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This is almost certainly not a problem with Windows, but with the device drivers the Arduino uses.
Thank you. The update I have mentioned includes better support for multiple monitors. I.e. each screen would wave its own highlighted window. Would that help in your case?
I was one of those people who couldn't just "sell the house". My builder went bankrupt, the remaining land was sold by Bank Of America for pennies on the dollar, and I was ~$100K underwater. Doing the math (based on historical yearly real estate appreciation), it was cheaper to have 3-5 years of bad credit than 10-15 years of payments just to bring the house to neutral equity. My HOA wouldn't allow me to rent our townhouse out because several people bought them as investments, so we had reached "rental capacity" before the subdivision was even complete.

I walked away, lost my $30K downpayment, 2 years of equity at $2K month in mortgage payments, and have ~3 years of bad credit. With only that negative mark on my credit, I still have a 680 credit score.

I'm never willing to bet again that I'll be in the same location for 15-30 years. I'd rather rent and take what you'd consider "equity" and invest it in something I can get out of in less than 60 seconds (ETFs).

EDIT: Mortgage underwriting guidelines now limit a new mortgage until after 3 years of a foreclosure, not the traditional 7. Why wouldn't someone walk away if it would take more than 3 years to reach neutral equity?
You're piecing together two unrelated sentences from the article to tell a different story...

"No collision took place" - refers to the two cars in this case.

"In all cases, the self-driving prototype was not at fault, according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles and the companies." - refers to previous crashes excluding the one being discussed in the article.
Right, but they run the risk that the kind of people who are upset with Apple not because Apple have made a general boneheaded move but who are specifically exercised because Apple has removed their flag, will now see Valve as some kind of hero and start acting like Valve is on their side.

While valve may see themselves as supporting free speech advocates, they're also, incidentally and presumably (hopefully) unintentionally, pandering to, and risk validating, racist bigots.
You may wish to enable kernel dumps, reproduce the BSoD, then install Debugging Tools for Windows. Now spin up WinDbg and inspect the kernel dump to see what is really causing this.

Looks like a corrupt Windows install to me, but you'll know more after WinDbg. Scandisk (with fix bad sectors) and the Windows memory checker might also reveal how the OS became damaged.
Why do you say that? In the USA employment is at will and is for the first two years in the UK.

Could you actually quantify these costs a good agency will ofter refunds if a candidate is let go shortly after hiring.
Yes, as they noted just before what you quoted:

> "Tor is ... used to access anonymous, hidden services (the so-called Dark Web) but, more commonly, used as a way to access the regular internet anonymously and in a way that's resistant to surveillance."
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The problem is Apple specifically states that they don't view apps as books or movies. I don't have the exact context, but I saw it on here yesterday so maybe someone else does?
By refusing to show it - even in proper historical context - we're giving the Confederate flag more power.

This is just the latest "he who shall not be named."
When I was a child my I was crossing a one way street with my father and thinking I was smart I only looked one way. I was pleased when he noticed and stopped me crossing. Thinking I had one up on the old man I announced I didn't need to look right as it was a one way street. Dad looked straight at me and said "You only need worry about what cars are doing, not what you think they should be doing."
>But the musical world of 2015 is incomparably richer than that of the 18th century, because we have access to most of the best of their music, plus most of the best what has been written since, in a dizzying spread of recordings made in the last 90 years.

Having access to past artifacts is not the same as producing equally good things (or ever better). Accumulation is not the same as progress.

Besides having access doesn't guarantee listening to it. If tons of people listened to the Beatles in 1965 and today we have access to their catalogue, but 90% listens to inferior crap, does it still count as progress?

>Technology is exactly the same, of course. You'd be hard pressed to say the new innovations of 2015 beat the new innovations of, say, 1980.

It's not about innovations. It's that today we can build a computer 2000000x times faster, better graphics etc than an 80s computer.

But we cannot write something vastly better to Homer or Plato, or compose something vastly better to Bach (or even merely better).
That looks cool! It's pretty different though, it's more like a "design by contract" tool.
I have a similar one, more Python2 style dsl (it supports also function overloading through a kind of pattern matching) https://github.com/alehander42/py-matchete
Microsoft really picked the wrong abstraction here. They wanted it so that each device can be separately configured and known, implementing a system that can support if you plug ten devices that are exactly the same, but want them configured differently. Whereas on linux, it's more like "if I plug in a logitech xyz mouse, I want it working like so". Ultimately, I think not even power users have much use for this behaviour being the default, but it's too late to change it on Windows. Maybe if they let you define a set of devices for which you WANT settings to be keyed by port+device, whereas the rest you want keyed only by device type.
tbh the prices in Milton Keynes have gone up as well. (P.S i am looking for houses there too !)
All I'm saying is that a luxury watch doesn't bring anything fundamentally new to the table. There's no reason anyone would look at the Rolex on your wrist and be jealous of anything other than the status it implies. It's not like a starving person watching someone eat.
I don't know if there is an end game for software, but there is undoubtedly an endgame for our involvement with software.
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It's close to the summer holidays, come and spend some time bicycling in the Netherlands, it is a great, safe, and relaxing experience. (Assuming you know how to cycle properly, that is; I've seen foreigners and tourists do very dangerous things on their bikes, such as swaying, riding on the right, looking back when signaled to move out the way, braking instead of overtaking when someone wants to pass, riding too slow, difficulty estimating other traffic and as a form of conflict behavior stopping halfway crossing a road, riding on ill-fitting bikes, and over-all they behave quite insecurely.)
The language is quoted in other comments here. And yeah, I know about that, I was just commenting on the philosophy more than the legal terms.
That was my thought would you be fired if you stepped in to stop say racist or sexist behavior in the workplace.
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A somewhat similar project by Man Investments: https://github.com/manahl/arctic
> there has been a rush of some kind to blame the flag

This is the big thing that I just cannot understand. One day, someone kills several innocent people. The next day, the country is focused on it. And on the third day, we decided that a flag was causing white people to kill black people.
Linux systems work instantly because they only have to support one (usually sorely lacking) driver for any device ID, and if this is a problem, don't need to prevent a friendly user interface to fix it. They don't have to deal with the real world.
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I can see London begining to hollow out at some point like it has before. Slums will begin to rise again (if some areas aren't already close to being that already).

Vast wealth will be left in pockets and as all the mid earners leave to try have a better life in the countryside and elsewhere the reason London was successful in the first place, the culture and those that create it will be in deficit. Then the rich will see they've paid over the top for property and they too will leave.

Then London will begin again. Like it has multiple times.
I personally like to reverse engineer functions within a certain codebase to better understand what is happening.

For example I would start by looking up out a basic example of that codebase and for each of the function calls go through the files and see what is happening.
This gives me an idea of how the code base is written and how it works. It also gives a clear understanding of the level of separation/specificity of the different functions.

Disclaimer: not very experienced so there might be better ways to familiarising ones self with a new codebase, this is just one way of doing it and it has worked for me in the past.
It's pretty well established that the South fired the first shots of the civil war when they attacked Fort Sumter.
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Yeah but I can get a one bed flat there for less or the same as I'm paying for a studio now. Plus the environment is just a lot nicer (I was there last weekend walking down the canal and it was LOVELY.)
I think this is the housing bubble correcting itself. Good.
"legacy issues"? If only. Some vendors still do this stuff today.
As far as SUV's go, you probably picked the absolutely safest one made on the planet for cyclists. It's the only car I know that has a cyclist detection system with auto breaking as standard equipment.

It will never be as safe for pedestrians and cyclists as a small vehicle, but let's not blame manufacturers for making cars of different sizes. I think it's the job of legislators to tax the hell out of gas and large vehicles, then let the consumer decide. The job of the manufacturer is to make the product people want, and make it as safe as possible. I can't see where Volvo could do any better with the XC90 really. Do you?
It's why I left too, pretty much.

On the + side, London and its surroundings has a zillion jobs, some of them interesting. Out in the provinces, the job market for devs tends to be for plodders.
Where to start?

>> "as someone whose salary is only five figured"

That's a pretty huge range from very poor to quite well off, without being more specific it's hard to judge any of the claims the author makes.

>> "I don't think I'm asking for much, I only want a secure family home with a garden, enough money saved for a good pension, access to fresh air, and some peace and quiet."

That's actually asking quite a lot from a city especially a huge capital city. Pretty hard to find peace and quiet in capital city - there's usually a lot going on. But to be fair in London you actually can find it in one of the many parks. Also, there aren't enough apartments/houses (hence high rents) yet you think asking for one with a garden isn't asking a lot.

>> "zone 4 paying out a minimum of £1200 pcm for a 1 bed flat"

Doesn't sound accurate to me. I've been looking at 1 bed flats recently in zone 2 and there are decent places going for £1300 so I'd expect zone 4 to be a lot less expensive.
Average Monthly Rent in Europe
http://i.imgur.com/RKfucgp.gif

Average % Income Spent on Rent in Europe
http://i.imgur.com/himm8Ur.gif

The reason the UK is so high is because London literally drags the whole country up to the top of the ranking (not necessarily good) - Ireland would have vaguely similar rents to the UK discounting London and these two images help show that London is a bit rent mad.
Drawings will help tremendously. Extract the big masses, their respective interfaces to each others and the means through which they communicate.
This will help build a mental map of the code and reduce the cognitive load needed to understand each separate part.
I think you may have commented on the wrong thread. I can't see what your comment has to do with mine.
I generally just start by fixing small bugs in different areas of the system. I find that debugging various areas of the system help me understand them better and allow me to start forming a cohesive picture in my mind.
the issue with the travel from milton keynes to euston is that the peak hours virgin trains are completely packed and will struggle to find space in there.
> The North made the first move after all.

The Confederate troops fired first, at Fort Sumter.
I wish I had a better answer, but I honestly just stumble around it. I typically start by trying to understand how they structured their files, then I'll start diving into the code. I wouldn't try to "understand" it completely. Just look over it until you feel comfortable enough to try to make some modifications.

Michael's code looks clean and well organized. Shouldn't be terribly difficult for someone proficient at JS.
One of the most strange white/pink noise generator. Back to the past
People made fun of dropbox too.
This may or may not apply to you, since i work with Perl. Typically i'm in a situation where i'm supposed to improve on code written by developers with less time under their belt.

As such my first steps are:

1. tidy/beautify all the code in accordance with a common standard

2. read though all of it, while making the code more clear (split up if/elsif/else christmas trees, make functions smaller, replace for loops with list processing)

While doing that i add todo comments, which usually come with questions like "what the fuck is this?" and make myself tickets with future tasks to do to clean up the codebase.

By the end of it i've looked at everything once, got a whole bunch of stuff to do, and have at least a rough understanding of what it does.
In the Python world it's as famous as Joda or Hibernate would be for Javaists...
Possibly because it's a bad idea. You can do it, but it breaks some things which assume removable drives never have multiple partitions.

Also, many removable drives don't have a partition map.
Well, how would you solve the task assigned to you: "remove all the apps in the App Store that contain this flag"

Do you look at every single result and scrutinize it? Oh and this needs to be done now, as in yesterday.

It's definitely plausible that they did not review each and every decision.

Maybe too their policy is against historical images as well. No exceptions. We don't know.

People love to hate on the App Store. This displaced game found a home on steam and they even boosted it up. Was this for the right reasons because it's truly a great game or was this a marketing stunt to show off their lack of censorship?

It's slightly distasteful regarding this polarizing topic. I applaud their bravery if it is anti censorship, but I sincerely doubt the cause is that noble.
I live about 40 miles from London in the middle of kent. It takes me only 10 mins or so longer to get in than people in Richmond on the District line.
The real problem for me wasn't with the arduino that is an edge case for most users but with the usb mouse.

The arduino though only uses a USB to Serial converter, nothing fancy.
please elaborate on how being so late is a feature please? i don't get it
I was going to be very sarcastic here but decided to improve my tone.

While a lot of the non-London jobs are of the plodding type, there are many that aren't, and there are areas of concentrated, cutting edge tech work outside of London. Cambridge, for example.
If the process were bad enough that it wasn't producing good results (targeted enrollment numbers, more donations, larger endowments), universities would have an incentive to deviate from the cutoff system.

As you describe, the system works the way that it does now. It's not a perfect system, and people who shoot to high or too low get screwed. That's life - perfect info, perfect matching, etc. don't exist, especially for a relationship as complex as the student-college one. There's no clear-cut signal for which students will be "the best" for colleges and vice versa, which colleges will benefit the students the most.

We can only try to reduce the number of students who get screwed over by adding more people to admissions departments, college counselors, reducing application fees, increasing awareness etc.

Adding more info to the student/college set is expensive. On the college side: Top college endowments are flourishing and there is no incentive to innovate at the most prestigious schools. On the student side: parents who can already pay massive amounts to game the system with private school, private tutors, admissions experts etc. It is the job of government to reduce the difference between wealthy and poor students. So an increase in spending on public school education is necessary, especially with regards to college prep.

The system is built around the information that schools collect from students: grades and extracurriculars. Unless other types of data are collected and used as signals during the admissions process (having some kind of score for EQ and social ability, for example), then nothing will change.

This is a process that happens millions of times per year, hundreds of millions of times if we see hiring as a similar problem. There is no silver bullet.
trade matching algos might work here.
Enterprise doesn't work that way. There are a lot of situations where you aren't even allowed to use free-as-in-beer open source software due to security and/or other concerns, let alone software that you've paid for yourself. Besides, if the company is the one getting the benefit from the usage of the tool, why should he be the one paying for it?
Seconding this. Also his twitter accounts are pretty interesting: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/twitter_page/

He's written some posts specifically on how he transitioned into consulting; I can't find them right now but they're worth poking around for.
A fair point. Although I'd be happy with the Midland Mainline trains that take ~50m (IIRC) since I can work on the train.

Plus my plan is no more than two days a week actually commuting since there's zero requirement for me to be in the office as a developer.
This would be great, except if the rent doesn't get you, the train fare will. Coming from the U.S., I had to pick my jaw off the floor when I saw what they charge, it's obscene. Say what you will about U.S. public transportation, at least it's cheap. Here in the UK if you so much as glance sideways at a city bus, it'll be five-pounds-change.
That many volvos have the safety of pedestrians and cyclists in mind in the design. Most of it of course to avoid colliding in the first place (such as cyclist and pedestrian detection systems), but the design has elements that protects pedestrians in a collision too, such as soft elements in the front of the car, a special hood and external airbag for pedestrians, and so on.
http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2013-02/volvos-new-airbag...
Those who like this might also like my language project, Runa:

A Python-like systems programming language. This means that the design borrows as much from Python as makes sense in the context of a statically-typed, compiled language, and tries to apply the Zen of Python to everything else. The most important design goals for Runa are developer ergonomics and performance. The compiler is written in Python and targets LLVM IR; there's no run-time. More information can be found on the project website.

https://github.com/djc/runa/
read tests, and then start writing tests for things.

something usually comes up.
I should've constrained my statement; nuclear is safe when properly managed, and a sensible choice when it can be completed on time and under budget. Rarely, if ever, is a nuclear generation facility completed on time and under budget.
I usually skim the code to get an idea of patterns and organization, get it working in a local environment and then run/step-through the code. This usually gives a good idea of what different pieces do.
Yeah, it uses SQLite under the hood. SQLite has a mechanism it calls "virtual tables" which I used to implement an adapter that lets it see Excel tables as database tables. I also implemented hash indexes in the adapter so joins and lookups are crazy fast (searches by range not so much though). SQLite is very cool, it also lets developer hook additional functions into it, which is how I exposed some .NET functions and they can be used from SQL (replacex=Regex.Replace, ismatch=Regex.IsMatch, format=String.Format, etc...)
You can also use a symbol in modified form against the group using it.

For example by crossing it out, for example, or by using it in a caricature where one compares it with trash.

This symbol https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Anti-Naz... obviously contains a swastika, but is obviously legal even under current German law, as it does not encourage Nazism
The other option is commuting.
Yes, the South fired first but it was clearly much more complicated than a simple "they started it!" The North had made it clear they were not going to allow the secession.

This is part of why the South hasn't just dropped it. The war was started, in large part, over slavery but we learned that the United states are no longer united by choice.

This is part of the ongoing argument over state's rights vs federal power. The confederate flag is a racist symbol, but it's also a rejection of federal power over the states. Politics are complicated.
And then Lincoln goes and proves that the South was right to secede, by suspending parts of the Constitution in the Union as he saw fit.

If you read the secession declarations, the slavery question was just the straw that broke the camels back.
You got a little bit lucky with this project because there's a decently built-out test suite. I would start by digesting the tests because if they're good, you'll be able to see the mechanics about how the exposed interfaces in the code work, and this should also give you a good idea if changes you're making are breaking the expected workflow or not.

From my experience, there are really two ways that learning a new codebase can happen. One is that there's an existing test suite that's fairly comprehensive, and you can learn a lot by examining the tests, making changes to add features / make bug fixes, and then validate that work by rerunning the tests and adding new ones. That's really a great place to be as someone unfamiliar with a new codebase. The other is that there are no tests, and you inevitably need to rely on people familiar with the code, and make peace with the idea that you're going to write bad code that breaks things as you learn the depth of how the project works.
It ruins the filesystem if you're in the middle of writing important metadata to the filesystem that can't be done atomically.

This is not an issue for modern filesystems, but most USB drives are formatted with FAT, which has no journaling or other defences against such issues. You could minimize the risk by doing synchronous writes to the drive, but that'd also incur a _very_ big performance penalty.
Next year is the 20-year anniversary of quake btw! God I'm old
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Very poorly named given Requests has a branch using Gevent that's already called grequests. https://github.com/kennethreitz/grequests
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