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May I ask who you think should be offended by the master/slave terminology? There are two possibilities in my view.

If you're black, I think you wouldn't give a damn about using the word in a technical setting that makes sense. Please correct me if I'm wrong; I'm not black but I'm using logic I feel my black friends would use.

If you're white and feel the word is insensitive, you're actually making a big deal out of it when it's really not your place to do so, which is ironic in my opinion. If you think not using the word where its meaning is used properly and in no way is intended to offend will somehow lessen the heinous and repulsive nature of the acts committed by your predecessors, then you're misguided.

Of course, this is the way I see it. Perhaps I'm out of my depth.
I believe it was done through quantitative easing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#Japan_befo...
Hey there, i am Christoph the author. If you have any questions i would be more than happy to answer them.
Yes I agree...it increases morale and team building. I actually wouldn't mind if the company took $500 out of my paycheck and have a 'fun' fund for perks. But I would imagine not all my coworkers share the same view. Also I think some is up to our local managers.

For example we just had a 5 day architecture design workshop...people from different parts of the US flew in to participate. So that's flight, hotel, rental car, meals, etc.

However we only got breakfast one day, and no lunch. To me it makes sense to provide food to get people to come in early and have light discussions over food. Make more use of everyone's time.
Government is charging commercial banks negative interest rates.
I love the Barbican as well. These big concrete cliffs and plains remind me of the countryside in some remoter bits of the UK.

It's telling though that so few people go there. To walk east from Barbican tube station, you can either go along Beech St (through the tunnel built for motor traffic under the Barbican) or over a footbridge and across the Barbican itself, which is quieter and has better air and doesn't involve waiting to cross any roads. The latter seems the obvious thing to do, but at rush hour the tunnel is busy with pedestrians, while the Barbican pedestrian level is almost empty.
I lived near the Watergate one summer as an intern and would shop at that awful little Safeway on the lower level. I was expecting the Watergate to be so much more, given its historical significance/infamy. Nope. Hideous.
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haha, http://i.imgur.com/PKblkfg.png
Not sure I understand the focus on the dancing classes and vegan food. I thought this was targeted at digital nomads, I may have misunderstood.
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Higher prices for faster service is just the nature of any professional services business. Look at PCB fab and assembly there is a premium paid for shorter lead times. Likewise if call out a plumber or locksmith or whatever in the middle of the night it is going to be more expensive than if you can wait until the next business day.

Granted the tactic of quoting a very cheap price like in the story and then charging substantially higher on the spot is not ethical but I would be suspicious for any on demand professional service that responds immediately and quotes a low price.
Thanks for saving me some time!
The points you are missing are 2003 and Celeron. Efficient and easy virtualization is relatively recent.
They are not listed because the extra taxes are not levied by Estonia.

Almost every country in the world taxes their residents' income, even if it arrives from a company abroad. And US (in)famously taxes their citizens' income, even if they do not live in US.

So if you run a company remotely, you still have to check with your local tax rules to see how much tax you may need to pay if this company pays you salary or dividend.
Those who think Japan is unique in its condition and/or that the answer to its problems is more of the same old "advice" as proffered by standard issue economists and business types might profit from Robert Gordon's recently published "American Growth". (paper version: http://www.nber.org/papers/w18315.pdf) At least, it can offer a different, longer-term perspective on the issues.

It's not impossible that we will look back in 20 years and see Japan not as some sort of failure but simply as the first society that had to learn to live without growth.
Great! This article is a perfect example of excellent documentation for source code. It would be great if any project had such a good documentation.
So here are my thoughts / points I noticed.

- Overall its a clean website, not too much info about whatever one doesn't care about.

- The header BG isn't wrong, but the green > blue gradient doesn't feel 'right' to me (not a strong feeling and note that I'm no designer)

- Some elements (twitter icon / two signup buttons) are a bit off the overall flat style of the site.

- In my eyes (again, no designer), the 'want to teach' button also falls a bit outside the style with the darker color

- I'd make it clearer that the categories / course types are actually courses that will be available later on, right now its just a list of programming jargon that doesn't say anything.

- Also, there's a on-hover element, but no link behind it

- The Bill Gates quote is nice, but maybe use something more 'down to earth' type of guy where your targeted audience can
relate to.

- The spacing under the last signup form is a bit big

- Maybe make the secondary heading 1.5/2 times bigger..?

Hope that gives some useful feedback, I know the difficulty of creating a landingspage..

Jeroen Sormani
Few weeks ago I was practising C++ and after struggling with certain problem for more than two hours - it was time to visit toilet (Sorry, but you have to that sometimes). I figured out that every time I came back from toilet, I immediately managed to find solution for my technical problem. This made me wonder if it is my kind of geek or it's a common thing? Even if it is efficient, then you don't always have a need for peeandpoo... so maybe I should start smoking as well?

Anyway, I was inspired from the idea and made a https://www.toiletidea.com/ , so whenever I go to toilet and catch a great idea, I can share it anonymously with random anonymous people.
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>I also find that the best health insurance policy is to take care of yourself

>minimize your health risks (thankfully programming is not very hazardous

health risks from being seated and sedentary all day are quite extreme.

Unless you meant they should join a gym and increase their expenses, thus increasing the amount of work they need to do to pay their bills.

So we've got:

health insurance,

car insurance,

gym membership,

housing/rent,

food,

gas,

internet connection,

electricity,

any current debt (student loans, car loans, mortgage, personal loans, etc),

any savings contributions for retirement.

So yeah, just cut all those expenses by 10x, have a job that allows you to work less than 20 hours/ week from anywhere, and have a altruistic goal that can also be met remotely without interacting with anyone ever.

Oh and also, be a programmer - remember that an altruistic life is reserved for very specific niches of society, altruism should never be the goal of the huddled masses.
Up to which point in history?
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global.Promise = global.Promise || require('promise-pollyfill');

Something like that in your entry file.
Don't forget E: convincing other continents to change their calendars too, lest any historical or astronomical events shared between your cultures reveal the terrible secret.
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I feel like I just watched a whole movie
Decent point, but most people familiar with metric would work with smaller units than metres and for those unfamiliar with metric, describing it as a billionth of a yard would still sound like a pretty peculiar.

I think describing it as a minute fraction of an inch or centimetre would still be pretty accessible without having to get people to visualize a nanometre.
Lots of people have tried immigrating to Japan, because it is awesome in so many ways. However, the drawbacks that keep people from staying seem kind of inherent to how society is set up:

http://japaneseruleof7.com/japan-scam/
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=ANGUS_POTATO&oq=ANGUS_POT...

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You might want to do a search for the term 'The Grauniad'.
Why do these JS framework comparison articles never include http://vanilla-js.com/ ? It's all the new rage, and has these other contenders beat every time when both post- and pre- compression.
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Is the time taken to decompress these minified libraries identical to the original minified libraries? Be nice to see if there was a measurement on that.
I understand the economic theory behind encouraging banks to lend, but I don't see how this will encourage companies to borrow. I've been under the impression that companies aren't willing to borrow because expansion/growth is very risky right now primarily due to the population not wanting to spend money. If people don't spend money, then expansions will fail simply because the company wouldn't be able to bring in positive cash flow to pay back even a 0% interest loan. And people aren't spending money due to several factors. Some big ones being:

1. The general population doesn't want to spend money because of the lack of/slow income growth. So savings appear safer.

2. Aging population means fewer youths and more elderly people every year. The elderly population would be living off of savings/pension so they are essentially on a fixed (and slowly depreciating due to inflation) income. Spending cannot increase here.

3. Youths, meanwhile, are faced with entering an economy that isn't expanding (direct result of companies not wanting to spend). So you aren't exactly boosting the number of spenders in the economy.

Then there is the very quiet startup economy which is not helped by Japan's hiring system. Salaries are seniority based and there is far less jumping between companies because of that. Also, if a graduating student misses out on the annual hiring season, they are very much unlikely to get hired for a stable job until the following year at which point they will have to compete with a fresh batch of graduates. So if you choose to go the startup route, every year you do so results in worse earnings and a far more difficult road to stability should your startup fail (which most do no matter what country you live in).

So what I'm wondering is: How is the negative interest rate supposed to fix the borrower side of the equation?

Supply means nothing if there is no demand. I haven't read much about Abenomics, but the couple of things I have looked into all point to Abe focusing only on the lending side. There doesn't seem to be anything that is promoting confidence on the borrower & buyer side. What have I missed here?
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-economy-insight-idU...
In Austria there were some initiatives to introduce a cheaper Ltd, called "GmbH light", but this was changed again. Currently there's a way to pay EUR 5000 immediately and EUR 17500 (total) share capital after 10 years ("Gründungsprivilegierte GmbH" - http://www.wirtschaftsanwaelte.at/gmbh-light-durch-die-gmbh-...) , but in your situation I'd be looking at setting up a german Ltd to get rid of some of the problems at least: http://www.ug-ltd.de/limited.html
> Greetings Hackaday visitors and Time Travellers from the early 2000s!

This is the best reaction I have ever seen to a sudden surge of traffic to an old page.
By linking that thread you're giving it more attention which is counterproductive.
How does that work with a negative rate? Somewhat equivalently, how does that work with any rate whatsoever?
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I once went to China, without Google. My online life screeched to a halt.

On the other hand, there were a few Chinese people there, and most of them seemed to have a non-halted life.
I used my insurance's towing service. Never again. It's worth having AAA, even if your insurance includes this "service."
Have they tried changing their disastrous work culture so that Japanese citizens of childbearing age feel more free and energetic to form relationships?
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They recently tried to bring over Brazilian Japanese immigrants but were sufficiently dissatisfied with the results to pay them to leave.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/business/global/23immigran...
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It's fair enough specialising in a niche but having the attitude of "I refuse to learn that because it's unfamiliar" isn't going to get anyone anywhere.
PSA: use of concrete != brutalist. The articles makes it confusing for someone not familiar with the distinction, because the author flips back and forth between discussing the use of concrete in architecture and discussing brutalist buildings.

E.g. the kitchen (and the house it is in), the shop, and the bridges in the article are not at all brutalist.
Honestly, nationalism is a bit refreshing. By immigration what you then are implying white business individuals and/or non-japanese otaku would only be able to afford or figure out a way.

If you are thinking of poorer individuals. Why? Their business is doing well and what exports are not are likeky not solvable through a domestic workforce outside of marketing and/or tech.

If you want more babies in a country, I believe denmark had a much better idea than to enable immigration, do it for mom. The pioneers the country seem to already there. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/01/japanese-...
It's a problem in mysql too, unless you use an engine like myisam, which isn't realistic in most scenarios due to durability and concurrency concerns.
> “Surprisingly, most Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) give you a quite bad level of GZIP compression.”

I think CDNs have a good reason for choosing their preferred method of compression. Just the file size alone isn't the whole picture.
> Why do these JS framework comparison articles never include http://vanilla-js.com/ ? It's all the new rage, and has these other contenders beat every time when both post- and pre- compression.

A JS framework is vanilla-js by definition. What you people fail to understand is the difference between a language (Javascript) and an API (the DOM). There is no DOM by default with Node. It would be stupid to say that Node isn't vanilla-js. Someone who is using jQuery is (obviously) using vanilla-js. People who can't tell the difference are the ones that should be mocked, not the ones using a framework because it's convenient. So please go read the javascript spec and educate yourselves about what javascript is.
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This was definitely confusing at first for me, too, but with a little work, you can clean up your imports/requires with just a few lines: https://github.com/tobz/scryer/blob/master/webpack.config.js

Note the resolve section. I have mine rooted at either app or node_modules, and I have some basic extensions set up. This lets me require something like 'components/CardBinder', which ends up then mapping to 'app/components/Cardbinder.jsx'.

It ends up working nicely and lets me forget about precisely what type of thing I'm importing, instead focusing on the fact that I'm simply importing some resource, period.
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Oh I remember someone managing to tap into that ! gosh ... I hope I can find it again.

ps: #ibmthinkpad refreshed my memory.

> old thinkpads (<= T60/61 or something): hdaps.ko from the kernel

> newer thinkpads (up to X201/T400/T410?) hdaps.ko from tp-smapi

> new thinkpads: no wai (simply because no linux driver as of now, nobody reversed the windows driver yet)
No need to make it about Apple vs Google or some newspaper narrative. In a world with negative short rates, money essentially becomes a "bad" (or negative good). Ceteris paribus, companies who deliver a lot of it today or in the immediate future will be valued less than those with cash flows farther out.

I still think the market is making a mistake here, in that the real difference between Google's and Apple's investment projects is not in their nature ("moonshot" vs "mundane") but in their PR. Google just talks more about them.

Given that investors think that Google's stream of cash flows is weighted towards the future and Apple's to the present, though, it makes sense that in the current rate environment valuations are as they are. See also Facebook, Amazon, or Netflix.

No need for grand narratives about the relative merits, product and management philosophies, or management personalities.

That said, I disagree with the market and am betting this is a bubble that will pop soon.
Speaking of monoculture: people on other OS could always check out emacs org-mode! The Babel component of it allows one to similarly mix code into theirs notes. I've been getting good use out of it lately for doing presentations.
Amongst other things I use it to run Skype on my Linux laptop, cos I don't trust Microsoft.

https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-skype
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> If you're black, I think you wouldn't give a damn

You're not, and neither am I - it's not your right to say one way or the other, but it is my right to be prudent. But this isn't just a racial issue - it's one of generally accepted social mores. Language changes and evolves. Nothing is lost in the transition to more eloquent terms.

It's like when visiting Southern Africa a few years ago - whenever I asked for black coffee I was prompted "you mean coffee with hot water?" on a few occasions before I realised it's a politeness thing. As oversensitive as that might sound to my privileged ears it wasn't my place to argue - so from then on it was "coffee without milk please!" - as with leader/follower nothing was lost in the translation but I found myself getting fewer funny looks.
Very interesting write up. I don't know a lot about machine learning, but these kinds of articles are a great starting point to learn about different concepts.

I did find the whale localizer step to be a bit strange, using more machine learning and labeled datasets instead of using unsupervised image processing techniques. Seems like a black and white and oblong whale should be simple to extract and orient without needing specialized data sets. It seems like I'm not the only one to think this since the author remarks about the number of these different kinds of localizers in the forum.
Look at the balance sheets of all central-banks: they show hockey-stick growth and correlate with government debt. We're in the last stages of the self-destruction of a fiat money regime. Rates themselves don't reflect anything about the time-value of money, but much more about the banking system. Anyone who doubt this can ask himself what is going to happen when banks and governments need more trillion dollar bailouts.
Apple's brand is about the perception of perfection, not perfection.
I think for chronic constipation, you can also use this Digestic by Mimonis which is very good in treating constipation problem. I have been save from my long battle of constipation that is why I can say it has been proven by mine to be effective.
Ha, that's pretty awesome. Still going strong.

My main issue with the article is that despite only using pseudonyms, the author easily revealed the real life name of one of the individuals by quoting her Twitter account.

Maybe the author doesn't understand technology, but this shouldn't have slipped by editing. Which really leads me to believe there was none.
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In terms of geologic process, sure. But a concrete cemetery vault is going to remain right where it is, in it's present form for thousands of years.

Near where I live, there are boulders that were dragged down a valley by retreating glaciers 10,000 years ago. They've been exposed to the elements for that time, are are materially intact.
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For me the big thing in this version is tree shaking. I think it will change usage of JS stuff more than most people think. For example, I will use Cycle more because currently I feel bad importing all of RxJS for my toy projects.
> One less responsibility.

It never was a responsibility.