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> My biggest complaint of using ChromeOS on a pixel 2 is that there are no good text editors on the level of Sublime Text (which works on linux).

Atom works great in Crouton on my pixel 2. I've switched to that as my full-time dev machine. I run everything but Atom in terminals. I run Atom in an X window (xiwi) and have no linux desktop at all. Lean and mean.
Really hard to answer because of the concept of poetry.Poessy?
Blocking out the largest territory in the continental United States seems like a ham-handed solution for any app.
As an autodidact software developer, I've been lucky enough to avoid these self-doubts.

I still experience them, but the difference is I don't wonder what my peers think: For the first few years I was teaching myself how to code, the harsh open ego of my online community tore me down every step of the way. Mainly hackers and engineers on IRC.

There's nothing like hearing a peer or mentor tell me my work is utter crap, with full unabashed honesty. One of my most vivid memories is a fellow developer telling me my abilities were amateur and I wasn't qualified for the job, straight to my face, in front of all my peers. This is only possible in a pseudo-work online environment, with non-coworker peers. The impersonal pragmatism of online social groups has been a valuable crucible for suspected impostors, and it forces me to examine myself and see my failings. Harsh, and often false, but no longer a question lingering on my mind.
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> All US population groups other than post-1965 immigrants have below replacement fertility.

U.S. Mormons have greater-than-replacement fertility rates, making Utah top the nation's fertility rates. (Posting as WildUtah, you should know this!)
> Have you looked into Lending Club and Prosper Marketplace peer to peer lending platforms?

1. Lending Club and Prosper Marketplace have grown up in a period of historically low defaults. We will see how successful investors, retail and institutional, really are at assessing and managing risk when the current cycle ends and defaults rise. As Warren Buffett said, "Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked."

2. Marketplace lending activity is increasingly institutional[1]. Without institutional money seeking yield, you would not see nearly as much dollar volume in this market.

3. While I would not be surprised to find that some institutional investors aren't very diligent, you should also recognize that the notes they are purchasing typically make up just a portion of their investments. Unless you have a 360-view of a fund, it's not entirely fair to pass judgment on how well the fund manager is managing risk.

4. Assessing the risk of Lending Club and Prosper notes, which are debt obligations associated with consumer loans, is a very different exercise than assessing the risk of an equity investment in a company, especially when that company has little or no operating history.

5. The last time I checked, the notes on Lending Club and Prosper were actually obligations of Lending Club and Prosper and are not secured by the actual loans. In other words, if Lending Club or Prosper run into financial difficulty and can't meet their obligations, investors can lose even if a borrower is still making payments on his or her loan. I would venture a guess that many of the supposedly diligent retail investors you refer to don't actually know this.

[1] http://qz.com/536573/one-thing-putin-and-kim-jong-un-both-ge...
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Dev here. If the dataset takes a long time to download, then blabr isn't the right tool--its for smaller, conceptual, problems.
Whether we end up aligned with mountain or Pacific time is a non-trivial difference. You're saying we should end up in a way that isn't grouped with the nearby geographic states.

Also, the reservations DO use DST here, so parts of the state would be permanently 1 hour off from the rest of the state in your construction and would never realign.

So yes, it makes a difference in which direction you align--one way the entire state will be uniform and the same as the other states in its longitude whereas the other it will be strangely divided.

Yeah, maybe we could adopt some permanent offset to match everyone, but that wouldn't be a 'no change' kind of thing.
> Any positive population growth is necessarily exponential

No, its not. There are all kinds of growth curves that are not exponential. Exponential growth is has a constant multiple over a fixed time frame. (so, a constant doubling interval.)

Positive growth and exponential growth have nothing to do with each other; exponential growth can be positive or negative, and positive (or negative) growth can be non-exponential.

> but that doesn't change the mathematical reality.

The mathematical reality is that the population isn't growing exponentially, and that positive growth doesn't imply exponential growth.
Blog: http://fogbeam.blogspot.com

Best post? Hmm... tough call, but I think maybe I'd go with:

http://fogbeam.blogspot.com/2013/05/why-star-trek-computer-w...
You realize that link was in the first line of the article, right?
But that's how it's presented, not content. Look I dislike 5mb pages with 2 paragraphs of text content as much as the next guy, but if I had to choose between that and 1000 shitty Geocities 'personal homepages' and the vast wealth of information that can be found on the internet today, I'd choose today in a heartbeat.

How can someone claim with a straight face "but the web really was a lot more fun pre-dotcom-bubble" ? Good luck trying to find anything outside of nerd subculture and physics/math/CS content (exaggeration of course, but the core is true). (of course it could be 'true' if all one cares about is nerd subculture and physics/math/CS content...)
What's GAI-complete? I'm assuming you don't mean getaddrinfo and a Google search doesn't reveal much.
Nitrokey is another one: https://www.nitrokey.com/
"We were full of hope and optimism, and believed we could do anything. That’s good baby-making weather, folks."

I've seen this effect at multiple startup companies. If the company has success, the babies start to come.
The discussion at the end regarding the moral and ethical implications of having kids is interesting. I struggled with this on an intuitive level having not run the numbers myself. However some friends also pointed out that maybe the world doesn't need fewer people but more smart ones.

I think the choice to not have children is perfectly legitimate. There is plenty of social pressure to procreate if you're involved in a committed Heterosexual relationship.

But it's a difficult problem to pose ethically. If I were the author I would have left that out. There be dragons in the ethics department.
People speculate on worthless commodities all of the time under the "there's always a bigger sucker" principle. As long as you aren't the last person left holding the bag you can make a bunch of money.

Besides, Apple started paying dividends again back in 2012.
I know for sure, after years of struggling in several companies, that I just can't work in a room with no fresh air. Just can't. I can be well rested, I can drink 10 coffees, and I still will be insanely tired and sleeping on the keyboard while everyone else next to me is working full power.

The other thing that gets me is temperature. Most of my cow-orkers feel cold at the level that is comfortable to me, and conversely they feel a-ok at the level I can't focus anymore. Which leads to conflicts, because I simply can't tolerate their optimal levels and they can't understand that you can dress up when it's too cold for you, but you can't really dress down from t-shirt and pants when it's too hot.

EDIT: I have those problems while not on any medication. I've been having them since high school or earlier (I don't remember), they're a serious problem at work (thank god that my current employeer has AC in the offices and people don't mind me cooling down the room). Few times I actually used cognitive enhancers to force myself to stay awake, with little effect.
I assume GAI is "General Artificial Intelligence" - so that "GAI-complete" is "at least as hard as producing a general artificial intelligence."
Just reading this about new book by Akerlof and Shiller

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/29/t...

"Their latest book, Phishing for Phools, takes the idea further. Not only are people vulnerable to making mistakes with their money, they argue, but the market is exceedingly good at exploiting them."

“The economic system is filled with trickery, and everyone needs to know that,” they write in the book’s opening pages.
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Personally, I prefer the green cells.
Do you like the yellow cells?
I think a curated marketplace, something between Kickstarter and Angellist, where companies are vetted and structured into tiers based on experience, team, capital, etc. with the hottest/safest companies are in the top tier, and risky/scammy ventures are at the bottom tier. This won't eliminate risk for inexperienced investors, but investment is never without risk, and there's nothing that can be done about that.

Thing is, I don't see equity crowdfunding as a replacement for VC funding because much of the value that comes from established investors comes from their insight, experience and contacts. If ecf becomes popular enough, VC's will still be able to invest in and advise great companies, but hopefully a majority of the returns will be more distributed.

I don't disagree that the risk is significantly higher in startups/private ventures, and that a vast majority of the money invested will be lost, but hopefully ecf will allow a large enough number of people to invest a small enough amount in each company (a la kickstarter) that the losses aren't catastrophic, but enough aggregate capital is able to be accumulated for companies to do what they need to do.
Nice website. Are you executing the code on the client or server? We are both instructors and have been working on a similar tool to help our students learn MATLAB, React, React Router, MongoDB, and Babel-ES6. It has worked really well for our students. Check it out: https://SaturnAPI.com

We'd love to collaborate or exchange ideas. If you are interested, feel free to email me at panthongw@gmail.com.
Currently, no. But this is our #1 priority. We're aiming for a simple embedding solution, e.g., 1) an html div with gist id attribute (plus loading a JavaScript file); and 2) a WordPress plugin. Stay tuned...
No way. The tickets were more expensive in Euros too. It's simply a fixed supply of seat demanded by more people than a year ago.
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It invites competition as well, to make a better service in the end.
And yet if some operator had an idea to keep some notes (license plates from APBs or something) on stickies and pass them around the room - a new procedure - nobody would act like the world would end.

"FULL REVIEW". How FULL exactly? I think a really thorough review should involve the people who defined the language used, and who wrote the compiler. Certainly everyone who ever worked on the code. And the Compliance team. Lets involve them early to speed up the process!

The professionals on the phone seem to have spoken very highly of the benefits from this program. Why are people second-guessing them?
Except that most of Main Street owns stocks through mutual funds, which make large trades on their behalf...
Read the blog post I linked, then read VE Holdings, then get back to me.

Or maybe you've read them, and your position is that Congress just didnt know what personal jurisdiction meant when it rewrote 1391.
"Speaking of sensors, the Microsoft Band has a lot of them. In addition to fitness tracker essentials—tri-axis accelerometer, gyrometer, and barometer—the Band also has ambient light, skin temperature, and capacitive sensors, a microphone, built-in GPS, and a continuous optical heart rate monitor."

The technology to spy just got a lot more compact. What I didn't realise, as the title suggests is, software is eating the fitness industry.
How about all the important calls they let languish because of the bide-shedders interfering? How is that safe?

Can the naysayers be sued by the family of some kid who died because dispatchers weren't allowed to evaluate a new tool because change scares some people? (No, of course not. And that's why there are so many bikeshedders.)
I'm not sure what you're looking at, but there's clearly kerbs with pedestrians and trams/horses/cars in the middle.

Skip to 1:46 and you can see it easily on the right hand side of the frame (too much darn traffic most of the time).
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I live near San Quentin. I have talked to two guys who were let out after, I believe seven for one, and the other guy was in over a decade.

They told me how their release went. This was a few years ago, but I doubt things have change. They both told me they were given a little under $200.

One guy, slightly older, was just looking for a place to sleep. I think he ended up under a bridge. He didn't mention having and support(family, etc.).

The other guy went to a flea bag motel in San Rafael. They wanted $150/night. He crossed the bridge and went to Oakland to buy some dope to sell. He figured he could slowly get into a room by selling dope on the streets. When talking to him, I had no advice. I did call a shelter I knew of, and they said it was only for women.

I didn't know either well enough to take in, and my roommates wouldn't understand any senerio. My point is if I was in my thirties, like the guy who went back to dealing drugs; I thought, I just might have done the same thing.

The thought of sleeping under a bridge, and then getting harrrased by authorities for being homeless just seemed like being in prison.

Both guys didn't take parole, and finished their entire sentences. I'm not sure if I would opt for parole either.

I related to these guys on a lot of ways. I wondered what I would do after doing time. I am essentially a loner, and the few friends I had died. I'm not that old, but my best friends just happened to be 20 years older than me. I would have no one when getting out. No support. Just under $200. Depressing. We need to build more shelters.
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Maybe it's just me, but it does seem like there's a better term waiting to be discovered for this than "tech tree". (I can't exactly tell, but it seems like you wouldn't mind a better term either).

Not a fan of "worlds" as proposed below. I have a feeling we're all just projecting our own favorite genre conventions here, but your different approaches remind me of different characters more than anything else. Ever play a game where you had a choice of approaches with different characters? Or had to switch between them and coordinate action or share information?

I'm sure there's plenty of people who possess the union of these skill sets (and of course, there will be plenty of actual human players that will), but you could describe your trees more as character growth/background/capabilities/backstory.

You would then have interesting story possibilities here—I would love the idea but I suspect you guys might consider story elements as potentially distracting.
A question to you. Why would you consider medium.com when you are have an established blog?
> You cannot tell me that Chipotle, with its "Food with integrity" concept and supporting policies, is the same as any other fast food taco joint.

It is the same as any other fast food joint. Heck, food quality improvements were an early selling point for McDonald's.
"Just in its first phase, the telescope will produce some 160 terabytes of raw data per second"
Right. The death of privacy is for citizens, not the government they give half their money to.
>the only thing models are guaranteed to do is be inaccurate.

My model of gmail is gmail. This model is 100% accurate.
Everything is executed on the client. Thanks for the invite! Will drop you a note soon.
I really need one of these after discovering I have Oesteo, bad posture & costochronditis! Gravity is a bitch!!!
What ever happened to 0x10c? There was much excitement for a while and then... nothing. I'm sort of assuming I'd have heard any big news here.
I thought it was painting.

ps: among the APL examples from the article, I'd add most of the IOCCC submissions.
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Some quick facts about our company

* we are selling a cloud based student management system

* we accept payment online via PCI-DSS complaint 3rd party payment processor
Non-snarky point, but every new technology is destined to become the next old technology.

And the future will reveal that some choices of the technology in question showed incredible foresight and some were very poorly conceived.

If we're lucky, the good choices match well with certain problem domains and the poor choices are an acceptable price to pay.
'Twas ever thus, and always thus will be. - Keating
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"I am tired of ETL , data cleaning , slicing and dicing projects now."

My instinct says that one has to love what one does (the dirty bits especially) for one to evolve naturally into the next greater phase of one's career.
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Immigration doesn't change the population, it just shuffles it around. The only ways to increase it are to increase births or decrease deaths. The article isn't convincing that the U-shaped graphs are predominantly from increased birth rates.

What is usually described is the pattern is birth rates decline as life expectancy rises, but the lifespan itself hasn't changed. Because so much of the life expectancy increase has occurred within the last couple of lifespans, and it hasn't globally reached the lifespan limit, we haven't seen population level off yet.

But even when we do extend the lifespan, there will still be a death rate. And if the trend continues, the longer it gets the fewer births there will be. As we approach practical immortality, the dangers of catastrophes will be greater. That's the long-term population problem - when we only have one birth per year, and some disaster wipes out a million people.
Slight rant. This is currently a major problem for me that I'm not entirely sure how to handle still.

I'm young, never went to college, and my experience is entirely through work in the financial area (with side projects). In a lot of ways, I've fallen into the "Jack of all trades, master of none" spectrum. Give me any complex problem and I can generally solve it, even if I don't have experience with it. I have a very good track record and most previous bosses regard me very highly. My skills aren't entirely traditional, but they work pretty damn well.

That changed when I followed a senior colleague into a new position as a newly minted senior linux admin. As soon as I joined, I received an asinine amount of anger of nepotism or where suggestions are generally viewed as naive, then ignored. Two of those naive things were, "why does QA have root access? Why are the root ssh keys the same as prod and QA?" and "can we fix the DNS setup so that we don't need a CAB approval to run four root-owned scripts to push /etc/hosts to 95% of prod servers?". If it weren't that most of the environment isn't documented and makes our lives hell, I wouldn't bring these things up. On top of that, we're a large web company, so it's insane that these things are trivialized.

I'd like to get out of it, but at the same time, I feel like if I can get out of if, I can get out of most things. It's a complete brainfuck and killed most of my confidence at this place.

Imposter syndrome is difficult.
It seems like a fun and interesting platform, and that's where a lot of people are. If somebody wants to read my stories on medium - why not give them that opportunity?

Also if in five years Medium will be like twitter now - I want to be there. If not - at least it will drive some traffic my way.
Misspelled "reference"and linked to an infographic made in 2012. Not instilling a ton of confidence so far.
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Here's a lengthy critique of the Kovac book alleging it misreads Lewis's point:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R28Y8AI4PIPYZ2/ref=cm_cr_dp_tit...

"Kovac misfires by supposing the "front-running" condemned in "Flash Boys" refers to a particular kind of abuse, and not surprisingly it's the kind he plans to refute. In common usage there are at least two meanings to the term. One common meaning is as shorthand for "front-running demand," which is what happens when someone tries to figure out whether your mutual fund or your pension fund is buying or selling stock, realizes that it will change supply-and-demand dynamics for the stock, affecting the price, and front-runs that demand to profit.

Imagine if someone made a reasonable guess you needed milk, raced ahead of you to the only store in town to buy up all the milk before you got there, and then offered to sell you milk at a higher price than the store sold it to him; this is one example of front-running demand, just as described in "Flash Boys." (It's also called "trading ahead.") Another common meaning is "front-running a customer order," a type of insider trading, where a stock broker believes his own customer's order will change supply-and-demand and tries to profit from that; this is what Kovac apparently intends to refute, and it has nothing at all to do with "Flash Boys.""
How does tracking users by IP address optimize for anything?

Apple has shown repeatedly that they believe privacy is very important (Tim Cook has even gone on record as saying he believes privacy is a fundamental right), and they exert a fair amount of effort in trying to preserve that privacy (e.g. all of the data they refuse to collect, and all of the anonymizing they do on the data they do collect, which still requires the user to opt-in before that anonymized data is sent to Apple). The only way in which your argument makes sense is if you think Apple doesn't actually care about privacy, but only cares about the appearance of caring about privacy, and therefore would anonymize data it collects while still leaving loopholes for it to try and recover some of that data anyway. But that contradicts all of the evidence.
"A U.S. Government Accountability Office study in 2005 showed that bid-ask spreads compressed by as much as 80% immediately following decimalization, well before high frequency trading came to dominate markets, and well before this author's time frame."

http://www.amazon.com/review/R28Y8AI4PIPYZ2/ref=cm_cd_pg_nex...
Possibly true if you're trying to get a job for an ad-exchange SaaS platform like you mention. But is that really where you'd go next after significant experience doing low-level, high-assurance programming at NASA? There are plenty of other parts of the tech industry whose hiring managers would appreciate that experience a lot more. For example, any kind of embedded-systems job, or even most "regular" programming jobs in more engineering-oriented industries like energy and aerospace.
Hare-brained theory: Less "harm", more "impose their authority on". It takes a certain mindset to become an officer/soldier/etc.

Those professions are how society channels those kinds of impulses in a semi-constructive way.
I believe the thing here is a chicken-and-egg problem: in order to install whatever security-disabling thing they'd come up with to let the phone be unlocked, first they'd have to manage to unlock the phone.
I pipe things in and out of ffmpeg, curl, convert (and the rest of imagemagick), mysql, tar, netcat, jq, etc pretty frequently, and that's all images, video, audio, applications and structured data. It seems to map quite well for all that.
good job Brad!
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