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But do you program in Dart? My point is, when given a choice I can't see a reason why someone who would invest their precious time to learn some relatively obscure language like Dart would NOT learn javascript. Also hating something and not using it are two different things. You say you hate javascript but you probably do use javascript.
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The article doesn't make it clear (to me). Where did these emails come from? Were they leaked or hacked?
I got a PowerMac G5 recently from a friend who no longer needed it, because I always loved those big beasts and have fond memories of the time I got a prerelease model so I could port a codegenerator backend to it. Alas, I haven't found any practical application for the machine this time around, but I'm reluctant to pass it along as I'm afraid it'll just be scrapped.
I agree.

Source: I hate double-flushing toilets that are trying to save water, but always end up doing it. (I often also /pre/ flush on those low flow toilets because I'm not sure the water is sufficiently clean for splashback events.)
Wait wait wait, you can re-use client ports for multiple connections? Does this actually make it past NATs? Why does every TCP connection get a unique client port by default if there's no problem with reusing them as long as you're talking to a different {ServerIP,ServerPort} pair?
I think they were just afraid of the birthday paradox. But I agree, just grabbing some random bytes really is the way to go.

Although, I'm a bit afraid of the birthday paradox, maybe we should use 20 bytes instead....
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Oh my goodness, yes definitely... I love my job, love my work, the bosses are fantastic... I am living testimony that it's possible. Don't know how common this is though.

I work crazy long hours because the work is so much fun, and because I care about getting a bunch of things done even when there isn't enough time in the workday.

Yep, call me in love.
This strikes me as one of those instances were the cost of the abstraction exceeds the savings. There are some things which are simply core to your code. Attempting to abstract those things is going to create a lot of pain when, realistically, those things changing would require component rewrites anyway.

If you're working with files, you've probably made many implicit assumptions about how the file system works and how it is represented. So you are either going to have a leaky abstraction that works, or a non-leaky abstraction that has those assumptions built in and will break when porting to a system without those assumptions anyway.
that's peanuts compared to the cost of NOT having the terminal
So let me get this straight: airlines, for all their pseudo-efficiencies, cannot make a profit (since they really aren't efficient) so they rely on ground concessions. But to my knowledge airlines don't really participate in the ground concession profit stream... airports do, but not airlines. Yet, all these inefficient, unprofitable airlines care about is moving currency around quickly. All of this is spite of the customers. And this is Capitalism.

Sorry to say I have to disagree. Not only is the appeal to chasing dollars in the last part of your argument contradictory with the loss statement of your first point, the behaviors of customers and the role of competition under Capitalism is completely ignored or misunderstood.

Under Capitalism, trades are voluntary. If the common customer were not receiving sufficient value for their travel dollar, they wouldn't be spending it on air travel. It's true, I would love to have one of those Emirates private rooms on every airline trip I take, but even a cramped little chair across country is often sufficient... when it's not I upgrade. Sometimes that trade isn't worth it: if I'm travelling between the Bay Area and Los Angeles, I'll usually drive because of the security hassle, though the cramped seats don't help the airlines either. Mind you, efficiency likely does require that I settle for the sufficient rather than the desirable... at least to keep things at a price I am willing to pay.

If the current system is not sufficient, under Capitalism a few things can happen. Airlines can go bankrupt if they don't attract customers or fail to keep costs reasonably below revenue. If you see an industry where the entrenched players are old, inefficient, and failing to genuinely meet customer needs, hell that sounds like a golden opportunity! Why not create an airline that is efficient and caters to the common customer and take advantage of the vacuum? If a record label executive can do it why not some of the YC crowd? I thought this group was about entrepreneurial disruption! That is the Capitalist solution to marketplace inefficiency and it happens all the time. So I have to reject your premise about what Capitalism is or is not about: your statement just doesn't make sense nor does it bear up under study of the facts.

I suspect that the reason the airline industry is so apparently FUBAR is because it's not so easy to achieve that ideal you envision for it, at least not without stealing money from some people to subsidize the travel of others.
That is awesome. At first, I actually thought people around me were making the noise and speaking. I thought the audio sample had not yet started.
Your argument makes no sense; you could indeed say "The ironic thing about those supporting Snowden is that he grabbed "everything" instead of only the "bad, important stuf" which is exactly what they are complaining the government did.
The joke plays off the one we've all heard before, about pigs being released with numbers implying one is "still at large" — the joke being that the Germans are such industrious and efficient engineer-types that even school pranksters still facilitate an efficient clean-up. I thought it was clever!
Hi all, happy to answer any questions or take comments. If you're looking for another interesting read, I highly suggest following the link about the memory leak. I could use some pointers/help there! Enjoy
Not just an-caps; that's also the basic justification given to the whole "don't talk to police" thing and to the Fifth Amendment whenever someone says, "If you're innocent, you can just tell the truth, so obviously silence should count as evidence of guilt." [1]

Which is to say, the specter of "you're violating a bunch of laws all the time anyway, so better to make it harder in general to prosecute stuff".

Recall the Bennett Haselton (sp?) fracas:

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/06/07/1439220/seeking-fifth...

[1] Of course, it always will, irrespective of a judge's sheepish instructions.
Its actually worse then that. If they force you to use insecure equipment and to put your router behind theirs, their router can be hacked providing remote access to your internet connection without you knowing about it. And when you consider that many botnets are just after your internet connection...
ADX(fed supermax in colorado) prisoners have TVs, I don't think people are trying to get sent there for the TV.
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Dart + "Unfortunately, due to iOS restrictions, updating your Flutter app over the network is not possible" means 100% no thanks from me.

I don't want another language in my build ecosystem. Between javascript (necessary for web), objective-C, Java, C++ for shared stuff, adding another one that provides no genuinely useful semantics or performance implications is a sheer non-starter.
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> higher bitdepths and sampling rates can be quite useful in mixing

That is really the central issue. It's much like imaging since the time of Ansel Adams: the sensor can capture more dynamic range than the human eye can experience. The producer may have use for that range when editing, but the audience will never know what was -- may have been -- missed. And we're not talking about limits of reproduction. We're talking about the human sensors both instantaneous and absolute upper and lower bounds.
We can just ignore different things then. I ignore JavaScript, and you ignore Dart, and we will be on our way.
2.8M connections in a real-world scenario? Wow. I was wondering what kind of technology they used to get that, and I guess I shouldn't be surprised to see that it's Erlang.
The brick wall filters used on low sample rate sound cause ringing in the time domain, which can "blur" the neighboring impulse.
Well we shouldn't need huge batteries if Android was fixed. Have you seen the batteries Apple put inside iPhones? iOS is great for their hardware margins.
Yes, disclosing that was inappropriate. What else do you want to know?

I'm not demanding that you agree with me, but I would push back on the idea that my argument is unreasonable.

I have conservative friends and I have an-cap friends and friends at many points in between. The an-caps oppose all espionage by any state anywhere; the conservatives think disclosure of any spying by the USG is treason. Not everyone agrees about this stuff.

This thread is rooted in a comment that expresses surprise that there are Americans that oppose what Snowden did. Well, there are a lot of Americans who oppose it, for a bunch of different reasons. So: be less surprised.
Just wait until you see what Servo can do. Parallel layout is sick. https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Design#strategies-for-pa...
QML?
Please show me the evidence for confinement incentivising good behavior.
That sounds a lot like a "nothing to hide" argument.
I doubt this will work for Flutter given the use of the NDK.
Why not let people opt into it?

For a lot of people, even if there are some benefits, they aren't going to make up for the lack of social contact.
> "No one predicted this." Memorize this phrase.

> Government jobs are very stable.

> Apply math to all problems, regardless of the appropriateness. When two theories are in conflict, the one with more math wins, unless it conflicts with the interests of the people who are paying you.

> Normal distributions. Everywhere.
Garry is amazing. All the best!
> The object is for the prison guards to have a way control dangerous or non-compliant prisoners.

Do you really believe that only those types of prisoners end up in solitary confinement?
Heh, well it is an old picture, I'll see if I can't get a better one made. I didn't join IT for my looks though so hopefully it doesn't stand in the way of your enjoyment of the content.
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If you listen to pop recordings between 1950-1980, you'll notice there's more depth and character to every instrument.

Yes, dynamic range compression is currently used/abused extensively in pop music productions, but if mixes weren't compressed they would have a much wider range for the sounds to play around in.

Not only is Justin Bieber's My World 2.0 louder than
Metallica's The Black Album, it's louder than The Sex
Pistols' Never Mind The Bollocks.

http://www.sonicstate.com/news/2011/02/21/why-is-justin-bieb...
No No No - you are totally missing the point.

The design language used in those slides has been iteratively refined over decades and exhaustively A/B tested. It has many years of psychometric analysis applied to make it one of the most powerful sales tools in the world.

To win over enterprise PHBs, you need to make them think that you are one of them. That you understand and empathise with them deeply. That you speak their language, and that you are part of their culture.

What better way to do that than to give them a powerpoint presentation that looks just like the ones they give each other. That shows that you are already part of their world, and that you are worthy of the key to the executive washroom.
Why on Earth would they have a smushed iPhone 6 on that landing page for famous.co?
Silver and gold and other coins, without serial numbers, have existed as a store of value for far longer than pieces of paper or linen with serial numbers.

People have used anonymous money in the form of coins for millennia. It wasn't until the 1860s that the first one-dollar bill in the U.S. was printed with serial numbers. For ~95% of the time that money has existed, it has been what you would call "truly anonymous."

If you go back to pre-coin history and use weights of silver as opposed to minted or hammered coins, you're looking at maybe 153 years of serial numbers vs. about 5,000 years of non-serial numbers. "Truly anonymous money" is the historic norm; the current situation with numbers printed on paper/linen/plastic is something of a historical aberration.
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MP3's perceptual model can still throw away information at the highest quality settings. FLAC doesn't throw away anything.

It's possible you are just hearing the difference between codecs. You'd have a fairer comparison with 24-bit vs 16-bit FLAC.
I sort of want this to be the case, but I feel like the web won, and that's going to keep making windows 10 a niche platform for things that want to break out of the web model.
Not the worst joke, but it presumes a large amount of domain-specific knowledge on the part of the listener.
>I think the first part of your argument works equally well for strings generally as for typed strings,

But NameAscii.CharacterIndex(3) is a different meaning than NameUtf16.CharacterIndex(3). The byte index could be 3 or 6+n depending on semantics.

>Sure, but I don't think it has to be done twice. [...]abstracting the URL-iness of strings,

There's no redundancy. If I have a config file that has user-specified URLs in it. It is more likely that the programmer will know if that file on disk is ASCII or Utf16. The programmer can know that before the compiler or runtime can know it and assign a formal type to the incoming string. This is independent knowledge from a URL data type. A URL data type isn't going to have member functions to pull data directly off of the disk. That's a separate concern as you say.

>, adding something to abstract the URL-iness of a byte sequence is a gratuitous redundancy that conflicts with the principle of separating concerns.

We are envisioning different things. I thought of it as:

- bytes -> typed string -> URL

I think you're thinking of:

- -- typed string
- bytes /
- \-- URL

... and yes that would be redundant for a URL data type to understand all kinds of raw bytes.
Relevant thread about Coinjoin, with a section comparing it to Zerocoin (I am not sure how up-to-date the thread is, since it is from 2013):

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=279249.0
I always thought low urinals were ridiculous. Let short people use the regular toilet.
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Agreed. Where do I signup? What concrete steps should I take to break this cycle?
C++ and D do it differently, I don't know why you're lumping them together. (Well, actually, I lied, I do know why.)
I have fond memories of taking a class with David Kelly and listening to his ranting about why 17 is objectively the best number. ("For example, the average length of a Giraffe's tongue is 17 inches! What more do you need?") He also hated the number 23 "because it's the mortal enemy of 17, I don't have time to explain why." While I was in the class the movie "23" came out: he urged us all to boycott the film, or better, form a picket line.
> How many hours before Toyota gets it and start "auditing" it?

Why would that be a problem? Sounds perfectly reasonable to me as long as everyone has the right to audit the code. There's a huge public interest in disclosure of source code for things like self-driving cars.

If Toyota, Mitsubishi, and other Japanese companies were given the code but no one else then there would be a problem.
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"Marginally effective"? How is e.g. oxymorphone or fentanyl only marginally effective? Excruciating pain and you were using ibuprofen? Why not even hydrocodone? Or if you wanted to grow it, grow poppies and extract the opium? Only difference is that weed grows a bit easier and requires a bit less harvesting work.

(Not to mention pot seems to dull intelligence; opiates do not.)
I've read some of them, but they all fail to provide a motive for why he'd work against the US, or how Russia would have even contacted him. There's also a mix of stories that say he was flipped before going to Russia which fail to suggest how Russia made contact with him in the first place, and stories that say he was flipped in Russia, with no real suggestion of what he's doing.
IBM decided to invest the same number in Watson last year [0]. Not sure if that helps.

[0]: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/09/us-ibm-watson-idUS...
>Parse the textual cruft into a data structure as early in the data processing pipeline as possible.

Totally agree. But whether we "parse" or "yank", that processing requires semantics. Data types can help with correct semantics to interpret the textual cruft the way the programmer intended.

The other issue of strings acting as adhoc compound data formats is orthogonal.
Outside of Wall Street, or rather non-U.S. financial industries, do they also use Bloomberg Terminals for their markets or do they use something home grown or nothing at all?

What's the value advantage that a network like this gives to the U.S. vs. other places?
I mean, I'm just some hobbyist, but my understanding is everyone renders to lossless and then converts that to the various MP3/AAC formats, never changing anything solely because of the final compressed format.
That's pretty clean. It is also rather inefficient. I think dropFirst copies the sequence and then the result is copied again to create a String and then finally it gets parsed into a Float. No problem for one Float, but parsing a largish CSV file like that may be a different matter.

At least I think that's what's happening. I'm not 100% sure.
Ha, thanks. I'm only 25, so I've got about 10 years to put together a platform before I'm even eligible.

Obviously, as some of the other posters have pointed out, there a few issues regarding my statements when it comes to habitual reoffenders who threaten the rest of the prison populace. I'd need to do some more research on the subject (look at other prison systems, look at occurrence rates, etc) to figure out a proper response to that.

This is how I see it now though: when you learn to scuba dive, first they tell you the basics on dry land, then they get you into a pool with the proper supervision and equipment, then you go into the ocean.

When it comes to rehabilitating prisoners so that they're able to interact with the ocean (society), we're not even giving them the on land basics much less the pool (which could be civilian roles inside the prison environment).

Rewarding good behavior has been studied and shown to be far more effective than punishing bad behavior. So that's the route I propose.

Of course, in a society where we don't provide a lot of people (generally the people who could use it the most) the in land basics, much less the pool, before they end up in prison, I'm not sure what we expect.

I've been considering writing a book called "A Path Forward: A vision for a Prosperous America" which would include a lot of my views. Hopefully that will be coming out in the next few years. If you ever see it, you'll know it was me. My views are primarily based on a rational perspective, evidence based learning, and a very healthy dose of compassion.

I've never understood how people could dismiss so easily a person with decades of experiences they've never had. Of course you can learn from them. Why aren't we?

Cheers mate.
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Probably not. It's a marketing gimmick - only one or two seats on the plane goes for the $15.
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The amount of JavaScript-is-God philosophies on here is excruciating.... I respect everyone who likes JavaScript, but just because Dart isn't what you like doesn't make it inherently useless or bad. The world is all about diversity, how about some language/preference diversity?

In my opinion, JavaScript is a large flame, and all the
languages that were inspired by it are the sparks. Eventually the JavaScript flame might die out, but the sparks it makes can still burn, and create their own flame.

I'm a huge lover of Dart, and I generally dislike JavaScript. My advice is to welcome Flutter. If it works out, it will work well, if it doesn't work out, it will fade away.
Countermeasures* to this problem reminded me of an incident in which the Germans were able to outsmart Allied military intelligence.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem#Countermea...

This is something I read in The American Axis, which discusses how Charles Lindbergh was duped into helping delay American involvement in WWII. The short version: He was taken on a grand, multi-day tour of the Luftwaffe’s large air-force… never the wiser that the planes he saw on airbase after airbase were the same ones, flown in overnight from the last airbase! Naturally the US MI questioned Lindbergh after his travel and grossly overestimated the power and size of the Germain air force, just as they had intended!

(As I recall, Lindbergh wasn’t a Nazi sympathizer so much as a dupe; although the other subject of the book – Henry Ford — certainly was. In fact, Ford plants produced the faultiest American war planes, by far, dooming quite a number of American pilots. There’s every reason to think this was intentional.)

Update I read this book 8 years ago and my memory isn't 100%. It looks like Lindbergh, per the book, was also a Nazi sympathizer to some degree, although he comes off much more sympathetically than Ford.
Alternative application of the solution. It's an interesting bit of math, with many theoretical and real world applications.

http://what-if.xkcd.com/65/
It's unconscionable that a doctor wouldn't prescribe you more powerful painkillers or a strong sleep-inducing medication to deal with migraines. The thought that we have easily available medicine yet it's being intentionally withheld and causing suffering is disgusting.
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You are right - I went to a vo-tech school that had an engineering class and our class project at the end of the year was to create a new toilet seat (not even full toilet) and the amount of R+D (which includes massive UX studies, research etc) is astronomical, and this was back in the 90's :)
...or that confining people in solitary makes them less dangerous?
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>Customer acquisition costs are so high, I doubt you'd believe me if I explained them to you.

Of course we would believe you. When you use a metric like "customer acquisition costs", you can say pretty much whatever you like.

I'd rather hear something like, "We have such little deployed value at the retail level that no one wishes to contract with us unless we spend a lot of money over here (legalized entrapment codes and marketing)."
See listening tests section of TFA:http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html#toc_lt
No, of course not. I said that was the purpose intended by the guards. It costs them little to use solitary confinement liberally, so they do. If someone is inconvenient or troublesome, or just pisses them off, away they go.

I also think that it's well evidenced that solitary makes people go completely insane, and that the guard doesn't care very much what happens to them if they ever get out of prison.

EDIT: What I'm trying to say here is that I think what we're doing is harmful, but there seems to be little incentive for empowered parties to change it.