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I think author of this article is strangely biased towards dynamic languages. Go is not about shortest programs in the worlds, yes sometimes code is longer than in python. But in Go I can manage code execution and predict memory easier better than in Python or other dynamic languages. Many things in Go were done on purpose. Learn to use Go and it's awesome tools, like gofmt, goimports and others.
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I mean generating all your commands to a flatfile, then just execute the file via bash or similar.
So if VMware loses this what would prevent e.g. Microsoft from claiming that the kernel driver in Process Hacker is a derivative work of the Windows kernel? Or worse, anything that patches a Windows DLL is a derivative work of that dll?
I once found a link that showed useful charts for historical weather data including averages and highs and lows. I can't find it right now, but Googling for it brings up a similar site: https://weatherspark.com
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They've been fighting for years to not make it right. I don't think there is any scenario in which one could say they have "made it right". VMware is a company that won't participate ethically with the Linux community, even when given ample opportunity to do so, and they should be shunned for that behavior.

It's not even asking that much, honestly. The kernel components are a very small portion of the VMware stack, and are pretty clearly an extension of GPL code. The argument VMware is making would effectively destroy the GPL, if successful. Any company could fork a GPL project, build some extensions with some minor handwaving in the general direction of abstracting it out into "modules" and call it a non-derivative work.

This isn't, from my understanding, merely a binary blob that gets loaded into any standard Linux kernel, as some proprietary Linux driver modules do; there's seems to be a steady state around this use case, where Linus and the community is reasonably comfortable with it (even though some other GPL projects take a harder line on this sort of extension). But, what VMware is shipping is a broken version of Linux (i.e. one that does not have the protections of the GPL for end users).

The conversation with VMware has been going on for years, since it was first noticed they were non-compliant with the BusyBox license. VMware has always had no respect for the GPL. Which would be fine, if they stayed the fuck out of Linux. But, if they want to play in the Linux market, they need to play by the rules that the rest of the industry plays by.
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"Mainstreaming", which dates became a buzzword around 1980, refers to putting special needs in the same classes as other students. It does not generally mean that everyone was on the same track. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstreaming_%28education%29

For example, this 1995 article describes how a school for the blind was closing because of the mainstreaming of blind students. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_DRQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pVUD... . Here's a recent example of a teacher using the term 'mainstreaming', http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2015/10/pa-shutting-down-... , and doing so only in the context of special ed.

Either your school district was using its own definition, or you misunderstood the context.

"Well-rounded education" was a bigger buzzword in the 1940s and 1950s. See https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=well-rounded+e... . It's part of the American education system that students are required to take course in a diverse set of subjects. It doesn't require that everyone take the same classes.

That clarification aside, and assuming I'm completely wrong, how does a charter system, which presumably has the same general graduation requirements, change things?

Anything more about your circumstances requires understanding more about your district. Eg, was everyone in the same level of math, so that no one (or everyone) took calculus by the time they graduated? Were there only 25 students in the class? Did everyone take the same foreign language course?

Wow! My school has changed. There's a "Drafting / Illustrative Design Technology" track, a "Fashion Design" track, which includes "Fashion Marketing Management", an "Arts, A/V Technology & Communications" cluster, and more http://www.coralgablescavaliers.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uRE... .
Let's say a public school has grades K-5 with 2 classrooms of 32 students per grade. That's 12 classrooms, for a total of 384 students. Let's also assume that school gets $6000 per year, per student (total of $2.3 million). The budget is already threadbare, so there aren't many places left to cut.

Now let's say you take away 10% of the students from that school, such that you now have 29 students in each class. The school's budget is now $2 million, but they haven't shed any costs: they still have the same number of teachers, the same buildings to maintain, etc. So they have to get creative with their budget, which is how you end up with crappy local schools that don't have arts classes, a school nurse, or enough books to go around. This causes more students to flee to the charter school system, making the problem worse and creating situations where kids are frequently unsupervised. Worse, these schools are often forced to take on students with no additional funding in the event a charter school goes bankrupt (which happens to 1-2 charter schools a year in most major cities).

I'm sure my take on this issue would be different if I had kids, and the teacher's unions are part of the problem. But we should fix the unions and the schools, not provide an unregulated system where government money is funneled into private businesses with little to no oversight.
I think an interesting question that I am currently trying to think through is whether it's possible to structure your outsourcer relationship in such a way that their incentives are more aligned. I will be renegotiation a contract with a company, were we represent over 80% of their business. They have great technical people, and have generally delivered good work, but with more management overhead than we'd like - so we want them to be more accountable. Any ideas would be appreciated.
How many hours does that take?

Why does it take so long and yet being a waiter requires no (government) training at all?
Good luck replacing it yourself without breaking the keyboard, mainboard or other devices glued to the battery. I'm not saying you can't do it, but that it does happen.
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I did the same with my 2010 MBA after it died at around 850 cycles. Easy to do in a few minutes and working flawlessly since.
> I wonder if there wasn't something more wrong with his laptop caused by letting a worn-out battery sit in there too long.

I wonder why batteries aren't easily replaceable on both laptops and phones?

You know, it wasn't always so. I remember when you could literally slide the battery out of a laptop and slide a new one in.

And don't give me this thin bullshit.

I have a Samsung Series 9 and it is thinner than the Macbook Air. I just changed the battery myself. It took me 15 minutes. I unscrewed the back (standard philips screws) and slid the old one out and put the new one in. That's it. And I was still pissed, because, why the screws?

Oh did I mention I bought the new battery on eBay for $25? Has been working perfectly well for weeks now and when it doesn't, I'll buy a new one.

Honestly, this is nothing more than greed. Handicapping a product to increase service costs. That's just shameful.
Agreed. I stopped using Chrome at home. It was weird moving to Safari but I get much longer battery life now.
I'm an IBM employee, was self-deprecating humor, actually. ;)
Thanks! That's good to know. I'm familiar with these articles but they didn't mention that. In fact part 5 says something entirely else about X vs. 3.0.
Um, maybe to use it in an commercial setting? I've literally no idea what you're talking about as I've never come across that before. I've always just pulled down the station stuff I need by hand (since you can get all the station's data at once), or by some lightly mechanized webscraping. Your comment sounded significantly more chill than what it seems like you might need.

It wouldn't be terribly difficult to mechanize this and get all the data at once, but I thought you wanted to occasionally see how much it rained, not build a service out of this.

Does this page[1] not contain what you need?

[1] http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ftp/ushcn_daily/
Buying a car but having to wait four months to actually get it sounds like the kind of horror story people used to tell when I was a kid about the terrible economic conditions in the Soviet Union. No, in the US people pretty much just go shopping, pick out a car, buy it, and drive it home. I know one guy who ordered a car custom and had to wait for it, but he is really into cars and is the sort of person who cultivates a specific and unusual aesthetic in everything he owns, so nobody was surprised that he would go to unusual lengths to get a particular vehicle.
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In Poland (where salaries in general are higher than in Ukraine, my guess would be about twice as high) 4 grand for a dev isn't unheard of, but far from typical, especially outside of Warsaw.
> The base 13 inch MBP costs $1299 in the US and £999 in the UK

Are they both `after taxes`?
Hopefully they'll be able to harness all of this delicious weather data and squirt forecasts to our watches as depicted in BTTF II.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI7ctWyXl5s
Very often, one reports that a particular phenomenon or result reported in previously could not be reproduced in a different experiment. This is just reporting that that particular result may be complex and context-specific. This is a negative citation but has no negative connotation, it does not even imply disagreement.

Only in relatively rare cases where an exact experiment is repeated in the same context and the stated result could not be reproduced, it is an attack on the credibility of original work and is truly a 'negative' (as in bad) citation.

The issue here is that the 'negative' used in a scientific sense is exactly that - a 'negative'. In colloquial usage, 'negative' means bad. The headline is just using this semantic difference as clickbait.
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The lottery still has a selection bias, just less of one than outright cherry picking the best students.

That being said, I'm not sure either of these are a problem. The real problem (one of them at least) is that a school's performance is measured by the student's scores on standardized testing.
I had a C2D based MBP that I absolutely loved... the drive, ram and battery were user serviceable, and the form factor wasn't that much bigger than my current i7 based MBP. In fact if the original weren't stolen, I'd still be using it.

BTW, $400 comes pretty close to buying a new laptop nearly as capable as a 2 year old machine.
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So there's an active, non-artificial market for scummy negotiating tactics and pressuring people to take deceptive financing deals?
Well it should be very clear, that if you believe that Ceylon has a problem interoperating with Java's unreified generics, that you don't know enough about Ceylon to be able to comment with any sort of certainty on the topic of Ceylon and Java interop.

Because you quite obviously have never even tried it once.

That's clear, isn't it?
> while the kids are just choosing the thing that is not total bullshit and is actually useful for something.

This assumption borders on absurd.
Removing protectionist laws that allow certain businesses to flourish by restricting competition should only create uncertainty in other areas where there are similar laws. I don't believe there are many such areas. The only other industry I can think of where there are mandated middlemen is alcohol, and it would be great to fix that too.
Don't forget technological advancements, the other price driver. They're 11 years into the research, there could still be huge changes coming in how they can produce it.
Wunderground and weather.com were owned by the same company? For some reason I never would have guessed that just based on my experience on those sites.

Wunderground generally feels clean and on-topic.

Weather.com is often filled with "Doomsday scenario with newest hurricane season" and "Check out this massive shark jumping" news stories.
This reminds me a "joke" told to me by a friend who works at what used to be Softlayer (and has now been integrated into IBM) to explain why IBM bought Softlayer: "IBM wanted to have a good cloud business, so they bought one".
> I find it somewhat depressing that emailing folks about domain names they're not using results in either a) being ignored or b) being asked to pay $40,000.

Some domains that appear unused are actually being used.

I've got a very minimal, largely neglected, web presence on my domain, but would not even consider selling it unless the price was very very high.

That's because I am using it--for email. If I were to sell my domain I'd have to update my information with thousands of sites, companies, and individuals.

That's not something I'd be willing to undertake lightly. Any place that has my email that I forget to update is a place where my account could be easily hijacked.
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Careful - applying the "do I like it myself?" principle implies that you're doing the same tasks as the people who will make the decisions in the future.

I like Haskell etc. a lot, but I've found that in the very early stages of the project, it's quite important to allow incorrect code and illegal state because you don't know what "correct" means yet. New products are almost always built by making sure the happy path works and not worrying about anything else, because if you worry about anything else, it will take you that much longer to bring something to market.

Languages that prove correctness have the unfortunate position of being most useful once the project has already grown big. At that point, the programming language used has already been decided, and it's usually whatever was popular for toy projects 10 years ago.

I do think we'll see more languages that take the "immutable by default" route, but allow escape hatches for when you really need to break the rules. Even when prototyping, most of your data structures can be immutable, you just occasionally need to monkey-patch something or alter some state from inside a loop.
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If they can get away with it, they'll try, because it's more money in their pocket. They don't care if it's fair or not. Plus, often times the people actually making salary decisions like that are "HR professionals" or something, who have no real understanding of the value of one individual vs. another. They just compute the minimum salary needed to keep the turnover of generic FTEs low in some market.
That's just part of the deal. Sometimes you just have to write few more lines of code. Your fingers won't die from it.
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Recent versions of Imagemagick support entropy measurement, which is typically lower in diagram/line art type images. You can check it with 'identify -format "%[entropy]" filename.png'. Some quick testing suggests photographic images usually measure greater than about 0.8.
Their blog about this recently is here: https://loco2.com/blog/more-powerful-rail-journey-planning

Reading between the lines it seems they license the Hacon API from Deutsche Bahn
> My response: ban alcohol at lunch.

Well I'm glad I live in a country where bosses can't dictate what their employees eat at lunch, then. What next, ban onions and cheese because they give bad breath and that's unacceptable?

Though since my boss drinks beer at lunch about as frequently as I do...
This is exactly what I'm talking about. The "overall PC market" is very different from Apple's market segment:

http://gizmodo.com/5033865/study-average-mac-computer-price-...

You might as well compare sales of Macs to sales of office furniture or canned beets.

The information you want is the effect of the battery/case design on Mac sales. The only way to get that is to exclude the effect of everything else that has changed in the interim, which we can't.

In other words the data we want is not available and the available data is not overwhelmingly positive.
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Not "evil networks" but "entire network".

"I can't see how an employed and wealthy population could be a bad thing."

It isn't. But what we're facing is a _small_ employed and extremely wealthy fraction of the population together with a _huge_ low-paid supermajority of the population.

Small business owners want fewer and less taxes, no unions, lower wages, lower healthcare costs, fewer worker protections, etc. Left to themselves they would drive wages to zero. Small businesses join others to support certain non-profits that lobby in Washington, DC on their behalf. Nothing illegal, but one must ask such questions as: "Where are the lobbyists for low-paid workers?" or "Who will support the workers' families after the workers die from inhaling toxic substances day after day?" These are questions in which the small businessman's lobbyist has no interest.

In one chapter "Conscience of a Liberal" Krugman histories the development of this relatively new conservative and wealthy network of individuals and not-for-profit corporations. Read/skim the book for details:

http://www.amazon.com/Conscience-Liberal-Paul-Krugman/dp/039...

One of Krugman's points is that the middle class is disappearing in the USA: wealth distribution now mirrors that which existed in the so-called "Gilded Age" of the Rockefellers, Carnegie et al (late 19th-early 20th century): a small percentage of extremely rich people and a large percentage of poor, with a very small middle class.

FDR's New Deal, by increasing taxes radically on the wealthy (both inheritance and income taxes) and increasing wages, brought a strong middle-class into existence. That middle class has been the engine of the US economy but is dwindling. The solution is to restore taxes and support the worker's causes.

Gilded Age:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age

"Why We’re in a New Gilded Age" by Paul Krugman:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/may/08/thomas-...

The Rich, the Right, and the Facts: Deconstructing the Income Distribution

http://prospect.org/article/rich-right-and-facts-deconstruct...
To be clear, I meant that their contributions to NK paled in comparison to the Chinese. The Soviets never fielded group troops, and their air combat was limited.

Per that Wikipedia article, the USSR only had about ~3200 people involved, exclusively in air combat, compared to the Chinese's 250,000 man army.

Nor was the air support comprehensive: "Soviet assistance was limited to providing air support no closer than 60 miles (96 km) from the battlefront."

"It has been alleged by the Chinese that the Soviets had agreed to full scale air support, which never occurred south of Pyongyang, and helped accelerate the Sino-Soviet Split."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Volunteer_Army

The Soviets also invoiced China for the price of the air and group equipment they provided, per your article. Hardly traditional "backing"?

Oh, and Stalin apparently approved of reunification, per your other article:

> The People's Republic of China acquiesced only reluctantly to the idea of Korean reunification after being told by Kim that Stalin had approved the action.[35][36][37]

I stand by my statement that while North Korea had backing from the USSR, it was mainly the Chinese involvement that has made it what it is today. One needs to only look at the politics in the meantime to see that the Russians left Korea, Manchuria, etc to be dealt with by others, and that China has been instrumental in using its UN voting powers to sway intervention about NK, and being its only notable trading partner.

In any case, you've hardly allayed my original point that the US and USSR have both had numerous political gaffes, and that mere involvement of one or the other doesn't constitute "goodness" or "badness". The US has quashed democracy as much as it has promoted it.
I wouldn't be too hopeful; this situation is the entire reason IBM made this purchase.

IBM is in the business of providing data about a whole lot of things. I would expect the cost for access to this data to go up, not down -- the majority people who care about how much it rained in the last week only care because they can make more money by knowing that.
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> Or just open a direct sales channel to compete with dealers, but make the existing dealers perform service and deliver inventory? And take your trade-in?

I don't really understand this. You won't have to make them perform service. Dealers love performing service. It's where they make their money. The car sales side mostly exists to drive business to the service side.

Deliver inventory? If they can do it better than the manufacturer, sure. If they can't, then why should that side exist? Whoever can do the best job should be the ones doing it.

Take your trade-in? Most places just sell your trade at auction, and make a profit on it. I don't see why they would stop this, or be unwilling to do it.

Either independent dealers provide value, or they don't. If they provide value, they should be able to survive in an environment where manufacturers are allowed to sell directly to customers. If they don't, then why are we keeping them around?
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FWIW, the battery on the Air also isn't glued, changing it is also a 15 min job, and it's also available for cheap online. But you do need the special screwdrivers for the bottom panel.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Air+13-Inch+Mid+2013+Ba...
That, my friend, is known as effective market segmentation.
"Another way to look at it is that Ceylon was designed to appeal to Scala people"

This is quite clearly not true, and yet another assertion that you just made up and stated as fact. We're Java not Scala developers, and we designed Ceylon for other people like us. Don't try to tell me what my own motivations were.

In fact, it's very difficult to imagine, even charitably, why you would possibly be motivated to make such a claim unless you were deliberately trying to spread misinformation.