.
http://www.kimsufi.com/uk/

Kimsufi offers true dedicated Atom boxes with SSDs for 10 GBPs / month.

I also think that if you're "using the bandwidth", a $5/month Digital Ocean VM is probably a better value.
"Vorsprung durch Technik"

My favourite advertising slogan and I'm in the UK!

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/18/vorsprung-durch...

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And brilliant idea for the game too.
This one:
"
The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice,
..... (b) that any right in any patent claim of Facebook is invalid"

Basically if you accept Facebook's license, your right to use Facebook-patented software will terminate, in case you express your view that some other (any) Facebook patent is not valid (say due to prior art).
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Does this mean you typically request same or next day bookings? From my experience, most AirBnB hosts are wary of doing anything last second as they typically need to plan ahead to accommodate a guest.
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I think "zero confidence" underplays it. The U.S. Government has a history of abusing their executive powers. Given their past behavior and not only a complete absence of remorse, but proactive justification of their abuses, it seems as though abuse of those powers is almost a foregone conclusion.
Yup. Breakout 1976. Arkanoid 1986.
> while OP was grumbling about the lack of breadth and liberal education in Germany.

Yeah, I've no idea where that's supposed to come from. The only area where I'd consider the education to be narrow is at universities – and there it's by design, because after 13 years of breadth-first education in the Gymnasium (mandatory three languages, music, sports, arts, chemistry, philosophy/theology, physics, maths, political education, history, computer science, …) you should be able to pick a specialization without turning into a drooling retard.
Kudos for the smart solution.

This approach has proven itself very well in iOS, in fact, it was the absolute best mobile animation technology for a long time. Actually, the older versions of iOS used software rasterization with hardware accelerated bitmap caching and it worked smoothly on the original iPhone.
What is the browser support for CSS shaders? =)
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I think this is a pretty clear sign that hackers should seriously consider a mass exodus from the United States. This decision might not be right for everyone, of course, but neither is having your life destroyed because of the foolish executive orders.
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I'm surprised at everyone's insistence that smartwatches ape the physical sizes and shapes of traditional watches. It strikes me not unlike past insistence that smartphones needed to have physical keyboards and removable batteries.

Every declared and hypothetical use for a smartwatch would be better-served with a larger screen. Something this side of a pip-boy, to be sure, but at least twice as wide as the display on the Apple Watch. (Increased internal volume for battery would more than make up for increased screen size.)

If everyone was still wearing watches, trying to slide in on familiarity might make some sense. But watches have been on the decline since even basic cell phones began to spread. I understand you have to make something people are willing to wear. But making it familiar, at a cost to its ability to do everything people might want it for, is a short-sighted mistake.
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That's not how drop caps work.
Truecrypt report
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What are you doing that you can't wait for less than 2 seconds for something?
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I blamed:

> This is one-person one-vote "democracy" at work: the land-owners vote in the government that restricts supply via zoning laws, and boosts demand via immigration and international students

as well as:

> 95% bank loans available on houses and apartments

and:

> a bare majority of people have jobs they hate and [...] leave their jobs as soon as they can

yet you read all that as "blame the immigrants who are all rich and earned their riches via questionable means"?
The TL;DR is that based on this audit, Truecrypt appears to be a relatively well-designed piece of crypto software. The NCC audit found no evidence of deliberate backdoors, or any severe design flaws that will make the software insecure in most instances.

That doesn't mean Truecrypt is perfect. The auditors did find a few glitches and some incautious programming -- leading to a couple of issues that could, in the right circumstances, cause Truecrypt to give less assurance than we'd like it to.
How is he crazy? When nukes are on the table either you implement a MAD-like policy or you die in nuclear fire. There's no real middle ground with weapons this powerful. Its rational to support MAD. Thus far, its working. A lot of human warfare is on its face is crazy sounding, but has a rational backing.

>when you read about plans like this you just start contemplating about the end of humans as a species.

We called up the USSR and asked them to stop producing weapons on that scale. They laughed in our face. What exactly do you propose? Heck, the USSR's client states were motivated to nuke us without warning. Castro had a pretty big hard-on for launching nukes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/science/22nuke.html?_r=0

He wasn't convinced by the loss of life or anything. His Moscow handlers had to explain to him that the radioactive cloud would be bad for Cubans. Heck, the politburo was demanding WWIII from Khrushchev during the Cuban missile crisis.

Today, Russia maintains an openly published first strike policy on what it calles "tactical nukes." Essentially they say they can launch nukes whenever they feel like it and not consider it a MAD violation. So if Putin's conventional troops are losing, he just nukes the opposition. With madmen like Putin running nukes, MAD makes sense. Its the only thing that does.
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This person misunderstood 'viable' entirely. It's viable in that it has an audience who feels like buying. It's not talking about the quality at all.
It's been used for exactly that purpose at one particular university I'm highly familiar with. Certain departments (e.g. Psychology) didn't want to deal with the hassle of flunking their students out, so they outsourced the job to us (math) by requiring calc 1.
I'm not sure I agree with point #3, I think that remains to be seen based on the creativity of not only Apple but the entire community. I totally agree though making digestible and actionable content is hard on a small device.

Maybe it's a shallow example but canned text responses are something that was a great adaptation of the thought: 'well we don't have the affordance to provide a keyboard to the user'. I expect to see other things like this get iterated on.

Bottom line I think we'll just have to wait and see how this thing matures, if it does at all.
> but mostly everything is boxed behind a pointer.

Behind a Reference would be more accurate. It's just a reference to a spot in the heap. Other than similarly "pointing" to a place in memory, the comparison between Java References and C Pointers stops there. One cannot pass a "pointer" in Java, nor can the pointer be free-form manipulated like in pointer-arithmetic.
It may have its own ASN, but its still run just like the rest of Iliad's networks. Online.net/Ponytelecom still lacks diversified transit that isn't also run horribly hot and the NOC peering policies make it so that its all but impossible to actually peer without exchanging money.

All the network properties operated under the Iliad umbrella suffer from this. Iliad and Orange pushed a bill through parliament that basically says "French ISPs can charge you whatever they want and you're required to pay it because operating in France means mandatory connections to the entrenched regional ISPs"
I think there will be a point where some people at an early stage of their life opt for a small mobile house.. that is actually a car, perhaps even self driving. If hourly jobs and limited urban real estate make home (e.g. land)-ownership an unrealistic expectation, why not live out of your car?

Would really turn the heads of people who expected their plot of land to be worth something because younger generations would aspire to it and have no other option.
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It's very hard or impossible to come up with such a tag set. The number of existing web renderers, all with their own quirks and bugs, are much to big. Some tag might work in Opera 2.0 but not if you nest it to deeply. img tags doesn't "work" in text browsers and unicode support has historically been spotty everywhere.