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Perhaps others could take the time to better explain to people why, when 10,000 people in the U.S. alone are killed every year, it's probably far from a victimless crime?

You might want to consider that you might save a life by being a little less polite. Thirty years ago I had a friend who's dad was drinking and driving, and he put someone in the hospital. He couldn't understand why the other family kept giving him evil looks. So, in those 30 years, the 300,000+ people killed and the millions injured, would have been much better off if we simply took a less tolerant view of drinking and driving.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/dwi-deaths-is-it-murder/

Hey, I always look forward to the "do you code better when drunk" discussions by the same demographic.
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I always find it interesting to see these Computer Chronicles episodes with Gary Kildall (yay!) hosting. I haven't watched the full episode yet, but it's interesting since at the time his company was writing operating systems and tools that competed with both Unix and Microsoft. I watched an episode where they were comparing the Atari ST and Amiga, and I was impressed with how he never showed bias despite the operating system on the ST having been written by his company.
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Depends on your RAM and CPU.
That is the official excuse, but those malls are crappy, where did the money really go? Bank lends money to SOE, SOE is told by CPC to build, SOE contracts out to some cronies, cronies subcontract out to more cronies, and so on...lots of cuts are taken, and finally something cruddy gets built that isn't useable but it doesn't matter since it isn't needed anyways.

We would be better off paying migrant workers to dig and fill in holes. Then at least you wouldn't have a monstrosity to tear down in a few years.
> "Strength through Joy" ("Kraft durch Freude," KdF)

Interesting that kraft is analogous to both strength and skill in German. Similarly in old Norse it's both strength and virtue. In English craft is defined as skill, i.e. in making things, yet Northwestern European languages place an emphasis on strength. I wonder if it's because as the language developed it was a time when making things required more strength than mental discipline/skill, such as lifting logs and stone for constructing shelter, roads, retaining walls etc.
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+1 and nice link :)
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There's also a bash-like Python REPL like Xonsh ⌘ http://xonsh.org/

Still in early development, but very useful.
You are ignoring the fact that it's not just mobile devices that take advantage of fast mobile data connections. Being able to bring a LTE hotspot on long out-of-home stays is pretty nice, and while you may not want to do big downloads on your phone or watch 1080p videos on a screen with less vertical resolution than that, you may want to do so on your laptop.

If for you 4G is only slightly faster than 3G, then blame your service provider, because it's not supposed to. Where I live (Portugal) I get 2-7 Mbit/s speeds with 3G and 10-40 Mbit/s speeds with 4G. But most importantly, I was getting 100 ms pings with 3G while 4G pings are more like 20 ms. Or perhaps your service provider is limiting LTE usage to phones and forbidding tethering, which is silly too.

LTE is, right now, the only way to even get proper Internet connections on rural areas, where the alternative is DSL with speeds below 1 Mbit/s, and sometimes not even that. I believe it's also much cheaper for the network operators to cover those areas with wireless Internet than by laying copper, let alone fiber.

The main issue, that can't be stressed enough, is indeed the data caps. As things are now, higher speeds only lead to hitting the limits in less time. Worse, some sites now seem to detect faster connections and deliver more/heavier content over these (cough YouTube in auto quality mode cough), completely ignoring that a faster connection may still have caps. But I have no doubt there are uses for having fiber-like experiences over wireless broadband, especially if the latency is reduced (IMO more important than increasing the speed).
Faster transfers means less time and less total power draw from the radio.
my aim is portability within a 21st century context ... I need to find a succinct way to say that. the word "portable" is the wrong choice; sounds like it would compile on everything ever which I don't aim for.
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Judging by your argument, we all should've sticked with C and wouldn't even need C++.

Perhaps I was unclear.

My argument is that you should use the right tool for the situation, given all the context of that situation.

Simply stating that language X simply shouldn't be used anymore is an utter nonsense. We absolutely should not have stuck with C. That's crazy, and you know that's not what I was suggesting; please drop that passive-aggressive nonsense. We're not children and we don't need it.

New languages (barring toy languages that are written for the fun of it, such as Ook!) arrive to meet particular needs that particular people have in particular situations, be that to explore something in programming or for actual application. That's a lot of specific context. To take a new language and declare that because this new language exists an existing one should now be simply dropped is to ignore all the context and, as a bonus, reveal oneself to be very inexperienced or to hold a very narrow view of programming. If such people are lucky, someone will contend their point. If they're unlucky, the people around them will simply say nothing.
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> This allows for making programmable drawings

In the extreme end of this we have OpenSCAD[1] in which models are defined purely by code.

[1] http://www.openscad.org/
It's not the location, but the permanent corporation that is the problem. There needs to be change in the personnel who run the IOC after every olympics.

Why not have all medal winners vote in a new board after every olympics? Gold gets 3 votes, silver 2, bronze 1. Secret ballot.
CSV stands for 'Comma-Separated Values', not 'Semicolon-Separated Values'.

Seeing as this was downvoted, I'm just pointing out that bemoaning how the CSV format is fragmented and then using it incorrectly is the precise reason it is fragmented. It wasn't originally meant to be extended in so many ways, so there really isn't room to complain when a library doesn't magically figure out your personal delimiter or qualifier.
I used sc for years. Instant results in a terminal, no rodent UI madness.
ctags etc I'll split out. effectively there are make targets to make dev nice, and a smaller set just to make the binary. ctags definitely in the former category. thanks for the feedback!
Whenever somebody posts a csv manipulation tool, it's obligatory for everyone else to post their favorite one too:
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I know of at least a few new startups started by old guard that used to work at IBM and Blackberry. Many stuck with Java because they were already familiar with it and adopting something new would have slowed them down.

You can argue that this would hurt hiring prospects. But many had their sights on attracting more engineers from these big tech as their first employees, who would have the same reasons for sticking with Java.
I don't know about the rest-of-Canada.

I stayed in Ontario (Mississauga) last year for six mo. and I was on Rogers, capped at 80 Gb/month. My alternative was Bell. Same price. Same cap. Week-long activation date.

I was paying what I had been paying for in the US for unlimited data. There were uncapped plans available, but they're pricier. Considering the building was hooked up to fiber (at least Bell suggested it was), getting 80 Gb seemed a bit stingy.

The best way to illustrate how broken our system is to our American friends is to point out that, when I returned to the US, I was thankful to return to Comcast.

Which is like being thankful to getting reinfected with Ebola.
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Um, you quoted the phrase about domestic violence, right? And 99% of domestic violence is against women. What did I miss, exactly?
I for one would not to pay the cost of starting the JVM up every time I want to invoke a shell script.
It is good to cycle with no wind, because it is possible to cycle in any direction and be cooled. Sometimes I need to do about 1 hour trip in wind direction in summer — and it is very hard for heart.
I find learning React more fun because it’s a tiny part of what can make a webapp work, compared to Angular. So you have to sweat more details about what to use to compose the rest of your app, which makes you dive deeper into how to use the JS ecosystem effectively.

https://github.com/enaqx/awesome-react was a great resource for this dive deeping (99.9% sure there’s a similar list for Angular if you went with that.)
And not to forget, OS X, which still has significant market share (>5% of desktops/laptops) and is based on Unix (albeit XNU stands for X is not Unix). Looking at wikipedia, it still seems like a majority of web web clients are windows based, though[1].

[1] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
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Wow. I live in rural Japan. I used to use Strava when I was in the UK, but I really didn't think that it would be so popular here. I was wrong. And it turns out all my best routes are also quite popular. I'm going to have to start using Strava again.
Why are mechanical solutions more reliable than a servo ? Aren't mechanical and moving parts less reliable than electronics , in general ?
Except that both lack UNIX userland, aren't POSIX compliant and have a sandbox design.
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This was bound to happen sooner or later. Good that is "only" about something relatively minor like this, so that the community can practice handling it. Maybe later there will be a conflict where serious money is on the line and it would be bad if that was the first one.

I mean this change will affect miner revenue, but transactions fees are still completely insignificant compared to block rewards.
That news source is then bloated and unoptimized. There are also a lot of bloated and slow native apps. I don't see your point.
Ok, you made a working cell phone. But are you sure you know how to do it? What if, next time, something goes wrong, do you have the proper diagnostic skills to figure out the problem?
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Except for the mechanical watch industry; which might make a serious comeback? I mean it's still here, but interest has faded. I have weird feeling people will become interested, beyond a steampunk level, in finely machined/designed mechanical watch movements?

The Internet has made watchmaking/repair something a determined person can learn at home. I guarantee once you learn the basics, you will look at that old Seamaster sitting in the drawer in a whole new light. Taking apart an old watch, cleaning it, oiling it, and eventually wearing it on your wrist is a good feeling.

With me it went from an interest in automatic movements, to a hobby. Then it went to an obsession, but I'm weird? (I take things to far.) To maybe a building my own watch one day? I haven't lost money on the pursuit of this hobby though.

If you are young, their are a few watch repair schools still around. Rolex funds many of them because so many watch repairers are retiring, or died years ago. I would definetly go to one of these schools if I was younger, and could just pick up and move. That said, the right use of the Internet, and the right books can get someone pretty proficient in repair, and even design?

Think about all those rich dudes who wear complicated mechanical timepieces? All those watches will eventually need servicing? I've noticed rich poeple like a good deal, and take notice of watch servicing costs(cleaning, oiling, etc.) that are currently outrageous at the factory. I feel if a future watchmaker has the right tools, a portable clean room, and charged under $300 a service, he/she could make a good living?

It does seem like an uphill battle to get people interested in watches? When I was younger, I just liked what the watch looked like. My first watch was a Tag Formula 1 bought across from Macy's in San Francisco in the 90's. I like that Quartz watch. As I got older, I started to appreciate what's under the hood, and I really wanted to learn how to repair these mecanical complications. I can guarantee it's not as hard as some people make it out to be! I hope to have a few free instructional websites up in the future.
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Are they also doing anything about the centralization of mining pools? AFAIK, the main problem is that right now it's possible for miners to prove that they were mining "for the pool" and not for themselves. If this proof was impossible, each miner would be a selfish miner and any collaboration would be impossible.
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One should only moderate in that manner when and where ad hominem attacks commence.
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I wouldn't say "Kraft" is analogous to skill in German. In fact I'd be willing to say it's never used in that sense.
"Fähigkeit", "Fertigkeit", "Kompetenz" and a few others are usually used for "skill".

"Kraft" can have a spiritual meaning of sorts (vitalize) though. "Kraft schöpfen" is often used to sort of mean gather your thoughts and get revitalized. That's how it's used in KdF.
I guess "mental strength" fits most closely in the KdF example.

There's also an old-ish word "Geisteskraft" which means something like mental strength. However it does have a different connotation than skill.
OSX is not "based on" Unix. OSX IS Unix: http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3607.htm
> Canonical written "features" in Ubuntu

Oh come on. Canonical did not hide what they were doing, and enabled an option to disable it in the first place. You could try finding better examples than that.
No, Linux x86-64 doesn't change %cr3 on syscalls. It mitigates this kind of bug (kernel NULL pointer dereference) in a different way - by not allowing userspace processes to map memory at NULL.

Linux also supports the SMAP feature on modern Intel CPUs which allows the kernel to set things up so that all accesses to usermode memory from kernel mode must be explicitly annotated.
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Thanks! You are looking at administrative web interface, the goal of this interface is just to show messages coming into channels in real-time just to see that Centrifugo works fine and maybe inspect messages being sent. So when you are reloading a page web interface is just start waiting for new messages from scratch. Web interface must be used as just a tool to monitor your Centrifugo installation and is absolutely optional. It allows to send API commands: publish messages, see presence and history information etc

The goal of Centrifugo is just to deliver messages instantly to all connected clients. It has channel history which can be used to show last N messages from channel but it's not related to what you see in web interface. Also note that Centrifugo is not a persistent storage and channel history messages will expire after configurable timeout. So it's possible to implement what you want using channel history but if you take into account 2 things: message history is limited to N messages and message history will expire after M seconds.
I am a host for Airbnb, I did had a problem with one guest and Airbnb beside taking report they don't do anything else. I was very frustrate, they kept saying someone from Safety will call, they never did. In the Jacob situation I find so "Stupid" the fact that Airbnb hasn't done anything. All these Safety Promises that they have I don't think are real.At the same time, Jacob could text the address but I understand in a moment of panic. Are these people verified ??? Really?? How can a man had a woman name?? That's my question to Airbnb..
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Favorite = enjoyable, not the best textbook award, but the most fun in the sense of I wish I were sitting on the patio reading this book.

Classic = worth reading multiple times at multiple stages of your life and implies its a couple decades old.

The various anthologies of A. K. Dewdney of Computer Recreations columns from the 80s are still enjoyable very light reading. This brings up the issue of nostalgia, when I was a noob those were awesome noob books, today they're probably OK noob books, but maybe there are better current noob books. However in 2015 they are definitely very nostalgic and confuses the issue of favorite / current.

An example of nostalgia in the book selection is Ullman's older automata book (from '69) made the cut and its very nostalgic but personally I prefer Hopcroft Motwani and Ullman's "Introduction to automata theory, languages, computation" from about a decade ago. The new book probably isn't old enough to be a classic yet and the ancient one is probably there via nostalgia.

I think the "7 whatevers in 7 weeks" book series is light fun entertainment. I have no idea if the comparison/contrast style will hold entertainment value in 2035, so its hard to predict if the series will become a classic. Perhaps every IT/language book in 2035 will be comparison/contrast format, or perhaps that style will be considered hopelessly dated. Or beyond mere style issues, maybe people will never advance beyond fad of the month and neophilia.

A predictive list of '00 and '10 books that may become favorite classics in 2020s, 2030s is difficult but could be interesting.
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A lot of those solutions have been around for centuries but are quite impractical. The problems are often the required operational tolerances, wear rate, poor torque characteristics and other real life issues.

They are utterly fascinating to watch though.
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The article at least mentions latency, which would provide measurable gains. I don't think the bandwidth of 4G is holding the network back in any way. Progress is nice of course, but better 3G coverage, affordable global roaming and higher data caps are more important.
> specification for a federated network with zero single points of failure

The problem is that some people want to change the specification (bigger blocks) and some want to keep the current specification. The block size is part of the specification or that it's only an implementation detail?

For me, it's not clear what a "specification for a federated networks" means

* One interpretation is that the specification is written in assembler and is the current official Bitcoin client, and any other client has to be 100% bug compatible with it. Nobody can change it ever.

* Another interpretation is that anyone can add a new version inside a general framework, and somehow the people decide which version to use. You need some kind of number identifier for each version, or to make it user friendly you can use a nickname. If the network is too general, you can include Bitcoin and Litecoin (and all the Altcoins) in it. The network is just Internet.

Both alternatives have "zero single points of failure". The problem is that people want something in between.
Security is my concern, even simple changes open big bugs. Bitcoin is not a blog engine where you are just exposing your content, it is one of the most delicate protocols found on Internet and most transactions are irreversible (indeed all transactions are irreversible but sometimes you can recover your money).

Forking code sounds great but we are talking here about money and assets, I would prefer agreement even when distributed systems are exciting.
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In contrast there is an incomprehensible bit of code by Ken Musgrave in Graphics Gems II: http://www.realtimerendering.com/resources/GraphicsGems/gems...

(peano not hilbert but very similar idea)
It seems there are a few assumptions here which are not true:

desktop computer (also laptops) know your location, what you type, who you are (sort of), who you are emailing, etc. and it has been so for a while but it used to be third party software, websites, governments, corpo or malware that would collect and use this data.

Cell phones are tracking devices you can use to make a phone call, people using those devices doesn't mean they are ok with the surveillance that come with it.

When your friends complain they're complaining that the surveillance is creeping its way back into an OS.
basically what microsoft did with windows 10.
I had intended it to be for anything. I know a lot of languages, can pick up more, and an API can be learned. As I charge a flat rate, I'm happy to figure it out. However, due to the confusion, I'm going to try rewording it.

I've worked with a previous client who was editing the HTML live in production. I helped them create split dev/production areas, and use a git-based workflow so they could try out changes in development, and then migrate them to production safely when they've checked their changes are okay. Again, clarity is going to be attempted here.

A lot of them don't have a "View Live" due to them being API/backend work. So I haven't prioritized. I absolutely love Sarah's work pages. It gives a great amount of detail, but also provides a summary. Daniel's seemed to be a non-modal version of mine, but it greatly restricted the numer of items he could have.

I think I'm going to try pull my portfolio out into data, and generate additional pages for each. Then create a small brief or summary, and do a card-style design, with the images & summary below.

I'll reduce that, I think I got myself all caught up with the big, images used on techy websites. Or make it more relevant, either one.
Would that reduce the centralisation though?

An independent miner with an average affordable rig might find somewhere on the order of one block per year on average. This means that due to variability, a good proportion of miners would not find any blocks at all within the lifetime of their hardware, and give up forever.

If low-income-variability pooled mining becomes impossible, then my guess is that mining will be centralised to people who run purpose-built datacentres full of miners, not the casual users.
>What if, next time, something goes wrong, do you have the proper diagnostic skills to figure out the problem?

Well, he's probably nearly 4% expert by now. Presumably it depends on if the problem occurs with something within that 4% or not... ;)

Two large bits of chippery, both of which will talk (relatively) directly to a PC if needed. If it's a software problem, he'll probably be ok.

If it's an RF problem, maybe not. From what I hear, that's a nightmare.
If 32TB table size limit and degrading performance worries you, I suggest that you delve into Postgress documentation and discover table partitioning.

(you can partition table into chunks that are together larger than 32TB)
Why didn't he say that ReactJs is in the early stages and is "only" for the enthusiasts, thus, not for stupid!
This is a misreading of "either," I think. Read not as "You and I both distrust open systems," but as "I distrust both closed and open systems."
this sounds interesting, but I get:

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> Failed to contact the origin.
If you really meant there are 6 persons between you and Larry, that is a lot of layers in a tech company.