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Could an alternative be to use individual repos and also a meta-repo? The metarepo contents are the commit ids of each individual repo.

So let's say you want to update a repo which depends on another one:

Update project A, commit changes.

# Your product hasn't changed at this point

Update project B, commit changes.

# Your product hand't changed at this point

In metarepo, checkout to the new 'master' branches of Projects A and B, commit that to metarepo

# Your product is now updated!

I believe the reason is that exchanging public keys is, unfortunatly, to much work for the average user.

I would be interested in reading more details about the technology. How does it work? How much power does it need? What makes manufacturing expensive? Can you make it bigger (holodeck sized)? Does it track the user's head position somehow or does it work for N users simultaneously?

Do you mean Baikonur (2011) ?

You have to stop counting the abstraction levels to maintain any sanity these days. I mean we have a computer running a web browser running a Javascript VM running an Android runtime running a JAVA VM running the app. Did I miss one? Maybe the app is Minecraft running one of those graphical calculators :) /sarcasm

That sounds interesting. Do you have a source about him supporting basic income?

That's an April's fool, right?

https://backupsy.com/ ?

If you really want a fast transport system you need not only speed, but low latency. If you need to queue for 15 minutes while you wait for other people to get in, then it's gonna feel like boarding a plane : time wasted. What's really needed here is parallel loading of passengers into individual pods. But then you need a tube switch and multiple tubes and doors and throughways.

Ironically if you're the only guy with a ski mask you're not hard to track.

I think you have a good chance of doing that unless you're over 70 :)

Before I die I want to go to space.

*"bon travail" :)

Good article. I'm french and I did this (but in science, not literature like in the article). I've also been to US college for one semester and I had the chance to take an "Intro to Philosophy" freshman class. So I've had two formal introductory philosophy classes, in different languages, cultures and contexts, but definitely aimed at the same public (17-19 y. old). It's quite interesting to compare these two. In France the focus was definitely more on authors, philosophical theories, texts and ideas. In America the material was more on reasoning, logic and formal arguments. Never once were we presented a formal Modus Ponens layout in France. We were told never to write our own ideas in our essays --- "You'll do that if you get a master in philosophy". However the American class had too much of "learn those 10 arguments by heart" I would say. So they definitely had subtle and interesting differences.

Of course both had their share of "how the hell is this relevant to my life" reactions. But also those invaluable "ahah" moments, which make philosophy so wonderful. Hacking has this too. You walk out of the classroom with new cognitive pathways that you didn't know you had. You'll never see the world with the same eyes again.

Why not just write an LLVM to brainfuck compiler ?

I have a question about this. What happens if I lose my phone ? Do I lose access to the account ?

Cool essay, but :

> Many employees would work harder if they could get paid for it.

is just wrong. See http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html

Oh yes, the classic "people won't understand that so let's go with the bad solution".

Which desktop client do yo use ? I'd like to do the same but I know I will miss Gmail's thread formatting. I know there is a plugin for Thunderbird but it's not as great.

Finding mixmax's country of residence, social security number, name and address is left as an exercise for the reader :)

Oh yes, this please. Something straightforward, simple and scientific. Possibly exhaustive. I would pay for a quality book like that.

There is so much noise on this topic. Oh and not too American biased would be great as well.

I'm waiting for someone to implement a web browser in canvas. Wait, now that I think about it, it has probably been done already.

Including Common Lisp.

That's XOR !

Can someone explain how they control for roll ?

Off topic, but am I the only one to find the automatic scrolling very annoying ? Don't move the page on my behalf.

Augmented reality would be nice. Put the clock on the wall instead of in front of the world.

I hope we fix copyright before we can 3D print food and organs.

In the area of biological effects and medical applications of non-ionizing radiation approximately 25,000 articles have been published over the past 30 years. Despite the feeling of some people that more research needs to be done, scientific knowledge in this area is now more extensive than for most chemicals. Based on a recent in-depth review of the scientific literature, the WHO concluded that current evidence does not confirm the existence of any health consequences from exposure to low level electromagnetic fields. However, some gaps in knowledge about biological effects exist and need further research.

Source: http://www.who.int/peh-emf/about/WhatisEMF/en/index1.html

Is it very hard to fork Firefox or Chromium and replace the JS engine by luaJIT, pypy or even llvm ?