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> anyone remembers when MSFT tried to make global AD federation over the internet with Andromeda or w/e it was called?

Microsoft Marvel, the Cairo directory service - see Bill Gates (former internal) 1994 memo: "Windows: The Next Killer Application on the Internet": http://www.microsoft.com/about/companyinformation/timeline/t...

"The existing Domain Name System is becomes quickly eclipsed by the Cairo directory service; providing universal resource location services without the need for specialized, arcane applications like archie. Users of the SMTP mail infrastructure take advantage of the advanced features of EMS while remaining backward compatible with their current Internet messaging solutions. Distributed information on the Internet is indexed by Cario and browsed using the Explorer across thousands of information servers worldwide without the need of tools like WAIS and Mosaic. Windows becomes the global infostructure explorer.

The hottest content server on the Internet? Microsoft Marvel. It’s already integrated with all of these services and has a huge content base and commercial vendor support. Perhaps most importantly, Marvel solves the difficult electronic commerce problem well ahead of the Internet: the ability to securely purchase goods in a networked environment. Cairo becomes the clear platform choice for new information providers, offering the most flexibility in both management and technology. OLE Windows applications are now Internet-enabled - people schedule meetings across the Internet and share ideas using Microsoft application products on Windows. No more specialized tools, no more need for Unix to carry the infostructure. Access to the Internet is a natural extension of the base Windows system as well as Microsoft applications."
this sort of exposition leaves me feeling ill

why base your theoretical structure on satire? ..unless it also is meant to be taken as satire?

why the need to blanket your own experience onto others?

math stands alone, and the curiosity therein also stands alone

i'm arguing myself whether it be systemic or ironic that an academic mathematician would use a limited set to try to categorise mathematical curiosity

why do academics build so many walls and then wonder why they feel so alone?

all you need to be a mathametician is curiosity
There are a ton of companies out there hungry for great talent and who hire from overseas, help with visas etc

The larger ones will fly candidates in for final stage interviews to meet face to face.

It's a numbers game - apply to enough roles that you would make the move for and you will increase your chances of success.
Ironic is the wrong word.

But the whole point of building a city on a ship was to avoid any national law. If you want to partner with a real country, then might as well build the city on sparsely populated piece of land, and save on the expenses and inconveniences of ship based living. Charter cities and special economic zones seem like a promising idea to me, but seasteading always struck me as very silly.
You make a good point regarding the author's understanding of color blindness, however gray-scale vision absolutely does exist in humans, albeit in a much smaller proportion of the population than common red-green colorblindness:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achromatopsia
> Surely a good pm and eng team could come up with a more sensible solution than shutting all edits down

Really? I don't know of a single company, person or team that has ever solved targeted spam. "Surely" is doing an awful lot of work there.
I've been using this since it was still a side project by yanex under the name of Koan. I'll never go back to writing XML layouts.
Fastest in USA. VIEWQWEST FIBERNET in Singapore although is a tiny island, is the world fastest.
There is some subset of all VCS software that contains the handful of commands that 80% of coders need 80% of the time. Conceptually, these commands are very nearly isomorphic for individuals making changes to files by themselves.

These paragraphs do indeed cover those commands for git, although I can't see why this presentation is particularly useful, even for a beginner. It's just a condensed HOWTO that doesn't actually explain what it's doing.

Newcomers would be better advised to sacrifice the 30 minutes and read the first three chapters of the storied git book: http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2.
Two thoughts: 1. Change your name to random-walk. You simply can't use Pocket, as mentioned here by others. 2. Your project is basically unusable in it's current state. Update the repo with build instructions so others can get it running. I spent my limit (15-20 minutes) trying to get it running in a container and failed. Happy to do a PR with the container file if you get that cleaned up. Making your project usable for others is a requirement to get traction!

Also, not cool using a pocket logo on the Google Play store. You need to fix that ASAP.
In some places they do. Maybe you haven't interviewed at a bank or a government agency.

Interviewing 101: Dress like your future colleagues, up one notch. If you don't know how they dress at the place you want to work show up at lunch time in the parking lot to see what people are wearing. If your interview outfit is too far out of line you look like a bad fit, and not just for programmer jobs.
Let me try to answer it. I'm sure that I won't change your mind, but when I published Anvil (a similar library for Java) - I got lots of questions like yours.

- XMLs are not type safe, I can type any tag name in there, and I can set almost any value to my attributes - AAPT won't even notice (yes, Android Studio is much smarter these days, it may give a warning, but it won't be a compiler warning, so it won't be in your automated build logs. You will also miss it when using other text editor or IDE). I can put a view inside another view (not a viewgroup) - and it will pass as well. Since we waste CPU time on XMLs preprocessing - it would be nice if they also warned us about our errors at this stage, not crashes in runtime.

- The file hierarchy is terrible. All XMLs must be in the same folder, no nested folders. Having a large project makes you have dozens of XMLs on the same layer of hierarchy. Since we have OS with directories - it would be nice to use that feature like we use it for java packages.

- There are some styles, but they are too limited comparing to, say, CSS. If one ever tried LESS or SASS - he will love the mixing, variables, calculated expressions etc. It's fast to write, it's easy to read, it's reusable. You don't have to jump around multiple closely related files to tie it all together in your head. You have them in one place. Since XMLs are processed - it would be nice if I could write something like "android:background=darken(@color/mycolor, 30%)"

- There is some responsiveness, but it's too limited. If you have 3 nested views, and the topmost has margin in landscape and no margin in portrait - you have to have two (almost identical) files. Or three, if you want to use merge/include. In fact now they are all in different folders, despite they are very closely related!

- There is no way to merge with unique ids (child layout will have the duplicated ids when included twice).

- There is no mixins or macros. If I have layout with textview+button pairs - I will end up copying those two tags everywhere. If I have macros - I would write it once, and then would only type `<TextViewWithButton text="foo" buttonText="bar">` - that is supposed to be expaded into <TextView .../><Button ..../> with some texview and button attributes substituded to the given actual values.

- There is no data binding.
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Tangent: I wonder what sort of app would emerge if your main goal was to learn all you can about posture issues, and what's important to to patient/clients and practitioners?
Restart for Nexus 6?
I wish my Nexus 6 had a shortcut or widget to restart my cell. The only option is to power off, wait and then turn on again. Anyone know of an app, tip or trick? Merci
This article focuses on cases of rape in which DNA evidence did provide new information, though it's worth noting that there are a number of kits that are never processed because there is no need - the disagreement is not on whether the rapist and victim had sex, but on whether it was consensual or not.

I don't really know what percentage of cases this applies to, and I wouldn't be surprised if the data on this is fuzzy to begin with. But it's helpful to keep in mind because a large reason that so many rapists get away[0] is that it can be difficult to prove lack of consent, and the status quo is that justice system effectively defaults to assuming consent unless otherwise proven (at least in many cases), which has unfortunate consequences for both the victim and future victims.

[0] http://www.davidlisak.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/RepeatRapei...
Oh, so Anko and Koan is the same project? Stupid me, I wondered what happened to Koan when I saw Anko first (and I didn't think of an anagram).
How do you go around giving technical presentations? Where do you find the audience? Can you please share links to some of your presentations?
The (philosophical) question is one of affect. MMORPG's in particular are designed to create a strong sense of attachment between avatar and player - how else will they convince you to keep playing? While it may not seem important to an outsider, to a player, the 'expensive armor' and general appearance of a character creates a sense of attachment known only to its controlling player. As such, a traumatic break of this bond can have a corresponding psychological effect on the player. So yes - humiliating, executing, public shaming of a player can have significant effects on player and as such, we should consider the moral implications.
My professor once told us that we were thinking of Australopithecines, a recent hominid, all wrong.

While we thought of early human ancestors as less intelligent versions of ourselves, the correct analogy was to a modern Velociraptor: fast to the point of running animals to death, fiercely intelligent, and with unparalleled group coordination.

Arguably the last of the giant dinosaurs was the Moa, a bird with claws that could eviscerate a human with a single swipe, and our species wiped them out as a prey animal.

We are a terrifyingly effective species.
Great point.

I think they are trying to eventually become independent. I think of this as a kind of bootstrapping procedure, where they start off inside the waters of a nation, and eventually move into international waters once they are established. Indeed, staying inside a nation's waters indefinitely would be counter to their stated goals.

If these ships are movable, then one advantage over a land-based city is they could even change nations when they felt like it.
I'd guess because Anvil began as a Java project, and Kotlin is what provides the sugar that allows Anko to provide a nice DSL.
This guy needs do some travelling. If you want to feel different, go some place where you really are different. Go live in Mongolia. Immerse yourself in the art scene in Milan. Move to a favela.

If you just want to be different for its own sake, then sure, being a goth in the burbs will work. But if there's any point at all to it—artistic, spiritual, practical or whatever-you'll get way more benefit from immersing yourself in a genuinely foreign culture.
there is a huge flight risk when they start an investigation, hence the detention.
As far as I can see, the only notional advantage gained from being based just offshore is that they can theoretically leave, though that does seem to be (i) vastly underestimating the complications involved in sailing to whichever other country will have them and (ii) vastly overestimating the difficulty of selling up and leaving under a more regular land-based arrangement.
The US has excellent medical research, advanced technology, etc. But also extremely inefficient system, about 2x the cost of comparable countries.

- http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jun/30/healthc...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
One of the earliest inventions, the spear-thrower, enhanced that ability even more, giving us the ability to kill big game from a distance with near impunity. (It works by increasing the lever arm. Think of a lacrosse stick.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear-thrower
> They are piggybacking on the already-established international legal framework.

Well, no. Being out on the open sea would put them within the international legal framework. They're piggybacking on some national legal framework, and a big part of the ideology behind the project is getting away from said national legal framework. That is ironic.

> precisely because you have already paid for those services with taxes

I somehow highly doubt that they'll get the concessions they want from a government to whom they've paid taxes for years.
That the retina has the receptive cells under the 'cabling' is not novel and is well studied. The authors here introduce the study of the glial 'supporter' cells and their refractive indices as wave guides for light to the receptive cells. This is actually pretty cool! Most neuroscience and physiology hasn't considered this as an advantage before, just a quirk of evolution that the eye is 'backwards'. Also, for other readers out there, the structure of the retina may be a good reference (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina). To note: there are regions of the retina that differ in cone/rod concentration. The Fovea, the center of our vision, is entirely cones, while the outside is almost entirely rods. Also, the receptive cells have many synapses where data is processed before it going to the optic nerve. The retina acts similar to an FPGA in that the whole data set is compressed before transfer.
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One of his graduate students was my instructor for Social Psychology at UC Santa Cruz.

Apple has - or at least had, in the mid-nineties - an internal discussion board which permits complete anonymity. I was the only participant who used his real name.

I once offered to lend my own copy of The Social Animal to any Apple employee who would read it. My reason for doing so was that I observed many of my coworkers experiencing or exhibiting the kinds of things discussed in his chapter on self-justification.

No one took me up on my offer. Not even one.
I think the idea with this is so that they will have the means to move once they have political, financial and ideological clout. They're aiming to incubate a proto-state within an existing state, so as not to rock the boat too much (cough) while building capacity.
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Math... and a lot of it. Look up job descriptions for a Quantitative Developer or Quantitative Analyst.
What makes you think a technological shift will happen that suddenly allows people to own the means of production?

Rent-seeking and leasing of equipment are more likely, ensuring that the power relations of today are secured for the future.
I'm an SVN user, and I'll have to move to git some day, but it's not winning any points for me :-( . I got bit by it recently. I had cloned a repo, and then a few weeks later, did

% git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
nothing to commit, working directory clean

I assumed the working copy was up-to-date, as git states.... but alas, no. I had to do a "git pull" to get the latest changes. Why doesn't git tell you that your copy is out of date?
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If we dedicated ourselves to wiping out the biosphere, I'm sure we could. But the current nuclear arsenal wouldn't cut it.

At best we could destroy civilization, but probably not even humanity.
Why should the law favor cattle ranchers (who can cheaply protect their property by branding) over other owners of property worth low thousands of dollars?

Here's (probably) the relevant laws:

http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/SOTWDocs/PE/htm/PE.31....

http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/PE/htm/PE.12.htm

Theft of up to $20,000, assuming no priors, is limited to a penalty of 2 years (I've elided a bunch of details, click through to read them, skim for the relevant portions, but I'm pretty sure stealing $10,000 cash would result in a prison sentence of 2 years...).
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> I think of this as a kind of bootstrapping procedure

Sure, but a lot of the reasons they list are essential. E.g., calmer waters near large bodies of land and therefore in sovereign water. Proximity to supply chains that lead to/from large land-based populations. Etc.

> If these ships are movable, then one advantage over a land-based city is they could even change nations when they felt like it.

notahacker's sister post is spot on.
If state-actor X is pushing an agenda, you can be sure that X is directly benefiting from it and it is all about those benefits.
It sounds like they need a UI change for mobile.

It should be

upvote arrow, username, downvote arrow

instead of the way it is now

Then there would be no accidental downvotes.
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There are a lot of people in this thread who are taking about the morality of killing a character while not understanding how death is framed in the game. Things that happen when you die:

You need to WP (way point). It costs a negligible amount for most player and is instantaneous (sans load times). In towns, like in this case, it's free. They cover all maps, and are normal two minutes or so walk apart from each other. In the videos, the character would literally have been alive and where he was in less than a second at no cost.

If you're in combat when you die, you're armor will slowly break (after numerous deaths one piece eventually will). This is free to fix and not a difficult NPC to find. Aside, falling to your death when not in combat will not cause this effect.

Another point to bring up is that players are falling to their death nonstop everywhere. The game has hidden areas, "jumping puzzles" and generally encourages players to make risky jumps just for the fun of it. Seeing a player fall and die, even in the middle of a town, would go fully unnoticed unless maybe by a few who might resurrect the player on a whim.

Finally, I didn't see anything of real in game value on that account and the player only had one other low level character. I'm guessing they purchased it during the resent 75% off sale with the sole intent of hacking. Further, it was probably an alt account that the person was expecting to get banned eventually.

In other words, the videos doesn't really show in game value being destroyed or lasting damage being done as punitive cruelty. Rather, it's a just a funny twist on the normally mundane task of banning. This scares no reasonable player and, rather, actually is reassuring to know they're dealing with hackers.
I've seen kids do this at hackthons. Good luck staying as natty by the end tho.
Author here. I created this little syntax for writing with less brackets one day. Less braces, less parentheses, and maybe less commas, less double quotes too. And Cirru is really interesting to myself.

And the idea behind CirruSepal is to write ASTs in Cirru Synax, such as ES6 AST(CirruScript), Racket AST, Julia AST. Actually I failed in generating LLVM IR from Cirru, so I tried Julia AST instead. It could be more fun if I had those skills.

Cirru Syntax is nice for exploring.
"very old bug free software"

MULTICS came pretty close to that. It's commonly thought that UNIX was so-named to ridicule MULTICS. In reality, the people who developed UNIX contributed to MULTICS, it's just that they wanted something fun and easy to work on after having worded so hard and so long on MULTICS.

It was written in the mid-sixties. The last MULTICS box was decommissioned in Halifax, I think in 2005 or so.

Quite a lot of what we regard as new, in today's operating systems, was implemented in MULTICS in the sixties.
Yeah it's a CYA move by MS. Same reason they don't ship a telnet client by default. Or why you have to double opt-in for gzip with ASP.NET+IIS.

I'm guessing, like SELinux, what users end up doing is just disabling things completely (or enabling all options) instead of figuring out all the specifics. I understand, no one wants to be responsible for shipping a vulnerability by default, like MS products used to be.

Also see their terrible HTTP.SYS reservation system. Any program can listen on a socket. But if you want to use that socket for HTTP and use the OS-provided functions? Boom, special ACLs apply; enjoy figuring out a special one off utility. Or just run your service as a local admin.
The Texas Instruments TMX 1795: the first, forgotten microprocessor
The first microprocessor, the TMX 1795 had the same architecture as the 8008 but was built months before the 8008.

http://www.righto.com/2015/05/the-texas-instruments-tmx-1795-first.html
Almost correct. I never thought of this kind of syntax sugar initially. But technically (and people posted an issue about it) it's possible to generate functions like linearLayout() etc from android.jar for Anvil/Java. This will work with Anvil/Kotlin as well.

I plan to keep v<Class> anyway because it works nice with custom views when there is no generated syntax sugar.
From the H1B point of view, it's enough to have a bachelor's degree. A master degree helps only if it is obtained from US university.
All of these things acquisitions happened before the lackluster Randy Falco or the clearly malicious Tim Armstrong so we can count them out for the failure.

As an outsider, I'd say the main problem is the lack of a clear identity. What is Aol? Is it an ISP that never upgraded beyond dial-up? Is it a communications company a la AIM and Aol email? Is it a news/media conglomerate a la Huffington Post and Patch?

But I could be wrong.
This advice assumes you have the power to say no. If you might get committed, it seems sensible to consider all your options.
This is not true!

As long as your foreign degree is evaluated equivalent to a US degree, there is no advantage to having a non-us masters degree for obtaining a H1B visa.
`git fetch` and `git push` talk to the remote(s) (if any) that you have configured. Most (all?) other commands are local operations. `git status` compares your working copy to your local `.git/` database.

If you want `git status` to compare `.git/` with the state of a remote, you must first `git fetch` the state of a remote into your local `.git/`. And you may have multiple remotes, as well...
"it is taking more than what it should be taking" - This is exactly the thing I used to think about. But as time progresses I realized even if I would have stuck with it for just a few more days, I would have been much better.
To succeed in financial dev you need to be comfortable working in a heavyweight, slow large-corporate environment. Think lots of meetings, lots of time estimation & metrics, using Java, C# or C++ (shudder), people caring what you wear. If you can deal with this, the rewards are great. If you can't, it's hell.

There are finance startups where the above doesn't apply, but they don't pay like the banks do.
Excuse my ignorance, but are patterns like the one mentioned in the example in wide use? Chaining together the results of multiple AJAX calls to form a single response? (response might not be the correct term - a single return value)

Wouldn't you just send a request to the server and have it handle things and spit out the correct response/return value? What's the need for multiple ajax calls?! I know we're obviously not using this to fetch first and last names - what's a realistic example for this usage pattern?
Git maintains a local copy of remote branches (to some extent, I'm not sure of the mechanics) and I believe you can cause it to update that with 'git remote update', 'git fetch' and a couple of other tools.