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> you might want to name actual things that you don't like, as in things that you can talk about, instead of things that are non-falsifiable.

Sure, I could name things that I don't like but they will be by definition non falsifiable as well, so I don't really see the point of what you're asking.

Overall, I just find the surface area of Scala way, way too big. I felt the same way about C++ compared to C in the 90s, hence my comparison. I've used Scala for five years and over that period of time, I've seen the language adding feature over feature instead of addressing critical aspects such as good IDE support or decent build tools.

I'm still stuck with Scala at work but I'm really hoping Kotlin takes off because using it on my personal projects has been a breath of fresh air compared to Scala. It's like getting 90% of the power of Scala with 5% of the cognitive load.
The reviews were all very positive, so I think this may have been because the host has been caught up somewhere or has been busy with something. But it's still very irresponsible.

I managed to find the host's Facebook and I would say he is around 24 years' old and studying at a university in Vienna. Had I known this, I probably would have told my mother to look elsewhere.
> I'm no longer holding out hope that Java 8/9 will ever get to Android.

That would be a little foolhardy on Google's part, don't you think? Considering the ongoing 'API copyright' wrangle that is Oracle v. Google
Welcome to the lemons problem. Information problems are very real in the hotel industry. Most of the customers have limited information. Akerlof (husband of Fed chair Janet Yellen) got the Nobel Prize for starting the literature.

No, I do not have plans to use Airbnb. It sounded like a really bad idea from the start.
It's not readily apparent to me how a feature necessitates that a guarantee can no longer be kept. In fact, one feature of a language might be an additional guarantee about some aspect of it's function (e.g. Rust and it's memory ownership feature).
This is a puff piece thinly veiled as a guest post.
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I'm an American, and I used AirBNB a number of times in Italy this past spring. I only booked rooms with 4.5/5.0 ratings, and only from hosts who have hundreds -- or at least dozens -- of positive reviews. My experience could not have been better.
True but you can hardly blame people for being confused.

The Apple Watch was announced on September 9, 2014, but did not ship until April 24, 2015. So the Watch feels a year old even if it has technically only been selling for half that time.

Even when it was announced it was behind the competition. By April 2015 (when they shipped the first units) the competition had moved on again. The only reason it is selling at all is because of the little Apple logo.

Moto 360 2 and Huawei Watch are watches that actually look like watches, same thickness, shape, and with a longer battery life. Why anyone purchased an Apple Watch is still beyond me. It is one of their weakest new product launches ever.
This (like most interview processes) seems very unscientific and error prone.

She doesn't mention correlation of their process to successful outcomes and until you do that you're guessing.

Also doesn't mention reviewing quality of past work which I'm guessing has a better correlation if the contributions are properly vetted.

Unless you're doing A/B testing you'll never know, and are certainly screening out candidates who could have ended up being star players.
I'd argue that all fields that have deep and sophisticated histories are full of bullshit, including the hard sciences. Scientific method is a long-term defense, but not a short-term one, and art has advanced at least as successfully as science over the past century.
There was this old Perl script for ordering Pizza at Domino's but I don't think it used an API (web scraping if I recall correctly).

http://www.coryarcangel.com/things-i-made/pizzaparty/

https://github.com/coryarcangel/Pizza-Party-0.1.b
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Shouldn't we also note that the author of this article is in both the tech startup realm and the online advertising circle of India? That's a pretty clear conflict of interest to me.
This July, I went on a weekend trip to Victoria with my parents who I see two or three times a year. About an hour before we should have arrived at the accommodation, our hosts calls me and tells us his son needs the place so he needs me to log on airbnb and cancel our reservation. He was _very_ persistent and kept calling me and leaving messages, despite me telling him he needs to tell airbnb himself. I guess he wanted us to take the heat for cancellation instead.

I ended up spending most of my day communicating with airbnb, hotels and motels. Around 8pm I managed to score the last two hotel rooms in the city, and could finally join the rest of the family.

Airbnb did pay the difference between the hotel and our original reservation, but I still lost an entire day with my family.

Nowadays I only make airbnb reservations in big cities where coming up with on-the-spot backup is easy.
You have completely the wrong expectation of how Airbnb works. The hosts are randoms and Airbnb has no way to deliver a consistent quality experience like a hotel. Airbnb is like eBay, not Amazon.

You need to realize that when you get the last apartment in a city at conference-time (almost certainly not a superhost with good reviews), you're obviously taking a big gamble that it doesn't work out in order to save a few bucks.

> so we had to shell out 9 nights of walk-in rate hotel fees

So in this worst-case scenario you wound up in the same place as you would have if Airbnb didn't exist? Cry me a river.
Indeed. You will get better mileage out of some reasonably small EEPROM (also, old, tried and true) that has millions of write cycles and a 100 year lifetime. Chip encased in epoxy, no moving parts. No brainer.

The only reason floppies would be used in some medical equipment is that in that kind of niche market, you can get away with holding customers hostage with old crap (and at inflated prices).
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you have a good application firewall that is looking at the incoming traffic

I will concede if you have a perfectly configured all-knowing security oracle in front of your application then you don't need proper logging. :)

immutable infrastructure for the fronted so an attacker can't do much damage if they do get in.

I've seen attackers get access then just dump the site databases or copy all the site's code sitting on the compromised servers. Immutable infrastructure doesn't protect against reading things over the network.

The class of security problems is larger and less clearly defined than what can be pre-programmed into static monitoring or analysis tools. It's always good to store logs for after-the-fact forensics if something does go wrong. How often do we see attacks, but then the attacked company doesn't even know what data was compromised or exfiltrated due to lack of logging? It happens daily.

If you do happen to have a magic all-knowing security oracle, you should probably productize it and make a trillion dollars.
This is exactly what I was thinking... There was such a hullaballo about arsenic-based life just some years ago and then it happened not to be that after all.

Mmmmhh... Since when does NASA need a press conference?
How Uber uses your phone as a backup data centre [video]
The behavior you're describing is disproved by history. People use demonstrably insecure products that are insecure all the time, even when great secure alternatives exist.

Even speaking theoretically, the behavior you're describing isn't even an accurate description of how rational actors without resource constraints and with perfect knowledge would behave (because e.g. there are qualities aside from security and safety that might make it impossible to use an alternative product, and there might be qualities that are impossible to measure directly). And anyways, all three of those assumptions are clearly out-of-touch with reality.

Specifically wrt automobile software:

* Even with public access to source code, it's impossibly expensive for the average consumer (even the average software engineer; hell, even the average automotive engineer) to make a decision with truly perfect knowledge. Any number of safety constraints boil down to intractable questions if code is designed in a way that isn't amenable to inspection. So even in a purely theoretical setting with completely rational actors, making a fully informed decision might just not be possible.

* Many consumers will overlook errors in previous products and plausible errors in current products; Toyota's brand is doing just fine despite the findings of experts in the UA case. And I bet a lot of the software on cars that have sold even this year has some of the same structural problems, because based upon the expert testimony, a lot of that code probably needed to be essentially rewritten, and it's highly unlikely that they've achieved that in a year or two.
There have certainly been metioroids starting on Mars that made it to Earth without being sterilized[1]. Now, Earth does have a deeper gravity well which might make a difference but Earth microbes have had geological epochs to make the trip to Mars wheres you'd only expect a meteoroid to remain recognizable on Earth's surface for that long in comparison.

So I figure that if contamination of Mars by Earth life was a problem it would have happened by the Paleozoic.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hills_84001
Anyone have recommendations for a free SSL cert provider so that I can test this out?
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They may seem intuitive, but that doesn't prove the questions or approach valid.
Kids should be better taught how to work in groups, really. It unfortunately goes both ways - you need to teach some of them not to blindly pick on introverts and teach the introverts how to communicate with others, including the art of lying and deception.
Logging is for events with identity, metrics are for events without identity. They are not the same thing.

Sometimes I care about the bulk behaviour of my application. I hit 2757 RPS and suddenly find a catastrophic gap in the performance landscape of my application -- that's useful. I don't care much about the particulars of the requests. What matters is the statistical behaviour.

But sometimes the application crashes when a particular input is given. These are outliers, they don't show up clearly in statistical behaviour. In that case I care about the details.

Metrics are warnings that smokers die younger, on average, than non-smokers.

Logs are a biopsy showing which kind of lung cancer you have.

No sensible production system or PaaS treats them as identical, even if you can derive metrics from logs.
You're well-compensated for the risk you take on Airbnb, it's not like it costs the same as the Four Seasons.
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You could also forward your mobile number to a virtual landline number (forwarding your number is normally supported by any provider). Then connect that landline number to a sip app on your mobile.

No hardware needed.
I will never use Airbnb again, either. Booked a flat in London that looked clean in the pictures, but was disgusting when we got there. Also wound up paying walk-in rates at a Holiday Inn (which were astronomical, but at least the room was immaculate and modern). Fortunately, I always book travel with my American Express card—and they sure know how to handle disputed charges.
> No results from a wahatever effort is still axwaste no matter how wonderful the payoff might have been.

That's only true from a cynically commercial standpoint. From a scientific standpoint, negative results are every bit as important as positive ones. As Edison said, "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

(Which isn't to say that we shouldn't consider the likelihood of valuable results, positive or negative, in relation to the time, money, and effort spent, just that there are important considerations besides commercial payoff potential.)
Unless the vehicle is already fully charged, I'd expect it to draw as much power as it can for charging, regardless of its current power consumption.
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Great suggestion! I'm one of the tech editors for the guide and we'd love to have contributors for python and other languages! http://www.loggly.com/ultimate-guide/become-a-contributor/
Well, shorter times delays on teleop are a useful thing. Humans can do that just as well from orbit but if you've gone all that way then the gravity on Mars might be enough of a health benefit to make it worth while landing.
I had a nightmare experience on vacation in Mexico that was word for word the same response from Airbnb. Because I took my wife and I out of the potentially dangerous rental, without first contacting Airbnb, they couldn't refund us anything. I followed up with evidence that the rental was unfit and unsafe with pictures, but nothing came of it. Needless to say, I'm never using Airbnb again. Worst customer experience I've ever had. Airbnb is essentially enabling any joe idiot to run a shit hotel anywhere in the world with zero accountability. Oh also, over the time you email their customer experience reps, they assign you a NEW customer rep each time so you have no relationship with whoever you talk to next during a conversation. Some people are understanding, others are aholes. Such a terrible experience, overall. It's a wonder they're as big as they are.
It does, I spent almost three hours listening to their waiting tunes this summer. Average time in line was about an hour, and if they ask you to call back, you need to wait in queue again.
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Well, unfortunately many software engineers don't behave like real engineers, so is it any surprise?

I mean to say, most people here will be highly familiar with version control, but back in the days when I used to audit companies, version control was barely[1] used, and editing files on the live server was the norm. And even here we're still having discussions about how "hard" it is to manage dependencies, use strong typing, use safe languages, garbage collection, bounds checking, formal proofs, etc.

[1] I think I may be correct in saying never used. I can't recall a case where we saw a company using any kind of VCS, but perhaps I just forgot.
Proposing the ideal world as a solution to the problems of the real world is an engineering antipattern with a long, storied and unhappy history.
You have no idea what you're talking about. It is clear you have not had to perform any incident response or forensics.

Accept the fact that remote logging is necessary (and cheap) for both security and stability reasons.
They already had their money back. At this point, give a bad review and move on with your life. If this is standard operating procedure for this host, he won't last on Airbnb.
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Are you going to bootstrap your Caramel compiler ?
it is indeed. Kotlin has gained some popularity among Android devs and is focusing on it.
Still, it is hard to use all of Kotlin's features when you have to dialog with a java framework.
So eg for UI code, you might end up with quasi-java code.

I would still love to see Kotlin pushed as the platform's language or alternatively a Rust inspired language.

Another big challenge of such a move would be the back compatibility story.
4) Yeah, it's such a massive shame that Android/Google doesn't have end-to-end encryption between all users enabled as a default, like iOS has with iMessage.
It is unclear if this will be for the 'display network' (i.e. sites hosting adsense) of just for ads on Google properties.

If this is across the whole web, then it will be interesting to see the privacy protection they have in place.
New DDoS attack uses Smartphone browser
I highly recommend reading the forum post linked above. Engagingly written, and with some exciting plot twists for people who have been following Darknet Market drama; and perhaps it's even true.
Htail, an utility that displays your common logs, to stdout and in the browser
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Any chance of opening up the code for the client app? Given that the database is basically your golden egg, and given that this is security software, it would make sense to open it up.
In my city, it's fairly uncommon for any delivery person (pizza or shipping) to ring the doorbell, but it's quite likely they'll knock.

Lots of delivery drivers do call phones, but I see that happening more often when there are many places you could be (e.g. ordered to work, but are they going to come find you at your chair?)
> Frankly, if their resolution center doesn't provide a phone number that can be used 24/7, than any demand to contact AirBnB with issues is bullshit.

They're available by phone 24/7, and they provide a local contact number for you in your reservation confirmation email.
Sure, but every community has a set of norms. You get a sense of what's not OK to say if you've been around for a while. On Reddit, I can immediately tell when going from a default sub to a nicer, more inclusive sub, because I see comments that would get absolutely eviscerated in the defaults used in regular conversation with no apparent controversy, pile-ons, or swearing. Sure, most people on Reddit probably aren't racist or misogynistic, but the community can still feel that way.
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When I was in high school, some kid's 3.5" floppy didn't read. He was all upset about losing some images he had been working on in a paint program.

I slid open the window and turned the center hub to inspect the surface, which soon revealed a glaring fingerprint; some prankster almost certainly had done that on purpose.

I peeled the black, plastic casing open, and took out the disk, which I then gently washed with cold water and soap in the boys' washroom, drying it with a paper towel.

I slid the disk it back into its casing, and popped it into the drive. It read perfectly.
Depends on how you define "main value stuff." One of Google's largest engineering teams is infrastructure working on core services, the Kernel, OS, drivers, hardware etc..
I guess it's a matter of opinion but I think you're wrong that you have to redesign stuff. Most of the guarantees in essence already exist b/c of best-practices (like RIIA) - they're just not guaranteed by a validating program.

Don't diminish it, b/c the presented solution is non obvious/trivial. If it was, it would have been done ages ago.

So either
A - The Mozilla folks may have not thought of this solution

B - At the time of Rust's development C++ was stagnant and not evolving as it is right now. There wasn't a lot of hope for fixing it at the time. It's thanks to the work of several people that the C++ standards committee now is a fast moving organization.

If Mozilla were considering starting the Rust project in 2016 I don't think they would have gone ahead with it
"Speaking in front of people and working in groups are extremely valuable skills, even for introverts."

Yes -- and the problem is that very few places actually teach these skills to introverts. Rather, you are supposed to already know them.

"This is like saying that people who don't enjoy physical activity should skip P.E. class -- in both cases there is both a developmental and health component at play."

It's funny you should bring up PE here, because the same mechanism is usually at play there. PE classes don't focus on the kids who are bad at sports. They focus on those who are already good at it, for whatever reason.
Perhaps, but I would take that metric to be ridiculous, because the company cares about it across it's entire portfolio, in this case 21 products it's currently selling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilead_Sciences), looks like they do some very early stage/general research, products like Tamiflu they evidently had to license to get to market (reduced profit for them), products which have expired or soon to expire patents, and all their failures, past and future.

At least one of which is implied in the Wikipedia article, also see their current pipeline, some of those are going to fail, and at the end their 22 failures to date. 1 in Phase III trials ($$$, efficacy, the most expensive), 5 in Phase II (fairly expensive, I think), 5 in Phase I (certainly not "cheap").

It sure looks like they're doing the right thing with their science and medicine, their founder was motivated by having contracted deng fever, which is untreatable (besides of course supportive measure). Clearly the right thing to do is to beat them up the few times they hit it out of the ballpark with a "100x" success, that'll teach them and the other drug companies!
Looks like Brainpool curves are not supported by NSS, SChannel or SecureTransport, so they're useless for TLS when the client is a browser. If the client is something that uses openssl, you can use them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_TLS_implementati...
Touche, great answer.
This is difficult though, lets say I was making a social networking app (massive cliche I know) - speaking to friends and family is out of the question as they would err on the side of being supportive as to not offend me.

I guess my other option would be to post on forums, but that would risk my idea being spotted by another developer.

Perhaps I could speak to the other startup founders I have met and spoken to in the past? Would the opinion of a startup founder be valid?
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> But sometimes the application crashes when a particular input is given. These are outliers, they don't show up clearly in statistical behaviour. In that case I care about the details.

But my question is, why do you care about the outliers if the customer experience is not harmed by them? And if it is harmed, then it should should up in your 99th percentile metrics, even as an outlier, at which point you can turn on aggregated logging to look for that one thing. And if that one thing doesn't happen again, then did it really matter?
Sure, but the vehicle is not in charge of how much it can draw.

And the metric that matters is kWh per mile.
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