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This almost validates my point; if Furry is against it, you can be sure it's grounded somewhere in reality.

Sure ones that cause extinction events are pretty rare, but there have been several in just the last hundred years that could of wiped whole cities off the map if they hadn't hit a remote location. A large modern city like New York burning up and entering the atmosphere could be enough to cause...

I'd rather somebody (preferably not the Russians) be testing something to protect us. I'd put asteroid impact up there with climate change as things that we're all too satisfied to ignore until it's becomes a large problem we may not be able to overcome.

TPB is back March 28th for the 10th season! Trailer Park Boys on Twitter:

ShakeyJake no idea if this will help you but~ A large part of our company's platform is HTML5/JS based, but I primarily design the back end. About 3-4 months ago we were looking at how we could improve our UI code quality and encourage more people to be full stack developers. Most of the back...

I hope the company's worth it. I'd probably take a few shots at explaining why it's counter intuitive and if it didn't work out I'd just look for the promotion position at another company. I debated going back and doing a comp sci degree, but I'm 8+ years into actual work experience building...

They really want you to have a four year degree? Spending four years to get it when it would probably do nothing to make you better at your position and either be a distraction or even worse leave you little time to keep up on whats actually important. The policy just seems so short sighted and...

Thrift has a niftey JSON protocol that will serialize native objects in and out to something like 20+ languages. We commonly use it as our storage method for complex objects over things like JSON directly or XML. It's great getting to work with the actual native objects everywhere, and since it...

If people haven't checked out the series before then you need to check out the premiere for season 2. Jesus Christ was it awesome. Cocaine, butt stuff, random drugs, stealing a google car, waking up in a field.. so awesome. I can't do it justice without spoiling it.

I finished watching this last night and it was great. I thought they were going to wrap this all up in one season then move onto somebody else, but I guess not. My only criticism is the liberties they're taking with the order of events.. I won't dive into the details but the wiki paints a...

Our C++/C# application takes about 48 minutes using Incredibuild (Distributed build) in release, about 10 minutes in debug. 30mins+ of the release build is just linking though as we statically link all the libraries and that's slow as balls when you have optimizations turned on. We're currently...

There is a lot of investor blow back over them spending money generated in the search division of the company on projects that are completely unrelated to anything that drives them revenue and they go against what the company original set out to be. By psychologically breaking the two apart...

Out of curiosity, how do you guys have to track your time for the company you work for? Do guys have to account for every minute? Do you use a project management system to track time?

hah all I could think of the episode of South Park where Mr Garrison makes a new form of transport and when people initially get on it the "anal probe" would move slowly move into "place".

I can confirm this works. The first time I opened it was missing the option, but after some updates and a reboot it was available.

I don't know shit about R, but is it possible to split the datasets up into smaller batches to run many parallel jobs against smaller datasets then recombine the results in the end?

The problem with detecting oxygen is that water vapor in the atmosphere when hit with light, will break apart into oxygen and hydrogen. So we can't necessarily use it as a possible marker as life as there is a natural process that would make it detectable. Oxygen In Exoplanet Atmospheres...

Whats you're reasoning for this? Presuming he's just upgrading the drive to an SSD and there are no other hardware changes, I don't really see anything that warrants a full reinstall.

1. You've got it right. Kepler was designed to look at the same piece of sky for a long period of time looking for those blips. The only way to confirm a planet is to watch it pass in front of the star a few times. You need the first couple to determine a period and at least a third pass to see...

You can physically move a partition to another drive. So if you want to save your windows install you can shrink the windows partition down to a size that will fit on the SSD then copy that partition to the SSD. Not sure if most of your games are on steam, but steam supports moving games between...

They probably think every open source license is GNU. GNU - You only have to open source the code if you modify their original code. Now what you have to worry about is if you statically link the GNU module/library into you source code, as that triggers a clause in the license that you have...

Kepler-452b: Earths Bigger, Older Cousin -- Briefing Materials | NASA That's the media kit for the announcement, the pictures do a pretty good job of explaining the new planet discovery and why it's important.

Actually there was a pretty big uproar when some Chinese scientists were using embryos to modify (With CRISPR) them to remove disease. To get around the "moral" ramifications they were using embryos that weren't feasible and if it makes anybody feel better they failed. They managed to remove the...

Here is a great article on CRISPR gene editing and the possible implications. For anyone who doesn't know CRISPR is technique that allows for very precise gene editing, and it can be done very very cheaply. A lot of basic research on what genes do involves knocking them out of a species and see...

lol what? I edited out the pieces that weren't relevant to my rebuttal. You tossing "in a perfect world" doesn't suddenly make the content of your post good advice. The CPU cost of exceptions has to be weighed against what they give you in code complexity reduction and being able to unify your...

I totally disagree with this. Having a try/catch around code can be a hell of a lot cleaner than trying to make all your functions return true/false on whether they succeeded or not. With the exceptions you only handle failures, usually in a single line thrown exception vs handling return...

Oh man do I wish I had a setup like that. I used to manually edit the batch files, and I had more than my fair share of fuck ups in that regard. After my second visit to the computer store to fix one of my batch boot issues (I was 10) the guy took the five minutes to show me how to make a boot...

Honestly, I would use it for training. Put the new person in the hot seat and start telling them what to do, and it would be an interesting way to force them to learn techniques from the whole team and hopefully they'd be smart enough to ask a lot of questions about what people are getting them...

I ended up canceling my pre-order for the Fury X. I game at 1600p and it performs worse than the 980Ti and I can pick one up for the same price plus the 980 Ti has 2GB more memory. I really think NVIDIA should get punished by the market for Gameworks and GSync, so I might just skip this...

It's really weird that the it performs so much better at 4k than it does at 1440p. I'm hoping there are some driver improvements in the works that are going to improve the performance, but I'm not crossing my fingers.

Yea, Wind has this whole chicken and the egg issue, where they require a huge amount of capital to compete against the big carriers and expand but it's hard to justify investing in them unless people are flocking to them. If they had lifted the foreign investment rules right as they were...

The Canadian contracts are two years now, so if you've got two years into your three year contract you're free to break it. Once I'm ready to buy a new phone I'm bailing on Rogers and heading to Wind. Rogers recently decided that my deal was "too good" and that it "expired", thus doubling my...

I pre-ordered a FuryX from NCIX.. all indications point to it being a beast. People have gotten Dirt 3 and Sniper Elite III both running on three 4K monitors (12K effective) with a single card. The memory technology is proving especially interesting, I really had my doubts that 4GB would be...

Thanks for the feedback on Evolve, sounds like a pass.

Is evolve worth buying at 50% off?

I can only really speak for C++, but a lot of the new additions being added are going to make it a really solid choice. Right now if you use unique_ptr/shared_ptr's for your memory allocation you can pretty much avoid a lot of the memory pit falls that make C++ difficult to deal with, and you...

Research Blog: Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks Really cool article, basically google trained a simple neural network to identify images. But they wanted to know what the neural network was actually recognizing as the object. So they initially gave it a blank canvas and asked...

549$ for the Fury (Cut down die) 649$ for the Fury X I'm probably going to pick up the FuryX to replace my aging 7970. Mist where did you see people complaining about freesync? Most reviews I've seen have found little difference between it and the G-Sync monitors. G-Sync is always going...

They're probably playing this like Google, where the two founders ended up in lower positions after venture capital got a hold of them. Richard is by no means ready to run a business, nor does he seem to have the skills to pull it off. Having some other person come in and run it for awhile where...

We do sprints but we don't always release what we've accomplished. So while everybody is working on a sprint, they aren't always working on a piece that's going to be in the next release, or if it is part of it it'll be dead code that's not accessible via the UI if it isn't complete. We don't...