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I have been watching F1 for >20years and my 2 cents:

Pros:
most advanced cares, if you like engineering.
the 'best' drivers.

Cons:
Lack of wheel to wheel race
Some money-driven decisions.
Some boring races

Regardless of that, since Liberty Media acquired F1 it is going in a good direction:
A bit less rapid cars, more fights
It seems to have found its place in the sustainability space.

In terms of Human Rights and so on, you have double-edge situations here, such as visiting S.Arabia and at the same time solid movements of gender equality and others like black liver matters
I only mentioned them because he did. Did he say what he likes? Any names in particular?

My favourite sci-fi involves aliens, robots, or alien robots. That said, I also enjoy stuff like The Man From Earth.
This comment got way too long * and I forgot to mention the important thing: most people's attitude will tend towards negative, or at most bland, without constant external "uplifting". Most people's environment isn't very uplifting, but you can create one artificially through inspirational audio. Have something inspirational on in the background every day, while driving, doing the dishes etc.

* “Forgive me this long letter, I hadn't the time to write a shorter one.”

--

Most of my "great ideas"* are derivative, ie. frankensteins created by combining pieces other people's work. (The more people like something I made, the more likely it is that it's just a clone of / homage to something I really liked. Take something you love, then take it 1 step further.)

There's a quote I love that goes something like, «If you steal from one person, they will call you “the new so-and-so”, but if you steal from many, they say “oh! How original!”» (Or was it, “good artists copy, great artists steal?” ;)

Still, inspiration by itself will not get you far: * you also have to put in the other “99% perspiration” as well, or you will just end up with dozens of “cute, but whatever” projects. So for me the greatest lesson is (still) to stop relying on inspiration and just do a couple hours of work every day.

“I only write when inspiration strikes. Fortunately, it strikes every morning at 9 o'clock sharp.” On that note, I really do have to get to work immediately upon waking, or the day is basically lost. I turn off the internet before bed, and turn it on after 2-3 hours of work. Use offline documentation like DevDocs. Major focus boost!

Another weakness is that if I stop working for even a day I basically lose all momentum and will to continue, so I stole this guy's work ethic:

http://plumshell.com/2016/03/10/work-for-only-3-hours-a-day-...

Also, never pander to the audience (Bowie), create primarily for yourself (Paul Graham on language design). My most favorite (most "original") design was something I thought already existed, but couldn't find. I didn't want to make a game, I just wanted to play it, but to my surprise I found that it did not exist. (It too was a simple synthesis of many childhood games, with all the extraneous fluff removed. Which of course brings me to...)

“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but nothing to take away.”
I mean, it happens, but there's room to discuss whether it is a fact of the universe or partly an outcome of chosen policies.
Not very scientific but you can try something that is unlikely to be whitelisted.

Eg. http://134.209.196.181:8080
This is an instance of https://github.com/e7d/speedtest running on Digital Ocean in Amsterdam.
I could not possibly disagree harder. I started working in 8th grade and worked through high school and college. As my friends partied in college I remembered those shitty jobs and why I was in college, it was 100% a motivator for me to work very hard.

My son is treated like a prince but he’s going to scoop ice cream and sell pizza slices or he isn’t getting an iota of help from me. You don’t understand the world unless you work those jobs.
so are you saying not having health insurance is better for people? I'll take the common sense angle that having health insurance increases the chances of medical care being applied to a health problem, versus not having any health care insurance.

there's no such thing as a monolithic 'government' being that can either work better or be enabled to act a certain way. there are people, and groups of people that do certain things. some of those things are worthless, some of those things are worthwhile. i'd argue the mess the 'rock stars' cleaned up is a generally positive activity.
Apple is a hardware business. It pays to make their hardware obsolete.
There's no upgrade path on older computers (if you don't want to install Linux).
If Apple users were concerned with long-term support, they would be Microsoft users. Microsoft will make every compromise in favor of backwards compatibility, for good or for ill for new users. Apple will just tell you to upgrade.
Great, so now there will be another army of zombie computers. Thansk very much Apple. Perhaps I should start forwarding spam I get.
For this purpose I set very large history in tmux and I almost never use terminal outside tmux anyway. The panes and windows in my tmux are very long-lived, but when I decide to close one I need to go through it's history and manually extract interesting/important bits. It's annoying and automating this would be really nice though.
Rice was the most common form of food poisoning in the UK for a while. Cooling the rice takes it through bacteria reproduction temperature; as does reheating the rice. The bacteria don't cause the poisoning though, so killing them doesn't help. The bacteria release a toxin and that isn't destroyed by heating.

So, if people are going to try this they need to cool the rice down as quickly as possible; keep it cold; and then properly reheat it.

http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/can-reheating-rice-cause-food-po...
See the example: jobscri.be/sample

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Hehe! Thanks for that. But, to be fair, that last example was done by http://alteredqualia.com/.
This is pretty awesome. I have always thought that "tail -f" was a little limited but still useful. Any how, great post!
So instead of discussing "Worse is better" vs "Worse is worse", we should talk about "Presentation is better".
Could you please define “garbage velocity”?
Welcome, Bradley and Leif, to the club of people whom Howard has declared are doing it wrong. You are in fine company as I am also a member of that club. Although I do prefer snark from Turing Award winners. I don't think there is reason to pursue a discussion. It won't end well. But I do understand the desire to address the claims once.

https://gigaom.com/2011/07/07/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate...
what qualifies someone as an affiliate of the issuer? Will this enable equity crowd funding?
I think the obvious answer is that some people disagree with your first point. I think people should be programming in whatever language makes them happiest. For you that may not be Dart. For others, it is.
I don’t believe that Google shares information with advertisers does it? I always thought that advertisers tell Google who they want to target but Google doesn’t share information back?
I don't really like Wayland and I think X is better in many ways. There are a few problem which is why I had some ideas about X version 12. One is to ensure the implementation and protocol are separate. Another is proxies to implement security features. Another is support for SCM_RIGHTS and SCM_CREDENTIALS (only for local connections; these are obviously not supported for remote connections, which are still possible, if implemented by the server and enabled by the user). And then, also 64-bit numbers in many places. But a lot of it is like the version 11 protool (without all of the extensions they have added), but with a few differences. (I don't really like much of the freedesktop stuff either; I work without a desktop environment, and programs should not assume the existence of one.) Maybe there is even a possibility to implement these different systems over each other when needed.

For example, with text rendering. Font path setting is not part of the core protocol (although there may be a XSET extension which can do this on some implementations), nor does the protocol specify font formats (PCF is recommended, but the protocol doesn't actually care so you can implement different formats if wanted). Characters are still sixteen bits, although to allow optional support for some more modern features, there are two flags you can specify when loading fonts: EnableLigatures and EnableAntialiasing. Servers that don't understand these flags can ignore them, and fonts that don't support them would also ignore them. EnableLigatures waives the requirement that a sequence of characters is the same as each of those characters put next to each other, and EnableAntialiasing waives the requirement that text is painted in the specified background and foreground colour only. (EnableLigatures is required to correctly render Unicode text with the X core text rendering system (if the server implements support for Unicode fonts, which is of course optional). Of course you are not required to use the core text rendering (previewer programs should not use it, for example), but if you do, and your program uses Unicode, then this will be needed. In effect, a surrogate pair is treated like a ligature at the protocol level (how it works in the actual implementation may differ, and is independent of the protocol).)
Quora used to be great back in the day, it still is good for sometimes I find many gems there. But these days there are a lot of BS answers on quora which are akin to YouTube comments section.
I bargain for almost everything (much to my wife's embarrassment :). One thing I've found, is that if you can't get them to reduce the price, you can often get extras thrown in. I recently bought a fairly expensive coffee machine (a real one, not one of those electronic ones); supplier wouldn't budge on price, but I did manage to get $400 credited to my account, 2x barrista training vouchers worth $150 each, and a few other little bits. Extra value to me, over $700. Cost to supplier, assuming reasonable markup, probably less than $300. Win win.

Edit: few things:

* Most important of all - don't be a dick. Be friendly, honest and don't waste people's time

* If you can, hold of your purchase until you get the deal you're looking for. When I got my macbook, I when to a number of places and in the end got free applecare and a free case.

* If you're buying white/brown goods (except computers), a simple "What price can you do on that?" will almost always see a 10% discount, sometimes way more.

* Some stock is in constant demand, and you'll almost never get a discount. Black mens trousers, for example.

* If something on offer, the person selling it want's to get rid of it, and will most likely negotiate. Best example is food at the end of the day. Walking past a stand discounting the remaining donuts for $6/box, but you've only got $4? Make an offer anyway.

er... think I'l stop before this looks like a post on Lifehacker or something :)
They also fumbled with MkLinux and BeOS, IIRC.
I honestly don't remember. It's somewhere between 25 and 50, though not all of those were read in detail.
Of course, it all depends on definitions; in this case things are fuzzy. Functional programming means a lot of things to a lot of people. "Supports higher-order functions" is necessary for pretty much any definition of FP, but it sets a very low bar.

My definition would have to include "supports pure functions idiomatically", which means it must be practical to write the bulk of your programs without side-effects. This is really only possible if you have persistent data structures that can efficiently share structure internally; otherwise avoiding side-effects involves lots of wasteful copying. (See http://technomancy.us/132 for an explanation of persistent data structures.)

Of course, if you asked a Haskell programmer, they would be mortified that you would leave monadic computation out of your definition, so no single definition is going to please everyone.
It's pretty stupid to let someone eat your product before you even check to see if they brought their wallet, isn't it.
Given the huge number of niche conferences and journals out there, is the filtering that takes place actually useful? I'm not convinced of it. I've engaged in venue shopping myself. Meanwhile useful, novel work is published in the open every day and my brain hasn't collapsed from the inrush of poorly filtered information. I run across junk, but I find published junk too. At least the former usually has the decency to not waste my time with a bunch of academic boilerplate language and a page of barely relevant citations.
Blaming a country's problems on its "culture" however you are defining that is a cop out. India has these exact problems at 5 times the scale. Have any of you tried to start an education company there, all the government officials I spoke to wanted a minimum 1 million dollar bribe, yet it would be idiotic to say that India is doomed when their rapid development is staring you in the face.

Brazil doesn't suffer from novel and "culturally" inherent problems. You would never say that Brazil is culturally inferior to another country because that is bigotted and ridiculous. The country is suffering the same developing bottle necks that others have and continue to face. Look at where the country has come from, look at where it is now, and I implore you to actually compare Brazil to the other (B)RICS etc. since they offer the best contextual comparison.

The most incredible thing about Brazil is that despite the insurmountable odds whether it is the wheels of capitalism, passionate people, or government involvement - or perhaps a hybrid - Brazil is not lost.

Cynicism has its place too, but in an objective analysis of Brazil's prospects on the world stage, leave it out. I respect your experiences and what you have contributed, but the points of information you have provided are without the global context necessary to understand Brazil's place.

Will Rio offer the world the next Silicon Valley?
Only time will tell, but its clear to me that it has a damn good shot.
If the U.S. has an official definition of terrorism, they aren't sharing it with the rest of us.

Regardless, the point of the "invasion or rebellion" exception is obviously to handle circumstances so extreme that there won't be a government to recognize habeus corpus if due process is followed. The U.S. faces no such threat from lawfully dealing with terror suspects.
I've skipped breakfast for years. Actually, I only eat when hungry. I felt bad about this until Dr. Dean Adell said he
did the same thing. I know the studies say breakfast is important. Dr. Adell admitted, but told people not to follow his eating habits, that he mainly ate at night. He said he did
eat a balanced dinner with vegetables and fruit. I think he
said he snacked during the day, and drank a lot of coffee. I'm getting a physical today--I hope my blood numbers
come back normal? Oh yea, when I was younger I drank too much, smoked, took drugs, but was never a Foodie. (I'm hoping that saved me?)
So what other software companies have private offices?

In addition to Stack Exchange, Microsoft was mentioned.

When I worked as a developer at Carnegie Mellon, I had an office shared with one or two other people (which was a nice perk, given the pay was much lower than industry).

Any others?
Mihai Eminescu - "Si Daca" (And If in English)

And if the branches tap my pane
And the poplars whisper nightly,
It is to make me dream again
I hold you to me tightly.

And if the stars shine on the pond
And light its sombre shoal,
It is to quench my mind's despond
And flood with peace my soul.

And if the clouds their tresses part
And does the moon outblaze,
It is but to remind my heart
I long for you always.
Chuckle all you want; if you run your startup on a mainstream web stack, take my word for it, there are people chuckling at the idea that you take your own security seriously. Should we make fun of you when you get popped?

The law doesn't protect only those accounts that are protected according to SANS-endorsed best practices. Thankfully.
> just knowing yourself is insanely important.

Brilliant pun, more so if it was unintended! :-)

Hmm, I suppose a sense of humour helps, too?
The seminal work on the subject is "Unlocking The Clubhouse" by Jane Margolis: http://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Clubhouse-Computing-Jane-Mar...
I have what I consider to be a high end Windows 7 x64 box and it performs great regardless of it I'm running it natively or in my VM. Never had any BSODs.

The only time I've seen BSODs on Windows 7 was after it had 6 viruses and I had to clean it all up.
I'm a psychiatrist, an it is my great pleasure to treat people and see them get better. I'm glad this was posted to increase awareness of the seriousness of a Major Depression. It's a very misunderstood condition. Hope you continue to feel better.
Its mission: to use a variety of intelligence-gathering efforts to help the government attribute hacking incidents.

And whether that massive data gathering violates privacy? The organization says it never looks at personally identifying information

If it's not personally identifying then how is it useful for attribution?
$ curl -s http://bit.ly/test | grep AOLserver

<P ALIGN=RIGHT><SMALL><I>AOLserver/4.5.1 on http://127.0.0.1:7200</I></SMALL></P>;
Thank you. File management is the clearest way the iPad demonstrates that it is not a professionals tool, but a multimedia toy.

I'm hoping something is announced at WWDC that breaks the iTunes stranglehold on managing iPhone OS devices but I'm not holding my breath.
I came to the same conclusion a while ago. I like to phrase it as: morality is a function of evolution.
As a Netflix subscriber ... sometimes I forget, for weeks at a time, that they can send me physical DVDs. Even with a limited (by comparison) selection, the streaming service is already much more useful to me than DVDs-by-mail.
Facebook and Twitter are internationally recognized brand that are blocked in China... Explaining that away is no problem for the Chinese government.

I think the difference between your point of view and my point of view is that I don't see things as completely black...

China is a repressive government and freedom of speech is not allowed there but it's certainly better than it was during the cultural revolution and I think it'll get better...

Now, as someone who lived in China before Google decided to move in the chinese market I can tell you that it was a great news to see them move... Before they were intermitently blocked by the Chinese firewall, a lot of queries were blocked so access to good search engines was not very good...

After Google moved to China, well they had to censor some of the results out but then they would point it out, and connection and access to google was much better...

So for me, it was a net benefit to see google move in China, and I hope that them moving out won't result in their being blocked again...
Aphex Twin style?
http://www.bastwood.com/aphex.php
One angry person?
He uses swear words a lot :)
But the mechanisms by which we play those games will be evident in the brain, and the games themselves will be evident in our expectation-program memory. (I'm assuming here that sufficiently-advanced neuropsychology will be able to analyze the "software" running on each brain, not just the firmware, but even if that field ends up with a different name, that's what I'm talking about here.)

We may be able to model some sort of "objectively-good" cooperative-evolutionary game-players using mathematics, but those models would not necessarily represent us; there's nothing that says we're even evolutionarily stable as a species over the long term ;)
College students meet each other in ways that exclude non-students. For example, a significant portion of the top EECS undergraduates at Michigan spend a good amount of their social lives with a particular honor society. This society is, of course, entirely closed to non-students. Another group that doesn't leave campus all that much? Graduate students.

You can't just waltz into University buildings and be all "sup dawg???". People are at least pretending to do work, you won't be able to access the network, you won't have common classes to complain about together, etc. etc. We're somewhat suspicious of non-students, too.
^ This is the only comment that needs to be read in this entire thread.
That rec.photos thread is great. I love reading old predictions. For some reason many of them got hung up on the idea that there would be crazy compression schemes that eliminate all the creative parts of photos.

> O.K. Chemical films can presently store more information than any reasonable
digital image-getter can. However, digital may be possible if one has a
wristwatch-sized supercomputer doing various shades of image/abberation
recognition capable of replacing the actual information with some sort of
'tokenized' equivalent of the original image. Fine. Such data compression/
reduction techniques may alow you to have your little computer-camera.

> But wat if you want those abberations, or if you want that blur for
that action shot, or if you want that sun/iris flare for a neato scenic
shot, or if you want to use some weird lighting effects? Then you are
s.o.l. By having the camera identify/correct (tokenize) and remove all
of the possible artifacts of using a real-world camera (which is the only
way that such a camera is possible), you will also eliminate almost all
of your creative power.
Note: you can forego the ps and simply read /proc/$PID/cmdline, which is a \0-delimited list of strings. So,

grep -oP '\-j\x00\d+' /proc/$PID/cmdline

Edit: and no need for sed when a simple cut -b4- does the same job.
If folks want to move from just thinking about aesthetics, into thinking about the ideas behind your design, and how they can help you achieve your strategic goals, I recommend checking out http://brandist.co/brand-strategy-101/
More shilling for cheap labor. Articles like this are the left-wing equivalent of climate-change denial. "Unlimited immigration has literally no consequences but rainbows and sunshine!"
Because the authors of those kinds of apps cannot be trusted. Location data is incredibly sensitive. And sadly the way apps work - your control over them is non existent.

Unless phones evolve in a way that allows real anonymization of the end user, this will stay that way.