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Well as a scholar I learned there's merit in taking a contrarian position for the purpose of discussion and analysis. I'm not so sure he's "trying as hard as he can" as you would put it, because if he was, then he'd be so confident in his abilities that he'd donate everything now and the letter would explain to his daughter why he didn't leave her more than a basic trust fund for college expenses rather than millions. Hey if you want to get in line and shake his hand for doing what is, fundamentally, the right thing, then great! More power to you!

But, you know, he could've done all this in private and given her the letter when she turned 16 or 18 or whatever.
Yeah, but this is what it actually says:

If you need to run your production system on Windows then IIS7 will give you the most stable and best performance.

So it seems to be recommending IIS7 specifically, IIS 7.5, IIS 8 and IIS 8.5 have come out since then. So it is a bit like saying you should run this software on windows vista for best performance. IIS7 is old software.

I guess I'm asking, have the IIS team given up on PHP performance or is this recommendation really out of date.
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Does that make Google the new "Tesla Graveyard?" /s
they are called late minority holders.

they are the ones that bought stock yesterday, on a company that do not pay dividends, making the long term holders foot all the proverbial bill.

Just because those recent minority holders are a little more vocal than all the long timers minority holders do not make them more of a owners. In fact, we should have things in place to make them less of. that would probably reduce the value of companies for later sells. but would make investing in companies what it was supposed to be about. before the banks took all the fun away.
That's just a red herring.

Noone is claiming celestial bodies... it's just that if you mine something in space, and bring it to Earth, you can claim it (i.e. when it's already on Earth). The bits left unmined in the space are still unclaimed.
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It's actually a reference to a disclaimer in Algorithm Design Manual. I don't think he actually reviewed the lecture notes.

The Algorithm Design Manual had the following(page ix in second edition) "Any errors, deficiencies, or problems in this book are somebody else’s fault, but I would appreciate knowing about them so as to determine who is to blame."

Hence the joke.

Source: Steve told me.
Unfortunately, the first step of mass spec is to ionize the sample. And the process you're suggesting wouldn't work so well for composite matter like, say, chunks of space rock. And I'm afraid some rather large energy inputs would be needed to convert space debris into plasma.
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Six months ago, I took a new job as a developer. I expected to feel like an outsider for a while. No new job is "comfortable". However, I started to notice that my team is really abrasive. They're always correcting everything, job related or not (how to write code, best way to cook something, reasons for economic changes, etc). I make some comment about the world and get a response like "Well, if you'd studied [such and such] you'd know that... [why you're wrong]". Many of these things are opinion-based anyway. Despite the fact that I bring the most external experience, the guys I work with on a daily basis act like they are trying to teach me how to program. It's really demeaning.

What should I do? (What CAN I do?)

I've debated talking to my manager about these concerns, but I don't know that there's any way he could address the issues--he can't change the personalities of my team members. Still, I feel he deserves a chance.

Should I just quit and go somewhere else? It feels like doing so would make my resume look pretty bad since it hasn't been long. Also, it seems like I owe something to this company for giving me a job and good pay.

Are there other ways I can address this?
The answer can vary a lot depending on what are you offering to the designer.

As a co-founder? Employed with salary, full time/part time? Contractor?

You can check out monthly freelancer/who wants to be hired threads on HN. You can check out designer news[1] (HN for designers). You can hunt on dribble. You can put an ad on your local job board.

[1]: https://www.designernews.co/
All of the screenshots I saw before purchasing the original device clearly showed it plugged into a TV with no power cord attached. It looks like they may have fixed it in the newer marketing.
The number of hours required for basic competence is HIGHLY dependent on three key things: 1. The particular activity 2. The abilities of the person 3. How much competence you consider "basic"

I think I'd put "environment" in at #3, maybe even #2. Where environment is a wide umbrella including the obvious (time and space to devote to study, quality of study materials and support) to the somewhat less so (your gender, your race, your affluence or lack thereof, the supportive/skeptical attitudes of your family and friends etc).

Environment is subject to limited control by an individual. But young, affluent people have the most control. Environment winds up being largely a matter of luck.

This environmental influence - which so often is matter of luck - is one subtlety that seems to get consistently left out of all these "10,000 hours" and "100 hours" type discussions. Even a clever person can spend 10,000 hours working at something under terrible conditions and have poor results. One doesn't have to be particularly bright to spend 10 hours under ideal circumstances and make real progress.

By leaving this out, we offer unwarranted support to a certain Utopian/libertarian/meritocratic mythos that is so popular in the software/startup field. And I think that's a shame. I think the field will ultimately be better off if it can view itself more clearly.
A discretely hovering UAV/drone would be cheaper and more targetable.
Julia could be a contender once a few bugs are worked out.
There were attempts at implementing some of what you suggested - here's one: https://www.guncho.com/
Why use satellites when you can use Microwave Oven Leaks?
Thanks for posting! Would you like to talk a bit about the tech stack, biggest challenge in building frontend/backend, any marketing so far, any traction?
I was in an open office at my last company, and loved it. I'm just one data point, but I vastly prefer it to cubicles.
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This is neat. At Bazaarvoice (my current employer), we built a Ruby DSL specifically for CloudFormation (AWS) several years ago. It looks and works similarly. We open sourced it and have been using it in production for a couple years now. you can check it out at http://github.com/bazaarvoice/CloudFormation-ruby-dsl
Is there a public source code repository?
It's really easy (and sometimes fun) to get mired in the "planning" phase of thing. You need to keep that drive when the things get more abstract and you'll eventually find the same drive again.

For instance, choosing a method, that's easy. Doing a bunch of brainstorming and coming up with projects to apply that method too, that's easy (for me). It's that next step, where you're actually designing the infrastructure of the system that's difficult. Suddenly you're getting distracted by things like Operating Systems, web hosting, bandwidth requirements, APIs, etc. And it becomes this huge, abstract project.

It's then that you need to stay focused. Even if you only commit to 20 minutes a day, you'll be surprised how far you get. I find that really it doesn't take that long for me to take an abstract problem and reduce it down to a component I can get up and running now. This reduces the amount of mental overhead I'm juggling drastically and allows me to continue.

It's the same thing at work for me, have you ever had that experience where you finish a feature, and it's time to jump into the next one? And it's almost like you can't do it. You need to breathe, because you've just been so focused at such a low level on this one feature, and suddenly you have to open your brain up to imagine the entire f#$@ing system again! And you need to connect end points, think about data structures, algorithms, libraries.

Another thing I recommend is trying to get some work done before you go to work. Your mind is pretty refreshed after a good nights rest and a decent breakfast, but much less so after two commutes and a good 8 hours in the office.

Finally, in my area there are a ton of meetups. A lot of these are just hacker hours. You get a bit of social activity and they tend to keep my focused (since who's going to bust out Hulu and toss on Seinfeld at the monthly ViM meetup? There's someone talking about macros up there! MACROS!). I'd recommend finding some of those. The interchange of ideas, and being able to bounce ideas off other practiced programmers is another tangible benefit.

And a free beer and slice of pizza (well never is definitely the wrong word here...) never hurt anyone.
relayr || NodeJS Developer || Berlin, Germany
Full-time, Onsite

Berlin-based startup relayr is looking for NodeJS Developer:
You dreamt of building the future but find yourself bored of working on the mundane tasks of yet another mobile advertising platform or clothing e-tailer?

Our platform for the Internet of Things, connects smart devices to each other, and to app developers. We’ve created three easy tools (Platform as a Service, SDKs and a Sensor-Kit – the WunderBar) which allow developers to quickly program Internet of Things solutions, with sensor data to create applications for their physical surroundings.

Your Tasks:
> Work with internal libraries and services to build both prototyped and ready-to-market solutions
> Add value with every iteration to solve problems fast
> Design and build independent micro service components
> Collaborate with cloud and hardware teams to give feedback on internal systems and define new features

Your Skills:
> Minimum 3-5 years experience in web engineering
> Strong proficiency in JavaScript, ECMA6, NodeJS, persistence layers such as MongoDB and Postgres
> Comfortable working with linux systems, DevOps and networking
> Experience with HTML5/CSS is a plus
> Able to work in a structured, agile, test oriented manner
> Interest in hardware such as the RaspberryPi and Arduino

Sounds interesting? We’d be happy to receive your CV, start date and salary expectations!
Looking forward to hearing back from you at jobs@relayr.io

For more details, follow the link: https://www.relayr.io/jobs/nodejs-developer/
Best short essay I know on this subject:

http://markmanson.net/procrastination
This reminds me a little of "Being or Nothingness" by Joe K (hehe) http://lukemuehlhauser.com/the-riddle-of-being-or-nothingnes...
It is unfortunate that a game as famous as Dwarf Fortress only makes so little in money: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=152358.0
This is off topic, but why is WaPost only giving me 30% of my screen in which to view the article: http://i.imgur.com/QwnLoIh.png

I sometimes wish these news publications would just use Medium or similar blogging platforms.
probably. the world only needed to decide on one search engine. it happened to be google.

after the world set (for google, thanks more for universities putting search boxes on their sites, more than algorithms) they could do absolutely anything. launch free email with 1gb? disregard ads and only allow text ads?

they did everything wrong by the book and are still huge. So i doubt excite could have screwed it up. well, they could have screwed the university fan-base... but that is about it.
This is one of the reasons why you can't get perfect stats if you use GA events to track it, which many articles on the internet suggest.

The only way is to have the complete tracking implementation on your server.
Are you familiar with the history of the robber barons and their business practices and labor's working conditions in addition to their philanthropy?
By the way, PHP 7 has been tagged but not yet released.
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How would this be substantively different from Muds?
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They did roll it into the main site, yeah, but I'd be surprised if it's actually a different app now.
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Nope. Marisa. Terry couldn't even do that! talk about a failure.
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I hope that doesn't happen because Adblock Analytics is 100% cookieless and doesn't track visitors via any method, we're only interested if ads were displayed or not, but we do have some ideas if it does happen.
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Speaking of targeting computers, one of my favorite videos on YouTube is a training film describing the theory of operation behind a purely mechanical fire control computer by the US Navy circa 1953
https://youtu.be/s1i-dnAH9Y4
a lot of websites seem to be struggling with determining how many of their visitors are blocking ads

So they can now track people using your website? As first comment said, good luck not getting blacklisted...
The cynic's answer is that human health is something that really rich do not have much control over. (SJ is just one shining example)

In other words you get billion dollars but realize it is all for naught as you will be worm food in 100 years.

So some go full Kurzweill, some find/found religion, some do a bit of everything.

This problem is not unique to billionaires but they can attempt to roll a bigger rock up the mountain.
I've always just used this http://www.adafruit.com/products/954 and connect to the pi via serial. Although with the 0 it would require soldering on 2-4 pins.
This is absolutely awesome. We've been discussing this idea for quite some time at out blocckhain devshop.

Combining the CMB Radiation with an accurate measure of redshift you could create an accurate and immutable way of measuring time, essentially a new type of Proof of Work without the work.
"We were promised flying cars and all we got was 140 characters"

Peter Thiel

I bet in Peter to be one of the authors of the book.
Wow, just that. They must trully love their job.
South Dakota might be a good domicile for a fintech startup specializing in credit tech...
relayr || DevOps Engineer || Berlin, Germany
Full-time, Onsite

Berlin-based startup relayr is looking for DevOps Engineer:
You dreamt of building the future but find yourself bored of working on the mundane tasks of yet another mobile advertising platform or clothing e-tailer?

Our platform for the Internet of Things, connects smart devices to each other, and to app developers. We’ve created three easy tools (Platform as a Service, SDKs and a Sensor-Kit – the WunderBar) which allow developers to quickly program Internet of Things solutions, with sensor data to create applications for their physical surroundings.
Your Tasks:
>Help build out and scale our platform cluster (currently AWS)
>Work with the backend developers to bring new features to our platform
>Keep it running and performing
>Develop Continuous Deployment and Monitoring strategies
>Help Develop long term strategies

Your Skills:
>A minimum of 3 years experience.
>Modern DevOps skills – such as Containers, Hypervisors, service discovery, Infrastructure as code
>Experience working with Cloud Providers (AWS is a significant bonus)
>Command line and shell scripting are your friends, languages such as python and ruby are constant companions.
>Deep knowledge of Linux operating system (particularly Debian based)
>Knowledge of TCP networking stack and ability to design firewalls and security rules. (iptables, ipfw, selinux)
Understanding of database administration for Cassandra, InfluxDB, PSQL
>Monitoring and Continuous Deployment make you passionate. We use ELK, Grafana, Sensu and Jenkins among other tools We love to experiment with new tools
>You bring experience and feel comfortable working with both, Developers and Operators

Sounds interesting? We’d be happy to receive your CV, start date and salary expectations!
Looking forward to hearing back from you at jobs@relayr.io

For more details, follow the link: https://www.relayr.io/jobs/devops-engineer/
this kind of command doesn't work for me (with docker 1.9 installed through rpm):

docker run -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
-v $(which docker):/bin/docker \
-ti ubuntu

used libraries are not found when i'm trying to launch the container:

docker: error while loading shared libraries: libdevmapper.so.1.02: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Do i have to create another volumes to add librairies ?
This reminds me of Wilson, Arkansas but that town sold for quite a bit more.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/20/us/arkansas-towns-new-owne...
Yes! I came here to post this exact comment.
At least he was aware of it but preferred to keep it in the browser side.

He had already started building something based on old PHP tutorials, what could be more useful if he has some small site to build:

A. Tell there's a nicer and easier way to do it in PHP with well thought framework
B. Tell server JS is so awesome (and all the cool kids are using:), you just need to start completely from the beginning

Introducing things gradually can help a lot and lessen the frustration. Nowadays he's really into Vue and React but still likes to handle backends with Laravel :)

Also learning is one of those things that helps if the learning stuff isn't too far away from the skills you already have. Introducing too much at the same time makes learning more frustrating - especially if you want to get something finished instead of trying to multiple ways of doing the same thing.
I feel like I've just finished convincing the majority of people I'm close to and communicate with regularly to use WhatsApp over standard SMS. I simply argued the group chat UX points and I don't know how privacy arguments would fly, sadly. I think it would induce eye-rolling irritation in them to ask them to switch again. I wish I had done better due diligence because I switched at a time when Signal/Telegram were available but I was pulled towards WA via another friend.
And smoke Python in performance.
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I will give up my car when the people driving the subways, lightrail, buses, and trams promise not to strike.

The day the subways, lightrail, buses, and trams are run by private enterprises and are not subject to the political whims of the unions and elected officials, then I might consider giving the concept a test run.
I have some problems with the author's argument. The supposed SJW types (I'm one of them) aren't calling for bans on books. The only people that come close to that are outright Stalinists. I'm talking folks like Jason Unruhe (Maoist Rebel News). The rest of the supposed SJWs are just people pointing out tired old tropes (examples: The magic negro or the tragic transgender person) and maybe it's time to retire them for some more realistic depictions of minorities. Criticizing your favorite book isn't even close to a university book ban. I just wish people would stop conflating the two, it's wrong to do so.
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The money quote from the comments: "He should take it to trial. Lets see how that judge likes this jury nullification flyer being entered into evidence and presented to a jury."
I think PHP is ok for simple stuff.
Every other stack I know of needs you to install and configure lots of stuff.

If you know how to program but is bad at sysops PHP might be the choice for you since you can just install one of the many Lamp packages and used managed hosting.

But if you can set up a decent webserver on a VPS you're probably better with something else.
We don't track visitors, we're only interested if a visitor can view ads or not.
Who cleans up after war?
Don't forget the Defiant, a WW2 fighter whose only armament consisted of a rearward-facing turret.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulton_Paul_Defiant
Are you uggesting we don't have give up fossils that quickly, or are you suggesting we could wait 19 years and then shut down fossil fuels with a large change which would bring cheap fossils replacements for even third world countries?

I do favour ramping down incrementally, and we should get started ASAP.
tl;dr: Guy thinks they know better than Google designers, and tries to dictate app behavior. Frustration results.
I know, but... "I just think those pointless discussions of languageA vs LanguageB are infinite loops and languageA + LanguageB would make both sides evolve faster and the whole community would gain in the end."
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Ouch it won't reach my mouth; If I could do it myself I'd probably never leave the house.
You don't have to work for wordpress.com, though. For example, I do some PHP coding for a media company, which also happens to use Wordpress - WP with redis caching can run a big site also. So yes, there is still php work floating around. Incidentally, their internal tools (content auditing, SEO, ...) is also being done in PHP...
ShareLaTeX also maintain a pretty handy database of LaTeX Templates/Boilerplates: https://www.sharelatex.com/templates
Fun to note DF is a massive voxel simulation that displays a 2D slice as ascii. There's some neat third party visualizers that can hook into it's memory to show more. http://i.imgur.com/PTj1QpL.jpg
relayr || QA Engineer || Berlin, Germany
Full-time, Onsite

Berlin-based startup relayr is looking for QA Engineer:
You dreamt of building the future but find yourself bored of working on the mundane tasks of yet another mobile advertising platform or clothing e-tailer?

Our platform for the Internet of Things, connects smart devices to each other, and to app developers. We’ve created three easy tools (Platform as a Service, SDKs and a Sensor-Kit – the WunderBar) which allow developers to quickly program Internet of Things solutions, with sensor data to create applications for their physical surroundings.

Your Tasks:
>Build automated tests, develop scripts to test apis and data streaming services
>Monitor performance and stability against new code releases
>Work with large Datasets
>Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bug, build bug processing pipeline.
>Continuous optimisation of testing processes and selection of appropriate testing tools
>Actively communicate with different teams in the company

Your Skills:
>Several years of experience in QA / Test Automation
>Knowledge of Linux, networks
>Very good knowledge in a script language, i.e. Python or Ruby
>Experience with Unix tools and utilities, bash
>Good English skills, German is desirable

Sounds interesting? We’d be happy to receive your CV, start date and salary expectations!
Looking forward to hearing back from you at jobs@relayr.io

For more details, follow the link: https://www.relayr.io/jobs/qa-engineer/
Can anyone closer to the subject provide some info about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3v4l98/php_7_r...?

That comment looks a bit scary if it's true :(
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