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Actually, it's already illegal in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Advertisement_Loudne...

> The question is are they obligated to give the best advice?

I didn't get this from the article.

I understood the issue to be:

1. It is undisputed that the lottery is required to display odds (return $$s per $$s spent). 2. It is undisputed that the lottery displays the theoretical maximum return given optimal play 3. The lottery supports a feature that does not play optimally 4. The issue: Should the lottery be required to display the rate of return given the use of auto-play?

Back when I worked in law, it was the case that the EU had very strict laws regarding where (physically) you store data, and who can access the data.

That meant that EU based firms could only buy our Install-behind-your-firewall version.

Is it the same for the financial district, perhaps?

My ebook purchases also skyrocketed after I got a Kindle. But it didn't rise because the kindle made it easy to buy ebooks, or even because I prefer ebooks (for technical stuff, I actually don't). It's because I was reading a lot more. I went from 1 or 2 books a year (if even) to 1 to 2 books a week.

My experience is anecdotal, but it might be worthwhile to ask your acquaintances why they buy so many ebooks after buying a Kindle.

Can you give an example of where you find Clojure to be implicit?

I don't find the Clojure that I write to be implicit.

You aren't wrong. David Auerbach at Slate has written a small piece on it: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/09/gam...

Cynically, I would say that it depends on whether or not you can get your case to the Supreme Court.

Normally, though, algorithms are not copyrightable. Though Books about algorithms are.

In this case, the guy published a book containing a maze, so reproduction of the maze should fall under copyright.

State lawyers are well versed in state law. As this is a state case, involving state law, a Texas lawyer would be required to make knowledgable statements on the case. A lawyer of another state or country could likely recognize some similar language, but would not be well versed in Texas law.

This would be like someone commenting on a Java article by saying, "I'm not a programmer, let alone a Java programmer."

I didn't read any insult in his comment.

Premium SMS is already gone: http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/12/premium-sms-billing/

Without being too specific, you should assume that Large stores already do this. Any store claiming to have "in store wifi" is almost guaranteed to be tracking you through your mac address.

The system that I'm familiar with only tracks where you're going. It didn't (as of a couple months ago) have any way of linking your mac back to a consumer profile.

Likely not, because that would implicitly expose the other 6.

Fortunately, not all high schools are like this.

Mine had 1 classroom devoted to computer classes. These computers were Windows NT workstations. Students logged in with normal accounts (not administrators) but there were no other restrictions.

That isn't to say that they didn't lock down any computers. They did. The library computers were essentially chrome books. All you could do was run IE and Word.

Windows makes this a little easier than bash does.

batch scripts in windows behave like scripts on unix do when you source them. That means that you can write a batch script called "foo.bat" with the contents of "cd \whatever\directory\you\please" and it will change your current directory when run.

From there, it would not be difficult to write a batch script that in turn wrote batch scripts like "foo.bat" above.

With bash, you would have to create functions or aliases to get the same effect.

I occasionally do interviews for my company, and I use Github in the manner that fecak describes.

Before the interview, I will check out your stuff and make sure I have compilers/interpreters for your favorite languages (as best I can identify them). Then I will do a combination of live coding, and talking about repositories that might have caught my eye.

In this kind of situation "Why did I do it that way? Because I wanted to see what would happen" Is a great answer. It leads into a discussion about what happened, and whether or not you would do it again (without waiting half an hour for you to work through a problem of my devising). I could not care less whether the code was good or bad if you can show that you analyzed the experience and learned from it.

Part of writing good code is having written bad code in the past. I get that. I'm a programmer myself.

Now, we do not use Github as a filter (as the article discourages). If you put your Github in your resume, I will use it to make the interview itself a more valuable experience for both of us. If you chose not to put your Github on your resume, then you will get the generic interview, and I might not have your text editor/IDE ready to go.

I have two macs that both run emacs. I have a private git repository for my .emacs.d folder (an old mirror can be found here: https://github.com/elarkin/.emacs.d ). I have taken special care to make sure that the init.el file is readable, and can be used with a fresh copy of emacs (without any packages installed) and everything works just fine.

If you want to try it, just brew install emacs --cocoa and clone the repo to ~/.emacs.d

A coworker and I trade snippets of elisp for our configurations over email, and whenever I update the repo on one machine, the other needs to pull it down and evaluate the file (eval-buffer)

I have not found sharing customizations of emacs to be very difficult, but I also don't use any god packages like emacs starter-kit, or prelude (which I haven't heard of). I have let my configuration grow organically.

Have you used transients in Clojure? http://clojure.org/transients

They allow mutation as long as it's localized.

I've taken to using Chrome for Flash. It includes Pepper, a Google maintained version of Flash. You will never be presented with an Adobe Reader prompt again.

Well, you probably would not get this chromebook if you were only going to use SSH. You'd buy the $250 one.

BrainTree does payments. They have concerns about security that most apps do not. Who really cares if bugged timeout/retry logic makes your app post twice to facebook? Probably no one. Who cares if bugged timeout/retry logic makes your app bill them twice? Probably everyone.

BrainTree and you may not make the same decision, and you both could be right.

On my mac my keyboard has an eject button right next to f12(volume up). If I press that then the primary disk drive ejects its disk.

If I had two disk drives, I'm not sure which it would eject. I suspect that this is what WayneDB was referring to.

They took down the one he sent me. Here's the hackernews page about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3270841

Never

A co-worker of mine (US) lost his kindle library about a year ago. Amazon closed his account and refused to tell him why. It took several tech blogs and newspapers phoning up Amazon with the story for him to get it back.

In other words, he got restitution because of articles like this one. He no longer buys kindle books.

I have yet to see a typical user use keyboard shortcuts. My mother, for example, will still use the mouse to click File then Quit/Exit when she wants to close a program.

Your testimony tells me that Win8 may see better adoption amongst windows programmers than windows users.

Isn't Microsoft pushing Metro as the primary environment and the desktop as a legacy environment?

In his demo video, he needs to run a specially crafted program to actually achieve privilege escalation. That's why you need both physical access and a local user account.

Social engineering only gets you both if you can autorun the executable upon insertion of the usb stick.

In the original, the supposedly black tiles were actually just missing images, allowing the black background to show through. That's why they're white here. The author has used a solid background for the whole map, instead of having a black background for the bottom half.

There very well may be a legal requirement. There is with email. If I understand right, a company must retain all communication for something crazy like 3 years.

I was a TA for computer science classes. I barely read variable names when grading. It was quicker to compile/run and then check over the structure of the program.

Also keep in mind that if you're grading 50 people like I was, you won't remember what variables the students used between assignments. The stuff they would do to throw me off the trail wouldn't help much at all.

If I found a student had copied from a neighbor or whatever, I'd ask them both what had happened. It was uncommon that they would deny it. I'd tell the professor and mark the assignment a zero. After that, it was between the students and the professor.

Try it yourself, write a small program, perhaps a script to read a CSV of numbers and do a pivot table or something, then copy it and use whatever technique you like to hide the copying. Now read them back to back. Give no more than 1 minute to each (since they both compile and pass tests). You'll spot the copying immediately.

Disclaimer: I did TA work for undergraduate stuff; typically for students in liberal arts and sciences just trying to get through their comp-sci requirements.

I suspect that you are a minority (as you admit). My monthly student loan burden exceeds my rent burden by almost $200; my loan debt is far less than the median.

There may be a cultural factor to it as well. I don't find the need to drive everywhere like I did growing in the 90s, but I certainly don't have a ton of income left over for car and fuel (let alone even more debt for a mortgage and the other costs that entails).

My behavior is driven more by economics than culture.