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OK, that is what is "legally possible" in a worst-case scenario.

But IN PRACTICE, what is normal?

Your statement seems to indicate that IT staff can just browse personal communications, desktop displays, keypresses. I am sure that they can if necessary, but what kinds of scale and automation are we talking about? Doing such surveillance ad-hoc or without a very small number of targets seems like it would easily become intractable for any org with thousands of people.

I am not in an IT department, so I have no idea what goes on.

It seems the standard advice is always to take the most extreme precautions and to follow the corporate rules to the letter... but here I am typing this into a work computer on a chrome browser without a care in the world.
I've worked at places where they set any pcs on the domain to accept their ssl cert. Then they mitm all your https traffic and scan everything. That would include banking, gmail, etc.

Best not to do that stuff at work. You also have to wonder about the internal wifi people put their phones on.
Power Blindness
Though the right comparison is

default <T> Extension<T> contraMap(Function<T, S> f)
foldMap :: Monoid m => (a -> m) -> t a -> m

I also prefer the Haskell syntax, but it looks like more of a difference because the implementation is inline.
Sounds like he's trying to change Ford from a product company to a services company. That's going to be really tough - all those mid-level managers have to be pointed in the new direction.
Is transpiling really that different than running google closure on "native" js?
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You can participate in startups by joining one. Certainly no requirement to be 'mega-rich'. I'm not understanding this notion at all.
For many new devs the hard times are too many,CODELF is a better way I guess
The best American colleges are still filled with students from rich families
Microsoft has the IDE for you already: Visual Studio Code.
A fully capable, crossplatform IDE for C# built in Java / running on the JDK. And since it is by JetBrains it probably will be the best C#-IDE available.

Ironic but great news.

:-)
That's fine, but don't get all surprised when your work sees it.
I don't disagree with anything you said here. Organizations should try to hire developers that care about what they build and understand that, as an implied part of the nature of the job, your phone may ring at some unknown time because of an issue. In operations it is certainly implied that you will likely be the first one notified of production issues and you will most likely be the first to know which developer(s) need to be contacted. I am certainly not advocating for a developer to throw their hands up and say "not my problem, I'm not on call" or "it's an ops issue." Those would be very junior or childish reactions and certainly not the qualities of a senior developer.

What my post was getting at more of an observation I have made during interviews where teams had on-call rotations for developers. When I ask "how often does your phone ring during your time on-call" I would get answers that hinted at a deeper issue. Maybe it wasn't always that way, maybe the on-call rotation started with the purest of intentions like you have highlighted, but somewhere along the line management saw that as an opportunity to take shortcuts with testing and quality. So, am I saying that if a company were to make me an excellent offer, but required on-call rotations are they automatically ruled out? No. I am, however, going to be asking some very pointed questions and probing that arrangement quite a bit.
* Seems kinda cool

* Makes $x == 5|6 look kinda cool

* $string ~~ /<first>/ & /<second>/ & /<third>/ # matches all three regexes. huh. kinda cool

* (5|6).foo maybe we can do that in cpu-parallel (it doesn't now)? That might be kinda cool

* sub is-prime($n where $n > 2) { $n % none(2..sqrt($n)) == 0 } # Logical O(1) prime test if only you had that quantum-coprocessor? That... would be kinda cool

* ... you might notice a pattern to the motivation for this feature :)
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I am a developer.

And being one doesn't mean I am obliged to love a UNIX CLI.

I love Xerox's REPLs, Powershell and scripting languages.
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I don't think on-line dating is a sham. It seems to be a natural answer to the growing problem - meeting people in general, and potential romantic partners in particular, gets an order of magnitude harder when you finish education. For most people, it's suddenly 9-10h/day spent at work (8h + commute), and it's hard to maintain a social life when you're both a) tired every evening, and b) required to be in good shape the next morning. Of course, many deal with it perfectly fine. Many deal only sort-of, which is why workplace romance is so common even though employers try to fight it as much as possible. But then there's a large group that simply can't find the right opportunities. On-line dating is great for those. And it works at least sometimes - I personally know of people who met and got married through one site.

That said, I'm totally not surprised by your observation about Facebook events. It's more natural to meet people like that, without prior obligations. People tend to be more open, and conversations more genuine. Especially if this is a topical event, you automatically have people pre-selected for interest compatibility. Just like money can be detrimental to the projects of passion, on-line dating seems like "trying too hard", compared to casual meetup. I tried using a dating service once, and such dates actually felt to me more like a business transaction than a meeting of strangers. But then again, I'm shy, I prefer going the roundabout way :).

And to add N=1 story, my success in finding a potential future friend or romantic partner tends to be inversely proportional to how much I try, and a direct function of number of events and public appearances I make. I'm thankful for services like Facebook and Meetup, which let you know about interesting events in the area without having you spend a ton of time on finding them.
SSD. I got my first laptop with an SSD back in about 2007 and it's one of those things I haven't been able to live without since. This MBP is a 2014 model.
I imagine it is being primarily driven by the recent vast decline in the Canadian dollar. Just about all of the costs involved are going to be about 30% cheaper compared to a couple of years ago.
> and all end up more similar than they are different".

It's not that simple. Tcl, Ruby and Python all have several competing implementations, while to my knowledge nobody has even written a complete Perl 5 parser (except the one in the official Perl 5 code).
Are we assuming we should care? Yes, the behavior is not in their best interest by the metrics we use, but if they are adults who are fully consenting to the transaction, and they are not be lied to, should the government care?

If the government should stay out of the bedroom of consenting adults, why not stay out of their wallets as well?
Right, so we need to figure out what kinds of reasoning by symmetry are allowed under perfect rationality (in all possible games, not just this one). For example, should a rational person cooperate in the Prisoner's Dilemma because the opponent will be forced to cooperate by symmetry? In that case, won't irrational people eat rational people for breakfast, thus devaluing the idea that rational behavior maximizes utility?

If you take the time to think it though, you might well reinvent superrationality, updateless decision theory and other fascinating things. In fact, you'll quickly get to questions that I have no idea how to solve!
I had recent experience of life without a cellphone. My wife and I were on a vacation in Cambodia, and before we went up to the rooftop restaurant I suggested that we should leave our phones in the room, since they can be distracting.

* I missed out on taking a photo of the amazing view

* We were talking about the different standards of living around the world, and I mentioned that Norway was the best country in the world, and also that they have a ton of money. That's all I could remember about the money, without access to Google and Wikipedia.

* I counted at least 2 other times where I instinctively went to pull out my phone to Google something or reference an article that I had read.

* I wanted to know what song was playing on the speakers so I could listen to the album later. No Soundhound or Shazam.

* My wife missed 3 Skype calls from her family, who ended up sending very worried messages hoping that she was ok
Well the Elm architecture inspired ClojureScripts re-frame and JavaScripts Redux. Both of those handle state similar to Elm. You are right that Elm is not ripe for primetime but Elm's value stretches far beyond its handling of state.

Also make sure to checkout NoRedInk's take-home and its server-side usage of Elm including server-side rendering.

https://github.com/NoRedInk/take-home
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I'm unreasonably excited by this news. ReSharper is already an amazing tool and I'm sure JetBrains can do so much more with complete control over the whole IDE than with a plugin.

I've not been very impressed with Visual Studio 2015 so far. I particularly don't like being forced to sign in to what should be an offline piece of software. Also, be careful installing it on an existing system as it will mess up your settings. I'm sticking with VS 12/13 and ReSharper for now but if Rider looks good then I could be tempted to switch.

Android Studio is great and switching from Eclipse to IntelliJ was a good move by Google. Being able to do cross-platform development with .NET on a first class IDE is an alluring proposition. I doubt VS will ever be ported to Mac or Linux despite CoreCLR as it relies heavily on WPF which is tied to the Windows graphics system.

I assume Project Rider is just a code name. I wonder what the final product will be called. IntelliSharp?
It me took about 15 minutes of reading an article to get a basic understanding and start using some basic functionality. I'd imagine the 20 videos explore every crevice of Flexbox, which you don't necessarily need to start using it.
Another thing that we don't use.
So it's the transformation to a physical "thing you have" that is valuable? Would you say it is any better than a physical one-time code generator? Again, beyond the PITA argument; having used both I completely agree that the card was a lot easier.
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This only works if C has the trust of D and E to honor his promises. And trust can only be developed in interated games.

In a one-off game a rational player C will negotiate and then propose a 99-0-1 distribution.
They're going to slow down just as tablets are. PCs have been around a long time in tech-time compared to tablets and modern smart phones. Just as computers no longer need to be upgraded every couple years, tablets are no longer upgraded every year or two. Phones are getting to that point as well with the faster CPUs and faster storage. A mid-range phone now has the same specs as a top tier phone from a year ago.

As for ad-blocking on your iPhone 5, you could just install an alternate browser that supports extensio... oh, right. :(
I didn't realise the $1.5B was paid out over time. Does anyone know what that period is by chance? Just curious.
The charm of traditional alphabet blocks, enhanced with interactive apps and games
Work is not were you want to send private messages that are not work-related from.

Keep that simple rule in mind and you'll save yourself a lot of heartache.
Alum from my school have designed AlphaTechBlocks! They look and feel like traditional alphabet blocks, but they work interactively with mobile apps to create fun learning experiences and games for toddlers and preschoolers to learn letters and words in ENGLISH and SPANISH.

I think this is a really cool idea and a perfect example of technology improving upon traditional learning mediums.
Back then we were trying to get a Windows NT network to behave more like a traditional Unix cluster so we were messing around with Terminal Services and other work-arounds that didn't quite work at that time.
It's not really a question of what is reasonable to expect. Even a company that chooses now not to do things like what the article describes, they always can.

They can read your emails, and chat logs and whatever else is sitting on your work machine. The only way of dealing with that is never have personal information on them in the first place.
Oh man, the memories. My server was big on open world PvP, and I was in a large guild that enjoyed raiding Stormwind. We would often storm the city and hold the throne room with a few hundred players. If you got enough Alliance players to stay and fight you, eventually the entire zone would lag, and then the entire continent would crash for about 10 minutes. Any player on the Eastern Kingdoms would get booted back to the character select screen.

There is a legendary weapon (Thunderfury) that can only be gained through a long questline ending with an open-world boss fight that takes 20-40 players (depending on your skill level), just for a single person to get the weapon.

We raided Darnassus at the same time we knew our rival guild was attempting the quest and successfully prevented them from getting it by crashing all of Kalimdor* :)

> Another funny accidental apocalypse in early WoW was kiting raid bosses to cities, letting them wreak havoc until a GM despawns them

Blizzard repeated this event as a promo for the BC expansion too! "High Lord Kruul" would spawn in front of player cities with an army of burning legion mobs. He had nearly identical stats and skills as Kazzak.

* They tried again next week and got the weapon...
Many people have asserted this, but it's not true. As long as ReSharper is active it does have a performance impact. The impact varies depending on the current action, and yes opening a new project does have the largest impact.

Honestly, I'm done giving ReSharper chances. Of all the times I've tried it, I've yet to encounter any feature that justifies the wet blanket thrown over the IDE. I've tried on large projects and small projects, across multiple computers. I've followed JetBrains' recommendations for improving performance. The performance impact is noticeable, and the UX drives me nuts.

Like I said, I like some other products from JetBrains, but ReSharper just isn't for me. If it works for you, and the impact is negligible enough to not matter, thats great.
There are primate dominance rituals to be observed. One is power based. You serve me, not the other way around. When I say jump you better reply how high within 15 seconds, and you are not in a social position to ask me to jump. You can also signal primate dominance WRT making sure everyone knows you're not feeling the need to put on a show of being necessary because you're a hero, because your position is otherwise so secure you don't need to pose to protect your dominance.

Its possible to brag or enforce dominance about management skill. A skilled manager can get hit by a truck and finely crafted systems and procedures will work for days, weeks, months. An incompetent manager is perpetually running around like a chicken with head cut off in continuous hero saves the day mode, which looks impressive to people who don't understand it signals gross incompetence. So you can stealthily brag about your management power level by very loudly claiming you don't have to be a superhero because unlike the chicken with their head cut off competitors, you actually know how to manage and lead.

Another primate dominance interpretation is level based, not skill or power based. Low level people have low level responsibilities, like instantaneously responding to absolutely everyone. Higher level people respond to higher level problems, which tend to both evolve and be fixed much more slowly. So a line employee or team lead needs to be a whipped slave, but a CEO who needs to micromanage is a failed CEO, that CEO should be thinking about next years overall strategy, not ultra short term like how to do a customer service reps job for them. A few days here or there don't matter for producing annual strategic plan. A micromanaging CEO won't have a long term plan.
For me, subscriptions wouldn't be great. There aren't many sources where I appreciate a wide enough range of their stuff that I would want the "buffet" model of paying for access to everything they have.

As an example, I really like vice.com's reporting and perspectives on Syria, ISIS, etc. However, I'm not a fan of their reporting on other topics, like gun violence, environmental issues, etc.

I would be much more excited about micropayments where I pay only for what I care about. In the same way that I like "on demand movies" over say, a subscription to HBO.
Curious what you mean by "a dollar a dozen?" I thought that the demand for developers in SV was high right now, and a master's in EE with coding experience would also be in high demand.

It seems like the reason she's not getting phone calls is more because she doesn't have a portfolio, not that her skills are so common that they're negligible.
You can own a phone and not check all the time-wasting stuff too. Just don't install those apps.

You need to look at fb occationally use the browser. Fb has a decent mobile optimized site.
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Dynamic layout is a hard problem. I've never come across a layout engine that didn't require at least a day to get comfortable with. Some may have the advantage of being similar to something you've used before and might give you a head start but that can also slow you down when you assumed it's exactly like the other when it's not.
This is Hofstadter's SuperRationality. It's main contribution isnto highlight the arbitrary simplifying assumptions of traditional game theory
Ask HN: Please validate my business idea.
Concept:

- You upload a photo along with a little slug line.
- We convert it to artwork (example here: http://bit.ly/1ZsJhXd ),
- We print out a large high quality poster and ship it to you in a mail tube.
- Price is USD 15 + shipping. Delivery anywhere in the world.

This is more to achieve a steady monthly income to pay the rent than become a big business.
My Questions:

- 1. Should i do a mobile app or a website?
- 2. Can this business generate USD 10,000 per month in gross revenue? (That's selling about 600 posters a month)
- 3. Is the pricing right?

(My earlier post did not gather enough feedback. Much sorry for repeat)
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Its still perhaps one of the most significant 'open source on the desktop and beyond' category projects to adopt LGPL 3. Its a huge boon for the FSF.
Mental math (and arithmetic tricks) are pretty important for scoring high on the GMAT (for MBA admissions). No calculator is allowed, and while you can solve by pen and paper, for a very time constrained test, tricks can be the difference between a good and great score.

It's also somewhat valued in the business / consultant crowd for talking through assumptions and making estimates of problems.
For what it's worth I actually think that Rust (and a smattering of other languages and tools) could push us to revisit the "hundreds of cores" thing again if these parallel-first/friendly tools get popular enough that CPU vendors see a market of highly parallel consumer-grade applications.
Especially energy, and if you host a server in Edmonton (where I live) you could also save money on cooling, it was -27C a few days ago...
How to work with functions in Swift
My apologies. I read it as sarcastically requestioning them.
Public Service Announcement.

If you are ill, go see a doctor. Skip the travel, spiritual enlightenment, and other ad-hoc treatment; cut to the chase - visit a psychiatrist. If you wouldn't treat your own diabetes, you shouldn't treat your own mental health.

Often times an afflicted person would not have the energy to make the visit, precisely due to the condition that needs treatment. If this happens to you, ask your friends for help.
> Programmer does not program in pure C++ when he/she program in Qt. He/She program in Qt version of C++(and compatibility with existing C++ compiler does not change this fact).

That's one of the reasons one might use Qt, to use Qt's data structures, etc.
Depends a lot on your needs. For my company, we don't give a shit about people on old browsers. They make up an incredibly small % of the visitors to our customer's sites and we've never once had a client ask for IE9 support or anything like that. We go with the most recent version, and one prior, and that has served us well. Never received a complaint from a client about a customer of theirs not being able to do something on a site.

Some people don't have that luxury, but for the rest of us Flexbox is ready to be used.
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I think that is what they are doing with celery. Each server has 92 celery workers. Each worker runs in its own process. Each worker takes tasks off of a queue and completes them.
Work is a sweatshop, where you slave away, dont ever forget that.
"Apple Time Warner" on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...

Not a fresh rumor. My take is still the same: this isn't doesn't make sense because Time Warner is local to the US and only parts of the US at that and Apple is a global company.
There was a TED talk where a woman tried to crack the algorithm for a dating site - and succeeded. She tried things like creating fake profiles to identify popularity-provoking words (like "fun"), and eventually succeeded in creating the site's #1 most popular site, drawing thousands of responses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6wG_sAdP0U
So then when you were installing Visual Studio did you do the "recommended" installation or did you customize?

Even with customization its a bit bloated, but you can totally avoid a SQL Server Express installation.
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