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That was just a personal estimate, obviously if the battery health is for example at 75% you also lose 25% of 'the time' to work without plugging it in... so if that becomes a problem when traveling i might want to buy a new one.
For others this might not be a problem of course.
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I think it is the complicity of the BND on behalf of the US that has got Germans annoyed, as well as asking a German spy agency to spy on, and feed information on German companies, to the detriment of those companies in favour of US companies.

Germans are just starting to realize that they are as much a US poodle as the Brits across the pond.
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It's true..maybe 100 is enough. Still, it's an awesome tool.
The sad thing is, in Germany the public doesn't really seem to care. They are still the same nation that follows allong blindly until the shit is hitting the fan. Of course, when the crash comes, the responsibility will be delegated upwards.
Been using it production for a couple months now, no issues. We have a reasonable number of IO.js powered microservices, we've seen anecdotally better performance for some use cases but regressions in none, however we've seen SIGNIFICANTLY cleaner code (ES6 yay!) and a much simplified build (no transpilation to ES5!).

Was nervous at first, but now I see no reason to use code Node again.
> I've seen a lot of html, and it's one very easy way to find the bad programmers - they all self close <br>.

There are a lot of people, including me, who does it out of habit, aesthetic worries, or to make the markup easier to parse for (some) humans. It's a bit like using Egyptian Brackets in JavaScript.
If you have references showing that formal methods are used for missiles and satellites, I would love to see them. [I work on formal methods tools and I am currently working on a usecase from the space industry, but that one is not documented yet.]
The gears of the judiciary grind slowly, but grind they do. They're grinding these Prenda guys down to their component atoms. That can take a while.
You've pretty much hit on the goal of the book - that there were a lot more military actions than popular history likes to remember.

For Norway, it starts with the Battle of Bergen (1665) - which was while the Danes controlled Norway, but is today Norwegian territory. Continues through various naval encounters during the Napoleonic wars, and into attacks on german-held Norwegian territories during WW2 - ending with 1st Airborne landing at Oslo and Stavenger.

While very few of these are actually actions against Norway, they are on what is today Norwegian soil, which is the general theme of the book.

Chile is similar, in that while there's very little against Chile as a nation, there's plenty of attacks against the Spanish territory that became Chile, starting with the sacking of Valparaiso in 1578, and ending with british fighting with chile to establish their independence from Spain.

The general theme of the book isn't "we've attacked every country on this list" - it's more that if you put a pin on the map for every british military action listed through the book, a good 90% of today's countries will find a pin within their territory.
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You vastly overestimate the difficulty of spoofing a password-protected wifi network.

Even without that, acquiring access credentials is hardly rocket science. (eg. grab one of these pumps or any other wifi device lying around and read the password over the ethernet/serial port)
You misunderstood me-- I think this is amazingly cool and has a ton of intrinsic value.

Cool! We're in agreement.

Here's my take: I think there always could be a possibility of making a product that (you could convince) people like enough to pay for. (Here in my country, people literally sell shit for money. Elk shit, to be exact. Apparently, many Germans want to have it in their homes.)

But let's say you come to this wonderful small gelateria in an Italian village. The ice cream is amazing. The setting is amazing. Your experience is breathtaking. Naturally, since we're all entrepreneurs here and all that jazz, you think "I wonder if there's not a commercial value in this". So you start making some kind of ice cream cones or whatever. You make advertising which creates a longing for that experience, that we all kind of know (perhaps even from my few faltering words) of Italian ice cream on a trattoria somewhere in Tuscany. You sell the ice cream to people.

Now, did you expose more people to that original gelateria? No, you didn't! You sold them on the idea, and they got some pretty boring ice cream to eat in their pretty boring home. And you got the money.

That's an approximation of what I'm afraid might happen if you succeeded in convincing the creator to "monetize". But it's ok, you won't do that; first off, he's not here and what's more he's obviously got enough talent to make whatever money he wants to, should he so decide.

Edit: In my original reply, I didn't mean "train". I rather meant "practice". It's a subtle but important difference and I see how it can shift the perception of my message quite a bit. Forgive me, I am not a native speaker.
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It's true that there's rarely a shortage of anything if you're willing to pay arbitrarily high prices for it, but that's not really what the word means. That like saying there isn't a water shortage in California as long as anyone, anywhere in the world is selling bottled water at any price - that's obviously absurd, and no, it's not just haggling.

If you can only hire qualified software engineers at $250k, then there is reasonably some sort of shortage. That's not the same as suggesting that very rich firms shouldn't pay up (and they are), but let's not rob perfectly good words of their meaning just to make a point.
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True, people didn't care about smartphones until Steve told them that they need one.
Actually my first question as an interviewer was always a for loop. Generally reversing a string in place. For some people it took the whole 45 minutes of the interview to get it done.
They felt accomplished at the end. I had to wait through it with straight face...I couldn't tell them that it was only a warm-up question, because I was not allowed to say anything that might hurt their feelings. My task was to gather data about the person.
I understand there a lots of governance/no technical differences, but is there a clear answer as to why Joyent can't use 'fast forward' Node to the current IO.js stable? Are there major discrepancies between the roads the two teams have taken that would necessitate a 'merge' of the two projects?
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I completely agree that serious researchers should review definitions and results they are basing their findings upon. But then, I'd find much more reliable an editable reference paper corrected and improved by a significant number of people working in the field, rather than an old-style paper, published decades ago, after a (botched ?) review by a couple of anonymous reviewers, and not revised since then.

This would address also a little bit the problem of notations: if everybody agree and work on the same piece of work, they are likely to adopt the same notations, providing a nice coherence to the user.

A wiki style database has many advantages when it comes to organizing and searching information. In my opinion, though, the editing process should be closer to GitHub's pull request (as advocated by the article), to ensure that everything is properly reviewed before publication.

Finally, a publication scheme like the one I described also address a recurrent issue with traditional citation-based papers: citations are one-sided. It is easy to see which papers one article depends upon, but the converse is hard (unless using specific tools, at least). With collaborative editing and wikipedia-style links between articles, the reader is immediately aware of the latest findings in the field, which simplifies tremendously the bibliographic research.
At some point, we considered tweaking by dropping any strings longer than a certain length from the deduplication (it also helps with memory usage when streaming the data).

Our method makes most sense for many-to-many data (several orders per product, several orders per day), which happens to be the largest data sets we manipulate (by 3 orders of magnitude). I can certainly see situations where this would not be the case (e.g. web crawler logs).
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It is very wrong to use closing slash in HTML - it has completely different meaning in SGML than in XML.
https://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/empty.html

And even if you have XHTML doctype but do not server your document with XHTML MIME type browsers will treat it as HTML.
So all "liking" to use XHTML syntax in HTML were just lucky that no mainstream browser bothered to implement this part of SGML handling correctly.
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No, doing IT as a hobby is still very valid. After all, it's where Linux and Unix both came from, as well as the Web.
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I don't think server side tech will make any difference. However, having the web app implemented in SPA style will certainly improve user experience.
Not automatically. But immediately.

As in: in utter disgust of the page's behavior and hijacking of UI controls.
I think its a "trust but verify" mentality. You know that your neighbor is probably trust worthy but you still keep tabs on them to make sure they are not secretly planning something against you.

The issue you have with stopping yourself is that your neighbor may still be doing so, and I'd imagine from a nation's perspective its crucial to have the same kind of info on them that others have on you.
I think it's that way everywhere.
When I talked to people about it in Switzerland they often respond with something like "this isn't a problem here, this is $country_where_i_live_in they wouldn't abuse their powers. The NSA? Sure THEY are horrible, but in $country_where_i_live_in, nah, they wouldn't do stuff like that. That's impossible."

You can point out that the last time they did (and got caught) was only 26 years ago [0]. They don't care.

I'm not sure there's anything we can do about it.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_files_scandal
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Incredible.

In the 90s we had rendering software that took about 10 minutes to general a single 2D fractal. I loved playing with it.

When I went to university, as part of a course, we watched a video where someone had created animations by adjusting a single parameter of the (2D) fractal over time. They'd spent untold hours of processing time to generate the frames. It was magical because it helped to offer insights into how the parameters are tied to the shape of the structure. I seem to recall fractals that looked like they were slapping each other's hands.

This is the first time I've really seen fractal software in the last 10-15 years. At university we talked about how it would exist one day, but damn, that's just incredible to see.
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Plenty of people are still unhappy about Apple imposing those policies as well. It's just that there's nothing that can be done about them.
I'm using a Lenovo now and they still have it. Old Samsung also had something similar, Battery Life Extender, which won't stops charging at 80% even when plugged.
Very cool. On a somewhat related note (pun not intended):

I have created an app to learn the music staff notation. Web version: http://www.adhyet.com/flamingnotes
As a hiring manager, when I interview people I don't generally care if they don't know the answer to an interview question I ask* - what I care more about it is how they respond in the negative. If they don't understand the question, I'd expect them to ask for clarification, or state they didn't understand it and then try to reason it. If they don't know the answer, again I like to hear their thinking.

* Within reason; there are certain questions candidates for a given job should be able to answer!
Agreed. I'd imagine most of the close allies have cooperated in this fashion at some point. They just don't talk about it for fear of public backlash.
From experience, it's a separate app but manufacturer specific. Haven't had much luck looking for a generic app.
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Pacemakers and defibrilators are configured to match an individual patient. Part of that configuration includes what parts of the heart to stimulate. This configuration may need to change as the patient's condition changes.

You also need to be able to turn of the pacemaker entirely to monitor how the heart operates without stimulation. You may need to turn of the defibrilator during certain medical procedures...
The one I remember is decorators placing a paint tin across the bus bars - which explosively painted the walls
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I'm fairly certain it did include voice in the UK, as I remember going to check it out and see if it would fit in my pocket and was prepared to use a BT headset (which I've never owned) if it worked out, but it was too big due to the bezel.

Possibly still could have worked for someone who knew they'd always have a bag with them.

But since the Note 2 I've been on the phablet bandwagon. It just makes sense.
You mention the key points - in order to use it successfully, you have to agree to use a common, safe subset of the language (e.g. no implicits), similar to C++. You then have to make sure everyone adheres to this, if possible by using automated tools. As a startup, you often don't have the luxury to be able to invest in that kind of infrastructure. You have to train people to use the language correctly, which is a huge time sink. Onboarding still is a huge problem.

Backwards compatibility is another big factor that has bitten people once too often. Compiler bugs, slow compile times, bad community attitude come on top of this.

>> If people start off thinking of Scala as simply a "better Java", and only move to use its easier-to-understand features, I think it'd be a lot easier to hire people to work on Scala codebases and/or train people in the language.

Yes absolutely, and I agree it can be used effectively in that case. But the language attracts people that like to think of themselves as wizards that want to master the advanced stuff, too. After all, the whole thing started basically a vehicle for Martin Odersky's papers, implementing any paradigm known to mankind.

Considering all those downsides - is Scala still worth the tradeoff? I do understand the appeal, but there are so many languages out there right now. You need a stable and reliable platform to base your business on, and after hearing - for several years - people moving away from it because it is lacking in that regard seem like something a responsible CTO should not ignore.
My wife says that you can do everything with your thumb on an iPhone 6. You double tap the home button and that brings the screen down so you can reach everything. Will that work for you?
In every Berne Convention signatory country (which is pretty much any country that will matter to most people), published works are required by the convention to be copyrighted by default, whether or not there is a copyright notice, and the lack of a license means you have to assume you have none unless something else tells you differently. That basically makes embedding the license text pointless.

It certainly was common, though, which is/was probably because the US did not join until 1989, and prior to that US copyright law required a mandatory copyright notice, so a lot of people will have at least worked on projects old enough for this policy to have mattered.
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You have no clue. The BND helped the NSA to spy on GERMANS and GERMAN companies. Plus EUROPEANs.

It's not the job of the BND to help the NSA to spy on Germany and the EU.

> We spy on our best allies and you'd better believe they spy on us. We just happen to have the evidence of the US doing it thanks to Snowden.

Look, the difference is this: we have literally THOUSANDS of NSA, CIA and US military agency personal in Germany. There are huge official installations of the NSA, the CIA and US military in Germany. Instead of respecting the host country, they are spying on us, collecting data, manage their wars, disrespecting our laws, ...

There is nothing, absolutely NOTHING, even remotely comparable done by Germany in or around the US.
Not a problem if you send it as application/xhtml+xml ;)
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Maybe they think "it can't be so simple question, it's GOOGLE, maybe they ask for the most fast and efficient algorithm of existing..."
I left college about 12 years ago and I use physics and linear algebra nearly every day, along with trigonometry and a bunch of other branches of math.

The thing for me is that I didn't use it until 4 years ago and now I find myself going through the bibliography of classes I took more than a decade ago to try and 'remember' all this stuff.

As for what I use it for? Right now I'm doing a bit of 3d stuff in the browser (javascript and three.js), the library takes care of many details, but one of the first things I had to do was print a trigonometry cheatsheat (sin, cos, arctan...) and put it on the wall.
The only problem — you must provide working solution, not algorithm but working program. That's a completely different thing.
What "shit" is hitting what "fan"? We're not following blindly. Far from it. There is a big conversation going on and the government might fall over this incident.
> The BND helped the NSA to spy on GERMANS and GERMAN companies.

Didn't know that part. Thats an interesting twist. I could understand them working together against someone else but not against themselves. Must be part of that "Five eyes" cooperation thing Snowden was talking about.
My ThinkPad E530 (1 year old) has this, it's part of Lenovo Power Manager. Again, only on Windows (it doesn't charge at all in Ubuntu, which I've never managed to get to the bottom of)
As I said, it's about the difference between "topic-oriented" and "person-oriented".

Pinterest has a very different demographic which is more likely why GGP hadn't heard of it, but I would put it in the same bucket as Reddit/HN. Facebook, Twitter etc however are person-oriented.

The only thing all these have in common is user-generated content. But at that point you can call anything with user-generated content social media. Forums? Sure. Newspapers with curated user-submitted articles? Why not.
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While this book is an interesting and fairly comprehensive book on functional programming and music theory, I have the impression that the idea of algorithmic composition as expressed in this book is out of fashion now. Algorithmic composition was big in contemporary, "serious" music in the last part of the 20th century, but my contemporary composer friends seem to have left their Markov chains and Lisp algorithms and are now more into interactive stuff, with Processing and Arduino being a couple of the technologies du jour. It's not a clear-cut distinction, you can of course use Haskell and FP for interactive music creation and there will be various degrees of algorithmic composing in an interactive, computer based performance. But the possibilities of pure, computer generated music have largely been explored, decomposed down to sample-level granularity and recomposed using all thinkable sound generating algorithms. The cultural impact has been somewhere between weak and zero. People still prefer tonal music composed by humans.

I believe algorithmic composition has suffered the same fate as symbolic natural language processing. They are both interesting from an academic point of view, but have failed to produce the wanted end results. Computers have not given us new musical dimensions that anyone outside an academic, postmodernist following care to listen to. The hope (or threat, depending of how you view it) may lie in statistical approaches. Thorough statistical analyses of existing compositions and recomposition based on that, parallelling what Google translate does with natural language processing. As far as I know, there are companies and researchers working on that, so don't throw away those Markov chains yet.
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Yes -- it is very straightforward to use and "just works". (It is also used in a similar way as found in Node in the luvit project: https://github.com/luvit/luvit)
I was thinking this is bad, but this thing is running a 2.4 kernel, so it's probably just a wired ethernet port on the back of the device. Limited but dangerous potential here.

Nope, it's a thousands times worse. This devices has WiFi. You don't even need to plug a cable in the back.

I can't find how the wireless is configured in their manual[1], but they clearly mention Wireless LAN.

[1]: http://www.meql.com/Manuals/Abbott-Hospira-PCA-III-Mednet-Us...
the name sounds a lot like Babadook, a horror film, which ironically show cases a very very difficult child.
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This definition conflates freedom with security, while describing normal life in a big portion of a civilized world, where all these things are achieved with less limitation in other spheres of life. Especially regarding sex and drugs.

Singapore isn't a free country. It's very efficient, rich and safe, yes.
American employment law isn't exactly known to be employee-friendly in the first place, so that's hardly surprising.
So if you need an Algorithm you look one up in Kunth or do some research - or for a lot of cases do what we did when I worked at cutting edge RnD buy it in from people like NAG.

Recently I needed to develop tool to optimse some PPC I did not know the Algorithms But i knew how to research and building the tool took me less than 2 days to implement.
To me that sounds like no trust at all.
I do believe intelligence services are necessary. Essentially a government has two different sources of information: the overt sources, and the covert sources.

Both have their problems. The overt sources are easy for adversaries (in a very broad sense) to manipulate and observe. The covert sources have the inherent problem that less oversight usually means incompetence and abuse.
You understand that those kinds of questions are so well known? If someone provides you solution immediately then he/she probably learned it before, as the other 100 typical questions. So you basically testing memory instead of programming/algorithmic skills.

Also I think that you asking for working code, not a general description of the algorithm, right?
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Yes. The added experience would have been a plus.
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Germans care more than Americans. The U.S. have basically turned into an oligarchy and its citizens have done absolutely nothing.

The U.S. are the main problem here. So, assuming you are American, clean up your own mess before blaming others.