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It's not entirely irrational though... looking at two identically-specced products I would choose the one with a higher build quality, which is often more expensive. So there is some correlation. Doesn't mean that more expensive always means better quality though.

That's great, and I love that Huawei can bring such specs at quite a low price point. But specs aren't everything. How is the UI responsiveness? Does the phone itself feel sturdy? I keep thinking there must be something wrong with it, but it might just be some irrational sense of "you get what you pay for".

Foul depths of hell? I've never programmed in C or C++, but this seems to me to be a map from strings to vectors of strings. Reads easily. I don't like the :: namespace separator, but what can you do...

We have something similar several places in Norway too, which are triggered by what seems to be motion sensors. Since the actual crosswalk can easily be covered in snow/ice during the darkest parts of the year, usually the crosswalk signs placed at either end of the crosswalk light up and blink instead.

No. I'll hold my judgement until I see the new TOS, but what they propose in this blog post is much more reasonable. If the new TOS reflect that, I see little reason to bitch about it.

Well, isn't the scenario you would take issue with exactly what is happening here? From the article: "For example, if [a visitor] went to XYZ.com and filled out a web form and then [the visitor] later visited 42floors.com, [42Floors] would be able to identify [the visitor] by name/email as well as company details even though [the visitor] never filled out a web form on [42Floors.com]."

Callbacks are actually one of the things this is explicitly trying to avoid: http://elm-lang.org/learn/Escape-from-Callback-Hell.elm

Very nice, accessible examples and documentation. Can't wait to try it out (after exams)

To add to Breakthrough's answer, the article states:

"The patients were repeatedly asked to imagine playing tennis or walking around their home. In healthy volunteers each produces a distinct pattern of activity, in the premotor cortex for the first task and the parahippocampal gyrus for the second. It allowed the researchers to put a series of yes or no questions to severely brain-injured patients. A minority were able to answer by using the power of thought."

So, I imagine they could say "To answer YES, imagine playing tennis. To answer NO, imagine walking around your home". Then they could ask yes/no questions and monitor the patterns of brain activity.

I think the best approach is to integrate tasks like version control across many subjects.

For instance, many programming exercises in various subjects taught at my university give the students a basic framework with missing functions, or a test harness, or some other piece of code that needs to be finished. These could have been shared via a version control system, and delivery could be made that way as well (using pull requests, branches, or some other feature).

That way, students would be encouraged to use version control while working on the exercises.

The way it actually is done here, though, is basically "learn version control yourself and justify your choice of version control system in your report" when doing group projects.

That's because VLC lets you adjust the volume above 100%. Generally not a good idea. If you avoid that, you should be fine.

Also worth noting, if you attenuate the signal (in software) from the computer you generally won't attenuate the noise, meaning that at the same perceived loudness from your speakers the sound will include a lot more noise. On my 2007 MacBook Pro this is very audible.

Well, he does imply that he'll neither leave the Clojure community nor stop blogging, so I'm keeping my hopes up. Besides, whether they are Clojure-related or not, his blog posts are almost always interesting.

Best of luck, Fogus!

Same here (used Firefox, switched to Chrome), but I recently switched back. The only reason: I started using Windows on my desktop PC, and the font rendering in Chrome is horrible on Windows.

These days Firefox feels just as snappy as Chrome to me, though this has only recently been the case in my experience.

I disagree. It reads perfectly fine to me, and the terms I was unfamiliar with were defined before usage (the "sidebar" and "verbs" for instance). Although I'm familiar with Clojure, I haven't been following Light Table especially closely.

You're apparently not alone though, so it's probably a good idea to make the writeups more readable to non-Clojurians.

I'm quickly desensitized by video footage or images from war, acts of terrorism and the like. It might just be me, but I find that reading about the atrocities of war is much more effectual. So maybe there is a case for more old-fashioned war reporting?

I certainly would be. Reading all these how-to-articles by successful extroverts can be frustrating, since many tips simply would not work for introverts. It's refreshing to see an introvert's take on this.