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It can.

If you know someone else doesn't know, that just gives you more knowledge you yourself can use.

For the "hardest puzzle", on each day everyone learns that no one was able to figure out the solution the day before. Because of this, a person knows that for a possible number of blue-eyed people to be valid, a person who sees one less blue eyed person than that, must have been unable to figure it out on the previous day.

An Arc/Common Lisp solution I just wrote up: https://gist.github.com/malisper/80625bcda75c66780f81
Agree on mini coding, useless projects - especially when an HR drone sends out Java test to a python dev :)

Another thing to keep in mind is that for a lot of people who are already employed, permission must be obtained from current employer before contributing to open source (and more and more companies are actively enforcing that unfortunately).
Sentient immortal mute beings of pure logic that do not possess the capability of traversing the ocean are people too!

I get your point. Still, it's hard to define the puzzle in terms of not-people. Maybe you could call them intelligent robots -- people might find it easier to picture mute robots with hats.
I just tried the game at that link and I got 0.164ms exactly three times in a row. This suggests that something is quantizing the input, but I'm not sure if it is flash, firefox, or something else.
Tor Browser, likely. It's based on the older ESR branch of Firefox. As it's a modified version of Firefox, it's unsupported by Mozilla.
Fry (thinks): can't tell if being ironic or ...
Did you contact Amazon support to tell them that this account and the account holder has no connection to any previous accounts? What did they say?
The advantage of interviewing employed people is that you have a better chance of hiring someone that is competent. That's also the reason, in a one local company's case at least, that your list of employers is looked at, as some companies hire a very high percentage of frauds.

One local employer, always looking for people, and not a bad place to work, has 3% of people pass the on-site interview, and it's not especially onerous: It shows you have general programming competency. Everything their exercise asks is something you'll use on the job. But most people that apply fail, because there is a local glut of people that know less than a proper entry level candidate, but ask for senior level salary. Those people tend to be the first to get laid off, and the ones that stay unemployed the longest.

There are great unemployed people out there sometimes: A SF startup that is 95% remote laid off 60% of their staff three weeks ago, and anyone would be fortunate to get that unemployed talent when they can. HR has to shift through a lot of unemployed people that you probably don't want to hire to find a great programmer, and a great programmer probably already has a network that gets them snapped up in days.

It's absolutely not fair to the good programmers that end up being unemployed for one reason or another, but given my experience interviewing, it's not hard to see why someone unemployed and without a good network gets passed up far more often than they deserve.
no but wikipedia kind of is
How safe is a dist-upgrade from 7.8 to 8?
> The advantage of interviewing employed people is that you have a better chance of hiring someone that is competent. That's also the reason, in a one local company's case at least, that your list of employers is looked at, as some companies hire a very high percentage of frauds.

How can you say that? All being emoyed means is that you got through the interview process and haven't annoyed anyone with the power to fire you. That hire may well be incompetent and looking to move out before they get fired.
"You cannot sell Android phones unless you pay licence fees to some company"?

Of course you need to pay licence fees to "some company" if you are selling Android phones, they're the ones making it. Why shouldn't Google get paid for their work? You can always remove Play store and other Gstuff and "leech" Android like Amazon. Let's not compare selling(licensing) software to some kind of feudal extortion pls.

I kinda can see what you're trying to say, it has been said many times before - patents make it harder for new players to enter the market. We have Jolla (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolla), and that spanish Ubuntu/Android-phone maker (http://www.bq.com/gb/), and the other spanish company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeeksPhone) which kinda prove otherwise.
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That's so sad... I was in Nepal two years ago and stayed with some locals. I hope they are ok.
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Was there actually a [further] job available or was it a ruse to have you do a days unpaid work?
That's true, except perhaps you're not calculating in all the extra tools you use to do that work that (as far as I know) the average homeowner may not have laying around their house.

If you're building up a tool inventory from scratch and all your power tools, etc. that will be needed, this won't be free :)

Then there's also the fear that an inexperienced person would have: "am I buying the right tools for the job?". Or, "will I ever do this kind of project again?" If not why don't I just hire a contractor to do the work for me instead of investing in tools I may never use again, and remove the fear of doing it wrong or causing more damage which in turn will end up costing more money.

The way things are done today it's relatively intimidating to someone who doesn't know the first thing about it. On the other hand I would argue that perhaps it's not necessary that the process of redoing the interior layout of the house should be intimidating or inaccessible to the average home owner.
Some great commentary here on more than just Glass but also on the market of seemingly dumb ideas and the pervading geek culture and socioeconomic stratification that enables them.
Every multi-millionaire who used the indigenous people of that country in order climb the highest mountain(and all the other peaks), in order to check off another accomplishment should be on a private jet(if possible)--filled with doctors, medicine, water, food, and wads of cash.

Give money and support to every needy person. You might get a better "rush" out of the experience of really helping the needy; Rather than the narcisstic act of climbing mountians with help of poor people? (I don't know the state of Nepal's Red Cross? It might be a very efficient chapter? I don't trust money sent to government officials will reach the needy, but I might be way off?)
Sometimes the people who ask you to interview are not the same people who do actually end up interviewing you, or they don't communicate with each other.

At one of my last interviews I was told I don't look like I want the job enough because I was dressed casually. I was very confused. I reminded them that they requested an interview with me several times, even after I told them I was not on the market, and that I had actually taken time of work for the interview. I only showed up because they practically begged me. I was so annoyed at some of the questions. "What value can you add to this company?" No sir, how can YOU make it worth MY while to join you, considering that I have to leave a position that I'm perfectly comfortable with? After finally understanding that I was happy with my current job, one of the interviewers asked me "So why are you here wasting our time?" I was infuriated.

The whole experience left a bitter taste in my mouth. I don't think I would ever consider interviewing at that company again.
Debian is really well-made, we've used it at my college to host a yearly programming competition since 2012, it's stable, quick, and rather simple to maintain, especially if you're not doing anything too complex, other than hosting a couple of PHP files on top of a web server, that's the full scope of what we've done. I am not a security expert so that I couldn't answer on, we've not yet had any breaches yet, despite all the major things that came out last year or so, 'Heartbleed', and 'Shell Shock'. I think the best option for you is to try it out on one machine maybe via LiveCD and see how you like or don't like it.
> All I care about is that stuff just works for as many years as possible, gets security updates and does not break

I would go with FreeBSD or Debian.
I wonder when Raspbian will be rebased to Debian 8.
Hence the unstable branch is always known as "Sid"
To clarify my statement: the idea of lean Clojure for making Clojure viable for Android development basically works. More static compilation of vars dramatically reduced startup times; I think further "lean Clojure" changes like dependency shaking would bring equally dramatic improvements. I'm handwaving a bit here at the challenges involved in making further changes, but the direction seems quite promising, at least for reducing startup times.

General performance is more difficult to speak for. If it is within a factor of two of Java that seems pretty similar to Clojure vs Java on the desktop and is a tradeoff many are willing to make. It's also true that Clojure relies heavily on Java libraries and Android app performance is highly dependent on underlying library and native performance. So basically for run time performance I don't think the performance of Clojure itself is the most significant factor.
Really dissapointed. I hope Chris is happy having completely stained his portfolio. You'd think a well maintained project would be worth more for his future career than some donations now.

uBlock Origin is the way to go.
I am pretty much the same. When I write or do something complicated I sit down. Meetings, interviews, working through the mailbox is best done standing up.
That's not an official release statement.

It's a month old mail stating Debian targeted today as a release date for Debian 8 (edit: latest news item in the list).
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Funny you say it. I had a go at it as well. Seems like we ended up more or less the same :)

https://gist.github.com/Cheesebaron/f813576f62dce8391c3b
A max loss is probably the first thing you should code!

It's not so easy though. What if you have a bug in your pnl calculator? Also, do you just block all new orders when you hit the max loss or do you liquidate your positions when you hit the max loss - because that's more code you could have bugs in. Maybe you cancel initiating orders and go to market on liquidating orders? Maybe you have code to limit the number of orders/size you can be working simultaneously - might have a bug in there too!

What if someone clears out the book i.e. a huge sell orders clears out all the buy limit orders and your pnl prints down massively for a millisecond? Should you also sell when this happens - probably getting a terrible exit price or do you wait and see if the book repopulates?
Alternatively, do it exactly like every school bus since the beginning of time - if students are being jackasses, they are forced to sit up front, or, alternatively, lose their bus privileges and now have to find some other way to get to school.

Banning book reading on buses is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've heard in 2015.
Its really good to see someone have a go at an FCC cert with the ESP8266EX. Very curious to see how it goes.

I put one of those chinese ESP8266 modules from ebay in the limited test gear I have on hand and it wasn't pretty.
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What are your servers running now? Is there an upgrade path from whatever Linux it is? Do you have a lot of custom configurations?

Debian is widely regarded and typically provides two to three years update support for a given code name (e.g. Wheezy or Jessie). There is a proposal for providing Long Term Support (LTS) for Wheezy as has been done for Squeeze.
I would! I love coding exercises meant to gain information about a candidate; they're like yardsticks for my professional growth. I love evaluating how I solve a problem now vs how I would have solved it while interviewing for the job I'm leaving. I also just enjoy solving problems. To me, doing a coding exercise is like doing a Tuesday crossword puzzle (they're never hard enough to be stressful) that I get to show off: Look how correctly I solved this, and in ink, with no mistakes, with very well written, clear words.

I don't see it as a waste of time; it's about the potential payoff, which is a (presumably) better job with better opportunities. I wouldn't apply to a job unless I was reasonably sure I wanted to work there anyway. I might be very lucky in that I've worked for good companies in the past few years and the only reason I'd leave one of these companies is for a much much better one. Usually when I leave a job, I've become bored of the problem domain anyway and am looking to solve new problems.

Disclosure: 31 year old man, no kids, I live with my partner.
You just ruined a golden opportunity.
So people that make use of Open Source software are Leeches now? Really....
> One local employer, always looking for people, and not a bad place to work, has 3% of people pass the on-site interview, and it's not especially onerous: It shows you have general programming competency.

How many people who apply get an on-site interview? Has this company considered if their prescreening process is broken and is actually filtering out mos of the people who could pass the on-site interviews?
Python links the VC runtime (so not even the system CRT).

MinGW links the system CRT by default, which is one reason that it can be fussy to compile Python extensions with it.

(I'm more curious about what a survey would reveal than I am trying to argue with you about what you said)
C-130 Hercules is a very reliable plane. Don't worry
To my knowledge Google has stated, and not violated that statement, that their patents would be used for defensive purposes only... Do you have knowledge to the contrary?
I think he's actually referring to the Microsoft Android patent licensing thing:

http://gizmodo.com/the-secret-android-patents-that-microsoft...
No, that should be in the list as well. As should a large number of obscure-outside-China-but-huge Chinese cities like Chongqing, Chengdu, Wuhan, etc.
I thought the actual actual intent was to make sure innovations are accessible to the public (and competitors once protection expires), helping society as a whole.

Yet, it's hard to find any instance where someone would have used a software patent for its supposed purpose: to replicate the innovation. They're utterly useless.
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Thats interesting. One thing that is said about Debian is "most stable GNU/Linux". Now it seems, it is a thing of the past.

https://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/

Any idea why they have gone with this?
live updates: https://identi.ca/debian

release can happen any moment!
Hi guys, this app is a side project of mine. Originally I developed this app just for myself, I wanted a super simple solution to keep an eye on my servers and backends. I was tired of all the other complicated apps, some of which even require signing up for some services. Now I have released a new v2 version rebuilt from scratch which addresses lots of the feedback I got.

I am sorry about the free/pro thing. I would love to hand out free promo codes for you guys to try, but unfortunately Apple still doesn’t support promo codes for in-app purchases. I you have any feedback, I would love to hear it.
So what is your alternative to Google?

Apple? MS? I would make the exact same post as you have about Google about either of these companies.
Absolutely. People who aren't going to be interested anyway often don't look past the names. E.g., Hatebreed, one of the most relentlessly positive and inclusive bands out there. And Jamie Jasta is the very definition of DIY.
is the uk really that bad though? i feel like most flats outside of london are reasonably priced. london z1/2 on the other hand... ;)
Some people have, but most businesses did. Today I am seeing more and more business being sucked into the "cloud" hype and foregoing all locally controlled and owned systems.. This is very very very dangerous.
The C-130 does not have the capacity to transport this many people in one flight, especially including the gear they will most likely be taking with them. There may be several C-130s involved in this operation. It's possible that one C-130 could get all these NRDF personnel there in one day with several flights. I would expect that the C-130(s) will be involved in flight operations over the next several days (or weeks) in support of this operation.
Mailing? It links to a mailing. But the page is release.debian.org - do you have any more authoritative source for a different release date?

Also on identi.ca they wrote today:

"FTP/Release teams' work is complete; once CD testing is complete, the mirrors will be updated and jessie will be released!"

https://identi.ca/debian
>> I'll invoice you for the privilege

I would have no hesitation on actually bringing this up. Charge him your regular rate and refund him 50% off your fee if he later hires you.
Which model? I'm looking to buy one soon myself and I'd like to know what to avoid.
Just on the side note. This was announced on microsoft website about them celebrating about Debian release.

http://openness.microsoft.com/blog/2015/04/21/microsoft-debi...
I hope stable release team accepts fixes to some of those issues into later updates.
Decades of attempts to convert this "vast amount of disparate amount of data into actionable insights" have found that it's far more complicated than you think. See for examples http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_data_mining and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_analytics for some of the well-known names for these sorts of analytics.

For example, "Investing in expensive data analysis systems may not be as important as investing in ways of measuring teacher effectiveness that can identify the specific supports teachers need to improve their practice." - http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/may1... .

"Value Added Measures" are one of the many attempts at applying analytics to education. The error rate and variability of that method is so high as to make it unusable. See http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/resources/value-added-measu... .

I cannot reconcile your statement with the last 15 years of high-stakes testing, which were justified by saying they could do the analytics that you think haven't been considered.

Nor with the many attempts, dating to at least PLATO in the 1960s, to develop computer assisted instruction systems, with data acquisition and analytic components.

Edit: Also, "Google Apps for Education" - https://classroom.google.com/
> Substituting a new process that uses a device for an old process that uses a person

The thing is, processes are not patentable. The problem lies in the fact that there's a loophole which allows processes to be patented if they include the phrase "implemented on a machine".

This loophole is the problem, since it makes something previously unpatentable (such as mathematics, business logic) patentable.
Maybe it's because the sheep make sound when they start running, and the OP test is visual only. I feel that I react faster to sound... I dunno tho.
I really don't have any custom needs. Any old linux distro will do.

But only 2 to 3 years? That is very short. What would be a good alternative with longer support? There must be market for it I guess. Don't companies simply want to run their stuff as long as possible? Many companies still use Windows XP. And that's 14 years old.

Any major distris that commit to 10 years of support or something?
It's mentioned in the faq:

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~keenan/faq.html

modo and tracing (perhaps by hand)

https://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/modo/
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>Complete automating of social life of automatons

Considering the number of bots on Facebook, and the number of humans who communicate with strangers in txspk, it's possible this has already happened.

I can see an inverse business opportunity - a tool to certify that your communication is 100% brain-made and authentically genuine.

Maybe artisanalemail.com?
Debian 8 has support until 2017.
Ubuntu 1404 LTS has support until 2019.
RHEL 7 has support until 2024 (and Centos).
I think that a billion person country has more than 450 disaster relief trained people.

On the other hand - there may be capacity to receive one plane, but not 10 - you don't know how long the infrastructure will be working.

My mind is with the people of Nepal, hoping for the best.
Why not do both?

https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/
Yeah I'm comparing the cost of replacing the keyboard and the wifi card versus just donating it and getting a new laptop that doesn't have the Nvidia Optimus and some other features I'm not fond of (and a less power-intensive processor).

The keyboard and the wifi card together would only be like $60 though, which is really nice.
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I would like to see a progressive fee structure on the filing of patents, and a point in the fee structure(say after 500 patient filings, the fee would jump up to a amount that would sting(maybe 5 million dollar filling fee?).

Plus, I would like all fees for the first patent, copyright, trademark free for individuals under federal poverty level.(Just the first one. If gross mistakes are made in the paperwork--so be it, but give smart, poor people a way to protect their works, trademarks, and inventions?)
By what criteria are C# and F# better than VB.Net? VB is more readable (not operator, inherits and implements keywords, etc), is functional, dynamic, compiles to the same byte code, and has useful features the other two don't (e.g. project-level imports). It's a lot easier for people with a Basic or Pascal background to use than either of the other two.

Are the only things going for C# and F# that they're your favourite languages? What makes your story more compelling than someone who likes VB.Net more than the others?
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I'll quote myself (http://blog.oleganza.com/post/85111558553/bitcoin-is-like):

Bitcoin is like Git: in Git (a distributed version control system) all your changes are organized in a chain protected by cryptographic hashes. If you trust the latest hash, you can get all the previous information (or any part of it) from any source and still verify that it is what you expect. Similarly, in Bitcoin, all transactions are organized in a chain (the blockchain) and once validated, no matter where they are stored, you can always trust any piece of blockchain by checking a chain of hashes that link to a hash you already trust. This naturally enables distributed storage and easy integrity checks.

Bitcoin is unlike Git in a way that everyone strives to work on a single branch. In Git everyone may have several branches and fork and merge them all day long. In Bitcoin one cannot “merge” forks. Blockchain is a actually a tree of transaction histories, but there is always one biggest branch (which has the value) and some accidental mini-branches (no more than one-two blocks long) that have no value at all. In Git content matters (regardless of the branch), in Bitcoin consensus matters (regardless of the content).
> refund him 50% off your fee if he later hires you.

That would be incompatible with anti-corruption rules in some places.