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that didn't appear to be the main reason, his volume dropped in half since its peak because technology is moving beyond chalk and blackboards.

besides, it is common for many businesses to fall back on the excuse that their quality justifies their price without proving that their competitors are not delivering what is requested.

if you are over delivering and doing well that is fine, but if you are over delivering and losing money your not doing it right and the market will correct you one way or another

just the milkman the chalkboard has been obsoleted.
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I find it interesting that you're getting consistent downvotes for saying the same thing my startup's legal counsel has repeatedly said about the AGPL: Be extremely careful. Assume nothing and write defensively, because the nature of an "integration" is too vague to risk a company's infrastructure.

I get the impression others here are happily screwing around with AGPL integrations with nothing to lose.
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Some people think it should be 500 million:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones#Inscriptio...
Honnestly, I wouldn't be surprised if both knew about it. They just have to appear to care and to do something about it ("hey Obama, this isn't cool, stop spying on us") because if they didn't, the opposition would us that against them and the general public would be disapointed (to say the least). Why would they let themselves being spied on ? I honnestly have no idea, maybe it's a way to share confidential communications between [ally country] president and [not ally country] president with other allies without having to break the confidential communication between [ally country] and [not ally country]. Again, I have not thought about this at all, that's just a reason that came up to mind. Maybe it's not even a practical reason. Maybe Hollande/Merkel didn't know they were being spied on by the NSA. All I'm saying is that I wouldn't be surprised if they both knew, and yelled a bit at the US now that the world knows they were being spied on, et voila.

Interestingly however, until very recently (last year) and maybe still as of today, a lot of high profile French poloticians (ministers for eg) use(d) their private smartphones for (some) government communication. This, this is so absurd.
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I am an Indian and my thoughts resonates with all the points that you have mentioned.

One point that I would like to focus is that the role of a healthy diet and exercise.

The medical treatment in India is pretty cheap if you compare it with US. A single trip to a good doctor won't cost you more than $10 + $10 (for medicines). Because of this most of the people are not at all bothered about their health when they are young and keep on eating high carb diets.

There is no role of exercise in the current culture in which the younger generation of India is living which is the sad part.

3 days ago, India celebrated the International Yoga Day. I hope people will follow it into their daily lives.
US demand and overseas markets can't cancel out Supply and Demand and market forces.

- Chalk is on it's way out. It's a rapidly shrinking market. Each year there will be less customers and less profit world wide.

- He could have sold the machine to another entreprenuer? Their company makes 45 MILLION sticks of chalk. They're getting their materials at a high bulk discount. Another company can never match the price point. They'll end up selling the same chalk at double the price.

- And expansion into the USA is laughable. Try expanding into an existing market with well established players (crayola) that is shrinking and on its way out.

- And this is the USA we're talking about, we prefer cheap products to quality ones. The only time it seems we invest in premium products is when they are an American brand, made in America.
If the stick has enough power to play the majority of MAME games, this might be a nice addition to the home entertainment rig. I bought an Ouya a couple of years ago for this purpose, but I just didn't like it. Running a TinyXP installation on this stick with MAME32/MESS32 with a Bluetooth keyboard w/ touchpad from my comfy chair would be pretty sweet.
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True for big corps, although it's quite strange given they're usually the most paranoid ones on security.

But I was more thinking about techie SMBs to whom running a chat/collaboration server is not scary, better in terms of flexibility and cheaper than paying someone to handle it.
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And you would really want a Red Hat a company and system notoriously known for being bad at security ?
(check Bradley Spengler vs Red Hat)
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Nobody ever explains to grad students that they can ask the secretaries to do this stuff. I didn't figure it out until I got a tenure-track job.
Peter Drucker forecasted this 30 years ago. Agriculture went from 50% -> 2% of the workforce. Same is happening with Manufacturing. The main issue is training.
Thankfully not as severe as this, but a few years police came to my door and arrested me on suspicion of robbery. I was told they had a forensic evidence that I was involved in it.

As part of UK Visa procedures, I had to provide my biometric details. They had found my finger prints on a phone book and concluded that I must have done the robbery. They had no other evidence, they hadn't done any background checks or found a motive. The phone book was one of the ones my mom was distributing in her small van. I had helped her loading them up the van. I explained this, they checked with the distribution company and I was freed. But the thought that I had been incredibly lucky to have an explanation never left me. Just imagine a situation like this, maybe you go into a shop, pick up an item and put it back. Someone somewhere gets killed and your forensic information is left on an item in the murder scene.

What happened to this guy is terrifying. And I'm sure there are thousands of innocent people in jails because since the introduction of forensics, law enforcements and the courts have become too lazy to analyse the situation. "Evidence is there, must be guilty" mentality.
So what I tend to do with my free time is overplan. I guess I'm trying to maximize my freedom even more by guaranteeing zero kids. I can be quite impulsive, and I don't want to get trapped by my own poor decisions. Plus there's always adoption, IVF, etc.
I think the point was essentially that Greek and Latin as languages were only taught to the upper classes, those who pay for their education at private schools up to age 18. Those people, educated in subjects not open to the commoners, and at additional expense, then have an advantage when applying for a place an Oxford/Cambridge on the classics courses. Those courses then take in a disproportionate number of upper class students. Thus, the British class system is continued and reinforced by those universities that have been criticized in the past for not taking enough commoners.

Ie, they form a club based on talking dead languages no-one else understands and use Greek/Latin as a qualification for being included in the club, as well as where you were educated.

Class is very much a thing in the UK in certain circles. I have known people to succeed where others were forced to fail because of where they were educated.
Well, scientists are like priests: their word is gospel to the unwashed masses. I suppose the defendant didn't have a scientist on his side who could identify and challenge the bullshit.
There is an argument that says Microsoft could simply support ReactOS.
I think I saw "mini vmac" come up, so I believe this is emulating a 68000 directly, not with an extra layer in the middle.
Here is what our listing looked like before Textio, with a ~40ish score on their scale:

https://gist.github.com/enndott/3770037233b854a810f1

Here's what it looks like after, with an 83:

https://gist.github.com/enndott/3fdb88ddf955363ad2da

Mostly turned we statements to you statements, softened some language (should vs. must,) went a little more gender neutral (premier vs. top tier,) and added an equal opportunity statement. It is recommending to use longer sentences and add more you statements to improve further. Thoughts?
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Switzerland is notoriously known for being a heaven for tax evasion, big financial criminals etc. Why they should be fast to support something new if what they have is not broken ? It's not like they are offering a SW related services. Not at all
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its probably a short term fix while they work through the process of working out how to identify the defective machines and isolate them properly within Windows Updates.

still incredibly dodgy though.
Hello, glad you enjoyed your first contacts. I have been using Kakoune not only to write itself, but as my only code editor in my day time job (C++ video game coding) as well for the last 3 years. I consider it stable, definitely not alpha, every major features are implemented (with maybe the exception of folding) and while breaking changes happen from time to time (some key binding change mainly), they are very rare, and usually discussed on IRC beforehand.

While I agree a proper release would be neat, at the moment keeping a stable master branch, and opening topic branches for disruptive work does the trick. Most of the time, I do not push any commit before having spent a day at work with that code, making sure I do not hit any problems in my workflow. Still a long way from proper testing.

So yeah, Kakoune is definitely useable for day to day work, with quite strong support for C++ (clang support for completion and diagnostics) as it is the language I mostly use.

Any feedback is appreciated !
It appears Intel might be white-labelling it.
I think that music is not just the sound and not just the observable elements. It literally moves your emotional system around. We get shivers, we get horny, our mind shuts down and we get swept away in memories. That's not because of any specific arrangement of machine-observeable sound objects.

> on what our model believes the world looks like

Its not even doing that. Those images are just simple 2D fields of pixels with color data.

It has no idea about any worlds. The spatial cues are way off, but we understand art (impressionism through messy expressionism, glitch) so we forgive it. And because they chose images with puppy eyes and we like puppies. Take away the animal elements and everybody would say the images were boring crap.
Isn't it funny how an article talking about user retention keeps throwing annoying pop-ups in your face?
> [Instagram] also utilizes a storage technology called Cassandra that Facebook invented, open-sourced, and then abandoned.

Why was Cassandra completely abandoned at Facebook? It has a complex consistency model, sure, but what database technology have they built to use instead?
I have an Intel Compute Stick and can confirm that it plays MAME very well. But then again the Rikomagic mk802 plays MAME just as well ..
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Too bad it makes me have to move my flat tv 10 cm of the wall. An HDMI connector at an angle would have been nice (or I could buy an extension HDMI cable of course.).
Interesting that you get downvoted for saying that.

There are good grounds to be somewhat suspicious of forensic evidence; however, my understanding is that technical evidence like this is usually far, far more reliable than e.g. eyewitness statements. Those are horribly unreliable, and experienced investigators (or should we say "investigators") are able to convince their witnesses of having seen things that did not really happen at all.
We have a few machines that are controlled by software that only runs on NT4. They've been air-gapped and run on their own domain for security reasons, but we can't get rid of them without spending millions on new machines (this is a high-tech manufacturing environment). The vendor of the current machines no longer exists and in those days we never thought to include software escrow in contract negotiations ... not that we'd have the gumption to attempt updating industrial machine controllers ourselves anyway, but still.
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No, predicting eclipses is more complicated than a simple slide rule, requiring several "cycles" to overlap.

Eclipses can be predicted with a mechanical computer too. The Antikythera mechanism dates back to 2nd century bc and according to recent research, it could compute lunar eclipses with remarkable accuracy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
This seems an odd article to express this sentiment on. Whether or not the canard is used in other contexts to whitewash civil liberties abuses, in this specific example, it is being used correctly.

If your spy agencies are not going to gather intelligence on foreign world leaders, who precisely should they be gathering intelligence on? If your answer is that there is no acceptable use of intelligence gathering facilities, that is fine, but that is a much more extreme belief than the one that says it is ok for the NSA to spy on the leaders of France.
What I find disturbing is the disconnect between the mission statement of the NSA, i.e. counter terrorism and military threats, and what is actually done.

From
https://www.nsa.gov/about/mission/index.shtml

>The Signals Intelligence mission collects, processes, and disseminates intelligence information from foreign signals for intelligence and counterintelligence purposes and to support military operations. This Agency also enables Network Warfare operations to defeat terrorists and their organizations at home and abroad, consistent with U.S. laws and the protection of privacy and civil liberties.

I mean how spying on your ally head of state is preventing "terrorism" or supporting "military operation". Do you believe that there is a terrorist cell in l'Elysée ?

This is disingenuous at best, but looks more like dishonest.
Depends on the evaluation of your degree - if the degree is job relevant and evaluates to a 4yr equivalent then you might get through.

Where I come from most candidates have 4 year degrees and the ones with 3 years generally have trouble if it is not directly job related and if they don't have sufficient job experience to make up.
> If you instruct a machine to optimize for the cheapest price; it will do that

if (x < y) { // } is a simple optimisation.

The classic "you optimise for what is or can be measured rather than what is important."

There are ways around this of course by setting minimum quality via an objective third party (MIL-STD's for example) but that process introduces a whole new can of worms.
I love the idea. However, a web site that delivers permanently broken text (“1Â½ hours”) that you can't even repair by adjusting your browser's default encoding (besides looking like 1995), in 2015, leaves a bad impression.
I was certain that it was satire until about 50% of the way through. I scrolled to the bottom and sure enough... Github repo...
The problem is, there's no friction (as the article states) for the board. What would the board push against to adjust itself? In the Segway, the wheels touch the ground and provide something for the motors to act against. This is more like an astronaut in space (if I'm understanding the situation correctly).

I like the idea (my kids would love it). It certainly has marketing value and calls up dreams of an amazing future, but there do seem to be some real practical problems (as the parent alludes to). Stopping seems particularly exciting.
I would blame UX there :) In my mind a collaboration tool should not be a burden, if people let it down, it means it's not appropriate. Hence the success of Slack: people realised collaboration can be made easy and real-time without being a pain.

And wrt self-hosted chat servers, you can have a look at some implementations of Matrix (http://matrix.org): there is an opensource a ref implementation of a server (https://github.com/matrix-org) and then a bunch of clients at different level of glossiness, for web, iOS and Android (http://matrix.org/blog/try-matrix-now/) available. Or you can build your own if you feel like it :) Fully decentralised and persistent communication.

No full blown collaboration tool but public & private chat rooms with the ability to exchange files and do 1:1 voice & video calls (group call is in the pipe).
Hmm...it's got a user and a machine...k...

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"Or with JavaScript in general" -- there's a hint

"Web Frameworks: Given that we're building a web framework" -- well, I wouldn't call it a given, but -- mystery solved!
Mattermost team here,

You guessed it, Mattermost is the 3rd version of what started as a portal/community site for our players (first version was forum-like, the second was Facebook-like, Mattermost is now HipChat/Slack-like).
I saw this job posted recently...

http://www.lovelacehealthsystemjobs.com/?/work/job-post/desk...

Is it even possible to buy Windows Server 2000 support anymore?
I would. Last week there were lots of stories that indicated that elements within the Chinese government were responsible for the OPM break in. That is, a foreign government allegedly hacked the US governments computers.

The outrage was that the US let it happen, not that China tried it, because of course they are going to try that, because "thats what spying is for, right?"
Mattermost team here. Thank you!! This feedback is awesome. Working on some replies...
Right, a specification for chalk is for chalk, uncolored, and or colored. There is no way to specify for quality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress#United_States

I have no idea if Slack could actually win a case, but in the US (where both companies appear to be headquartered) they do have some rights to look and feel as part of trademark law.
I hope he shares his recipe.
Wow, things move really fast in this space. Is "back when" May 2015? The only context I have is the "Didn't you just release Famous in May?" quote from the article.
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Mattermost team here,

We think choice is good, and open source reduces the cost of creating more choice.
why do other people say this is "a general problem" in any way? sounds extremely fishy and rare to me.. i guess just do what you're told if that salary is such a big bonus for you but ask him if it's okay to slowly tackle those problems you considered after you get the main task at hand finished.
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Can you elaborate on why MVC is not appropriate for UI's? Currently learning AngularJS and feels like they did a pretty good job of implementing MVC via the $scope interface.
Hehe, that's nice.
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Another promising field is RNN applied to TED talks:
youtube.com/watch?v=-OodHtJ1saY
Whoever built that site has an interesting approach to error messaging. Consider this scenario:

Environment:

iPhone 5c
iOS 8.3
Safari

1) Go to milk.samsung.com

2) Milk displays a message suggesting that you access the site from either a desktop or a 'select Samsung device'. For some insane reason though, they provide a link to "Go to milk.samsung.com.

3) Click the 'Go to milk.samsung.com' link.

Result:

You receive the error message, "You are still on the phone".

My conclusion:

If they know that I'm on a phone that they don't support, why give me another link milk.samsung.com??
Not overcrowded, just spread out too thin. The reason the US looks like it looks is that everybody wants an acre of land around their house, so they chop down forests and build suburbs instead. If people gave up on that notion and where willing to live in cities then there would be an abundance of unspoiled nature.
Because I'm not from the US and I couldn't give a shit about yet another random, mass murdering there. Not all countries in the world have the US's hyper-sensitivity to race (really just black ppl - I never seem to hear about Asians, Indians, native Americans there, etc).
> Its boring as hell. Machines will never understand why

That statement seems to be overly strong. Perhaps we are far from having a machine that can figure out high level aspects of a song on its own, but I don't think it's implausible that with some more guidance (for example by learning also loop arrangements and filters instead of only the waveforms) these neural networks can potentially create quite interesting music today (especially in the EDM/IMD genre). This development might be scary because it possibly replaces human creativity to a large extent, but you can't stop it by claiming that it's impossible or that it will always be of poor quality. People have said the same when synthesized music arrived, that it lacks human aspects etc., and now it's has a high cultural significance, even though it uses things like auto-tune and consists of super clean loops.
Well it depends on how soon you want to change jobs and whether you "have to" change now.

An immediate refresh of web skills, especially in the areas that you already have experience, but not up to date, is a very good idea. Always a neat idea to focus on UX, etc stuff that doesn't age as fast as the framework du jour.

If you want to change jobs sooner, then why not start applying as well as refreshing your skill set. That way, even if you don't land anything straight away you are on track to be more up to date with the passing of each week.
That's part and parcel of democracy. If you want to pretend that those politicians and officials are accountable to the people, then the people are a legitimate target for espionage, just like the king would be in a monarchy.
> Machines will never understand why

humans don't really understand why either, if it didn't stop us, why should it stop a machine?
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Indeed.

I'm not entirely convinced they'd get a job at Google if they applied now.
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Designer front ends matter. You have no screenshots, which is going to severely limit adoption. If the design is average or subpar, it will limit adoption.

Also, integrations with third party services matter. Everyone seems to ignore this, but it's critical.
That's from the article. Parent is referring to the evidence that wasn't mentioned in the article.
If you still have scientific equipment running Red Hat 6.2, you're not a lot better off.
This is a FALSE history, if for no other reason than that it completely ignores Rapid Application Development. Quoting from the Wikipedia page:

> Rapid application development is a response to processes developed in the 1970s and 1980s, such as the Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method and other Waterfall models.

> Starting with the ideas of Barry Boehm and others, James Martin developed the rapid application development approach during the 1980s at IBM and finally formalized it by publishing a book in 1991, Rapid Application Development.

By 1996, Steve McConnell's "Rapid Development" - which was an influential book for describing the different approaches to software development - had already firmly stated that evolutionary development and delivery were best practices.

Thus, when this false historical account states "Then… The Tables Turned at the Snowbird Ski Resort, Utah [In the mid 1990s]" it ignores decades of previous work and advice.

This follows the line of many Agile proponents, which goes something like "In the beginning the was Waterfall, and it was horrible. Then in the late 1990s our heroes brought us Agile. Rejoice in Agile, for there is nothing else but Waterfall, and we don't want to do that."