Sorry, but this a very limited description of the disease. Alzheimer's, like all dementias, is a disease of the brain, not "just memory". It comes with a whole suite of symptoms and difficulties that are experienced directly by the patient, including depression, irritability, aphasias, and often physical limitations in advanced cases.
Long-term memory loss dominates public perception of the disease, but as anyone who works with dementia can tell you, most of the time it is as distressing for the patient as it is for the family.
Dementia is a part of my condition (which seems to be idiopathic, presenting symptoms of both Parkinson's and Huntington's). The motor difficulties and aphasic episodes are the things that I can't explain away, even though the explanations for other things are often quite convoluted. There was a period of some weeks a couple of years ago now when I amassed what must have been the largest privately-held collection of tomato ketchup in Canada, apparently by going shopping for food I needed and, having no idea why I was in a grocery store (or, for that matter, which store I was in) deciding that I was probably nearly out of ketchup anyway, and that I could get out of the store without embarrassment if I bought a bottle. I lost nearly thirty pounds that month, and wound up in the hospital twice due to extreme dehydration. Apparently I was not particularly nice to the people who were trying to help me, since I didn't need their damned help anyway, and they were trying to poison me. Things are considerably better now with medication, but there are still times when I find myself completely lost in what should be familiar territory. And I'm no longer really attached to anybody; it's like that part of me is missing now, and I can't sustain anything like caring. I don't know how much of the depression and irritation is part of the pathology and how much is just frustration and fear (terror, really) that never really goes away. Sometimes I think that if there is ever a root cause found and a cure effected, it would take me many years before I would trust normal life again.
Well, not everyone has the opportunity or desire to be employed by one of the "big guys". The programming equivalent of fixing someone's plumbing is not going to change the world, but it lets you pay the bills, have a family, enjoy your [other] hobbies, etc. Even if it is a choice, it's as much about lifestyle as anything else.
This is a great idea. Unfortunately, I think I remember one of my electronics lecturers at uni telling us that generally communication/feedback with power supplies is dangerous because you introduce the possibility of unexpected power surges propagating in the other direction. It's apparently very hard/expensive to have both communication and protection against this. I'd love for someone to correct me, especially as this might not apply to the newer designs.
An optocoupler will isolate the communications themselves, but perhaps he was referring to the fact that the overvoltage 'crowbar' circuit would need to be software controlled. Overvoltage protection shuts down the power supply when the output voltage rises too high - say if the FET gets stuck on.
OTOH one could put additional protection downstream in the load itself, and the PS would just need a well-known fixed overvoltage. If the "5V" PS started outputting 15V (but still under the PS max), the device would just shut down. However, don't expect manufacturers to do this on their own - as the article says, $1 is "expensive".
It looks like the 'i(' motion has special meaning in Vim - it corresponds to the previous unmatched '(' to the next matched ')'. Type 'help motion.txt' and look for i(.
Edit: Actually, the description for i" implies that its behaviour should be the same. Which one works correctly, I wonder?
Since brackets come in matchable pairs and double quotes do not, and because brackets can be nested while double quotes cannot, it wouldn't surprise me if this were a deliberate difference. If the user hits "di(" on a line and there's no "(" before the cursor, you can search backwards over previous lines looking for an unmatched "(" without too much worry you'll get confused by a stray "(" and delete something the user didn't expect. If the user hits 'di"' on a line and there's no '"' before the cursor, searching any further is quite likely to hit a false positive and do something ridiculous (like deleting all the code between two string literals).
That's a fair interpretation. I'd be more comfortable if this difference were reflected in the documentation - it could at least state that if no previous quote is found, the next quote on the line will be used.
It might also be worth noting that adherence with HIV medication is also motivated by simple fear: if you don't take it, you will die. Painfully, from secondary infection.
Diabetes (type 2) and cardiac disease are scenarios where people can still kid themselves to a certain extent.
As I understand it, both of these refer to the "cracker" definition; one is the "illegal hacker", the other is closer to "security consultant" with a hands-on connotation. "Hacker" in the Linus sense is totally different.
I think the problem is fundamentally one of economics. Research is good, but you have to decide how much money to allocate to it. In order to decide, you need a metric for performance. Really, only scientists are qualified to judge whether the results of other scientists are worth anything, so currently the only metric we really have is publishing in peer-reviewed journals. Ultimately, therefore, that's where the incentives end up.
When a more appropriate way of quantifying research output and its benefits is found, hopefully a beneficial change in culture will trickle down into the academic trenches.
How about trying to fix the current system by making somebody else using your software count as a "super citation"? (It could even arguably count as much as co-authorship.)
I think this is an excellent idea. If published software could be tagged via a unique identifier (like the DOI of a paper), then it could be cited by that tag just like a paper. Well written software might even get cited more than the paper it was published in.
The link provided by jacobolus should tell you all you need to know.