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Couldn't agree more: if people think team outcomes would improve "if only the smart people spoke more confidently", it's a sign of incompetent leadership to me. This problem is as damaging as it is pervasive, and scales from pub trivia to national elections (where voters are the collective team captain).

However, the most fascinating example is found in large hierarchical organisations (i.e. large corporates and government agencies). Poor managers have no relevant domain knowledge. So the only basis they have for decision making is 'who sounds the most confident', because they lack the ability to judge who is actually correct. Worse still, the 'captains' (managers) decide who gets to be the 'sub-captains' (and therefore future captains).

I watched it happen in real-time once. I worked in a relatively young organisation that put 2-3 incompetent guys in upper management. They made bad hires and bad decisions, because they had zero domain expertise (IT). I was startled at how quickly incompetence spread throughout the organisation, like a metastasising cancer. Within 6 months they had virtually ruined the place, and the (few) competent hires they had made were rapidly jumping ship.

It was like they'd read the Netflix Culture slides (http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664) and decided to do the exact opposite...
Guess I need to go weigh my cheap little toy quad. Pretty sure it's lighter than that but I'd rather not deal with any fines if somehow I'm playing around with it in the park and the quad-cops get a complaint.

Either that or I may just stop flying it and wait until I eventually (someday, dammit!) get around to building that little 250 racer I keep price-shopping parts for.
People are not convinced that D-Wave is really quantum yet. I've seen not D-Waves presentations at the annual Supercomputing Convention and I am not convinced yet.
The only requirement is the weight.

Yes, if your 'toy' is over the minimum weight, then it has to be registered.

However, there are a great number of inexpensive toy drones that are less than $100 and fall below the weight requirement. See the Cheerson CX-10: http://www.amazon.com/Bestpriceam-Cheerson-Cx-10-Quadcopter-...

If you want to avoid having to deal with the registration, then purchase a toy that doesn't have the ability to hurt someone.
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> In the past 8 years we've (to my great relief) de-escalated our military actions in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

You're relieved about what's going on in Iraq? Seems like a big mess to me.

As bad as whatever the U.S. has done in the Middle East, it hasn't beheaded civilians to make political statements or committed genocide against religious and cultural minorities.

We can certainly discuss if the U.S. should pull out anyway, but I don't feel "relief" in making the least awful choice.
> I was under the impression that pretty much anything getting sucked into a jet turbine is a major problem, can anyone speak to whether that's true?

Definitely untrue. Air, water, and particulates get sucked in all of the time, it doesn't cause a "major problem."

It really boils down to mass and in some cases chemical makeup. Smaller birds get sucked in all the time, and often don't even damage the fan blades. Whereas a couple of Canadian Geese could clog up an engine causing it to stop.

While the news likes to drum beat about large commercial aircraft, it is "unlikely" that a drone could be a real threat. It is more smaller single engine aircraft and helicopters that are at risk from drones flying into them (in particular during take-off/landing).

Larger drones definitely need some kind of moderation. But as I said above 250g is too small, a pigeon weighs over 350g by comparison. How are you going to regulate them?!

PS - I actually fully support regulating pigeons, those things need to be taken down a peg or two.
Same here.

Many years later my sister became a teacher and her main complaint about teaching was "the kids stink."

In retrospect I have no idea how bad I smelled after running several miles or playing kickball and then not showering because it was just not done by anybody in gym. The stigma of showering among peers was great enough that nobody seemed to care, although this may be more a symptom of a general lack of self-awareness among kids that age.
Simple refxss testing can easily fuck sites up; all the site has to do is stash a query input somewhere that gets rendered back out in JS to all users later (extremely common example: search results).

All the sudden every user on the site is getting alert popups.

A lot of these sites can calculate down to the second and the dollar how much they lose if their site goes down. Guess who's liable if the cause of that downtime is you?
That's fair. I have some experience in manufacturing engineering; in retrospect, I got a little too excited about how it was designed to be put together in mass quantities. After rolling it around in my hands for a few weeks, I've noticed a few warts in the circuit board - extra flux around the solder pads, a PCB throughhole that was a little too close to the board edge, and got a little shorn when the PCB was milled out, other little things like that. In all honesty, there's nothing really superlative about the electronics themselves. The JRC4558 is a really, really old opamp. It was brand new around the time The Who were getting airlifted to Woodstock.

I shot you an email about some of the other aspects of the article that I didn't want to write about in open air. Check your inbox!
Yes, actual geopolitics are more complicated than the world of Star Wars.
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Its also creepy to watch either of the two Dune movies. Herbert borrowed a lot form Islam Jihad.
Just wait until they're teenagers.

But you might not find it that exciting then, having teenage kids has its own drawbacks.
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> For example: I often find myself completely losing track of something that urgently requires my response, or struggling for several minutes to find a single email from a few weeks ago. That’s because email was not designed with the assumption that anyone would get hundreds of messages a day. To a computer, a direct email from your boss looks the same as your water bill. It's on you to put it where it needs to be. IMAP provides only two tools for this: mailboxes and flags. You're expected to sort your messages into mailboxes as if you're sorting paperwork into folders, and/or flag them with a limited set of colors. Do this long enough, however, and you'll soon end up like I did, rifling through an elaborate hierarchy to find the proper folder. The more complex your system of organization, the longer it takes you to organize or find each individual email, and the less useful the system becomes. Eventually, the time you spend maintaining the system outweighs the time it saves you.

It's not so much email-the-communications-system, but "email" as a collective noun for all the different communications demands from other people and system he faces.
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For writing a general compiler (or anything similar to that), they're extremely useful because they produce very good lexers and/or parsers. The GNU versions of those two are 'bison' and 'flex'. Really, just about anything that requires parsing text can gain from using both of them.

Noting that though, for this specific exercise they're not as useful because the author intended for this compiler to be self-hosting. It would be hard to be self-hosting if the compiler have to be able to compile the C code from yacc or lex, which may do any number of strange things.
Bravely register your drone and wear your seatbelt, free individual!
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No. The performance right is for "literary, dramatic or musical work[s]".

(Remember: legislation is drafted by lawyers whose entire job is to make a document that is as painfully, excruciatingly unambiguous as English allows. Each of those rights in the short list I posted has long sections clarifying very precisely what it means. Where ambiguities or absurdities remain, there's probably been a lawsuit over them in the past 25 odd years, and a judge will have spent dozens of pages analysing each one.

In other words - criticising an act by trying to spot semantic absurdities based on a tiny extract of its summary is probably not a sensible game to play..)
>What surprises me is is the minimum weight requirement: 250 grams

Why does this surprise you?

If the assumption is that the FAA is altruistic organization that seeks nothing but the public benefit, I suppose I can see how this is surprising. But if we take a more realistic assumption of what the FAA is--a governmental bureaucracy full of self-interested individuals who pursue their own interests (greater authority, promotions, increased budgets, increased compensation, etc.)--it's not very surprising that they reach beyond "reasonable" restrictions and seek additional ways to benefit themselves.

Also, governmental regulators have strong incentives to be incredibly risk averse. This is best exemplified by the FDA. If they approve a drug that turns out to have an unknown side effect that harms people, this result is easy to observe and likely carries significant consequences for the FDA employees involved. However, if their delay in approving a drug causes 100,000 unnecessary deaths, this result is difficult to observe and likely carries no consequences. This creates perverse incentives that push regulators towards being excessively cautious.
How many people in US have died from gun and car related deaths last year? As compared to "drone strikes"
Yes, I've heard similar stories from various people. I guess you have to be very insistent and convincing to your GP when you feel ill, or else you risk delaying a proper diagnostic.

On the bright side, the Dutch hospitals have a great track record at low multi-resistant bacteria, which are more common in other countries. One of the reasons for this might be their stricter rules of admitting people in the hospitals.
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We have too many middle-men in US healthcare. They obscure costs and prices while preventing individuals from getting more involved with their own healthcare decisions.

Rather than a one-size-fits-all approach to healthcare through single payer or other subsidies, my fondest wish for government intervention would be for laws that force doctors and hospitals to provide price and likely outcome information to the general public. Give healthcare consumers the data they need to make informed decisions and the ensuing competition could drive down prices while improving outcomes.
>Can we get over the generations concept soon?

The article isn't about broad, inter-generational disparities. It was about one in particular (and perhaps even exclusively American): comfortability with being nude around other people.

Having grown up around locker rooms, I don't think twice about hopping in the public shower. Maybe that's not everyone's cup of tea, but the idea of being completely averse and uncomfortable to a point strikes me as odd. Where does it come from?
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> When a technical glitch caused delays in the rehearsal, their coach said, “As you become more sophisticated, you become more imprisoned.”

I think I'll remember that one.
> You can't possibly assert that writing code in one or another way is easier or harder

In general, of course not. I think that both single-return and multiple-return styles can be valid and readable. But of course both can be obfuscated.

But give me a particular piece of logic and I might give an opinion on which style I would use for it.

& if you think YAGNI is harmful, you should see the pointless code from people who have never thought that way!
A good number of idiots do fly 'only above [their] own property'. The issue is that they fly much higher than 400' above their property.
It is a big mess, but I'm relieved that our foreign policy has been reset and that if there will be further action in the Middle East it will be one undertaken and lead by an true international coalition (not the fake international coalition that invaded Iraq in 2003 for reasons un-related to terrorism). We won't keep pretending (at least not for the time-being) that it's even possible for the US alone to make sure that no terrorist attacks happen anywhere. Terrorism is not US's problem alone, it is a multinational problem with a multinational - and probably not even a military - solution. I'm glad the US's foreign policy has changed to reflect that reality.
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"Particularly, I'd use yacc instead of writing a parser by hand and introduce an intermediate language early on." Near the end of the article.
As someone who enjoys flying drones, I don't mind registration- I just want clarity.

Recently I was going out with some friends to the Boston Harbor Islands. I wanted to take a small Parrot AR drone out there, to fly around 25 feet in the air, to capture some group photos and check out some neat angles of military ruins. Yet, I find things like this (https://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsId=1...) on the FAA site that indicates I can't fly anything Class B airspace.

There's stuff about applying for a Certificate of Waiver or Authorization, which seems needlessly heavy. I find things that say things like, "Community-based guidelines require recreational operators to give notice for flights within 5 statute miles of an airport."

I attempt to contact Logan's tower, and get bounced around between literally 10 different people... all equally confused. It feels really odd to call an airport about this, and I have a sinking feeling that this is a good way to get on some watch list, so I'm quite careful with my words.

Eventually, I get in touch with the Assistant Director Airport Operations Airside who responds that 'Massport does not have jurisdiction of that area and cannot give approval for the use of the drone. That approval must come from the FAA local ATC since the area you are looking to operate the drone in falls within their Airspace.'. I spoke with him on the phone as well, and he was super nice and indicated that he was hoping they'd figure all of this out soon as well, because he owns a drone too.

Sites like this (http://fromwhereidrone.com/can-you-fly-your-drone-within-5-m...) make it sound super easy and casual to get permission... but I found the opposite.

Class B airspace covers basically every major city in the US. Additionally, I couldn't fly because all national parks have had a ban since mid-2014... so even if the FAA allowed it, the Boston Harbor Islands (which are technically a national park, through a joint venture with Massachusetts) I couldn't have legally flown.

I am 100% about safety for these things. I think there should be height limitations, but also reasonable allowances. I wouldn't mind if the GPS lock on the drone kept it below 50 feet (treetop level) in places like this.

Anyway, I had to spend a few hours realizing not only that I couldn't fly on the islands, but legally I couldn't fly almost anywhere around here... including my own back yard which is 4.5 miles from Logan.
Individual success anyway. Without leaders who have the ability to recognise competence in others (and incompetence, despite how confident a person sounds), the team/organisation/country has no chance of success. However, confident sounding individuals definitely thrive in this sort of environment (until the whole place goes belly-up because it's filled with confident sounding stupid people).
What do you mean, 'fortunately'?. Not only is it disgusting from a hygiene point of view -- especially wrt sweaty teenagers! -- it's also a great way to come to terms with nudity. With porn as the main source of nudity, it's no wonder that so many teens have self-image issues.
From this cherrypicking article to various other online forums critical of them, it's pretty hilarious how recently, every single crevice of the Star Wars movies is thrown into the town square naked, and then being loudly decried for it being an inconsistency/plot hole/any other logical deficiency. All the while forgetting that in the 70s, a business man with an acumen for world-building conceived these space operas. Space operas whose largest overarching theme is a simple struggle of good vs. evil. I'm partially convinced Disney is to blame for this, most likely stoking the fire behind-the-scenes.
So I suppose there's a serious movement to reform their healthcare system to be more like ours? Maybe also in all the other universal healthcare-having countries with advanced economies (so, the entire rest of the OECD states, more or less)?
For anyone interested in compiler writing and looking for a good resource to start, probably one of the best is the "Dragon Book":

http://www.amazon.com/Compilers-Principles-Techniques-Tools-...

I highly recommend it, but it's heavy stuff. There are probably simpler guides out there that just cover the basics.
Does this apply to RC planes and helicopters too? Or is this only for the oh-so-scary "drones"?
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Pro CSS tip #1 (emphasis on the 'Pro' more than the 'CSS'): If you want to be a professional and work as part of a team, get better at documenting your code. Write code that other people can maintain when you're not available. Comment your code. Write actual docs. Write tests.
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Which mail providers provide Sieve support ? I see Fastmail does, but Gmail doesn't.
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I am incredibly conflicted about what happened at Hiroshima, and I am coming around to the belief that what the US did there wasn't justified. (When I was serving in the Marine Corps in Japan, I visited the bridge that was the bomb target -- chosen because it could be easily seen from a plane -- and talked to a survivor, and it was really harrowing.)

But... the US and Japan were at war at the time. Alderaan was a part of the Empire! There were declared hostilities with the Rebellion, but the Rebellion wasn't ON Alderaan. Leia grew up there, but that was about the extent of it. The Empire wasn't at war with Alderaan. It's as if during the Civil War we murdered everyone in Cleveland because one of the key members of the Confederacy had an uncle who lived in Cleveland. There's no ambiguity here, the destruction of Alderaan is clearly beyond the pale.
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Seems to be sort of like the FCC. They generally don't fine you if you're misbehaving, they'll send out warnings first.

If you're an absolute massive jerk, on the other hand ... yeah, you're not going to be on anyone's good side, and you can end up pulling some really massive fines.
If I recall correctly, the term "google" and "youtube" were among the most "googled" terms. People are too lazy to type out the URL anyway.
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Prettier != more sexually active. If you're lucky you'll find this out for yourself, eventually
> Early returns reduce the complexity of a method by reducing the number of possible states as you move through the method.

As I said in other comments, early returns for exceptions and bad input are fine. They are exceptions, though, not return statements. Go ahead and use return if you want/can, although I wouldn't.

If it's not for an exception or input validation failure, then we have something like:

"Alright, so here we do this, unless this, that and that other condition over there were true earlier, because the method would've returned then..."

I find that the complexity to keep track of with this approach is pretty much the same, or even more depending on the branching.
A side effect of the narcissistic disturbance which you see a lot today is an unstable self image. One minute you think you can do anything, then you have some slight reversal and you think you are useless.
Yes, registering drones is a brutal oppression that means the west is no longer free.
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>Recognized is a binary; you either are or you aren't.

Diplomacy is much more nuanced. While you might or might not be recognized in the official sense, there's a broad spectrum or relationships and attitudes that imply recognition.

E.g. there are players that are not official, but nethertheless have relationships with state players, and are thus recognized for discussions, negotiations, etc.
The comment you're responding was edited to couch the argument in "now at least".

The Drone Papers asserts ~90% of people killed by drone strikes weren't the intended target (with a wide mix of civilians, combatants, and unknown). https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/ Other sources, eg the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/category/projects/dron...), provide more granular data over time. Precision is somewhat lacking in estimates due to the inherent secrecy.

While the number of actions, targets, deaths, and total casualties varies by nation (Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia...), a high rate of collateral damage is clearly an accepted part of the current strategy.
I think of myself still as the young generation since I am from the so called millennials. Generally speaking I hate dumb stuff. Giving a fuck about what someone thinks about your body is dumb. Also in the gym - nobody does. Nobody really even thinks you exist and everyone has something better to do. You get, you undress, dress and get out.

Do i fear change - hardly. Privacy requires space. Space means higher rents, which mean higher fees. I personally prefer to see/show from time to time acknowledgment that penises exist outside of porn and giger works and keep the gym experience cheap.
I loved the old client, I want it back as much I want my deceased mother come back to life, I really loved that program. It worked so smooth on my crappy laptop I had before.
It's hard to say. That web site is so buzzword-driven and content-free that after reading a couple of the pages I still have literally no idea what it does or why I might need it.
Other people would think that fixed reimbursement rates are a feature - it's what they do in my country to hold down costs, and it works well. You can ask to be paid beyond published rates, but you better have a good case when you present the bill to the insurance company.

As far as overbuilding hospitals goes, you'd think that physicians and administrators will try to fill those beds at any cost, cost that is billed to patients and the taxpayer. Hospital overcapacity is not like airline overcapacity.
Only if you're flying rocks at over 328 feet in the air.
I do think getting the rights to stream is slighly more difficult than getting this to run for a newbie coder
The comments here really surprise me. My dad's a pilot, and I've heard from him firsthand how drones are a very serious problem for airplanes. Comments like "this is just one more example of tracking" or "I can't believe I have to do this even if it's only for my house" seem to be said out of anger rather than from serious consideration of the issues with drones. Your $30 drone can very easily cause someone else's $1,000,000 airplane serious damage, and as drones get more sophisticated and more capable the danger will only increase.

I want to say "Just because you can make it doesn't mean you can use it irresponsibly", but people will take issue with my use of the words "can't" and "irresponsibly". It's probably easier to say as follows: when you're playing in the sandbox, you play nice with other kids. Here, when you're playing in the air, you have to play nice with other things in the air. The fact your toy is tiny and easy to use doesn't change the fact that you're still playing in the same sandbox as everyone else.