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Yes, their "IT support" (that costs how much per year again), run by some underpaid "SQL Specialist" in India with 9 layers of Middle-management above probably fumbled an SQL query.

Note: This is a critique of "corporate IT services" essentially, overpriced and underperforming
Yes, this is something I've been telling myself. Somebody who's disrespectful at this point will be painful to work with. However, I nevertheless need a job so that I can get on with my life, you know? Being on pause and watching time go by without knowing where I'll live in one month's time sucks.
Which legal hoops do you mean?
He doesn't quote that size as being the size of his house - he quotes it as the total floor space of an average dining room, a small kitchen and a small living room, added together.

He doesn't give the dimensions of his home. However, from looking at the pictures it's possible to estimate - I get around 25' by 20' looking at the number and size of windows.
Exactly. Only after reading the paraphrased version did it become clear to me, but then I'm not a native speaker.
Google person finder for the quake: https://google.org/personfinder/2015-nepal-earthquake
Yup. Here in Edinburgh we have quite a lot of Victorian flats with 14' ceilings. They're noticably more expensive to heat in winter than flats like my current one, which is modern and has 8' ceilings.

They do also feel a lot bigger, though. Maybe it's worth the tradeoff?
As well as dubious wireless adapters Dell also shipped a USB GigE adapter for some XPS15 models that doesn't work for more than a few hours before the adapter crashes and needs to be power cycled by removing and reinserting it. I had a customer with one XPS15 that contained both the terrible wireless and terrible external wired network adapter.

The story gets better though, Dell shipped a demo model of a new XPS15 recently and we discovered the improved USB3.0 GigE adapter that it ships with is now stable, so got them to swap the older ones out but customers shouldn't really be testing hardware that is unable to perform its basic function reliably.
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A lot of vendors actually did, though with different names (HP called it PointStick and Dell called it Track Stick - I think both were blue).

I'm also very fond of my Trackpoint, although heavy usage does give me some nasty RSI like symptoms in the hands/fingers.
UTF-8 interpreted as ISO-8859-1/Windows-1252 and then encoded back into UTF-8. Probably came from a copy/paste of material in a different encoding, via a program that was not charset-aware.

http://www.i18nqa.com/debug/utf8-debug.html
I hate the body counts in disaster news coverage. Why do we spend so long speculating on whether it is 10,000 dead or 15,000 dead? It doesn't matter to the vast majority of viewers, yet we get constant updates and speculation. It's just morbid. Even to those who have loved ones affected, the count is irrelevant. It's like we feel compelled to measure the awfulness of each disaster in order to rank and compare them. Please stop! (And if you put 'there are fears that the death toll could rise' in a news report, you are both padding out your story and revelling in the death counts. Again, just stop.)
Huh. Works for me with Fedora, Google Chrome, Version 42.0.2311.81 (64-bit) and 43.0.2357.37 (64-bit)
Indeed, at the end of the day, it has to be convenient for the average person, and moving away from classic email and things like IPv4 are insanely tough problems. A huge part of the battle is getting the tech giants behind it.

So far, I think Microsoft, Apple, Google, and others have done a pretty good job of pushing encryption as the norm so far. If the major companies continue to push it, I think there's hope.
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"Build something that solves a problem you have."

"Work with what you know."
> Lastly, we'll assume that whoever can deduce the binary state of certainty first, will speak first.

The speed at which they come to their conclusions, and who speaks first is meaningless. I think perhaps if you are taking them into account then you are trying to come up with a completely different problem, or intentionally being disingenuous.

Given the context (that this is a question on a high school test), it is safe to assume that Albert and Bernard are only drawing logical conclusions from the information Cheryl provides and what each other say.

Given that the problem works with no problems under these assumptions, and that there is enough information to re-word it with Bernard speaking first that does not change the answer, it seems pointless to try and look for timing attacks or other outlandish ways to change the answer...
Well, Calacanis is much more successful than me so I'm inclinded to think that:

1. Yes, he made the wrong call on Youtube.
2. The habit of making wrong (but still reasonable) calls might be a good one.

My learning from this:

1. Form a view based on the best facts and analysis available at the time.
2. Act on that view. Share it. Be confident.
3. Be ready to change your mind and not worry about having been wrong.

Success is about taking enough good gambles that some pay off. Most people don't let themselves take good gambles, and the value of a few paying off more than pays for a few that don't. If it's not a gamble at all everybody will be doing it.
Will it be possible to write a filter on top of this to eliminate invalid/dissonant outputs based on music theory -- e.g. key signature, beat, harmonics etc?

Edit: Try listening to only the first bar of each sample at the bottom of the page. It almost sounds like the beginning of a proper composition. The only problem is that subsequent bars don't match. Fix that and I think there's something great here.
Well I'm sorry but some of those people are paid by companies to handle HR, professionalism doesn't look like an option to me. It is true though that I have nothing to gain in this. I'm a web dev with experience in front-end, back-end and system administration. I'm looking for any first job that will allow me to specialize in any of those fields.
Have a look at adhocracy: https://github.com/liqd/adhocracy and http://adhocracy.de

You can drastically reduce the actual adhocracy functionality to a simple pro/con discussion platform.
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Isn't the whole point of reddit that you can choose the kind of content you want to see with subreddits? Don't like memes and pictures? Unsubscribe from funny, adviceanimals and pics.
Have you turned up the TrackPoint sensitivity? The default settings are too slow and you have to push it too hard. Note that there are two settings in the Mouse control panel that affect it: the regular mouse sensitivity slider and a separate TrackPoint slider. I keep both of those turned up just a notch or two from the right (most sensitive) and also have "enhance pointer precision" on. With this sensitive response I've never had any RSI or fatigue from using the TrackPoint.

Something else to note here is a long-standing bug in the TrackPoint driver: unless this has been fixed recently, whenever the driver is updated it loses the TrackPoint-specific sensitivity setting. If you ever find the TrackPoint responding more slowly that it should after an update, double-check that setting.
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A lot of people reading it probably didn't even realize that it is a logic puzzle. To those, it may be some kind of obscure riddle with terrible grammar.

Heck, it's not even clear that Albert and Bernard are communicating with one another and not merely with the answerer. If you assume they do not communicate at all then the puzzle becomes impossible.
I recently stopped brining my work MBP home in favour of a second hand lenovo X200. I often find myself reaching for the trackpoint on the MBP, but I never reach for the trackpad on the X200. It's weird how quickly this became the intuitive thing to do.
However there are implementations for Xilinx FPGAs, like this OpenCores one: http://opencores.org/project,sata_controller_core

I can imagine a couple of students with a lot of free time could get it ported over to the newer FPGA and start thinking about the kernel driver workup for it.
I strongly prefer this approach, as long as the project is interesting enough to attract engineers, and allows you to assert the aspects you want to see in them. The coding project we give to candidates is to implement an open source Hacker News client. If it were me I won't mind doing one and put it on my portfolio (which I did), regardless of whether I pass the interview.
Nepal Earthquake 2015 • Earthquake in South Asia, April 25, 2015 [RAW FOOTAGE]
Do you have a link to any of these Argos-delivering refurbishers?
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Are you a starter but not a finisher?
Are you sure you really want to build a business? Or do you just like the idea of having a business, but not the grinding work?
You say you like to read and think a lot - this could be signs that having a business is not really what you want.
Where have you spent your 16-18 hours a day? On your website, on your framework, on your code editor? Or on solving business problems, on sales, on talking to people with money?
You don't have friends and say you lost your best time. So start living now. Stop "building businesses". Work in business. Talk to business people. Get experience.
So yes, I'd say indeed give up. Because it doesn't matter what you tell yourself now. You are going to change your mind anyway. With 25 there is so much more to learn and do.
Ted briefly mentions a multi-TrackPoint keyboard near the end of the interview. A prototype looked like this:

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/user/tp/2handed.gif

This would have been fun if they'd shipped it and if software could have been written for it. The idea was that each TrackPoint would have its own cursor, so for example in a text editor you could use one for selecting text and the other for menus.
As others have pointed out, that article is now 15 years old.
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How is this any different than https://sublevel.net?
It seems to be a "business" thing, almost all the non-ultrabook laptops I see at work (typically the Precision, Elitebook etc) have a Trackpoint variant. My aging Acer Travelmate has one, but unfortunately it has no middle-button, so scrolling is impossible!
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> Well, it's supposed to be "safe". Why didn't he drink it?

Urine is also safe. Would you drink your own in front of a camera if I asked you to during an interview on water purification systems?

Most people react negatively to such weird requests, especially if they're out of the blue, in front of a camera, and asked by person who evidently tries to prove some point at your expense.

> And the interview was originally about Golden Rice.

Yes, which has nothing whatsoever to do with Roundup. Golden rice is a cool piece of biotech created to save more than half a million lives of children annually (and save many more from blindness) and is given away for free to grow (and replant) by people that need it. Bringing up Monsanto's pesticide in that interview was disingenuous, not to mention off-topic.

> Actually, in a functioning ecosystem, no pesticides are needed. Insects & other microorganisms are natural parts of the food web.

First of all, not really. That is, sure if you don't mind half your crops being rotten. I've never seen the evidence that you can successfully run a high-yield zero-pesticide farm. But I'm not that into farming and I'll be more than happy to learn I'm wrong.

But more importantly, even if possible, apparently almost no one does that. Especially not organic farmers, who dump even more chemicals on food than usual, with only difference is that those chemicals have "organic-certified" label. So between "a lot of pesticides", "even more pesticides applied by industry that tries to cheat you into thinking they're not using pesticides" the "one pesticide" solution suddenly doesn't sound that bad.
This is a nice, complete and well-documented review of why Clojure is not made for Android.

I disagree with the conclusion though: yeah, the classic JVM-clojure seems doomed on Android. Why ? It's not made for that, it's made for servers, it's not even used for desktop GUI programming that much. Even if we beat the startup time, it's not likely that we'll get nice UI-bindings for Android before a long time (I like the Java-interop but writing serious Android apps with the interop alone seems awful to me) and yes, there are some libraries abstracting this a little bit such as neko [1] but it's still too close to the Java-development paradigms (it's not as clojure-ish as I wish, but that's my opinon!).

So, the conclusion: no we don't need a swift for Android, and clojure is not swift anyway.

iOS already has clojure support, it's not really stable but it has decent startup times and a nice API. It's not the JVM-clojure, it's clojurescript. The UI is managed by React Native and om. It works and you get a nice REPL running too. [2] No it's not finished and has lots of bugs and it's not even publishable on the AppStore for now but it's just a matter of weeks here before addressing those problems (you can follow the work of David Nolen & Mark Fikes on this particularly, they often communicate on what they're doing but there are other awesome people working on this too!)

So for Android ? ReactNative is coming too [3]. When it's there, the community will try the same thing as what they did on iOS, and it's likely to succeed too. The community behind cljs is growing and it's becoming the main clojure implementation for ui-related stuff. You can thank React and om for that but I think that core.async has a lot to do with it too.

Anyway, I don't want to stop believing in Clojure for mobile development.

[1]: https://github.com/clojure-android/neko
[2]: https://github.com/omcljs/ambly/wiki/Driving-React-Native-wi...
[3]: https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/#when-is-react-native-...
I got my bachelors in biochemistry at a mid tier school with a bad science program and am now at MIT for my PhD. The difference in quality of instruction at the undergrad level, access to undergrad research opportunities / internships, and breadth of course availability is immense.
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The reason why JavaScript has succeeded where many other languages, whether statically typed or not, have failed, is that it was bundled with a runtime platform - the web browser - that became ubiquitous.

Millions of people want to write programs that runs in a web browser, and it's easiest to do that in JavaScript.

JavaScript is a textbook example of "worse-is-better", and you are right, for compatibility reasons we are going to be stuck with it until long past its best-before date, just like C.
Indeed.

Music is not a list of numbers produced by a statistical distribution.

Structural relationships are global, not local. Markov chains are nowhere near smart enough to model that.
I've never seen sublevel before. Looks interesting though.
Yeah I disabled images for anonymous comments. Should have guessed that would happen.
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Knocking down or throwing up the structure for a partition wall isn't that expensive. If you want to build something like 16 linear feet of wall, you need 4 panels of drywall ($40), about 16 2x4s ($43), some tape ($2), joint compound ($15), a gallon of primer ($20), and another of paint ($30-60).

All in all, you can do that for about $200, if you're willing to do it yourself. This neglects doing the electrical (you don't need plumbing for a partition, but you do need outlets every 12 ft so that there is no space on the wall with more than 6' without one).

Until you get into moving structural walls, or doing kitchens and bathrooms; you can change the interior of the house fairly cheaply. Depending on where you live, you may not need any permits either if it isn't a structural change.
Or if they offered 30-50% above market if you aced their tests.
That's a great idea! I've been trying to figure out my ideal living environment over the past year, and I've come to the conclusion that a personal space within a larger shared space - anywhere in size from a large house to a small village - would be ideal. How did you find the collaborators for your current planned arrangement? (And - might as well ask - do you have any openings?)
Lenovo decreased the build quality with every iteration. The original IBM ThinkPad T60 was rock solid. The Lenovo T400/T410 and X200/X210 were great too, but already with thinner plastic case. The T420 and X220 were the last good series. The T430 and X230 came already with a bad keyboard&trackpad and was made of less durable plastic. It all started with the faulty T410s (mind the "s") which plastic was way too thin. The X1 is not a ThinkPad, just a generic notebook with its name attached. Maybe Lenovo changes their product strategy, then one can buy new products again.
Interesting thanks. Will take a look.
What went wrong with the businesses you've built so far? It's hard to tell whether you should give up (although spoilers: no, probably not, unless you've got something you'd rather be doing) without knowing what went wrong.

Did you launch? If so, did you get initial traction? If so, were you just unable to scale? If not, was it that people weren't interested in the ideas? What were those ideas?

I'm not sealioning here - I have a certain amount of experience in debugging business problems, and if you respond I'm happy to try to help. Feel free to email me if you'd prefer - mail address is in my profile.

If it makes you feel any better, I've been working for nearly 20 years to crack a specific business sector myself! I've had some success, but "mission accomplished" is still some distance off.

Finally - you almost certainly SHOULD stop working as many hours as you are. There's a lot of solid, carefully tested, science-backed evidence that you're almost certainly harming rather than helping your chances by working that many hours.
I wonder where they came up with the name "Jessie".
Seller was newandusedlaptops4u

They are still doing them and still do the Argos thing

Use the ebay search term 'WINDOWS 7 IBM Lenovo X200 Laptop Core 2 Duo'

The URL is one of those very long ones with numbers in that never work properly. I got the 2Gb X200 one and it is fine with Debian SID and an encrypted hard drive (LUKS).
Will have to spin up an Arch box and take a look. Don't have access to one at the moment.
All the release names are characters from the Toy Story franchise.
I come from himalayan seismic zone and disaster preparedness is rarely in anyone's priority. There are multiple factors. Massive old construction, awareness around seismic construction, life priorities vis-a-vis poverty and probability of disasters at this scale in one's lifetime (I have witness one major earthquake in 1986 that caused major structural damage but no casualties) are some of the factors that make things worse.

There is no doubt that right estimation can help in preparedness post disaster. There are theoretical models but IMO those come with lots of uncertainties. 9/11 example you quoted seems to be off by factor of ~17.
The count has some meaning for post disaster preparedness
I suspect it goes deeper than that - one thing I've noticed is that the Dwarf Fortress community has much more depth than the TF2 community. I suspect that this is due to TF2's ease of consumption in comparison to Dwarf fortress, or rather Dwarf Fortress's high barrier to entry in comparison to TF2.
Either go tit for tat or don't waste any more energy than necessary. I've mostly encountered situations where there's bad-faith negotiation, in which case I either walk or (if I'm in the advantageous position) actively make the process more tiring and frustrating with delays, bumping the quote, etc.

People, in general, have trouble sticking to promises surrounding interpersonal plans. This is not just a business thing, it's a "I can barely deal with the world" thing. People have their issues, and operate at the selfish, reptilian level the majority of the time(regardless of self-image). Rather than call them jerks for behaving like what they are, figure out how to tame them instead. That's the most noble thing you can do.

I'll use ample amounts of time to socialize and give advice. But when it's time to discuss paid work and livelihoods are at stake, I cut out the flake-outs really quickly. Filtering and hedging happens at the stage of these early meet-and-greet communications: If they say they're interested, do they also indicate that they'll work to reach you? If they want to schedule something, do they actually give date and time options? Red flags of effort/reward can appear all over this stuff. If they want you to do a test project and the scope and spec indicates some possibility of theft of work, either walk or design in a (non-destructive) time bomb that forces them to contact you again to negotiate payment for a fix.

I got introduced through a mutual friend to someone who had a minor programming job - something so trivial that outsourcing would actually be the appropriate choice, but I gave him a quote anyway. He got back to me almost an entire month later with a vague voice mail message saying "uh, tell me when you're downtown next so we can meet." I haven't replied - because in those two interactions, he's signaled a lack of research and poor ability to efficiently move things forward. It might be for a friend, but for the money, it'd take too much of my time to get to the invoicing stage relative to other things I have going. If I have to meet him again, I'll point him to eLance.
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Utopian communes in the US predate the Kibbutz by almost 100 years. They mostly died out by the early 1900s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_Utopian_commun...
I don't think any of those approaches are the fault of HR. If you have a system where companies will pay more money for a new employee than to retain an old employee, then employee churn naturally follows from that.
img of Jessie: http://bit.ly/1I83Qha
This is something they don't teach you in consultant school. There is such a thing as a bad client; one where they will never be satisfied no matter how well you deliver, even over deliver.

Instead of looking at what you can do for their company (boost profits, ROI), they will try and haggle over penny. Take ages to pay, if pay you at all.. Find excuses to get money off of invoices.

Just as bad employees are more likely to me looking for jobs. Bad companies will be more likely to be looking for staff/ contractors. Beware, know the signs for next time!
Lost for words. May she RIP.
When I have phone interviews, I tend to stand because I can sort of `run through my ideas`.
Just to clarify - the U.S. Suffered (major) volcanic lava flows in the Plains area at the time of Christ. So has that been factored into things like the development of human civilisation in the U.S. (Ie Mexican farming started a little after that - did we lose a civilisation or a chance of one then?)
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Love the Bret Victor talk mentioned on the Lamdu page: https://vimeo.com/36579366 "Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle"
It's a view I used to hold, but now I'm not that sure of it. First, a company today is not run by the same people as it was 40 or 80 years ago. So the question is, how much of that immoral past is in the "company DNA", and how much of it was just the old management? Secondly, shutting down such company would work if and only if you went and jailed people responsible for atrocities. Otherwise, they'll just join other companies or start new ones and continue to do evil. And since what you really need is bad people in jail, you may as well just leave their company be.