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"Society has shifted on this issue, such that the traditional is considered unacceptable to hold; you're ostracized with negative labels should you hold the unfashionable position..."

Couldn't you say the same thing about civil rights? Slavery? Colonization? At some point these ideas were considered 'OK' by society and then at some point they were considered 'Not OK'. Are these simply 'fashions' to you? I think PG's article is interesting and very relevant, but taking it and naming something a 'fashion' without studying it in the same depth as the article isn't pushing the argument forward at all.

What if the officer is being filmed by a cellphone camera? There is an even greater chance of the incident being taken out of context. Especially if the police cameras are in a standard location for most officers (say pen pocket), then that fact can be used extensively and easily in video analysis.

Secondly, I very very rarely here of juries being "too hard" on police. The current culture is that most police can't be touch even if everyone knows they did it AND has evidence. In a lot of cases, they are untouchable unless their peers want to throw them under the bus or a separate, usually federal service looks into the matter.

There are people that, while wearing a camera in a dangerous situation, can remain calm, cool, and collected. If anything, that should be one of the first requirements of becoming a cop, not an argument against cameras.

I was wondering why I couldn't find the post the author was referring to...

It's definitely a chicken-and-egg problem. All I meant by my comment is that I can't see FPGAs taking off if people are stuck connecting together IP or using Verilog/VHDL. It's just too low level.

I believe the next big jump in FPGA utilization will involve high-level synthesis. Verilog and VHDL are essentially analogous to assembly languages in terms of abstraction.

I felt it was good when it first came out. After using the Kindle Paperwhite with touchscreen, it was hard for me to go back to the DX.

One of the most annoying parts about the DX was the PDF zoom. If the margins on your PDF are too big, the zoom doesn't function to remove the margins and zoom in towards the center. If I remember correctly, it zooms towards the left, leaving right half of the page cut off and still fat margins. It was so bad with some textbooks and papers that I had to go manually cut out the margins of the PDFs using an editor.

You can always read PDFs in Landscape mode, but that tended to be clunky on anything with 2 columns. In landscape mode, 1 page will become 2-3 "pages" that need to be traversed back and forth to read the separate columns. The Kindle caches the next page of the PDF but not the previous, so using the back button on PDFs could take a little bit depending on how big the PDF file was.

He was quoting the carriers, though I could see how the statement could get misconstrued:

    However, from previous statements released by AT&T and many tech orginizations, iPhones are very complex devices with a very complex OS. The OS eats much more data, even when in idle mode, than most phones on the market. So by carrier request, Apple limits devices to "even out" the network, even if it means Galaxy users out perform Apple devices by such large scales.

I really didn't expect to read a conclusion like this in an article about prairie dog linguistic research:

    This article has summarized groundbreaking research that reveals sophisticated language use by the prairie dog. Their ability to coin new words has thus far defied reasonable explanation. To us it indicates that a divine Creator was required to endow these rodents with this language gift. Surely, even a higher level of design and intelligence would be required to enable the incredibly more complex linguistic abilities of mankind as spiritual children of the Living God.

As far as the lactose intolerance, I think it is indirectly referenced in this line from the article:

    It’s also sort of like feeding your cows candy bars — they like it, but shouldn’t eat too much or it upsets their digestive system.

Find me a speaker for $10 with an active crossover.

Bleeding edge innovation usually occurs when researchers and engineers make progress using known or easily-modifiable processes. Most "breakthroughs" are dead-ends because process or scaling weren't considered in the initial research.

True technological innovation needs not just engineering feasibility but also economic feasibility. I'm not trying to say that the research that "dead ends" is pointless. Progress is progress. All I am trying to say is that it doesn't mean economic viability is right around the corner.

Often, researchers are well aware of scaling or manufacturing hurdles when they embark on the experiments. For the sake of academic careers and exposure, the research will get hyped regardless of the viability of implementing the research.

Alex Krupp has laid out an elegant solution to this problem:

http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2012/09/program-abo...

It sounds like you have trouble being assertive. At the end of the day, you have to fight for your own interests. Assertiveness is the fine line between courtesy and self-preservation. Being assertive means you MUST stand up for yourself to protect others' interest from overriding your own. It's a tough duality that most people aren't naturally good at. Generally, though, standing up for yourself in a non-aggressive manner earns a lot of respect. I heard this great quote that really helped me dealing with issues of my own passiveness:

"People will only walk on you if you lay down on the sidewalk and let them."

That's a fair point. In that case, wouldn't an automated reply be a fair solution?

Did you miss this line from the parent's post?

    But at least a simple automatic e-mail saying "Thank you for applying, regretfully the position is now filled" or anything indicating "don't wait for an answer" should be the norm. 

Your argument is that its better to be rude and not even send out an auto-reply because of the possibility that they will reply and want more information. But who cares? If the auto-respond email says "We'll get back to you if we are interested" then the conversation is over for the time being. It is then not rude to ignore any subsequent emails from the job applicant.

Let me frame this another way. Sometimes I find that Gmail doesn't always deliver my mail. It's rare, but it happens. A simple auto-reply can give people the peace of mind that they are at least being considered.

I don't feel like people are confusing anything. The issue is being generalized from a specific problem. In either case, it is rude not to respond.

This.

All it takes is an auto-responding filter. It is one of the shittiest feelings to send a resume to a company and get no response. I've done it many times, and I have had many no-responses. The feeling never got less shitty.

Frequently, people in a hiring position treat prospective candidates like cattle. They forget there is a human being behind that resume or portfolio.

All it takes is a reply like this:

    "Hello _______, We are very appreciative that you took the time to send us your _______. Once we get a chance to review your ______, we will contact if you we feel like you are a good fit.
    Best Regards,
    _____________"

Many embedded systems run Linux and are frequently attached to the netword for remote control. The root passwords aren't usually changed on these Linux boxes, so they are a wide open security hole.

Many companies pay attention to this sort of thing and make an effort to isolate these kind of devices to the local intranet. For every company that is it good about it, there are probably 10 that aren't even aware of the issue.

The first example I can understand, but I am not following you with the rest.

There is very high chance that you were not performing squats properly. Tiny deviations in squat form can mean the difference between a PR and knee pain for me.

I want to second this! Please read "Starting Strength"! It is the most detailed and easy-to-understand guide for executing compound lifts.

There is only one way to find out.

I am sure most people don't want to consume 64 ounces of beer in one night.

I used to do that as well, even after reading Kump's book. However, I found that once I stopped sub-vocalizing completely, I was much less likely to lose focus when I read dense material, regardless of the speed.

Here is a better description of Borph: http://bee2.eecs.berkeley.edu/wiki/Bee2OperatingSystem.html

Here is also a much clearer explanation taken from that link:

  BORPH is an extended Linux kernel that treats FPGA resources as native computational resources on reconfigurable computers such as BEE2. As such, it is more than just a way to configure an FPGA. It also provides integral operating system supports for FPGA designs, such as the ability for an FPGA design to read/write to the standard Linux file system.

If it supports partial-reconfiguration (which it looks like it does), then it could be a very handy tool. Why? Hardware is significantly faster than software. While Linux is running, the ability to spawn hardware at will would be great for many applications.

At UCSB, some of the research I did related to this very problem. What I was trying to do was have a Linux web server running on an FPGA that could dynamically reconfigure itself for different experiments. I ended up choosing a board that has an FPGA that communicates with a ARM processor. Decent size FPGAs were (and still are) expensive. For all the Linux overhead and my budget, a hybrid FPGA-processor platform turned out to be the better solution. If anyone is interested, here is the problem we were solving: http://ece.ucsb.edu/academics/undergrad/capstone/presentatio...

"Best" is very hard to quantify when it comes to people.

I think this article is a great summary on how to improve your skills as a knowledge worker. I see people that believe their mental capabilities will never improve. It really comes down to step #3: the stretch. Many people skip over "the stretch" in all areas of life and reach "steady state" relatively early on.

Hopefully the take-away is an explanation would have been helpful when the ToS was changed. Everyone was given limited information and they interpreted it how they could.

Maybe sites will think about this next time they quietly changed their ToS.

Do you have any citations? I'm not trying to nitpick, I am just interested in reading more.