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Given U.S. military budgets, this seems like a rounding error. Especially as the article claims that this was over a five year period. Four mil a year in procurement fraud is probably a drop in the ocean.
A lot of the really popular shooters out there now are collaborative, or have a strong collaborative element. For example, Destiny 2 can be solo, but really encourages you to group up with a couple friends to run 3 person strikes and other activities. Overwatch is a 6v6 game that is unwinnable without teamwork, and similarly R6 Siege requires advanced team collaboration. PUBG (2.2 million current active players at this minute) and Fortnite both derive a large part of their appeal from their very popular duo and 4 person squad modes. If you look at what people are actually playing right now, a huge chunk of it is largely collaborative games.
I have an aunt and uncle who do this, but they aren't desperate, they're retired. They travel around the country, visiting places they'd like to see, and taking seasonal jobs as something to do and to help defray expenses. They still own their own house, but they choose not to live there, renting it out to their kids / their kid's friends. They've worked as lighthouse keepers, Amazon warehouse pickers, and as bookkeeping/maintenance for a sugar-beet picking operation (they're a little old for field work). Currently they're wintering over at the Grand Canyon while working at the general store in an rv park.
The point is not all of these nomads are forced into it by desperation or financial necessity; some of them just want to spend their retirement traveling and don't mind a little work along the way.
My aunt and uncle have a blog detailing their travels if anyone is interested: https://whatsnewell.blogspot.com/
On the other hand, don't be ashamed of using a tool that works for the job, even if it isn't the latest or coolest thing. jQuery is no longer the best choice for a lot or circumstances, but if it is for yours, go for it.
FYI your careers link 404s. Going by your site the actual link is http://careers.true.com/
I used the google reader android app before it was shuttered.
Well there's screen time and screen time. Building something cool in minecraft is pretty different from watching spongebob on netflix.
Actually, having no assigned seats is the fastest way to board a plane.
Fuck that. Journalists are human beings and that _is_ what human beings are supposed to do.
Just anecdotally, I've found that the second round trip overwhelms any performance gains from not rendering on the server, especially if you have to boot up a heavy framework such as e.g. angular before even starting it.
The isomorphic model is that the first page load happens on the server (1 round trip), and that any additional page loads hit the api directly and re-render the page in the browser (also 1 round trip).
I think the point is that he didn't know there was a lock. His closing argument seems to be that when you're writing muli-threaded code, you have to not only think about what your own code is doing, but also about what all the library and system calls you use are doing. Which is one of the many reasons multi-threaded code is harder to write than single threaded.
Hey, that's even in front-to-backend order.
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Rather ironic that someone has an advantage over Google for universal search.
I saw an article on migrating android phones earlier today: http://lifehacker.com/5843206/how-to-upgrade-to-a-new-androi...
Maybe the NRA will ride to the rescue?
They're not just supposed to be a payments provider. They're going to ask people to actually link their bank accounts so that the merchants don't have to pay credit card fees.
I do this manually sometimes, with chrome dev tools. The whole issue actually has a pretty profound effect on which sites I read. For example, I won't follow a link to usa today unless it's something really interesting, whereas I'll read almost anything from the la times, just because I enjoy their bullshit free layout.
update bash (https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/146849/how-do-i-re...) or switch to a different system default shell until bash is updated.
I did one for work, to create github issues from trello cards. It was a pretty easy speed up of our project management workflow.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trello-to-github-i...
If the sample is truly random, it doesn't matter what the population size is. Of course, truly random samples are hard to get.
I think the idea is that you can use solar or nuclear to crack it into hydrogen and oxygen for use as rocket fuel. With rockets, fuel is both energy source and reaction mass, meaning that you throw it out the back end and can't recover it. You can also use the oxygen for breathable atmosphere. Every kilogram of useful mass you can find on the moon is one less kilo you have to haul from earth.
Actually, the story says that the 16GB nexus 7 is $229, so the iPad mini is 44% more expensive.
"There's not much code on this page at all, just simple markup for paragraphs, hierarchy, and emphasis."
I'm happy with feedly
fails for me with android chrome beta 28.0.1500.21 on android 4.2.2
The definition is changing. There's a lot of people who use it to mean something like "all the stuff that resulted from the big bang". Which may or may not be the entirety of existence. If it's not, then the other stuff will be stuff that exists outside of the universe. Which does contradict the etymology of the word but is consistent with how it's being used today. Much like the word atom I think.
First someone who is affected by the law has to challenge it, then the challenge has to make its way through the appeals process until it reaches the level below the supreme court, and then finally the supreme court must decide to take up the case. It's a fairly involved process that only ever gets applied to a small fraction of laws. But the filtering process tends to select laws of questionable constitutionality, so it's fairly inevitable for something like the ACA to end up there. Though it helps to have a powerful interested party pushing a case through the process.
You'll probably find this interesting then. It's about how violence rates have changed over time, and some guesses about causation. http://www.amazon.com/The-Better-Angels-Nature-ebook/dp/B005...