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I learned a lot from and really enjoyed the Quantum Physics posts at Less Wrong: http://lesswrong.com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/ . The author starts out focusing on the Many-Worlds interpretation and later defends that point, apparently sharing your criticisms. Early on, the author has a lot to say against other teaching approaches that present Quantum Physics as fundamentally mysterious ("No one really understands it anyway, just use these equations") or leave out the Many-Worlds interpretation:

>I am not going to tell you that quantum mechanics is weird, bizarre, confusing, or alien. QM is counterintuitive, but that is a problem with your intuitions, not a problem with quantum mechanics. [...] It is always best to think of reality as perfectly normal.

>Dragging a modern-day student through all this [initially teaching the subject in the order it was discovered] may be a historically realistic approach to the subject matter, but it also ensures the historically realistic outcome of total bewilderment. Talking to aspiring young physicists about "wave/particle duality" is like starting chemistry students on the Four Elements. [...] The universe is not wavering between using particles and waves, unable to make up its mind. It's only human intuitions about QM that swap back and forth.
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For me quantum mechanics is something like a complex cooking receipe. We have equations, we know what we have to put into these equations to solve certain systems.

The rest is just an endless variety of coordinate transformations, model assumptions and approximations.
And this is the part most physics students struggle.
"Please open your window to the width of this line of text."

I wish I was a web developer in 1996!
Bill Gates with the voice of Clinton says, "<tear> You kids are so lucky, today. You get to program in HTML with a hundred fonts! <tear> When I was young, we had to program in 6502 assembly language."

The judge says, "Mr. Gates, you are sentenced to a life in Hell. Do you want to program in HTML or 6502 assembly?"

Bill Gates says, "Well, I'm a lot smarter than you, so 6502 makes sense to me."

The judge says, "Then, it's HTML for you for the rest of time."
Damnit, Jim. That's my dream too.

All my entire career I've only worked for small biz companies. I've never cared to become a droplet until SpaceX rolled around. I went through the entire interview process, but didn't get an offer. The tour itself was worth it. :)
We're in a TV golden age, man. There are more good TV series on than probably any other time in history.
Gunpoint and Risk of Rain are really good low-budget games that fall into that middle ground category. I'm fairly certain each were made by a single developer, but have been very successful.
Altran is a major contributor to SPARK these days [1].

I've been a big believer in TDD for many years (and still am), but reading a lot of Dijkstra lately I started to feel guilty for not keeping up with the state of the art in formal techniques. :) So I've been looking around in just the last couple of weeks to figure out what the best tools are these days. This discussion has been very helpful.

[1] http://www.spark-2014.org/contributors
It might be that the attitude comes, not from actually thinking "my stuff doesn't matter at all", but more from thinking "if I leave, almost anybody else could do my job".

Not sure if this was the case, but I believe a lot of our developer egos would like us to think that I and ONLY I would be able to do this particular thing (even if you know you'll actually never be THE ONLY one at anything) it definitely feels like you might be one of the very few.

And then when you realize that no, you are not a special snowflake, you kind of feel "my contribution doesn't matter", not in that it doesn't actually matter at all, but in that someone else could've done it as well.
There's really no evidence to support it. It sounds nice and may turn out to be true, but we can't say for sure. Riding the subway probably does more for immune development than playing in the dirt.
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I can well imagine this can occur in larger, non-games software development projects. I wonder if it is the same?

I sort of suspect not. I am currently refactoring an (albeit important) part of the LibreOffice codebase - the VCL font subsystem. Mostly it's reading the code (in fact, 90% is reading and understanding the code), but it's kind of satisfying looking at how changes to the code make things better and... more elegant.

Perhaps this is just an Open Source thing. Or maybe I'm unusual in that I like to focus on smaller modules and make them really good, then move on to the next thing.
Sounds like there was no problem with him at all.
I dunno.

For a long time the dominant programming environment for IBM mainframes has been VM/CMS, where VM is something like VirtualBox and CMS is something a lot like the old MS-DOS, i.e. a single process operating system. Say what you like but it was a better environment than anything based on micros until you started seeing the more advanced IDEs on DOS circa 1987 or so.

Now the 360 was a machine designed to do everything, but it's clear the virtual memory in most machines is an issue in terms of die size, cost, power consumption and performance and I wonder if some different configuration in that department together with a new approach to the OS could make a difference.
Besides, all the ARIA stuff isn't free. It only benefits screen readers and bots that aren't Google's. The rejection from lack of accessibility is as strange as rejection from lack of functionality in IE 8 or less (which has perhaps 2-4x as much market share as that of all screen readers). For any website or webapp you should know your market and make the call whether you need to spend time upfront, burn the time now, or delay indefinitely or forever, on supporting these low market share alternatives.
This type of rhetoric about how "the kids" talks comes up every 20 years. Remember "radical"?
To be fair, dreams change. Sounds like the author's initial "oh shit I get to work on <big title>" morphed into "I want ownership of my work."

They could also have meant game design/architecture was the dream, not necessarily working at Ubisoft in particular. You're right though, it's a bit unclear.
By definition, blogs are about vanity. Even when you're doing something important or documenting progress, blogs are for self-important people trying to express or justify their past actions or current beliefs.

That said, I'd like to think my personal blog is to document my personal development and progress, even though it probably is ultimately just an exercise in self-aggrandizement. but I _try_ not to make it about vanity.

however, the domain name is very much a vanity thing, just like having LNX4WIN on your licence plate would be.
Imho, clearfix as a solution to a problem that existed before CSS3, when people used the `float` role to align things in a row -- when time came to stop the alignment behavior, you applied a clearfix. Today, you really only float things that have a block flow inside an inline context, like asides, pictures, blockquotes, etc. You don't really need clearfix since your inline content should just flow around it. If you are using floats on entire sections you are obviously doing something wrong, and you ought to ask your self if `display: flex` on the parent wouldn't be a better fit.
Can't. Haven't read the book yet and was unimpressed with the movie. Sorry. ;-)
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Awesome!

Also groovy.

And formidable.
lojack: "...but flexbox isn't always an option."

When isn't it? If you're developing for old (now unsupported) versions of Internet Explorer I'm not sure they'd be bothered about being turned down (unless they knew about that when applying). Just because something was done some way once doesn't make it right, and putting emphasis on 'clearing float' questions would show your company use old, bad practices.
If it has sshd it should work, so any provider, even co-location. We just integrate with DigitalOcean, AWS, Rackspace, and Linode (allow you to import severs and tags)
That returns a blank image for many of the URLs I tried. Is it queueing up for rendering, or is it not rendering unpopular sites?
Op seems to misunderstand the following:

1. Your hypervisor is the security boundary.
2. Unikernel design lets you maximize the security benefits of AppSec and LangSec by removing the large OS surface area.
Totally shredded that. Ripped it up phat!
We use buddy build pretty actively. It's a Game Changer! It took about 2 minutes to get up and running and we have a free CI process for all our builds. I particularly love the automatic upload of symbol files for error tracking. BB is a big win in my book!
As a millennial, I'm pretty sure this isn't my generation but the next one down. Don't know if they have a name yet.
I agree these are under-used but they face the same issues as the other methods like putting the data in text near the image on a web page or presentation slide. These fields, same as all Exif metadata, can be overwritten or removed by anyone with access to the file. The data can be faked by someone intending to deceive, or it could disappear when posted to big sites like Facebook or Twitter who routinely remove Exif data by default (presumably to protect the majority who don't understand how GPS tagging works on mobile phone photos, etc).

Once the photo metadata is gone, it is too easy for others to claim it is an 'orphan work' and avoid liability under copyright law. At the opposite end of the spectrum, people like me who release most images as CC0 are annoyed that that license tag was stripped from the metadata, preventing others from freely reusing them. I use and rely on Exif tags a lot but they are fragile and you cannot rely on them staying embedded with your images once they hit the web.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe there are aria attributes (e.g.: role="navigation") that can also be used as well for this same purpose. Nav is probably safer, but agreed on the CSS reset.
>I only had the chance to review their personal websites or github profiles

>Many are not able to [...] to explain why and how a clearfix works, or what ARIA roles are for

I have only had the chance to review this blog post but this person doesn't seem to be able to explain simple arithmetic, describe the difference between something that is round vs square, or tell me what a spoon is used for.
Yes, but now what happens when you need to use someone else's computer? It just makes life a little bit more annoying. De facto standards tend to be very important, so much so that the optimality of that standard is less important than the existence of a standard.

I happen to use colemak, but I recognize it was not a rational decision.
The difference with an interpretation like MWI is that no experiment can disprove it, even in theory. The interpretation requires that the many worlds do not interact, and unless that changes, there is no way to observe anything contradictory to the interpretation that doesn't also contradict QM. Most other famous science theories are falsifiable (I would say it is a necessary condition to qualify as science).
I've been following what you guys have been doing since when you were using the name HomeRun, and really like how you're trying to change the way real estate transactions function. Has OpenDoor considered the possibility of converting housing inventory you're "stuck with" during a downturn into rentals, or rent-to-buy, to weather a down-period, or is it better to just offload it to Blackstone and get it off your books?
The classification system has been abused to the point of devaluing classified contents for decades. I think there's only one real reason for this: only a very few things are real state secrets, but there's a ton of budget overruns, bad ideas, career ending blunders, "favorite" vendors, vendors that hire close relatives, "independent" consultants, and similar mixes of incompetence and borderline embezzlement. It's far too easy to just classify some episode, and keep it from blowing up into a rebuke or termination for cause. There's little to be gained by carefully examining something and classifying it appropriate, and a lot to loose by under-classification.
Fair point. But the A8 CPU block does include the 1MB of L2 shared between the two cores.
It should be noted that this Qing Dynasty encyclopedy was printed in 1726, seven centuries after the invention of movable type and more than 270 years after Gutenberg's Bible. It is also a Government sponsored project and probably wasn't cheap. The point still stands that compositing a book was far more labor intensive with chinese characters than with any alphabet. You need a few dozen types for an alphabet and at least 100 times more fore Chinese. An alphabet makes it considerably cheaper and not reserved to a tiny elite with 64 copies. That's the main point. Common people couldn't afford it.

There is no doubt possible that using an alphabet greatly helped the dissemination of knowledge. Between 1455 and 1500 there were over 30,000 distinct incunables edited in europe. Not 30,000 copies. More than 30,000 different books. [1]
Gutenberg's press went viral [2] and vastly more widespread than what was seen in Asia.

In the 15th century Korea adopted Hangul, the Korean alphabet.
"A potential solution to the linguistic and cultural bottleneck that held back movable type in Korea for 200 years appeared in the early 15th century—a generation before Gutenberg would begin working on his own movable-type invention in Europe—when Sejong the Great devised a simplified alphabet of 24 characters (hangul) for use by the common people, which could have made the typecasting and compositing process more feasible. Adoption of the new alphabet was stifled by Korea's cultural elite, who were "appalled at the idea of losing hanja, the badge of their elitism."

"It was effective enough at disseminating information among the uneducated that Yeonsangun, the paranoid tenth king, forbade the study or use of Hangul and banned Hangul documents in 1504,and King Jungjong abolished the Ministry of Eonmun (governmental institution related to Hangul research) in 1506.

The late 16th century, however, saw a revival of Hangul" [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incunabula_Short_Title_Catalog...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_spread_of_the_printing_...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_type#Metal_movable_typ... & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul#History
I was talking design with a friend yesterday, and she said something interesting: "The reason all these companies have cute logos is to remind you that they're easy to use. Rounded corners and scratchy infographics conveys that this is simple software, even if it's doing a lot behind the scenes."

As the article points out, 140 characters is not what's driving this. If you're using standard English everywhere, your Facebook posts sound like your cover letters, and that's weird. For a generation who's been dubbed "amiable" as one of the highest virtues, this isn't OK. Figuring out ways to invent slang so it cleanly translates to written text is pretty hard. This is a pretty clever solution to that: anybody who's a native speaker can do it, if you read it out loud, it serializes / deserializes pretty well, and it's novel.

FWIW, I'm 30, and I do know people who talk / tweet like this. It's mostly done sarcastically, though when you do it all the time, is it really sarcastic?
Tubular, dudes!
Much more than a cheat sheet, this is a revealing window into js development. Helpful!
On some Pixar movie (Ratatouille, I think), one of the DVD extras was a set of deleted scenes that happened to be the entire work of individual animators - basically they spent 18 months of their life working on that stubble, and the whole guard was cut because that didn't work with the story.

That's an extreme, but something like that is possible for anyone working on a sufficiently large project. I get how people like that could really feel like their time was wasted - your assumption is that their contribution will be in the final project in a small but interesting way, and that's not an assumption that can always be made.
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Hey, I live in Indiana! I'm hiring a full-stack software engineer if anyone wants to get in on the 2500 sq-ft homes for 200k.
Personal projects are a bit questionable as a skill test.

I've been planning to do a personal site for a long time and wishing i could contribute on github more but most of the time the only contribution on github ends up to be bug fixes to libraries I use at work and I still haven't gotten anywhere with my personal website.

Most of my best code will never be seen by any interviewer since it's done at work.

Now if any of my personal code was making me money that would be different but I have nothing like that at the moment.
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Or, at a higher level, maybe their approach to soliciting candidates is wrong. A lot of the job descriptions I see are sloppy. Or they're so vague that you can't figure out what you'd actually be doing (or what the day-to-day would be like). Some of them throw in peripheral technologies just to cover all the bases or something.

It seems like a lot of hiring managers/companies treat a job description as an afterthought when it actually has a huge effect on who applies for a position (_obviously_). People who have more options will tend to ignore the sloppy, vague postings.

The person who wrote this article seems more conscientious than this, but it's something to consider.
What if you could have isolation that's as good as or better than a VM in a container?
Looks very cool, but I'm bummed that it's not available yet - I'm afraid I'll forget about it in a week.
Does this mean that a computer will soon be beating people at Go?
I'm technically a Millennial (born 1984), but everything about Millennial culture just makes me cringe.

Same with this obsession with "artisanal" stuff, walkable neighborhoods, and the like.
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The base is the same, but the equity might be worth significantly more.
what is "salt pica"? the only thing I see on google is eating actual table salt. it seems like you are talking about something else.
> I wish I was a web developer in 1996!

As someone who was actually developing websites in the years 1996-1999... no, you really, really don't.

CSS1 was released in December 1996, just to give you an idea.
That's a good point, thanks. I ended up having a look through the differences between detention and arrest (finding different thresholds, e.g. "reasonable suspicion" vs "probable cause"[1], and that "20 minutes or so is a reasonable timeframe for detaining someone" [2]).

[1] http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/arrest-vs-detention-h...
[2] http://criminal-law.freeadvice.com/criminal-law/arrests_and_...
One has to wonder how much time was spent dismissing applicants, and if that time would be better spent showing the new hire his personal preferences (which are only preferences, there wouldn't be 100+ comments on this thread if it was standard)
I'm pulling this mostly from my decaying memory but nando.net (Raleigh? News and Observer) was neck-and-neck with the SJ Mercury with a web presence. Many of the early newspaper web sites were simply HTML variations on existing online presences (CI$, Prodigy, AOL, etc).
This is something I talk about with my friend who is doing a PhD in linguistics. I noticed as well that the internet is changing the English language. The rampant globalization that came with the internet combined with English being the defacto language of the internet has allowed it to change. It would be interested to mine Twitter and a few other sources and try to observe how English is changing.

I suspect if you mined Twitter, you would see a 'dumbing down' of English due to the constraints of Twitter. How one would quantify 'dumbing down' is a challenge (if it hasn't been solved already). However, I am more interested in how this 'Twitter effect' cascades to other areas of English.

There are other implications of the internet too I'd love to study but these questions are relevant to this article.
I once worked as a consultant to help users implement some software. I moved on to the development of that software, knowing the dozens of areas that could be improved to make life easier for the users, and honestly with little effort (it's a web app, I did that before the consultancy stuff). At that point in time, that was my dream -- I wanted to help make people's lives a little bit easier, and the people I helped would be those who used our software.

After around a year or so of implementing questionable features, I attempted to get approval for updates to old, well used features to improve them (stability and convenience focused, really), but was shot down. This wouldn't sell the software, because it worked well enough, and we needed more revenue more than retaining old customers. At that point I understood that after the software is sold the customer will be too ingrained into the product to leave without financial repercussions.

A while later, we got bought out by Big Company, so that strategy apparently worked. BC doesn't give half a shit about anything we ever did, and we piled on the features release after release with little concern about anything else. I tried a couple times after the buyout to get approved for existing product improvements, but always got shot down.

I continue to find it odd how the company can be so profit oriented, and yet so averse to improvements. I suppose I'm just wrong or don't actually understand. Either way, it makes it very hard to care about my work these days.
Could this article have been more patronizing?
Really? Other countries don't have taxes?
What's wrong with wanting a walkable neighborhood and things produced by craftsmen instead of Chinese mass laborers?
I subscribe to the NY Times print edition, weekend, since it includes digital and is cheaper than digital only. I live halfway across the country from them. lol

The reason I did it isn't so much due to their intellectual property, but to support and pay for quality journalism.

In the 2 years I've subscribed, I find myself not going to their website as much as loving their email updates. They do a very good job of sending morning and evening updates encapsulating the important news of the day.
I've been calling them the tablet generation. Tablet kids.
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Dude, that's so hip. All those people grooving to the new vibe.

I think it's worth noting that different socioeconomic classes have developed their own vernacular, and thus, it's slightly foggy of the Post to not comment on the population surveyed.

For the more academically minded among us who have time in their day to watch, here's the academic talk given on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cJoiGQ7yj0 - I don't have time to watch it now, but totes will later.
Hi Chuck!

At risk of speaking for Bryan, I think the difference between a NetApp and a unikernel-in-a-hypervisor is the sharedness of it. Without taking a position on Bryan's article (it's always entertaining to read his thoughts), I think his point is that that advantages of a unikernel are largely washed away, and the disadvantages are emphasized.

While Bryan is somewhat bombastic (more fun to read), there's a lot of smart in this article, I think.
Nice to see BB here! We used BB to build our iOS app; over 3 months, it made the process of iterating, deploying and collecting feedback on our prototypes incredibly easy. Great product and a very proactive team. One feature that BB has that is particularly useful is the ability to deploy test builds to various groups. We deploy a build internally to our team group at least once daily, and then another more polished version to our most avid beta-testers at least once a week.
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