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Interesting. How does it compare to other CI software like Jenkins? I'm always a bit skeptic about tools that look nice but turn out to be limited when put to real work.

Viper is not completed, and it might never be completed.

Solidity is here now, and the demand for Solidity developers is growing by the hour.

Maybe the immutability is not 100% now, but it will be when the technology is finalized, which will take a few more years. The fork to save DAO funds was a good thing, because otherwise too much ETH would have been in the hands of an attacker. The ETH distribution would have been skewed. That's all.

This article might be a wake up call for anyone that still doubts the utility of such projects, and the amount of research that goes into them.

It's out of stock. Anyway... they'd have to be really big. Think about it: with the money for LB you could buy instead 4 ETH and a Ledger Nano to keep them on it.

Pillars of Eternity is really fantastic. I dropped more hours than I'm willing to admit on that game and I might pick it up again when I have some more free time. I'm also really looking forward to playing Tyranny.

As much as I would love to be able to cook homemade meals everyday, I simply don't have the time. That being said, I think that learning how to cook is important. There are so many things in life that people are unwilling to do for themselves because they've never learned how initially and now the bar seems too high. I'm not saying that we need to forgo innovation but I think that learning how to cook, or generally understanding how your car operates should be at least low level priorities even if you don't plan on using that knowledge on a daily basis. Drink Soylent if you want, but try baking a loaf of bread some time as well.

The election was close. Several states had margins of victory of right around 1%. I didn't look too closely but less than 500,000 votes is enough to flip the winner in a couple of states and swing the whole election. Considering you've got ~ 120 million votes that seems pretty close to me.

Edit: Looks like 147,029 votes is enough to flip Wisconsin and Florida and give Clinton the Electoral College.

My company nearly had #2 pushed on us. We've been using Postgres and there is no solid reason for us to switch but a consultant came in an suggested Oracle just because all the big boys use it. That argument has a measurable amount of sway for some reason.

We've pushed a couple of Elixir apps in the past six months. There was definitely a bit of worry that no one would be able to maintain it, but I have to say that the code is very readable. So many languages integrate some functional aspects that the code doesn't look foreign in most cases.

Also, the Phoenix Framework (if you're building a web app) is really, really nice.

Didn't this feature already exist and then disappear? I seem to remember being able to select a roughly 20 mile square area to download to my phone but the data and the feature disappeared after either an Android update or a Maps update.

The demo is great. Thank you for putting in the effort to make that possible.

Docker certainly has its pain points but I've actually really enjoyed working it into our build and deployment process.

The command syntax is sometimes a bit clunky but they are making regular improvements.

Not to repeat lgbr, but the registry is pretty easy to get running. I had some problems initially, but it was mostly because I didn't really understand how to use a container all that well. That sounds somewhat silly, but it ultimately was true.

Finally, the hype is ultimately a good thing. There's a lot of focus on the project right now, which (hopefully) means we can expect a good deal of improvement and stability in the near future.

This is really neat but my problem with the asset pipeline hasn't been managing library dependencies but the general slowness of the process.

From what I can tell, high doses of Vitamin C can help lessen the effects of Alzheimer's Disease. Might be an oversimplification.

Edit: Definitely an oversimplification. High doses of Vitamin C can help lessen or prevent Blood-brain barrier (BBB) breakdown and mitochondrial dysfunction, which are two suspected causes of Alzheimer's Disease.

I think this is it: http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/1xjwem/richard_lynch_an...

This definitely deserves a little more visibility than HN alone.

Just wanted to toss out another alternative in Stash by the folks at Atlassian. The setup was easy and it provides a nice interface that can hook in with Jira. Also, for small companies the 10 user license is free.

I think I'd be less bothered by the campaign if they weren't selling merchandise. For some reason, that seems to be the tipping point for me. The campaign is idiotic and now seemingly hypocritical but the attempt to market merchandise just feels weirdly desperate.

Off topic rant: why in the world does that site take nearly half a minute to load completely and why does it keep jumping around to different sections (eventually leaving me at the bottom of the screen) during that absurd load?

I'm still not sure about the jumping but the load time might be the result of:

  370 requests  ❘  4.0 MB transferred  ❘  45.30 s (load: 41.60 s, DOMContentLoaded: 19.41 s)

Yes, it’s not really a fair comparison, I also changed the theme to a much simpler one which is a big boost too, but still.

But still nothing. Comparing a page that is 15% the size of the original is ridiculous. I'm left wondering what happens to the page loads on a WordPress site if you reduced the overall size and number of requests.

We do know that insects are far, far less complicated creatures. The difference between a human brain at 100 trillion or so synapses and a fruit fly at a few million is huge. I'm simply arguing that the necessary level of complexity isn't there for a fruit fly. I'm also arguing that this is more of a continuum than a clear line.

Animals made of meat have the same capacity for experiencing pain.

This is what I don't see as a clear and obvious truth. You shouldn't get on my case for throwing something out there without any kind of validation and then do the same thing yourself.

Nothing is ever so black and white. I'd argue that there is a difference between killing an insect and killing a human. The difference, in my mind, is that we think an insect lacks the same capacity for experiencing pain.

Edit: In the US, a lot of how cruelty is valued is based on how alike the animal is to us. Mammals get more attention than birds, which get more attention than fish. There is a hierarchy and I think it's based on how closely the animal resembles us, a part of which is the capacity for pain and suffering.

I couldn't reply to your deeper comment so I'm going to do it here. You can use the Dockerfile to copy files from you local system onto the image and then run various commands on the image. You have access to a full linux environment inside the docker image so you can do anything on the image that you can do in your normal development environment.

Come on, you've got to stay current. Google shutting down services is so six months ago. Right now you should be complaining about privacy or Google+.

Why even bother making this comment? It's completely unrelated and somewhat juvenile.

I can't reproduce this on stock Android. I'd also like to see what happens shortly afterwards. The video cuts off a bit abruptly and I'm curious to see if you can maintain access or whether it kicks you back out to the the lock screen after initialization is complete.

The text was also changed just a minute ago to remove a plug for HyperCube. The original text included something along the lines of "Clearly there are big problems with Android, which is why we started HyperCube..."

If you were playing on a console, the fact that the number is chosen ahead of time wouldn't make a difference. The only way you can be disappointed by this predetermination is if you are trying to game the system with an emulator. This doesn't seem like some cardinal sin to me considering you'd never know if you played the game the way the game was meant to be played.

Bike lanes apparently don't help as much as you'd think. There is a psychological aspect to providing a bike lane that makes car drivers think that bikers are already protected by the lane, meaning, in the end, that they don't actually give bikers as much room.

Edit: Bike lanes increase safety but I just added it to point out that it's a relatively complicated situation. I think lower speeds were the biggest factor towards increasing safety. I can't find the study either so the above really isn't worth all that much, my memory being what it is.

Isn't hibernation actually a potential risk since the state of the machine is stored, which could potentially provide access to restricted files?