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Yesterday, I had the idea that I should try working as a technical writer as a way to realign my past with my future - I don't want the stress of debugging things every day, and I've done this writing informally and always thought, "I wish I could spend more time getting this right but I can't justify it."

An hour and a half later, I had started conversation with the maintainer of an open source project, speccing out a portfolio project with him. It's a bit early to tell, but treating the writing as my only goal, rather than as a supplement to coding work, is doing things to my perspective...there's definitely a need for the humanities in technical environments. A really great piece of writing can do more than instruct clearly, it can motivate creative uses, put the techniques into perspective and lead people away from dangerous ideas. As well, in-depth writing about technology is a great way to review its real utility and add discipline to development that has gone astray.

And there is so much technology that would benefit from doing this better. I think it might be the proper antidote to cargo culting.
I've been a writer and editor for six years, but I'm currently also a grad student, so I'm always looking for work. My email address is in my profile.
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"You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's bottom-feeding attorneys all the way down!" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
Oh right. I remembered having problem with this a few years ago, so I didn't bother to check and just assumed it was the same problem. Thanks for correcting me!
Yeah, the problem is what to get instead if staying on Android.

I surely won't pay what Google is asking for their devices, given lack of SD card and changeable battery.

Plus, they also proved they aren't trustworthy by not providing a path for those that gave them money for the Nexus with TI processor. As if Google didn't had the money to keep supporting them.
> Doesn't really matter. Apple makes a very narrow range of products for high-end consumers, and that's a small portion of the market.

It's about half the market as far as profit goes – the low-end stuff is absurdly low margin and customers have very little brand loyalty.

More importantly, the netbook and other low-end market has been fading as people buy tablets and large smartphones. It's not at crossover yet but there's a growing percentage of people who don't have a traditional computer at all and that's going to eat into the low-end market most heavily because the difference in utility between a $200 netbook and a $200 tablet is the smallest and hardware quality is often better on the tablet side.

The demographic shift is somewhat fascinating, with PC ownership declining by 10% for people under 30 in the last 5 years:

“Today, 78% of adults under 30 own a laptop or desktop computer, compared with 88% who did so in 2010. Smartphone ownership, on the other hand, has surpassed both of these devices, with 86% of 18- to 29-year-olds owning one in 2015.”

http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/29/technology-device-owne...
I think it's both.

But of course, I'm not a native English speaker.
Additional suggestion: ability to grade code. I see solutions that are a lot shorter than mine in code (2 labels, 5 instructions), but they take about 87 instruction cycles to get there whereas without labels you can do it in about 30 cycles.
I'm not sure about the inherent value, but here's an argument that shows that it can't be valueless:

If any company's stock is trading too low, you could take a loan and buy out the company using its own profit to pay the loan. So you would expect the stock price to track profits, even if existing shareholders are only in it waiting for a buyout.

That idea ensures the stock is valued somewhat accurately(say, within 35% of the 'true' value on the private market), but I wouldn't think it ensures that the market prices are tight down to the cent.
"It seems to originate from a Microsoft interview question."

Using inefficiency to solve problems, I'm not surprised.
The story is about drivers wo drive out of a surge pricing area, not about customers ("who will pay").
I think this article is total shit... Apple is hurting software development? What utter bullshit. Any dev can tell you that they enjoy coding on a Mac more than a PC, but oh no - Apple needs to step up their game.

Hey Bloomberg - how about you upgrade your legacy Fortran before you start pointing fingers at Apple?
Patent trolling is extortion, isn't it?
By being a human, you would be able to expand human knowledge without letting other humans know about it. So yeah, it's a matter of definition;P
Misleading title. They have voted for a. Non binding resolution agreeing that he should not be extradited from the EU. It is a far cry from asylum.
Can you show your four label solution?
And another Windows user who runs "p0wned" shell scripts on his system. Or believe everyone does this on a regular basis. "Just like Windows!"
And policing in Northern Ireland was far more draconian than occasionally confiscating journalists' laptops when politely questioning them might have yielded more useful results.

This is absolutely true and the security services have largely refused to learn the right lessons from NI.

The thing about the overseas conflicts is that they're overseas, and there are many more countries and intelligence services involved on various sides. That makes them a lot harder to tackle and purely domestic solutions somewhat futile.
Passion doesn't save you from your own lack of talent.
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Java call stack – from HTTP upto JDBC as a picture
... Without labels?
Can you show that solution? Are you sure it works for robots placed on an infinite line?
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At first it seems quite freeing - no schemas holding you back. Later on, after things stabilize, it stops being helpful and starts being a burden to performance and stability.
Surfer here, this isn't really "disrupting" the surfboard industry. It's actually helping it because it lowers the barrier of entry and in turn introduces the sport to more people. There is still a very big market for performance surfboards in the ~$500 range.
Honestly, your posting does not make sense.

> Their "data protection" is circumvented by the newly introduces complete data retention for police purposes.

This has never been introduced.

> Websites are completely unusable due to "are you ok with cookies?"-questions on every f* page you visit

There are not unusable.

> Apple

Builds clean cars? I've not seen them yet.

> in that regard while Daimler sold their shares in Tesla years ago.

Daimler helped Tesla to survive. http://www.autoblog.com/2012/09/05/elon-musk-the-credit-for-...

Toyota also has sold their Tesla shares.

> And while letting every refugee in

Germany helps refugees ... many of them are fleeing because the US destabilized the middle east

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10481991589095700

> it is absolutely impossible for many qualified to ever make it to the country.

For many qualified persons it is completely easy to work in Germany. Almost every EU citizen (which are more than 500 Million) is allowed to work in Germany. Officially.
Yeah, I was about to delete my comment (but now someone already replied) because I discovered the randomize button. My bad!

The solution with a "speeding label" is the only solution I see. I also recognize the parallel with infinite loop detection now, like sugarcube commented already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10477109
I have an answer for that: The example program is left leaning and we iterated from it to the actual solution. :)
It is always difficult to tell with bitcoin whether the price rise is from new adoption due to AFK events like capital controls or if it is people within the bitcoin community buying btc in the hope that external parties will be brought in to the fold, essentially buying more prior to an expected influx of users.
Unless they're doing it under the cover of a shell corporation.
> How long have you worked on only this project?

It's hard to quantify how much time _this_ project took, since when I started a year ago I knew nothing about Doom or Rust. If I started writing it now from scratch, I could probably hammer it out in a working week. A better programmer could probably do it in a weekend. It's neither very big nor very hard.

But that's not how programming works, is it? In fairness, you'd need to count some of the time I spent working on a lot of other random Rust side projects and reading blog posts over the last year, while only spending a couple of hours ever other week or so on rust-doom.

> Certainly wrestled with the ownership system for a while

I think my background in modern C++ helped me a lot with this, since the "one owner per thing, move semantics" model is how you're supposed to write C++ too.

That said, figuring out the cleanest design is not easy and I'm still wrestling with it today. The code was an absolute mess last year and now it's better, but still needs plenty of work: just yesterday I decoupled WAD parsing from the rest of the code properly (https://github.com/cristicbz/rust-doom/pull/53).

I'm still learning a lot a year after dedicating all my free-time programming to Rust.
>"which was merely a clerical error."

It was likely a clerical error, in this instance. But that was only after discovered after the law suit. Should we give these corporate boards the benefit of the doubt? That's funny.

>by creating exactly these kinds of nonsensical shareholder lawsuits against public companies

It isn't "non-sensical".

There are rules and laws that govern public companies, and public companies are obligated to follow them. Someone has to keep people honest, and in the US that's often done through the courts.

I'm sure Facebook and Mr. Zuckerberg will learn a lesson to be more diligent in such matters. That's the point.
ZODB ( http://www.zodb.org/en/latest/ ) is a NoSQL database that has been around for almost twenty years now. It's a Python-specific NoSQL database that allows persisting of arbitrary objects in a tree structure. It not only has multi-object transactions, transaction savepoints for memory efficiency's sake (both optimistic and normal), a pluggable 3-way conflict resolver, two-phase commit and support for long-running branches which contain multiple transactions.
Ledger (ledger-cli.org) is very flexible. So if you know what you want from the outset you can layout your accounts to achieve what you want. It has some nice defaults too for things like capital gains.
Linear Algebra is almost worthless to most programmers. I challenge you to demonstrate otherwise. Of course it has use in specific industry. So what?

There's a lot of thinking that math is a fundamental part of software development. That was true when the problems were coming up with abstractions that required specific solutions. That hasn't been the focus of development, for decades. Welcome to the world of data processing and presentation (the vast majority of time and effort is in UI).
I am hoping it will eventually cover game mechanics, see "Goals (subject to change)". Pull requests welcome!
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Safe, also means that the application does not crash in funny ways with segmentation faults. Which is something that banks like a lot.
Extortion is a crime.
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I mean, the camera handling code is just the tip of the iceberg.
To prevent 40MB downloads for a REPL, is there a library version of Electron that can be installed globally, so that small scripts can use it to produce full applications?

(My expected response is that Electron and Node are both moving fast enough so that multiple versions may be incompatible. Global libraries tend to work for stable software, so it may be possible in the future for Electron.)
That's exactly it. Good pull!
Coyotes have only killed two people in North America in all of recorded history (and if you check recorded history for wolf attacks it goes back at least to the 1800s).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_attacks_on_humans

A 3 year old child in 1981 and a 19 year old woman in 2009. Both victims were alone at the time of their attacks. Coyotes killing humans is an exceedingly rare occurrence.
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You can't do that with OEM licences.

Do you understand that means that you will persistently pay as a normal, non-techie, consumer every time you buy a new machine?

Also not sure why my parent post is getting downvotes, bit ridiculous really.
Ultimately it is about money. Germany has rebuked demands for reparations. Good for them. I can see reparations when you are within a generation or two and there is a chance of finding those directly affected by such actions, but when you four or more out all we should be after is acknowledgment if that.

The take away is, past governments have done things current governments find abhorrent. Times change, what is acceptable changes. However the biggest factor is the ability of people to prove events and get acknowledgment of that proof.
>"Maybe the question you should ask yourselves, is why you have those. Why are inequalities so high in your country ?"

In my experience, anything that follows "Maybe the question you should ask yourself" is usually a statement not a question.

Inequality is the cool thing to be frustrated with right now, especially with an election year coming up. Yes there is lots of inequality, yes it sucks, yes it's unfair. As far as blaming every social problem on the 1% or .1% that is where I'm ready to jump off the bandwagon.

An interesting discussion would be something like "why did Detroit get left in the dust as globalization took off and what incentives could be used to help the next rust belt city from collapsing into an economic black hole?", or "what affect would offering more attractive small business loans to impoverished areas have?"

An uninteresting discussion would be "If it wasn't for inequality we wouldn't have so many problems, our system sucks".
I paid for a Team Treehouse subscription in their early days because of the quality.

I first tried a 2 week free trial, which I canceled because while good quality there was not enough content to justify paying. I returned later once there was more content (Ruby/RoR was added) I did a 50% off the first month trial and kept the subscription for 4-6 months.

I think it would be good to offer a one month 50% off discount, or maybe a similar "cancel in 2 weeks and you pay nothing" trial. With the number of products available, I was always hesitant to base my opinion on the free lessons except for maybe Code School. They were not comparable in scope to the other lessons offered and I was worried of a bait and switch, with the added kicker of being out $25-50 I could have used for another book or course.
Did you read the article at all? It seems like you didn't even read the title of it correctly
Also check out Durus, a close relative of ZODB but simpler. https://www.mems-exchange.org/software/DurusWorks/
The fact that the 2 arrested individuals are teenagers is all you need to know about the complexity of the attack on Talk Talk.

This was a script kiddy attack, no more no less, a lot of people claimed responsibility from ISIS to chancers requesting ransoms but ultimately this was due to talk talk having incredibly poor security. That they have recently been hacked a few times just confirms that they are a soft target with lots of customers data.

The fact these kids are kids is not the defining reason this was a simple attack, there are some smart kids out there, but I imagine anyone with some decent skills would have obfuscated their tracks enough to not get caught. These are the LHF of hacks.
Fantastic puzzle.

Took me ages to realise the twist though, because I was somehow set on making them oscillate further on every iteration and couldn't understand how I was to remember how far I went without a stack.

Basically what I wanted to do was: x left, if its not there, return. Next time x * 2 left, return to base if its not there, ...
> not all places on Earth have mountains nearby

Zoroastrians also left them out to be eaten by nature. They build a small structure for it. Exposure of the dead is not that strange.
I already closed it, so might be a bit different, but essentially this: https://paste.fedoraproject.org/285179/62077561/

I guess my interview wouldn't go that well :)
Which would still be very easy to track, since the permits are public.

Or do you think nobody would notice a permit issued to "Ladron de Manzanas Inc" or whatever name nobody ever heard of?

Not to mention the accidents. How would Apple hide all those human-cause SDC accidents?

Occam's Razor is telling me there are no Apple SDCs on the streets, but hey, maybe they invented an invisible, aethereal SDC registered under a shell corporation that nobody became curious about :)
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Actually, that's a good example - thanks. I guess you could argue that problem is how silly patents are though rather than the problem being with the court system itself.
> One outcome of this interbreeding is that these animals have lost their fear of people, but they retain their predatory instincts, making them quite dangerous.

They're going to find out fairly quickly that this combination is maladaptive. This also explains why dog and wolfs split... you can be aggressive and fear people, or you can be friendly and not fear people, but not both.
That's quite literally the whole point of the book. So yes.

Side note: well worth a read. Fascinating 19th century look at the psychology of man.
>his personal share of the legal fees awarded in that case alone was rumored to be $80 million

Why do you feel the need to point out how much Mr. Lerach earns or is worth in your discussion? What is the relevance?

You realize the Facebook Board of Directors has 8 billionaires on it, right?
PostgreSQL + JSON gets you working transactions and schemaless.
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Thanks. I do use outbound firewall. Yet, I don't want to rely on it as a primary means to control network access by local software, because sometimes things break.

I mean, I want local software (esp., FLOSS one) to be configured civilized enough on its own to not do anything I don't want it to do, even when the guardian tools leave them unmonitored.

That's why I've asked if someone possibly already did so and has a configuration preset or something like that.
The last time I did any Android work it was painful. That was back with Eclipse though, I have heard Android Studio improves things and now with things like Intel HAXM apparently the emulator isn't painfully slow.

The best experience, by a long shot, is Windows Phone. Shame nobody uses it. iOS isn't too bad with Xcode if you live fully in the Apple world (Obj-C, Swift) but Xcode is funky with C++ which can be frustrating at times.

Microsoft have seriously upped their C++ game in recent years. Now with VS Community being free for the majority of people there has never been a better time to give things another shot if you were put off MS in the past.
It has been awhile, but MSR used to be the place where people went and still published, while Google Labs was a black hole. I remember some Google guy giving a talk at NIPS, but it was just a presentation from a shared corporate slide deck, which did not fit in with the rest of the conference. Google attracted some really good machine learning folks (temporarily) by offering them boatloads of money and manpower to implement their ideas, not freedom to publish. Has that changed?
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Sure, but ZODB doesn't "horizontally scale". That's what makes multi-object transactions hard in mainstream NoSQL databases. And that's what's so cool about the linked papers; they describe two different mechanisms to achieve both multi-object transactions and horizontal scaling.

Of course, the next question is whether you actually need scaling. Outgrowing a database is a "problem of success"; if you have that problem you can throw money at the problem. It's much more important to concentrate your efforts on achieving success; choose your database focusing on your business problem, not on hopeful future potential problems.
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Am I the only one that's concerned that Uber are trying to patent Supply & Demand?

https://www.google.com/patents/US20130246207
Exams can be retaken. If you fail because you are dumb there's not much you can do but if you fail because you were building something cool then that's fixable.
-- IANAL --

The relevant paragraph of the position paper might be:

"Die Datenschutzbehörden werden derzeit keine neuen Genehmigungen für Datenübermittlungen in die USA auf Grundlage von verbindlichen Unternehmensregelungen (BCR) oder Datenexportverträgen erteilen."

( http://www.datenschutz-berlin.de/attachments/1150/Positionsp... )

which says data protection agencies in Germany will not permit new Binding Corporate Rules (BCR) or new (!) data export contracts ("Datenexportverträgen") anymore.

Sadly (gladly?) they do not use the word "Standardvertragsklauseln" for model EU clauses here, so it's not clear if you could get new approval for model standard clauses. They probably do not mean "Standardvertragsklauseln" as they mention "Standardvertragsklauseln" when agreeing to the end of January deadline.

Also reading the text overall I assume that existing BCR etc. are fine until the end of January as by the EU 29 Working Party paper, just no new ones.
Cheers, I have tried that, it might suit a symmetrical keyboard a little better or a tenkeyless, but the keyboard feels a little low still. And slightly wrong. It's the pointer that's also a pain. I recline with a laptop on my lap and that's okayish as the touchpad is accessible, but still not great. Like you, I'm keyboard focused mainly, with the occasional use of the pointer. I don't have one place in the house which is particularly comfortable to use a PC at, and I'd need a new room for that chair! On my laptop I have the nipple in the middle, but it requires a bit too much stress for it to be comfortable. Otherwise that could be a great addition to any keyboard.
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