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"Your remedial assignment is to drive from Denver to Chicago."

Yep. Or just look out the airplane window at all those little green circles and squares next time you fly across the country.
Look, programmers who are also murderers [0][1].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser

[1] http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/edward-metcalfe-compute...
It may be different in the UK, but here in the US the landlords of shopping centers make mortgage payments only on the space actually rented. Lose a tenant, and their monthly bill shrinks.

Yeah, it amazed me, too. However, the guy who explained it to me makes part of his living as a commercial landlord. I assume he knows the game.
Agreed. That or porn.
Ultima games were a grind in the beginning to get enough food so you wouldn't starve. That was probably the worst part of the series as a kid.
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Given that person is only harming themselves, it's totalitarian to apply a fine here.

If someone makes such a deliberate and conscious decision not to wear a seatbelt, maybe you could assume they have their own reason for that.

It's not even clear that forcing people to wear a seatbelt saves lives. It may increase the risk to other people, if people are seeking out a level of risk that they're comfortable with:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt#Risk_compensation
I'm not sure the claim is true. I only have one personal experience to base this on (fortunately) but I was in an accident as a passenger in a Jeep Wrangler which ended up upside-down on its roll-cage. Both the driver and I were hanging from our belts and had no problem undoing the buckles. We had to do it one-handed with our other hand trying to support ourselves so as not to drop on our heads after releasing the buckle. Click, release, just like normal.
That's exactly why I prefaced my post with "Except for minimum wage". I was only talking about workers paid above that.
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My bus driver would stop and lecture us about this. His reasoning was that in case of an accident, evacuation is difficult if all the kids are buckled in. So if there was a fire (not sure how likely that is), we'd be worse off with seat belts. Now that I'm older, I'm pretty sure he wasn't speaking from a point of deep experience or research, but he was very passionate about the subject, enough to drop us off late several times due to such lectures.
Ever seen what we do for oil & gas because of demand?

No break needed. People will pay for it or they won't.
> And so we don't generally have laws that require us to look both ways before crossing a street,

You do have laws telling you where abouts you can cross a road, right? Laws about jay walking?

(Your tone is sub-optimal. I guess that's why your getting downvotes.)
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> I don't expect things like consistency from API's

But you do not expect an API/object model to arbitrarily change for existing features. Which is what happened.

A Win32 C app from 20 yrs back still compiles with no problems in Windows 10, but where do you go with a big enterprise app that was built 7 yrs back in then-state-of-the-art Silverlight? Any migration will be a big investment and comes with uncertainties and limitations.
It's not an arms race for the sites that aren't purposefully breaking. Shims would fix accidental breakage, and reduce "mysteriously broken" sites. Intentional breakage, at least in my limited experience, is accompanied by some warning text about adblockers.
I suppose in a shop where workers have a fixed schedule (e.g. noon to 8pm, 2pm to 10pm) that might happen, but the vast majority of retail jobs aren't like that.

According to surveys, besides personal experience, something like 80%+ of retail jobs have at least shifts, if not full on-demand schedules, so there's no set of workers that always close the shop and others that don't - they all do, some of the days.
This feels really odd. I just saw John Nash a few days ago in the Fine Hall elevator. Hell, I used to see him all the time in Fine Hall. I will surely remember and miss him as I walk through campus next year and remember all the "sightings." What a loss.
Sure. That was the sales pitch. It was spearheaded by a guy who owned and rented out apartments.

He also promised that rents would go down (which, of course, they didn't).

A lot of California home owners are now sitting on gold mines thanks to this proposition.
Management is hoping to keep employees happy by maintaining them in a state of ignorance, which never works. That is not a good sign.

Think carefully and explicitly about the decision-making processes that could have plausibly created this situation where people doing the same stuff get paid substantially different amounts. Think about the values reflected by those processes, and the odds that the company does not have some major storms ahead given the people at the helm.
You might find the term "wage theft" objectionable, but note that it's in response to the term "time theft" that employers (notably Walmart) drill into their hourly employees. The idea of "time theft" is that employees are costing them billions of dollars by stealing time through breaks that are too long, socializing on the job, personal phone calls, being idle, etc, and they can fire employees for "time theft". The average employee is said to "steal" 54 minutes per day. So the term "wage theft" basically just turns the tables on these employers.
Even if you don't build it, it's not a plug and play process. I'd read everything here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/
It's fascinating how a penciled-in price actually adds (greatly!) to the value of the manuscript when sold now.

BTW anyone know of an inexpensive source for parchment?
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The vast majority of crop land in the US is not used to produce food for humans directly, but rather for animals. (I don't have a source, but at as an agronomist and someone who grew up in agriculture, and someone who has paid careful attention when traveling I can say this is almost certainly the case or close enough to the case to be relevant for the below point...).

The key to growing more high value food (protein and fat as opposed to low nutrient density fiber, vitamins and water foodstuff like this system provides) is to remove animals from the equation. This is the terrible inefficiency in modern agriculture and solving it would result in tremendous gains.

I'm very excited about things like tank grown nutrient yeasts. There was an article a few weeks ago about a type that has been engineered to produce milk for instance. This type of thing is the future I believe and has great potential. A few off season indoor vegetables are great too. As condiments.
Same thing happened to me.

I gave my company a choice: raise my salary/title to reflect the new hierarchy or lose me to a competitive offer. They fed me a line about how the company was making money, but not enough to raise everyone's salary (translation: we don't think you can get a competitive offer).

I took another job 3 weeks later for 25% more money + actual equity (not bullshit stock options).

Startups can be fun, but in terms of compensation, the early employees will get screwed over.
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That's a great article. I've read most of pg articles but missed this one. Thanks for sharing it.
They're not; they risk harming other people in the vehicle and there is extra effort to recover the injured body of someone from an RTA if that person wasn't wearing a seatbelt which puts emergency services at increased risk of harm.
Something to consider is whether an inherent limitation of HLLs is that they simply cannot compete with Asm on efficiency, or if the common mantra of "the compiler can always do better" is ultimately true. The presence of projects like this certainly calls into question such points.

Put it another way, could the same results be achieved with C, or even something much higher level like Haskell or Lisp, if only compilers were better at generating code?

I've looked at a lot of disassembled code over the years, and it's extremely easy to tell whether something was generated by a compiler or hand-written by a human; the "texture" is quite different.
It seems relatively simple to implement. One manufacturer screwing up shouldn't mean it be abandoned.
Google devices are, as I said. Mentioning that other Android devices aren't is like saying other Linux distros don't use RPM in response to a statement that Redhat does.
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articles in the register are unreadable because of their overly sarcastic tone
How does the addition of manual checks against the distribution policies change the fact that Google's malware checking is better than Apple's?
Are you talking about automatic searbelts or alarms for seatbelts?
I usually use the term "REST" instead of RESTful - I know and understand the benefits of pure REST but I choose JSON over XML every time I can. Not to mention suboptimal support for PUT / DELETE / ... methods in Apache.
I tried the name `~SnapSwap` to actually get into this app. (I found this from a 'Popular Gateways' page [1].)

The blank input field isn't a super friendly way to show people your product if they haven't encountered Ripple before (like myself)... a little blog post about what Ripple is and why you made ledgermonitor would be cool!

[1]: https://ripple.com/knowledge_center/gateway-information/
Probably bits and bobs for the wife's crafting projects (probably involve lots of rabbits) Custom cases for the odd bare electronic components I have. And some experiments in stylistic 3d designs.
There are few OEM that are actually Plug'n'Play, and even with those, you will most likely have problems with OS X updates.

If I were you, I'd really go with DIY, fewer problems and you will gain experience.

johng linked to tonymacx86 which is a useful resource, although I don't really like MultiBeast since it's not actually the All-In-One solution it's supposed to be.

insanelymac.com is also quite useful :)
My perspective on windows 2000 is somewhat different because I came from NT4. 2000 required a lot more hardware to do basically the same thing. I thought it was a step down.
Surely its the other way around. It's reasonable to expect all adults to wear a seatbelt in a taxi but not reasonable to expect all taxis to carry child seats. It wouldn't be unusual to expect on occasion for a parent to travel with 3-3 children; should all taxis therefore carry 3 child seats? No. Should all adults travelling in taxis use a seatbelt when one is available and required when travelling in private transport? Surely yes.
Oh, I remember MenuetOS! I played with it in 2001 I believe - it was the only full fledged OS to run from a floppy disk (remember those?), it was very impressive!
There's definitely a bit of competition between agriculture and say forests, urban areas and sustainable energy projects. But urban areas probably are the smallest of them all. We've seen some deforestation, and we've also seen agriculture under pressure from biofuels. The biofuels idea is mostly bankrupt (at least in terms of crops, algae etc have potential), and deforestation is in part illegal and unnecessary, not due to a dire lack of agricultural land.

Our rate of human population concentration is very high, about 95% of humans are concentrated on about 10% of surface area worldwide. Meanwhile we only use 11% of land for agriculture, while about 36% of our land is suitable for farming. (which could be improved to some extent, e.g. there are various ways to take back deserts on small scales, and on large scales too if technology improves enough). And in fact, urbanisation is only growing. We've never had as much concentration of people, and as many people living in cities as today.

So I don't think agricultural land is under that much threat. In fact we could probably pretty easily cut back agricultural land by 50% while increasing to a population of 9 billion if we changed our diets and our use of farmland. For example some rough numbers from 2013:

> roughly 40 percent of U.S. corn is used for ethanol, (roughly 36 percent of U.S. corn is fed to cattle, pigs and chickens. Much of the rest is exported. Only a tiny fraction of the national corn crop is directly used for food for Americans, much of that for high-fructose corn syrup.

Small edits by me. Now imagine what that means when you figure that corn is the nr 1 crop in the US, and a tiny fraction goes to actually feeding people. As for animals, the studies vary between chickens requiring as little as 2 kilos of plant food and cows as high as 10 kilos, to produce 1 kilo of meat. Whatever the exact accurate number is, it's a fact that making food from animals is inefficient. You put more food in than you get out, sometimes by an order of magnitude, for a different taste experience for a minute or so per day.

And that's just corn, it's not alone. More than half of grain is used for livestock, too.

Now obviously land is finite, if you want to live here with 50 billion people, sure. You need to go up. But the demographic projections to 2100 are to cap out at around 10 billion, and then slowly decrease again as the world moves to an average birthrate we see in OECD countries (1.7, while about 2.1 is necessary to sustain a population level). These kinds of population levels can be sustained on flat land, vertical isn't necessary.

Doesn't mean that vertical can't happen. If vertical is better, who cares if it is necessary, it'll be replaced anyway. But the challenge of vertical farming is currently sustainability (large infrastructure costs are necessary to make it possible to get conditions you see on flat land for 'free' (sun, clouds and soil taking care of light, water, food, distribution, containers, germination etc) in a vertical space. And if you can't solve that problem of sustainability, it doesn't matter if there's not enough flat land anyway because we'd be doomed.
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Like this one? http://youtu.be/TWLmoeoHrP4

"Like most victims, Julie knew her killer.

It was her son."
Exactly on the vision and fantasy.

Worse on the consequence: lots of "new" features are TOP 1, and the last unfinished top 1 just been cancelled in its first week.

Agile though, those sprints are never called failed, but move on like nothing changed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh is another useful resource.
It should when it was tried and is just not a working concept. It basically comes in the same category as "bike handle bar warmers". Making an annoying ding is going to get most people to put on their belt. Making the car not move is one more thing that can go wrong in daily life and can make an emergency worse.
Well, that's a fair point, DanBC, but I generally regard laws about jaywalking to be a bit silly, and one of those things that I mentioned we'll need to fix at some point. If you're interested, I encourage you to Google "invention of jaywalking" for some insight into how that became a "crime".

And my thanks for your concern about downvotes, but I'm not very much bothered about them. What's the point of writing for the approval of a largely anonymous group of others? My only concern might be that my words would be construed as disrespectful to the late Dr Nash, but on a second reading I don't really see that. If some folks choose to disagree using some arbitrary points system instead of arguing properly, I guess that's their own affair.
I'll repeat my point in your terms: By forcing people to wear the seatbelt, other risk-taking behaviour is increased, which appears to result in more RTAs.

The evidence on either side is not enough to justify bankrupting fines.
Average P/E across all business sectors tends to be around 15 long term, with fluctuations mostly staying between 10 and 25, getting out of these ranges only in extreme cases like a war or a major international crisis (in XX century, U.S. average p/e was under 10 for any significant time only during WWI, WWII, and the 1970s oil shock). If some business is really worth only 3x of its annual profit it must be a really, really dodgy one (only one of the hundreds of tracked business sectors with P/E under 3 now is TV broadcasting, which is agreeably on its death track).
Quantum cryptography can be secure against rubber hose attacks. It can be designed so that if you measure the wrong thing (i.e. try the wrong password), the stored information is gone forever. And due to the no-cloning theorem it isn't possible to circumvent this with backups.
You should enable this as a global download. I could not find this in the German iOS App Store for example :( - From what I see on the website, it looks like a cool product, though.
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This is awesome modular headphones soundscapes. Was told even if the campaign didn't get 100% funding, they may still honour your rewards pledge.
Silverlight and WPF were different...they said that from the start.
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You could give them on top of each other so that both can be grabbed simultaneously.
It's ridiculous to even think about ridesharing in this context. Better to focus on advancing self-driving vehicles, so that we may one day live in a world without the possibility of car accidents. Such an unnecessary source of injury and death.
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Here is a some more info...

http://www.epa.gov/agriculture/ag101/cropmajor.html

Corn is the largest crop in the US. 84 million acres of it were grown in 2011 (try fitting that in a hydro system in an old factory).
According to the National Corn Growers Association, 80% of corn in the US is consumed by animals.. poultry, cattle, hogs, fish etc.

Soybeans are the second largest crop with ~74 million acres grown in 2011. Although not as dramatic as corn, animals eat a significant share of soybeans as well. Over 30 million tons of soybean meal is used as livestock feed annually (very roughly 1/3 of soybean production according to my quick and dirty calculations).

The third largest crop is hay at ~56 million acres. This is exclusively used for animal feed.

These three crops together are many times the acreage of all other crops combined.

Manifestly, the big savings in water, fuel, fertilizer etc would be to remove the dependence on animals in the diet.
In your considerations, what did you have planned to do if you did end up buying a farmstead? Pick up farming or livestock, or just live on the countryside with a big ranch available without animals but otherwise live and work like you do now presumably in a city, or a combination?

I've been really interested in the idea of moving out of the city for some time but I don't know many people who've done so. They usually just moved to a smaller city (i.e. a village) without any real farmland, but a decent backyard. (something pretty rare here in Amsterdam).

Thanks
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This is very interesting to me as an entrepreneur who thinks of why versus what.

The onset of 'exposure' due to instant connection and integration via connected devices has enabled society to have a peek into the social aspects of our behavior, savory or unsavory.

As kids, and when our parents were kids, very similar behaviors occurred as to what kids are doing today - in my opinion, the only difference is that we can now view what occurs today, whereas in the past it was word-of-mouth.

Humans be humans, regardless of the century.
Oh, I wasn't aware that it was multithreaded. I just found out about it now.

Did you benchmark gold to find out how much MT speeds up linking?
Just playing devils advocate, but I know people who won't drive a car without making sure everyone has their seat belt on.
There are seatbelt buckles made specifically for silencing those alarms, and boy are they popular in China.

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=43123079687
Cocoa is in a similar state - the production in Bahia (Brasil) has been reduced massively with the introduction of the Witches´ Broom, a fungus.

http://www.icco.org/about-cocoa/pest-a-diseases.html

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9147983...
Nitpick, "mydomain.com" is a real domain (registrar). Use "example.com" for example domains.
So the short answer is that it does not work. Lots of fiddling and they dont even get the native resolution working according to the posts.
While some of the tips are useful, I'd much rather see them written with JSON rather than XML. JSON has long been an industry standard. XML is bloated, almost no one uses it anymore.

http://restcookbook.com/Mediatypes/json/ says "There is no predefined way to deal with link discovery in JSON". I'm surprised it doesn't even mention JSON Schema (http://json-schema.org/) or JSON API (http://jsonapi.org/), which are not official standards but allow you to write machine understandable and discoverable API.

If the author wants to promote standards, I think it would be better to look at what the world is using and then put together a guide that explains how to use JSON-LD and other W3C proposals.
Truth be told, the only places I've seen that will pay you incrementally by the minute for anything out of the 9-5 will also dock you incrementally by the minute for taking too long of a lunch break, and count the number of bathroom breaks you take.

For salaried work, I don't think it should matter if you show up anytime within 1 hour of the start of business so long as no one is relying on you to be there (e.g. for a meeting or to work hand-in-hand with you).
Security: from Linux to Windows
I'm looking for a "Windows for Linux users" kinda of guide, any suggestions? I'm not talking about how to use the OS, but how to protect myself from it.

My new job "requires" that I move to Windows ASAP but I'm worried about all the cloud stuff. I'm waiting for the Windows 10 release to start the dual boot pain.

- Is there a "Microsoft Block" list for the hosts files for all the cloud, ads on MS apps (like Skype) and data collection stuff? That would still allow me to receive updates

- I hate everything about Antivirus software. Is there any lightweight solution? Any options besides UAC on max level to increase security?

- For shaddy .exe's, is there a battle tested sandbox solution or I'm gonna need a VM? Is it worth paying for Sandboxie?

- Windows Firewall: good enough?

Feel free to share your experiences about switching to Windows, security related or not.

Thanks!
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> Those jobs don't exist any more.

Sure they do. My first few jobs were paid under the table for less than minimum wage in the late 90's. Those businesses are still around and still employing youngsters at that age. They keep it quiet because it's illegal; you have to know someone.

At those first jobs, I received secretarial and retail training and experience. This didn't help me at all when I applied to actual paid positions at retail stores. Nobody gave a damn about my retail experience when I was interviewing because they see it as "unskilled labor". They can hire anybody off the street and teach them to use a register. It also didn't matter when transitioning to programming since they didn't care about anything other than if I could program.

I struggled just as much as your kids did at getting started in the workforce. There's a huge gap between skilled and unskilled labor. The unskilled labor positions are also few and far between. There are too many applicants and not enough positions. For skilled labor, there's a huge gap between what you're taught in college and what's valuable to an employer, but that's another conversation.
Yes and No. The client could hop over a bunch of ip6-addresses, since there would be an abundance of them.
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Wake and sleep with cron and rtc
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