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Here's some advice.

Avoid companies with stupid hiring policies.

It seems that these guys want you to code like they do, and they'll eventually find someone "close enough" - eventually. After wasting many man hours of interview time. You don't want to work with these guys.

You want to find a company that appreciates you for the developer you are, which appears to be someone who knows his own limitations and has ways of mitigating those limitations.

You have no idea how much that is worth. Simple mistakes like forgetting api parameters, the occasional typo and off-by one errors gets all of us. Especially in a high stress environment like an interview.

I feel that a common "you're not technical enough" to be a lazy excuse, or to replace a poorer one such as "your face didn't fit", you are too bright and will show us up, or "we liked another candidate better".

I feel your pain with the interview process. I'm a contractor and I hear lots of bullsh*t all the time from agencies and recruiters. Stick with it, and do a side project that proves to yourself that you're worth it.

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Then like doing a code review in which the reviewer is underpaid and overworked and may not have access to the full code.
Blockchains are better than anything at key revocation. Publishing public keys isn't enough.
I don't think 99.9% is accurate at all, unless you're including really routine things like traffic tickets.
It was incredibly easy to implement compared to other options and didn't require giving up a lifes worth of personal information to do so. I do believe that efforts like you are implying and others will push this forward to something that people will adopt.
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This is exactly the type of knee-jerk reaction that perpetuates the status quo of immoral laws.

In your scenario, there is a civil case for the accident. There can still be a criminal sanction if a pedestrian fails to avoid vehicles (that are obeying traffic laws). This does not change my example, which is an empty street.
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Tesla Recall would be a terrible name. Car recalls are associated with saftey failures. Meanwhile people need to be convinced this feature is safe. There's so much more to it than using a thesaurus!
The veteran thing is strange. To a non-American the veneration of military personnel and veterans seems over-the-top to the point of self-parody. Watching the Super Bowl a couple of years ago, I wasn't sure whether I was watching a sporting match, or Starship Troopers.

That said, for all the splashy thank-you-for-your-service it's a shame but no real surprise that veterans are getting shafted, behind the scenes, by one of the largest bureaucracies in the world.
You are very seriously misinformed.

For there to be a defensible claim of theft, the property owner must lose their property. Someone experiences something missing.

Infringement exists as a concept and an element of law because it is not theft, specifically.
I controlled my persona identity, and I didn't even run my own mail-server; I owned a domain and let someone else run the mail-server, and handled the persona side of things myself.
> Sometimes it is, like when its done en-masse; going it alone, wrong approach.

Perhaps, perhaps not. There's certainly safety in numbers. But this issue is not a huge social issue like, say, nationalist causes or other political issues. This is a kind of geeky issue that only a small fraction of the population gets but that everybody should care about. Also the law-breaking is doing no-one any physical harm. Nobody is going to go hungry because they are deprived of food.

Some argue that mp3 downloads have not affected the music industry's revenues and profits, or at least not by the vast amounts they claim. Similarly I imagine the out of pocket hit to JSTOR to be pretty small, but couple that with the fact that a lot of academic papers were funded by public money then people start seeing things differently. Hence the open-access journal movement and Arxiv and so on. And what about the benefits to society brought about by giving wider access to knowledge? One could start to take a pretty dim view of the ridiculous prices the JSTORs and Elseviers charge.

> it's irrelevant to the conversation.

It's not totally irrelevant. Stealing/theft sounds worse than infringement.

Look, I'm not having a go at you. I just think that Aaron was justified in what he did and I admire him for what he did. There are times for emailing and times for plugging in a network cable, Aaron chose the cable and I don't think that was the wrong approach even though it ended tragically.
Not all crimes are equal.
On blockchains, your identity isn't just controlled by your key. It's controlled by a program. That program can grant access to a particular key, but it can also encode a backup mechanism: as long as three of five of your closest friends vouch for you, you can add a new key.

Decentralization doesn't mean no one's in charge. It means you get to choose who's in charge, and there's zero barrier to replacing someone you put in charge.
Yeah I'm thinking you're right, if I set the environment variable DYLD_SHARED_REGION=avoid, it only prints out about 300kb ofstuff.
So, you've worked in game development other than your attempt as a teenager? If not then how can you say "it's 90% creativity and 10% implementation" with any authority?
The article is targeted at a Canadian audience, and more specifically policy-makers. I presume that the Canadian government has more control over regulation of these matters than what has happened in SF.

On your hypothesis of a general trend not specific to the present situation, outside of the US, your assumption (4) does not hold, and you've missed out on a reasonable assumption that a country with a majority or significant minority of unspecialized workers in a country with a democratic process can, by virtue of mass, encourage their government to regulate businesses that prey on them.

As such, I'd say that unspecialized workers are not, in general, necessarily doomed to exploitation.

edit: While I'd say that this alternative conclusion is pretty flimsy as well, I'd like to point out that while the parent poster's conclusions follow from their premises, the premises themselves warrant further investigation. In addition, an investigation needs to be made to better understand what is feasible, especially wrt the political dimension (which I found the parent poster's argument to be lacking in), before we can come to a better understanding of whether unspecialized workers are doomed to exploitation.
> there is room for people who agree on the importance of net neutrality to disagree on whether such a program has a place on a neutral internet.

If you agree that Net Neutrality is important on mobile, then you by definition agree that it is important to not have across the content based throttling or degradation decided by a 'third party' (i.e. not the client or server).

Why does this matter?

If this sort of program becomes standard, the available market for those wishing to offer high definition mobile video will be highly constrained by the increased friction of educating people how to opt-out (not all carriers will make this as easy as T-Mobile). This doesn't have to be Netflix, it could be a remote Doctor using WiFi to stream High Definition video of an ongoing surgery to get an emergency consult from a Specialist via his phone or hotspot.

There are times when "incredibly high resolution rates that are barely detectable by the human eye" are incredibly important and it should not up to T-Mobile to decide when that is. It should be up to the client and/or the server (and it should be done via an open protocol.)
I wonder about this with open-source as well, since it's often about scratching the itches of the demographic that participates in it. But I don't know the unexotic underclass well enough to know if there's anything helpful software could do.
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> Not all crimes are equal.

Never said or implied they were, so what are you responding to?
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Actually for the longest time, I had in my .wgetrc, user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (etc etc etc)". It was a valid user agent. And Cloudflare was blocking that. Turns out if you wrap the actual user agent in quotes in your .wgetrc, wget doesn't strip them off, so cloudflare was seeing User-Agent: "Mozilla/5.0 (etc etc etc)", ie. with the quotes. And it was rejecting that.
There are plenty of classes of non-American, and most Anglo-Saxon countries also venerate their troops. It's also a reflex to what happened after Vietnam, where the veterans got an almost criminal level of under-appreciation, despite many being draftees.
Haha, I usually put root@localhost, or www-data@localhost. It accepts it fairly often too. Sometimes I need to open up the Chrome Dev Tools and delete the input's type attribute (<input type="email"> to just <input>) because there's some client-side thing that tries to stop you inputting invalid emails.
The lecturers here, Hastie and Tibshirani, are also the authors of the classic text book, "Introduction to Statistical Learning," probably the best introduction to machine/statistical learning I have ever read.[1]

I highly recommend the book and this online course, both of which are FREE.

Hastie and Tibshirani's other book, "The Elements of Statistical Learning," is also excellent but far more theoretical, and best for experienced practicioners who want to use it as a reference guide.[2]

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[1] http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ISLR%20Sixth%20Printing.p...
[2] http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/
Already corrected that, not germane to the point; he wasn't charged with theft.
I remember reading on arstechnica about Aaron.

US justice system has so much inconsistencies. Punishment for copyright cases being harsher than the ones for Actual crimes being one of them. Lets not forget that he is being called criminal because he broke a law, a silly thing signed into law probably because someone lobbyed so hard for it. He is no actual criminal. He didn't feel the articles he downloaded from servers should be kept private. At least the research papers funded with public money should be public property. But so much pressure was put on him that he took his own life. If justice system was fair, he could've faced it. But currently the system is broken. He knew that and felt hopeless. Pushing for things like banning him from all things electronic, and thus internet, is not the right way to serve justice. What reforms have taken place since then?
I think he should've just taken a plea deal and gone to prison for a few months. It wouldn't have been that bad - maybe he could've taken the time to write a book.
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I don't think it really matters, as long as it's only a certificate for localhost rather than a root CA as in the Lenovo case. I can't think of an attack scenario where an attacker already able to run an HTTP server on localhost would be aided by being able to use HTTPS on that server. Of course, I could be missing something.
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Cephalopod eyes are better than mammalian ones. They evolved independently, but cephalopods ended up with an arguably "better" solution, and mammals aren't about to swap their eyes around entirely given that their eyes work just fine, even with a blindspot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_eye

> In vertebrate eyes, the nerve fibers route before the retina, blocking some light and creating a blind spot where the fibers pass through the retina. In cephalopod eyes, the nerve fibers route behind the retina, and do not block light or disrupt the retina.
"Space X is in fierce competition with Blue Origin, the rocket business owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos - but when asked about the rivalry Mr Musk answered: 'Jeff who?'"
That's a very good point. It's pretty common when a sexual assault happens for the school to handle it internally rather than notify the authorities. Apparently, this is the case at MIT, and 1 in 6 female students have reported being sexually assaulted[1].

When a school sends police after someone for downloading academic files, and yet decides to not send the police after sex offenders (dealing with them internally and not even expelling them), they have pretty screwed up priorities.

[1] http://tech.mit.edu/V134/N50/surveyresults.html
Are people downvoting because the things you mentioned aren't actually very effective? The veterans were possibly expecting a certain level of service (as compensation) and they haven't received it. This goes back to things like the Bonus Army. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army)
Militarism has intellectual consequences. The tacit admission that US military members sign up to fight pointless wars is not allowed: loud patriotism drowns all dissent so that they will not be demoralized by the grim reality that they are expendable pawns.

It's all PR, of course: the veterans end up as broken husks that are left to rot as soon as they get home-- a very convenient political issue that is stored safely in the bank for whenever a distraction or stirring election platform is needed.

To answer your question: it is Starship Troopers that you are watching.
We don't have the technology now either. It'll be at least 3 more years at best. That's probably a decade too late for Bowie.

We can't change the past but perhaps we can do something to discover more cures in the next decade. Almost 6 million people in the US alone die of cancer every decade. Many people are robbed of a few more good years.
Also each book can be licensed and charged independently.

No more sharing or copying knowledge for free for those filthy free-loading kids!
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Absolutely. The VA is a disgrace, and it's a clear cut example of the government not living up to its obligations vis a vis veterans.

However, my point concerns public perception, which is to a significant degree the focus of the OP. Specifically, the author made the claim that veterans are perceived as being an unexotic cause in public consciousness - whereas I think the opposite is true. I think their cause is a popular one in America.

For comparison, this is how I personally perceive a few of the various underclasses he mentioned :

The rural poor in Appalachia? Unequivocally unexotic : lower income whites often appear to be more scorned than pitied. Inner city youth? Periodically exotic. Veterans? Unequivocally exotic, in the sense that I perceive their cause to be one of the most popular in contemporary American society.
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To blame Microsoft as a company wouldn't be fair I suppose. I hold the Project Managers responsible.

I had a issue where the Azure would just tell me I had no subscription, even though I had one. It asked to selection option if my email was Microsoft account or a company account. My email was myname@mycompanyname.com. So obviously I selected Company account. Later found out I had to select Microsoft account. Not sure why anyone has to select what type of account. Why can't the system determine itself what account it is. It is this kind of stupid stuffs that makes Microsoft look bad.
The problem with the name 'remove-if-not' is that it's both more fundamental and much more common in actual use than 'remove-if', yet its name is both longer to type and conceptually more complex.

Selecting a subcollection of elements that satisfy a predicate is a natural primitive. My favorite name for it is 'filter'; that's what I've called it in FSet [0]. I haven't defined 'filter-not'; usually the predicate is an explicit lambda expression, in which case adding the negation is straightforward, and even when a lambda is not needed, it's easy enough to write something like '(filter (complement #'integerp) ...)'.

Anyway, even though I prefer 'filter', I could live with 'keep-if'. And by the argument I just gave, we wouldn't really need 'remove-if' anymore. The problem is 'delete-if'/'delete-if-not'; what do we do with them? I guess I would rename 'delete-if-not' to 'nkeep-if' (by analogy with 'nreverse' and 'nsubstitute') and discard 'delete-if'.

[0] http://ergy.com/FSet.html
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"If you go to any farm, this division is much more vague."

I live on a farm and we have fairly stark divisions here.
I've heard stories from my days at MIT of people doing much worse things in server closets. The MIT community's view on these things is vastly different from the federal government's, and there's a large and shocking disconnect when those laws are applied to what's normally fairly accepted (if not explicitly, then implicitly condoned) behavior in the community.
I used bigwords.com in school, which is similar to C. While you enter your books rather than your course list, it then searches a ton of retailers to find the best combination. I generally found the results to be much better than what I'd find on my own.
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Im not sure graphical models should be the default tool people reach for
Because in a society believing in punitive justice, punishment is morally right.

There's also restorative justice of course but it's more complex and does not bring the same simplistic carnal satisfaction.
Seeing as the parent comment was in reply to an assertion that Chrome stores plaintext passwords, I think it was assumed that the assertion intended to mean "Chrome has access to your plaintext passwords", otherwise the reply would simply have been "No, you're wrong".
Perhaps you had the same misunderstanding that I initially did: I thought that the scenario was supposed to be a perfect clear with exclusively T pieces, but it actually allows any combination of other pieces. The answer is placing five T pieces in a way that clears the line containing their "odd color" tiles, then placing five L pieces to fill the remaining gaps.
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If you already know another programming language, you can try PCL[1]; it's a decent introduction. If you get stuck on something feel free to ask on IRC (#lisp on freenode).

There is a library called alexandria[2] that covers a lot of obvious missing-features from the standard library (e.g. emptyp to test for an empty sequence).

Lastly the hyperspec[3] is actually quite useful as a library reference.

1: http://gigamonkeys.com/book/

2: https://common-lisp.net/project/alexandria/draft/alexandria....

3: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/Conte...
Perhaps it's a deeper reflection on the level of commitment most of our society currently shows towards most causes. We "like" a page and suddenly we've helped the problem go away. We pour a bucket of water on our heads, video tape it, and this is somehow equivalent to donating money to charity.

I was going to push back on the veteran portion too. I received my MBA for free thanks to the GI Bill. I got someone to actually look at my resume on Wall Street simply for being a veteran. My generation is getting a lot more public attention than the Vietnam vets I know.

Couple other points:
1. Service may be voluntary, but it is still mostly the poor, both rural and urban who have few options out of High School.
2. Disability money may take a while to arrive, and yes it sucks, but the standards are pretty loose for a disability now. I have a torn ACL from service for which I receive about $400/month. I really hate that I can't run anymore. I miss playing sports, but do I deserve $400/month for the rest of my life? I don't know. I plan to save it and get a new knee at some point.
3. The VA does suck, just not for the reasons outlined. The truly wounded/traumatized veterans out there are being neglected and need more attention.
4. I don't disagree with the thrust of the writing. Coming from Afghanistan, the U.S. in general sometimes feels unreal. A dating app that vettes people based upon their Ivy League cred? This is what I fought for?
Well he isn't wrong.

Blue Origin won't be in the same league until they complete their new LNG powered engine and even then they will be closer to SpaceX's initial rocket development days working on Merlin, Falcon 1 and Grasshopper. Which is a far far cry from where they are now.

In 5-10 years they might compete, but not now.
I don't pay for Gmail and its faster. I had free tier of AWS and it was faster. I have i7 PC with 16 GB RAM, 4 MB Cache. That is a general configuration most developers have I suppose.
The patent appears to be on a training method: https://www.google.com/patents/US4508508
I'm actually ok with that explanation. He's absolutely right about people not opting in and then complaining after the fact. Don't you remember the dust-up following the auto-enabled iOS "Wi-Fi Assist"? If people can easily opt in and out of the Binge On program AND it's made crystal clear to them how to do so, that's a perfectly reasonable path in my opinion. However, if it requires a notarized letter and 3-month delay to make a change, that's obviously an issue.
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Does this apply to Android App development? This is scary.
> I wonder about this with open-source as well, since it's often about scratching the itches of the demographic that participates in it.

This is why I believe open source will always be much better at creating compilers and programming editors than desktop environments and word processors. There's nothing wrong with this, but it kind of explains why the Year of the Linux Desktop has yet to arrive. It's a lot harder to solve other people's problems than your own.
I think it's just in sharp contrast of how say top officers of major banks that laundered 378.4bn USD in drug money were treated (Wachovia, Wells Fargo ...).
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In Haskell or Scala you could quite easily structure the code such that concatenating strings from different sources like that would be a compile error.
> that's burglary

No, it's not.
You're trying to insert purpose or intent into what is essentially accident. Most -- almost all -- changes like these either never have lasting consequences or are eventually undone. They are insignificant, and may not even have expression, unless and until they become significant because of subsequent changes.

You can insert supernatural interference into the process -- there's nothing but the principle of parsimony (Occam's razor) preventing that -- but you can't require it in order for things to work the way they apparently do/did work.