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We don't need a union, but a professional body representing us would do wonders. Merely sorting out the H1B visa mess (not necessarily eliminating) would help salaries.

My wife is an architect (residential) and her clients cannot tell her to take a shortcut which violates the Building Code.

I'd love to be able to say "no" to some stupid, short-sighted requests I get from clients. Without a professional organization behind me - I can't, because I will be deemed "difficult" and lose the business.
Every female applicant for a programming position I've encountered or seen brought in for an interview have been either Indian or Chinese. Analyst and project management positions have had much more diverse female populations in comparison. But that's just anecdotal, I know.
If it is added to a food that is heated, isn't there still a risk for inhalation?

Or even if the food isn't heated, a flavor that isn't one of the main (sweet, salty, bitter, sour, umami) isn't actually a flavor. It is a smell. So the only reason it is added to foods is to be inhaled.
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I am guessing 500px will roll out a "welcome" for old Flickr.com users and give them a heck of a deal to join up to 500px.
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I for one do not. Desktop/laptop storage drives are huge now, RAM is plentiful, internet connections are fast. Time spent debugging horrific deranged multiple JVM setup nightmares, however, is as expensive as ever.
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Nice ideas for future parents.
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I bought one a couple of days ago and got caught out by this.

Are they assuming that most people who buy a 3DS have previously owned a DS console, so don't need a charger?

I can't think of any other electronic device that doesn't use USB charging that doesn't come with a way to charge it - and even the USB ones tend to come with a cable.
A fair number of developers transition to management, but I would not call the path "pretty clear". It is much less clear than for project managers, program managers, etc.
Thanks for catching that. You're correct that overall revenue is much higher, but the cost of traffic acquisition eats into that significantly.

It's actually Adjusted OIBDA that's $10mm for the Brands group, which is arguably a more accurate figure to reflect the value of the division. Check out the table on page two of the 2015 earnings report at your link for the full breakdown.
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Many more people quit smoking with e-cigs. These are people who would otherwise contract lung cancer, COPD, or emphysema.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db217.pdf

"About one in six current cigarette smokers (15.9%) and nearly one in four recent former cigarette smokers (22.0%) currently used e-cigarettes, compared with 2.3% of long-term former cigarette smokers and 0.4% of adults who had never smoked cigarettes"
Yep, this is the key. I like occassionally sharing our photos with family, and the messaging is convenient. Feed doesn't make me depressed, it makes me annoyed at how stupid my "friends" are. I've just been hiding people more and more and then I'm liberated of their stressful stupidity.
He's spent time, thought, and money developing software, and people are expecting him to just give it away, and allow others to make money out of it without giving back anything in return? That would be fair only if the companies which use it to increase their profits also open sourced their software.

Before you suggest developers the consultancy route, that penalizes the developers of software which is so well written and documented it can be used straight out of the box.

One thing I'd do differently to him: whenever the user isn't goint to profit from the software financially (in this case, hobbyists and students), there's a good case to be made not to charge for it, as without an initial user base, it will be difficult to sell it to companies. But if he wrote the code, he can decide on its licence.
Regardless of the reality (which everything I've seen concurs with what you've said), there are a ton of people making decisions for school that are influenced by media, parents, etc. that keep telling them that the safest career path is doctors and lawyers. That's starting to change nowadays, but only just.

I still regularly hear people talk about how cushy and rich all lawyer jobs supposedly are.
So, what's the resident memory usage? That was part of why e.g. Java and Flex weren't that well received, and browser-based solutions didn't fare that well either.

Okay enough for something enterprise-y, but once your fancy new IRC/Slack/Twitter client takes up a gig of RAM...
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what multiple of its earnings was Yahoo trading at at the height of its glory?

given that we now know the postscript (or at least much of it)

did that multiple make any sense?
I'll agree with flickr having a lot of good photography, but did they actually fix the community?

When I used it, all I remember is that 90% of comments were sparkling banners saying "YOUR PHOTO HAS BEEN AWARTED BEST FLICKR OCEAN SUNSET AWARD MAY 2010! CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR GROUP! JOIN JOIN JOIN!" to the point where it interfered with anyone trying to have an actual conversation.

Which was a shame because outside of the enormous volume of spam they had a pretty good thing going.
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I use a kanga subtank mini on a kbox mini - and mostly liquids from BordO2, a French producer of some repute. This isn't some pile of parts I scraped together in which I'm smoking shale oil...

I'm one of the "thick clouds" crowd - because my first attempt to switch from "traditional" cigarettes failed because the feel of smoking was missing. I'm now on nicotine-free oils, and plan on stopping outright over the next few months, as the physiological need is now beaten - just the psychological "what to do with my hands" end of things to treat.

As to why I think it's a good idea - don't know if I do, but I think it's a better idea than smoking. I'm no longer constantly phlegmatic, I don't wake up in the morning out of breath, I can taste things again, I've stopped wheezing. Those all seem like good things to me.

Finally, I've never seen someone going "cough cough urgh" at a fog machine at an event or disco - and it's the same damned stuff.
What's wasted?
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> I'm not sure how it is for lawyers, but I would imagine there is also a significant up front investment before you start making real money (if you ever do).

Law school alone (ignoring the cost of passing the bar or anything else) is prohibitively expensive for many people.

For 2015-16, Yale law school is $78,000/yr[0], Harvard is $85,000[1] (including an optional $2400 health plan), Columbia is $65,588[2], and Stanford is $54,183[3]. So you're looking at $165-255,000 in fees, expenses and tuition over three years.

The majority of my friends who are attorneys and have taken the bar also spent several months (up to 6-8 but that does not seem to be the norm) doing nothing but studying for it full time. Everyone took out additional loans to cover expenses, or lived with their parents for free. So it's not uncommon to have $150k in just law school student loans when all is said and done.

So the median is still higher for attorneys than for developers, but most attorneys would have student loan obligations in the 1.2-2x median salary range, so often several times more than they're making right out of school.

It was bad enough making $45k as a junior developer with $20k in student loans, I can't imagine making $60k as a junior associate in a similar area with $175k in student loans.

[0] https://www.law.yale.edu/admissions/cost-financial-aid/cost-...
[1] http://hls.harvard.edu/dept/sfs/financial-aid-policy-overvie...
[2] http://web.law.columbia.edu/admissions/graduate-legal-studie...
[3] https://law.stanford.edu/apply/tuition-financial-aid/cost-of...
Well, every breath you exhale does, so odds are, yes.
> Do you have any example where Facebook did something that they knew was bad but still did it?

Yes, here's a study on manipulating the feed of over 600,000 users, in order to elicit an emotional response. Without asking for permission of course, because apparently you agree to FB playing mind tricks on you when "agreeing" to their terms and conditions. Really, it can't get worse than this and they have no justification.

Here's the resulting paper: http://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full.pdf
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The main problem is the industry has known for almost a century that severe health problems are linked to smoking tobacco, and spent the better part of that time hiding the truth while addicting a nation.

Now they're concentrating their focus on the Third World, getting millions more addicted where they aren't pestered by pesky "laws."
While many of these points (on generics especially) are completely legitimate, this article will fall on deaf ears. My impression of the Go community (both within Google and outside of it) is that there is a very ... moralistic? .... sense of "You don't really need that, we know best" going on.

It aims to be a pragmatic language. But IMHO the anemic nature of the type system is a practical handicap that they have made a point of pride out of not addressing. It leads to boilerplate code and fragile code.

I am no academic language snob -- I like Rust, and have been known to like me some C++ templating, sure, but I can understand a critique of complicated type systems that laypeople cannot understand. But after my brief exposure to Go, I was very very frustrated. I don't think it really solves the problems it says it's solves.
We'll see in the next few years... We'll see...
I wonder what will happen to their fantasy football product. It's wayyyy better than their competitors
Zuckerberg is too busy for this now)))))
What do you think about goroutines and channels?
Or even better, they're doing a Christmas market here, many stalls have smoke machines going for that "authentic" wintry feel... and vaping is banned, because it's "smoking".
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This wouldn't make you "good at chess", but you can learn a bunch of opening traps and mate patterns like the Scholar's Mate and the Légal Trap. Some traps are wicked simple (ie, e4 e5, nf3 nf6, nxe5 nxe4, qe2. If black moves their knight to safety, nc6+ sacrifice wins the queen.).
> Well it isn't harmless

You do not know this, no one does. At most, there is some evidence that some flavors might possibly be harmful - at what concentrations and for what duration of exposure, no one knows.
Current generation e-cigs can supply up 200 watts just for vaporizing the E-liquid. That's almost 1/3 of a horsepower and can be used to create obnoxiously large clouds. Many 'Vape Shops' now even sanction tournament-style 'cloud competitions' where 2 participants stand back to back and try to blow the biggest/longest/thickest cloud: https://youtu.be/9oIo_nKOGlQ
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I'd like to see a browser plugin that does something similar. I fill it up with a small balance of bitcoins, and it automatically pays websites when I visit.
but there might be an anti-microbial action to the nicotine or flavourings.
The same could be said of religion. But people seem to have a pretty strong need to participate in that kind of thing. They often make it a very strong part of their identity.

So it's not entirely unlike an addiction.
> i havent used bitcoin for years, so excuse me if i'm asking stupid questions, but how many steps is it to donate from the time i see it to when the money flows?

There are no stupid questions, cryptocurrency is not intuitive in many ways :)

Steps on mobile:
1. Open iPhone / Coinbase app
2. Scan QR Code
3. Input amount
4. Press send

Similar process on desktop, but probably with a copy/paste code instead of QR code.

Realistically i could only see myself doing this if it was less than 3 clicks and a grand total of about 30 seconds of time.

It's definitely less than 30 seconds as long as your iPhone is across the room and/or you have coinbase.

> Also, this might go against what you are trying to do, but would it be possible to maybe keep a counter of how many of these "ads" were blocked (only on the client) and maybe update the suggested donation based on that?

Yes, data and testing of conversion percentages and unit economics is going to be important if this ever takes off.

> I personally might be more willing to donate if i saw "You've blocked 384 ads on this site" or something like "you've visited this page 26 times over the last month" and an updated suggested donation to match the usage.

That's a great idea! I'll have to add this copy to the 'to test' list!
There's two parts to this issue. One is being successful by typical worldly standard. The other are emotional scars. Maybe, it's not necessarily feasible for everyone to achieve hoisting themselves from homelessness into a white collar above average paying job. Maybe that's not possible. But this is besides the point.

What is eminently more possible is achieving emotional worthiness. When a person is rejected, however that came to be, this activates a physiological response in them which causes them to perceive scarcity, which wreaks havoc on any number of processes in daily life that, building up, can rip a person down.

What are the antidotes to this response? In my experience, gratitude is a strong antidote, when & where you can find it.
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They're fine concepts, but... On the little project I was tasked with using Go with at Google I got slapped down by the readability reviewers for using them. I think this is an interesting construct, but not sure that community really knows how to use them well?

Erlang at least is consistent on this -- it has that hammer well tuned and isn't afraid to pound nails with it.
He doesn't have to open source it/give it away if he doesn't want to, of course, but if he doesn't, his language and tools will probably eventually be surpassed in use by other, more open tools and languages. That's the way language and tool development has been going lately.
Thanks for posting this. Great analysis about IBM and Google Cloud in this article as well.
> Do you have any example where Facebook did something that they knew was bad but still did it?

The long con of Facebook itself -- fooling us all into giving up our privacy. We got here by FB misleading it in incredibly calculated ways. Google "Privacy Zuckering". It's a dark pattern that tricks users into giving up more privacy than they would want to, by making purposefully misleading UI. One trick after another like that is how we got here.
Maybe someone should explore the concept of "docker for JVMs/WebKits". Or - to be more precise - aufs for multiple versions of big runtime. Although I suspect that disk space savings may not be that good, and that will not solve RAM problem either.
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Nothing is harmless. To have a conversation that isn't just scare mongering and opinion pushing you have to actually mention risk factors. From everything I've read, e-cigs are so almost harmless that it doesn't even bear mentioning. Studies like this show that e-cigs are harmful on about the same level as eating too much kale is harmful.

People that fixate on the small but technically true fact that it is "harmful" are doing much more harm to people's health than e-cigs, because each comment to that effect potentially dissuades another smoker from making the switch.
Quasi-fractal makes sense to me, I'm assuming that the gears are created from generic fractal-generating code (pass a basic geometric pattern, draw a portion of a self-similar fractal) that's been modified to create finite gears instead. Or I could easily be talking nonsense.

The page itself is really cool, and I love the effect. I wonder if I would be able to use screenshots from it for personal projects? I assume not.

As the most minor point that could possibly be made – never seen &middot; before, seems like it could be quite useful.
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I don't like this expression, but weren't the "optics" of that just terrible? She looked and sounded really really tired. The Chairman is not telegenic AT ALL. And they were sitting about as far apart from each other as possible while being at the same desk.
Chess 960 isn't going to change that. Plus I bet a player would have only a minor effect on his rating (the improvement might be slower) from playing 1. a4 any except 1.. e5 or 1.. e6, 2. Ra3 every game.
True - nicotine is anti-microbial, that's kinda why plants make it - but flavourings can probably go either way - although essential oils tend to be a pretty hostile place for any microbe.
Is this exploiting the LLC/dividend loophole? I'm sure many people would be interested in that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10701785

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10699846

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10703658
Yes, except the most useful content out there is available largely for free (or would cost a crazy small amount to keep funded, if the userbase contributed as little as $1 or $3).

In particular, I'm thinking of:

Wikipedia

Google

Also, maybe it will lead people to start putting trust in offline archives of information, which wouldn't be terrible either.

Honestly, a lot of the "content" on the internet is garbage/not productive. I can at the very least argue that lots of bandwidth that's being used on the internet is just watching shit that's usually not educational.
Found it:
"@sloverlord Hacker News is a steaming cesspool and I don't have time or desire to deal with their bandwidth demands, so I just block them." ~jwz
https://twitter.com/jwz/status/665658171415859200
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Note that this post continues the Writing an OS in Rust series [1] and assumes some familiarity with the existing system and Rust.

[1]: http://os.phil-opp.com
If you look at the landscape of "flickr-like" companies, it looks as if you can make a business out of it (Smugmug, 500px) but it's probably not a huge opportunity business given how many such efforts have been shuttered or allowed to largely languish over the past 15 years or so.

The reality is that most people are just fine with uploading their camera phone pics to Facebook and be done with it. The number who are willing to spend $25-50 per year for a premium site is probably a pretty small percentage--and would be even smaller if you up that to $100+.
"Go does not support operator overloading or keyword extensibility."

Very much working as intended, I believe. Experience from languages that support those features has shown that what we gain in the very few situations where those extensions make sense (such as defining mathematical operations on vectors using the same symbols that are used in vector mathematics), we lose in too many developers thinking they have a clever shortcut that an existing operator would be perfect for, to the detriment of readability and comprehensibility.

This is also the era of code-analysis-by-search-engine, and operator overloading harms that feature significantly. If I need to find all instances of vector addition in my code and I'm searching for '+', I'm going to have a bad time.
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Marissa Mayer and Maynard Webb were on CNBC this morning talking about the spin:

Part 1: https://amp.twimg.com/v/76b8a5e2-9a6c-40c3-9c1b-e2c8bcf91159
Part 2: https://amp.twimg.com/v/ce42d263-7b9c-4716-8d06-b320ed243606

Mayer seems completely bored by the whole thing and keeps passing stuff off to Webb as "board level consideration". Doesn't make me excited for Yahoo whatsoever.
A comment on the display of the data: more decimals don't make your results look better.

Only show a relevant number of decimal places. In the case of this data most of it needed 0 to 2 decimal places.
If anyone is looking for the article publishing date (no indication on the site), archive.org made the first snapshot on June 2014.
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I personally use it for amounts starting from 30c.

But two questions should be answered. How micro is micro-payment? Popular fee right now is at 0.0001 BTC which corresponds to ~0.04USD, which could be considered not very "micro-fee". And other question. Single transaction real cost right now is around 10USD. Payment fees are low, only because they are hugely subsidised by block reward (25BTC every 10 minutes). What will happen when block reward will go down 2, 4, 8 times?

And finally, quote from LN whitepaper:

> If all transactions using Bitcoin were on the blockchain, to enable
7 billion people to make two transactions per day, it would require 24GB
blocks every ten minutes at best
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I bet it would be very possible, since your essentially telling every citizen that you will pay the value of everything they own and much more to be a part of a different 1st world nation. Imagine someone telling you that they'd pay you $300,000 to consider your plot of land a part of the U.S. instead of Canada, and you still get to keep everything.
Looks like they use https://github.com/tripit/slate
I have been using Emacs semi-casually since 1993, when I got into it because it had a really good [Lambda]MOO client. I have always hated Vi and like the C++ mode in Emacs, so when I'm on a shell-only or editing something that the IntelliJ suite doesn't do, I use Emacs.

It was slow to load back then on an early 90s HP/UX workstation. And it's slow to load now on a modern quad core i7 machine with 16 gigs of RAM and an SSD drive.

How this can be baffles me. I don't know what they're doing wrong, but it continues to grow and grow.
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This is very relevant. In the past, Chess was the highbrow game in the Western world--the one played and esteemed by those who believed themselves to be above the median. Becoming good at Chess was therefore a means to impress those people, and in turn everyone impressed by the opinions of those people. If you were good at Chess, you had at least one socially redeeming quality.

There was a brief period where the ultra-intelligent switched to the highbrow game of the Eastern world, Go, likely due to its greater difficulty at grandmaster levels, and its well-established handicapping system that allowed for entertaining games between people of different skill levels.

Now, there are thousands of games played by elites, and none of them have such a clear advantage that anyone would put their leaderboard position on their resume. I already know how to play Chess well enough to let my boss win (without making it obvious that I threw the game), and I have plenty of other games that I can play when I actually want to have fun.

So why would I spend any more time practicing just that one game? I could try to improve my Go ranking, or play Hive, or build a new M:tG deck, or get better at Risk.

Many of the reasons people had in the past to play Chess well are no longer applicable exclusively to Chess.
I like the first and the last one!
Yeah, the body language, positioning, phrasing....her constantly referring to what the board was going to do..it was just a bad look.
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>This unholy alliance

Classic "Bootleggers and Baptists"
I hope she doesn't think she's going to be working from home.