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I don't see how the exact structure could be important. No matter what it exactly looks like you would probably introduce a preferred reference frame, the frame in which the space quanta are at rest. Or looking at it the other way round, you would observe different lengths when you measure those space quanta from different reference frames no matter what the exact structure is but that contradicts the assumption that they are fundamental and have observer independent properties.

Relativity does not allow for fundamental lengths because you can mix space and time by going to a different reference frame. You could maybe say that you have quanta of spacetime with some proper length, quanta that look like separation in space to some observers and like separation in time to others, but no idea if that makes any sense and it probably has not less problems than quanta of space.

Quantum physics and special relativity fit nicely together, the standard model and its parts are relativistic quantum field theories. The problems arise when one tries to combine general relativity and quantum physics. When someone says quantum physics and relativity are incompatible he pretty surly means general relativity not special relativity.
State College -- we were never promised fiber, but the copper infrastructure is being allowed to rot nonetheless. For another PA data point, my in-laws have a house in Sullivan County where they have passable DSL with Frontier. Verizon is not available there at all.
I think the reason these threads about suburbs explode is because people who grew up in suburbs that have never had restrictive covenants and have nothing whatsoever to do with racism feel personally attacked. Plus as another commenter said, not everyone wants to live in a concrete jungle. So if someone wants to have a back yard and not hear constant traffic noise, let them.
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>>All these idiotically named acts ('patriot act', 'freedom act') are named that way so that if you're against them it looks as if you're either not a patriot or against freedom.

I believe the names of these acts are acronyms:

USA Freedom Act [0] = Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-collection and Online Monitoring Act

USA Patriot Act [1] = Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Freedom_Act
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act
And technically we're all on the 'terrorist watch list' since we're all being watched. Just on the off chance we convert into a terrorist I guess.
I am sorry for your loss.

Really I have nothing else of value to add :-(
bang my head against a wall, Google my way out, copy/paste/edit until things work, and move on.

I guess I finally have to get started with my work day... ;)
Thanks for this, diafygi. I set this up this afternoon with Ansible, and it's working really well. Very nice indeed.
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> I'm sorry I came out that way

Protip: don't tell someone what they think when they clearly and intentionally wrote the opposite; don't ask for things they are clearly intentionally withholding; and don't criticize without even bothering to understand what the advantages might be of a method.
Because you are married and too old to do adventure outside. And work place is less troublesome than being married :p
Not sure which particular episode (you might be able to find it by looking through old shownotes) but this was mentioned on Accidental Tech Podcast, I think by John Siracusa (of really long MacOS review fame)
Yeah right out of the gate iOS was the clear leader, but I think that's the legacy of Core Audio from their main OS?

To me it's not surprising that iOS was the go-to for audio, based on historical prescedent that both MS and, from what I understand, Linux platforms didn't really have strong native audio processing for low latency. I mean, yes, it was totally do-able (MS via ASIO4ALL, I know there were a few Linux based music systems even that ran on Atom netbooks), but plug-and-play wasn't quite the same. Even audio cards had some driver issues in the MS realm, speaking from personal experience.

It's rather sad because the MS environment allowed for a lot of homebrew plugins - the VSTs. Those won't run in Apple's ecosystem. Other plugins do (ex. UAD) but for the longest time those required (still do?) their own hardware processing cards. $$$$$$$.

iOS bridged the gap in a lot of ways between the 'average' and 'pro' musician being able to access nice digital sounds on reasonably priced hardware. I'm a genuine PC guy (Ableton Live, Reaper) but get a lot of mileage out of a second gen iPad 2 - specifically Propellerhead's Figure software, which is flat out fantastic. I've made an entire EP in GarageBand while traveling.

Sure, some devices won't work with iOS devices (my LPK25 will run on the iPad 2's port via camera connector USB dongle, but the MPD8 won't), and yet some are outstanding (looking at the Line6 / iK media products for guitarists and amp simulation). There's so much of a head start with iOS that honestly I kind of think there's little to no point in Android or MS trying to play catch up in the mobile sphere. MS has a winner with the Surface line because they run real software, but in the 'pure' mobile space, iOS has all the goods in my opinion.
>> Interestingly

> This doesn't strengthen your assertions

Which assertions have I claimed that the "interesting" detail supports? Or what should that "interestingly" mean more than the interesting detail?

A million is surely a less expected figure, it's equivalent to 1 of every 300 people across the whole US (!) Now imagine how many people you see in one day in the NY, for example. It's really thought provoking.
Yes, but you can bet the acronyms were thought of before they named the act. Or do you really believe those acronyms spell 'PATRIOT' and 'FREEDOM' by chance?

See also the 'Supreme Head of Intelligence Targeting'.
> While Government-led solutions often seem superior in theory, they rarely work out that way in real life.

Same for free-market solutions, especially in an industry with enormous barriers to entry like the telecom world.

> There is no reason to pay $1,500 for an MRI when there is another place across town willing to do it for $500.

Good luck getting a quote for a medical procedure in the US. Hospitals frequently can't tell if you if insurance will even cover a surgical procedure until the day before, let alone what the price will be (and said price will vary from insurance company to insurance company, and patient to patient).

The place across town might have shitty radiologists, too. A patient is unlikely to have any access to evaluate that aspect.
Another issue is, would people board a fully-automated plane? Similarly, it seems many people see self-driving cars as a solution that other people should use, but they are, themselves, the competent drivers who don't need that kind of thing. I can foresee other issues with hacking firmware by drivers, people cracking the software as with the recent Jeep exploits, and actual software bugs leading to death or injury and the class-action lawsuits that might give rise to.

There are behavioural issues as well: people deliberately cutting in on autonomous vehicles because (rather than aggressive tail-gating) the AV will just back safely away, so that dangerous behaviour will become more commonplace. Before we get onto pedestrians just stepping into the road in the serene assurance that the AV will shudder to a halt for them, to the discomfort (possibly injury) of the vehicle's occupants. I can see people doing that kind of thing just for a lark, which would encourage drivers to go for the "aggressive" firmware upgrade to put those jaywalkers back in their place.

Personally I think (a) we'll get these vehicles sooner or later, but (b) they won't be a panacea, and (c) it's going to be an absolute minefield in technical, social and legal areas.
I'm think you've got a leap there. I agree that when the barriers to entry go down (as uber does to the taxi market) prices go down. Obviously the drivers don't like this. But, as you said it's not just investors in the mix. It's the consumers that this plays against..

But, for this dynamic to be more favorable for drivers you need to price fix and/or get drivers out. Either way, it's not the best for consumers. It also seems unlikely to succeed unless they can prevent new drivers from undercutting them on Uber. This is effectively a cartel of some sort, regulating prices and producers.

I'm not against co-ops. In some cases they make sense and maybe this is such a case, but they are not a neutral party. They have their interests and those are not necessarily everyone's best interests. They also will use regulation and/or market power to benefit themselves at others expense, if possible.
So large percentage of programmes are self thought (including me) yet I had to lie on my applications to companies that unanimously asked for a CS degree.
> So they would only need to be incentivized to want their app on windows desktops

They would need to want their apps on Windows 10 desktops. Which excludes for example nearly every corporate desktop now and probably most of them for many years to come.
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Age is unrelated to wisdom and I'm talking about the full experience.

A Google Image search for "Wonder Wheel" (the famous Coney Island Ferris Wheel) shows this spoked diagram within the first page of results:

http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2011/07/...

Also this year, Google Photos classified black people as gorillas.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/07/01/google-apologi...

Consumers are rarely exposed to the raw machine output -- for good reason. My experience building these sorts of systems is that they're pretty goofy and they fail unexpectedly. After chasing audio and video problems using custom software as well as three major toolkits, I find myself hyper-aware of the flaws in public systems.

Also common sense dictates that it's more about the data scientist on the way in and the UX person on the way out than the machine.
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>All the evidence shows that programming requires a high level of aptitude that only a small percentage of the population possess.

>The current fad for short learn-to-code courses is selling people a lie and will do nothing to help the skills shortage for professional programmers.

Outside the obvious lack of definition as to what a "programmer" actually is, this is a non sequitur (the conclusion doe not follow). There's an assumption built in that those who do possess a high level of aptitude already have CS degrees or are self-taught because it comes to them naturally. What if there are people who possess that high level of aptitude and they want something to help them learn in a structured way?

Extrapolated, the author's argument could be seen as, "Sorry, there's no point in teaching programming, because everyone with the aptitude to program already knows how to program," and I think that is a recognizable falsehood, if only anecdotally.

In other words, even given the assumption that programming does require a higher aptitude than some subset of the population does possess, there is no surefire way to determine who that subset is based on credentialing.
Where is there free parking? Either you have metered public spaces in a downtown area, or sections of private property set aside for parking use by the customers/employees of the owner of the property. Not really a subsidy in the way most people think.

Or you're playing Monopoly wrong and wondering why it takes 3 hours to finish...
Excatly. There's a huge difference between "everybody needs to learn to become a professional software developer" and "everyone needs a higher level of software literacy, including basic coding skills"

Lots and lots of office jobs involve stuff like updating content on a Django app or shoestringing together Excel VBA and Access stuff. There's all kinds of tasks where scripts and low-level automation would be useful.

Now the tools for this tend to be awful and workers tend to be locked out of trying it, but that's another story.
They've gotta be terrified of the rise of 3D printers.
Oh cool. That's foresight by Apple.
This matches my experience. I was trying to hire a junior programmer, and got someone in for interview who ostensibly had a first-class CS degree from a Russell Group university, yet could not explain to me what Functional Programming involved. He didn't even recognise the term.

(Incidentally, the university refused to corroborate his degree, on the grounds that it would be a breach of the Data Protection Act, which boggled my mind).
Cool, my own anecdata matches yours. I also tend to have a daily fast until well into sundown, consuming only fresh ginger tea with lemon during the sunlit hours. Albeit sometimes if I'm truly famished I will eat something light (banana, baby carrots, etc) but it doesn't happen often. Been basically doing this pattern for 2+ years, and I definitely notice my mind staying clearer during the fast, and I am in the best physical condition of my life, running faster times and lifting heavier weights than ever. Those interested should check out "the warrior diet", which seems to suggest following a similar feeding routine.
I'm in Iowa. Growing up (in the 70's) cars were largely rusted-out hulks. Then new cars started appearing, so that almost every car on the road was shiny and new-looking by the 90's.

Now the rust is showing up again, and I don't think its the weather. Its the economy, and the general slide of the middle class.

Maybe we need a 'rust index' to measure mean spending/affluence?
Well the article quotes the given number for the list with the given name, so we're technically all on some other list with some other name. But 1 from every 300 US inhabitants is on that specific list.
"Isn't there something to be said for that? Not every skill needs to lead directly to a job. Can't it just be another skill to have when you need it?"

Amen. I'm constantly writing little Ruby scripts to do some automated task, usually fixing CSVs or extracting data to load it in a database to compensate for crappy reporting in a tool I use. I suppose that this or my recreational Clojure programming is something I could turn into a job, but I prefer to have it be a tool that allows me to do my job better. Or to run better D&D campaigns...

There definitely is a divide between like software engineer, and say person who uses programming to make their job a bit more efficient. It seems as though everyone is representing it as a binary choice when as paulcole said it's more of a gradient.
I don't think there should be a difference, it's just a matter of scale.

When they start off coding, it might mean an entire week spent in a single python file:

The 50,000 foot view might be "Printing Restaurant Menu", the "line of code" view, might be getting the price of pizza.

We're not talking architecture, or operating systems, or networking, or boolean circuit logic, or anything, we're just printing their favourite food menu - a practical example of shifting perspectives.

Once they can shift easily, then we expand it in both directions - Now print menus for 10 restaurants. Now find the most expensive pizza.

I think these lessons can go hand in hand with Math -- too often the main complaint with Math is that it's too abstract (When am I ever going to use this?!) whereas if the Math lesson about averages tied into the coding lesson for printing the menu (Now find the average cost of all pizzas) kids might be able to see it as useful
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It's possible that the efficiency of having a plant specialize in recycling paper makes up for the energy used in transportation.
As best i can tell someone with autism may find things like Slack and IRC more comfortable, while those without may not. This because the removal of non-verbal cues is no issue to the former (less noise to deal with) while hindering the latter.
Use a crypto that doesn't rely on authority.
My eyes!
That's not true. The vast majority of adult Americans can read at an adequate level. Further, given time and incentive, most can write well enough to be understood, if not exactly to high grammatical standards. These facts are triumphs of the modern educational system.

However large numbers of adult Americans when faced with:

3x - 7/3 = 4

could not solve exactly for x, no matter the time and incentives. It is hard to imagine how such a person would be able to learn to code, at least as long as programming languages look anything at all like those of today.
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Glad to see cloud formation getting some love.

The real problem with CF however is that if something goes wrong during a CF deploy you don't have enough control to stop it. If CF doesn't have perms to remove an interface or something it can just spin for 1 or 2 hours. During that time you can't make changes to your stack!
> Which points to a wider issue, sure he was suspicious, but then what?

That's exactly the question to which Europe also searches for the answer now.

One of the reasons everybody bends over backwards to avoid saying anything against the religions in different countries is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law

"In some European countries is the crime of "religious insult", which is a subset of the crime of blasphemy. It is forbidden in Andorra, Cyprus, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Spain, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine.[30]"

"The report noted that, in Europe, blasphemy is an offense only in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, and San Marino.[contradiction]"

Human rights be damned as long as the religions teach against them, you can't call a spade a spade. It would be insulting.
I'll just post my Scratch blog post again: http://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/127964136013/it-turns-out...

There have been many simple languages for kids, but Scratch appears to be the one that works.

Speaking to my daughter's teacher, it's not just the academically-bright kids getting into Scratch - the academically average and academically behind ones do too. It appears to satisfy requirement #1: get the kid interested.

The important thing learning to program does is teach kids that the code that runs their world is a humanly tractable thing: that literally everything that any computer does is a more complicated version of a dancing ballerina animation.

They don't need to become coders to benefit from having an idea of how the machinery their civilisation runs on works, and not to just think of it as unknowable wizard magic.
App looks pretty nice which makes a change. Here (Newcastle, UK) a lot of taxi companies have their own apps which are not even stable hence Uber is useful (the only reason I actually use Uber)
>The CS interns were college kids, so it could just be a function of maturity.

I'd wager that almost every difference you've noticed is down to maturity.

The average 25 year old who's been working for several years is a light years ahead of the average 20 year old college kid when it comes to attitude.

If you were hiring 25 year old CS grads, they'd likely have the same work ethic, and an understanding of the formal methods underpinning their experience.
The scary part is that he has gained a large following of people who think he's just saying "what everyone's thinking". There are many, many people in the U.S. who hear what he says, and then think, "Yeah! That's so true!" on their gut instinct without having any background knowledge on the subject. I'm living in the U.S. and it's a scary momentum.
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One thing I found particularly interesting was that CBT therapy is 4x as effective as exercise for losing weight.

Exercise leads to an additional 2 lbs of weight loss over dieting alone.

But adding CBT lead to an additional 8 lbs of weight loss over diet and exercise4.
The article is about what Steve Jobs said, that “Everyone should learn how to program.." but Steve Jobs did not allow his kids to use a computer up to a certain age.

As I looked after children I can tell a certainty confirmed by others: "Millenials are cry babies". Nowadays children as small as a few years old want to do what their parents are doing, including to have a girlfriend, before they are able to stop using pampers..

http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.ro/2015/12/rant-of-day.htm...
My understanding is that Verizon decided about five years ago not to commit to any new FIOS buildout. All they've been doing since then is finishing what they already committed to. So the tech was probably right.
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> No you are wrong. Perhaps it's not the case everywhere. But like I said, from personal experience I know that certain types of domains are checked. I tried and failed to register a certificate for a phising domain that masqueraded as a banking website.

I never said it's the case everywhere. I said it's easy to register an SSL certificate for basically any domain you actually own, which is true. Basic SSL certificates are not designed to provide extended validation (there is EV certificates for that), they are designed to identify that domain.
At least read the ObjC interop document. You may be able to get away without writing any ObjC, but most of the libraries you'll be using, including Cocoa, are ObjC.
So many of the arguments arguments about it are really just arguments for learning math.

But America sucks at teaching math, so screw that lets teach programming instead.
I remember working in a bank in late 90s and while GUI apps were starting to replace the 3270s, completely non-technical "lifers" had just fully assimilated the old mainframe app.

Getting an account balance for example was a "Question 8" if I remember right, that is, the PF8 key on the keyboard. Routine banking operations were maybe a couple dozen keystrokes and mostly all the same pattern but different function key with paper overlays taped to keyboards to "name" the PF keys.

It wasn't pretty and the learning slope was steep but the same people who wrote their emails in Lotus Notes in All Caps and scanned word doc printouts into new word docs had no problem memorizing all the obscure operations they had to do every day.
Should kids learn a musical instrument

Should kids learn to play chess

Should kids learn to play soccer

Yes if it interests them. No if not. I feel like we might have solved this problem for X a number of times in the past.

I'd also warn against the notion that learning to code magically improves critical thinking/task management. They are accessory skills that good developers have or have learned.