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The search bubble may benefit you on occasion (such as your programming example), but it will affect you on every search, showing you mostly results with similar politics, etc, to the sources you already read.

http://dontbubble.us/
BeeCanvas is released in seoul. They said 'File-sharing killer' themselves
I'm not. My most recent PPC box has a G3.
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"The further the submarine descented the more the weight of the submarine increased due to pressure."

How does that work? I thought pressure under water is the same from all directions.
I have on 2 separate occasions... when, I against my better judgement, took some consulting work with obvious clients from hell. Immediate not so subtle threats from the beginning. Turned out that all of their previous contracting experiences with others had ended up a disaster, as did my experience with them. It's the threats that pretend not to be threats that really seem to be one of the strongest indicators.

Yeah, at this point I'd assume that anyone who's making any sort of threats from the very start is going to turn into one of these employers from hell. True or not.

Actually, I'd be surprised if the OP isn't the employer from hell. Trust your first instincts on this stuff guys.
The defensiveness is unwarranted. He wasn't saying it like it was a bad thing, it's just a different mindset, that's all.

It's good that there are different reasons and mindsets to entrepreneurship and there's no reason for anyone to get territorial about their preferred method. Plenty of room for everyone.
I agree craving != hunger.

"The reason overweight individuals have a tough time is that they are VERY satieted by carb foods"

Satiety has little to with cravings. It has to do with hunger.

Regardless, I guess we are both in the "wrong" to assume whether particular individuals are truly satieted by carb foods or not. And I think we can both agree that it's best to avoid large amounts of simple carbs.
Late reply but:

All of the things you list are annoyances with crud that exists to satisfy this or that use-case which I suppose you personally don't need, which doesn't mean they don't have purposes. I would also say they are all minor annoyances. Your builds run faster than a ./configure script? Not building particularly large projects I suppose. Installing autotools? Big deal! I don't know when one needs to write m4, but the Makefile.am format looks rather clean and minimal to me; I don't see how you could have something much cleaner without losing a lot of generality. And having to delve into the guts of some obscure system is exactly what I had to do a few times because some piece of software refuses to keep with the convention and just use Autotools.

The documentation you ask for is idealistic and unrealistic. GNU Autotools are free software, and with decades-old proven maturity; I see no reason not to use them. The only pseudo-reasons I see are NIH, FUD, etc.; the usual.

GNU Guix (and before that, Nix) is fundamentally different from all other package managers, so that analogy makes no sense here unless you have some radically different innovative build system.
Nah, at least not people where I live. While most people aren't enthusiasts, almost everyone does 60mph on the main arterials, and 70-80 on the actual highways.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9522459 on topic "Ask HN: How to talk smart?"
My personal observations of "fine as things are" would imply the odds of promotion/advancement are much higher if you do XYZ or you can forget promotion or advancement if you'd prefer, which is fine with us.

In a pyramid structure with a possibly 1:8 ratio, or higher, that means no matter what else is going on, at least 7 of 8 can never advance beyond their current level, no matter their wants or abilities, so if someone volunteers to be one of the 7 who are prevented from advancing that's a VERY happy coincidence. There's at least one of several awkward conversation we can avoid after the interviews for the higher up position, guaranteed six or less is better than having to deliver seven disappointments. Or eight, if company policy is to never promote from within.

With the general rise of job-hopping and the death of promotion from within, it doesn't really matter anymore. "If you wanted your bosses job, you'd work on X, Y, and Z, but we aren't firing your boss anytime soon and if we did we'd hire someone from ABC company, or your bosses bosses golf partner or frat buddy anyway rather than promoting from within, so it doesn't really matter".

Also see the rise of internet job sites, if you want a promotion and your company doesn't promote, then you look at job postings and discussions for competitors and talk to recruiters and headhunters. Its not the era of newspaper classifieds anymore where corporate HR pays by the word or column inch.
Wow, all the US Department of State files have just gone missing from archive.org. The servers hosting those files are conveniently down.
>But hearing it come up -- and like this -- during an interview without solicitation just reeks of a toxic environment.

That was my thought. As I was reading this, the voice in my head said "Run! Run for the hills!"
By the metric of the Western world, it is a true statement.

I think a large part of the problem is people in US politics really, really don't get outside the bubble of the US.

http://nation.foxnews.com/john-mccain/2011/02/03/mccain-obam...

Even Republicans have stated on the record that he is a centrist.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/94274...

> A second foreign policy adviser to Mr Romney said: “Cameron’s contacts with Republicans are really quite limited, and have been going back to when [George W.] Bush was president.” The adviser added: “In many respects Cameron is like Obama.”

Like, this whole "Democrats are leftists" is just a Republican meme at this point in almost all respects.
I've actually gotten depressed at the results of the election. I was scheduled to go back to the UK in a few months, but decided to move to another country instead.

Cameron is on a rampage. I've never feared rapid descent into dictatorship until now. I'm well and truly afraid of what the UK will look like in 4 years.
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Soundbites are so prevalent precisely because they work. The other authoritarian side will be using them and many other methods of propaganda. I agree that in every individual case it is preferable to have a reasonable discussion, but that usually not possible. Not using soundbites like that is like bringing knife to a gunfight.

As long as soundbite as a talking point/ persuasion vessel doesn't misrepresent wider context of the statement(in this case it doesn't), I think it's fine to use them.

Don't you agree?
> I'm afraid you can't buy a copy of the Glorifying Terrorism SF anthology (it's out of print, and not going to be reprinted or published as an ebook any time soon, because of the ongoing VATMESS headache)

I wonder if in this day and age a 500-year old book like "Vindiciae contra tyrannos" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindiciae_contra_tyrannos) would land his/her author in jail. I suppose it would. And I cannot remember the exact title, but there were books similar with this one, written at about the same time, which were advocating for even more drastic measures: i.e. the assassination of the tyrant/king.

Anyway, in the US it has been illegal for some time to say "I want to kill the President of the United States of America" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEQOvyGbBtY), the UK had remained one of the few countries where a liberty of speech "loophole" was still in place. Sad to see it gone.
This falls squarely within Moore's Law in the classic definition of transistor density.

This because transistor density allows for two things, but Intel is only pushing one of them.

First it allows for more compute power for a certain price.

Second, it allows for a set compute power at a lower price.

The second comes because you can stack more chips on a single wafer, and so get a bigger yield out of each production run.

I suspect Intel avoids that one because it will inevitably lead to a race to the bottom.
I had exactly the same problem with a site I made for a friend's wedding. It included a short message from the bride and groom ending with 'xxx' — i.e. kiss kiss kiss. Vodafone UK (at least) blocked it as porn.
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You're being downvoted for making the all too common suggestion that the only programming languages worthwhile are those that are already widely adopted in for-profit business. There are better programming languages out there than what your hypothetical boss will let you use, and they can be used for more than just "fun".
I've had it come up and thought it was great. In my case, the timing of other offers meant that the potential employer would have to hire me without all of their normal process. That worried them.

I explained that if it didn't work out, there was no sense for either of us in me staying on when it wasn't a good match. We then had a reasonable, adult conversation about hiring and firing and our approaches thereto.

It was honestly part of what sold me on the place. I think that companies that treat firing as some sort of spooky bogeyman are not so good at management. It's not like failing to talk about it means that firing isn't a possible outcome; it just means that people dance around it.
Why must nature be so anti-corporate? Guy just wants to drill a few wells.
The front of the list can be garbage collected, so the Haskell version can be O(1) in memory.
The long-run price for a c3.8xlarge in California is somewhere between $0.40 and $0.50, though you're correct that right now they're $1.68.

California tends to be more expensive than other AWS regions, though (I can't remember the reason - perhaps just availability?). If you're in us-east-1 the price sticks around $0.20 per hour, and eu-west-1 is rock-solid at $0.32 per hour.

If you have work that can be done on spots it can be a good idea to make it region-agnostic so that you can take advantage of better prices for different instances in different regions.
Let me use Haskell here.

I don't think that Haskell's notation is as much mathematical[1] as it is similar, yet better than mathematical notation. Programmers have to be understood by an entity that does not understand hand-waving or shortcuts ("this is trivial"). What you sometimes end up with as a result is a concise yet easy to understand notation with a small set of rules to remember, as opposed to ad-hoc rules that can be overridden at any point for the author's convenience[2]. And you don't even need to install LaTeX.

I don't like to think of FP in the style of Haskell so much as mathematical as expression oriented. It's simple to see where an expression starts, and where it ends, and what subexpressions it consists of. It is simple to compose expressions, as opposed to statements which you typically just make longer lists of or stuff into procedures.

PS: Do note some researcher's/Haskell programmers fondness of writing "Haskell" as mathematical LaTeX - things like replacing certain standard operators for prettier ones, like replacing `.` with the dot-operator more usually associated with function composition. This makes research papers harder to understand if their goal is to appeal to Haskell programmers' existing knowledge. An even worse offense is Graham Hutton's "Programming in Haskell" introductory book which to some degree uses this practice in the code samples. Who on earth thought that would be appropriate for an introductory book?

[1] I'm referring to "math" as most people encounter it. Not any specific discipline or calculus, like the lambda ones.

[2] And yes, you should be able to expand macros and such, if they are in play.
Keep in mind that the price given was without carrier subsidy.
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I don't think he finds paying for digital services unethical, but he chooses not to since that payment is always personally identifiable (since you have to have an account, use a credit card, etc). He has 2 major stances outlined here -- an ethical opinion on free software, and a personal choice on privacy.
Assuming that the images are already on BL computers somewhere then them providing a link or sending them by email would likely be a couple of minutes; with admin certainly within the hour.

I read his comment as meaning they haven't digitised them (yet), and BL wants £400 to do it. Not that I agree with charging that much as I think they should've done that already, but if he's asking for a bunch of large, old, and fragile images, it could be delicate and time-consuming work.
Why? I went from having very limited free time due to having a commute to having at least 3 - 5 hours every day after work. Even more if I woke up earlier.

I'm interested in learning how to use those hours that I never had before because I have been marathoning Netflix series and I'm not so sure that's good for me in the long run.
I believe that a common method of insulating mud-built buildings in cooler climates is mixing straw with the mud. There's probably some method of incorporating something similar either inside the bags or as an external layer. This wouldn't have to be straw, it could be something longer lasting with similar thermal properties.
That depends in large part on what happens post-acquisition. If the purchasing company makes the concept profitable by applying economies of scale and cross-brand marketing, the startup was a success.

If the acquired employees are laid off, and the purchased company shelved, it was a failure.

The founders are but a handful of people in the company they started, so if they are the only ones that get a happy ending, then they are personally successful even if the company they created was a failure.
Google penalizing a site for inaccurate user-generated content would be a pretty awful precedent. Stuff on iReport is flagged as "not verified by CNN" fairly clearly, as far as I can tell, and if CNN wants to sink its brand this is hardly the first salvo in that attempt.
Can anyone share why exactly the Liberal Democrats, who seem to have been against this sort of stuff, got crushed at the recent elections? Was it because of some unpopular positions or were there many "scandals" that appeared regarding their candidates (perhaps about personal issues?).
During Carter's era or today. In 90 I was trained for a year in computer engineering for our sonar computer mainframe including Assembly. The idea was that if we were on deployment and a bug caused a problem we could potentially figure it out and maybe fix it without stopping the mission. I was programming on my own for 8 years prior to that as a hobby so was actually correcting the instructor on a couple of occasions. There is also the rate DT which does programming all the time I think. I wanted to get into that rate but the wait was a year and I was impatient.
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I believe the main reason for Kijijis success in Canada is in its early years Kijiji canada ran massive PPC arbitrage campaigns - buying clicks for pennies from Google and reselling to unsophisticated Canadian media buyers for a significant markup. This enabled Kijiji Canada to continually invest massively into audience acquisition in Canada for many years, and as marketplace value is driven by scale, enabled them to build up the leadership position they have today.
Katherine Gun [1]. She was prosecuted, but the case quickly collapsed. Not a pardon though - they are very rarely used in the UK.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Gun
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Do these school admins not have the basic filtering abilities to stop proxies? Its trivial to do on several firewalls.

Education IT sounds like a nightmare in general. If students are outsmarting the firewall trivially, then it says a lot about how IT is run there.
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If devs don't want to read specs and instead read blog posts then its obvious why there is a problem.
"keep him around"

Its an underemployment issue. To get this CRUD web app position you need to be a top 1% rock star having passed compiler theory, database design, automata theory, linear algebra and diff eqs at an ivy league or HR won't even let your resume thru to the 8 hour whiteboard interview. The tiny microscopic subset of the population who get past that, are profoundly underemployed and will not have much of an issue with the raw brain horsepower requirement.

Its like demanding PE licensed PHD civil engineers, and actually getting them, to work as landscaping manual laborers, and then being worried they might not be smart enough to start the lawnmower. Its just not going to be an issue (edited: "in tech" "on coasts").
Any developer who was burned by App Engine pricing in the past is likely to take the lure of a "70% off" discount with a grain of salt because of the much higher cost of incorrectly relying on Google's pricing pledges.

In case anyone forgets, the pricing changes on Google App Engine caused many developers to abandon apps they had developed on the platform because of hundreds of percent increases in pricing:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine/rSh...
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In the days when I traveled for work a fair bit, I would take along a book to dinner. Generally, once the meal arrived, I would set the book aside and eavesdrop. I was never furtive about, people just speak loud enough for one to hear. I tended to become involved in conversations only if I ate at the bar.
Exactly - an extra step in the development process, you need to do an official release of both libraries / projects - do your work (same as in a monolithic repo), bump version x2, update dependencies x2, make tag x2, and hope others haven't changed anything in between and made a release so you'd have to do it again. That goes against "move fast and break things", or at least the move fast bit.
> Also sceptical that coercing people to behave in socially acceptable ways is necessary or desirable.

Well that is the only way they could possibly live independently.
Thanks for reading! I'm glad you appreciate the effort. I spend an average of eight hours to write one small post (1398 words)!
I disagree. I don't think true "auto driving" (as opposed to some sensor-driven safety assists) is feasible in the next decade or so, well-past the rumored timetable for an "Apple Car".

Even if it were, why would you design it to require sub-meter, externally-provided precision, especially when there are guaranteed to be circumstances (e.g., tunnels) where it won't be available?

My guess is that Apple wants faster locking GPS because faster locking means less time with antennas cranked up using power.
One of the main challenges, however, seems like it would rear its head as soon as you leave the confines of a defined brain teaser, where you know for sure that there is a "trick" even if you can't see it, and real world situations such as in programming, where you don't yet know if the specific problem is solvable at all.
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If an effect is explicit, is it still correct to call it a "side" (implicit) effect?
Having a rather severe non-verbal (some single words or rote phrase) 11 year old with autism, our biggest mystery is how much she does or doesn't understand about us or about her own condition. Articles like this (again, hopefully written by the subject) help give some potential insight.

Because she essentially has no voice, it's almost natural to talk about her as if she isn't there. As she's grown we've been better about it, but because she doesn't express emotion it's near impossible to imagine what she might be thinking or feeling.

I have several dreams a year where she speaks. I'd expect other parents do as well.

The strangest thing for me is to have a child that has never asked us a single question. We see other families with 3 year olds that continuously ask "Why?" to everything you say. When you hear other parents complaining that their kids won't stop asking questions, I try not to remind them of the alternative.
It still needs BitTorrent client. How about doing exactly the same but using WebRTC which would work without additional client application.
I don't know about that, but I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks :)
A properly tensioned dome structure with multiple bonding between layers, particularly if continuous or long bags / ropes are used in the coils seems to me a possibly robust structure.

An unmortared or weakly-mortared square brick or stone structure is about the worst option for a quake. All the compressive forces are vertical only,and there's not a whole lot to keep things together when shaking starts. Individual structural elements (bricks or stones) are small and easily shift relative to one another.

"Fired brick wall earthquake test 10 second shake highest magnitude"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzblCe8krCY

Though this doesn't show direct earthquake effects, this post-quake demolition in Christchurch demonstrates how much stronger reinforced concrete is than unreinforced brick. The demo would have gone far faster with a jackhammer attachment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0qU19p_zwA
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Let me also make note of my fav Wikipedia article: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_with_fraudule...
As the smaller party in a coalition, they got blamed for every unpopular decision and got no credit for anything popular.
I thought I'm fucked in my country, guess what, this has blown my mind.
There is a large number of plants don't use animals for pollinating. For example Conifers.
Is anyone here interested in the nuclear abolition movement?

Im in an international buddhist organization that is represented at the United Nations. As a software engineer, I'd love to meet other people who are interested in solving these problems.
Thanks for the feedback. Dont tell my boss, but I too agree with you :)
Original OP. I'm a US citizen that lived 5 years in the South Pacific. I actually think you both have a point!

I watched how the rural area we worked in was dramatically transformed by simple cell phones. Things like pregnant women previously had to make a 40 hour walk to town and now could call for emergencies.

But technology did not fix many problems. I did see 30 person extended families dependent on one person earning money. Access to the internet introduced new problems, like pornography, which made the locals have a major increase in STD's.

Information is tricky.
As someone living in Scotland I am rather hoping this will expedite our eventual independence.
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