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I should mention that they were way over budget and over schedule, and that they were using a relatively obscure third party platform to build their application.
Yeah, very limited in what it can do. There are a bunch of tools similar to it which have a lot more features built in, but what I really wanted was something I could use easily with traditional UNIX tools like sed/awk/sort/uniq/etc which tend to be difficult to use with JSON (in my case JSON log lines).
I don't think this is about the admin console. The author only used the admin tools to create a t3 server request. The only thing you really need is a server accepting the t3 protocol (=Weblogic RMI). Which is every node, not only the admin node / a node with a deployed admin console.

A load balancer / forwarding web server might filter the t3 requests, but I wouldn't want to rely on this. Also t3 can be tunneled over http (although this is not enabled in the default configuration).
Remote workers are usually on a contract and pay their own tax in their country.

If the company wants them to be a full employee, they have to pay tax/health based on the law of where the remote workers lives.
I'm a friend of Jennifer's, I would say that she's on the money with the attention part. The vehicle that you choose to get that attention will depend on your strengths. If you have a cool voice then go the Podcast route, if you are full of energy and theatrical start a YouTube channel. The reality is, the people who are succeeding in the new age are using all of these tools to some degree. In addition to that, building an audience by being unique and creative is a grind but a worthy one. Out of curiosity, where do you find an issue with this?
Correction:
"No signal that we use Detected from KIC 8462852"

And ? Nobody with good physical understanding uses Hertz EM waves for communication except emergency broadcasts if he is clever. Assumptions over assumptions and not looking outside the box, this is what SETI does and that's why they are not seeing anything of interest.
That we would receive a signal with the radio telescope discussed here would pretty much demand either that they make tremendous use of a very specific form of propulsion, or that they are putting a substantial fraction of their available energy into contacting civilizations of precisely our technological level. There's no thought that we'd pick up their radio chatter between themselves- we couldn't pick up Earth's radio noise from that distance, and we're only getting quieter as our technology becomes more effective.

Aliens in the business of contacting emerging civilizations must find themselves with an interesting tradeoff between transmitter power usage and contactee technology level- at a guess, it would be exponentially more expensive to contact species earlier on in their development. We may still just not be far along enough that the cost-benefit ratio makes sense to talk to us.
I do truly appreciate the critique you've offered, as it has some well-thought out objections to the language.

I don't want to get into a back and forth on how to deal with the specific issues - they're good food for thought, but I think it wouldn't lead to a productive conversation.

I would object that SQL is actually incredibly high level, though its abstractions differ from the typical ones seen in other programming languages. As a declarative query language, I can describe a join between two arbitrary (no need to do anything besides have the tables exist) tables and the query optimizer will do a very good job of choosing among several different algorithms to perform that join for me. Without a thought to any statistics of the data, the query is optimized appropriately, including the construction of a temporary index if that is the best way to compute the join.

Or, transactions in general - ACID guarantees are maintained with a simple transaction - almost no boilerplate, just saying where it begins and where it ends with some options for specific behavior, and the transaction is guaranteed on arbitrary data structures without any other code necessary.

I won't go into the data consistency guarantees you can make just by defining a couple of foreign keys and constraints (performance aside - these can be optimized - this would be awful to put together by hand in a project)

These are some of the abstractions in SQL which are absurdly high level compared to doing something similar in another language. Several of your bullets also support that it is a high level language, e.g. 4 "others may be implementation dependent" - this is not a statement ever made about assembly for example.

SQL is, at the end of the day, a query language built around relational algebra, already an abstract topic, and implemented on arbitrary hardware, operating systems, filesystems, and so on. It's not got a lot of high level concepts that exist in other languages, sure, but it's got a lot of stuff built in that would be a bear and a half to implement on your own. Its high level concepts are in general very orthogonal to those in other languages.

Again, I'm not disagreeing with your bullets, and I appreciate the time you took to reply and your points are exactly the sort of thing I was asking for. I just think that you're ignoring some of the power in it for want of the power of constructs you're more familiar with.
I use slick, however I never used the elegant syntax.
I always drop to the sql/sqlu and there you have a really really cool sql syntax and rowparsers
""" in a studio, 0dB full-scale meter redline is calibrated to a standard voltage reference, and both consumer and professional audio has equivalent standard levels for the loudest level possible"""

This is only minor nitpicking, but the standard 0dB levels for professional audio (0dB reference at +4dBu == 1.23Vrms) and consumer audio (0dB reference at -10dBV == 0.32Vrms) are not meant to indicate the maximum ("loudest level possible") but just serve at a reference point, for e.g. the 1kHz sine you inject when setting up your gain throughout the signal chain. On most studio gear, you'll easily have +15dB headroom left.

AD/DA converters haven't really standardized on a full-scale level and there are quite a few different definitions in use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBFS. Most "line level" ADC/DACs will have switches or jumpers to select between two or so settings. You'll choose them so that you are not likely to clip your ADC, and will only playback on your DAC with an appropriate level trimmed to not clip your analog gear.
"nobody ever got fired for buying IBM equipment".
Well, they're the ones who are free to choose anything.

Someone who is forced to live in a tiny apartment because they can't afford anything better isn't really making a free choice, even if they rationalize it by claiming that it is.
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I've recently starting trying my hand at brewing kombucha after trying some. The first batch was terrible, left it too long in the first fermentation stage. Will be bottling the next batch for secondary fermentation today, so hoping it will come out betterer.

I'm wondering if water kefir might be easier and how it compares to drink.
I call it online busking. I live in SF and I'll often see fairly well dressed people sparechanging on corners. One guy, in his late 20s, would be out near O'Farrell and Mason listening to his iPod everyday as I went in for work. I never got his story, but he probably wasn't living on the streets - just "working" there.

I don't really have a problem with that, or people busking online. But before you plug in those credit card digits, you should ask yourself: "If I met this person on the street and they asked me to fund their {pet's surgery, vacation, novel}, would I do it?"

I had my "a-ha" moment for crowdfunding about 8 years ago. A friend-of-a-friend who was a promoter/bartender, whom I had just met, asked me to fund his Jewish contemporary art show. He seemed very passionate about getting it going. The total sum required was a few thousand dollars, so it seemed like an honest pitch. He friended me on Facebook and sent me the link to Kickstater. Later that night I was about to make a donation, but I stopped. "I don't even know his guy. Why am I giving him $50?" And that's when I linked the two behaviors.

Just because there's a nicely designed UI between you and the beggar doesn't make it something other than begging. I call it "busking" as opposed to "begging" because they are actually performing - they're (both the website and the person; they work in tandem) trying to make you believe they're not a beggar.
It's definitely interesting to think about an alternative universe where LISP was a big hit on 1980's... In our world we got Microsoft BASIC instead.
For an entertaining, if somewhat cynical, view of the animal metaphor for leadership: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/03/12/the-art-of-agile-leader... (animal metaphor @ 1/3 into the article)
I would not take a startup that is outsourcing their development seriously. All of the institutional knowledge of how a product works goes right out the door. If you cannot fix your own product if it breaks, do you really own it?
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The OA is a reply to my article in LWN which was discussed in HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10468755 .

I'll write a detailed reply to this reply when I get time; for now, note that Marks' attempt to render Euler's equation in HTML is incorrect: his result has Roman (upright) characters where math italics should be.
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I love programming in general, but I've struggled through my last few jobs. I'm pretty close to hating my current job, despite that fact that I work on a well-known product with millions of users.

The analogy that comes to mind is a pro race car driver who is forced to only drive on an obstacle course, never exceeding 20 mph. The driver has skills that enable him to drive successfully on the obstacle course, but he yearns to do what he loves, opening up on a proper racetrack. In the same way, I have the skills to do tedious debugging of a large, absurdly complex system with tons of technical debt, only making minimal changes to avoid the whole pile of spaghetti collapsing. But I wish every day that I was designing and implementing systems instead, and I'm good at that, too.

Ironically, it was early in my career that I had the most autonomy to implement new features and write a lot of code, even if it was on obscure products. In the latter part of my career, I guess my mistake was allowing myself to be lured into working on "famous" things at big companies, even though it amounted to being mostly a maintenance programmer on sprawling, spaghettified legacy software.

I guess that next time, I should be more diligent about trying to find out what the day-to-day work will be like (which I find very hard to get an accurate idea of in the interview process. obviously the interviewer is going to paint a rosy picture), and at this point I would rather work on something totally obscure, if it meant I got to do more design and coding.
My daughter responded to "be yourself" with "how can I be myself if I don't know who I am?". Kids are still becoming themselves, so that advice is not actionable.

I agree with the rest of your comment.

I would say that every kid should be exposed to enough experiences to support their natural human quest to understand themselves. But there are people who don't have much capacity or desire for introspection, so that breaks down quickly.

I don't think every kid needs the same things. Which is why the industrial education system fails for most. There is no perfect curriculum, there is no perfect law, etc.
I think it's an internalization of the "It's always okay to ask" mentality, which itself is a symptom of a transition from a society built around a few common cultural institutions to one based on a pluralistic conception that different people may have different values. It used to be that there were common norms of behavior, and you didn't step outside those norms unless you wanted to risk strong social censure. Now, the norm is that anything mutually agreed upon by two parties is fine.

On the whole, I think this is a good trend - it makes the economy more efficient, it encourages people to celebrate diversity instead of shunning it, and it's how the upper classes have operated for a long time, which is the source of a major power imbalance where corporations & rich people feel entitled to ask for anything and then working-class people feel ashamed to refuse. This is just the same attitude filtering down to formerly middle-class people, likely fueled by desperation as the traditional social compact breaks down and their previous income stream dries up. It'll take a period of adjustment as people realize that "No" is a perfectly fine answer that you'll have to give the majority of the time, though, and many people are very uncomfortable at the breakdown of unspoken norms (hence the article).
You have to encrypt the transport at the application layer when you're talking about the scale of major internet companies--there are so many links going out of each datacenter that it's not feasible to do IPsec or similar lower level encryption. There aren't many hardware devices sold that can do the encryption at the 10-100+ Gbps speeds that datacenter links use (if any), and it's much easier to amortize the encryption cost across all your application cpus versus having a small number of devices or dedicated hosts doing crypto at a lower layer.
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This is what bothers me most about people who can't tell the difference between wants and genuine needs: the negative effect it has on the people who do need something that could save their life but can't pay for it, or are going to perform some virtuous service for others that they won't be paid for.

One of my friends, who has done a lot of writing and I can assure you has not made much money at all from being a writer while producing a lot of content for free (and has written a couple of legit books) recently had a stroke that paralyzed one side of his body. He's now in physical therapy and geting other serious treatment. He's 48 years old and has four kids; only the eldest one is out of the house. He's not wealthy by any means, and needs help paying his medical bills. A friend put up a GoFundMe page for his family, probably unbeknownst to him, all because of compassion and people are starting to donate (he's almost up to $1000, which is like a drop in the bucket when it comes to covering medical expenses in the US).

That's the kind of situation that GoFundMe and similar sites are for. Not for vanity projects, paying for your dream wedding, funding plastic surgery, throwing parties, interior design, and springing for fripperies that are not emergencies and are not virtuous.

These people are ruining the reputation of internet-based, crowdsourced funding. They have no shame.
... Or skydiving or some other fun activity, with any spare leftovers going to the charity. Better to donate directly.
Sure. However, the value of their company is really going to be the network and community they build. I believe they are planning to bring development in house as soon as they can afford it, but are trying to get the project going with the overseas team.
Ok..Ok. Question. Although it seems some people are on there for the wrong reasons, will it be fair to say they are exercising their first amendment rights base on this article? http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/26/when-we... I know the key word here is "poor" but how do we know people asking for money for camera's aren't poor?
Milk-based kefir (I have no experience with water-based kefir cultures, but imagine they'd be similar) is fun to make. The grains are easy to handle. It's similar to kombucha in difficulty, but grows faster, and you make smaller batches generally. Like kombucha, it can get quite sour if you leave it too long. I stopped drinking milk so I no longer make it, but remember enjoying the process. I have a Flickr album showing the process here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidniergarth/albums/72157604...
The NY Times might want a GoFundMe for copy editors:

"Many on her mailing list where taken aback"
> Someone who is forced to live in a tiny apartment because they can't afford anything better isn't really making a free choice, even if they rationalize it by claiming that it is.

Of course, but I wasn't referring to those people. I was talking about the people who prefer to live in apartments, like, for example, my parents who moved from a house (that was actually in a great location) to an apartment by choice (in a worse location, and some years after that in another apt in a better location). Now they live in a house again (not by choice), but keep their city apartment. And my mom keeps telling me how she hates the house, and can't wait to move back to the city apartment :)

and she even has a housekeeper so it's not like she has to do the whole work around the house by herself. This is why I say it's really deeply culturally embedded. You are not able to step out of your cultural conditioning and imagine that there are people who really truly prefer to live in apartment.
Yeah. See also manmal's answer, which covers something important if you do want to absolutely avoid sugar: you have to leave it ferment for a longer time, and it gets vinegar-y.
Still no factual refutation. Predictably lame false equivalence retort; can't attack the message, attack the messenger. At least I don't have to question if you're honestly stupid.
Really? You're going to be that person?
Maybe because it's not in Silicon Valley and thus less well known but Detroit Electric has created a lot of PR locally about its plan to take on Tesla with a car out in 2016:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Electric
right on.. I'll expand the question to this - Why does someone "run" for charity? What not just ask on behalf of the charity? Why is the endurance activity inherently tied to the charitable aspect?
Just like adult teachers.
A16Z's thesis is that companies require less and less capital to get started but more and more capital to scale these days. That's why the fund bifurcates into small seed rounds like Instagram and then large growth rounds like AirBnB. This is still "bringing into existence great new stuff that would not otherwise exist", but it's "bringing it into existence" in the sense of making sure great new products that are beloved by a small core group can get exposure in front of billions of people.
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> "If you want to run a marathon, run a marathon. If you want to give to charities, just give."

I agree with the sentiment although lots of people run marathons and raise money for a charity as a motivational aid. I don't see anything wrong with this.

However, if someone wants to do a parachute jump, cycle the Great Wall of China, etc, then yes, they should just shut up and fund it themselves.
I don't think water kefir is similar to kombucha in difficulty, kombucha seems much more fragile. I killed my kombucha mother at the first batch (not sure what went wrong), and never got any problem with water kefir. A friend who tried both reports the same experience.
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Then your complaint is more with the artificially manipulated financial structure of medical careers, than the education path.
You're (wrongly) assuming that producing, transporting, and distributing gasoline has no environmental impact.
Much more discussion on /r/programming: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3rumq8/y_combi...
In Canada, employers can't fire as easily as the US, (just-cause vs. at-will employment) they actually have to document a nonperforming employee's performance to a much higher standard than necessary in the US.

So even though they don't have ready access to guns, the employment system is much fairer in Canada than the US, and therefore this also contributes to less workplace violence.
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Thanks for the reply. We appreciate the feedback. You're right, we do have data backgrounds. That said, we try to focus on the benefits of our product rather than the means of getting there in our marketing. We found it to be difficult to market the details of data science to a general audience.
Exercising your first amendment rights doesn't mean it's a good thing to do, it just means it doesn't violate the most basic principles of our society.

I don't think anybody is claiming that asking for money online should be illegal.
The Travelers Century Club maintains a similar list. Feel free to compare and contrast:

http://travelerscenturyclub.org/countries-and-territories/
At the moment the barriers to asking a bunch of people on the internet for money is effectively 0 so why the hell wouldn't you do it? the worst case scenario is you don't get any money and you're no worse off.

At some point (possibly right now with this article) a backlash will develop and there may be some social costs to doing this because of the numbers of people doing it have created a tragedy of the commons.
Aren't these images typically built on designated build machines anyway? Sure you've got to develop it locally. But the majority of developer-consumers will get it from some distributor fed from a build machine.

The diffing is still a great point. I did not know that about qcow2 images. Do you have any articles then on incremental builds with .qcow2 images?
That info deserves being tied to the model of the phone, at least. Not because that phone's thus inherently bad, but because that's a buggy design. I understand you're saying that the cable fooled the charge controller into letting the battery fall completely flat? Wow.

Getting said info to the right place so next version's charge controller is fixed would be nigh impossible, but dropping the info in lots of high-exposure places might be a start.
I think it would be a much more positive indicator if they had chosen to learn the skills necessary to create their product.
Yes, like in California, where you're technically allowed to change your name through continued usage (though that doesn't fly for Social Security and thus neither for DMV or banks, which makes this method pretty useless)

http://www.courts.ca.gov/1054.htm
I've done both. I found kombucha really easy to maintain. My biggest problem was getting over-ambitious and moving from a one-gallon glass container to a two-gallon container. The larger container made too much and got to be a hassle to process; it got to be a burden. I wish I had kept that smaller container.
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> Multi-billion dollar companies happen when non-obvious ideas and huge market needs meet perfect execution. We've seen it before our eyes — Uber, Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Instacart — and when you have the potential for 100X to 4000X returns, it's not about avoiding loss or minimizing downside. A proper venture portfolio is not like your 401K. The only way startup investors truly lose is if they miss the Uber.