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Absolutely absurd take from Google here. What could they be thinking? It's like they want app store legislation.

Use of ORMs is often a performance choke point. Raw DB queries are often much, much faster. Almost always, the more you abstract, the worse you perform. It's great as a developer but not so great as a user.

This is relevant in my field (Waste Management) as there's the long ton, the short ton, and long and short hundredweight (CWT). All different and confusing!

It makes clear in the memo, this is FRL (Oculus), not Facebook as a whole.

Generally the rule is that if it's hard, you can cut it off, because the mold will have only spread on the surface (think moldy cheddar cheese rind), but if it's soft, throw it out (think blue cheese).

I love this idea as a rework of github sponsors.

...in a lab. I wish battery articles would include in the title whether they are commercialized or just achieved in ideal conditions.

knockd is pretty easy to setup and use. I used it in a security lab class in college in the late 2000s and nobody could figure out why we didn't have any open ports!

I'm impressed with what they've been able to do, and happy to see that they're developing in-house. When I was an intern there in the mid-2000's they were still working on fly-by-wire and most (all?) of their programming was done by a separate company.

"An experimenter blew bubbles to distract them." Wasn't expecting my daily does of cute in this Autism study's abstract, but got it anyway.

At what point do we no longer trust public key cryptography (RSA)? Where's the break point?

Columbus, OH is pretty great. The Dublin Entrepreneurial Center has cheap office space and access to the Metro Data Center on the same floor. There are a couple nice co-working spots too like 400 West Rich.

We have a burgeoning food scene that gets better every year. Cost of living is pretty cheap, we have an NHL team (not to mention NCAA powerhouse OSU), new apartments are going up seemingly everywhere, and Amazon's building a data center here.

Here's what I do: random long strings as answers for each question, and save them with the credentials in KeePass. That way I keep track of each one, and they can't be used against me.

PHP and MySQL are actually very fast, check out Tech Empower's benchmarks (https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r10&hw=...). Remember Facebook is built on PHP. For this purpose (distributed servers) it's a perfect stack. Easy to code for and very fast. Security is one of our primary concerns and I assure you that Thndrstrm has our users' privacy and security in mind at all times.

One thing that I don't see in these kinds of articles, and what I think is most important: MySQL speed. When I was researching technology, I compared simple pages that read some data from a MySQL database and display it on an html5 page. I did this in Go, Node, Silk, and PHP. PHP blew everyone else away. Now, this was two years ago, and perhaps their MySQL client implementations have gotten better, but this test was the reason my startup is built using PHP. It's the fastest thing available that isn't Java or C++ based. Supported here: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r10&hw=...

According to wikipedia:

"Due to crosswind, the bomb missed the aiming point, the Aioi Bridge, by approximately 800 ft (240 m) and detonated directly over Shima Surgical Clinic"

Maybe Tim Cook can just start buying companies and wait for other people to figure out what to do with them. It's certainly interesting to see how many people think that Apple is infallible. They make mistakes just like any other company.

Windows 7 is a solid OS. Also, built my own rig and own a copy of Windows CS4. If Adobe started making a Linux version I'd switch to Ubuntu.

If someone could build this into a usb key, I'd buy one for each of my servers in a heartbeat.

This is the kind of gesture control I'd like to see for AR products like Google Glass. You shouldn't have to raise your hand to your face to interact with the device. It would be amazing to be able to control an AR headset under the table with your hand during a meeting or similar.

I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of the laid-off employees end up working at Apple.

I played for about 10 minutes and owww does my brain hurt.

Having been to that particular theatre many times (AMC Easton), there are usually Columbus Police around, especially on the weekends. They also have a fair amount of security there (Once they helped me get into my car after I locked myself out). That's who I would guess would be there. Sometimes there are even Columbus Police hanging out at the entrance of the theatre by the escalators.

The statistical likelihood of something happening isn't super relevant to how we as human beings deal with things. Fear is a huge motivating factor. While we do not live in a perfect world, police, by design, decrease fear while terrorists increase it. That's why we commit money and resources.

A nice analogy is the difference between flying and driving. I know many people that have a fear of flying and refuse to get on a plane, but are perfectly comfortable behind the wheel even though it's statistically much less safe. How people feel about things is important.

I think an important point here is that these aren't really "innovations". It's stripping features to make keyboards more compact. Keyboards are certainly a technology that could be improved. What about a touch screen split keyboard mouse combo that could take 10-finger multitouch and also give incredible haptic feedback that let you "feel" the keys?

I think the OP makes some good points, but I dislike when people are put off of working on their own crypto. Can crypto be difficult to implement? Certainly. Is it impossible? No. The OP makes it sound like properly implementing and authenticating a block cipher is way too difficult for the average programmer, when it is really rather trivial.

I don't use a framework, and I don't have php projects on my github, yet I've been a PHP developer since 2005.

Agreed. My sister is an IE for a major hospital. This is pretty much what she does all day every day.

Is the modal text really blurry for anyone else, or am I going insane?

This is exactly why I decided to use PHP for my startup. I have something along these lines that I hope to blog about in the coming weeks (I tested php-fpm on nginx/go/node.js/silk.js and php won by a landslide when it came to speed).

I would love to see php-fpm on nginx included in this test.