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I'm not making the point that it program you wrote isn't an improvement, which it sounds like it likely is, but that it would ,in fact, change how "they" operated.
I imagine, as part of your receipt, where you agree to the warranty and agree to pay for it, that you also agree to arbitration of disputes.
Root cause: Incessant advertising coupled with lack of financial education.

Public schools need to teach financial literacy in junior and high schools. Maybe there should be an entire semester devoted to it. If I were to design such a course, it would cover the following:

1. Saving and compound interest.
2. Credit. Personal loans, auto loans, mortgages, student loans.
3. Financial products to avoid. Title loans, payday loans, Bail bondsmen.
4. Why asset accumulation is good, and materialism is bad.
5. Investing in stocks, bonds, mutual funds and ETF's. Investment fees.
6. Financial obligations during marriage and divorce. Filial support, child support, alimony. Wills and trusts.
7. Planning for retirement, IRA's, 401K's. Saving money for your kids education.
8. Health insurance. Employer plans, the ACA, Co-pays, co-insurance, maximum out of pocket expenses. Why it's bad in some states to go on medicaid, and why you should get an ACA policy instead.
9. What you need to do to buy a house.
10. Starting your own business. Fictitious business names,
incorporation. Protecting your personal assets if the business is sued. Employment law. Employment at-will, discrimination, whistle-blowing. Unemployment compensation,
workers compensation, disability insurance.
11. Landlord and Tenant law.
12. What you need to do if you are arrested.

When people graduate from high school and turn 18, there's a whole legion of shysters ready to prey on them.
Did you hear about Phonegap, Titanium and all the write once, ship multiple times frameworks? They are here for some time.

It's a hard to solve problem. Facebook was once doing a webapp for mobile and it had an average of 1 star in the app store. Now hopefully they learned their lesson and reiterating on an approach. Still it doesn't mean they'll get it.

There's also game development with Metal, how are you supposed to use javascript for high quality rendering.

Swift will be needed and at the very least as a host for your javascript app. And swift is a no brainer improvement over objective c. It's safer and modern.
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The Victorians took this one step further, creating boarding schools for the middle classes to remove the children from "the noxious influence of home" (Nathaniel Woodard); an idea which had its roots in Presbyterian preechings.
> I'd be surprised if the hardwood flooring example from the article held up in a court.

It looks like the specific company mentioned only sells online and through dealers.
> By that logic, what exactly is the parents job then?

Why must only one person have a duty to raise a child? For most of human history "it takes a village" was canon with regard to child rearing.

On most days of the week, a school is often responsible for the welfare of a child for more hours of the day than the parent. Seven or eight hours of school, several hours of after school activities.

How can you not see this activity as child rearing?
This can be summarized as "Just use JavaScript because the web uses it", which I think is silly.
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Got to say I've seen this practice done a lot, but never found it beneficial as a class exercise. Nobody really learns anything through this. The person being asked tends to panic and muddles through. The people in the class who don't understand try to follow and end up more confused. This can go through a few rounds with more wrong answers. Eventually the lecturer or a student will give the right answer but half the people have tuned out already or lost their train of thought.

I think it's a very bad way to learn anything. The actual method is sound when used outside of a lecture in one-on-one or small groups where everyone is involved, but fails terribly with large groups.
Thanks for sharing, Michael!

Matt here, new CEO of Churn Buster. We're so freaking excited about working with Andrew, and our other investor Rob Walling (getdrip.com).

Andrew has really built something special here and I think his excitement shines through in his announcement video.

If you have any questions about the acquisition/round of funding (it was pretty unique) or about churn, failed payments, etc. just post 'em here!
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Sure they are... Your kid spends 6-10 hours per day under their direction. Often they spend more time with kids than the kids' parents.
I would try it if you had a free tier for testing in dev.
Yes, narcissism can manifest early.
> but surprisingly enough, most newbies still prefer to learn Swift and focus on iOS [...]

This is quite condescending. I think there are merits to both choices: going deeper with a native language exploiting all the intricacies of a platform or going wider with an universal language such as JS. What you ultimately choose as technology may depend on various factors there is no clear cut.
> You will need a visa to work in the UK.

To clarify, is Brand Networks sponsoring visas?
Yet the OT is still in valid effect. Most of the Christian rules - the "613 mitzvot" as known in Judaism, where they are more significant what with Jewish identity focusing on lineage from the Israelites, but still many of them valid by Christian denominations even if mostly shortened to just the 10 in mainstream discourse - are derived from the OT.

Christianity has many more figures than Jesus, so this in of itself is not convincing. In addition, "can be interpreted as" is weasel wording and the whole problem to begin with.

Furthermore, that some denominations do not regard it as sinful does not mean that it is Biblically the case. We must concur there is such a thing as heterodoxy. Since Christianity regards all humans as being intrinsically sinful, it may be the case some denominations do not consider homosexuality grave enough a sin to deny them becoming ministers, provided of course they suppress their sinful urges as is customary to the religion.
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I was told I was smart a lot. I think it just made me lazy and cocky, thinking I could do anything easily without trying, so I didn't try at a lot of things. It didn't make me run away from hard problems, though. I still like those, and I enjoy the frustration of a difficult problem.[1]

It probably also didn't help that I lived a very sheltered life as an upper-class Mexican and everything that I wanted I could get by just asking. That has been another obstacle that has been difficult to overcome: learning how to do hard work and fend for myself.

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[1] As long as the problem doesn't involve people, though, since people are not really a problem to be solved
And redundancy _is_ bad.
The explicit goals of our sociopolitical economy as stated in the 1913 Federal Reserve Act are (paraphrased) as follows:

1. Maximum employment
2. Stable prices
3. Moderate interest rates

I'd say all of these should be reevaluated, most importantly #'s 1 and 2.

Instead of "putting country X back to work" we should consider the current state of automative abundance and the basic economic principle of "too many cooks in the kitchen". So instead of maximum employment, maybe we should think about minimum employment?

#2 should also be reconsidered in light of exponential growth of our technology and the resulting ephemeralization. We are producing goods and services better, faster, and cheaper at exponential rates. So prices should tend to reflect this reality, and diminish, not stay the same.
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Thanks for sharing this.
This is almost exactly the singularity-igniting innovation described in the sci fi book "Avogadro Corp" by William Hertling.
Also child rearing?

The largest single factor on a student's educational outcomes is not any in-school factor, but the educational background and socioeconomic status of their parents.
am i reading this correctly... 83gb of ram in use for 2m connections? seems like a lot of overhead.

i have achieved 500k concurrent connections using atmosphere, consuming around 10gb of ram.
I had a similar thought with Apple -- El Cap has a feature where if you shake your mouse around, the cursor will momentarily grow in size so you can find where it is.

That does not feel like a top-down design idea, but a bottom-up feature designed by an engineer who was sick of those moments where he/she had lost the cursor.
Here's an idea on how to simplify.

The IRS sends you a summary from all your various W-2s and 1099s for the year. It has two numbers: what you earned as income, and how much you already paid for income tax this year.

And it sends you your tax form. If you earned less than the median annual income for this year, you owe zero. If you paid anything already, you get all of it back with the enclosed check.

If you earned more, you see the result of the automatic calculation, such as tax( income ) = max( income - median_income, 0 ) x tax_rate . That's an easily-calculated, slightly-progressive income tax, with only three computation steps. If you paid more than what you owe, you get a refund. Otherwise, you could, at that point, file the forms for additional politically-motivated deductions or credits, or just pay the difference and be done.

This has the notable advantage, thanks to using the single, easily-determined statistic of median income, of cutting the number of tax filers in half--specifically the half that would otherwise pay the least amount in tax. And that half can gleefully vote for the reform! Them along with the median-plus-one person constitute a simple majority in favor.

Anyone can sit down and come up with a better way to collect income tax from the perspective of the tax-payers. Anyone. Yes, even that guy. The problem is that the tax-payer perspective is not a factor when it comes to implementation. At that point, it is the perspective of the tax-collectors that matters. And from the perspective of the collectors, a system that offloads all the work onto the payers, and where any mistake at all could generate more tax revenue, is simply perfect. And the more confusing, the better, because unclaimed deductions increase revenue, and honest mistakes generate penalties.
> If you have powerful computer from 2010, it'll happily run Windows 10 and almost any application, including almost any game in medium (or even high) mode. I wonder, whether this race on mobile platform will continue or iPhone 6S will be able to run iOS 15 without any lags?

I'm not sure the comparison to PCs is fair. Smartphones are still pretty young, and both the OS and chipsets make large leaps every year. If the pace of progress were as fast in the PC industry, you'd also expect a 5-year-old laptop to be unable to keep up.

I expect the pace of progress will slow down for smartphones. Consequently, the iPhone 6S will be usable for longer than the iPhone 4S.
Honestly, this sounds like a terribly selfish move. The OP consciously took her son out of a bigger pond to put him into a smaller pool where he could shine again.

This completely ignores the fact that probably the best way to learn is to be surrounded by people more intelligent than yourself.

Speaking as someone who spent most of my childhood as "valedictorian" I would have craved a competitive peer group much sooner, despite the blow to my self-esteem which confrontation of my own fallibility created.
That's awesome news -- I (well, AR) had been a customer since very early days in the life of the product. It integrated pretty painlessly and basically gave us an accounts receivable department without having either myself or my sales rep having to spend lots of time calling $29 a month accounts to see if they were soft-canceling or just having transient billing failures. The ROI on it was stupendous -- I remember saving $100 in MRR in the first two days on a $50 a month plan.

Anecdotally, there seems to be a wave of mini-acquisitions going through the small-SaaS-osphere this last year or so. I think it's an interesting development, partially do to the obvious reasons (money for founders is nice), partially as it frees up founders to move onto their next level, partially since these seem to be better digested than acquisitions in VC land, and partially just because it is interesting to see this side of the fence maturing a bit.
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Gun use in pg-13 movies has more than tripled since 1985 (2013)
A bit of web history, mention some static site generators, end by saying their tool is the babel fish of static site generation.
Linked study: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2013/11/...
> Seeing as the answers you linked are primarily justified by the Old Testament, I assume you don't really understand Christian Theology.

They understand it just as well as the leadership and followings of multiple major denominations. Citing this would be an insult to the intelligence of everyone here.
Amazing!

But for trig (and matrices, root finding and numerical integration) I now have a beautiful DM-15L from swissmicros.com :-)
I know it isn't wise to ask about downvotes but why would people downvote me for stating what I experienced when it is relevant to the discussion? Can people not tolerate anything which deviates from the narratives in their heads?
You can share it, of course - but, how would they correlate it with data from other websites? How can they tell that a user on your site and one on my site are one and the same? They cannot (exceptions noted above), which makes it rather useless for profiling a user
Cool. I agree. I'll surface those things to the front.

Thanks!
>So the problem isn't one of scale, which is already huge. It's one of distribution.

"The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it." -Sitting Bull
"Invention" is somewhat arbitrary when discussing topics as these. You have to draw a line somewhere, and the English were the first to actually subjugate the head of state to their system of laws. Therefore I say the English invented rule of law. They may not have been the first to think that the king needs to follow the law, but they were the first to successfully demand it. Obviously you can look back through history and find isolated examples of things that kind-of look like rule of law, but the English were the first to do it right.

A fun thing to do is to go through different countries you're interested in and analyze how much of the rule of law each of them actually implements, rather than just professes to have. Laws and justice are such appealing notions that even tyrants feel the need to put the people they want to execute on "trial". Plenty of totalitarian governments have nominal "constitutions" that aren't worth the paper they're printed on.

I personally consider it a measure of how advanced and robust a society is. One should not think of democracy as "people having elections", but rather as a collection of different principles which society forces the people that would want to rule it to follow. Is there a functioning legal system? Is there a system for transfer of power? Is there a working constitution? The rule of law is an emergent property that rests on all of these things.
The question is whether you pre-warm the cache or cache a response after it goes through. If every single response is personalized, caching doesn't buy you a huge amount because the first request will be a cache miss, and the user may never call back a 2nd time. If you prewarm every single possible personalized result then there is almost always going to be a cache hit, which in effect is the same thing.

I guess theres also a question of whether you are caching data from the backend that powers a front end app, or actually caching the full front end itself.
Cynically I'd say that Twitter doesn't care about that use case because it's not one of the ones that make them money. The use case they care about is Advertisers looking at their engagement graphs and seeing that people liked their new product release tweet.
Totally agreed (we also have a family O365 plan). I'm willing to pay for quality services without all the BS inevitably attached to free models. Because I want the model to succeed, I hate seeing Microsoft take this kind of heat. It's sad that they made the mistake as I fear reversing course will cost them a great deal of good will. I would have preferred they left the free and mid-level tiers alone, or at least grandfathered them.
I was told I was gifted at a very young age, and people expected a lot out of me. But by the time I hit 9 years old, I had already convinced myself that school was too easy -- I didn't value my grades at all. I would fail regularly and say "I don't care about a mark on a paper." I barely graduated high school.

But the problem here wasn't that I thought I was gifted, it was that I didn't compare myself to my peers at all. Getting an A was easy, so it meant nothing to me. The other students who did well were not people I aspired to be like. I spent all my time working on things I enjoyed for myself, and those challenged me to work independently. I failed Algebra because I spent the whole semester reading a statistics book. I failed an English class because I spent the whole time programming on my calculator. (I had run out of classes to fail, and had to take classes at college to make up the credits.) But once I started studying physics, math, and computers, I've been happily over-performing ever since.

I remember moments where I turned away from challenges, but I always turned toward something that mattered more to me. And there are challenges there, too. You will be challenged no matter what you choose to do, so long as you aren't doing only what has already been done.

So I can't say I'd agree with you. People are often just awful at measuring success.
> this is why you put the kid into a school with other "smart" kids so the kid gets the chance to experience that s/he isn't the smartest one, that there are much more smart kids out there.

Or you could homeschool them.

We don't say one way or another how "well" our kids are doing, or how "smart" they are. We just teach them. When they learn one thing, we teach them the next. There's no "scores", there's no comparing them with other kids. There's just learning. If they need more time or practice to learn something, we give them more time or practice.

The goal of education is to get them to know as much as we know and then some. (And there's the learning social skills aspect. But we take care of that in a different way.) It's not a competition. We're all in this together.

And yes, some people will be better at some things, and worse at others. That shouldn't affect self-esteem. If everyone was good at the same things, the world wouldn't be able to function. And nobody's good at everything.
That required you to have prior knowledge of what you could have deducted. If you didn't have such knowledge, your ignorance might have caused you to pay a higher amount of tax than you otherwise needed to.

This is why automated tax software asks so many questions about potential deductions.
It's the sad truth that people seem very for nuclear, but no one wants to live near it. Of course, I've seen articles regarding people who don't want to live near wind turbines, so maybe people are just far to fickle.
You have a group of 19-36 students at home, and the skills to teach positive group dynamics? Lucky you.

"That's not the school's job" -- so no one does it. Empathy is a learned skill, and like all such skills, requires practice.
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There's a big difference between calling your child "Smart" and calling "Gifted". Sounds like wordplay but it's really not. I agree with your main point that "gifted" children end up failing way more than just ordinary smart children. But I've also seen a lot of children who grew up a confident person because their parents praised them a lot. They just shouldn't call them "gifted" because it implies that the kid already "has" the gift, whereas being "smart" just means greater potential.
That's correct. We have not made any attempt at optimizing connection size yet, so there should be room to trim this down. But honestly, I'm thrilled with the numbers as is. This box on rackspace will run you $1500/mo, which is going to be peanuts for a company requiring this kind of scale, but the more we can trim down the connection size the better.
I do this too and then I eventually leave the site in frustration. I can't even see which pages have annotations until I explicitly close the sidebar. :(
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> So have you provided a rigorous, data-driven defense of every decision you've made as an engineer?

Not every one, no, but most of the time. What you're engaging in here is tu quoque, as if an occasional behavior in one group justifies a continual behavior in another. Ain't so.

> I've met a lot of great engineers whio made great decisions primarily because they had good gut instinct

As have I. I've also met some PMs who were likewise, and said as much. All I'm saying is that relying on that all the time can cause resentment.

> The sad reality is PM is fundamentally a dark art

That's OK, though I believe it's probably less true than you or the OP seem to believe. What's most injurious to the PM/engineering relationship is not the lack of rigor but the lack of transparency that goes with it. Often PMs don't even try to explain where their priorities came from, and don't admit when they're just guessing. We engineers can deal with guesses. As you point out, we make them ourselves all the time, but we acknowledge that they're guesses and therefore inferior to any data that might come along. "Because I'm the PM" is too often the only reason given, and of course that leads to animosity.
A kid is essentially as smart as a kid is. You can't push them to be smarter. You can push them to be better trained. You can push them to be more interested in academics. You can push them in many directions and as a parent you have to decide what's important.

But you can't push them to be smarter. If that's the goal then something bad is going to come out of it. Recognizing this as fairly obvious would be a good first step.
That's only about twice as much as in your case (I'm not saying it's not a lot, just pointing it out).

Still, I wonder how low could one get when implementing this at a much lower level. 41kB per connection seems like a lot of bookkeeping for something that's essentially a handle to a socket? Yes there's a process overhead in BEAM, but based on the Erlang docs, this should be only 309 memory words.
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Thanks! This is truly disgusting and hypocrytical act from Guardian.

I asked them: https://twitter.com/keff85/status/661642069828587520
Thanks for the answer! WebCrypto is obviously a disaster, it is very unfortunate that new systems are being stuck with legacy crypto if they use it instead of non-native libraries.
I lived in the bible belt and I did not see any indication that evangelical christians thought they were infallible. This is literally the first time I have ever heard something like this. Now, there is quite a bit of self-righteousness but that's another matter
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