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That's taking nonconformity to an absurd level. Most everyone is a conformist at some level, because we are social creatures that have our sub-cultures that help shape our identity, for better or worse.

There are very few people that make their own clothes from raw material, people have to buy the cloth or the clothing itself from somewhere. Of course this tends towards clustering as the mainstream is by definition pretty broad, so it is visually easy to group together "people who wear weird/retro/custom clothes and hair styles" together.

Yet if you polled hipsters, I'd bet a wide diversity on other opinions/tastes in music, art, film, issues.

This goes for many sub-cultures, from goths, to metal heads, to punks, to yuppies or Bobos. Everyone mixes non-conformity at some level with conformity, especially when they link their tastes and opinions with their identity.

Hipsters just happen to want to be identified for their non-conformity which is what makes them annoying to many people, as this rejects the value of a thing based on its relative popularity.

We've seen elements of this in the past with Rock music fan's accusation of "sellouts" which is somewhat unique among music genres but makes total sense when the identity of being "Rock", for a portion of the fan base anyway, is to be in rebellion against The Man (with money and power).

Hipsterism just takes this to the next level, valuing the relative obscurity of a thing above all other qualities. Except with the Internet, it's easy to find obscure things and popularize them... Among hipsters anyway. Leading us back to clustering.
"I don't think so."

a) It is irrelevant what you "think so", that is not an argument. Weimar Republic indeed did have a secret police, Gestapo was modelled from that.

b) You are probably referring to the subsequent Holocaust and World War 2. If so, argumenting with Weimar Republic and drawing a quick installment of aforementioned practices from it is a straw man argument. You create a notion of how Weimar Republic immediately, "on a moment notice", preceded WW2 etc. (which is incorrect) and then beat that notion (incorrectly) into dust. All of that was built gradually from 1933, which is 6 years before WW2 and 9 years before Wannsee Conference.
I don't like this kind of article that presumes that their readers have a choice in this matter. Reminds me of a friend of mine who once naively advised me to only take a job at a company that I would invest my own money in. I said are you kidding me? I've been grinding for months and failing interviews left and right just to get this job and you're telling me don't do it because it's not Google or something?

A huge portion of humans don't have the luxury to say "hmmmm, this startup is ok but myyyeehhh, I kinda like this one better, err idk maybe i'll just go to GiantCorp". I took jobs because they paid me to write code. The story is probably the same for 90% of humans who are doing the best they can in their own situations.

Oh yeah, and the crappy companies I wrote code for years ago? Those are the places that gave me a foundation for a successful career as a programmer. I absolutely could not have done it without them because they were actually willing to invest a little bit in me-- which (in my experience) might not have happened, even at megacorps or unicorn startups.
> People who are happy and taken care of don't need to spend money

Um, what? People who are happy and taken care of may well be that way precisely because they are able to spend enough money to either prevent problems from arising, or make them go away if they do arise. There is no magical way to make people happy and taken care of without doing productive work, and a free market is the best way we know of to efficiently do productive work.

> The sooner we can get out of this "money is a proxy for everything because markets are perfect" nonsense the better.

I would say that the sooner we stop trying to monkey with markets because we think we can do better when we actually can't, the better. I completely agree that not everything can be provided by free market transactions; but that doesn't change the fact that without all the stuff that can and should be provided by free market transactions, our current civilization could not exist. I don't know about you, but I don't want to live the kind of life that everybody would be living if our current civilization did not exist.
You admitted to being a beginner - a beginner shouldn't be recommending technology choices beyond that a particular choice might help people get started. There is too much a beginner does not know was his/her point.
That allegation against yelp has never been proven. I'd be surprised if either yelp or glass door is outright deleting reviews for money.
You have much better information and much better leverage to attack problems in your own life than those in, say, Sub-Saharan Africa. Plus, there's all the ways that you're a more effective altruist if you aren't distracted by a toothache, or aren't malnourished because you donated your entire food budget.
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"Patent trolls buy up patents and use them offensively against unsuspecting businesses—without creating or selling anything themselves."

This sounds suspiciously like something software companies would argue, to retain the right to protect their turf with patents, while reducing their exposure to professional patent enforcers.
And for the former ombudsman of NPR thought that blasphemy should not be constitutionally protected free speech.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
How did you end up getting a chance to visit North Korea?
At the end of the day, this is what the web community will ultimately end up re-inventing.

https://polymer-designer.appspot.com/
This is laughably wrong. They aren't converting that matter to energy - they are just utilizing Newton's third law. Throwing the matter really fast exerts an opposite force in the other direction.

As far as human energy production is concerned, e=mc^2 only comes into play in nuclear reactors.

Edit: to elaborate a bit, rockets are still just using stored chemical energy and converting it to kinetic energy. They're not converting matter to energy (i.e, using e=mc^2). It just so happens that stored chemical energy is loads more efficient than anything output by a laser (at this point in time).
"Most people outside America are struggling much, much more, to a degree not fathomable by Americans."

You cannot possibly know the level of anyone's suffering except yourself. How do you know how much people are struggling in or out of America? How do you know people outside America suffer more? How do you compare suffering? You don't. You can't. Even if you did, it wouldn't matter. You're comparing problems as if they were numbers. They're not. They're not comparable. What hurts one person a lot may not hurt another very much and vice-versa. Postulating a thing you cannot possibly know is where you're wrong. Not to mention belittling the problems of millions of Americans by subjecting them to your random judgement.
Also you don't really need to use a flux library or Redux if you're using Reagent, it's pretty much all set up for you.

I've been using ClojureScript/Reagent for about a year now and all this JS tooling talk goes way over my head, I haven't needed to use any tooling other than lein cljsbuild for a while now, and it's glorious. If the Clojure community / ClojureScript was more approachable to beginners I think ClojureScript would be taking over right now.
You say it's about maintainability. Well, that's the whole point of frameworks. Your team grows, your app gets bigger, time to add some more structure to your code. Extract the common patterns into re-usable modules. Enforce conventions. Eventually, in your quest against frameworks, you have created a framework. Except probably worse, and with no documentation.

Take React for example. It's not over-engineered. React is fantastic. I can't imagine how we would have build some of our UI without it. But you're right that there's a bunch of cruft/overhead that comes with it too. Build tools are hard to setup. Front-end architectures are in their infancy. In this sense, it's under-engineered rather than over. I just don't see where the fact that awesome frameworks are hard to use turns into the idea that they are "massively over-engineered".
obviously it's sketchy for binaries / dlls / etc., but confirmation dialogs do kindof suck. Obvious use case: makes it fast to download a lot of files.

Though I've never had a need to download multiple exe / msi / dlls at once, so I wouldn't really mind a warning on those downloads. But the OS already does warn for exes from the internet, which makes it a little redundant.
From the point of view of most economic studies, there is no difference. For them a business founded for the purpose of making is a startup, be it a plumbing business or an on-demand food delivery service.
if sleep deprivation gave you a high like opiates I would agree with you.
This is an interesting point because there's no corresponding warning when loading a DLL from the internet zone. hm.
The separation of powers is between divisions of government, not political parties.

The separation of powers means you will often get a president whose party does not control congress. This leads to extreme gridlock. Where I live (Canada) people were tired of Stephen Harper so they tossed him and his party out of office; no gridlock to worry about at all!

Also, once you fix campaign finance

I'm not convinced. Jeb Bush has hundreds of millions in finances and what has that gotten him? 5th place. He can't even crack double digit percentages.

Meanwhile you a guy like Bernie Sanders who, despite lacking a Super PAC, manages to draw huge crowds and build support. Too bad the separation of powers + first-past-the-post system means it would be utterly impossible for him to start his own political party so that people would have a real alternative to the Democrats.
I can't help but be impressed by the spokesperson as well. It's clear the reporter didn't buy a word of it, and I don't either. But I wish I could have seen the discussion; that was a lot of impressive tap dancing.
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Not clear what you mean in your edit, but you might be reading too much into the futures price.

The futures market by itself doesn't provide a magical way of predicting the price of oil in 2017. Roughly, since oil can be stored the best predictor we have for the price of oil in December 2017 is the current spot price, adjusted for borrowing costs and storage costs.

Let's say the current price is $40, and it costs $10 to store a barrel for 2 years. If the 2017 price were too high, say $100, you could make a profit by borrowing $50, buying a barrel and storing it, and selling a futures contract today; in 2017 you would collect $100, pay back $50 + interest, and would still make a profit.

So -- again roughly -- the futures price is as good a predictor as the current spot price. E.g. if we had an oracle that told us of a sudden shortage in 2017, that would cause an increase the futures price, but it would also immediately cause an increase in the current spot price.
Cutting someone's head off is not necessarily worse for their friends and family than insulting them?
I know they are just plants, but part of me doesn't enjoy watching trees be tortured into artificial shapes. I thought it was all about pruning, not burning with chemicals. I had not realized exactly how mean one had to be to create these things. I now see less art and beauty and more grotesque deformation.
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This is pretty neat - how is this different from something like TheSquatRack (http://thesquatrack.com/)?

Also how are you calculating your 1RM - Eplay? Bryzcki?
That's exactly it though.

We defend against dangerous ideas by dragging them out into the light of day and examining them.

Sticking them underground does the exactly opposite of that.
> ...an output file other than the typewriter was provided...

Those were the days.
The listed specific pitfalls aren't about taking a bet. They're pretty clearly elements of incompetence. I wouldn't call nonpayment of taxes or living too high for the business taking a bet on a strategy unless that strategy is to fail.
Isn't Om Next built on ideas pioneered in Relay and Falcor, not the other way around?
The couple I remember reading that have been deleted were about how the CEO and the COO park their Ferraris/crazy racecar sports car in 2 designated spaces directly in the front entryway (like literally exactly in front foyer the building) whereas the actual handicapped spots were about 150 yards away down the parking lot away from the entry of the building compared to the CEO/COO spaces.

There were also complaints about ridiculously high security to the point where people didn't even know their own exact job descriptions/workflows because of "competitive secrets" and that they couldn't talk to people working in other departments due to paranoia/culture of fear.

Finally there were a couple about how they interview and act like your job will be at the fancy building on Sand Hill near Stanford but really the bulk of the employees are relegated to annexed buildings far away in EPA or in Mountain View, yet they don't tell them this until their start date - during all their onsite interviews up through the offer letter it seems like they'd be working at the HQ on Sand Hill.
I believe mmap is not fully portable without extra work, so they avoid it - debian runs on a LOT of different systems.
I see where you're going, but "magical powers" take this so far into the realm of hypothetical that I don't think we can use it as a basis for argument.

But let me allow it, and move it to the real of practicality. Based on the skills and resources I now have, the contribution I can now make with my skills and resources (the "magical powers" at my disposal) would only fractionally help cure AIDS. At best, I might be able to supply a certain number of people with life-extending HIV meds by contributing all my assets and future income.

And why AIDS versus a hundred other maladies where my entire wealth and income improves and extends lives? Or does balancing the ability to build capital effectively come into play? Would we be better off with the issues the Gates Foundation is tackling if Bill Gates had decided to spend all his time from 1975 forward working with an NGO trying to eradicate malaria and polio? Or getting in a position where he focused on first world problems so that he could address some global issues?

I appreciate your concern--but "care" isn't necessarily a point in time measurement or a zero sum game--it's possible to care about multiple things at once, and it's possible to care proportionately more as means allow. (And in many cases, it might be more efficient to do so.)
> Maybe we should ban glue too.

if it bound to the same dopamine receptors it would absolutely be banned, and called a narcotic.

> You do realize cocaine and heroin used to be sold at pharmacies in the 1900s?

what percentage of people drove back then, per mile, per day, and at what speed ? Nodding off in your model-T is quite incomparable to nodding off on the 405 Freeway. Hell, what percentage of people even had access to a store ? Most people lived on farms and went to town once a week. They didn't rely on money as much, they grew their own food and sustained themselves.

This is the same idiotic argument that free-drugs-for-all proponents always present. They assume the same cultural viewpoints from 1900 still apply today. They assume every other variable has been controlled for and still applies, then uses strawmen aguments like "lets ban glue too".

People didn't know how addictive heroin was in 1900. It was just another drug in a pharmacy for people with a cough. The mechanisms for how they worked weren't discovered yet. The same stressors from family and society that drive people to seek chemical escape didn't exist back then. Please retry your argument, sans strawmen, and lets see how you do. Here's how ridiculous your strawman sounds: "You know, cars didn't have seatbelts back in 1900, those people were fine. See, we don't need seatbelts or even airbags today, because people in 1900 didn't have them..." Speaking of 1900, they didn't have the FDA in 1900 either, so by your logic, we should abolish that too and regress to the days when the pharmacy sold literally snake oil and marketed as a cure for all types of cancer. I mean, they didn't have double blind trials back in 1900, so why do we need them today?
Sarcasm or not, that's effectively the argument that's being presented here.
Client: I need a modification to this cabinet so I can put in a double stove.

Carpenter: Welp, we are gonna have to demolish the whole kitchen. So with the estimate of a full kitchen remodel you are looking at $80k

Client: ...
Thanks!

Haven't heard of TheSquatRack but they look to be in a similar space. I would say the main differentiating factor is my focus on PR's. I am a lifter; and I made this app partially to help free-up all my whiteboards that I've been using to track my PRs across different exercises/rep-counts.

I actually show both. For all the calculators I am trying to show multiple formulas where possible.
I think you're missing the context in which "people have it pretty good" is said. It's not a statement made by itself out of nowhere, but as part of a moral judgment, to claim people today have right to complain about whatever suffering they are feeling. The author's counterpoint is that it still is pretty terrible even if yesterday was worse.
> Violent terrorism and extremism are real global ills and negatively impact every society.

I strongly disagree, with the inclusion of "extremism" in particular.

I'm an anarcho-capitalist, which I think any clear-thinking person would identify as an extreme ideology. Do you wish to silence me? Is my telling people that they should engage in voluntary association and reject the initiation of force a "real global ill"?

To put it another way, in the words of Barry Goldwater: "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice."
As somebody who just dealt with about a dozen rounds of these kinds of interviews as part of a job search, this post was extremely close to home. While I never got a question nearly that intractable, I did get a lot of questions that toed the line between "this is a useful algorithmic test" and "this is about minutiae and what you remember."

One thing I've found interesting was examining the various ways different companies handle the tech screening process. I've had everything from no real tech screen to back to back algorithm-based interviews. It's definitely possible to suss out what a company cares about from the sorts of questions they asked.

The biggest issue for me was that I never really was unable to get the right answer, but that wasn't always what the interviewers were looking for. I got told at least once that they expected me to simply be faster. I wasn't sure how to take that.

Looking back, all but one of the several companies from whom I received job offers had processes requiring coding-intensive tech screens that placed only minimal restrictions on the time one could take. The job I took was actually with the company that had the MOST intensive process (though that wasn't really a factor in my decision).

I don't think I'm incapable of doing the jobs at the algorithmic-questions companies who rejected me, any more than I think myself incapable of the job I was hired for. In fact, the work at each organization was quite similar. So, am I missing something, or are they, or both?
Should they get better at that? I mean, I'd like them to. But they're after return, not virtue or value.

I can certainly say I don't like what they're doing, but I'm not sure I can say that they won't make money on this.
Nodded my head all through the article. Project setup hurts. "What folder do I put my components in? Even the ones that only get used on one page?"

We need a DHH.js to rise up and bring us "Rails, for React".
$200B estimate for the fictional "The Martian" mars trip sounds low to me, though it does bring into perspective what could have been achieved with the trillions spent blowing stuff up here on earth.
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Interesting! Did your office have a quota or bonus that depended on how many applications were entered? It sounds like some perverse incentive that made sense at corporate HQ but had unintended side effects. :)
If "applying their violence" in another industry is more profitable than drugs, why aren't they doing that anyway? If it's less profitable than drugs, then forcing them to make that change reduces their power and growth.
Actually, SDL is generally most of the parts that makes a Windows port work (having done that myself...); at least for older 2D titles and assuming you're not using any "middleware".

SDL provides input, graphics, sound, and even some OS-level abstractions. That's quite a bit of the effort involved in porting a game typically.

3D titles that were using DirectX or C#, of course, can be significantly more involved.
In organizations, how does one prevent silos from forming?
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Even if unintentional this is a step in the right directions because it removes the incentive for bogus civil asset forfeiture.
though not yet proven, I believe we may have found the Enron of our decade
What I find more saddening is the trend to view any behaviour that could potentially be exploited as a vulnerability, regardless of how useful it could be, which just leads to locked-down user-hostile systems where nothing is possible without going through some sort of ridiculously bureaucratic excess of process.

Automatic downloading falls into the category "kind-of useful and convenient, but exploitable". Maybe you want to reconsider your argument?
I put my components into app/components. This is the one, true directory structure. All other directory structures are wrong. \s
They aren't even close to each other in featuers. All the various additional Services AWS supports go way beyond what Google has at the moment. Numerous Database offerings, Queueing, transcoder, ... Go way beyond what Google has in place.

And no the ability to run it yourself on Google is not the same.
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I tried that for 6 months then went back to JS only to discover that within those 6 months Facebook and half of the React community had moved on to ES6, and even ES7, which meant that I just missed half a year of the most important phase in the evolution of JS. Great job, says me. I'm having to make up for it now.

What nudged me out of my love affair with CLJS is when I needed to implement a really simple async pattern in CLJS. Everyone pointed me to core.async (later on someone mentioned the cats library which uses monads etc) It didn't feel right to use core.async's syntactically and conceptually complicated CSP pattern to solve a truly simple problem that can be solved far more elegantly with a much simpler and more general pattern using ES7's async/await.

And now that we have decorators, typed data structures, iteration protocols and a myriad of other tools available to us in ES6/ES7 the only thing that is missing is NATIVE immutable types.

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1. Do you have yeoman? http://yeoman.io/

2. I generally have `react-fullstack` installed

3. Run `yo react-fullstack`, `cd my_project`, `npm start`

Personally, I think its a bit overkill. I tend to delete most of it and add Bootstrap myself, but its a decent way to start a project.

Search for and pick a generator that suites your needs: http://yeoman.io/generators/
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