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Great tooling? Does Go have any quality IDEs with integrated debuggers yet?

I feel that open source developers mean something entirely different with the phrase "great tooling" than developers used to Visual Studio would mean. :)
> 3-4 hour daily commute

It saddens me that anyone thinks this is acceptable. I know some people don't mind it, but what a waste of your life to do this for any extended period of time.
Hacker Guccifer Welcomes Extradition, Clinton Email Probe Prompted by Romanian
Just checked out the project - great work! I'll pass this on to our project leaders and our developers. Perhaps we could even share some ideas?
Maybe because, despite all the noise, e-mail doesn't need fixing? It works, and pretty well too.
Nice, that sounds useful. I guess it's good that they're releasing some of it as open source then. :)
I've built a couple backend systems for mobile and other, I've used Kafka/zk for messaging primarily.
I'll have to check this out more in depth, thanks :)
There's a major difference between being in leadership and being on the line. You signed up for an acquisition -- the employee worked for you partially because you weren't <insert big company here>.
>How safe does a self-driving car have to be before it is allowed on the road?

I'd argue that self driving cars just don't have to be safer than average drivers. They should be safer than average drivers with computer driving assistance. It's already happening, but we can take the self driving programs and use them with human drivers. To get a best of both worlds scenario. Of course we'd have to mandate all new cars come with computer driving assistance.

The counter argument is that we accept the risk of cars now, why not let self driving cars have the same level of risk. My answer is that the risk of cars is so great we either shouldn't be accepting it or are only accepting it because there isn't an easy alternative. A lot of Americans die on the roads.
yes, Surviving, Trauma, Shock, and Dismay.

I'll add Anger, Confusion, Fear, and Depression.

That's my experience at least. Not all acquisitions are rosy experiences for the employees. Sometimes employees get blindsided when they show up to work one day to be told the company has been sold.
"Communist" or "people's" speakers in Latin America have had an incredibly powerful voice since the US supported dictatorships of the 60s to 80s. It didn't matter what crimes they perpetrate, they could always count on the population forgiving them.

Now that those people have been in power for a while all over the place, people are waking-up to the fact that they aren't special, and there's no deep truth on their discourse.
No. That is not correct. You cannot route Protobuf messages. You can only do point-to-point communication with Protobuf. This makes Protobuf unsuited for systems that require routing of messages, like a P2P network where not all communication may be point-to-point but have to be routed through intermediate nodes that do not know the schema of the messages sent. Or, systems that communicate via message queues.

Also, since Protobuf is not good at encoding raw bytes (their words, not ours) we find it unsuitable as a general purpose encoding for messages in a network protocol, where we expect a lot of raw bytes to be exchanged (files, video frames, VoIP frames etc.).
Well I was just checking this post about markdown-based resume tool... played with it a little and looked nice for me, may help https://github.com/awalGarg/cv-maker/
The biggest breakthrough might not be in technology, but in policy.

Nuclear propulsion has offered high-Isp and high-thrust together in the same engine since the 60s[1], but for various reasons it hasn't flown. With the right safety precautions, public perception, legal changes, and luck, this could be the "breakthrough" you're looking for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA
I wouldn't go that far; in The Elements of Typographic Style Robert Bringhurst mentions having to tweak the kerning of just about every typeface he's ever worked with, and he's professionally associated with Adobe's typography department, so it's not like he's never worked with professionally-made typefaces.

To make a software development analogy, manual kerning is a bit like writing your own HTTP client library from scratch. Any language you use probably already has a pretty good or a great one, so it's probably not worth your time unless you have a very specialist use-case, you want to learn how to do it yourself, or you're legitimately that much better than the original implementor.
The plural of anecdote is not data. And you only gave one.
Sure but that's not a common use-case and won't affect people who want to use Atom as a day-to-day code editor.
Do they seriously expect you to work 8hrs with a commute like that?
It isn't bullshit, but it isn't helpful information to someone trying to lose adipose mass.

Repeating it to a fatty as fat-loss advice is a lot like trying to teach someone to swim by continually telling them that water is wet. Absolutely true, but completely unhelpful.

The broken element in a fatty is a complex biochemical feedback system that ultimately does not send "start eating" and "stop eating" signals at appropriate times. The frontal cortex can consciously override it to some extent, by refusing to eat when the "start eating" signal is sent, but this is psychologically very stressful.

One of the great things about low-carb and keto diets is that the body's backup ketone-burning power system is usually not affected by the buggy firmware updates that have been applied to the carb-burning system over the years. Once you are adapted to it, you can consciously control your caloric intake as appropriate for your body-reform plan without getting bombarded by unsatiated appetite signals every waking moment of your day. You can eat a 1200 kcal diet without biting through the padlock on the fridge and gorging yourself on whatever is in there.

A fatty usually isn't fat because they want to be, or because they don't understand thermodynamic balance. They're fat because they have a little shoulder devil constantly whispering in their ear, that just won't shut up, ever.

DEVIL: Hey. I want a doughnut. I want a dozen doughnuts.
FATTY: No.
DEVIL: Get me a doughnut. Do it. Do it now. Gooey jelly doughnut.
FATTY: Those are like 300 Calories. Each. So, no.
DEVIL: Don't care. Ok, compromise. 3 beignets. C'est si bon.
FATTY: No!
DEVIL: Fine. Churros, por favor. Me gusta.
FATTY: No. No fried sugar-dough of any kind. Will french fries work?
DEVIL: Super size! Extra ketchup! Fountain drink!
FATTY: [om nom nom]
DEVIL: Now I want chocolate.

As you can see from the example conversation, the fatty already knows that a doughnut has too many calories in it. That knowledge simply does not help to silence the imaginary anthropomorphization of appetite.
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I don't think anyone's seriously claiming that everyone will react the same to diet and exercise, or that "calories in - calories out = weight lost" is the only word on weight loss.

It is, however, the final word.
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Well, since you've asked so politely!

An insulin index of foods: the insulin demand generated by 1000-kJ portion of common foods

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/66/5/1264.abstract
When it comes down to differentiation what do I care about if a robot is driving me around?

Safety. Period.

The equation to get to safety is sensors + computing + map / map geometry.

The sensor differentiation will matter for a while, some OEMs will do very well, but ultimately it will just boil down to the software.

So how is the future of this space not just "everybody licenses Google's platform"?

If life/death safety is the differentiator (and measurable) I feel like the writing is on the wall. Google is going to dominate this.

Maybe Musk sneaks in there with his brash approach of using his drivers as test subjects but his position as a competing auto manufacturer seems less compelling than supporting an "Android-like" effort from Google.
Do you know of another?
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Wow ! This is great ! I guess packages ala ipython notebook are coming soon :)
Another similar one is Fixedsys, the oldest font in Windows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixedsys
I'll have to disagree with your comment there.

>Audiophiles rag on Bose pretty hard.

>Bose simply doesn't target audiophiles. They don't make audiophile products.

That would paint the the audiophiles as ignorant.

> Bose has somehow managed their image so that people think Bose really can cram audiophile-grade performance into precisely the kind of tiny, plastic boxes no other audio company can get halfway decent sound out of.

I don't think anyone who buys Bose products even knows what audiophile-grade means, let alone expect it. People try them on, stuff sounds good, and they buy them. The average person does not have any interest in learning the intricacies of what makes stuff sound good.

>Bose fails as hard as anyone else at that, but somehow people believe they've succeeded and line up to buy their products.

Maybe people believe it because Bose headphones actually sound better to THEM? Yes, sure maybe SOME people get swayed by the marketing (like any other product in the world), but I don't think a large segment of the population will spend hundreds of dollars unless they can get some tangible benefit. Sure, maybe its sad that they spent all their hard earned money on something that they could have gotten for a fraction of the price from some other vendor - but this applies to TONS of products out there.

And interestingly enough, even the so called audiophile-grade manufacturers are not really going to tell you, for e.g. that you're better off upgrading your source (the most important link in that chain), than your gear. All of the several thousand dollar headphones and amps and dacs, IMHO, are also one step removed from snake-oil. It reminds me of all the wine drinkers who buy all these expensive wines, and going off of memory, they have them do a double-blind trial and they pick out the cheap wines as tasting just as good.

(FWIW I don't own any Bose products, but I have invested/wasted about $5000 in audio gear over the years :))
He died at the age of 72... Plus this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Atkins_(nutritionist)#C...

If you follow general nutrition there is almost nobody currently saying sugar and complex carbs are good for you, everyone is saying to limit your intake, while consuming more fats, proteins, and greens.

All of those diets have one thing in common: Less sugar and less of things that easily metabolize into sugar.
I recently had a job application that asked for my facebook, twitter, linkedin AND instagram. How ridiculous. I didn't even finish applying.
No, I get that. What i was pointing out was that once it had a location, I couldn't change it (it never asked me again).
It depends on the distribution of drivers that cause incidents. If the average (mean) driver is involved in an average number of incidents, then fine, base the safety estimation on them. If the average driver is involved in a below average number of incidents, the safety standard should be tuned to the drivers that are involved in incidents.
> Well, then how about "Google is an ML company"?

Sure, that's fine, but since ML is generally considered to fall under the AI umbrella your statement is more precise but not more correct.

> Though I fail to see any application of machine learning to write home about in their core business -- ads.

I know basically nothing about our ads (I work for Alphabet), but I believe there is some kind of ML involved.
> we don't have files on mobile or web

Iphone user spotted.

On my Android I have a full file system, with files, and I intend to keep it that way.
It's probably too late for this one but consider signing up for one of Dangerous Prototypes hacker camps:

http://dangerousprototypes.com/2016/01/15/hacker-camp-shenzh...
I have a 3 hour commute (by express bus with comfy seats, etc.). Honestly, I just use the commute time as "me time", not too different from hanging out at home.

The long commute lets me be close to my parents, in a neighborhood my wife likes, $1100 rent for a 2 bedroom in NYC, etc.
Having joined IBM which has a process for everything (including evolving management, and making changes at the top) which was very very different than Sun which was evolution by attrition (for example once Ed Zander figured out that Scott McNealy wasn't going to give him a shot at being CEO he went to Motorola) which was different than NetApp where some positional changes (CEO) seemed managed while others (CTO and VP Eng) did not.

And then there are processes like military command or the US Constitution which have their own components. For example you can't run for the office "Speaker of the house" in the US Congress you have to be voted into it by a set of peers who are all nominally eligible for the job. Similarly with Pope, anyone in the College of Cardinals can be elected as I understand it. Not so much for Dali Lama though.

Organizations are only as strong as the people who make them up, but creating tools to manage that set of people for the greater good of the organization, that is an interesting question. How do you quell damaging voices while amplifying the voice of people making forward progress? Countries are the same way, monarchies can fail suddenly with the coronation of a bad monarch, but democracies tend to survive such games. Rome had been around for centuries but as more and more power congealed into a single individual it became more and more unstable. It is like you have to walk into a room where anyone else can get you removed, and still get stuff done.
That's a good point, there's been some recent stats(don't have them on-hand) showing AEB making serious improvement in collision and injury rates.
If you take the Facebook bus and work on WiFi you can pretty easily.
I am not implying anything. I am straight up stating that if you don't throw the bastards out, they will never learn.

If you actually care about policy instead of about avoiding the hated outgroup, your relationship with politicians needs to be transactional. If they don't deliver, find another one, even if said politician is (gasp! shock!) not a Democrat. I would recommend the same, by the way, to Republicans who are upset that the Congressional GOP isn't cutting spending. Vote them out of power, it's the only way to get your point through.
> Maybe Musk sneaks in there with his brash approach of using his drivers as test subjects but his position as a competing auto manufacturer seems less compelling than supporting an "Android-like" effort from Google.

I'd rather support Musk; this is core to his product. For Google, its just another moonshot.

Tesla also has the advantage that Tesla owners drive 40 million miles/month. That's far and beyond what Google's autonomous vehicles are covering (<75K miles/month).
Just because you don't like something doesn't make it extrajudicial, and maybe you should take it up with the governments of Europe.
Sometimes I really feel like I'm falling behind the times because I don't use a lot of third party services or platforms for my company's apps. I feel like I stick with simple tools at the expense of not getting any "good stuff" for free.

When something like this shutdown occurs though it makes me glad that I can just spin up a plain old server or two and put together whatever services that I need. I can't tell if I'm a dinosaur or a maverick!
If everyone's going to accept a single standard (which would be helpful for inter-car telemetry), it can't be controlled by Google. We can't let our cars become another one of Google's monopolies.

We should also strongly consider the merits of open source with many vendors contributing and a good governance model. Ideally there'd be some sort of foundation (or government-sponsored group) in charge of such an effort.

The last thing we need is to have our screaming metal death traps buzzing around controlled by black box software by a single developer.
The article seems to focus on "because they might leave" but the real reason is this line:

> Even before the team decided to leave, the city's stadium revenues didn't cover its payments, leaving the city with annual shortfalls.
I can't wait for self driving cars. End of that discussion each time we eat out about who is going to drive us home...
With a couple of exceptions, it's fairly straightforward. Is it recognized as a sovereign nation by the UN, does it issue passports, does it control import and export of goods, does it enter into international treaties?

Yes, I know we have people in Arizona who claim to be sovereign and people in places like Texas who want to become their own nation. Thing is, it's only in their view, no external authority recognizes that.
The range of a Gulfstream V is about 6500 miles. Given that fact the jet could have easily flown without entering UK airspace at all. The Gulfstream V also has an initial cruising altitude of 41,000 feet with a max of 51,000 feet. 45,000 feet may be high for a commercial jet but the G5 cruises comfortably at that altitude. Given these facts I am not sure why the CIA would create the exposure flying over the UK would create. My guess is they have heard of flight aware and know a transponder does.
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Thanks for noticing, this is indeed quite bad, I opened a ticket to have this fixed
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A big point in Tesla's favor is that they're putting it out incrementally. Cruise control is a very simple form of 'self-driving' that everyone is comfortable with the existence of.

For the population to truly embrace this trend, it's going to be a long road of incremental steps. Lane assists have started to become commonplace, as have tools to automatically brake to prevent collisions. As these technologies become commonplace, people will accept them. Eventually, fully autonomous driving won't be much of a stretch.
So I wondered that as well and did some Googling.

Found a blog post by Joel Webber, who I have not heard of, but he was working on a minecraft clone and had some advice on avoiding GC and memory layout:

http://www.j15r.com/blog/2015/01/25/Game_Development_in_Go

Also found an engine, Azul 3D, and they made this claim:

https://azul3d.org/doc/faq.html#what-about-the-garbage-colle...

Then there is termloop, which is a terminal based engine:

https://github.com/JoelOtter/termloop

Fun for indie game stuff.

So, yeah. There's that.
I've been following this guide which has a lot of information on better foods and how your body functions: http://ss.fitness/

Most notably:

Cut grains/flour/wheat/sugar/baked goods from your diet completely.

Diet accommodates for about 60% of your body while exercise makes up the rest 40%. Give or take 20% depending on your type and metabolism.
> Not knowing that Amazon is controlled by a board of directors (elected by shareholders, the owners) is just like not realizing the president is elected and we don't have King Obama.

Sure, and it would be very surprising for anyone not to know that, but I don't see how it makes them any less qualified to do their job.
> there is almost nobody currently saying sugar and complex carbs are good for you, everyone is saying to limit your intake

Who is saying to limit intake of carbs? Definitely not any non-profit organization like WHO:

> The Consultation RECOMMENDS:

> 3. Against the use of the terms extrinsic and intrinsic sugars, complex carbohydrate and available and unavailable carbohydrate.

> 11. That the many health benefits of dietary carbohydrates should be recognized and promoted. Carbohydrate foods provide more than energy alone.

> 12. An optimum diet of at least 55% of total energy from a variety of carbohydrate sources for all ages except for children under the age of two.

> 17. That the bulk of carbohydrate-containing foods consumed be those rich in non-starch polysaccharides and with a low glycemic index. Appropriately processed cereals, vegetables, legumes, and fruits are particularly good food choices.

> 18. That excess energy intake in any form will cause body fat accumulation, so that excess consumption of low fat foods, while not as obesity-producing as excess consumption of high fat products, will lead to obesity if energy expenditure is not increased. Excessive intakes of sugars which compromise micronutrient density should be avoided. There is no evidence of a direct involvement of sucrose, other sugars and starch in the etiology of lifestyle-related diseases.

http://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/nutrientrequiremen...
Oh really? That's unexpected - I'll log a bug for this right now. Thank you so much for reporting that, we rely heavily on the input of others just like this.
Which sounds right when you consider all the people who would love to work, but haven't for years and aren't counted in the unemployment number everyone points to.
Here is a feature list of current alternatives http://kinto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/overview.html#compari...
A cash out to one of the big four must be exhilarating. Even if it wouldn't be your definition of success as founder, imagine the pressure from your own investors who invested in you exactly for this type of outcome.
> So how is the future of this space not just "everybody licenses Google's platform"?

Well I certainly can't see that situation going wrong at all.

At this rate how long until Google re-brands itself as Omni Consumer Products and turns Mountain View into a nation state?
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But it is a use-case. I always have to keep Sublime Text around for the times I need it.
Holy moly. I've been through an acquisition, and it was the complete opposite experience. But, I have a bad feeling this post is completely right and this is typical. Must really feel terrible. I'm glad this person shared, and I hope they don't get into any kind of trouble over it.
Thought the same thing. Different state, but a TX judge ruled very, very similar action against PP a crime. Others who say "they told a false story" should realize that's a matter of perspective. I'm sure there are those who say the videos depicting cruel treatment of animals are "edited to convey something different from reality". This logic would also apply to every Michel Moore "documentary" ever.
This is merely Facebook sharing the way it does work at its workplace.
Yes, consumers are stupid, but ignorance is bliss and they like it this way. Put all the pro capital punishment people into a room and ask them to vote on a law requiring public executions in the town square and oh, no we don't want that, we like state sponsored murder to be behind closed doors, the children after all! Etc.

It's a defect in our culture. We're babies. We don't like the reality of some of our choices, it causes cognitive dissonance, so we just white wash reality, and bad mouth the people who try to point to reality, just to coddle the ignorant. And now they don't have to think about it, AND OH MY GOD IT'S ALL SO MUCH BETTER WITH BACON!
You are not out of bounds asking any of those people to answer for what they said, but please stop asking me to.
What kind of supervision was there?
Yeah I really like a lot of Atom packages and there's a lot of cools stuff coming out for it. It starts out kinda slow and sometimes it takes a bit to highlight syntax (less than a second but still), but otherwise I like it.
>In retrospect, I realize that a lot of tiny acquired startups don’t know what the fuck they’re doing and so the behemoth just gets used to assuming that everyone is like that. Just grit your teeth and take it.

This, I'm not sure if this should even be considered a negative. Too often start-ups and smaller tech companies try to reinvent the wheel and call themselves 'agile' or whatever. As a contractor I'd almost always rather deal with a large company - if for nothing other than a dedicated payroll dept.
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