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For now, you need to add both -Wno-return-type and -m32 when compiling.

Or you could text them directly. This scenario is only useful in the case where you have SMS but no internet, and your intended recipient has internet but no SMS.

EDIT: Also, as someone pointed out above, Twitter already has an SMS interface.

That's the point. larrys wants to compare the Model S miles driven by "people who buy brand new expensive cars" against other car miles driven by "people who buy brand new expensive cars," instead of comparing the Model S miles [...] against other car miles driven by everyone.

Nice job! Little bit of feedback:

1. The images don't update until after the first tick of the new exercise. It would be nice if the updated when the rest screen changes to the new exercise screen with the timer and the text.

2. It would be cool if for exercises like the side plank (I think that's the only one in this set), where you hold something on each side, it gave you a halfway warning to tell you that it's time to turn over.

3. The rest period at the end isn't really necessary.

That's an excellent explanation of what's actually going on in this situation. Thank you.

I had issues with the '-' character (for example, in the first line of the Shell Git lesson), and I'm just using the standard US keyboard layout.

EDIT: also '_', as sp332 commented. Firefox on OS X.

What's the reason this isn't compatible with the iPhone 4/other devices?

Also, trying to open the preferences (10.6.8) takes 20-30 seconds of beach ball frozen before the window comes up (and 5-10 to close as well, without changing anything)

Indeed I was. That was in the shortcut when I originally looked at it. He has since edited it out. Thanks!

Ah, thanks for the correction.

Knowing that, this doesn't really matter, but "git lg -10" produces no output at all for me.

Is there a way to limit this to the most recent N (either hard-coded or as an input) entries? It's a bit slow to load when it has to load all of the history ever, and I usually only care about at most the last couple dozen commits.

This is the best example I've seen. We've spent the last 20+ years training the public that ".com", ".net", etc equals "website". Now that anything could be a URL, it's going to be a lot more confusing for people.

Did you check the actual numbers on that? I was impressed with the speeds I was getting, and figured it must be because they were using a P2P mechanism, but when I looked at the download statistics (in the downloader, there's an option to show network information), and was very surprised that it was almost entirely directly downloaded. I don't remember the exact numbers, but it was something on the order of 1-2% of the total download.

That said, as someone else alluded to, maintaining that CDN with that bandwidth is probably crushingly expensive, and is something only Blizzard and a few others could pull off.

Best of luck to the whole team there. It's such a great tool, and seamlessly pulled off. I'll be sad to see it go, and I'll be crossing my fingers in the hopes that it will work with future OS releases for a while.

What the article hints at, but doesn't really follow through on, is that you could use this to fire off multiple AJAX calls in parallel and the do something only when all of them have completed.

Thanks for a great tool.

A suggestion: I'd like to be able to send a letter to all of my representatives and senators at once, instead of having to fill out the form multiple times.

The one issue this article doesn't address is what is being done about the FRA. Are there movements to change the regulations? Overhaul the FRA? Even something as small scale as what, if anything, the author is trying to do about it would have been nice to hear.

1) No, and I would have been incredibly surprised if they had. I had only finished two years of school, and had very little experience when I started. None of us had any idea how it would work out. It would have been foolish to offer equity then.

2) Being in school, the money wasn't a huge issue for me. They took care of my housing and most of my living expenses, so it's not as if I had to support myself on no income.

More importantly, the opportunity was just too good to pass up. It's rare to get the chance to be at a four-person company. I knew that I'd get fantastic experience and learning out of it. After just two years of school, those two were more important than money.

I never really applied to the larger companies. It seemed like most of the really cool opportunities there were full-time positions only. My friends that had done internships at bigger companies hadn't enjoyed it very much, so I was looking for something small.

When I met Rich and Bill, WePay jumped out at me because it was the most startup-y of all the startups there that day. Every other company had a product and was trying to build it up. WePay was just an idea at the time, and it was obvious that I'd be deeply involved in the building and shaping of the product, rather than adding on to something that already existed.

Asking me to describe the experience is such a broad question that it's hard not to answer in a similarly broad manner. If you've got specific aspects that you're curious about, let me know. As for generally, I absolutely loved it (which is why I'm back here now). I certainly learned way more during three months than I had in two years of school.

Thanks for the high praise, Rich.

If anyone's got questions about the experience, I'd be happy to share. Short version: freaking awesome!

You mean the one looking like she'd rather be vomiting than sitting there?

It's convincing, until you realize that the author is treating nukes as just really big bombs. If he's only looking at the area of total destruction, then he should be counting all explosives, since that's ignoring where the real deadliness of nuclear weapons lies.

First off, the heat wave let off will be lethal at a much larger radius than where it will cause total destruction. Total destruction means that everything is gone: buildings, cars, people, anything that was there will be unrecognizable/gone. For a nuke, this is a very small part of the destruction caused. The fallout and radiation will carry much much farther than that. If you tried, you could probably cover the entire earth with fallout with fewer than 100 strategically placed nukes.

It's not beyond belief that ten thousand would both cover the earth with concentrated radiation, and cause enough fallout to create nuclear winter. Volcanic explosions are often enough to affect sunsets on the other side of the world. If we exploded nuclear weapons all over the world, there'd be enough debris in the air to block out the sun, causing a significant temperature drop, and killing plants around the world. Scratch the global food supply, and we're all toast.

If she's not a technical person, that's on about the right level. It's probably done up a little for the sake of making it slightly more interesting to read, but I could imagine a conversation between a very technical person and somebody who knows next to nothing going very much along those lines. And even if it is a little oversimplified, it gets the point across very well.

I had some friends that made OLEDs in a MatSci lab last year. It was an incredibly complicated and drawn-out process, not to mention sensitive and nit-picky. Sure, automation would most of the problems, but I don't envy the people who have to make and test each revision.

There's a very good game theory problem in here somewhere. How many bots can be run before the advertisers get fed up and stop donating? Somebody needs to make a model to find what the optimal bot rate is that gets lots of rice donated without drawing the ire of the advertisers.

Reminds me of the joke about the highest bandwidth available being a truckload of drives barreling down the highway. While true, not necessarily useful.