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How much time would it take to code a carousel? How long time does it take to look through the countless open source carousels? How likely is it that this $25 carousel is better than the free ones? Come on, it's peanuts if it's a good lib even though it's a fairly standard feature.

I would off course never use a carousel though.
> At the time of the article (1932) many families in London lived in slums, several people in one room, and worked from morning to the evening for really poor wages.

Having a lot of friends from Eastern Europe in London right now doing menial jobs - it is not much different for them. Due to reasons - housing is really squeezing people right now in a lot of places in the world.
I definitely plan to share the cost of my time to work on Cushion. I've been tracking my time since the original idea. To give you an idea, I just crossed 2,000 hours for design and development. I didn't track time for customer support and writing, but it's up there. If I were to charge hourly for all my time spent on this app, I'd be sitting pretty. :)
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> ROSA Linux is now 'Independent' according to DistroWatch

ROSA Linux and those I listed became "independent" because Mandriva went bust. PCLinuxOS forged it's own part while Mandriva was still active.
You don't need to do a full semantic analysis (e.g. type checking, const checking) for this kind of check, do you?At worst you'd need to expand macros and build an AST with information about white space preserved.
Same here. Same years even. I remember having a laugh and then realising it actually isn't made up gibberish.
Can a mod please append "(2011)" to the title?
I first read this as "un-ionize". Poster's username probably helped prompt that.
Neither link you posted corresponds to your claim about a drop in costs, and this report also contradicts what you're saying: http://www.citizen.org/documents/Texas_Liability_Limits.pdf

Do you have any other sources for your belief?
> Alexa is not compatible with EC2 backends

Source on this? I know last time I played with it, they weren't doing SNI (in 2015, what?) but I've never heard of it not being able to hit EC2 IPs.
The US was less centralized than the USSR, but not by as large of a margin as most think. It's always -- even going back to the days of Manifest Destiny and such -- been a planned economy where major economic moves and expansions are driven by edict and funded by the state or central banks.

I'm not really aware of a good example of a complex technologically advanced society that isn't centrally planned to a significant degree. Either it hasn't happened yet, libertarianism being a form of political futurism, or central planning is actually necessary to overcome the natural tendency of human societies and economies toward conservatism and inertia.

But you still have the mythology of America, land of the free, where everything is grassroots. You can even see this mythology at work in popular accounts of Silicon Valley. In reality most of the fundamental bedrock innovations that created the Valley were funded by DARPA, NASA, and other state sources in the 1960s, and the existence of the Valley as a concentration of tech talent dates from the concentration of radar and signals intelligence industries there in WWII. Look up a talk called "The Secret History of Silicon Valley" on YouTube. In more modern times there are still strong hints of a deep connection, such as the ties that may exist between large tech firms like Google and the state, though the extent of these ties is a subject of some controversy.

I'd actually be curious to hear an example of a major bedrock innovation (like semiconductors, ICs, orbital rockets, etc.) that has occurred in the past ~75 years and has not been the product of either government research funding or a state-enforced monopoly (e.g. Ma Bell / Bell Labs). Only such entities have sufficient exemption from market realities to permit such long-sighted and high-risk investments.

Therein lies, I think, one of the big fallacies of the freedom myth-- that markets drive innovation. In reality I think innovation requires at least a period of exemption from markets, since markets mandate short-term thinking. At a smaller scale seed and venture capital allows companies to obtain a short reprieve from the market that in some cases is long enough to allow some innovation to occur before everything has to answer to the god of quarterly profit. If markets get really good at providing such funding it's possible that we could see a future of decentralized market-driven innovation, but this would require a further extension and broadening of the seed/angel/VC model and associated financial instruments that properly model the nature of this kind of investment. We need entities able to make 10-20 year investments in small teams of brilliant people to tackle insanely hard problems the way national labs and academic institutes can, but time frames like that are way outside the parameters of your typical fund turnaround time.
It also performed a lot better, if that helps. Granted for some orgs, even a $10k per month hosting bill might be no big deal. But we package Discourse for usage, and generally speaking less expensive means more people using it.

There is a point of diminishing returns, of course, pushing down to $5/month is a lot of pain -- super low cost super low resource hosting, etc.
>> Doctors are already paid absurd salaries in the US

>To put it in context, when I finish all my training, I will owe over $600,000.

> It's not the doctors being "paid absurd salaries" that makes medical care in this country expensive. It's lawyers - malpractice insurance can take upwards of 25+% of your income - and it's insurance companies, who have shareholders they are responsible to, and it's hospital administration, whose positions keep multiplying.

It's a red herring. If you compare physician compensation in the UK to the US, the costs of medical education are made up within the first ten years. Yes, even after malpractice insurance. Hospital administrators are also wildly overpaid, but there just aren't as many of them. Physician compensation as compared to foreign doctors, which get the same or better results, is just too large a piece of the pie to brush under the rug by pointing at other problems.
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I definitely plan to write about it on the journal (http://cushionapp.com/journal). I have channels for new users, Stripe charges/subscriptions, errors from Sentry, build notifications, and support notifications. I plan to also build some Slack bots that would help automate a few things.
Determinism should be the obvious starting point for both physicists and philosophers. The idea that any action or set of events can unfold outside of prior physical causes underlies the idea of free will, but it also essentially contradicts the law of causality: every event has an exact set of causes, prior conditions which map perfectly to the resulting effects of a given system. The claim that your actions are purely the result of your own decisions does not factor your thinking itself as being a fundamentally physical process, governed only by physics. Thinking is a natural process, founded on top of other natural processes, and bound ultimately by the greater forces of causality. Of course, quantum randomness on a fundamental level may alter the effects of these processes such that the future cannot be predicted, but it does not dispute the fundamentally physical, and thus causal, nature of thought.
I fully agree and the more kids you have, the less time you have for yourself.

The first option that came was to reduce sleep to gain free time, definitely not a good idea on the long run.
Why I carry a paper notebook

Battery life - infinite

Handwriting recognition - I can recognize my own handwriting.

Document centric workflow - The document is definitely front and center.

Share Everything - in the paper notebook, everything is shareable, and shared in the same way. Either take a picture of the pages, type them in somewhere else (and edit while you do so), or make a photocopy. Optical Character Recognition may be possible but would arguably be adding unnecessary complexity.

Expandability - either purchase more notebooks, or use the 3-Ring Binder (tm) model to expand the capacity of your existing device.

Community - the paper notebook is no wonder device. The spiral notebook was patented in 1935 and has a large community of nearly all of western civilization.
I have two of these on my desk, bought by one or both of my parents during the PDA craze.

For the time and technology, their handwriting detection is extremely impressive - I have fond memories of doodling on them and watching it transcribe my (childish) handwriting into neat type. It's awesome to hear that someone is still (well, as of 2011) still using a Newton regularly.
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I used to have a Newton, also long after they were "obsolete" (as in, years ago, but I sold my Playsation Portable to buy it.) It was a fantastic little device. I had a MessagePad 2100, which had two PCMCIA slots and an awesome green-backlit screen. WiFi worked. Handwriting input was not great, but it worked to a degree that was pretty impressive - I've tried text input on modern devices, and I can't really say that they're any better.

I wouldn't mind having a device like that again, if it were easily hackable (something that was my main issue with the Newton).
Thank you for your insightful comment. I am reading through the owasp web page you linked right now.
Seems like simply using astyle would be an improvement over catching this at compile-time.
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Awesome. I hear lots of great things about intercom so I wanted to see how people thought of the cost.
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How is 175K not absurd? Only a white collar engineer in SF would say that's a piddly salary. Wake me up when your doctor friend has to commute in from Stockton.
The marketing site is static-hosted on S3 and I think when I first set that up it was either too expensive for SSL or not possible. I'm not 100% sure, but I'll definitely look into it again. The wildcard SSL was a recent addition after coming out of beta, which didn't have the multiple subdomains.
If it's not caused by genetics that direct the production of aggression-related hormones, then what?
Right. For movies over $10m budget, there is a positive correlation, and because the OPs graphs are log, it isn't a minor one.

Indies form the second clump high in the rankings.

The negative correlation is caused, as the density contours show, by a knot of highly reviewed indies showing up in the data, confusing the positive correlation of the studio movies.
I understand your point and noticed the same thing. Other videos the NY Times produced typically have a long form article with it forming the basis of the video.

The two guys who made the documentary are not NY Times employees, but independents.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/matteo-minasi-13abb418

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-harmon-993a206

Perhaps it was a freelance pitch and the NY Times accepted it?
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The amount of money dedicated to salaries is not fixed - particularly in regard to owner compensation, capital investment, marketing costs, team composition, training, etc
Fair enough. There are tradeoffs.

My comment was, honestly, more defensive than anything else. I saw that the article was making broad statements and misrepresenting the problem, and I proceeded to do the same in return. It's silly and I should've known better.
Apple's review process also sometimes felt arbitrary, especially early on, and there's been a long list of complaints over the years that sound just like these.

I used to work in games, and the approvals for Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft were all super, ridiculously frustrating at times. We had experiences very much along the same lines of failing again for doing the very thing they asked of us in the previous rejection.

Anyway, usually it works out eventually. No problem with making some noise about it being bad, and hopefully they hear it, but it is not uncommon, nor unique to Amazon.

The point about registering a URL isn't entirely accurate, IMO; plenty of Apple App Store apps consist partially or entirely of webviews. Even for fully native apps, Apple doesn't really have "control" of the code in the sense described in the article. Registration and the approval process are primarily there to give the publishers control over what appears in their store, as well as identify the submitters in a way that attempts to keep a little bit of accountability should they do something bad. Those reasons for requiring registration and review are just as valid for a url as for a bundle of code.
So true. I have zero loyalty to my car maker. Or, to formulate it positively, in all the years of owning a car I have only once been positively surprised about the service I got.
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There's a big exception to the automated checking. You can download new JavaScript code any time after your app is approved, as long as your app runs the code under the built-in WebKit. I don't think there is any automated checking of what your new code does - how could there be? It's just a violation of the terms of service if you change the app into something completely different:

> 3.3.2 An Application may not download or install executable code. Interpreted code may only be used in an Application if all scripts, code and interpreters are packaged in the Application and not downloaded. The only exception to the foregoing is scripts and code downloaded and run by Apple's built-in WebKit framework or JavascriptCore, provided that such scripts and code do not change the primary purpose of the Application by providing features or functionality that are inconsistent with the intended and advertised purpose of the Application as submitted to the App Store.

https://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/information/

http://info.meteor.com/blog/apple-hot-code-push-mobile
This article gave me an enormous sense of deja vu, as a former Amazon employee. I managed the QA of user-submitted media for a service run by one of its subsidiaries, and the requirements for this service, too, were unreasonable and communicated very poorly.

Somehow, Amazon's "working backwards" principle always fails when it comes to establishing reasonable procedures, SLAs, and solid documentation.
Having worked there as well and recently left, I'm super surprised as well to see them considered with the likes of Google or Facebook, etc.

Shitty middle managers are rampant. The engineering culture is defined by Levels..Level 3, 4, 5 etc. Consistency is promoted over quality. Codebases were so horribly not DRY it makes me want to vomit.

Unit tests for constants -- unit tests for specific code inside of functions.

I can go on and on. But generally the place is ran like it's a sales company primarily. Not an engineering company.

Amazon has a cancer through out it. It's basically a shitty copy of Microsoft without any of the virtues..but all the vices.

Not to mention, it says a lot that they have no perks except "free tea." 12 Leadership principles, which are dumb shit like "Be curious", "Have instinct."

Amazon doesn't have the brightest or the best - they have sheep that get tangled in the middle, or assholes that somehow become management. The company is only surviving because it set its margins so low that no one else could compete.

But now market leaders are sprouting out. Chewy.com for pet food. Walmart.com for general goods. Drugstore.com / Soap.com / Walgreens.com, the list goes on.

With such a shitty internal culture, Amazon will fall. I will have a shit-eating grin when that happens.

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Amazon Web Services was their saving grace. But having seen internally how each team has different practices, different tech..some that are arcane and esoteric. Theres no cohesion. Even the CSS for Amazon, theres no sheet that is shared. Each team has to hard-rip the colors and whatnot from other projects like the retail site.

Makes me totally re-evaluate AWS after seeing how its built internally.

The charm of AWS is that every service in that goddamn console looks like its a polished part of a pyramid of engineering sanctity.

Heh, wrong. Each service...written by a different team, with totally different methods, totally different tech. Some teams even use .NET and IIS... You can probably probe the endpoints to some of these services and maybe see it externally. But well, take my word for it.

Once a team has a decent AWS project, they slap together a new logo. Make the UI blend with the existing panel. And then scale it using existing AWS services. But it still is a hydra of mismatched code.

The whole thing is a frankenturd - they did a good job with the design, ui, and IAM policies to make these services look like they are all part of the same cohesive development. But it simply isn't the case. AWS is patched together like a paranoid android on the inside.
Wouldn't call that true. There are hosted solutions for ES, Cass, and AWS has kafka alternatives. That's not to say no enginenering time will be spent, but certainly you can start without a full time infrastructure guy
Memory management still matters but by how much differs based on your specifications.
Are you programming for a microcontroller? For a low end VPS? For a low-volume high-turnover web app? Do you have a deadline? How many people should be able to come up to speed and contribute to your codebase?

The author's example is interesting. He talks about a webserver that after optimizations can reach 1.2 million requests per second.
In reality though, your gigabit ethernet interface can't handle that much anyway.
I think the Doctor has a little more job security as well. Medical industry has a higher barrier to entry.
Searching through it isn't the best, but at least the ergonomics of flipping through pages is way more comfortable than waiting to scroll through an ebook.
Selection bias, much?

I mean, something has got to account for the fact that Adam Sandler still has an audience.
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I remember those days vividly, what's different here is the Alexa Skills list is sorted alphabetically so this fart app is what every single person who enters the "store" sees first.
The first step to solving a problem is to admit you, like all of us, have one. Start by appreciating yourself for seeking answers to those problems. Here are some I've learned along the path:

1. Understand and listen to what causes you suffering and leads to dissonance. For example, what makes you not want to think about technology when you clearly used to love it? What is your emotional response to thinking about not traveling for the next year? Acknowledge the emotions you have and realize the questions will never end.

2. Set intent. What things can you do in your life to enable step #1 to happen faster? Explore your options. There is an answer out here for your question, but it takes you to find it.

3. Keep your intent free of dissonance. Biases, blaming or speaking for others, and rationalizations are indications of dissonance that'll just slow you down and hinder you doing #2.

4. Use #2 to drive putting yourself into situations, in all parts of your life, that encourage #1 to happen faster. You switched teams. Are you willing to switch companies? Careers? Doing #1 is frequently scary. Try to face your fears.

Glad you posted! You aren't the only one going through this, by a long shot.
Why specifically a Newton, and not a PalmPilot or any other PDA? Especially since Graffiti, while making the user learn a handwriting script, reduced the difficulty of dealing with '90s-era handwriting recognition.
Interesting anecdote, I was writing a ray tracer recently and instead of using real recursion I tried using a recursive template instead (because who needs i-cache). Basically, every bounce of a ray was a different function with <current_bounce + 1> until <max_bounces>.

The actual ray-tracing code wasn't that long at all, but if you turned max_max_bounces up (say, 100+) "code-gen" time in visual studio blew up to over one minute. That was the moment when I appreciated what everyone was saying about C++ compile times being quite slow if you (mis)use templates.
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If she is so certain about the pathology here, you'd think she'd have suggested a treatment regimen to "fix" one's internal clocks.
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Read the whole post (it's worth it). The part you quoted refers to states which have damage caps >$1m (versus Texas at $250k). The author writes about his own experience going from Illinois to Indiana and then Texas. My uncle was a surgeon in Texas pre and post tort reform and I saw first hand how much of a difference it made. It's anecdotal of course, but his malpractice dropped from $150k to $50k solely as a result of that law. He reaped the gains for a couple years and then reimbursements were lowered to compensate. Those lower reimbursements are used to calculate premium costs which then also benefited from the reduced med mal costs. The emergency physician correctly points out that med mal functions largely as a transfer of wealth from people with health insurance (which is now, in theory, everyone) to trial attorneys. Lastly I'd point out, again from my uncle's experience, that being sued is an extremely stressful experience even if the eventual financial outcome isn't very impactful. I couldn't relate to it until I went through the same experience myself.
People are accustomed to having foreign physicians, other-than-white physicians and certainly other-than-Anglo-Saxon physicians.

Nearly 30% of US primary care physicians trained abroad.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/health/12chen.html

Only 8.7% of the US are descended from the English (Anglo-Saxons)

Source: http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/c2kbr-35.pdf

That said, the US could easily recruit physicians from Europe including the UK so you may very well get more Anglo-Saxon physicians!
If the option is between "something we personally like but has edge cases or requires other understanding that could confuse some readers" versus "something everybody will understand," the first case should never happen.

It's almost like everybody forgot about https://matt.sh/howto-c#_formatting already. :(
Milton Friedman gave a lecture on the economics of the medical industry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss5PxPlnmFk . He discusses the AMA's guild-like tactics at one point (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAjOryNaDkA), but their folly is a theme throughout.
And ad or promotional spend? This is a missing factor, surely?

A movie will have a reputation: good, bad, or indifferent. But a movie also has to be known. Ad spend gets the movie in front of eye-balls at least insofar as it gets to be known to exist. But also word-of-mouth, which is like free ad spend. This is why there are slow burners and mega-flops.

Incidentally this is why I have refused to see Titanic, Avatar, and the latest Star Wars in the theatre. If you scream in my face I'm not going to watch your movie in the theatre. Hype turns me off seeing something, but that's just me not wanting to roll with the crowd perhaps, and not a function of hype itself. Seems like most people don't react this way though.