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>>My current boss told me he had [a friend's company] make him a website few years ago. He said that lets just say he wouldn't be going back to them anytime soon. Why? Because they build EVERYTHING on WordPress.

Sure, but that sounds like a strawman. The lesson in the original post isn't about building EVERYTHING on WordPress. It's about knowing when to use existing tools and solutions instead of reinventing the wheel.

>>I'd rather spend time building a custom solution... that is going to make my client ecstatic and return again and again

It completely depends on the project. If it is for a mission-critical application that needs a lot of custom, well-designed features, building it yourself might make sense. Otherwise using something someone else has built is just as likely to make your client ecstatic because you just saved them a lot of money and time.
> already had a trust-fund or come from a wealthy background so they can spend all of their time writing, painting, or engineering

Being from a wealthy background also benefits the startup because you or your family probably "know people" who can help.
I am trying VirtualBox from time to time but so far VMWare wins every time. It's faster and has better hardware compatibility.
French court orders Uber to pay €1.2M to taxi firm
Except for some programmers (the kind that frequents this site but far from the majority) I can assure you that almost any German laptop buyer expects and prefers a German keyboard. Every keyboard in an office will be a German keyboard. All apps that are used and almost all games work fine with the German layout.

Might be different in small countries of course but I expect it to be the same in France, Spain, etc.
works great. lots of features. easy to use. I like it.
Titanium allows an increase in dive depth but has no effect on speed.
>You could keep that corporate job, build your credit, and then buy a McDonald's or a gas station or an apartment building. There's no reason to make a dent in the universe if all you want to do is put your kids through college and travel abroad once a year.

This phrasing I think minimizes the positive impact you can have with those endeavors. Displacing temperamental landlords with professional landlords makes the world a better place, and I've found having property be their only source of income ratchets up the stakes so much that many landlords explode over nothing (I've had a landlord threaten to evict an entire house of unrelated tenants because someone -- unbeknownst to her, her son in the middle of normal maintenance -- had made a very slight mess in the kitchen).

More important than "you don't have to be Facebook" (as if everyone who tried could be even if they "had to") is: with proper diligence and care, running a business well DOES make a dent in the universe, with very few exceptions. It makes the lives of yours customers (and vendors, hopefully) better in ways that are tangible and appreciated.
Nice.

What seems to be missing is the forward/backward links within each 50% of the image width.
Sorry, i misunderstood then.

I would agree that as long as the specific arm of the gov that spies isnt involved in the conference, its fine. The articles argument does not say otherwise either. It highlights that palantir has opposed interests to the attendees of the conference.

Id say the author would be fine with a state department sponsorship as they repeatedly have backed secure communication for dissidents et al, but would oppose sponsorship of the nsa.

Its not just "on principle" either, but the dangrr that i terested sponsors can influence what gets presented and how. Like how the nsa would push an encryption standard theyve already broken.
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Without taking sides, understanding your application requires a fairly complete understanding of React, JSX, Javascript, the DOM, and how React ties all of this stuff together. Sure, your code by itself is quite small, but when you add React, it grows by the size of React.

On the other hand, just by knowing Javascript and the DOM, you can understand exactly what is happening in the OP's code.
This one is a real 10x engineer
It's tangential because, despite being at best an approximation, calories in is still a measure that can be used to reduce intake. It might take experimentation to find the limits for you.

It's quite simple: if you are gaining weight, eat less. The variation between calories marked and calories absorbed is not great enough to fundamentally matter.
Why it’s so hard to succeed in Silicon Valley when you grew up poor
Bonus points for ridiculing him if he uses tabs instead of spaces.
Well, yeah, willow bark was already used in antiquity to treat pain.
@rifung - Thanks for the kind words.

@Chris2048 - Distelli is hiring. If you want to make your own assessment of my skill, then join us :).
If you use a Mac you can see that symbol in the UI, for example in the "Apple" menu on the top left ("Force Quit"). Interesting, because the key is not labelled as such.
I love this classic science. Theoretically this experiment could have been performed in the 19th century!
Dear Leo: have you considered attending Stanford or MIT? You seem like an intelligent candidate, but your lack of academic pedigree would be a real turn off to our VC investors.
You'd hardly notice. The routes also exist via physical links . Prices on the exchanges may get worse for a while...
"Java webapps run better than WebGL+JS"??!

Seriously, I just wasted an hour trying to get Hetzner's KVM java web app to run on my Mac, because after having a couple of tickets closed and finally calling support directly, I was told firmly that the applet was from a third party vendor over whom they had no control, there was no other alternative, and they had no plans to support a better way to access the KVM.

I had to use Safari instead of Chrome, then CAREFULLY upgrade Java making sure Oracle didn't trick me into installing any toolbars, then find the Java control panel in the system preferences, which was just too awesome to be constrained by the limited confines of the Mac system preferences windows, so I had to read about how "The Java Control Panel opens in a separate window" because obviously it is so much more important than all other control panels, so I then pressed the "Reopen the Java Control Panel" button, which did what it promised after a half second pause, then I had to click around to the Security tab to find the Exception Site List, press the "Edit Site List..." button to bring up the "Exception Site List" dialog in all its glory and splendor, then press the "Add" button, then type an https url with a numeric ip address and port number into the field, then click a long series of "OK" buttons window close icons, then go back to the web browser, refresh the page, click through another series of threatening warning dialogs, to finally get a bottom of the barrel KVM applet.

And it was convinced I was using a German keyboard, so I couldn't find the punctuation characters I needed to type shell commands, and the Z and Y keys were switched. I had to press and shift-press every key to make a little table of substitutions, and then punch each character in carefully instead of touch typing.

One new thing I found during my Java adventure: the system Java control panel has an "Advanced" tab, and if you scroll way down to the bottom, there is a checkbox labeled "Suppress sponsor offers when installing or updating Java". It was un-checked by default of course. I suspect it's not actually hooked up, it's just a placebo, and exists to make me lower my guard next time I install a Java update. I'm not falling for it.
A little bit of tough love:

You're going about this the wrong way. Build from the problem down to the tech stack, not the tech stack up to the problem. Here are some questions I'd ask in the following order:

1) What is the problem we are trying to solve?

2) At a BUSINESS LEVEL what is our solution? Not we route records through this $DATABASE and $CRUNCH_THEM, but "we enable users to solve $PROBLEM by $GENERAL_SOLUTION_DESCRIPTION"

3) What makes us different from other solutions to $PROBLEM or why is our approach more unique than what currently exists, at the business level? Better idea, better execution, what?

4) What is the market for $SOLUTION to $PROBLEM? How do we know this? How do we sell it?

5) What kind of processing do we need to do? Any serious custom crunching or are we interfacing with a database and moving data back and forth? Can we plug into existing services and leverage them rather than writing our own? i.e. AWS/Azure?

6) What is the best way to deliver this solution to the end user? Mobile? Desktop App? Web App? Some combination of the above? Why?

7) Given $SOLUTION(S) and $CRUNCH needs what's maximizes our chances for success by minimizing the number of moving parts in terms of tech stack? Do we need to do a web app + mobile with limited crunching backend? Do we need a lot of heavy server side crunching with parallelism/concurrency and a robust object model?

Let the problem space guide you to the solution rather than starting from a solution and working up to the problem. It'll save you some technical headaches later.
Good points and agreed. I did specifically think of and note those refugees or asylum seekers who do for sure need courage. However, I didn't consider economic migrants from developing countries. I can see there is courage required for them too.
That blurb wasn't posted posted in the context of stimulus: it was posted in the context that we're entering into the same stagnation that Japan has placed themselves in where there's a feedback loop between low consumer demand and businesses cutting both wages and hiring, further hurting consumer demand which then further hurts the economy.
You're right, my macbook pro has that symbol, I've never noticed this before. But it looks like they must have recently dropped it, the new magic keyboard uses the word "esc"
http://www.apple.com/xf/shop/product/MLA22C/A/magic-keyboard...
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Learning to Cook - Alton Brown started me down the path of learning cooking from a science/chemistry point of view. After a year of on and off research I've been able to make meals from just things I find on sale over the weekend. It's almost like a puzzle. The pieces are all the food on sale (potatoes for $0.49 sign me up!) and the final product is full meals that I cook. (Plus always good way to impress another by cooking for them).

Monogatari (Anime Series) - It is a jumbled mess that is a jumpy as it is deep. If you don't want to see any fan service at all in your anime I would skip over this. If you don't mind that (or enjoy it) this is a great anime. It doesn't knock my favorite anime (Cowboy Bebop) off of my Number one slot, but this one is a great that I would wager will stand for the future. (Bakemonogatari is the first season).

Don't Panic - There's a reason it is written in big bold red letters on the universe's best selling book.
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I was fortunate enough to be able to write software for the first version of the CM (the SIMD one). Although I was keenly interested in AI even back then, I viewed the CM as a great system for parallel processing, with good I/O throughput, and not for AI research.
Calories definitely aren't accurate but they're "accurate enough." Just as different foods likely result in more human fat development per calorie than others (see bleeding edge research), but ultimately none of that is hugely important because by cutting all calories you're likely cutting the "bad" kind too (namely sugars and complex carbohydrates). Counting sugars and those foods that easily metabolise into sugars is just as effective as actual calorie counting for weight loss.

One key thing to remember is: You cannot outrun a bad diet.

Meaning it isn't realistic to achieve substantial weight loss through exercise. Thirty minutes of jogging could be undone by one extra chocolate bar, a Big Mac, or a soda. If you already have control over your diet exercise can HELP with weight loss goals (e.g. extra pound of body weight a week) but a lot of people assume they can run off 20-30-40 pounds of excess body weight which is just totally unrealistic.

Base metabolic rate is the primary means of weight loss. As simplistic as this sounds, the goal remains to consume less than you burn through BMR, and the latest research on calorie's inherent inadequacies haven't yet changed that.
Generally speaking, you should try really hard to avoid using the heap in any system that has no virtual memory support. Heap fragmentation will ultimately get your app.

The exception is in state machines where you know, in a deterministic way, what the memory layout should be at every given state, and then you can use heaps to get memory overlap between code pieces that operate exclusively of each other.
It is getting completely ridiculous. What is specially galling is that these days most of us have publicly published works (ala github, etc.)

On the other hand, seeing a letter like that reminded me of how James Joyce [?] used to go to Shakespeare and Company [1] and rearrange the display to make sure Ulysses was prominently displayed!

[?]: ?!!!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_and_Company_%28boo...
Worst case, as you said, but the best case is...nothing. You're literally spending a bunch of time doing a high risk activity to produce nothing of value. It might be easier to read, but if the original developer is long gone, then it's likely nobody will look at it again for years (unless you broke something and the next guy rolls back your changes in VCS).

Taking on a foolish refactoring project is a rite of passage for developers.
That was a mistake in the article. I should have said "ANSI C". I'll see about getting it corrected.

Thanks!
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I use Libre office Calc along with many formulas and scripts inside it.
Whilst that is true, it really all depends on the resistance of the thing that you are passing the current through.

Remember that P = I^2 R (i.e. power goes as the square of the current for a constant resistance)

so for an object of constant resistance then to double the current than you need 4 times the power.
"Likewise in painting, I can do everything possible as well as any other, whosoever he may be."

El Greco (1541-1614) didn't agree with him on that:
When he was later asked what he thought about Michelangelo, El Greco replied that "he was a good man, but he did not know how to paint"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Greco#cite_note-Plaka47-49-...

Not much of a reverence there! :-)

[Edit: Sorry for the mixup Leonardo! :-(
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Microsoft's early story looks a little different when you realize Bill Gate's mother just happens to know IBM's CEO.
It only really matters for laptops, though. And even then you can use a different layout, except that the keys might not match the typed characters.
Unfortunately, it is Clyde who will have the better-looking resume and portfolio (will Alice even have a portfolio?), Clyde who will be held up as the exemplar of the "10X engineer", and Clyde who will be getting his choice of job offers. Meanwhile, Alice will be toiling away wondering why she can't even get any interviews despite the "talent shortage".
It's still there but not labelled as such. It's a bit harder to press but not prohibitively so. For example, on a German keyboard you press Alt+5 for [ and Alt+9 for }.

The German Windows keyboard has those somewhere else for some reason though...
For me, and I believe there are at least two different types of people in this regard, the key to losing weight was insulin levels. Namely, I went on a low carb diet and lost around 100 pounds.

Some people, I believe, are insulin resistant and some are insulin sensitive. The sensitive ones tend to be skinny and have to really overeat to gain weight, while the resistant ones find it easy to gain weight.

I have dieted for years attempting to lose weight, but cutting out carbs was a game changer. Suddenly losing weight became easy. And who doesn't like an all BBQ diet?? (ok, well, even BBQ gets tiring after awhile, but I eat a variety of stuff, and even have managed to work out how to make a low carb pizza (almond meal+cheese for the crust, tastes like whole wheat).)

I do not believe all calories are the same. I eat a high fat, high calorie diet, I never worry about calories. If I'm hungry I eat. I only ever budget for carbs. So long as I'm eating meat and cheese, say, for a snack, I can eat as much as I want- and I do. (Though one of the side effects of low carb / high fat, is as your body becomes fat adapted, you find yourself hungry less often. I have on occasions simply forgotten to eat for an entire 36 hour period.)

OF course this is anecdote, and I do think that in regards to insulin sensitivity there are at least two types of people.

And in fact, that's part of my point. The monotonous "just cut out fats and eat all the pasta you want and you'll lose weight" Official Government Propaganda Diet is not working- it presumes that everyone is the same too.

Low carb may not work for everybody, I dunno. But it worked for me, spectacularly.

For the first time in my life I'm confronting the prospect of being normal sized. Skinny even.

That's going to be weird!
Well, how can you go on forever without falling off the edge of the Earth? The surface of the Earth two-dimensional, and approximately flat... but there's small positive curvature, so you're continuously wrapping around to a different part of the space. The surface of the Earth can be meaningfully understood as a two-dimensional surface that possesses finite dimension.

A three-dimensional space can be close to flat but have positive curvature as well (or negative curvature, for that matter). Some proposals give our universe positive curvature, rendering its space finite, though still stupidly-big. (I'm not aware of there being a final word on the subject, though). And if different dimensions can have different curvatures, some of them could be much smaller than others.
El Greco was centuries ahead of his time. Love his works.
This application letter in the style of Leonardo from a few years back is pretty special too:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1086527
I've been fascinated by low carb diets for a while now, and in the past month I've been religiously counting everything I ingest, and found I settle naturally towards a very high fat, low carb diet (5% carbs, 25% prots, 70% fat)

My flatmate, who's dieting with me, is appaled by the amount of fat I'm eating, constantly asking me if it's healthy or whether I'm just going to get fat even if I am well below my TDEE. My response is basically "a calorie is a calorie", i.e. I'm below my TDEE => I'm losing weight.

I know that the reality is more complicated, and the article does explain that very well; satiety is more important for dieters, and there's also the unknown factor of gut microbes: am I comfortable low carbing because of satiety or just because my gut flora is different? Nobody knows actually.

This is a fascinating subject and there are far too many experts and anecdata that everybody's right and wrong at the same time. Experiment, if you feel physically good and are not overeating (by counting calories) you're on the right track. Take dieting advices with tons of salt. Make them your own.

Personally I struggle having more than two meals a day and eating more than 1800 cals (I'm 1.86m and 88 kg). If I were high carbing I'd go over the limit just to keep my hunger at bay. I once binged (on processed crap I was craving) and ate around 4K cals. I honestly don't know how to do that on low carb, and especially eating healty. Unless I eat nuts: can eat over 1K cals in nuts in a single sitting.

And whoever said you NEED to eat n times a day: shut up, you're wrong.

My advice: eat when you are hungry, eat real food, forget about macros.
Distasteful? He is saying that the Minsky's work is a direct ancestor to his own. If you read the rest of that paragraph he is praising and thanking Minsky for the foundation he laid.
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Infinite is a big word :) . As explained above, the extra spacial dimensions would need to be compact, which implies them being finite in size. Perhaps the simplest example of compact manifold is the circle: you can imagine one extra dimension to be closed on itself. Going around the circular dimension one circumference length, you will find yourself where you started. The size of the dimension then refers to the characteristic size of the circle, i.e. the circumference.
Here is a fun attempt to answer that: http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9702052
I'd say the calorie is fine (other than being obsolete, you should use Joule. 1c = 4.2j). It may not be easy to measure with high accuracy. That's not going to change with a new system.
Also, just because the body sometimes can't use parts of the calories you feed it, doesn't mean it's broken.
Not alone

Made my startup worked hard. Got contracts. Customers forgot to pay. It sucked.

And in my country it was normal. It was not Africa. It was France.

Big corporations do whatever the fuck want even if it is illegal. Trades dispute are regulated by "peers" tribunal dating from middle age that are crooked.

And newspapers, teachers and politics that never had a job were pointing fingers randomly at problems.
I think that will be wrong too. A good team lives from a variety of experiences and abilities. The trick is to find the right team member for the job.
we have used freshbooks — as it is a leader and has an API, but it's obviously not built to be used for lo's of automated SaaS invoices. some more here: http://blog.fortrabbit.com/battling-billing
Leonardo: "Can I use jQuery?"
> If their startup fails, they can go back to their corporate job

A major challenge of a start-up founder is managing their own psychology. This much easier to do when you are/were upper-middle class and gives those founders a significant advantage.
A gander: I wonder if the clay increased the pH to a level that disrupted some cellular functions of the bacteria. Most clay is alkaline.
At least on a 'real' Norwegian keyboard {,[,] and } are on AltGr-7,8,9 and 0 respectively. I'm guessing it's the same on an Apple keyboard, but Apple just didn't draw the character on the keys for some reason.
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I had major wrist issues and made the switch to programmer dvorak around 2 years ago. Took around one to two months before my wrist got better and about the same time before I didn't feel constrained by the new layout.

Now two years later I would have to say I'm at about the same speed I was with qwerty, except for when I have to write numbers with the horrible positioning on the programmer dvorak layout :)

Would never recommend someone to make the switch unless they have problems with RSI.
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What if only one is a mersenne office?
In this case, it's appropriate. Palantir doesn't "collect health and financial data on people", and I've never seen anything in the press that suggests they do.
The bug may have been uncovered by a server change, but Safari really shouldn't be crashing just because it can't reach the suggestions server.

That is, frankly, pisspoor QA by Apple.
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Sorry, I meant the case where the layout is the same but button markings are different. If the layout is actually different, then yes, you'd have to adjust even more.
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