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Cultural concern for veterans coming home and being treated poorly, or being unable to readjust to civilian life, definitely predates the Vietnam war.
Consider "The Best Years of Our Lives"[0] from 1946, set after WW2.
The burden of proof is with you, not with savanaly.
One flaw: tough to repair (2/10 on ifixit [0]) which will be fun when the battery starts to go.
Another issue: Android Marshmallow (admittedly not Nexus-specific) doesn't play well with AdBlockPlus, and if you want AdAway or another hosts mod, you still need root. Rooting will allegedly break Android Pay, too.
You can Chromecast local content over LAN via Videostream[0] for Google Chromecast. You can even control the Videostream host via mobile app[1].
It's the next best thing to using Kodi[2] (formerly XBMC) over HDMI with a wireless controller.
> Typical living-room fare is only getting into XBMC or onto a hard drive/NAS if it's been BitTorrented.
On a weak ISP, breaking synchronicity lets you stream content around the house at higher quality. E.g., your ISP only supports ~720p streaming speeds, so you download 1080p+ content overnight / while at work, then stream around the house later.
[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/videostream-for-go...
[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.videostrea...
[2] http://kodi.tv/
The "tinfoil hat" approach is a personal-scope solution.
Part of the "what do I do when I encounter it" course of action could involve a societal-scope solution. E.g., getting involved with privacy advocacy groups or pressuring relevant lawmakers to roll overreach back. (This is, admittedly, far more work and far less likely to succeed.)
> My absolute favorite for this kind of interview preparation is Steven Skiena's The Algorithm Design Manual. More than any other book it helped me understand just how astonishingly commonplace (and important) graph problems are – they should be part of every working programmer's toolkit. The book also covers basic data structures and sorting algorithms, which is a nice bonus. But the gold mine is the second half of the book, which is a sort of encyclopedia of 1-pagers on zillions of useful problems and various ways to solve them, without too much detail. Almost every 1-pager has a simple picture, making it easy to remember. This is a great way to learn how to identify hundreds of problem types.
Source: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...
> I am not resigning from Debian, just from the systemd maintainer team.
Source: tfheen@ http://linux.slashdot.org/story/14/11/16/2142244/longtime-de...
This passage makes me deeply uncomfortable.
It sounds like that student was extremely engaged, hungry for knowledge, verification, and possibly validation. He may also have been trying to make the world a better place. That disappeared through a lens of race, gender, and social role issues.
Something built a wall between her and her students. That's crushingly sad.
Look into buying a 3rd party HRM (heart rate monitor). There's a fair chance that a chest strap will broadcast to your device and that you won't need a watch.
In my case, my treadmill's metal pads wouldn't read my HR consistently.
The strap that came with the Polar FT7* (I think it might be an HR1?) broadcasts to my treadmill, which solves the problem for me, and lets me track even if I forego the watch.
The watch (more or less a display unit for the chest strap) is handy for resistance training or exercising outside, though.
*Wirecutter has an article covering what are probably better alternatives: http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-fitness-tracker/.
There's a similar theme of broken promises there. However, Chucklefish has been updating pretty regularly and acting on a lot of constructive player feedback, so the overall negativity strikes me as somewhat confusing.
Another rather notorious and perhaps more justifiable example of community backlash can be found by looking at forums[2] for, and general controversy[3] surrounding, Infestation: Survivor Stories (formerly The War Z).
[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/starbound/
[1] http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php
[2] http://steamcommunity.com/app/226700/discussions/
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infestation:_Survivor_Stories#...
You can't escape by leaving on your own; you'd need to spur others to mass exodus.
There are a plethora of IRC clients to choose from one various platforms, but there's only the one hipchat. IRC is also an open protocol.
So, hipchat's only real chance is trying to be the Apple of IRC--they must nail UX and marketing to the tech-hapless to have a real chance.
I imagine there's a lot of practice involved, but I wasn't able to spot an interview that specified the exact amount of time tourist spends coding or studying algorithms every day.
[1] http://community.topcoder.com/tc?module=AlgoRank
[2] http://www.wired.com/2010/11/mf_algorithmolympics/
[3] http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/the-whiz-kid-20120821-24k69....
I also haven't seen the monitor mounts discrete from built-in seating, though it doesn't seem outside of the realm of possibility. One could realistically place a large A-frame styled wooden structure over a La-Z-Boy chair and mount generic monitor arms onto it via clip or screw.
So, the main challenges are just carpentry and cable management.
Having the some of the most useful tags (platformer, puzzle, rhythm, etc.) highly visible before the listing would go a long way towards improving usability of the site.
All of that said, I am a big fan of the site's concept.
You're missing the word "presently."
That back door is there. Others not having figured out how to interact with it yet is a matter of security through obscurity[0], and the system is still weaker for it, even though it's not yet fully cracked.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity
Relatively cheap compared to having to build clusters, perhaps, but $1000 isn't cheap for a desktop computing GPU.
A mid-high tier card (GeForce GTX 770) is closer to $400. A mid-range gaming card (GTX 760) is closer to $260.
Those finding the topic link interesting may also be interested in this CUDA radix sorting article[0] from 2010, as it featured "one billion 32-bit keys sorted per second."
[0] https://code.google.com/p/back40computing/wiki/RadixSorting
Thank you for making this. Find a way to get this out there to geometry teachers. They (and their students) will love it.
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Suggested improvements:
+ Option to switch between a couple colors or line types, to make it easier to track what one's doing. (E.g., laying down foundational lines in black, then experimental lines in blue or dashed lines.
+ One minor thing I'd like to see fixed: the proximity of the numerical goals to the shapes they're associated with doesn't make it clear whether (e.g.) the 8 move goal is an easy version of the "build a triangle in X moves," or whether 8 moves is the least amount of moves for building a triangle inside an origin circle.
Suggested fix: make that more apparent by tweaking the order of the symbols (e.g. Triangle, 5, 8, OriginTriangle) and/or adding a divider of some manner to make them stand apart more.
Mind sharing your top picks from that crop, sivers?
IMO, Philip Zombardo's studies (most famously, the Stanford prison experiment[0]) suggest this is nothing new.
Bigger problems: the first problem's instructions are unclear; the first example is burdened with lines so long that they have to wrap; the first example involves crufty type casting out the gate. This serves not only to confuse newbies, but to visually offend experienced programmers.
The prompt reads as follows: "Teach Sofia how to use an ATM. The ATM on their home island can give only 5F bills, which means that the machine will not give any bill not divisible by 5F. In addition to that, the commission for each cashing out is 0.5F + 1% from the taken out cash plus the robots cannot go beyond the card’s balance."
The leading comments of the code do not seem to go with it: "# Withdraw without any incident ... # 120 - 10 - 0.5 - 1% = 109.4"
Neither says anything obvious enough about what sort of code you expect people to write such that the tests are passed. The major failing here isn't one of language, but of design.
As such, the benefit outlined by the grandparent post is available without having to hand that information over to a third party, unless you opt into a cross-device or cross-browser bookmark syncing service.