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Yes, welcome to the Washington Post, where everything remotely containing racism gets front page, factual or not. They'd put up a story about a grandma hearing a slur from outside her window above a story about a jet plane crash any day of the week.
Call me old, but I still use eclipse even for android programming (using the ADT plugin). Every IDE has pros/cons, and both eclipse and intellij have their shares, but if you consider the big picture, they mostly even out.

In fact, I would rather argue that the features on which intellij rules are of superficial nature and have more to do with a "nice feel" (such as more friendly code-completion or better looking graphics/colors).

But features that eclipse rules are more substantial (like performance, ability to work on wide range of projects).

The only reason that intellij appears to have more fanboys is that it doesn't come free. And its human nature that if you spend bucks on something, the free alternative will obviously look inferior to you!
Randi Harper's article was extensively discussed on HN a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10819778
You might be interested in the Age of Kings Postmortem: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131844/postmortem_ense...

It has a lot of behind the scenes details which I found interesting.
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Yep. Have not had problems where people try to skim my cash.
> for now there's no reason to expect it to be a better project than SailsJS in any way

"nodenodenode" account created 12 hours ago just to write this comment. I wonder who this is...
Ironically enough I finally caved and bought a sublime text license a few months ago but since then I've learned vim and mostly use that now.
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How do I apply?
There are several other languages that have "ability keep as much data in memory as possible as efficiently as possible" and "drop down to SSE intrinsics" as features. C and C++ by no means have a monopoly here.
I suspect it's more like "he reads a book in 0.5 - 1 weeks, but sometimes he's not reading any".
Church.

I wrote a blog post recently that somewhat excoriated the technical community for a blunt and mechanistic approach to argumentation along these lines:

http://likewise.am/2015/12/06/nitpicking-is-the-lowest-form-...
You have a very good profile. But the look and feel of your resume can be improved. I do have some suggestions.

1. Remove the objective section.

2. Remove unnecessary new lines and spaces.

3. Make the education section short. I don't think you need to add specific topics that you read in your courses.

4. List what you did on your job and projects as bullet points instead of a paragraph.

5. Create a Github account and upload your code there. Then provide a link to your Github account in your resume.

6. Create a Linkedin account and add it to your resume.

7. I always add a Hobbies section. Not sure if it's necessary or not.

8. Also if you have a personal website, add it to your resume.

I would suggest you to use any sample CV template. Take a look at http://www.careercup.com/resume. Hope it helps.
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See also: https://twitter.com/TravisWebbUSA/status/679406525358600192
Media are all corporations, and so is ycombinator.

If you want "truth" commissions, go right ahead with removing CU, but unless that, this was a great decision.
That's known as a dutch auction and it can be highly effective. I know all about them since wholesale flowers are sold this way (hence the dutch connection) and my brother in law's family is in flowers. It's a very fast form of auction since a single bid wins each lot. Rather than the price being driven up in fits and starts it drops at a steady and fixed rate.

Similar to the article's authors dutch actions improve the average at the expense of the extremes (in this case towards sellers). Dutch actions don't often have the sky high prices some traditional actions can drive rare items to but they tend to sustain high average prices because you must bid without reference to the value someone else may place on the item. A traditional auction you may sneak away with an item for less than you expected if no one bids against you. In a dutch action you will likely pay closer to the maximum price you were willing to spend since the longer the wait the greater the risk someone snaps it up without any recourse.

I hadn't ever thought about a dutch action for highly coveted copies of the same item though. It's very interesting idea that would likely kill much of the launch day line up (especially if preorders were accepted online). If the 100 the store has to sell are the only ones that would ever be the prices would be driven into the stratosphere but if you know you can wait a week or 2 for your preorder to be filled and pay the actual "retail" price that's a strong incentive to stay home and buy it online rather than waiting in line for hours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction
After government transfers, the bottom income quintile in the US makes more than in the UK and many other wealthy nations. Looking at heart disease and cancer, the US does better, with a less healthy more diverse population than just about every other country (the top ten hospitals with the best cancer survival rates are overwhelmingly in the US), maternity leave may not be mandated, but is available to many if not most. 98% of the US has completed at least 5th grade. And how is the US so different from a social democracy? Massive transfers of wealth to the poor, strong regulations, large government influence in industry, and of course democracy, with strong protections against a "murderous crazy dictator".
Eclipse is not what I would call the paramount of performance.
If you consider the US (and other) wars/interventions of imperialism motivated by capitalism, the number easily exceeds 100 million.

http://maoistrebelnews.com/2012/03/16/1-6-billion-killed-by-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Livre_noir_du_capitalisme
The trivial identity "compressor" is fastest to decompress, since it requires no work. Likewise PNG has literal blocks, which are longer but faster to decompress. So is it actually true that Zopfli-compressed files decompress faster?
You make a lot of good points, and I agree with most of them.

The goal of the essay though is not to suggest that tracking issue count is a useful metric.

Instead, what I'm suggesting is that if you see lots of stuff going wrong in a project (things that are clearly costing time and money, angering customers, etc.) and then you look at whatever issue tracker is in place and you see a pattern like this, it's a sign of a broken triage and prioritization process.

It's so common for this to be happening that I've seen this in many different projects, and I think you're spot on when you say it's because an issue tracker wants to be so many things at once, and it rarely closely tracks value.

But in crisis situations, people on the front side of the business feel like they're "doing something" to help customers and users by filing tickets and then continuing to ask for status updates for them, to fight for their inclusion in prioritization meetings, etc.

Because this does not actually help anything, it actually ends up hurting things. The tracker ends up as a mediator that obscures or limits communication about the real issues, and without a change, that can be disastrous in a troubled organization.

So... the point of the graph is more of a quick way to confirm that triage/prioritization is being done wrong, so that you can make a decision on how to fix that.

And that's what I'll cover in the followup essay. :-)
Communism never happened. Communist propaganda happened.
you're benchmarking is python's speed of array instantiation vs. Ds mathematical speed. Its obvious that D will win.

Not true, the D code also has the overhead of array initialization. std.array.array is called which allocates the results of the range into an array on the GC, which everyone bemoans as being slow as a dog.

Plus, I don't see why this is an invalid benchmark when this is perfectly normal Numpy code, the kind that you see all the time. That was the reason behind the benchmark, to find some common piece of Numpy code and see how equivalent std.ndslice stacked up. I don't see how it's fair to say "Python is really slow at this one thing, so it's not fair to compare it to D in that area".
I am not an especially creative "idea man" or any kind of "visionary"; my sole strength has always been in improved execution or better implementation of things that already exist. This even applies when I conjure solutions to my own problems, as one is often advised to do when mining for business ideas. All I ever want is a better X.

I think that suitably describes the vast majority of the economy, and leads to no particular poverty of entrepreneurial strategies. Moreover, it seems that markets are almost always bigger than technical guys think. If everything were as tired, old, and hackneyed as my pessimistic take suggests, almost everything my customers offer would be completely unmarketable and I'd have no business.

So, relax. Almost nothing in life is truly original. Just think of something genuinely useful and build it. :-)
Thanks, because the website, pretty as it is, didn't say anything on the blog page, home page, even the "About" page. I clicked on five pages on the website before getting this.
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Spot on. These were huge issues in the organization I'm describing in this essay.
No, Horowitz, who set this up and heads Microsoft Research, is paying for this. Or at least a lot of this.

Horowitz has a decent track record. If this were a Paul Allen initiative, it wouldn't end well.
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"chew some valerian root and get more exercise" - Fight Club
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> Many of us do not like the term native american. Native, related to nativity, means born somewhere. When we use this term other people will inevitably say, "Hey I just realized something, I'm a native american too - I was born here just like you."

Thanks for sharing that! That is interesting and would probably be surprising to most people in US.

There is a joke Slavoj Zizek has, how he was told by a friend the term Indian is preferred, as it is a testament to white men's stupidy, who thought they found India when they came here.
"Je suis Linode" what an awesome sentiment...

I just signed up for a Linode server. Going to use it for part of our offsite backup storage and to monitor some nodes on our primary network.

Huzzah...
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Cursive is great, glad to see it mentioned. JetBrains are doing good for themselves, I hope their Kotlin language will gain some traction eventually too. Cursive is amazing because it's built on top of open source IDEA but I'd like to see Kotlin take off as well. Overall I think JetBrains are doing great.
> I would give the same kind of advice that financial advisors give for getting out of credit card debt: "find the card with the highest interest rate, make minimum payments on all other cards, and pay as much as possible on the highest interest rate debt until it is paid off... then recurse"

This is great advice and is ultimately what we focused on once I got past this initial triage/prioritization problem in the org I was helping.

> To make the analogy work the backlog needs to get rated on how much each open issue costs the company. Most organizations use some stratified measure of "severity". Few actually try to put a price on a problem, but I think it's worth the effort to try.

This is hard to do when the backlog is increasing by hundreds of open issues every couple months.

But the trick is ultimately to find a way to very quickly trim the backlog and see what crops back up, and then put each resurfacing issue through an economic decision making framework (even if it's a back-of-the-napkin calculation), as you suggest.
The credit card networks charge merchant fees to process transactions. Those fees account for the cost of indemnifying cardholders against fraudulent transactions. The fees are passed along to customers in the form of higher prices, or come out of the merchants’ profits (or some of each). It’s all priced in.
> I think the difference here is that it's not a matter of a single transaction, it's an employment, so what the employer is basically paying for is the employees time (and time is finite).

I think the distinction you're making here is more than trivial, and considered mentioning it but decided that it's still not relevant. My point was that Sanders definition (esp as paraphrased by you) is silly to the point of being meaningless, since it consisted of "X isn't paying enough for Y to get off welfare, thus X is receiving welfare". This applies to my example writ small. Your painter example isn't much difficult from the Craigslist example: the person spends his time doing multiple things that add up to less than enough salary to live off of. That doesn't make any of the purchaser's of his services responsible for the shortfall. To the extent that anyone else is responsible, it's all of society.

> Why can't those that need their house painted pay what it actually costs to get the job done? Because if the full time painter needs welfare, they're in reality paying him too little.

You're defining "what it costs to get the job done" very bizarrely here. If the painter takes odd jobs but his wife is employed too such that the two of them are somewhat comfortable (at least above the poverty/welfare line), by your definition it would suddenly "cost less to get the job done" (since the shortfall to a reasonable income has now diminished/disappeared)? This is of course an absurdity.

The problem again is that you're picking a way to place responsibility for subsidies that makes no sense from either an efficiency or an ethical standpoint. Assuming a need to take care of the poor, we all share that responsibility. The only reason we've "decided" that the burden should fall on arbitrary industries and their employees/customers/owners[1] is because that way we can pretend that we don't believe in taking care of the poor and the robust welfare system that it would entail. All we're doing is creating a shitty, roundabout version of welfare.

Note that I have a tendency to consider complete systems when it comes to policy. In the current political climate, it's no doubt more feasible to implementing higher minimum wages than, say, a basic income. So despite thinking that minimum wages are a terrible idea in a well-functioning system, I wouldn't necessarily vote against them in our less-than-optimal system. I just don't think there's any reason to delude ourselves into thinking that they're good policy per se.

[1] And in a weaker effect, that their effects should fall on arbitrary
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Hoarding slows down the economy and creates dynasties who continue to excercise power well past the time their judgement on the stewardship of money and social good has been incapacitated. That is what death taxes are for. Luxury however is awesome - it is one of the fastest ways to transfer wealth from the incapacitated hoarders to publicly owned companies which then feed retirement savings (unless you're like a certain luxury brand dynasty and want to keep your money by tricking the tax system upon death). Oops.

Politics is a zero sum game - at the end of the day everyone is pulling the rug in their own direction. The poor do it by voting in populist politicians, the rich by paying off those politicians through lobbying, or gaming the tax system.

What everyone needs is an economic model that maximizes the wellbeing of society as a whole, so the pie at least gets bigger as it gets redistributed. That, and a political model that prevents any single group from pulling the rug completely out and causing war.
You can't just assume a system that makes everyone better off despite increasing differences, or that everybody is happy about it, or that there's a peaceful system for sorting out conflicts amid increasing differences.

Of course it always ends in violence. Refragmentation == reemergence of extremism. People asserting stronger identities while technology shrinks the world and brings them into closer economic and information loops is a recipe for conflict.

In the old days you could have crazy ideas and no one on the other side of the world gave a hoot. Today you get <pick your favorite 'other'> storming Inland Regional Centers, Federal lands, or malls.
I don't think Graham is being a status quo warrior here at all and I would have to reread carefully to see if he was really committing the naturalistic fallacy, I think that is an odd reading. I think his reasoning is fairly sound here. He actually laments that solving income inequality is very difficult, which it is. A lot of lip service is paid to this topic and usually all an politician has to say about it is something about manufacturing jobs.

I almost feel you may change the entire field of economics with committing the naturalistic fallacy under your reasoning ...
The problem with the GMO debate is hysterical people keep making unscientific objections to the general concept of gene modifications instead of specific objections to actual problems.

Monsanto makes Roundup (glyphosate)-resistant crops. As far as anybody can tell the gene modifications have no inherently harmful effect on the resulting food. But then all the crops get sprayed with glyphosate and the food is contaminated with glyphosate.

Monsanto is also very aggressive about asserting ownership of the seeds that grow from the plants that grow from their seeds. If the neighboring farm plants Monsanto crops and the seeds blow into your farm, lawyers follow. It's basically an intimidation tactic; buy seeds from Monsanto or you may end up with them anyway, and then you're going to get sued.

So farmers buy the seeds, to such an extent that it's become a biodiversity problem. Their crops are becoming a monoculture. Think systemic risk like the housing crisis, but this time it's the food supply.

In other words, there are legitimate reasons to object, even if they aren't the ones most popularly aired. So people may want to know when they're buying GMO crops and potentially contributing to these problems. Even if some people start avoiding the GMO crops for other reasons with no rational basis, that still helps with the biodiversity problem. But whenever a bill comes around to label them, guess who shows up to lobby against it.
I think mostly it is for political related contents. Especially things like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1... and this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo
Let me reiterate:

>>You have to do a lookup every time you need to convert a fraction to a decimal using a calculator?

I'm not criticizing those who use a calculator to convert a fraction to a decimal. I was criticizing those who need a reference in addition to the calculator, as the witness claimed he needed.

I think we're mostly in agreement.
Actually the DMV in my state works a little differently (at all of the secondary businesses which perform that task under some state license system, probably notary of the republic based; I never looked in to the details).

There is generally a queue for a /type/ of operation that you are doing. It's expected that the average time to service a given person receiving that service has only minor variation and an occasional outlying exception.

It seems that there is usually one agent assigned to each queue, and sometimes additional agents are assigned (balanced?) as load dictates.
Or you know, actually make a class that contains the data and a constructor. Or even a simple struct if one is allergic to classes for simple types.

For the example given in the article a simple class or struct is already a better and easier data structure to use and store.
Are you sure "own" is the correct word? Those people are completely debt-free with no car liens or mortgages?
So you effectively make an enum out of the names in the tuple. That way you can even use the enum to use as the index into the get<> function calls.
As a firefighter, this is an issue around here (Washington state).

People steal the brass end caps off hydrants. Dozens of them. Sell them to scrap metal places.

That conversation, I'm certain, doesn't go like "Oh, hey, I'm Bob from the Fire Department, getting rid of old hydrant caps" "Oh, sure! Sounds legit, Bob, let me give you some cash!"
Not saying it's a bad thing, only that it's a thing, and the availability of these types of funds to the rich and lack of availability to the average investor is one of the reasons for inequality, as the original poster was saying.

Becoming 'increasingly divorced' from economic reality doesn't mean that it's completely separate, only that even in times of low growth, the ultra rich have high yield funds available to them which exacerbates economic inequality. It's just a trend. Or as Piketty states, r > g. Hedge funds used to be entirely defensive against market downturns, today they're increasingly run by speculative traders, many of whom offer outsized returns.
Any source about this "voluntary PRISM-like setup for the NSA"? And that this thing was the hack vector?
Decompression speed is normally measured in bytes per second of output, not input. Since the output is the same, two algorithms that decompress at the same rate take the same time, regardless of compression ratio.

Googling finds a benchmark [1] which shows Zopfli decompression rate as intermediate between deflate 1 and deflate 9. On two our of three tests, Zopfli produces smaller files but is slower to decompress than deflate 9. So "the smaller the file, the faster the decompression" isn't correct.

[1] PDF: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/brotli/vignettes/bro...
Because, assuming he's right about what's going on, the relationship between complexity and time isn't linear (so D's performance relative to Python will grow less impressive as complexity increases, and at some point Python with NumPy may even perform better), and your example isn't representative of a task that takes long enough for speed to matter.
Maybe your performance issues are caused by plugins? I have no problems using IntelliJ on a base model 12" MacBook (1.1GHz Core M, 8GB RAM, 256GB PCIe SSD). I don't use Symfony2, though.

Side note: I am of the opinion that no matter you're doing, SSDs are a must. If you don't already use one as your primary drive, please upgrade. Once you go SSD, any machine with platters will feel broken. This goes double for laptops, which often contain slower 7200RPM and 5400RPM drives.
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I cannot believe after all these years China is still banning the whole site instead of using some keyword or content-based method. Not that those methods are right, but at least it would save a lot of programmers and researchers time. How can people make progress on anything related to scientific research without the help of Wikipedia? seven years ago I was a college student in China and I sure remembered how I have to set up VPN to check on wikipedia pages for my thesis. And needless to say, the school doesn't have the up-to-date paper collection from either IEEE or ACM. I have to directly visit the author's sites. I really wish the government could realize how harmful this is to innovation...
Julia is really fast in 95% cases, but 5% still "make the weather". The pairwise summation is an example. I will post benchmarks D vs Julia next week ;)