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I wasn't going to give your reply further consideration than what I gave... It doesn't deserve more. But I really feel something needs to be said here - given that you are in a position of power, and imo - setting an appalling example.

Since we're citing experience - let me give you some of mine. I have been in academia for many years as both a PhD student and an administrator. I have worked in many different departments - with many different types of academics. I have studied under them, I have sat in their committee meetings, I have gotten drunk with them.

The majority of them are just decent folk. Sure, there were some weirdos, some lazy... and plenty whose research is questionable.

But I would say with supreme confidence that exactly 0 of these people deserved to be called a "crackpot"... i.e. deserving of the implication of being totally divorced from reality.

But there was a significant minority (20% approx) that I would quite happily describe as arrogant, status obsessed assholes, who would sooner shove their own colleagues under a bus than acknowledge the SLIGHTEST value in what they were doing.

So no - my mental model of science does not include large numbers of crackpots. And I will rejoinder if your mental model doesn't include large numbers of arrogant, status obsessed assholes, then YOUR mental model of science is wrong.

I will further retort, that if you are going around calling significant numbers of your peers "crackpots", then you need to seriously consider that you might be one of those assholes I just described. And if this is something you really can't bring yourself to do - I would advise a more general maxim as a matter of simple pragmatic, self preservation:

Stop whining about what's in your neighbour's bowl. It just doesn't play well.
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Interesting.

The biggest problem would have been making those gates completely watertight. The design on the video cannot be that.
Not just an agreement, but also that 'Novell agreed to pay royalties to Microsoft based on Novell's open source sales'.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2654097/linux/the-microsoft...
This is perplexing to me as well. I would have thought something that appears across industries would be top. Something like accountant, secretary, sales person. But then again Software Dev crosses a lot of industries. Also professional jobs (desk jobs) have a lot of similar roles with different sounding titles. Biz Dev, consultant, manager, and so on.
At least in the UK and France, localbitcoins.com let's sellers/buyers use alternatives to meeting with cash, for example direct bank transfer, or some apps we have (like Barclays PingIt in the UK) - the coins go into the site's escrow and the seller releases them once money comes in - which is usually instantly, unlike in America I guess. Not sure how prices or UI compares to other options, but certainly no shadiness if using it that way.
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So long YIFY and thanks for all the flicks
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What if the recipient disables images and HTML/script ?
I think there's also the issue of limited compiler support for that feature

Maybe broken is too strong a word I agree
In the discussion Linus is providing his suggested code, which is literally "just a builtin addition", but your opinion is that "He says that you can't use builtin addition".

OK, sure.
Yes.

And different Linux flavors were already on Azure as "applications" prior to this deal.

But now RedHat is getting the official stamp.

If Azure the OS only had Windows the App, that would be a great failing. MS is smart and playing Azure out to not just promote other MS products. Expanding it as an ecosystem for various OSes is a Good Thing.
Those latter two quotes are from the "Guide to Powers and Safeguards", which isn't part of the draft bill, and has no legal standing.
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> why would a purely logical machine get out of bed in the morning? would it not need to "want" something first?

In a word - huh? An irrational person might wake up one morning with the urge to paint a picture - are you suggesting a purely rational person wouldn't feel such an urge, or that they wouldn't act on it? In either case, why not?
It is both. It means the only people who stick around are those who can tolerate the childishness. This certainly reduces the number of capable people that are willing to contribute to the project.

I don't care much how Linus acts since I don't work with him. Some people try to emulate him and I sometimes come into contact with them; that's not great for me, but far be it from me to tell Linus how to act on his own mailing list. All I'm doing here is pointing out the fallacies in your defence of his silly behaviour.

Do you also prefer his hysterical style? I am hardly "invading Linux" by commenting on an HN thread.
Or rather Microsoft desperately clinging on RedHat to make its cloud proposition look commercially legit. I mean, look at that list: the first two items are for SuSE, a distribution that is hardly popular these days, then you have "knockoff RedHat" CentOS and "hobbyist's choice" Ubuntu. I'm surprised they left off Debian, I guess that's still a bit too hippy. In any case, not the stuff of dreams, from a commercial standpoint.

So you can spin it both ways, really.
The South never recovered from the Civil War, seems to me.
Worked out well for Xamarin. Also, it seems to me that SUSE is still in good shape, but didn't continued to grow like RedHat.
Currently it still relies on the GC.

However you can write gc free code regions by marking them as @nogc and the compiler will make sure you only call code that is @nogc compatible.

Additionally, there is some ongoing discussion how to improve the language to depend less on the GC.

The C++ core guidelines are great, and me being a C++ fan even with its warts, welcome them and all the work the C++ community is doing.

However them being opt-in, relying on static analysis and the quality of the code I usually see at companies, which tends to be C with Classes from developers that don't even know what CppCon is, I am not sure how the adoption will be like.
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overflow_usub is the code that gets called when your compiler doesn't support __builtin_usub_overflow (Linus opposes both the function and the intrinsic, of course).
This comment is very amusing in the context of the article. Shanley Kane uses abusive language, at minimum, two orders of magnitude more often than Linus does.
No, experiments show that there is some unexplained thrust. That does not mean it "works". A much more likely explanation is very boring things like experimental error or a side-effect of heating. See http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/despite-headlin...
Can this be used to scrape data from website parallely like scrapy?
It is a defined term, but I think trymas is referring to the layman's usage.

"natural price" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/natural_price

A price for a good or service that is equal to the cost of production.
Ugh. The winners write the history books, and their glorifiers write the epilogues. "The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death"? Really? Based on... what exactly? Who is this "classical man"? Define inglorious. Ugh, just terrible, terrible trite attempt at aphorisms. (Not you justinsingh, Taleb.)

I don't doubt that "modern humanity" in "the west" seems to deal badly with the process of dying. But Taleb... just no. At best he's a writer of highly variable quality.

Try reading Atul Gawande's Being Mortal.
So people aren't allowed to be offended by other people being offended of them?
I do as well. What's wrong with leaving it there?
That is not in fact what Linus is saying. At this point you might want to take my word for it.
They cite the source:

https://cps.ipums.org/cps/

Which is a project to, among other things, "Harmonize [Current Population Survey] data to be compatible over time".

The Current Population Survey is run by professional statisticians and well documented:

http://www.census.gov/cps/methodology/ioclassification.html

The classifications have some amount of subjectivity, but they probably aren't wildly arbitrary.
In college I had a friend who didn't understand 50/50. If an outcome was not yet decided, then both options are the same "size", right?

One would like to think that my debates with him about this, or maybe the stats class he took, we're what helped fix this intuition. But what probably was just as important was playing games like LoL, where in the face of uncertainty, you make calculated risks all the time. At some point, it is impossible to get better without making intelligent risks.
I've mentioned this elsewhere, but some here may enjoy reading Atul Gawande's Being Mortal.
Does this company have any other employees? Who are these investors rubber stamping BS like this?
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The crazy thing is that both visa 3d secure and the same thing from mastercard dont require 2FA either at my bank. All they need is a password.

in comparison, all online banking transactions go through a challenge-response process with an separated card reader and my debit card.
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I imagine he/she means the newly introduced C++ Core Guidelines with the _prt<>() and _view() classes, and the adoption of Rust like lifetime analysis for static analysers.
Hilarious!! this could be my next investment. It would change millions of lives
What point was he trying to make?

I would expect that anyone who's worked on enterprise software has been to client meetings where ROI is expressed in terms of human resources.

It's part of advancement that certain jobs will no longer be viable for people. People will train for other work instead.

It's not like suddenly, with no warning, 100s of thousands of drivers around the world will need to find new jobs. But in the very long term, fewer drivers will be needed. People who would have, at one time, become drivers, will do other work.
None taken, thanks for the info!
More information on how it works is available at http://blog.converse.ai - I wrote a series of posts describing it's key functionality. Would love to get some feedback :)
Why don't they just put one of these things in space, with solar panels, turn it on, and see what happens? I guess the expense? It does seem the most expedient way to verify whether it works or not.
Cite an article that says the purity of heroin is the most dangerous part of heroin use. Just one reputable article. Put up or shutup.

I posted 3 well-established papers above if you want some reading.
Marketing. Chrome DevTools has a much bigger market share.

Plus obviously you're not a real hacker unless your software is light-on-black.
Apparently the district court judge didn't like the article about the prevalence of mandatory arbitration in the Sunday New York Times.
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Did you compile with debug info (-g I think)? It needs to read the DWARF info to get the line numbers.
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I believe Steuard means people not a part of academia. These "crackpots" are typically people who do not have formal training in physics or related fields. Yet, they are convinced that "Einstein is wrong", and they will contacts academic physicists, such as Steuard, explaining their theories.
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Amen. Steuard's arrogant tone is incredibly insufferable.
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Most Americans are retail salespeople, followed by cashiers, and then cooks.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ocwage.pdf
Marijuana definitely doesn't make socializing fun for all people...
Duncan, the reason we try not to discuss future plans is because until something ships we can't 100% for sure it'll make it into the wild. We've had instances in the past where we discussed future plans and due to unforeseen issues couldn't follow through with them.

The mantra is more "under promise and over deliver" when it comes to these types of things. One of the sayings that has lived long in AgileBits (at least since I've joined nearly 4 years ago) is that no decision is ever final. So we might tell someone "nope, sorry won't happen" but then it could later, or vice versa.

So, future plans are something we try very hard not to discuss, and if they're ever discussed it's often by our CEO or founders :)

It's because we respect our customers that we do this. We don't want to lead someone on or misrepresent our intentions. Though, I can certainly understand how it might feel like we are avoiding the issue, we're not, we'd love nothing more than to tell everyone "yup, that's coming!" but reality is much different so we want to make sure we do our best by coming in level headed about things.

Hope that helps explain things a little at least.

Kyle

AgileBits
And every dollar spent looking for life on Europa could be spent on preserving endangered life on this planet.

The device has intrigued many of your more curious colleagues. You never know what can be learned by solving this particular puzzle. The solution might be in the field of physics, science journalism, or maybe psychology. Either way, knowing more is better.
These don't actually reflect the nation-wide distribution, which is heavy on retail salespeople, cashiers, and cooks.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ocwage.pdf
4) I think they were trying to handle that with a spin off magazine "National Geographic Traveler". The ones I looked at weren't that compelling although beautiful. (and I love the National Geographic magazine).

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/traveler-magazin...
Caution is called for. After all, blowing past warp 5 can damage the space-time continuum.
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Thanks for the perspective, I feel so stupid.

I'm sure spending $1bn on clean water and sewage in the some of the most populous cities on earth would be equally pointless.
Verified By Visa is (almost?) always embedded into a merchant's page (on their domain) as an iframe. At least in Canada.

It's nearly impossible for normal users to verify that they're sending their password to their bank, and not to the merchant.

Training users to send merchants sensitive bank passwords is a step backwards.
I think so:

$ dmd -g main.d && ./main
Segmentation fault: 11

is there anything else I can try?

I'm OSX El Capitan 10.11.1
"Such an error"? What error?
It worked well enough to be acquired by Docker :)
> Eric S. Raymond alleged yesterday that feminist groups have been repeatedly attempting to frame him for sexual assault!

And you take this seriously because... ?
It's still a problem if you want to keep it that way, or if you value quality over quantity.
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i) I think there's a difference between being a conspiracy theorist (allegedly; haven't looked into this), and being a liar. Credibility does not extend across domains, either. An authority on, say, OS design might be a complete fool when it comes to politics (for instance).

ii) Allegations have been made against Micheal Schirmer and Lawrence Krauss (not hard to find if you search for them).
What about magnetic water cleaners?

Anything crackpot is an attempt to usurp the way things are with the way people want them to be. Free energy, electric thrusters, magnetic health bracelets, one weird trick for clean teeth... these all apply to other professions but since they obviously don't work it is up to the physicist to ignore? explain?

Physics is the belief in sanity in our confusing mess of a work. It is often an appeal to something simpler. What's the difference between a crackpot and a physicist? Physicists do science and get repeatable results.
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>> Marijuana enhances social interactions (or so I've heard).

I guess so ... At least if your definition of "socially interactive" is getting hungry then horny then hungry again (throw in the odd uncontrolled giggling).
Has the core guidelines Checker tool been released yet? For those that haven't studied the guideline intensely, I'd assume it's necessary to do any kind of real world comparison.
"the code was bad and shoehorned into a magical one size fits all solution"

Can you explain what you mean by this?

"Not idiomatically appropriate for the kernel" and "bad" are very different concepts.

There's an interesting phenomenon happening where people are retconning Linus's objection to this code into a value judgement on the code itself. I'm curious whether that's what you're doing, or whether you have a grounded argument to back up your assertion that the code was, as you chose to put it, "bad".
Our clients seem to still use it a lot, I usually see it being deployed together with SAP when I get project reports.
I'm pretty sure you are getting downvotes because your original comment was needless political snark. Now you are making baseless accusations of "vote manipulation". Please don't do this here.
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Even assuming we knew with perfect certainty (which may be a reasonable approximation but isn't actually the case) that the effect was due to experimental error, given that we yet cannot point to the error we may very well have useful things to learn about experimentation. Any tiny chance of upending well-established laws of physics is just a bonus.
>1. Primary sources dated as close as 22-25 years and as late as 70 years after the event of Jesus' death and //resurrection.//

The historical method is not equipped to discuss supernatural events, so however trustworthy any of the gospels are, the pivotal event of Christian theology is still an article of faith as far as history is concerned.
Yeah, that's a very good point. It was suggested by an acquaintance that I just throw a lit sparkler down the hole before entering, which _almost_ made sense -though if I ever do manage to find a pocket of CO then it's going to make one heck of a mess.... Davy Lamp time it is then -big flame == big trouble and time to leave.

I might have to start taking a household CO detector with me (the cheap ones now even have a PPM reading [1]) though I'm still wary of it giving a false sense of security and me then missing something else just as hazardous. Once again, Davy Lamp might be the solution to this -apparently the flame goes out when there's 17% oxygen or less, which is still life supporting.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mudder-Carbon-Monoxide-Alarm-Detecto...
Non-startup world uses Redhat.

Amazon Linux is based on Redhat. CentOS is a Redhat recompile, so you can say anyone using that is also using "Redhat". US govt almost exclusively uses RHEL when they mean "Linux". Also banks, healthcare, etc.
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How is that remark inane? As I see it, the concentration of wealth in the top x% is precisely the problem we are facing. Our productive capacity of a society has never been higher, but the fruits of that labour are not being broadly distributed, and it is exacerbated in certain places (Canada being one) by the simultaneous existence of an absolutely massive real estate bubble. It's an excellent recipe for disaster.
I think this is just ticking a box for Microsoft since I believe you can get RH on AWS. But let's be honest - how many people will perceive any value in stacking a Microsoft technology (.NET) on top of UNIX? Sure if you already have a .NET app, hosting it in UNIX may give you some benefit. But is anyone really going to write an app from scratch with this in mind? I'm skeptical.
The blame should be on MS here. Why does this OS happily run unsigned executables from random sites, random emails, etc? The days where that's a common use case are long behind us and for legitimate uses, end users can go into the control panel and whitelist exe's on a per exe basis. Its way, way too easy to fool a Windows user into running your code.
If I have to choose between Linus yelling at me and you censoring any official discussion channels, I'd go with Linus every time.

Now why don't you go back to your locked threads and enjoy the silence?
Farms have consolidated - 300 acres used to be a big farm. Now you have to have 10,000 and a workforce of 100 people to farm profitably. So the numbers have reduced.

The road I live on had 13 farms when I was a kid. My brother was the last. Now he works in town and rents the land to a corporation.
This is the first time I found out that DMD isn't self-hosting; I always assumed it was.
Oh well that is a totally different term than the context it is being used in here.
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>Obviously, if you were the manager, you could rant like this as much as you wanted.

I think you would be surprised what happens in boardrooms and how bad heated discussions between CTO or CEO can look for outsiders.

I understand that if you are managing code monkeys whose lifehood is in your hands, you must behave differently because there is huge power imbalance. But workplace where everyone is competitive individual (top level corporate, professional sports teams, hacker culture) can work well with people who test each other constantly.
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As an ex-doctoral student in astrophysics, I can confirm that there are a lot of crackpots out there. The most common claim was that heliocentricity was correct, if you can believe it.
Software developers are already marginalized by tech.

Across the board, we get better and better at developing software.

As a software developer, the job has changed from being good at writing software to being good at putting lego pieces together.

It takes less people now to build: a simple video game, a SaaS web app, a mobile app - the common things we get paid to do.

And because of SaaS proliferation, there need not be as much custom internal software. This used to be a huge chuck of the work for devs.

Devops, too, removes need for as many 'it guys'.

The need for more software continues to outpace the trend of needing less developers to create it. For how long will that be the case?
I agree.

With all of the articles coming out on them now, I wouldn't be surprised if it's revealed this is a total sham, from top to bottom.
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What's to stop Fraudster simply changing the Paypal address to match where the order is going ?
>Part of the problem seems to be that nobody these days is content to merely put their dent in the universe. No, they have to fucking own the universe. It’s not enough to be in the market, they have to dominate it. It’s not enough to serve customers, they have to capture them.

I think this says more about the state of VC than startups themselves. Founders feel that if they don't run around banging pots and pans while tooting their own horn/vuvuzela, they won't ever get any attention from investors. Crowdsourcing early funding is just going to make this worse.