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When I share this on Facebook it's still showing mobile copy "Ting is a new mobile phone service..."
Focusing on pay first saves everyone time. If I'm not paid enough to cover my mortgage then I don't care what your environment is like. I don't think that makes me a mercenary.
I thought you were going to post this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6pj3jVgeh8
I would say that traveling has been a uniquely rewarding experience. I spent the better part of 10 years on the road. Certainly I could have worked that entire time and banked a ton of money in my 20s. But, while I'm sure I will continue to enjoy traveling again some day in the future, traveling is for the young. Do it while you can!
Anyone that hates Agile should watch this and at least be comforted by the fact that the community that came up with agile in the first place do recognize that there are problems and that it has become something different today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG4LH6P8Syk

Personally, I've gone from an organisation that was starting to implement what their version of agile was, back to one that has no such thing whatsoever. While I had my complaints about agile, it's sure as heck a lot better than having no agile practices at all, in my experience.
mappum? spenserj? What do you think?
I don't understand why do so many people like basecamp landing pages, to me it's just overflown with plain text, I don't know it's just me or not but the more text content I see on a landing page - the less desire I have to read it.
I think I missed out on funding once for wearing a collar.
I am a climate skeptic who believes in global warming
I was in the private beta for Ting GSM, and I loved every minute of it. I'm still on GSM with my main line, and we'll be moving my wife to Ting GSM once her CDMA phone finally kicks the bucket. I had tried Ting CDMA a few times since they first launched, and came back for good once I found out about the coming GSM service. Ting's customer support is simply unmatched, an anomaly among not just cellular companies but all tech companies I've ever dealt with.

Justen went above and beyond to help us beta testers resolve issues, and I feel like a part of the Ting family now even though I don't work there (though I'd love to if I lived further north!).
Are you including the 'cvc' field in your payment form?

It's not strictly required by Stripe, but (in my experience) many banks do require that it be sent along, in order for them to approve the charge.
I'm exceptionally happy to hear this. My entire life, I hated Diet anything and never realized there were actually multiple zero-calorie sweetener options - I thought they were all different brand names of aspartame!

Then I discovered sucralose/splenda just last year, and was surprised that aside from a distinctive taste that can be identified and being twice as sweet as sugar, it's actually alright. Aspartame to me has this really bitter, tangy taste that I'm not able to ignore. The first swill of a cold aspartame-flavored drink on a hot day is fine for ~0.5 seconds until the flavor kicks in, and then I can't take another sip. Splenda/sucralose works just fine for me in my morning coffee, and if you mix granulated splenda with refined sugar in a 1:1 or 3:1 ratio, you can use it in baked sweets without it imparting too much of its distinctive flavor. (Personally, I find it's a decent low-calorie option for baking apple pies).

I'm also glad to hear they're switching to sucralose because - maybe this is silly - it makes me assume they have reason to believe it's safer.

(Diet Dr Pepper and Diet Canada Dry taste OK, FYI. Not identical, but close enough to the real thing.)
Does HR dictate salary? My understanding is that HR has a seat at the table but so do the hiring managers.
What sweetener is used in Diet Coke and Coke Zero varies by country. In some countries they use the same sweeteners, in others they differ.
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ARDB[1] seems like a good choice if you want the convenience of Redis and disk persistence. It is like a Redis that's backed by Facebook's RocksDB. The redis protocol support of ARDB is pretty good.

[1]: https://github.com/yinqiwen/ardb
I did not. I described canceling orders as no big deal. Spoofing is illegal and very much a big deal. Spoofing implies canceling but canceling does not imply spoofing.

In the example I gave, the spoofer's intent is to encourage people to cross the spread into their resting order to avoid paying the spread themselves.

On the other hand, say someone has been resting an order for a long time, for example to buy at 9 because they think that's a good price. Until the bid is at that price, they are unlikely to get executed so they'll keep the order regardless of their position. But maybe they have a large long position on when the bid reaches 9, so they decide to cancel their order to prudently manage their risk by not buying more. This is obviously important in a healthy market -- firms that fail to manage their risk run the risk of cascading failures (if their clearing firm can't cover their losses.

It's pretty easy to tell one from the other most of the time, especially for regulators with access to account tagged data.
It's also being rolled out across Australia.
I'd much rather spend my money on Dry Soda. I buy alot of their Cucumber flavor myself and the stuff is delicious. It doesn't leave you feeling gross and has much less sugar, plus natural flavor extracts and uses cane sugar.

http://www.drysoda.com/

More expensive, but worth it.

Edit: also, I like the Stevia soda, but no-calorie sweeteners always leave an acrid taste in my mouth, and upset my stomach so I prefer Dry Soda or just plain seltzer water.
I'm tooting my own horn, but I think we did a decent job with ours: http://wishbin.co
I'd say that step 1 is not to take it personally. I don't want to excuse their behavior (I've experienced the same thing), but in general, you've just got to grow a thick skin and learn to move past it.

As someone who has been in this industry awhile, I can assure you: You'll cross paths again and tables often turn. They'll get what they have coming to them, karma will take of it, you don't have to worry about that.

You can't control other peoples' behavior. If I were you, I would focus on you. Try to be your best self, and leave them with a stellar impression of you. Someday, it very well might pay off.

And if they're really being a douchebag (to an extreme or offensive level), you should tell them so. Nobody is above being called-out for their bullshit.
For systems that are so critical to the safety of human life, I'm surprised that there isn't a mandatory third-party review of the firmware source code.
It's actually not difficult at all; there are already materiality rules (in the case of revenue disclosures, they're stated in percentages), and it's fraud to break them. You could just define material by both absolute dollars and also percentages.
Just wanted to add, YMMV depending on where exactly you live.
This has been my life's torment over the past several weeks. There really didn't seem to be a reasonably-priced option that "just worked" except the MacBook Pro. Combined with Apple Care, it means I won't have to go through what I just went through again. And just to be clear, I vastly prefer Windows 8.1 over OS X. My primary tasks are .NET and iOS development, so this isn't a biased decision. I /wanted/ to find a PC manufacturer that made great laptops, but I read too many horror stories for all the top models, and experienced some of my own with the M4800.
Coke Zero has less caffeine - not zero, but the same amount as original Coke, while Diet Coke has almost 50% more.
Sounded promising, but looks like it is still 50% sugar... way to clutch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Scratch-it.com is extremely polished...
GetJustLanded.com is nice and clean, the mobile perspective is very simple and straightforward but the desktop view feels rich enough. I do wonder if the transition to the iTunes store hurts even though iTunes has strong brand recognition.

The other two don't support mobile (at least in FF or Chrome; firewatch is bugged) which is an unfortunate oversight by now.
FWIW, all of the conversion is done in-browser, and it's open source (https://github.com/konklone/json/tree/gh-pages/assets).
I think you're correct, it probably just hit 5%. I'm just honestly amazed given the lack of transparency and risk in super gigantic corporations that there isn't an absolute dollar threshold for lines of business as well as a percentage one.
almost too good ...
Much like the brewing scene, there's a great craft soft-drink scene. I don't drink many soft-drinks, but occasionally I do enjoy a good ginger beer, root beer or birch beer...
I hadn't heard about this before. Are there any published studies on aspartame breakdown and taste?

It seems impressive that aspartame would be broken down quickly enough in the mouth to reliably produce a bad taste.
> what was the experience like?

life changing, in a good way.

> What were you able to do?

Travel for 10 years instead of the planned one. On the way I created vacation rentals booking site, like Airbnb, (in 2001) and that financed my travels.

> How did you choose to budget?

You kind of start as cheap as possible and slowly adapt to the situation, spending a bit more if you can. But mind, the more you spend, the more you isolate yourself. Stay cheap and you'll be forced to meet people.

> What moved you to this decision, and how was the process of finding work again after your travels, if applicable?

the decision was easy: I felt I either did this or wasted my youth. After that I never needed to find work again. Travel opened my eyes and changed my perspective. Also, it forced me to make some money fast and that gave me the drive to try the Airbnb thing. Without that drive I would have probably been overcome by fear.

> If you were to do it all again, what would you do differently?

nah...it was just perfect :)

Since all is about meeting people, if you are an introvert, make sure you'll try to be more open, otherwise I guess you'll have a bad experience.
Travelers are very open, you can easily meet people and travel for weeks together in total intimacy (same rooms etc..) but you have to be open too, don't bullshit them, they'll stay with you only if the like you. It's so easy to say "ok, I'm gonna go to Bali, see you around"

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Response from Chris.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D1TpddtVUA
In the US (and a few other places in the world), the NSA has capabitilites that private hackers don't, because they get to place their equipment on the backbone. The Russian version of the NSA has no special access in the US, so what Russian government hackers can do, any private hacker can do. Any private hacker can damage national security just as much (or more) by selling the data to the highest bidder(s) or releasing it publicly.

Because of this, there is no difference for national security whether Russian government hackers did it, or anyone else. The only piece of useful info is that the systems were hacked and how they were hacked. The attribution is just for show (and as always in these cases, not very reliable either).
Just Landed is a Unix program to a T: it does one thing and does one thing well. Absolutely gorgeous landing page and app.
The aqueducts that farmers are tapping into now take /millenia/ to recharge. This is not your standard couple-hundred-foot backyard well; these are /two-thousand foot wells/ dug to the lowest aqueducts just above the bedrock. Once they are tapped out, that water's gone for virtually ever. If the material in the aqueducts is clay, the clay will compact, removing its ability to hold water /forever/. Rainwater only replenishes the aqueducts nearest the surface, and even then, not at a necessarily rapid pace, especially if wells are tapping into those aqueducts.
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> You can do SQL in pure memory too

In MySQL, this is the MEMORY engine:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10692398/how-do-i-make-a-...

The InnoDB memory cache gets you pretty close as well:

http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/11099/is-innodb-engin...
They didn't ban it because of the taste! AFAIK, it causes inflammation in the brain.
Debian 8 “Jessie” released
I happen to like the bitter aftertaste of Diet Coke. I prefer it over regular Coke, and I don't think I'm alone. To each their own.
I know. A couple of idiots can ruin it for everyone.
US District Judge Mariana Pfaelzer published an opinion (PDF) detailing Oplus' "overly aggressive" and "uncooperative" style of litigation that was "outside the bounds of professional behavior."

"At each step of the case, Vizio's credibility increased while Oplus gathered rope to hang itself," she wrote. Yet Pfaelzer denied Vizio legal fees. Now, the Federal Circuit has ruled (PDF) that Pfaelzer needs to reconsider that decision.

Why, after such observations, would she deny Vizio legal fees?
Why you should give a damn about supercomputers
Debian “jessie” Release Information
I'm doing it now (driving around the US with my dog), and so far so good. It's fun, it's exciting, but it can also get lonely and stressful. In the last few months I've done some awesome stuff (Like going to Mardi Gras, and hiking national parks, and partying with spring-breakers). But, it's a mixed bag. A few points:

1. Budgeting is key. It's easy to tell yourself that you can't budget for such variably-priced things as hotels and eating-while-vacationing, but you can. Make a budget, stick to it.

2. Get hotel-rooms (or airbnbs) with kitchenettes. Having access to a refrigerator will save you a lot of money and will allow you to eat healthier food. (Because you can go shopping at local grocery stores instead of eating out every meal).

3. Keep many income streams. If you do independent contracting (like I do), don't just have one client. I prefer to have 3-4 at one time, to even out the late-payments and such.

4. Save first, have a big emergency fund. If you're a Suze Orman fan, she'd probably say to have an 8-month emergency fund in place before doing anything like this. If youre a Dave Ramsey fan, he'd probably say 3-6 months. Either way, you need money for emergencies. Once you have that, the regular up-swings and down-swings of your finances won't be so stressful.
Just don't give your TV an internet connection to report that data then.
In Brazil, Coke Zero uses sodium cyclamate, which I hear is illegal in the US. I avoid it at all costs.
Yeah I tried CocaCola Life and it's nice, but it's still a lot of sugar since it's not a complete replacement.
Totally agree, looks great on PC and it should be relatively easy from a structural perspective to do. You also show a guy on his mobile device in the image (ouch!). You should definitely do it!
Splenda (or the deceptively named sucralose) is a known neurotoxin and just as deadly.
Beautiful code looks like muesli.
Small different distinct pieces swimming independent in a interconnecting milk in a big pot.
That doesn't really seem like the right response to a culture of bloodletting, does it?

I was going for, let's quit bloodletting, but let's also not celebrate how we're occasionally no longer bloodletting, because it's still embarrassing how far behind modern medicine we are.
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I gave up soda/beer and have become a La Croix junkie as of the last couple months.

http://www.lacroixwater.com/
Diet Coke is New Coke with artificial sweetener instead of sugar. Coke Zero is Coca Cola Classic with artificial sweetener instead of sugar.
I get a slight metallic taste from Coke Zero. However I find that Diet Coke leaves me with cotton mouth, so I switched to Zero.

I used to drink Coke regularly but I was advised to stop for health reasons. I'm not morbidly obese or anything however I have a couple of medical problems that can be solved by losing a few kilos :) I don't tend to ingest a lot of sugar from other areas so switching to a non-sugar soft-drink was a no brainer.
Thank you for introducing me to Firewatch - might be the first game I play in ages.
It's interesting that you would argue that. What evidence do you have to support that position?
All true, but you forgot to mention: you're older than you've ever been and now you're even older.[1]

Ditching it all to be a ski bum in aspen for a year or two is a lot different when your knees are 45.

You don't want to be that weird dude in the Phuket hostel that's 12 years older than everyone else.

(and so on)

[1] ... and now you're even older.
Why engineers shouldn't disdain front-end development
Yeah, but it's with sugar too right?
She ruled that despite its behavior, Oplus' infringement allegations were not baseless and the case "followed an expected course of motion practice." As a result, "there is little reason to believe" that Vizio incurred significantly more litigation expenses than it would have otherwise, she said.

"Oplus alleged sufficient facts to support its claims, gathered limited discovery, and lost on summary judgment, as it would have even without its misconduct," so attorneys' fees are not appropriate, the judge concluded.

http://www.law360.com/articles/507269/vizio-denied-fees-trol...
Surprised that neither of these have been mentioned yet.

https://squareup.com/

https://nest.com/

I especially love their mobile responsiveness and have modeled our own after them:

http://yathletics.com
I'm a fan of https://bvckup2.com/

Super simple, super clean.
Can you point to any evidence?

"Aspartame is one of the most rigorously tested food ingredients ... has been deemed safe for human consumption by over 100 regulatory agencies in their respective countries."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame#Safety_and_health_ef...
CVS is brought up in almost every single OpenBSD thread, right before someone complains about Comic Sans on their website. The OpenBSD guys refuse to use git because they feel it is way too complicated for the task it serves. At this point, CVS is almost their barrier to entry: if you're (royal you, not rhapsodyv) going to complain a bunch about the version control tool, you're probably not going to be an active member of their developer community.

Despite using old tools, the OpenBSD guys release their updates every 6 months like clockwork, and have for the past two decades. I know of no other FOSS project with that level of project management.
It is interesting how different each one of them are. But it works anyway.
This seems like a nice book. It covers a lot of math that is bound to be useful in some context in machine learning. I find that books like Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective by Murphy serve better for beginners that have some math background as the beginning chapters introduce a lot of the useful math. It is not as in depth as this book in the math details, but these chapters show which mathematic tools are most used, and students can always find literature for what they don't understand.
The landing page for every Hashicorp product is beautiful, but Terraform's is something special:

https://www.terraform.io/
As the article state clearly, this is to address consumers concerns and not facts based on science. Aspartame has been accused of so many things yet so few credible scientific paper has really blamed it for anything major.
Snapchat is in a similar position:

https://www.snapchat.com/

When I look at that, I think "Worst landing page ever...what the hell does it do, why should I bother, and how do I get it?" But then, if I have to ask those questions...I've probably missed the point, and SnapChat would be useless to me. The whole point is for it to spread virally, so a landing page is pointless.
Oh man, I can't stand stevia. Leaves a long-lasting, sticky miserable aftertaste.
http://housing.com
Its a precursor to formaldehyde (reference from uni and HS chem teachers) that turns to formaldehyde in your brain.
I'd recommend Ed Rosenthal's "Marijuana Grower's Handbook" here: http://www.amazon.com/Marijuana-Growers-Handbook-Complete-Cu...

You can find more gems by looking at Oaksterdam's recommended reading lists for their classes: http://oaksterdamuniversity.com/students/textbooks/
(scroll down the page a bit to see the books)

And of course, the Oaksterdam classes are a great resource if you're nearby.
Glad to see that these guys are still around. I used to work down the block from their headquarters in Seattle and stopped in quite often. I second that it's great stuff.
No way, man. http://jalopnik.com/carmakers-want-to-make-working-on-your-c...
Provide a source.
Love this stuff, great replacement for beer when you're cutting back. Coconut is my favorite.
No it's just you.
Hey, great landing page, bookmarked it to take a look tomorrow.

Consider making a custom one for mobile. After zooming out it still convinced me, but it may turn some people off.

Btw, I know it's not a trivial thing to do, and what you have is great. Just would like to have even more people see it :P
A lot of similar puzzles:

http://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes
I really like the colors, simplicity, clean feel and clear communication.

I'd say it feels a little like a mobile-on-desktop kind of thing. Did you maybe do mobile-first and not follow through completely? A side-by-side graphic and/or intro with a CTA might feel more natural on the desktop.

Putting the graphic alongside what you have now might even be enough to make it feel right; something like this (I'm not a designer!): http://i.imgur.com/HJMrEsU.png
Interestingly, they don't discuss the possibility that someone just has a radically better UI for acting on market gossip.

"“It would be impossible for me to do. By the time you could read the news, process it, and press the ‘buy everything’ button, it would take too long."

I'm picturing the context switch between reading a tweet or news article and some rocket ship of a program which gives you enormous power but takes some time to place a (possibly complex) order.

What if it's just turking with a hotkey? Watch feed, see headline, Ctrl-u.

This feels a lot more plausible to me than the idea that someone made sentiment analysis not suck.
My buying habits in music have skewed towards pop in my 50's. In my teens, while I did have Frampton and Fleetwood Mac as anyone did then, those were gifts and most of my collection was of ELP and Tangerine Dream. So I enjoy "discovery" but I'm taking a conservative shortcut by buying off the "new" rack at Barnes and Noble or chance encounters on Conan O'Brian's show, instead of whatever it was I went by in the record store as a teen. I do own CD's of ELP and they are imported into my iTunes, but my most important playlist is the 2000-or-later list.

So I feel like the phenomena in the article have happened to me, but I don't necessarily exemplify the data.