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While the title is linkbait-ish, the article makes interesting points with code examples, and the author is not 'religious' -- he concludes by saying he will continue to use Go.

Like most other languages, Go is neither great nor bad; it's just another tool designed by people to solve a specific set of problems -- in Go's case, people who in the past have had to develop very, very large, complicated systems with lots of concurrency. For projects like that, Go would be a great choice; for other projects, it might not be.

In some circumstances even Ruby can be a better choice than Go for high concurrency. I recently read a post on HN in which the author (someone with an Erlang background) lays the reasons why he chose Ruby for a highly concurrent application. When I first saw the link, my immediate thought was, Ruby!!?? But then I read the post and the reasons were all very sensible and practical-minded, so in that case Ruby was arguably a much better choice than Go, Erlang, Scala, Rust, and the like.

Here's the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10394450 (direct link: https://github.com/rustyio/super-imap#why-ruby) -- I really liked the rational, practical, 'non-religious' tone.

Suggestion: don't call Go or any other popular language "poorly designed" with a short blog post. Instead, say "it doesn't fit my current needs."
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International Business Machines on Wednesday announced an agreement to acquire The Weather Co.'s B2B, mobile, and cloud-based web properties, including WSI, weather.com, Weather Underground and The Weather Company brand.

Source: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/28/ibm-plans-to-acquire-the-weat...
It's extremely uncommon to have to pay back compensation when one is fired.

The board has the option of denying the severance entirely if they think that he did not deliver the requested services.
The quality of service in Apple stores can be very patchy - insultingly bad at times. I once got home from buying a new MBP to find that the RAM upgrade I'd paid (and waited an hour) for hadn't been done.

I now adopt an adversarial mindset when dealing with Apple. :-)
> unless it becomes a widespread concern for millenials

Why do you think millenials don't care about privacy?

This news is #2 on the Reddit homepage right now, and did you not see Reddit explode (and blackout) over SOPA, either?
That remains to be seen. CO2 is fairly innocuous, and already makes up a large percent of the volume of air. It's theorized that it leads to climate change (that being said, 8000 years ago Europe was also in an ice age, yet it thawed without mankind's help), but for the present time the amount of deaths that can be directly blamed on CO2 from cars (remember, people and animals create more CO2 than vehicles) is non-existent. Even if mankind's CO2 use does tip the scale enough to definitively kill millions, more CO2 is produced from power plants, ships, industrial ranching and burning forests than is produced by cars (especially VW cars).

On the other hand, the other gases released by diesel-burning automobiles do show direct health consequences, and VW has done the most to propagate diesel vehicles...
I just flipped through the tutorial and the "TextWindow.WriteLine" philosophy is used throughout the language. Want to write to a UI, it's "GraphicWindow". So for "standards" sake, I think it is ok. The tutorial was pretty good and it's a simple language.

Ultimately the original is simpler.
> Most of the personnel retained at a dealership do useful work. That same work will be required regardless of who runs the show.

Some people may benefit from this "service", but not me, nor any of the people I know. The only benefit I could see from my previous buying experiences is the act of handing out the key for a test drive. Everything else was simply designed to extract as much money from my pocket without giving me back anything in return. I had all the information I needed to make a purchase decision, the financing doesn't need to be done at the dealership, the car can be bought from a website, and delivered to the curb. A bunch of grown men sitting around all day and swarming people that enter the floor with the goal of "giving them a good deal" is not a value proposition. It's a complete misallocation of resources.
And nobody claimed otherwise. Order backlogs introduce the large delays; manufacturing/shipping takes days or at most two weeks.
The vast majority of the games in the humble bundles would never get any money from me. It's some or nothing, and I assume they would prefer "some".
This article seems a bit unreasonable.

AppleCare not being automatically associated with a device when it isn't purchased from an Apple store is pretty clearly marked on both the AppleCare box, and every third party dealer I've bought from has either pointed this out or offered to register it for me on the spot. Later in the article he mentions that the Apple tech said they could resolve this issue, so it was really not a problem and just looking for more things to rant about.

As others have pointed out, the Macbook batteries are rated for 1000 cycles, and as this was only at 652 it should have been covered by the AppleCare warranty for free repair. Reading between the lines of this article, it sounds like Apple did offer to replace the battery for free in the end here, which negates the whole rant about $400 being too expensive since the repair would have been free.

This only leaves the fact that it takes 3 days, which in the scheme of things doesn't seem too unreasonable. In a perfect world, yes, they could service it while you wait. However, I once had to get an Acer laptop repaired, and it took at least 3 weeks.

Also, 652 cycles in just 1.5 years of use is insane. That's more than a full charge and discharge cycle every single day. I've had my Macbook for nearly 3 years and it's only at around 500 cycles.
>so the salesperson can direct the dialog, completely control the conversation.

And direct you towards something they have in inventory, not the configuration you came up with on the manufacturers website.
Right; I don't think all charter schools are bad. But the way the system is implemented in many states, there is no way to know what the quality of a school actually is. The way it's funded causes a disproportionate drop in available resources for students who aren't in charter schools, which stresses an already broken system to a level that endangers students safety.

Private schools are and have always been an option if you don't like the level of education provided by your local district. If we feel we're not getting our money's worth from our public schools, that's fine -- but fix the public schools, don't divert the money elsewhere. Schools don't react to competitive pressures, so all that causing competition for state funding is going to do is decrease quality.
To be fair that's not super useful information - I've never not seen Safari there when it's being used. Definitely agree that Chrome is way worse in practice though.
Just an FYI, that page is broken for me. JS error of: "Failed to load resource: Could not connect to the server."
Hey buddy, I use this resource[1] all the time (and they're actually housed into the building next to me here at work). It's the long-term climate records from monitoring stations across the country, the United States Historical Climatology Network, and you can get daily data going back over a hundred years in some cases.

For example, I've used it to crank out random temperature histograms in the past[2], and even plotted some long-term averages to decide on temperature and precipitation ranges when going on camping trips. It's really useful if you're willing to work with the data a tiny bit. You're getting csv files, so it's not terrible to work with in any way via Python or R, or whichever data-friendly language/tool you want to use.

[1] http://cdiac.ornl.gov/epubs/ndp/ushcn/ushcn_map_interface.ht...

[2] http://btus.us/decadal-histograms-of-monthly-yosemite-temper...
This is a smart move and obvious application of the Watson engine if it can be applied reliably to the unpredictable 'global weirding' weather problems.

Does anyone know if organisations like Home Depot, for example, roll their own solutions or rely on 3rd parties to help move things like generators into stores ahead of storms?
12,000 non-suicide gun deaths per year say "too fucking bad." Sorry, it's time to find a different hobby.
If it's plugged in, it can boot. Anything else is a malignant abomination masquerading as design.

No exceptions.
This method sort of reminds me of one of the opening scenes from Das Leben der Anderen (which is a great movie): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkRxvEjprBM
That's a big assumption to make. And probably one someone made about COBOL once...
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IBM is a financial services company that dabbles in tech.
Wunderground is included in the deal.

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/47952.wss
As far as I know it's 100% up to each store to watch the weather reports and determine the required action.
There's nothing intrinsic about prices, period. It's all about what people are willing to pay.

People are willing to pay a substantial premium for a car that is completely brand new, as compared to a car that is very nearly new but has been driven by another person for a short time.

That's all it takes to be able to say that a new car depreciates substantially the moment you take it home.
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They are an engineering services firm providing everything from consultation to turn key solutions to PAAS and IAAS products. Most of their work is enterprise and governmental and covered by NDAs and contracts that aren't/can't be widely publicized.
There is a difference between the creation of the status quo and the defense of it.

> ...out in the street protesting...

> ...Chicago Teacher's Union marches...

> ...cab drivers block streets...

Your examples are all of its defense which, while understandable, is largely ignorant of the protections' unintended consequences. My earlier comments addressed the creation of those protections and the effects of their inevitable repeal.

> The idea that employees are innocents is riduculous.

I in no way implied innocence of any party.

> This seems to be politically biased.

Not that it matters, but I am contractually obligated to not display political bias in public. Even without that, as a matter of course and as a non-political resident of Capitol Hill, I avoid politically-biased discussion.
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If you catch X people trying to blow up a plane and no planes get blown up, that's fairly good evidence that your method of catching people trying to blow up planes has been 100% successful. So far.
The cost of living in most Indian cities is higher than the midwest. Good devs there will cost quite a bit.
Check light came on so I continued to drive for 3 months while ignoring it and complaining loudly. What do you mean fuel pump is in the fuel tank and it needs to go to the shop? Cant you swap it on a parking lot, like right now?? I have places to be!11. $400? Thats as much as I charge for half an hour of one of my photo shoots, and you are just a dirty wrench monkey! Its not like you repair anything, you said it yourself its just a part exchange.

This is how some apple owners act when they come for "new phone case" with iphone 6 that has been stepped on.
Yes, I wonder how many of those 900 will be replaced by watson?
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The bad news is it's probably not just one. The most popular languages to learn are Ruby, Python, JavaScript,Java, HTML, CSS, PHP, C/C++, .Net. They maybe are the ones you should learn to make money today. You have to determine whether you may be interested in mobile apps, gaming, client or server type of programming etc. and base you skill from this.
Btw, if you want to consider hiring a tutor. You might also want to visit this site where there are live streamers where you can learn code in languages you can choose. https://www.livecoding.tv/video/new-project-with-ruby-on-rai...
600 000 premature deaths and of the diseases caused by air pollution in the WHO European Region in 2010

http://www.euro.who.int/en/media-centre/sections/press-relea...

Some percebtage by car, of which some percentage by diesel cars, of which some are wv, of which some have defeat devices.

Edit: sorry totally misread parent post
I agree what you say, but there is also a different case.

I heard a lot of stories about companies paying different just basing on where the programmer lives. Eg. if he switches location, he automatically gets less/more money. This is a biggest nonsense for me I want to clarify.
Incentives on used car sales would be redundant, because the incentive gets baked into the price of the used car. A new Tesla gets a $7,500 tax credit when purchased in the US right now. If you turn around and sell it, you'll have to discount it by about $7,500 to account for the fact that you're competing with new cars that have that incentive.
I'm a full stack engineer and would love to hear some more details. Shoot me a message, my email is in my bio.
http://j.maxmind.com/app/geoip.js no longer exists (at least the domain j.maxmind.com)
300 million plus guns in the hands of 100 million plus citizens say "ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ" ... and as for my "hobby" of armed self-defense, that's a "too fucking bad" right back at you.

But let's get back to topic: this right is enshrined in our highest law. You don't entirely like it (I'm assuming you're willing to call armed police to protect yourself), but by what principle do you propose to infringe it without, you know, the other ones that e.g. prevent the Congress from passing a bill of attainder that orders you and everyone else contributing to the Windows ecosystem into a computer free concentration camp.
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Only if you're in a hurry! The interviewer can patiently wait for the subject to become bored. Formal interviews in intimidating settings (like panel interviews for jobs) are often scheduled to be much longer than necessary just on the expectation that the first half will be nervous ice-breaking and the real insights are after everyone loosens up and is capable of acting naturally.

That's probably half of "in vino veritas": drinking is an excuse to spend a few extra hours with nothing to do but chat.
Oh... so I'm one of those ignorant masses that should be silent, I hope that rule doesn't extend to asking to asking a few questions? If not, I hope you can forgive me for this:

Why were they made before? Why does this not apply now? This whole thing seems to be lifted on it's own bootstraps, and I think the grandparent post and I want this paradox addressed.
The dealer usually has some stock of the most common models and configurations that you can purchase right away. The car is custom built only if you don't like any of the available configurations (mostly happens for non-popular colors or extras).

Also dealers can co-operate and if one doesn't have the configuration you like, he may search for availability from other dealers.
NPR had a program about this not long ago. According to them, many of the most famous jazz musicians of the time, like Dizzy Gillespie, was sent abroad backed by CIA and the State Department.

Several of the most high profile musicians subsequently dropped out of that program after touring Europe for a while.

Supposedly the good reception they got in cosmopolitan centres like Paris put their treatment by the US public and their handlers in the government in a grim light.
> 1.2 million trucking companies in the US, most of which have fewer than six trucks

And thousands get shut down each year by the DOT. Being the Uber for trucking is great and all, but enabling these small trucking companies to pass DOT safety audits with flying colors could be the biggest advantage of all.

Safety rating is one of the biggest factors involved in selection of carriers because Union Carbide doesn't want their toxic chemical spilled all over the highway.

The safety rules for trucking are written in blood, meaning much of the rule book exists because people died. Trucking is immensely dangerous. If they get the safety part right, they'll take over the industry. If you knew how the trucking industry works you'd be amazed anything gets anywhere.
You can totally get your hands on it now! If you want an invite to the private release, we'd love to have your feedback. Also a release candidate will be out in less than 2 weeks. - rafi at zurb .com
For the most part, the Weather Company is merely redistributing data collected by the federal government, specifically the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. You can easily access historical rainfall data here: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hads/
Aren't European salaries generally quoted post-tax though? For an apples-to-apples comparison you'd have to think of the American salaries in terms of "after tax and typical payroll deductions (incl health care)".
Those formats are very well documented and standardised world wide. Commercial use is another thing though...
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What kind of math are you interested in and what you would like to accomplish?
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The National Weather Service makes historical weather data available for free in a standardized format.[0] I'm sure there's already a parser written for any language you might be using.

[0]http://w2.weather.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=mtr
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It is very common in India. Rent costs are typically half or less compare to US properties. Most people who buy are using black money or hoping for high appreciation in price of property. With rental income no one can service mortgage.
Two paragraphs later:

> The tech said he thought they could get the AppleCare issue worked out.

So his whole rant about AppleCare not being registered was a complete non-issue.
I can't speak for Depot, but in the case of some of the larger retail organizations, major weather events will get coordination from HQ, but beyond those its typically left up to regional and store manager discretion.
Free market logic requires perfect information, though. How many of us have seen Highly Paid Consultants come on that were absolutely terrible, yet were paid more than we were in salary?
That's fine, but providing internet access doesn't preclude others from solving other important (or perceivably more important) problems.
> hundreds thousands death caused by the pollition increase from the defeating device

I didn't claim that.
Point 4 makes sense though , it would really help with polymorphism in Go ,without generics. This is the kind of subtle behavior that is upsetting at times and I really think this is where the language could improve, definitely.
T450S is a totally different machine. Use the X1 for your example.
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I agree. As an avid "car guy" and a student of regulation, I cannot think of any reason for car dealers, as a whole, to be protected in the long-term. I am, however, perplexed with how we should address the possibility of established manufacturers attempting to cannibalize the sales of their most profitable franchises by building neighboring dealerships with their considerable capital.

I believe the California model actually offers a lot of hope: manufacturers can compete, but they must observe a 10 mile radius from existing franchises.
That's certainly my view, at least: good and bad are orthogonal to new and old. There are periods where new tends to imply good, others where new tends to imply bad (think of the material culture of the '70s), and others where there's no particular correlation; but if something doesn't contravene your values and objectives, there's no particular reason not to adopt it.

Of course, sometimes things turn out to be more hostile to you than you expected them to be, so caution is in order -- but not paralysis.
In 2007 or so, a number of us engineers from Lockheed had created a shipping/trucking cargo tracking device... It was a combo rfid tag with gprs, gps, wifi and mesh networking capabilities along with sensors like accelerometers...

Nobody wanted it.
You'll notice they explicitly don't cover regulations (like the one they were writing), probably because of the amount of legal precedent for nitpicking the exact phraseology of a given law or regulation...
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I think the real benefit of charter schools is consumer choice. You get to chose what school to send your children to. It's a very personal choice as to what you teach your children and how you raise them. Forcing children into one school due to the accident of geography is an injustice that unfortunately mostly impacts the most marginal people in society.
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Hmm... My guess is that in a few years, we'll see the word frequency analysis being used by police as an investigative technique.

It's an interesting thought. Imagine the linguistic equivalent of using Benford's Law to detect accounting fraud.
I refuse to buy a laptop with no user-replaceable battery. I expect to need to replace the tires/brakes on my car, and I expect to replace the battery in my laptop.

If you keep your laptops long enough, you'll eventually have to deal with replacing a battery. My two-year old Dell latitude E6530 is solid (and admittedly heavy), with no noticeable flex. It has an easily replaceable battery as well as user-upgradeable RAM! I'd call it a well-made piece of hardware. I expect to replace the battery in the next year or so (the battery is starting to show its age by now, but at least it still works).

A bit off-topic: My previous laptop, a C2D Macbook Pro (old enough it had a replaceable battery) developed a swollen battery after 2 years. At the 3 year mark I had to open it up and replace a failed case fan (and a hard drive). Also, the optical drive failed within the first year, as did its warranty replacement. I eventually gave up on that (and removed the drive so it would stop churning incessantly) and bought an external USB drive.
Only if this were considered conclusive (which it isn't) and if it weren't attempted first with an honest recounting of an actual memory (which they do).

I assume the true experience is done first to give a basis for comparison, since this is based on the idea that people paint pictures of their memories less reliably when they're fabricating them on the spot.

Having poorer recall actually might bias the results more in favor of a lie, if the interviewer doesn't reject the method as unsuitable or inconclusive first.
Whats the differentiation between you and segment?
Interesting, it was my understanding that HomeDepot HQ move stock around ahead of predicted near term need.
It's said that Sun turned down IBM's buyout bid and went with Oracle because they thought that there'd ultimately be fewer layoffs with Oracle. Of course, no one really knows how things would've played out if IBM had taken over Sun.
It is a hobby, don't kid yourself.

I would enthusiastically support a repeal of the 2nd amendment. It was a product of its time, and its time has passed. In any case, it is so incredibly vague that your argument can be used to support private ownership of nuclear weapons.
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Who cares about precise? We want accurate weather forecasts, which (as far as I've heard meteorologists say) is pretty much impossible for much of the world. Weather is just not very predictable yet.
Well the thing is that Ceylon offers fantastically smooth interop with both Java and JavaScript. That's one of it's main selling features for most people.