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>>It's not so much despair but longing for something that never could have been.

Providing an amazing environment for my children has erased all regret for my own childhood. I can see a new hope filled future with new eyes.
The math will be a prerequisite so the university will handle making sure he has taken a high enough math. Honestly the hard part about college courses is motivation to study and do assignments not comprehension, so if he is motivated enough he'll do well.
I think that's more a reflection of how Facebook chooses to use the results of an algorithm rather than the algorithms themselves.
I was lucky in my own ways too!

Life is nothing but an inevitable race to the end. I try to take it slow and steady. Having some regrets is unavoidable! But it makes stories like this all the more sweet. Not all of us had the same chances but someone made it through and that brings a smile to my face.
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No kidding. I was interested in band management awhile back and looked for some information. I was struck when I saw that it was common practice to operate without a contract or even a formal agreement. The gist was that nothing about that endeavor could possibly work outside of an environment of mutual and complete trust. If you even have to ask for one, it means your head isn't in the right place or that isn't the right band for you.

The thing about a startup is that only the investors are really in a position to negotiate cleanly and with a clear head. If you're betting your time and effort, then by definition you're coming to the table with assets that are far more important to you than they will be to anyone else.
I currently use LastPass, and I previously used KeePass. Now I'm looking to move away from LastPass, post acquisition.

I've considered storing text files containing passwords inside of a VeraCrypt or TrueCrypt volume. Or storing the KeePass database file similarly.

Any feedback on if this is a bad approach and why?
I think there's a lot more involved in international sales and logistics than "discriminating against non US persons"
"I am a hundred percent sure every kid can study MIT classes at every age." Every kid can {Watch a lecture: sure, Study: perhaps, understand: Nope}. Humans have varying levels of intelligence and Ahaan is far more intelligent than most. Disregarding his capacities does both a disservice to him and to everyone else.
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Your comment makes if sound like you might think the passage you quoted was intending to highlight a shortcoming of Python 3. The article is in fact praising this behavior in Python 3 and stating that the default in Python 2 was goofy.
Out of curiousity, why did you find it such a waste?
The Israeli army wrote a report about the error and a patch was uploaded into the US systems the day after the attack. Bad timing I guess. After day, the Patriots never missed their target and didn't need to be rebooted.

"e. Two weeks before the incident, Army officials received Israeli data indicating some loss in accuracy after the system had been running for 8 consecutive hours. Consequently, Army officials modified the software to improve the system's accuracy. However, the modified software did not reach Dhahran until February 26, 1991--the day after the Scud incident."
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Yes. My parents and many of my friends use $150 Chromebooks from years ago and love them. I don't need Walt Mossberg, former Apple shill, to tell me whether a laptop is good.
already a text editor with this name https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/caret/fljalecfjcio...
The first one was a headline change in the Python 3000 release notes:

https://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html

The other items in the article are also mentioned there, but not as headline items. The great majority of behavioral changes from 2.7 to 3.x should be listed in that one document, there was a freeze on language changes for several of the 3.x releases.
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And how many subtle bugs will be introduced during porting software for Python 2 to Python 3?
Both of these like promising applications, but I've just been using the Atom IDE (https://atom.io/) with the "Markdown Preview" and "Markdown to PDF" packages.
Yes I recall you having written as much, several times! b^)
With all due respect, and while you might very well be smart, your story is pretty normal. The MIT alumni I've meet (for which selection bias surely is a factor) has been quite beyond that and very much overachievers (in a positive way).

That said, going to college early usually isn't a good idea. People are quite "age sensitive" in that age so you're missing out on a lot of the social stuff. Regardless how good MIT is the rest is still "only" knowledge. I can of course imagine worse things though.
> Spotify is ugly

Which platform? I've heard this criticism before but I don't understand it.

I use the service on Android, OS X, Windows, and Ubuntu...and while it may not be 100% beautiful throughout, I think it manages to balance decent aesthetics with decent UX better than most mainstream apps out there.
One ULA reason for dropping out:

"the Air Force used a procurement process that would give a lot of weight to the prices companies bid"

That's hysterical! The gall of the Air Force to do such a thing!
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Frankly I don't think anything has changed since then that would change his advice. If anything it seems more sensible than ever.
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Why not docker-compose[1]? One thing it does well is abstract docker commands to `docker-compose build && docker-compose up`.

[1]: https://www.docker.com/docker-compose
This is what occurred to me as well. Share the IP somehow and go separate ways.
For you vim lovers and Mac users out there, Marked 2 [1] in live reload mode works pretty great. For vim I like the vim-markdown plugin [2].

I get live preview, 9 different styles, code formatting, the ability to export to word, PDF, HTML, ODT, and RTF...and for blogging you get a word count at the bottom. It even analyzes your text for writing style like passive voice, long words, etc.

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How does that qualify as a software bug? Perkin-Elmer's custom null corrector was misaligned so the mirror was figured into the wrong shape. Edit: if anything, it was an organizational failure—PE chose to ignore other measurements that showed the mirror was the wrong shape.

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/1991000...
Emulating a stationary target for which you own the source code is a completely different thing.
Kill the trackpad. Everybody hates trackpads but people keep making excuses for them. When HP made a convertable PC the users said "the trackpad sucks" and decided to put in a bigger trackpad that still sucks.

The least cost PC is a tablet. Want a keyboard? Get a bluetooth keyboard. Touchscreen not good enough? Get a bluetooth mouse.

Either way you can spend a lot or a little and choose a mouse and keyboard that you like.
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It's libraries rather than porting.

Funnily, though, I just thought 'yeah there's that library I use, they never ported that', for one of my codebases. Just looked it up and they now have ported it. So I guess it's time for me to do the same. I wonder what proportion of (actually used) libs are Py 2 only still.
It'd be nice to have it be part of the editor, but `pandoc document.md -o document.pdf` does the trick.

http://pandoc.org/getting-started.html
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I was bored, not because of the teachers, but because I didn't have to do much work to comprehend the material.

I never thought of telling anyone that I was working through the rest of the textbook just to keep myself occupied in class. I just kept my head down and did my best to un-bore myself.

Which bit me in the rear end when I got to University and started taking classes that required studying.
Take a look at sync.com as an alternative.
Putting things in the way of the beam to measure dose is actually quite common.

You can do real time dose monitoring using diodes (see [1]). The diodes are quite small and don't generate huge amounts of scatter.

It is quite common to use TLD's[2] to monitor patient dose which is then analyzed offline to give dose estimates after the fact.

edit: that said, I don't think anybody was doing real-time in-vivo measurements during the era of the Therac incident.

[1] https://www.aapm.org/pubs/reports/RPT_87.pdf

[2] TLD=thermoluminescent dosimeter, little hunks of metal whose electrons get stuck in an excited state when exposed to radiation, you then heat them up and measure the light they give off as they relax back to ground state. The amount of light they give off can then be correlated with the dose the patient received.
> How did he betray his nation exactly?

He revealed information about supposed national-security intelligence-collection measures.

> From where I'm sitting, it looks like he did everyone except the government a huge fucking favour.

He certainly did the Chinese and Russian governments a huge favour.

> Your government is not your nation, and your government are the ones betraying you.

Hardly. Nothing he has alleged is illegal; nothing he has alleged is unconstitutional; everything he has alleged was appropriately targeted.

I'll grant him this much: he doesn't think he's evil; he thinks he's doing good. But what he's actually done is cause exceptionally grave damage to the government and people of the United States of America (and, insofar as the United States act as guarantors of the Pax Americana, he's endangered the rest of the world as well).
As @sharemywin stated, I would put it on the resume as consultant. Highlight the products you built and find someone that can attest positively for that. Then just move on.

Even though the company may have been bankrupt and not had the cash to pay, the bigger win for you in a lawsuit would have been a NDA and agreement to not disparage each other. You could have sued for just enough to cover the minimum contingency with all funds going to lawyer for the protection of having your name intact. Depending on your funds, you may speak to an attorney again to make sure there is not a defamation or libel case going on. A simple letter from an attorney may be enough to scare him into not speaking further about you.
> following long function call chains is counter-productive

Well, be productive then!

It is a heuristic. I don't think I am in the minority saying that "breaking things down in small manageable chunks is a good thing". That's is not just Erlang that's common sense. That's the point. That doesn't mean having to count lines if you go over 7 start making functions like next1 next2 and so on. That's called being pedantic.
Ah! Very good point. Yes I agree.
I'm OK with low users. It's impossible to capture users on iOS and Android because the marketplace is so huge; I can't build anything which doesn't already have 10 different versions. The prospect of a "new frontier" is exciting to me, even if the frontier is very small.
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Too bad it's doing the opposite on the privacy front, trying to collect more data than ever about Windows users, by default.
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The school system is really best for the kids-in-the-middle, i.e. not the best fit for the really talented, as the case with this MIT kid here, neither is it for the D/F students. Public school was originated in Europe for training workers if memory serves me right.

Since Bush the public education system is more geared towards to the D/F students nonetheless, i.e., the no child left behind policy, a road to hell. This might have something to do with Bush, who is about a D student himself.

A solution I would like to see, is tax-relief for home-schooling families, they don't use the public education system so why pay for the school district property tax? This looks like a win-win for the family and the nation in the long run.

Human races compete and evolve, focusing on the left-behinders are so against nature, yes they should be taken care of, but the focus really should be on the other side.
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Well that's the whole argument there - what he revealed was illegal and unconstitutional. Denial of that makes him look pretty bad, I admit.
That level of code demonstration from the author is more comprehensive than the documentation in what's news.

A lot of the PEPs are way too verbose for a quick bite. PEP are great for a weekend read, but for a quick summary, OP does a better job.
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And yet, I'd rather have a third Obama term, than any of the available candidates.
This response article misses a major point, most likely deliberately, that ISIS are following the actions of Mohammed himself, who they see as the perfect man. In the same way that Christians (in theory) would like to emulate the life of Christ, fundamentalist Muslims want to emulate the life of Mohammed. But Mohammed was not a man of peace. He was a warrior, who killed his enemies, targeted the Jews, kept slaves, encouraged rape of female captives, beheaded prisoners, took territory by force, treated non-Muslims as second-class citizens, and had a child bride. Therefore many of the verses in the Koran and Hadith are about these topics, and as they are a core part of the founder's life, they cannot be removed or reformed.

[1]http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Muhammad/myths-mu-home.htm
>Brainfuck

Seriously though, the point is well taken. The right tool for the right job will always apply, and I like to think most developers and programmers acknowledge that there are very few tools that should be used in every opportunity and by every person.
The existence of the Planck length does not imply quantized spacetime, which is still very much an open question in the field of physics. To the best of my knowledge most models still posit a continuous spacetime. cf. https://www.quora.com/Is-time-discrete-or-continuous
Not to mention the usability front. Windows is ugly and confusing. It didn't used to be so ugly and was less confusing in the past.
This article makes a cogent case for the assertion at least.
What do you guys think of clipperz? Is it safe?
Most servers are probably still running on Python 2.6 and 2.7.
I think that correct definition of this article is "FAQ", not interview. The term "interview" usually implies actual conversation.
As I understood it he was saying the better way to prove Python 3 is good for creating high quality software might be to look at the high quality software already written in Python 2, rather than pointing out flaws in it - since all programming languages will have flaws (including Python 3)..
When I decided to leave my co-founder we asked advice from the local chambers of commerce (In the Netherlands they provide this). I remember feeling the same: surely all my effort put in must be worth something.

The advice was clear. The value of the company is based not the future expected cash from my work, not my effort. In small start-ups, a leaving co-founder often takes about as much value away (e.g. relationships) as he/she thinks he/she deserves.

Difficult to accept. In the end I told my co-founder that it was important for me to see some compensation for the things we had build up. I got a few percent of the next project he did, and walked away with 10-20k EUR.

Looking back, that was totally fair. It has been 2 years since, and the company is still going well and generating good cashflows. Most (all?) of the income now is due to his work, not mine. I've come to appreciate over time how we solved this.
Yeah, there was a guy at my alma mater (Olin College of Engineering) who entered at 14 or 15. He was perfectly normal and well-adjusted. I mean, it was a weird cloistered tech school environment, so "normal" and "well-adjusted" are relative here, but I also didn't realize he was so young until he mentioned it.

I mean, sure, you get the occasional Ted Kaczynski, but the vast majority of kids I've heard of entering college early seem well-adjusted.
Oh, I'm not really that smart, so really, not much respect is due. :)

I agree that going to college early isn't a good idea for the peer socialization aspects. The intellectual ones, I think it's fine. But every kid is different.
The government initially claimed that using Clipper would be
voluntary, that no one would be forced to use it instead of
other types of cryptography. But the public reaction against
the Clipper chip was strong, stronger than the government
anticipated. The computer industry monolithically proclaimed
its opposition to using Clipper. FBI director Louis Freeh
responded to a question in a press conference in 1994 by saying
that if Clipper failed to gain public support, and FBI wiretaps
were shut out by non-government-controlled cryptography, his
office would have no choice but to seek legislative
relief. Later, in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City tragedy,
Mr. Freeh testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that
public availability of strong cryptography must be curtailed by
the government (although no one had suggested that cryptography
was used by the bombers).

Sounds a bit like some of the conversations going on again, today. The last sentence in particular.
I had never heard of that, thank you so much for many cozy winter reading sessions.
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Solid advice with one exception: you may not be able to make a deal that makes your cofounder happy.

Even if you're as nice as you can be, make good, on promises, etc, you may still end up being "the bad guy." Emotion is the enemy of rational thinking and there's going to be a lot of emotion here given the commingling of your personal and business investments.

You have to evaluate your behavior on the clarity of your own conscience, not on the communicated perceptions of the other party.
Slightly tangential, but I wish this blog would date its posts.

Reading "If you're starting a brand-new application today, there are plenty of valid reasons to write it in 2 instead of 3. There will be for a long time." on the same day it was written is not the same as 6 months or a few years down the lines.

I don't actually know when this was written except for the copyright: 2014-2015, so it can't be more than a bit short of 2 years ago.
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For me, the point of Markdown (and LaTeX for that matter) is that I can focus on just the writing, not what my document will look like.
My assumption is that you'd put the sensor behind the patient. After the beam has been through the body, you don't care if it's deflected or reduced.

Obviously, it's too late at that point to prevent the beam from hitting the patient, but you'll know that something went wrong and can lock the system until the problem is found.
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Who cares what they think? I hate that the argument for a moon conspiracy is defended by the opinion of other states. In fact, Chainman Mao had an unofficial policy of denying the moon landing out of shame. Russia isn't a trustworthy nation and the US could have have a quid-pro-quo with them, say not bringing up their 100+ deaths at Nedelin or lost cosmonauts if they didn't make hay about a faked mission.

The reality is that there's a lot of physical and historical evidence here and denying it is fairly ridiculous.

What I find hilarious about this is that the deniers don't deny any other mission. Why is it that we can launch all this mass with no problems and have all these wonderful missions all over the solar system, but once we pressurize a cabin in space and land it on the moon, suddenly these people are in denial. Their position would be more rational if they denied all space missions.
I think the response would have done better to focus on this: https://cyberfitna.wordpress.com/2015/02/23/nitpicking-woods...
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> What about Protobuf?

For what they are, I quite like protobufs. I tend to prefer something with a human-readable version, but protobufs do get the job done.

Human-readability is why canonical S-expressions (e.g. (3:foo3:bar), which can be displayed as (foo bar), ("foo" #626172#), (|Zm9v|3:bar) or any permutation thereof) are still the best thing around.
Thank you for the follow-up; I figured it was either a mistake and very simple, or not a mistake and with crucial information missing. The extra information cleared that up :)
I think windows 10 is quite nice. Windows 8 is a POS.
I agree. Reforms are necessary. The USA has some of the worst worker protections in the developed world.

We are a nation controlled by wealthy bankers and businesspersons. They do the nominating of our elected officials and we vote for one of their pre-approved candidates. This is not representative democracy. This is corruption.

We need to fix our subverted federal government first. None of these reforms will pass unless we change how elections are funded and remove the worry of campaign financing from our elected officials.
That's the wrong way to look at it.

If you look at the pasts of some of the most successful people, you'll find at many points that they were "in it for the wrong reasons". Whatever reasons you find yourself doing something for isn't as important as the effectiveness of the actions you're taking.

I've known plenty of really successful people whose morals I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. Note I'm not talking about ethics, you can't succeed in business past a certain point without good ethics, startups are way past that point, nobody will deal with you. They were pleasant to deal with professionally, but then start spouting off stupid things about women, what dumb things they were going to do with all their money, things you just have to tune out if you want to make something out of the business relationship.

The difference between your's and PG's assessment is that PG is making a statement directly concerning their ability to run a startup. They literally don't know the first thing about what it takes to succeed in that avenue, making something people want. You are assuming it's their motivations that cause that ignorance. It's not, even the most prestige-hungry kid can grasp that you have to make something people want.
What Markdown is lacking, in my opinion, is a standard that was curated by the community.
It is possible to use something for a long time and still be aware of its shortcomings.

(I have been using emacs since 1996.)
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Not open source or free ($14.95), but MarkdownPad Pro[0] has a PDF export feature.

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Not sure 10 years is an about face?
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That seems like a lot of work given the number of passwords attackers get when they compromise a site. But then again there are scenarios where it would be a concern. I actually do use this technique but only for my least secure tier of logins.
Yeah, same. Well, almost same. I have to remember not to be too eager!

Update: Also... kind of terrified of the public education system. No time for home schooling though. Damn circumstance!
Some of the shortcuts look better thought out in Caret (in particular the inline file browser), but mostly, it just looks slicker. For 5 bucks, I don't expect it to be "much better", just a little better.
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