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Exactly. Much of it is just leverage and financial engineering.

Create derivatives of derivatives until you're essentially divorced from any underlying real asset. Still, it's all counted.
> Pretty much everywhere in Europe gets this right. Traffic -> parking -> bikes -> peds.

Unless you also limit the length of the street that can be used for parking to keep it farther back from the corners, this would seem to substantially reduce the visibility of bikers to drivers (and vice versa), increasing the number of bike vs. moving car collisions.

This seems intuitively likely to outweigh any benefit from reducing the number of bike vs. car door collisions.
By "honesty", I think the GP meant that people get to act like assholes when they want to act like assholes, rather than feeling like they have to hold in their feelings based on how an outburst might affect their reputation. Those same people then go on to have perfectly friendly and nice conversations (or at least the bar-room-poking-fun equivalent) in other threads.

To me, that seems pretty "honest": you get to see the full range of human emotion that should be statistically-likely for a large group of people to be experiencing at any given moment, rather than just the faces people want to present to the world.

Assholish outbursts stick out because they're unusual compared to reputational society, but I don't think those outbursts are incentivized; they're just represented within the corpus at the same rate that people are actually feeling them, rather than hidden away and kept secret.

(Though, there might be a bit of a reverse-causation where people visit 4chan when they're angry to let off steam, because they know it won't affect their reputation. That could explain away quite an increase in the representation of assholes.)
A recent WSJ article suggests that the recent price increases in ebooks have caused both the drop in sales of ebooks and a drop in overall revenue for the publishers.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/e-book-sales-weaken-amid-higher-prices-1441307826
I found the part about coding interesting..

"My coding activities were always productive. They either launched a new project or a major change in direction of a project. They also enabled me to have discussions with my team members at a completely different level of detail (to everyone’s enjoyment)."

This can be great. It sounds like it went well. However, I have personally seen a downside, some potential risks, when the boss "keeps coding".

Here's why - if the boss is coding but staying off the critical path, this means that the often detailed, difficult implementation work will be delegated to developers who report to the boss. The old adage that genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration? Well, the critical path is the perspiration part. Deadlines, estimates, glaring errors that shouldn't have happened and need to be fixed late at night or over the weekend… these are all part of the critical path. While coding can keep a boss closer to a technical team, it can also create a dangerous illusion, that the boss is still "technical" but insulated from the truly difficult aspects of a technical role. There is a big, big difference between coding on your own research project and coding under deadline pressure for a system that needs to work. This is only a risk, not a certainty, as a good manager will recognize this.

Perhaps a greater risk, though, is that if the boss gets to play around with new technology and launch projects for the rest of the team to finish off, there's a risk that the boss is pretty much eating the frosting of the team's dessert but making everyone else eat their vegetables, so to speak. If you're a manager who codes, keep in mind that autonomy and innovation may be key to the motivation and job satisfaction of the people working for you. This can lead to a very damaging management anti-pattern, where a manager who "keeps coding" essentially uses managerial authority to intercept and filter projects, make the key technical decisions, do the interesting bits that would lead to interesting conference talks, and then delegate the work of actually finishing the product to the team. This may deprive senior level developers the autonomy that they really were supposed to have on projects.

Once again, I want to emphasize that this isn't necessarily what happened here, in fact, it sounds like it wasn't. But the passage made me a bit nervous, since I consider this to be something of a management anti-pattern.
Yeah I don't think so. You'd have to be a mad men to bet against the US Dollar short term (couple of decades). After that who knows!
Yep. In other words, it's all a house of cards.
There are different forces at play.

On one hand, one can design a service with minimum dependencies to survive other services' outages, but that means duplication of effort and increased cost, as well as slower delivery of features. Or one can focus on adding value.

It seems though, from the update, that CloudWatch is going to have some sort of caching for most recent data.
Cassandra's performance scales linearly with the number of nodes though, so per-node performance definitely matters. Probably not 10x, but probably not 1x either.
This is absolute cobblers. I worked in an IT team that had a pair of IBM mainframes that were fed and watered at crushing expense and for which even the tiniest software change required a colossal waterfall project.

One day, they failed. One went offline - for reasons never revealed, at least to me - and the secondary didn't come up. Radio silence, kaput. But an airline that housed mainframes in the same DCs had their booking system fail at exactly the same times (with national headlines to match).

The myth of mainframe uptime is exactly that. La-la-land for hardware & services salesmen.
New Nature papers debunk STAP cells
I really wanted to pick up a Pebble Time when they publicly launched. I was so disappointed to see that they were charging €250 (~$280) in Europe while only $199 in The States. Now, the Steel and the Round are €300. It's just too much money. Even considering VAT, the difference in price between EU & US seems excessive
Neat, but weird that they don't offer it as a service through their site... or do they?
I agree with you. Also, in addition to AIIB, I think that Russia and Japan are setting up some sort of international money clearing house.

I am a USA citizen and I think it is in our best national interest to pull back a bit from the world stage. Nothing too extreme, just close a good fraction of our foriegn military bases and bring our troups home. We could still rapidly deploy if for example a close ally was invaded and needed our help. Troups returning to the USA would be very helpful in working on infrasturcture, etc. I think this would be fair to them as long as they got the same standard of living and benefits.
You know how ES6 has this big hoorah coming because they're finally getting something to make callback hell a little less hellish, async/await?

Well. It's a monad. It's about 30s of work to implement it if you know what you're doing.

Of course, you could implement it as a monad in Javascript as well. It'd be a neat trick, but you'd never love it. The reason is simple: you can't benefit from monads unless you use them so pervasively that everything will integrate together.

And if you do, that integrate together bit works fantastically. People often complain about monads not composing---but I think they're often just misinterpreting a rather technical result. Actually, imo, monads compose incredibly well and it's astounding when you get used to it.

When you use them pervasively, monads mean that you get to "pick your own semantics" on the fly, whenever you want. You can mix and match semantics as is interesting and work with your custom mixes as if they were built into the language.

So people, e.g., talk about how it was easy to write STM because of monads.

It wasn't "because of monads". Of course STM is a monad and anything which looks even halfway like it in any language will also be a monad no matter how hard you try to avoid it. They're "just a pattern".

But when you've got a language which allows you to cut into the "STM monad" exactly and whenever you want, when you've got a hold of the root of the semantics of your language, when you've got programmable semicolons, then there's something really special.

And without that you've got a couple of years of bickering between standards committees to fix what end up being trivial looking problem.s
Electric Eye, eh? I wonder if somebody at Netflix is a Judas Priest fan?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1B_pZC8aWU
Upgrades to roads/transit are part of zoning decisions. Where a developer wants to go beyond the current zoning and increase density (most all situations) they are often forced to contribute to infrastructure improvements. Even where they aren't, well-run cities do not allow development ahead of the infrastructure to support those new residents.

One parking spot per unit is no longer a norm. I know of developments with perhaps one per five, with most not coming with any assigned spots. But it isn't really just the parking. It's the lack of buss stops and adequate foot crossing and the increased traffic of all forms on local bridges. Pretending that everyone will just use bikes, or that they are old and won't go out much, is a convenient excuse to bypass good city planning.
Well, that’s true, but you went to the other extreme of the spectrum: Piaget’s specialty are ultra thin watches, I don’t think it’s a much better example.

Mechanical watches under 7mm are already considered thin; more usually they are 9-11mm. Quartz are easily thinner.

I think smartwatches currently around look thicker because of case and lugs design. For example, the Sea-Dweller is 18mm, but the side of the case is not flat all the way like the 360, the case back is actually inset, so it’s less noticeable.
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Most of widely popular open-source software are to empower developers, which doesn't actually aim at creating end user experiences. Most end user software (games for e.g.) are neither free nor open-sourced. So I wouldn't agree that "Today it is almost taken for granted that the source code for most software is freely available."
Have you tried The Now Habit by Niel Fiore?
Trailing dot means it is a fully qualified domain name and does not need your local DNS to append any domain names in order to resolve it.

As opposed to www.apple.com which resolves to whatever your local administrator decides. If they stick "nsa.gov." in the host's resolve.conf search parameter you will be directed to www.apple.com.nsa.gov. with the dot at the end.

It's part of RFC 1034.

Anyone who has dealt with DNS config files knows you need the dots at the end or things misbehave :D
Self driving cars will make biking safer too.
Pardon my ignorance of economics, but does US/FED policy and trillion dollar deficits have anything to do with this? Along with other countries printing more money?
I remember reading Zimbabwe had the best performing stock market, but it was fueled through the "printing press". And they had no choice but to stop printing more.
There is no objective measure that can encompass all. For example take Libya, under Gaddafi it enjoyed relative stability but individuals suffered from the regime. Now certain groups have more than what they had before, but as a whole Libya is in ruins and getting worse by the minute. How do you measure this impact? Is it unequivocally wrong because there is more visible suffering or is it right because there is a chance things will end up working out to less violence and more prosperity? (Which is far from guaranteed.)

These are philosophical discussions and large depend on your own perspective and bias in judging the outcomes.

My personal take is that some evidence exists in that last global open war with direct fighting on all fronts being 70+ years ago (WWII) the world is doing something right.

Edits to fix spelling.
Good times only exist because bad times exist to weigh them against. Good times would merely be "times" without bad times.

Language is full of color - and I find it a disservice to desaturate those colors. The bright are made all the more brighter when contrasted with the dim.

By muting language you make it harder to distinguish between those colors. Polite language becomes aggressive and disliked because you know when it is forced and dishonest and when everyone is expected to be polite - you lose the ability to distinguish between the forced politeness and the honest politeness. You begin to treat all politeness as forced politeness.

If you've ever been in a "100% optimistic, go-positive attitude" environment for any length of time you learn to hate it and treat everyone there with contempt. Being able to express negativity is important.
I'll just say that when it comes to algorithmic portfolio planning, I think there will continue to be downward pressure on the fees that can be charged. Basic portfolio planning and diversification services are clearly becoming commoditized. The traditional high-touch personal wealth advisor will still provide value to their clients, and both clients and advisors will ultimately benefit from the improved technology that handles the actual portfolio management chores.
I REALLY REALLY want someone to do this with a huge amount of google image thumbnails so that the google crawlers just start hitting google servers. Would it be considered malicious to do such a thing?
> I don't get the traditionalist love of paperback books most of the time.

For me, speed and size. I read faster than e-readers update.
There is usually more than one cockroach in the kitchen if you spot one. I wonder how many other aspects of their software they messed with in ways they probably shouldn't have...
You can do it in those languages (at least you can in a modern Pascal; I don't know enough about Algol to say).

But remember, the original claim by pjmlp was "It is a big flaw to ignore what other language communities were doing. Other systems programming languages older than C did it properly." That doesn't apply to the Pascal you speak of, because at the time C arose, Pascal wasn't "once you get to a recent enough version supporting dynamic arrays/first-class pointers". It was Pascal with the size of an array being part of the type of an array. That's type safety, sure. But it also means (to use an example that I have personal experience with), if you're writing a numerical simulation on a 2D array, and you want to let the user specify how big the mesh is, and then allocate memory to hold the mesh, you have a problem. You can't define a variable-sized array at all in the Pascal of the time.

Now try to think about how you'd write a memory allocator in that. Good luck.

Another example: We were on an embedded system. To write to hardware registers, we had to call an assembly-language subroutine. In C, we would have simply used a pointer to an absolute memory address.

This is what C gave you - you could just do things without the language getting in the way. Yes, you could cut yourself on C's sharp edges, whereas Pascal protected you. But when you needed the sharp edges to cut something, Pascal didn't have them, and you were stuck.

Again, I don't know enough about Algol to meaningfully compare it to C. The Pascal of the day wasn't the answer, though.
Simple is awesome. I wonder why those are not javascript animations.
OK, data definitely helps. It's not always easy to predict what modern CPUs will do!

For the record, there seem to be a lot of bounds checking independent of indexing:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/libcollect...

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/libcollect...

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/libcollect...

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/libcollect...
"Do floor managers in factories let their machines go to rack and ruin?" From my experience developing software for and supporting users of machine tools, ...yes.

Most organizations designed by and made of humans are inefficient and ineffective.

If you always bail on (quit for managers, fire for subordinates) people who are fuck ups I feel like you'd have a hard time staying fed / keeping the lights on -- but maybe I'm just unlucky in my professional experience so far.
Out of consideration for all parties involved I only included enough detail to give a big picture sense of what those events entailed, but rest assured that they were pretty well documented at the time. Take home message is that the users got very personal at the end of moot's tenure.
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We were discussing gender bias in S.E.P. vs. Wikipedia.

You've switched the topic to S.E.P. vs. philosophy publications, and observed that women are worse off in the latter, compared to either S.E.P. or Wikipedia.

Which would imply that the S.E.P. has been doing remarkable work to improve gender balance.

What is the gender ratio of the Wikipedia citations?

As a completely irrelevant comment, my intro to logic class, through the philosophy department, was taught by Jaakko Hintikka. It was very odd this evening to learn that he was one of the top philosophers in the world. I had no idea.
It is all interconnected, but I'm not sure anyone knows 100% how.

I've started studying economics; the more I learn, the more I know that I don't know.
... which would be substantial, to say the least.

An operational carrier houses over 5,000 sailors, airmen, and marines. Sinking a carrier is akin to completely obliterating a small city in terms of loss of life. In terms of economic cost, it's even greater - a carrier costs around $5b just to launch. Add in the costs of fuelling, salaries and training for the crew, armament, the aircraft aboard... the other dozen or so ships in the strike group...

I don't think it's unwarranted to assume that the total economic cost to build and deploy a US carrier strike group exceeds the budget of most countries' navies.
I don't. In fact, I find it very easy to believe. Now that the Internet has made it possible for anyone with an net connection to do business, goods and services can be completely made up out of whole cloth. Someone goes out and makes a brand new media franchise, call it "Bleachuto." It's a tv series about dead ninjas. This new media property can easily launch an entire cottage industry of blogs, physical goods, some of which might be affiliated with the creators, some not.

All that has to happen for it to be a good or service is for money to change hands. I'd say between the internationalization of capital markets, the deepening of transportation services, and just the fact that many many more emerging economies are buying stuff now, two orders of magnitude difference might well be an understatement, it could well be three or even four.
Actually, at the most competitive level (say GM Starcraft II), motor skills ("micro") are more of a necessity instead of a differentiating factor in many circumstances.

It might decide games some times, but the majority is won on tactics, meta game (and luck).
It's just 1 order of magnitude, if we're comparing the same language. English Wikipedia has 19,339 articles on philosophy [1]. (Anyone know if there's a resource comparable to SEP in a language other than English?)

If we're talking all philosophy articles in all 291 Wikipedias [2], and (generously) assume that the average Wikipedia has 10% as many philosophy-related articles as English Wikipedia, that's 19,339 * 0.10 * 291 = 562,764 philosophy articles on all Wikipedias. That's 3 orders of magnitude more than SEP's 1,500 articles -- although that's not really comparing apples to apples as we're comparing many languages to one.

1. See Total x Total cell at lower right in matrix at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Philosophy_articles_b...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
Caveat here. Sure, a mainframe/high end hardware & supervisor OS can run for 30 years... but the actual applications that users are facing... no, they cannot. You need to upgrade DB2 or IMS or whatever Java app you are using? There will be downtime.
I know this is a trite, possibly overused saying, but in this case it is completely accurate. The study had no ability to draw the title as a conclusion, regardless of its results.

(Not to mention that they appear to be treating number assignments for a "strong agree <-> strongly disagree" Likert scale as actual numbers and doing things like averaging them. Ick.)
I don't think you understand derivatives. They assist in resource allocation by applying pressure to the future value of goods, so that we have more control to hedge our risks.
e2x did exactly this. We had a tiny web app with one controller, and the candidate had to implement some small feature. Looks easy. But some tests are failing, some are passing incorrectly, there's misnamed code, dead code, and various other traps. We did quite a bit of rescue work on projects screwed up by other consultancies, so it was even somewhat realistic.

At Pivotal Labs, we have an interview project where the code works and is tested, but is a horrifying big ball of mud. We ask the candidate to add a few features, but really, they need to refactor heavily first.
I'm not sure; I think the main thrust of the solution would be getting the users who really, really care about their backed-up data (which should be most of the people who are using a back-up solution) to do some extra stuff up-front to insure it:

• Ask people to provide optional contact information for an "executor of their estate"—a person who can make decisions about what happens to their data on their behalf if they cannot be reached.

• Ask people for a secondary credit card that can be charged as a backup: specifically, suggest that this be the personal card of Someone Important in the company, who will be likely to notice the charge and flip out.

• Ask for a flat-fee deposit to enable a secondary "long-term storage, no uploads, no monthly billing" mode of usage. Make it enough money to be motivating when you imagine just schlepping this hunk of data around for the rest of your life. If the user has paid this deposit, and their regular card gets declined, switch them to this mode and consume the deposit. If they close their account, refund the deposit if it hasn't been consumed.

And so forth.
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What was actually built

http://fas.org/spp/starwars/program/news99/991001-news-madde...

Sorry there are other references. Search for TRW + laser + San Clemente
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>Someone goes out and makes a brand new media franchise, call it "Bleachuto." It's a tv series about dead ninjas. This new media property can easily launch an entire cottage industry of blogs, physical goods, some of which might be affiliated with the creators, some not.

And yet the anime industry is continually going out of business?
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Right. I think that's mostly immutable containers though, right? Or is the compiler smarter than that?
I've had the following Lua adding request UUIDs to our logs in production for over a year. Feel free to give it a try:

https://gist.github.com/erikcw/e999e1fb438dbbb91533
No. 90% of people get it done somehow. The failure of the other 10%, and inability to ride your bike more than ten or twenty houses of sidewalk down the line, stands as testament to concept of professionalized public infrastructure.

We don't ask people to shovel the roads.