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> The thing with "descriptive" is that it's not about what you or I "want".

Maybe not, but it is about what I do or don't say.

> Nor are there "multiple languages". There's one language

I don't think so, actually. There are differences in usage e.g. from. US to UK.
Hi baaron!

I hear you, on both points.
Point #1 - that's true, I never mention that the data needs to be in a table on the site, and it's a really good point which I will address ASAP.

Point #2 - I didn't think many people would have domains at home, so I planned on dealing with this issue on a case by case basis. My plan was mostly to concentrate on commercial users and have a relatively cheap license for home use, the domain was just a handy way to try to distinguish between the two. I've already had some complaints on this, so I might change this policy (any suggestion on an alternative?).

In any case, this shouldn't be a problem, please contact me (antonio@thingiequery.com, or via the contact form) before buying a private licence, and we'll sort it out:)

And thanks for the kind words, I agree about it being a cool and powerful tool:) There will be more cool features coming up, but the core is in pretty good shape already I think, I'm happy with it, and it's a really satisfying project to work on.

Antonio
They discussed this idea at around 1hr 36m in the podcast.
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Many of these camps are really hurting financially. The major manufacturers are doing poorly as well. Any ideas on repurposing these mobile dorm like buildings. I work in both the Permian and eagleford.
Amazing. Just yesterday some colleagues and I were toying with the idea of creating a game called "Age of Startupts", an RTS game were you have to build your Technology Empire but starting with a simple "garage" and a couple of 'founders'.

As part of this hypothetical game you would have to develop technology, by building research centers and creating (sorry, I meant recruiting) Data Scientists and Engineers.

As the player keeps expanding, he would pass from the "mvp age" to "seed round age", then to "series A", "series B", "series C", until they get to the holy grail age of "IPO".

But as with any good RTS, the player would have to compete with other players. This will mainly be in the form of a priest^WCEO which will travel to the other startups to 'wololo' Engineers and DataScientists so that they work for him.

Another interesting option will be, the "secret agent", a guy (Eng, DS or Admin) who you can disguise as a unit from another player and leave in the middle of the enemy's Plex so that he believes that it is one of his units. Once the enemy player starts directing your 'camouflaged' unit you will be able to get new information about the adversaries.

Should make an interesting game haha.
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Audio Flinger is not Java. On the graph you see absolutely no part which runs on Java.

Android's media architecture with it's "push" design is not more compatible than anything else with a "pull". The many layers doesn't add any flexibility, they are "only" the result of many years hacking.
Maybe because it doesn't have unicode issues that zip has?
I am 15 years old and also a dev. Acuman and Sean are incredibly motivating, but also very destructive to one's self confidence. ;)
It makes as much sense to ticket pedestrians crossing during the countdown, as it would to ticket drivers for entering the intersection during a yellow light.
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Unless the person in question took the money and ran off to join a tribe in Africa or similar for the rest of their days, the point still stands.
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Wouldn't saving either time or money (or both) be the entire point of using a specialized test vehicle? They are anyway working their way through the unknowns by trying to recover the boosters.

I think they are also pricing the launches so that at least all the direct costs are covered, so these tests are 'free'.
He needed a help from a friend to get this right. I'd argue that at the time of the interview he wasn't ready. I'd also argue that the basic linear solution for this problem is straightforward, doesn't require any clever tricks, and a qualified candidate would have no problem solving it.
When this subject comes up, I always think of this article: http://startingstrength.com/articles/barbell_medicine_sulliv...
> That cartoon indicates the poster is trolling.

My sides!
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This is part of my exchange. Everything I said, ACUMAN just said "I don't agree about x, but everyone's opinion differs" or some such. Again, great work!

> ACUMAN: Tell me what US state you live in.

> MILLOY: New Hampshire, but I'm moving to North Carolina soon!

> ACUMAN: You do not seem to be moving to North Carolina soon to me.

> MILLOY: You are very sceptical then.

> ACUMAN: I do not consider myself to be very sceptical, but to each his own. Though I respect your opinion.

> MILLOY: You don't believe what I tell you, so you are sceptical.

> ACUMAN: You may think that, but I think that I believe what you tell me.
2^(106*17) only has 543 decimal-digits. So with a high likelyhood, the formular will plot "this is so wrong" in several basic fonts and languages for smaller n's as an input.
Hence the push for differentiated instruction within classrooms, which I'm sure you're intimately aware of being a teacher. My understanding from my wife, who is also a teacher, is that it can be a pain for a lot of teachers but seems to offer some promise if an instructor can successfully integrate it into the learning process. There's obviously a lot of debate around this subject since teachers are asked to do so much already, but figured it's worth mentioning.
I still use Snow Leopard. It's super stable and functions just fine as a developer OS.
The link was posted on /r/thebutton

https://www.reddit.com/r/thebutton/comments/32ss28
To me, the only interesting things that could be in a pistore like that are alternate distros (piplay, rasplex, retropie.. etc)

the open pandora had way more success with an 'app store', because it had a uniform interface and niche community formed mostly around gaming.

http://repo.openpandora.org/

That certainly doesn't have an officially sanctioned way to program for it. Just a community oriented around it.
Do you have an example of it taking personality into account?
I think it is running on Telescope (http://www.telescopeapp.org/) which is a Meteor app. As far as I know this makes it pretty much impossible to run without JS.
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I tend to agree with you (even though I can barely read your comment :)). I haven't used Windows for years and I'd rather not to if given the choice. However, I find it very respectable to be comfortable with different platform and to be able to use the best tools on each of them. It also shows open-mindness not to be stuck into religion wars.

It reminds me of a colleague of mine who was an OS researcher. He was hacking the linux kernel all day long but still wrote his PhD dissertation using Words (when everybody else in the community was using Latex).
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Precisely. All this deity needs is some proselytizing and it'll be no more or less legitimate than any of the other made-up religious characters.
Not to be vulgar, but a dead sperm whale washed up on a beach in Pacifica, Californa on Tuesday, just 15 minutes south of SF.

http://flic.kr/p/s7qCvj
That is a possible explanation. I guess it shows how unwise it is to use automated emails in cases like this.
Look at the architecture of the Core Audio API and compare it to the parent article:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/MusicA...

Besides the fact that you are writing in C/Objective C, most heavy lifting is being provided by Audio Units which are specifically designed with common datatypes to be chained, composed and executed in low-latency situations.

Furthermore, most common things you would need in your app like mixing, conversion, timing, etc are provided as highly optimized services by the system.
I saw many pages like `Hacker News for x`. Did any of those took off? (Just wondering, no hate)
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Obviously no tool like that can prevent the exposure of the contents of the chat, and hopefully nobody believes that.

It does have the very useful property of granting plausible deniability, though, by making it possible to forge messages after the fact.
You're making the bad assumption that working less hours gets less things done. The author made it clear that he gets more done while working less hours, so it follows that people burning the midnight oil for social cred are the real leeches, rather than the people who prioritize better.

Also, cranking away on Rails sites isn't going to feed the hungry or give water to the thirsty, by and large. Those are social problems of bad distribution, not lack of productivity.
Those are a lot of the same things a Sinatra programmer could have said about using Sinatra instead of Rails. And it's true, you can, and in some cases you might even enjoy it (if nothing else, the code is more transparent in Sinatra or Golang).

If, however, you've had the experience of starting a project in Sinatra and ruefully finishing it in Rails, my advice is: don't do full-featured web apps entirely in Golang.
Then assembly is more flexible than your favorite high-level language? It's true that you can, by definition, do more with low-level access. And I suppose that's one definition of "flexibility". But I think most developers would use the word to mean that various pieces of functionality can be put together easily. So they might say, for example, that Unix pipes are "flexible". I think I'd usually agree with that meaning.
They did not forgot to write nice professional audio and music tools for Android. They can't, because of audio latency and dropouts.
Ah. You are exactly right... Thank you! I guess I got confused with the "link strength" terminology. I need to change this then.

Re. gravity: I was using this answer from mbostock to try and control the size of the graph.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9901565/charge-based-on-s...

But I have found it quite difficult to be honest, especially when you need to accommodate both desktop and mobile (I ended up using two sets of params).
>Divide $14Bn net income by 53,600 employees gives about $260k. So GOOG could roughly double their salaries and remain profitable.

That doesn't make any sense. If Google disburses that $14B Net Income as salary/bonus to the employees, the Net Income would be $0. One can't have it both ways, unless you illogically count that money twice.

Besides the issue of recategorizing "net income" as "employee expense", Google wouldn't have new money to invest in the business as an ongoing concern. That $14B can be used in future years to invest in driverless cars, satellites, global internet hot air balloons, acquisitions of other companies, or whatever ambitious plans they have.

Disbursing the Net Income to their employees means Google would cease to exist as a viable ongoing business.

One can also look backward and see why and how companies get formed in the first place. If angel investors and venture capitalists knew from the beginning that Google was going to disburse all Net Income to employees, they would have never invested $$$ in 1998 to let them grow. Angels and VC's are not charities and they want ROI -- because things like pension funds that utilize VC's want an ROI.

From that birth of the company, the chain of events continued: a big reason why Google has $14B of net income in 2014 is that they did not disburse the net incomes to employees in previous years 2013, 2012, 2011...2000. They were able to spend previous profits to build new datacenters, offer 1 gigabyte GMail accounts, acquire Keyhole maps, etc.
There's a word for someone who makes those kinds of judgments: "bigot".
I do the same to protest stupid laws.
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I myself also would prefer native windows, and I time to time continue working on Mars... but is a side project nobody has actually expressed interest, so I usually spend my time in other, more required, stuff.
But... Mars was loading in Pharo 4.0, and even if very incomplete, is usable for them who want to give it a try and finish it (also people showing interest could help me to get motivation :) )
I'm not sure I'm reaching the same conclusion.

- Chrome is taking 618ms to load / vs 412 ms on FF.

- FF loads all the .css & .js at 320ms as well as first 8 imgs

- CH loads all the .css & .js at ~600ms as well as first 8 imgs

Before chalking up the advantage to dependency-based prioritization (which may be a good thing-I don't know) I would first explain why fetching "/" is so much slower on chrome.
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They hesitate to include "Spur", a new memory manager in the VM. Check Clement Bera's blog post for more: https://clementbera.wordpress.com/2014/02/06/7-points-summar...

This is the first step towards a 64bits VM (yay!)
All of the measurements and the latency graph shows you a pure NDK implementation.
The tone and details of this email oozes a person with experience, has seen problems before but heads-up this might be worse than you think, and despite being worded quite formally seems a pretty modest (assertive, not aggressive nor submissive). Given the technology that is X.25 they also seem to be aware they can charge an eminently reasonable market rate to get approved yet put their foot down on working conditions (their quote is their quote, hours and 'productivity' agreed in advance).

I'd imagine they get a lot of recommendations, just from extrapolating that email.
>> Anyone can edit Wikipedia, of course

That's not true any more, of course.
Big respect.
> don't understand, can't A get his shit together with B

That's easy, B isn't communicating with A anymore. It's funded ? sure, but B has the money and has no intention to give the money back or actually create fulfill his promises.

The question is, what kind of venture is it? (between A and B). If A and B are part of the same business then he can totally be sued by backers. If that's not the case,then A isn't responsible for the money being stolen.

Is there a page or an archive of the project page available? I wanna know who created the project, A or B? it's seems like B since A has no access to the Kickstarter account.
According to Gordon Craig's history of Germany 1866-1945, Wilhelm II complained during the war that none of the generals would tell him anything, except for the one in charge of railways, to whom he was very grateful for the favor. The recent history The Sleepwalkers depicts him as a bit panicked by the approach of the war.
PowerShell came out missing a lot of obvious commands it's gradually been filling in but the core concept is pretty good. It's easy to write a bunch of scripts and feel like it's just normal to waste a lot of time munging text but PowerShell kind of frees you from that.
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I cannot even begin to quantify the appreciation I have for Cybrary and their free courses. Their training is opening doors for me in my company that would otherwise be closed.
It's truly amazing how powerfully people can be conditioned by the government and law.
Right, a lot of Smalltalker would love native windows. It's a requirement for some companies as well.

Edit: not only for the look but also for the feel. I hate when my usual keyboard shortcuts do something different in Pharo than in my OS.
Ugh, I can't understand why anyone would do deployment from VS. It's insane.
ALSA is super. The HAL connecting ALSA to AudioFlinger is the major problem, plus the audio stack's "push" philosophy.
I feel her pain, but in my book it's inappropriate for her to be painting herself as a victim. A business in which she was a principal cheated 3,000 people out of $182,000. Now she's wailing about being inconvenienced. She should sit down and write a personal apology to each of the backers who've been more than inconvenienced.
Isn't that an infrastructure problem? If we use less water in California that doesn't mean less people will be thirsty in South America.
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who sent the DMCA takedown? If it's B ,that's pretty clever.Not only he defrauded the backers but he also removed all trace of the scam from the internet.
What's the use-case for that? Are there people reading that using a Lisp Machine or something?

I'd say it should offer some form of API. Then you can use anything to read. Such as Emacs.
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Do you have a link for the Moulton record? The Moulton site has a weird phrasing about top speed and doesn't provide the time. If there really is a design advantage to small wheels, I wonder what the physics there are. Large wheels are good on road where you will encounter potholes etc.

Anyhow, those small wheels are too ugly to be seen riding.
So true. But..

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." - Winston Churchill.
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No Tupperware? I'm disappointed.
Does it obey "power law" distribution? :)
If it just used plain markup, I could read it in emacs without building a custom client for the API.
An increase in number of acquisitions means a decrease in competition, a decrease in product diversity (random product discontinuations, with higher probability for good products) and a decrease of market modularity and flexibility.

We should oppose this.
> Macros allow you to do things in e.g. C which cannot be done via any other mechanism in the language.

This isn't really an argument in favor of macros so much as an argument against minimally-featured languages like C.

To be clear, I'm not against using macros in every case. I think a lot of the danger of macros in C comes from C's syntax: macros become a much more powerful tool when you're using a homoiconic language like Lisp. There are a few different projects which have attempted to write languages with C-like semantics and Lisp-like syntax, but sadly none have gained traction.
One example, if you are using Azure, it makes it very easy to deploy from VS. But again, this is an option and not a requirement. You are fee to deploy however you please.
That's a funny exchange! The particularly odd thing is the fact that he missed the Named-entity recognition in some of those answers- including by not identifying that you were referring to the fact that you were moving to a state. He somehow interpreted it as an opinion. Let me check what exactly went on that prevented his correct behavior.
If you're interested, I have some ideas for how to prevent the specific problem that immediately caught my attention. I'm pretty sure it could be coupled to your front end as a separate module/system that then lets you use it or not as you like, and see how different people react to it. Contact details in my profile.

My ideas are definitely half-baked and may be completely wrong/useless/inappropriate, or it may even be that you prefer to continue to work largely independently. That's not a bad thing, as getting input from other people may stifle your own creativity and ideas.

Regardless, thanks for the responses and for the interesting project.
IIRC, they specifically removed this functionality a few versions ago. Their stated reasoning was never clear to me. Something about a lack of clarity regarding which variables passed through how.

It might be possible to write a plugin of some sort that adds the functionality you want.
I've been to a lot of places in Latin America that have roads, and modern construction houses, electricity, water, and cell connections where $182k would last you a very VERY long time. decades easily. I met a man in Peru with a restaurant directly on the Panamerican, and two taxis who was doing very well for himself earning $5k a year...
Zapier is a very cool tool, although it tends to be more for point to point data push.. tray.io is actually aiming for the situations where you need to do something a bit more complex than point to point..

This video is a good example of the sort of thing you could do http://quick.as/1wywu5nj
I am not sure why this is downvoted. Abstraction layers are often added to give flexibility and ease of use, sometimes at the cost of performance. For example ALSA has features like muxing together audio from several apps, while a lower level API might only allow one app to use audio.
I grew a professor style beard just visiting that site.
That's a little unfair. It's clearly coming from an informed perspective at the very least; bigots' opinions aren't grounded in experience/reason.
Datatau seems to be alive, and I check it regularly. Not much discussion though. http://www.datatau.com/
Tarol did post a public apology a while back, this situation has been going on for a while. Today's rant is about Kickstarter not sending the apology or information to the backer list before, but now is able to do so with false information.

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The code examples are incredibly difficult to read. Dark grey on black doesn't work.
OP is going a bit far, but I believe he's referring to http://www.numerama.com/magazine/32780-loi-renseignement-qua...

Basically, our Defense Minister's twitter account posted a quote of Christiane Taubira (the Defense Minister) saying "It is obvious that the methods of retrieval [of data] are potentially endangering private life".

It was quickly removed.
With the principle of charity in mind I'd interpret Red_Tarsius's comment as saying "$182,000 don't make for a life
changing hustle under B's circumstances", not "$182,000 don't make for a life
changing hustle for anyone".
Oh boy... whats going to happen if they bring a sears catalog? The kinds of things they show in there...
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they've already done it:

improve a language feature & deprecate the old way of doing it -> Python 2.6+ and 3.2+

remove features that have been replaced -> 3.x

Did I also mention it is not hard to have a single code base that is compatible with both 2.x and 3.x?
Renaming a java variable or permuting arguments in IntelliJ is far easier than trying to do the same thing with grep/sed. IntelliJ happens to work with both Windows and Linux, but I've found that I'm certainly more effective programming Java in an IDE than without.
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That documentary is focusing on the wrong things.

I do not care about speech recognition when we are talking about AGI.

I care about AGI being able to understand written text - the most natural form of communication between humans and AGI.

The problem is that AGI is not able to understand written text well, cannot build good mental models and cannot make meaningful decisions based on them.
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