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PowerPoint isn't the problem. The problem is asking people who aren't proficient speakers or presenters to present on something. We are literally asking them to present on a topic they know about and communicate it in a way that is effective and informative. PowerPoint isn't the issue. The issue is one of training. PowerPoint (and other presentation software) is easy enough to use, it gives you all the tools you need to prepare an excellent presentation. But just because I have a kitchen filled with chef-quality tools and the best food available doesn't mean I'm immediately a professional cook, let alone a chef. I might be able to hobble together a meal suitable for the family dinner table, but I'm not quitting my day job.

But no one is suggesting we ban burners and bowls from the kitchen.

The call to ban PowerPoint is harmful. It ignores the real problem while pretending to solve things it cannot really solve. The result will be that the real underlying problem goes unfixed longer, while those that don't use PowerPoint will effectively be given a pass: "You aren't using PowerPoint, you must know what you are talking about."

Knives might be dangerous, but when you are trained to use them, they are useful. Don't ban knives from the kitchen.
I went from Backbone to Angular to Mithril, and published a blog post about it: https://medium.com/@l1ambda/mithril-vs-angular-vs-react-d0d6...
Actually I just went here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_langu...

sorted table by "Default base index" and at first picked FORTRAN, considered COBOL and Smalltalk for a while then saw Lua and thought that should resonate with people. My personal experience with 1 based indexing is from Matlab and Pascal (though you can base your indexes on whatever value you want there).
Even if you did ban PowerPoint, people would just find a way to do PP-like things with something else. For example, MS Word, with the page down key (although then the transition animations go away, so that is a minor victory).

In my opinion, people are just poorly educated (or not educated) in presentation making. Or to phase it another way, a school may teach them to use PP the software but doesn't teach them how to put on a good presentation using it.

One key thing people need to learn is: Slides exist to supplement what is being said. If your presentation doesn't work without the slides then you're doing it wrong. Putting exactly what you're saying into your slides verbatim is generally a mistake (although putting key points or a list, and expanding on it vocally can work well).

Generally most people put too much content into single slides as they're worried about having to advance the slideshow mid-point. This means that your point is too expansive, and you should cut your point in half and then cutting your slides in half follows naturally (e.g. instead of doing a yearly projection with summaries of each quarter, just do each quarter individually and sum the year as a whole alone at the end).

I certainly don't think I'm an expert at presentations, I just care slightly more than your average person, and have copied elements from what I consider good deliveries.
> Thermal is an issue that gets worse with distance.

I would respectfully disagree. The rail industry has figured out how to do Continuous Welded Rail (CWR) quite well, using the elasticity of steel.

http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2011/03/08/distorted-rail...

Similarly the tube for the Hyperloop doesn't HAVE to free-float against its foundations. It might be easier or harder depending on various factors to work on expansion joints or doing the tube equivalent of CWR. You'd probably work on both to figure out which is easier in the long run.

Considering that it's a 9-11ft diameter tube with about 1" wall thickness, it's going to be pretty stiff, especially relative to traditional rails. The moment of inertia means that it should be very resistance to bending or buckling under compression and under tension steel is usually very good.

Given that there are going to be plenty of turns that the track has to make, I would look at doing a combination of two things:

1. Working towards a CWR style solution

2. Allow some movement so that the corners can take up the slack as the tube expands

The turns are very gradual and sweeping. But you could imagine that there's a virtual intersection between two straight portions that you determine by drawing lines from the straight portions until they meet. The actual turn will take place far from here, but it's instructive. So as the tube expands, the actual curve is going to move ever so slightly from the neutral position towards the virtual intersection. So long as there is enough room on the pylons to accommodate this, things will be pretty good. The tube will go from being curved 0.1 degrees per 100 feet to 0.105 degrees per 100 feet (or something like this) but this can be designed for and ensured that it doesn't cause the tube to buckle or collapse. It's engineering, not the utter unknown.
How much of this is due to the # of native technologies that need to be developed for?

In Mobile there are 2. Web wins over 20 competitors, but just 2?
Cool article. Reading up on history of this stuff, this was a problem that was hard to understand even in the 40-50s. This caused a lot of issues where people irradiated themselves by pouring the wrong stuff down the wrong drain, or leaning over and acting as a neutron deflector at the wrong time. If you are interested in this stuff, wikipedia has a list of criticality accidents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident
I have tried various solutions and finally decided on this one: https://github.com/samg/timetrap
I wrote a post a while ago about how to use wifi ssid and signal strength to determinate the indoor location of an Android phone - http://www.guidefreitas.com/indoor-location-using-wifi-signa...
I'm not sure where you're getting your information here. One very pervasive area I don't see going 64-bit any time soon is cable settop boxes.
Yeah. Avoid the database, just read from RAM :)
Spent summers out there - it was nice to get on the lake during the Mojave heat waves
Well sorry for the Louis CK style commenting :) It hits a nerve because part of it is true :)

Further down is a funny post about youngsters "understanding" that you don't actually have to work ("So while you think it's OK to slave away, work for free and abuse the State sponsored drug, they don't.") for life to be good. Sure, if somebody wipes your behind and burps you regularly.

Well I work, my life is good, I'm not complaining (about work at least!).

But really, quite the problem people have these days. 8-16 work days in a comfy office with no responsibility whatsoever and they get burnt out at 25 (2 years out of school). I think that's a pampered crybaby.

And I'm not now talking about people with some medical issues, those you can't of course help.
I'm in Dallas.

Things have gotten better since. I got a new job in March 2012, where they wanted someone with the exact kind of experience I had, plus I got to put some professional Java (and a bit of C++) experience under my belt to make my resume look nicer, at least. That company was dysfunctional like you wouldn't believe, but at least my unemployment was over. I ended up leaving that company for a much better position over the new year. Now, I'm just a Java developer... but at least I've got some marketable skills.

I'm honestly not sure what the Python market is like here anymore, though. I was kinda in a rush to get out of my last company because office politics had become a nightmare, so I took the first offer I got, and it wasn't a Python job. It pays really well, though.
[Wikitech-l] I forked GeSHi
This is the only answer.

Java is intended to be right once, run anywhere. "Anywhere" will include 32 bit address spaces for the forseeable future.
All-Star Panel on the State of Swift
Great! Reminds me of color thief: http://lokeshdhakar.com/projects/color-thief/
Testing Private Code
The MS Office suite in general is incredibly overcomplicated for what the average person is actually going to need or even use. The ribbon interface I think helped (mainly because it removed/hid Clipart and Wordart), but not enough. Many people I know have stopped using Office entirely in favour of the free and much lighter weight Google Docs suite, with no complaints about missing features.

MS does seem to be simplifying (or arguably dumbing down) their interfaces a lot these days, so maybe we'll see this kind of a redesign.
I disagree.

In the pre-PowerPoint era it was more common for people to actually prepare a talk rather than hide behind hastily-created slides that usually serve more as prompts for the speaker than visual enhancements to the content.

It is certainly possible to give bad presentations without PowerPoint, and good presentations with it, but most people only learn bad habits.

PowerPoint PRO TIP: The "b" key will bring up a black screen, and the "w" key will bring up a white screen, so people can look at your actual face when you are talking to them.
If you prefer Btrfs why not just use OpenSUSE? It uses btrfs by default.

Changing the default filesystem on your OS is, imo, setting your self up for trouble.
Irregularities in LaCour [pdf]
I saw a version of #1 online.

users.ha.uth.gr/tgd/pt0501/09/Tufte.pdf
When the US government literally loses track of $100 million in cash, no one blinks an eye. When a guy who has built an electric car company AND a space rocket company proposes a revolutionary transportation alternative and has people excited enough to spend $100 million on it, people go nuts.
I can't believe how small-minded some people are.
I could see this becoming a new way to transport goods but as outlined in the hyperloop white papers there is little room for error when transporting people and I'm not so sure that's the best, initial approach.

I think using this as a delivery system first, prove it out and increase safety as you go along is the way to go. It should be far cheaper to do it on physical goods first (hell you may even be able to skimp on the safety in some aspects), make lots of money transporting things and then work on a people version.
> WIN KEY + X, U, U

Windows Key + X is pretty much the one thing that makes Windows 8 tolerable on the desktop and the one thing I would recommend everyone having trouble with Windows 8 learn even if they aren't generally keyboard shortcut users and navigate the resulting menu (the WinKey+X menu) via mouse. I've been using Windows 8 since release and never use the hot corners stuff at all thanks to this menu.
This article (and the presentation the article is about) entirely misses the point (or what should be the point) of a slideshow: to serve as a visual aid for a spoken lecture, speech, or other monologue. When displayed in this context, even the seemingly-worst slides make sense.

What the presentation in question does is simply yank out a bunch of slides from not only their context within the overall slideshow, but also from their broader context of a presentation-assisted monologue. You're not supposed to try to encapsulate the entirety of a subject into a series of bullet points; you're supposed to capture the key topics in those bullet points and expand on them through monologue and (should questions be fielded) dialogue/discussion/debate/fruit-throwing/etc.

Yeah, I'd probably agree that the case studies of why PowerPoint should be banned also missed the point of a slideshow, but that's hard to know without having a transcript or recording of the finished presentation.

Basically, there's more to a presentation than just the slides.
> And it also helps a bit that the API's are super easy to work with.

Not in the least, you have to be comfortable in a half-dozen technologies at least to make a half-decent web application. You want performance, animations, etc then you better be an expert. And even then, your perfect container is a limited container.

By comparison, building a native app is much simpler. The complication comes in with cross-platform applications.
Hyperloop is based on a reduced air pressure tube, not an evacuated tube. Additionally, there's inlets in the front of the capsules to actively move air/pressure from in front to underneath/behind.

I don't really know how that alters what you've stated, if at all, but it didn't seem to be addressed, so I figured I would throw it out there.
>At worst, they are the next-generation MTV

Completely delusional.

I don't know what SnapChat will end up "being", but the idea that the worst-case-scenario is, for all intents and purposes, "incredibly successful" is so far off the rails. How people can read things like this without at least contemplating a tech bubble is beyond me.
Screenshot:

https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto
Not you. In fact, prior to today, I wasn't aware you and Patrick were working together. I have no issues there.

I'm not going to name names, but I'm pretty sure most of the community knows the few I am referring to. It just so happens that they've also been speaking at conferences, including Microconf and others like it.
Awesome. But forgive me not reading the answers. I want this to remain puzzle for me. I don't want to learn the answer. I want to invent it some day. Same way I feel about Rubik's cube.

I still have fond memories about finding out precise recursive equation, implementing it in LOGO for Atari and waiting minutes to find out the answer to how many times you have to try to burn all matches in a box by picking them from the box one by one at random, lighting them and putting them back in the box before picking next one.
Okay, but you enter your fourth decade on your 30th birthday, so there's less counterintuition involved in the age realm.
Not that many people respect font licensing, but the Roboto font has been Apache licensed since it was released (like the rest of AOSP and fonts previous to Roboto in Android). Moving to a full open production and tool chain is interesting though.
...that actually looks an awful lot like the crowd at the local goth club here. It's mostly aging goths in their 40s and 50s... I'm 30, and I'm one of the younger regulars.

They're awesome, though. They've been old-school goths since the 80s and 90s, and I prefer being around them to being around the younger scene kids.
The real question is, why are you using print statements to debug?
you may have overlooked the Pit Bull Hoverboard in Back to the Future, it did work on water...
http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Pit_Bull_hoverboard
The wording of this article is interesting. I personally know the people behind this project. This is from a PR firm, and kickstarter knockoff who 'lost' a lot of my friends startups money

This company (Hyperloop Transportation Technologies) got no funding, Hyperloop Technologies did ($8.5m).(which is in reality a PR firm called jumpstarter pr in El Segundo)

They are hoping to raise the funding at IPO

"Now, the company Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc. (which is not affiliated with Musk or Tesla) has inked a deal with landowners in central California to build the world's first Hyperloop test track"

"The 5-mile test track is estimated to cost about $100 million, which Hyperloop Transportation Technologies hopes to pay for with its initial public offering (IPO) later this year, according to Navigant's blog."

Musk is building his own
Separately, Musk has said he plans to build his own 5-mile test track, likely in Texas, for companies and students to test out potential Hyperloop designs.
I lived in Lake Havasu City for a while as a kid - I've always found it amusing to tell people about the London Bridge in the middle of the desert.
That happens frequently on the desktop website YouTube too. It also happens on my Android phone using the native app.

Related to that, if you try to scrub to a position BEFORE what you are watching right now (say, 1 minute before), which is obviously buffered since you have just watched it, it goes full loading-retard again. It's like it just throws away the data it buffered and showed you. It is insanely infuriating.
At a few dev meetups, some presenters just did markdown documents with enough new lines to be equivalent to a page. That way they just pressed pgdn on their laptop.

On another note, some lecture-style slides (where review post-presentation or without presentation) can be really helpful for understanding concepts otherwise described in math and without examples in official papers. Many CS publications seem to make this mistake in my eyes--that is, presenting something novel without bridging the gap via examples.
I kinda got laid off from my internship pretty much before graduating from college. It was kinda a hit in the face. They had me interview for full time. Which even that took forever. So my last day with my internship was May 2014. Looking for a job was in fact a full time job, I finally landed something in August 2014, while interviewing for the company I am at a month prior.

When I left my internship I was mainly working blow off projects, which was a point I knew I was close to the end. The projects were a mix of adding content to websites, maybe a bug fix, create an html email, a bunch of front end web stuff (which was what my internship was about)..

Good luck in the long run.
They dont tend to run the jvm. But they will quite likely end up running 64 bit as speeds increase and they get upgraded. Both mips and arm are pushing 64 bit quite a bit now, these type of applications dont really need 64 bit but it wont cost anything different.
I think it does come down to money too--like everything? I think if Richard Prince downloaded an image of Mickey Mouse, and did his "artistic" magic to the image, and sold prints in a gallery; his Lawyer would be very busy?

I, personally, don't give websites very many pictures. The few pictures I post are images I am giving away. Companies, Artists, and webscrapers are free to do whatever they want with the pictures I give up.

I don't give companies like Instagram any images--period. Facebook gets a picture of the back of my head, and I still use a pseudonym.

Even in high school, and college I never sat for a school picture. I don't like people taking my picture without my permission. I don't like companies whom take, and keep my picture--even for security, and identify purposes. I don't like public cams. I don't like marketing trend of taking employees picture for marketing purposes(Whole Foods, etc), or even employee of the month pictures.

What I am trying to say is I wish people were more concerned about their Images? I'll admit my my concern over the protection of my image, and the images I take borders on an obsession. I sometimes wonder if I'm missing out on opportunities in life by being so private?

I know companies will start running campaigns, and marketing ploys if Not posting becomes a trend. I can see it now, "Don't miss out on life--post more images!" "Don't miss out on networking opportunities--post more images!" "Don't miss out on love--post more images!"

People here know once image is posted it can be copied, manipulated, used without your consent, and sent around the world. The people I am close to don't quite realize once they upload in image it's essentially not their's anymore in any practical sense.
He didn't, this is not elon musks project. Elon musks project is called Hyperloop Technology. This CO is called Hyperloop Transportation Technology backed by a PR Firm called Jumpstarter
Well, about presentations, a couple of weeks ago I gave a presentation about a tool[0] to create text adventures with Markdown and created a slide deck using that tool. So the deck was itself a "presentable" text adventure[1].

[0] https://github.com/potomak/gist-txt

[1] https://potomak.github.io/gist-txt/#737a452d6f38c2b87403
There seems to be a lot of explanation from a business-y POV as to why dating startup is hard, but I'm curious from a different POV: does dating company/apps actually solve any problem that people are having? To be more precise, dating is hard, but the difficulty is multi-facet, and I can't see an app potentially solving any of them for me. I'm a single 20s-something, so firmly in the target audience for most dating app. And I fail see the benefits of using almost any dating service from a startup out there.
There's one simple way I've found to keep up on your time reports: you don't get paid if you don't turn in a timesheet.

The places I've worked that had this policy didn't have any issues with tracking time.
Universal dependencies.

A large complaints when it comes to distros is that dependencies do not translate across.

This in large part because of this workaround by including partial version numbers in package names, as none of the major distros do it the same way.

But rather than fix it in the minimal fashion, they instead use it as an excuse to foist containerization onto the desktop.
Exactly, this was a PR Release for a hyperloop cash grab in hopes they IPO
I want this to succeed. I want to engineering team(s) to crush all the issues that people have raised here and elsewhere. That being said most cutting edge engineering projects like this don't make money for a very long time and I wouldn't invest any money I want to see a return on.
As opposed to Elon Musk being a sacred cow who we cannot criticise at all without being attacked/downmodded?

The Hyperloop, to put it generously, has a lot of "unanswered questions" and practical limitations. Just considering the safety (and escape) of this thing takes you into areas that raise legitimate concern.

I'm not going to discount it completely with aircraft still around and failing as badly as they fail, it might be workable, I just want to see some figures on how much it will cost Vs. Maglev (a technology already deemed too expensive to deploy on the medium to large scale), and more so how much it will cost to make it safe.

Would I love to go across the continental US in a few hours? Heck yeah. Will I be able to afford it if it has Concord's ticket price? Likely not, I'll fly.
A piece on the evolution on KISS and SAFE funding mechanisms for startups
I tried to like Truly, but the lack of nordic layout was too much and I essentially gave up using it. Also, its version on mechanic keys were pretty noisy and somewhat too resistant for me. Key layout felt great, but like with other too different layouts, it is hard to move between normal keyboards and this.

These days I alternate between Macbook internal keyboard, Topre Realforce 88 and Kinesis Freestyle. I have grown used to OS X touch gestures, so I have external magic trackad.

With freestyle, I can keep the pad between two halves within easy reach. For Topre, I'm thinking of bying one for each side, but I'm leaning on getting this instead:
http://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard/uk-ergo-pro-quiet-pc-ergo...

This has mechanical keys (which I prefer now thanks to Topre, though not its variable force for weaker and stronger fingers) and Freestyle's split. Its maker is relatively unknown, but I've taken risks like this before ;)
This isn't Elon Musks project, this is "Hyperloop Transportation Technology" backed by a little PR Firm and a Kickstarter Knockoff
Unlike you, he has won a lawsuit to that effect. Also, he has sold similar appropriations for far more money, so there's a framing effect as to what they're worth.