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I see it in a similar way. These low barrier distribution channels provide an opportunity for people to live experiences beyond their financial capability. Performing on stage, walking the red carpet, etc. Sure, some strike it rich, but most don't. The same power law that exists throughout the entertainment industry.

And regarding the offset/highlighted comment about Van Gogh. If the author knew their art history (or at least had seen and paid attention to Mona Lisa Smile), he only sold one painting during his lifetime [0]. One might even go so far as to draw a parallel between his position with the art dealer Goupil & Cie and somebody today "shilling themselves out on audible.com".

[0] http://www.vangoghgallery.com/misc/faq.html
I have senior in my title so I guess I count as skilled, I work on an Android app (so Java).

I have absolutely no idea of what my average LOC / week looks like and could not care less.

This is a really dumb metric.

Between Annotation processors & code generation plugins, it already means nothing.
If you factor in DRY, it is just insane.

Am I supposed to willingly write horrible and unproductive code just to increase my LOC / time ?
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Imagine being a civil engineer, and your boss says "how much concrete did you use? I'll pay you to use more."

Or an electrical engineer: "How many resistors did you solder? I want them all gone."

Or an aeronautical engineer: "What does the plane weigh? I was expecting a few more tons."

Or a traffic engineer: "Why haven't you put more stop lights in?"

Or a mechanical engineer: "More gears!"

Always hard to get the bean counters to appreciate elegance.
These sound like two very big red flags. You have probably dodged a bullet here.
It's a very impressive demo, but it's also a testimony to the sad state of PC graphics (and sound) hardware back in the day. Consider that years earlier I was playing stuff like this[1] and this[2] on my home computer.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLZoYUgilkI

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-U6HUaAONI
> the dollar stops being the world's reserve currency in about 25 years

Nice timing, since nobody will recall your comment in 25 years.
Maybe the Middle East falls apart.
I have no idea how it can be sustainable, the low prices have frozen all investment on new fields/fracking/exploration, and when we will have a production slump in a few years, it will be followed by a sharp rise, that will be really painful.
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If you don't own the system, from boot to microcode, you only get the illusion of security.

You're essentially paying a premium to have someone else install an OS for you - color me unimpressed.
And I'm sure if you said that to the CTO they wouldn't take offence and would react in a rational, measured way. Actually, I've worked with managers that would react OK to that, and ones that definitely wouldn't, but I wouldn't tell any of them their work wasn't "properly engineered". Stick to the objective facts: this version runs much faster (no need to even mention the 'several orders of magnitude' factor unless they really want to know).
Aside from the painfully obvious hyperbole...

Having a brand new model of a ship break down during an exercise is the 'best case' scenario for failure. There are important aspects of this that should be taken into account. First, nobody died. Second, the fault didn't occur during combat.

Yes, there are some projects that waste insane amounts of funding with underwhelming results like the Army's 5 billion UCP (Universal Camouflage Pattern) and Air Force's F35 programs. Cases like those usually occur due to personality-driven leadership.

Imagine you have an officer with a lifetime of domain-specific knowledge but little/no experience with product development. Give him an objective, a line of funding, and the responsibility to draft a contract to make it happen. This is the usual case.

Things can go south for a few reasons. The officers in charge don't reach out for outside feedback/advice, and default to relying solely on the advice of the contractors. Poor assumptions are made or requirements are overlooked, delaying production. The procurement process takes such a ridiculously amount of time that COTS equipment goes obsolete and/or can't be sourced by the time it's required for implementation.

To make matters worse, contracting guidelines dictate that projects follow a waterfall design model. The specification process all happens up-front. Lots of bureaucracy, lots of documentation, lots of steps where mistakes and bad assumptions can/will be made on a tight time schedule. There are exceptions to the rule but generally field testing doesn't take place until after launch.

People wonder why the military spends billions of dollars training and 'playing war' every year. They do it to iron out the kinks in their equipment, organization, and processes. If the services do their job (which most do very well) they will identify, report, and correct problems before they're put to the test in a wartime environment.

In software development terms, prototype with a waterfall and iterate over time. The difference being, on software projects iterations happen on the scale of weeks/months. On military projects, iterations happen on a scale of years (ex 3 or 5).

The news will jump on any sign of weakness chanting 'muh taxpayer dollars'; oldschool politicians like McCain will sponge up the public attention calling for 'the good old days of big iron' (aka sitting ducks); and, none of that matters because war changes and the tools of war need to adapt to overcome those changes.

All I can say is, I respect the fortitude of the service members who do this type of work. It's truly a miserable, thankless job, fraught with unbelievable obstacles and little support.

Source: I used to work on a contract under MARCORSYSCOM, which is basically the product development division of the US Marines.
Some of the anti-depressants have pretty unpleasant side effects.
You do realize there are countries that have a significant chance of snow for 4+ months per year, right?

And that there are many places with stop signs that are almost completely obscured by foliage, or simply by the angle of roads on the crossroads.

Not everything is California. And not every city has a grid.

When autonomous cars can survive in a place like Rome or Paris[1], or even downtown Manhattan. Then we can talk about fully replacing humans.

[1] Rome and Paris are notorious for people having special city cars because they get banged up so much in the course of normal life

Here's an example of traffic in a modern European city: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfJ-VokP3EQ

And another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lay8aZlsbB0

How long until autonomous cars can do that? Hell, I'd shit my pants trying to do that.

PS: in the real world there are also many roads that flat out don't have lanes drawn on them.
Slightly off-topic but maybe some people will find it useful:

I used to write my various glue-things-together scripts in bash, but this quickly becomes a nightmare as the script grows, due to bash's corner cases, syntax, portability issues etc.

Recently I wrote my massive glue-things-together script with nodejs (since I already use node for many things) and it's much more maintainable and I couldn't be more happy. Node 0.12 has execSync which was the missing piece for making node the proper shell scripting platform.

If you are interested, you may want to check shelljs [1] and my snippets for robust `exec()` and `cd()` in node.

[1] https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs
[2] https://gist.github.com/jakub-g/a128174fc135eb773631
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> They probably have the skills to acquire it without contacting GitHub as well.

I'd say they definitely have the skills to acquire it, if QUANTUM {INSERT|DNS}[1] are still operational. As you said, it's probably not worth it.

1. http://blog.fox-it.com/2015/04/20/deep-dive-into-quantum-ins...
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I'm trying to setup Node.js build and deployment system in the company. But we use closed network, thus, we can't access the external resources like npmjs and github.

So we set up nexus server and proxy npmjs by nexus. But lots of node modules using the github for modules repository but nexux can't proxy github.

Our system security managers are a bit of a maverick and they don't want to open network for it. Is there any solution for solve this problem?

Or how are you using Node.js in private network without proxy?
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It's not about efficiency at all.

I want to know that I can get up and leave whenever I want to. This makes me feel much more comfortable and relaxed.

"also has the benefit of giving time to patrons to relax and chat while they finish up a meal."

I am confused about this. I rarely get the tab while I am still eating.
I work on a large Android app.

I have absolutely no idea of what my average LOC / week is and I would argue that it is a silly metric.

Last week I deleted 30k LOC from the project (~10% of the code base) :

-we used to have both the old & new version of the UI in the codebase so we could switch between the twos in production. Now that the new version is complete, there is no need for that.

-There were many deprecated parts of the app and unused resources, I did a big cleanup of these and I have even more work in that area.

This has resulted in way cleaner code, easier to apprehend for newcomers. The app is also lighter by 2 mo. Probably a very productive week overall.
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This is security theater marketed for a steep markup.

Until they can get get an oss version of all the firmware it's just as secure as any off the shelf laptop with a clean install of the OS of your choosing.

If you want more security get an old Lenovo/IBM think pad mod the bios chip and get libreboot.

The cpu, graphics card, hdd, Ethernet and more have more lines of code in them than your OS kernel most likely and that code rarely gets audited even internally.
>People often have vicious thoughts. Sometimes they share them on Google. Do these thoughts matter? Yes. Using weekly data from 2004 to 2013, we found a direct correlation between anti-Muslim searches and anti-Muslim hate crimes.

I hate it that we're so spineless to venture an actual judgment without the support of some "study" or "statistic" stating the obvious.

Of course tons of people searching for "kill Muslim" matters.

In fact, it would matter even if it wasn't correlated with increase with hate crimes (though, of course, it obviously is).
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It's great to read things like this... I wish my GP would do the same.

I recently had a really high cholesterol reading (both total cholesterol and LDL). Everything else (blood pressure, blood glucose etc) seems fine. I'm 38, fit and healthy and nothing that suspect in my family history. I found the attitude of my doctor in all this quite surprising. It amounted basically to "You definitely have familial hypercholesterolemia. There is no other possible option here other than statins". No further questions about what I eat, my stress levels, lifestyle - nothing.

What disappoints me the most here is now that I feel like it's all on me to determine what my real risk levels are and what's appropriate to treat this. I don't subscribe to the mainstream NHS view still heavily pushed that eating saturated fat -> high cholesterol == unhealthy as I think it's a lot more complicated (as this article shows). I don't like being is this situation as I'm as susceptible to human bias as the next person, and I'm not a doctor, however almost all of the high quality, science based writing I've read indicates that the mainstream healthcare system's view on cholesterol is wrong.
That is the Saudi plan - knock out the frackers and renewables then jack up the price. Let's hope they don't succeed. They are racking up a lot of debt right now trying to keep a lid on their population problems so they might find their ability to borrow breaks first.
> I'd be surprised if they didn't recharge it by pedaling. ;)

I'd be surprised if they did. A dynamo adds a noticeable load on the bike, and the people buying this are already optimising for small improvements. Adding a dynamo to power it would probably be a net negative for performance.
>Maybe the future of poll is a kind of a global real time sentiment analysis. Imagine someone delivering a speech or participating in a political debate and having a feedback in real time.

PR companies for politicians etc have been doing these sort of things (with Twitter etc) for several years...
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I would argue that it's really powerful for certain, niche applications. Having an FPGA onboard is awesome. Now if we can get software everyone uses (office apps, browsers, and the big ones, not specialized ones 1% of people use) maybe the Novena will be fine. We should get that anyway so mid/low-range smartphones can replace the PC for most people.
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1. Pick up a tiny niche based on

(a) target audience already pays for tools online

(b) target audience is easy to find online - there exists at least one forum targeting this niche

(c) niche is so small that it is not profitable for most companies to go after

(d) you are passionate about the niche or already have some link to it (know enough people in your social circle)

2. Figure out how you will market to your audience. Spend tiny amounts of time/money on each channel to test whether you could gain traction through any one.

(a) Posting on forums

(b) Content marketing

(c) SEO

(d) Paid acquisition

3. Research on existing tools and competitors in the niche. Focus research on

(a) lack of functionality in the tools provided

(b) tool is too generic for the niche

(c) they are not using a specific marketing channel that you think would work very well

4. Out-compete your competitors on the following

(a) Build a better tool

(b) Do better marketing

(c) Provide better customer support

Important things to keep in mind

1. Never compete on price

2. Do marketing before product development. For e.g. if your main channel is content marketing, start writing content before you build your product. If it is forum posting, start posting on multiple forums and gaining credibility there before you think of your product.
Surely the compiler handles the case of anonymous functions referring to `this` or `arguments` and leaves them alone?

edit: the original issue[5] specifically notes that the anonymous function shouldn't refer to `this` and the corresponding commit has a test case for that, though it doesn't talk about `arguments` so that might break.

[5] https://github.com/mohebifar/xto6/issues/5
Yep, it's double what a similar Dell XPS 13 costs.
Thalidomide was used to treat morning sickness in pregnancy.

That's as close to calling it safe for pregnancy as you can get.
> In November, there were about 3,600 searches in the United States for “I hate Muslims” and about 2,400 for “kill Muslims.”

It is sad that NY Times had turned into yet another "news generator".
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As it mentions, the developer Dino Dini is working on a new football game for PS4. Also one of the developers behind Sensible Soccer is working on a new game. Dino has a slightly unhinged twitter feed as well.
It's not the first time I read about service (near) outages and post mortem that involve ElasticSearch. It's marketed as NoSQL solution, but some devs don't read the details in the documentation like "Elasticsearch is not schema-less".

Knowing Lucene and its index structure for years, I wouldn't advise to use a Lucene database as primary storage. Always keep the original data at least in a log-queue or in a separate database - so that you can rebuild the Lucene database.
The only thing in this post that can be accurately called defensive is the use of "local" and "readonly". The rest is all just style preferences, which are rather subjective, and none of which are very appealing to me.

Three real defensive bash programming tips are:

- Quote all uses of variables

- set -o nounset

- set -o errexit

And many others can be found in and around http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ
The result of a model is no better than a gut estimate.

But the process of developing the model, working out what the factors are that will impact market size (and your share of it), working out what things you need to monitor more closely or focus on for biggest impact is where the value is.
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It's neat to see a competitor to babel, but man that colour scheme is suspiciously similar.
there is a huge difference in what they can bring to the table in vendor vs p2p plays.

p2p will presumingly work almost exactly like venmo, or more accurately, iMessage.
Not only are they not bringing anything new to the table, they are also not leveraging anything from them controlling the hw+sw, other than being preinstalled.

A vendor play is much more interesting, since this is where they can really shine (completing a transaction without ever unlocking your phone or typing anything).
> A search for “are all Muslims terrorists?” for example leaves little to the imagination about what the searcher really thinks. Searches for “I hate Muslims” are even clearer.

Is it actually clear what the searcher thinks? I enter phrases I'm searching for into Google. I don't just type my current thoughts in there to let Google know.
If you were selling something online and you only accepted bitcoin, you would sell very little of whatever you were selling.
FYI: it uses the ZigBee standard, so it is likely that it will always be compatible with some third-party hubs and lights. I also expect that newer iterations of the standard will have backwards compatibility.

That makes this choice of Philips worse: they implement a standard, but then choose to ignore devices based on (probably) identifiers (and probably introducing incompatibilities). It's toxic to the whole ecosystem.

I think that some of their marketing material stated that they were ZigBee-compatible. So, I guess I can now (theoretically) sue them as a customer.
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Guys, thanks for your comments. I've submitted the link as I've been outraged by this story. I find Paul's website to be a goldmine of carefully selected, beautifully written information that can save people lots of pain (well, literally...). It's hard to say what the solution to cases like this should be, but I believe until the technology gets easier to handle, there should be some sort of regulations, or companies should take the initiative of handling such situations if it's their responsibility. Search engines can't be like black boxes, there's people whose business relies on them and like someone said, I'd expect a level of automation that makes it easy to deal with such scenarios. A content creator shouldn't even worry about all this stuff at all! We are talking about a simple domain migration, that's it. The "Donate by linking" page was published only a week ago, so even though it's a good point trying to address that as well, it can't be the reason for the disaster.
> almost all of the high quality, science based writing I've read indicates that the mainstream healthcare system's view on cholesterol is wrong.

My understanding is that a doctor's first job is to be risk averse. That's why they shy away from bleeding edge research and knowledge, and choose instead to rely on proven ways.

Their job isn't so much to be right as it is to not be wrong. If that means keeping you suboptimally alive, but still healthy, then so be it. Better than try to optimize and risk worsening your state.
forgot about that! I bet they just love doing that.
I wonder why Google has become a sort of window into the hidden recesses of the public mind. It's a search box, built to return relevant web pages, but it seems people use it as a repository for unfiltered thoughts as well. Perhaps because the search box is a totally dispassionate, nonjudgemental listener. And it even responds! It serves up links that it thinks are relevant to what we say to it. It's like the stuffed teddy bears we confided in as children...but algorithmically powered, antiseptic white, and it talks back to us...albeit in a garbled speech comprised entirely of links and ads.
There would have to be extended contact (more than just a small kitchen fire). Usually the beam will be repaired or replaced anyway because of aesthetic reasons, and much of the wood structure will be behind fireproofing where it's 100% safe for at least a couple hours.
Russia is still looking very vulnerable in that respect. Rosneft's heavy debt burden combined with high inflation in Russia (probably 15% for 2015) is hammering their ability to invest in expanding capacity. Reduced investment also means costs of production are on an upward trend. Then add in the Saudi's moves to increase market share in Northern Europe and it's not looking too good.
> It's neat to see a competitor to babel, but man that colour scheme is suspiciously similar.

It's more like a reverse Babel. Babel does 6 to 5 , this does 5 to 6.
Is it really a 'script' if you need to add a dir full of modules? I've always thought of 'scripts' as all-in-ones.
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True (to an extent), but take into account how much more expensive putting together a small amount of units (compared to say Dell) is. One really needs to go through the costing of something, even a simple PCB, to realize the orders of magnitude difference there is.
Unfortunately the firmware issue is also true. If a million people bought this laptop (at 2x the price of a XPS 13) they might be able to convince someone to open up some of that firmware. But that's not going to happen.
Babel is ES6 to ES5 right? This seems to target a different audience. Namely moving your ES5 codebase to ES6 automatically.

Also I think the similarity in color scheme is very intentional. As this seems like a wink towards babel, being an anti-babel.
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> xto6 transpiles your ES5 code to ES6. It does exactly the opposite of what other transpilers do (like babel and traceur).
I would be very happy if all taxis and other commercial vehicles (Uber, Lyft, etc.) would have their speed tracked and automatic citations issued for going more than 15 mph above the speed limit. As it is the taxis and Uber cars speed along my 25mph limit residential street at 50mph+ all night long.
Why is that better?

In Toronto property taxes pay for a lot of services. Let the rich Chinese foreigners subsidize those services; I'll continue to rent from them at monthly rates I know they're losing money on (after taxes, maintenance, and opportunity cost).

Owning a home is a poor investment, there's a good reason companies lease office space and don't waste their time and capital owning and maintaining it themselves.
Yes, in fact it looks a lot like a preparing step towards babel: convert ES5 codebase to ES6, then use babel so it still runs on ES5 browsers.
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If the parse web site wasn't such useless shit I might actually be able to work out whether this really is a good alternative... :-(
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Leave the high income people alone. Someone living hand to mouth is already doing his best to prop the economy, no matter what his income level is. Tax high property people instead. Progressively.