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From my personal perspective - taking a bus to work would take at least an hour each way, usually more depending on the traffic. Add standing at unheated bus stops in winter = no thank you. By car I get to work in 15-20 minutes. At the temperature I like, listening to music I like.
That easily saves me a good few hours each week for other activities - learning, relaxing, family time.

I could cycle, like I did while I was at uni - but that leaves a problem of getting sweaty, can't really cycle in a shirt, and cycling in winter is miserable.

Am I an "avarage joe" going to work from 9-5, or am I being wasteful? You tell me. I know what I'm going to continue doing :-)
27 is an annoying size for coding with multi monitors IMO. In landscape mode you've got a lot of width but not enough height to fill your field of view. But turning it vertically gives you way too much height and you crick your neck.

The right height IMO is 22-24 in portrait or 30 inch 16:10 or 32 inch 16:9 or larger in landscape. If you're going to maximize your screen area, maximize in both directions.
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Indian EVMs are not as secure as ballot boxes. It is dead simple to "inspect" a ballot box once received for any backdoor that might be there, but not the same for Indian EVMs, in fact there is an attack where the attacker can change a single IC, and make the machine remotely editable, or "distribute" votes, and that can be turned on and off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apkSkb6Ak3I
I still am interested in piecing together the experience for history. I hear stories but never any real details!
Or you accidentaly hit the Windows button. Or Windows updates pops up. Or any other of the million things like these...
I don't disagree at all and I remember seeing studies or articles writing about that phenomenon.

Just wanted to add that a few years ago (when you wrote your first computer program) a randomly selected random number generator was more likely to be less random than a randomly selected random number generator today.
Work never ends.

If we 'developed' the world, why not develop other planets and so on and so forth.

Your utopia is close to North Korea's.
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Thanks for the recommendation. :) Hill was my committee member. One of my best teachers.
Pleases mark as 2014 ... I also believe this is a repeat but can't seem to find the original.
"Error establishing a database connection"

Maybe you should rethink that rule when it comes to your sysadmins and database admins.
There are plenty of jobs that cannot and will never be able to be automated. Like a kindergarten teacher. Coincidentally (or not so much) those are the jobs that improve society and life the most.
I thought offline data sync was a solved problem even at the levels of PouchDB. I don't see how this post was of any concern.
If we keep improving the DPI, then just having ever more beefy graphics card isn't going to scale. People tend to forget that graphics cards are really focussed on rendering 3D games, and the vast majority of our daily computer use does not involve that at all. Rendering 2D path graphics is much, much more common.

We need hardware accelerated path rendering we want to render text at those high resolutions fast efficiently. Thankfully, there have been people working on this for a while now, like Mark Kilgard at NVIDIA:

http://www.slideshare.net/Mark_Kilgard/gtc-2014-nvidia-path-...

It's covered by patents though, so I'm not sure how open this particular solution is.
The trap I find myself in is that (at least here in the UK) we are all in competition with each other for a fixed, limited resource. Housing. I earn a very good wage, as does my wife, but we still work tough jobs for long hours so that we can afford a nice house, in a good location, with a garden for our kids to grow up in. No matter how much people like me earn, we will just use it to bid up house prices even more. Everyone blames the government or the banks, etc for house prices and how hard we have to work to afford a nice place. The truth is we're doing it to ourselves and each other.
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> Uh, yeah, because there was room to grow or move in to.

There is still plenty of room to grow and improve. Africa and Asia have huge amounts of land that are nowhere as dense as the US, let alone Europe.

> we need something for those who will simply have nothing to do in order to make money...

We need to rethink how money is created and distributed. Once you do that, the need to "make money" might be lessened or replaced with different ones.
A significant increase in the lifetime (number of discharge cycles is compelling though). Plus I'm sure if the technology is commercialised, those with vested interests will be keen to lobby that solid-state batteries are required in electric vehicles due to the claimed safety benefits.
Would not the history of imperial exams going back thousands of years be a cause of cultural bias here?
It's also important to let your admins fail, and let the people and systems improve based on what you learn from the failure.

Being completely risk averse creates an environment where it's very difficult to improve, for fear that your good change will happen to cause a problem and you'll get blamed for it.
Yes, this article's frame is horrific. Like a "glitch in the matrix" moment that illustrates something really wrong with our society, ridiculous ideologies which infect us all.

"If there's ever a sign that a society is organized really stupidly, it's that the prospect that actual manual labor being eliminated is a problem. If we don't know what to do with freedom and liberty... that’s pretty messed up." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ruS17ivinU&feature=youtu.be...)

What jobs do we squander our lives with? 37% of British workers think their jobs are meaningless. ("Bullshit jobs" is the technical term. The anthropologist who popularized it thought only 25% would've described their job as meaningless.) (https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/08/12/british-jobs-meaningles...)
The method described in the article on how the statistician approached the problem is very similar to the approach used in the birthday problem[1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
You are absolutely being wasteful, but you are choosing to do so in exchange for some additional comforts and conveniences, as is your right.

Of course no one is going to (or should) stop you, but you could at least own your actions and their consequences, and not act unaware.
> Is this cynicism misplaced?

I'd call it caution rather than cynicism, and I'd say it's entirely justified.
Electronic systems introduce single-points-of-failure into the voting process - figure out a way to compromise the machines / vote collection process, and you can steal the election. Doing the same thing with a manual system requires cheating on a massive scale, which is pretty much impossible to do discretely, making it much safer.
This was fixed in 1.0.5, thanks :D
Devil you know? I'm sure I'm completely wrong for some reason, but I think it's in the same line as self-driving cars and their detractors.
"Am I an "avarage joe" going to work from 9-5, or am I being wasteful? You tell me. I know what I'm going to continue doing :-)"

Arguably both ;), but then i'd blame a broken system for coercing you into those choices :).

I'm sure, even in only a semi-enlightened world, you wouldn't need to wear a shirt to work, assuming you even needed a job?
ah, well then, make sure that decent pair of shoes have some inline wheels attached to them.
How's Emacs doing these days? I know it was really popular a few years ago when everyone was editing files in it, but since I started with linux I only ever see people use Vim.
That's not what the article is about - the article explicitly talks about when you know the employee's approach won't work and you'll have to do their work over, let them fail anyway without telling them in advance.

That's not being risk averse. That's bad management. A manager's role is also that of a mentor, helping your employees leapfrog over obstacles you've encountered in the past. (Don't get me wrong, there's a wrong way to do it - micromanagement.)
1) Saved up freelancing money to live here while looking for a job for 6 months to 1 year

2) In the meantime work on getting Australian citizenship (at the time I was an Australian permanent resident, but Ukrainian by nationality), which would allow me to:

3) Apply for a working holiday visa to target country

4) During the above use flexibility of freelancing to spend a year at home learning to code and building up a game dev portfolio and blog

5) Start applying for work 1 week after arriving to target country

6) Apply for normal work and residency visa with employer's help after getting a job.
London has its "congestion charge", which is an extra charge of about $15 to drive in the core of the city. It's still pretty congested. It also has plenty of public transport options which are also congested.
China: Applied for a job at a big name local company via the internet. Got paperwork and Z visa (if anyone's thinking about China, this is a must, as working illegally is taken much more seriously than in the past). The company provided dormitory style accommodation.

If you're thinking of China today (that was 10 years ago) and do technology, the easiest way would be to get a job with a well known Western company such as HP, IBM, etc big names as a regular Engineer or QA perhaps at a junior lead level (assuming not going in as more senior management, which in any case is usually internally picked). I'm absolutely sure anyone competent in a similar role with 3+ years' experience can get in AS LONG AS you can convince you'll be comfortable in a completely new culture and stay modest, and I've seen it done with experience that's not that relevant, simply because diversity and English skills are very much in need and appreciated most of the time (a minority of managers can get defensive). Chinese language not needed in most international companies.
Zoning as well, following car ubiquity much of US zoning is euclidian which is completely fucked up with respect to livability (it strictly separates residential and commercial zones and encourages endless suburbs with huge strip malls few and far between)
I guess if you have a big enough runway, this could work out. For most startups, letting your employees fail means letting your company fail when you run out of money. Nobody is going to give you more money when the stuff your employees were working on failed. Especially when they're trusting your resume to get the job done and you should have known better.
Interestingly a short while back White's lab did notice a statistically relevant effect regarding one of their candidate warping devices. However, they aren't ready to make any conclusions about the effect that they saw - so far as I understand it's merely a very weak correlation right now. Something interesting, but nobody should get their hopes up.

Either way I seriously recommend some thorough Googling about this subject as that article is unbelievably out of date.

I play Elite: Dangerous once in a while and one thing that game really teaches you is that even 'c' is really slow in astronomical terms. You start to realize that for space colonization to become truly viable we'd have to hope for some real analog of "hyperspace," as "warp" simply won't cut it in the long run.
That's a cultural construct, not an economic one. In a lot of other countries, it's perfectly acceptable to rent or live in flats, or around cities that are not the capital; but in England, these conditions carry a huge social stigma, which is compounded by deeply-entrenched classism. It's a perfect storm, really; but yeah, you're doing it to yourself. Move to Manchester ;)
The iPod shuffle algo was an example of this. It just didn't feel "random" enough for people to have a truly random generator.
Reading the paper, they don't even have an actual material. This is a theoretical result about the kind of material that ought to work. Which is a step forwards, but not a breakthrough.
I sold my business, started renting my furnished apartment, and took the airplane to Cambodia. Did volunteering work for the first few months, and now do small technical contract work -- around 10 hours of work a month pays for all the bills. I live in a small villa that comes with a gardener and security.

Aside from the lack of a real justice system and dealing with the government, it is actually a very welcome break. It makes you appreciate a lot of things in the "first world" that you might not see, and am looking forward to moving back to Europe in 2016!
For some locations and travel distances I'd not disagree with you, but there is more to factor in here.

What distance is that 9mph over? My running ability has jumped from "can't even face 2km" to "5km in less than 23 minutes most of the time" (PB:21m53s) in about six months due to a new found attitude to health+fitness, but that is still less than 9mph so that sort of rate is going to be a short distance sprint. My 10Km pace (PB:46m21s though minutes or two more than that us more usual) is below 8mph. While I'm sure most average people could match or better my achievements here, I doubt most would want to bother!

What about recovery afterwards? When I run into the office there is a cool down period (basically walking about or lounging until I stop actively sweating) followed by a shower and getting dressed. They don't want me in the office caked in sweat and smelling as you'd expect from that! If I take the 10KM-ish route that makes the whole affair more like 75 minutes than then the less-than-50 I'm running and for my 5KM-ish route the recovery and shower time is longer than the running time so effectively halving my pace without even considering any warm-up time before I hit the pavement with a vengeance.

Also running every day is not recommended unless you are only doing a short distance, unless you are trying to wreck your joints, no matter how good your shoes are. Of course you could switch "run+recover+shower" for just walking the distance both ways every day and use up about the same amount of time, and for many people that might beat the car or public transport based commute if they gave it a try.

Cycling (including the public cycles that exist in London, depending how the hire costs compare to the op-front and running costs of your own kit) are probably a better idea than running though some of the above would count for many people there too.
SI unit prefix are supported; I amused myself by asking for "3 yottatons of bacon". Not numbers though -- I wasn't able to add a million quadrillion eggs to complete the recipe that would feed the entire Milky Way.
Wow, thanks. I was totally unaware of these.
Did you consider a web layer?
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Yup, the man / car / space requirement relation is completely insane. Sadly, this won't stop car traffic. Human psychology dictates that we'd rather be in control presiding over our own demise in dire traffic accidents than be much safer with other transportation means but less in control and more exposed to unwanted company.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Letting them fail is going to be expensive.
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There's a difference between being adverse to failing at some task and not wanting your venture to crash.

For vital infrastructure, it's more important that those "failures" be more in the way of the dba or sa needing to look up how to make something work properly, than actually fry the server instance and wipe your data.
Demo doesn't seem to be working. Bounces me off to https://timur.mobi:8077/ and I get an "unable to connect"

This sounds pretty nice, assuming it works as described. Video support would make it much more interesting though.

[edit] Also. Says it has STUN support, but no mention of TURN...
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But the amount of code that deals directly with producing such output is usually very low, as a proportion of the total amount of code in the system. Having a pane on the right say '825' next to the 'printf("%d\n", do_the_actual_work(foo, bar));' in my code isn't useful. I already get that from the terminal. The place where the benefit would actually appear is visualizing the parts of the code that are doing the complex and error-prone tasks in the system.

If you're a frontend web developer, then sure, it could be useful for you. But with the kind of stuff I do personally, the 2D output demonstrated in the article is irrelevant. Most stuff is much more abstract, and has zero relationship to direct production of visual output. It looks cool and all, but ultimately I feel like it's focusing on the easy problem rather than the important one.

There are a few examples in there of visualizing the values in a for loop over time, but again, I feel like this is unrealistic. The proportion of my code that only executes for a fixed number of iterations that is easily determined at compile-time is negligible. As is iteration over a fixed, compile-time set of values. Most code lives inside functions that can be called with different combinations of parameters, interspersed with multiple nested loops and conditionals at different levels in the call stack, etc. Visualizing something like that in a useful way is much more difficult. If they can show an example of that, I'd be very interested. Until then, it seems more like a toy. A very interesting, promising toy, but still a toy.

The unit test example gets a bit closer, but it's still just dealing with the output of all the code that actually does the work, not the details of that code itself. A tool like this should be helping you with the hard tasks rather than the easy ones, because the easy ones are already, well, easy.

I'm not trying to be hostile, it certainly looks cool, and it looks like it could potentially be very useful in the future. It's just that currently it doesn't look like it would have any practical utility for me.
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It's called Raspberry Cloud actually.

At the time there were no fully-featured Dropbox ports for the Raspberry Pi.

So seeing as how the main motivation was to make a Dropbox port for the Raspberry Pi community, I figured I'd put Raspberry in the name.
Great point. Here's a visualization of what you're talking about:

http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/fe3f75700e70416e37cd

>Uniform random is pretty terrible. There is both severe under- and oversampling: many samples are densely-packed, even overlapping, leading to large empty areas. (Uniform random sampling also represents the lower bound of quality for the best-candidate algorithm, as when the number of candidates per sample is set to one.)

Taken from: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/
Random mainframe anecdote: I remember a client in the early 2000s who had a non-IBM mainframe that when originally implemented and designed predated the wide availability of Ethernet and TCP/IP. Everyone knew it was a piece of junk by the time I got involved, but their whole manufacturing system ran on it.

In order to bring it up to some semblance of modernity and allow it to print to their shop printers, which were IP-driven, they had to get a third-party to procure and install (or build?) an ethernet interface for the machine, and fired up the TCP/IP stack. It kept crashing when they put it on the network, until they finally figured out that the issue was that the TCP/IP stack didn't understand multicast packets, and so whenever a stray multicast packet hit the interface, the whole thing threw up its hands and gave up.

The solution was to keep the mainframe on a private network segment behind a firewall, not for security's sake, but because it was the only way to insure no multicast packets would hit it and halt production in three different factories
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Pollution in London is consistently poor. That's why the UK gov loses court cases over air quality.

> The supreme court has ordered the government to make plans for tackling the UK’s air pollution problem, which has been in breach of EU limits for years and is linked to thousands of premature deaths each year.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/29/supreme-c...

> You expect all the health improvements of exercise to be negated by poor air quality?

Yes, in this level of pollution there are considerable risks that need to be balanced against benefits of exercise.
Part of mentoring is letting the mentored fail and working through the after-action and identifying the learning opportunities.

Controlling for how big or how expensive that failure is are both necessary components of the task; don't let them fail in a way that's going to torpedo the company.

But only being told how to do something makes a person a good follower and does nothing for their innovative or problem-solving skills. That's also bad management.

A successful professional needs a back catalog of failures and misses to understand why to do something.
Well that is clearly not true. Thanks to relativity, colonization is very possible in a short time span.
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Mmm I'm not sure. The Ansible AWS modules use the Boto library so perhaps there is more info in its docs somewhere?
> But retirement shouldnt mean retirement from doing things

It shouldn't, but the studies suggest this is what happens in practice.
Yeah, but they do solve hard problems, very hard. I'll give him a pass for saying that. A bit of hyperbole doesn't discredit his claim.

I have a hard time feeling sorry for the white-collar workforce at Amazon. They have choices, are well-paid, do interesting stuff and can leave if and when they want. The story is very different for the warehouse workers.
It's made by Nvidia, so there's very little chance of it being open.
A recruiter contacted me on LinkedIn with a job offer. The interview went well and I got the position, so I quit my previous job and moved to the UK.
This really is a catch-22. Cars are the only way to do anything because our cities are setup for the convenience of cars. The best way to push back on that without changing the layout would better public transport. The thing is I feel that sometimes buses and train funding is actively fought in the US, and I don't understand why.
Yeah it was really hard finding good examples to piece this together. Also I'm not sure this is a best practice example as it probably should use roles....
Has BMC purchased boundary?
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There was no announcement about this - when did it happen?
Although I love cars the noise, smell, and space they take are pretty significant. This month in staying in a small town with no cars (they stop about half a mile outside) and the peacefulness is very pleasant.
I do wonder if that is down to sample size. For example, I wrote a program to simulate the roll of a dice. There is a one in 6 chance of getting any one number. But roll it 6 million times, you'll be very close to have each number 1 million times.

So I would anticipate the clumping to even out as the sample size increases. Or maybe the evening out is a large collection of clumps. Anyone know if this is the correct way to think about it?