techdevman, unfortunately your posts are dead and you probably aren't aware of it. I would welcome you to the site, but the site has evidently decided it doesn't want you here. :-(
While the $200 million worth of bitcoin sited in the article is certainly a lot of money, in a world with at least 1,800 billionaires in it, all open enough to be identified by Forbes, it can't really be called a "massive" amount.
If this were still May Day I would think that sending our seven year olds off to the mill would be a more obvious troll, but as things stand I'm not so sure.
That's all just rumors, which Marvel (and simple observation of facts) has disputed over and over. Marvel is currently publishing over a dozen x-books; characters from the Fantastic Four are central to the upcoming major event (Secret Wars). Sure, the Inhumans are getting a big push, but folks just publish these death-of-X articles to get traffic and buzz.
Marvel is constantly restarting their series in a way that is welcoming to new readers - the longest run on a current book is I believe Avengers 44 (out next Wednesday) - which will also conclude that volume; they'll have a big event (Secret Wars) and then there will be an all new Avengers team with a new writer and direction. Individual series are lucky to make it to #20 these days without a reset.
Google has said (or at least: it has been widely reported) that the impact will be on the mobile results only. That's not to say that will always be true, though.
"On April 21, 2015, Google will release a significant new mobile-friendly ranking algorithm that’s designed to give a boost to mobile-friendly pages in Google’s mobile search results."
Well I can tell you 15 years ago Giuliani would have been up there with a sledgehammer himself taking it down, holding a press conference, and vowing the harshest consequences possible once the perpetrators were tracked down. By that scale can we say that the state of democracy in the US is actually greatly advanced?
If you'd done the same thing with a bust of your mother 10 years ago, they'd have covered it up as well. Try the same thing (with Snowden, or your mother) in France or China, and see what happens. Just because they parks department is doing their job doesn't mean democracy is ebbing.
It's easy to spin it that way, but to be fair, if you care about getting minorities into STEM, it shouldn't need to be a requisite that a bunch of white males take the test in your state first. (leaving aside the whole issue of whether AP computer science is a useful litmus test for that.)
The source data (summary anyway) is linked in the first paragraph:
No females took the exam in Mississippi (1 exam taken), Montana (11 exams taken), and Wyoming (no exams).
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For states that had some females take the exam the percentage female ranged from 3.88% in Utah (4 out of 103) to 29% in Tennessee (73 out of 251). However, 30 of Tenn females can be attributed to a girls only school that offers AP CS A.
11 states had no Black students take the exam: Alaska (21 exam takers -4.3% Black by population), Idaho (47 - 0.9% Black), Kansas (47 - 6.2% Black), Maine (161 - 1.0%), Mississippi (1 - 37.3%), Montana (11 - 0.67%), Nebraska (46 - 4.5%), New Mexico (57 - 3%), North Dakota (9 - 1%), Utah (103 - 1.2%), and Wyoming (0 - 1.2%).
Sounds like you would have liked the new tunnel that Christie single-handedly killed in 2010
"ARC would have cut passenger transfers by 97 percent and taken an average 23 minutes off each trip, according to the GAO. It also would have been financed at historically low rates."
Now what about when the price goes up? Will you ever even notice how much the increase was? Would you have considered switching brands? Or sizes? Did you have time to go through your email receipts, or now that the kid was finally asleep, did you open a beer and sit down with your partner?
For every complaint of that which you can document, I could provide 100,000 developers who hunger for a closer relationship with Apple. It's a non-starter. Developer relations contact? Yes please.
The use of the web has continued to expand at a much greater rate than the use of ad blockers, even if it were true that everyone in tech installs one (they don't). And now mobile web grows at a great clip each year as well. I imagine use of ad blockers is much lower on smart phones; in particular given the large share of market non-jailbroken iPhones have. I gather it's possible for Android, but I haven't seen enough folks talking about it for me to believe it's that common.
Well, I personally don't want a "special" UX in my editor. In any case just about every WP point upgrade has brought editor enhancements, so if you haven't used it recently you won't have a good basis of comparison. (e.g. 8.1 with distraction free mode – not for me personally but I've seen writers oooh over it.)
It is not a given that an older version will be unpatched. For example, RHEL (and by extension CentOS) backports patches without updating the version number.
WordPress is also very popular among content folks, on account of its well, content management features. Not to mention the strength of the editor, and easy extensibility. You could tap away in your terminal for a year making the new and best node.js or Go editor and by the time you were done you wouldn't be close, and WP would have moved the goalposts again. And let's say you were successful and had created a great content management system. Then you'd have to train your editors and your social media folks and they'd STILL hate it and quit and you'd have to train a new batch of editors, except, oh, you just got the opportunity to work for a company that doesn't make you spend a year re-implementing a blog from scratch and jumped on it, and now nobody knows how to get the website to let them embed a Vine? Man we should have just gone with Wordpress.
The idea that Uber drivers needing to keep up high ratings to "stay in the game" makes them (act) more cheerful than taxi drivers, who need to earn tips in order to make a living wage, seems kind of shaky. And that was unfortunately the first point.
Luckily, folks who care about making things accessible for those with disabilities have already won (god forbid something like the ADA getting passed today), so I don't actually need to fight this battle. These videos will be captioned, MIT will not go broke (or stop putting up new things). Set up a tickle file, one year from today, see how it all looks.
The hallmark of a successful development program is to simultaneously convince you of two things (1) the school is of the highest quality and (2) it is drastically underfunded. Yes endowment funds are earmarked, but in most cases they're going to fund things that would need to be funded anyway (scholarships, professorships, center & department expenses). One of the strengths of a large endowment is that it increases the share of general funds that are discretionary, giving them room to do things that alumni don't get excited about, like cutting the grass and (yes) making campuses accessible to those with different physical capabilities.
But, in any case leaving aside MIT's 5th largest endowment, it's only one of the factors in determining whether a school is well off. One could also look, say, at the budget. Or research funding.
By just about any metric one could imagine, MIT is one of the richest schools in the nation.
MIT's endowment is 12b. That's a ways off Harvard's outlier of 36b, but if they're paying out 5% a year as a benchmark, that's $600m a year just off the endowment. Not being as rich as Bill Gates does not make one not wealthy if one still has over a billion dollars. One can not imagine it would be that hard for the folks at MIT to put together a program to crowdsource quality captioning. (Let alone some kind of "technological" solution, isn't text to speech a thing these days?)
Wow to the downvotes on this. Leaving aside their toxic personal politics, they don't even know how to use the site. (This one can be correctly downvoted as meta)