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>100% of brain power into your programming work, and 0% of brainpower into business decisions.

>Suddenly, what the businessperson does is not so hugely impressive anymore.

I took a 10 year hiatus from programming and spent 100% brainpower on the business. At the time, I thought I had progressed into being a "businessman" and stopped programming (like Bill Gates).

With that experience, I'd emphasize again that executing business activities such as interfacing with clients, managing employees, and reading the signs of a fickle market to prioritize what software to build and make money is harder than any computing algorithm I have ever worked on including Paxos.

I suspect you're elevating software programming above business tasks because of caricatures like Dilbert PHB (Pointy Hair Bosses) and shows like The Office. Well those stereotypes are true because most "businesspeople" are clueless idiots. But that's just Sturgeon's Law[1] at work: the majority of every profession (programmers included) is less than mediocre.

Creating a business and running it such that it doesn't devolve into bankruptcy is as every bit as creative and as difficult as computer programming. With software engineering, you deal with bits and bytes and defined tradeoffs (this network as X latency, that disk array as Y response time, etc). Yeah, juggling all that is complicated but at least it's mostly deterministic. You add 5 to an integer and you don't worry if a stray cosmic ray is going to randomly flip a bunch of bits around such that the integer now says 48390. The cpu doesn't conspire against you to debug the code.

On the contrary, the following business factors are non-deterministic:

-- humans, such as a fickle marketplace and customers that you can't the minds of

-- humans, such as employees with their own needs & wants that don't necessarily align with the business. Hiring good people is hard, etc

Each human is a like a bundle of bytes in a RAM that have their bits being randomly flipped by cosmic rays. There is no deterministic wetware "debugger" to run on a bunch of people so that everyone works together to make the business successful.

Running a business is as hard (or harder) than computer programming. So is managing a hedge fund to return +10% instead of losing investors' principal. Those activities are "hard" in a different way from algorithms. I don't see why programming is elevated above them as being harder.

>should I simply accept that business-people make more money than I do? No

I'm trying another business venture and I'd be perfectly fine with stepping back to just being a CTO and hiring a CEO that has a higher salary than me. The higher salary is what it will take to attract somebody competent. (Of course, I'd have more equity but that part is worth $0 if I'm the CEO.)

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
Seems cool. But a 15-minute video? Pictures or it didn't happen.
Just as much as with other technology, but with web apps there are simply less of them.
> However I also have seen lots of convoluted code, exactly because such expressiveness is missing from the language.

That's the operating point here. Leave out expressivity, and tons of programmers write convoluted code. Leave it in, and a couple of clever people use it in an over-clever way.
They are referring to integer ambiguity resolution, which is the final step in getting a dual-frequency differential GPS position down to centimeter accuracy.

This [1] is a good explanation. It does require a GPS receiver capable of carrier phase tracking, which your cell phone isn't capable of. The cheapest I've seen is this uBlox [2].

[1] http://www.navipedia.net/index.php/Carrier_Phase_Ambiguity_F...

[2] https://shop-america.u-blox.com/en/usd/3~130~AMERICAS/Positi...
Erf, it was enough for me to be surprised, like 20%. I trashed the 'code' and I can't reproduce it ~_~;

http://lpaste.net/152375
Indeed. While my beliefs have often diverged from the Justice's, his writing has been riveting to read and inspired me to improve my own.

America has lost a towering intellectual, and for that, I mourn today.
I find that more interesting than the bug itself. Why battery dying fixes the issue? Does that reset the time? And if it does, then to what?
Split decisions affirm the lower court's rulings.. So the initial Appellate Court decisions are probably a good barometer to see where things will land. The ever-helpful SCOTUSBlog with a bit more background:

http://www.scotusblog.com/2016/02/what-happens-to-this-terms...
In addition:

"Farrell said these requirements can be achieved by combining GPS measurements with data from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) through an internal navigation system (INS). In the combined system, the GPS provides data to achieve high accuracy, while the IMU provides data to achieve high sample rates and high bandwidth continuously."

I'd call that centimeter accurate positioning, but still metre resolution GPS.

Either way, it's a potentially useful advance.
What makes you think that? If the filenames confused you, those are checksums. The metadata is available as database.
This has been one of the most obstructionist congresses in recent history, far from being under pressure, I would call it business as usual for them.
Your evidence it can't be implemented everywhere is a country that implemented so much if it that they can save money by importing trash?
As long as I briefly have HN's attention - how did y'all find the repo-as-universe, and universe alignment, metaphors? Useful?

(This was the diagram leading up to it: http://imgur.com/bzy22DA)
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Now we get to see the first ever anonymous hold put on a nomination for the supreme court.

It's the only way they can try to run out the clock on Obama.

Or come up with some kind of fake moral outrage.

Can you imagine Trump picking the next three Supreme Court judges? It would set back America for decades.
> the man who opposed marriage equality

You realize you're talking about one of the five justices who voted to overturn prop 8, right?

He did oppose marriage equity, but reducing a person to generalizations isn't as easy as people make it out to be. I won't be celebrating today.

If you can't be respectful of Scalia, be respectful of the fact that Ruth Bader Ginsburg lost a close personal friend today.
The problem is that, as a software developer, I am not going to learn 3 PMs to distribute my free software (yum, apt, homebrew) nor am I going to navigate the politics of Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, etc. for getting my free software included in their repositories and/or keeping it current. I have things to do, like write software.

Language PMs are "good enough" to solve the problems of the people actually writing the software, and in most cases that is really all that matters. I'm sorry they're not good enough for you, but it's not my fault that Rust, Python, and Go will let me upload to their package manager but Debian/Fedora/whatever you use will not.

Your fight is not with the language PMs, it is with your OS vendor who will neither give me upload rights nor send out someone else who does, who neither designs tools for me to use nor sends someone who already knows how to use them.

To be clear, I think there are good reasons why OS vendors won't change their ways, but software developers won't change our ways either, so neither language PMs nor OS PMs are going away any time soon.
It really depends on a lot of different factors. Single-digit Watt levels can burn you under the right conditions, though obviously it wouldn't be as severe as at higher power levels.

I was burned by ~300W in the specific cases I mentioned. I think it probably classifies as second-degree burns and (because I was young and dumb) I never did anything to help prevent scarring or heal the tissue besides basic first-aid. Safety first, everything else is secondary.
What's the state of the art in active anti-noise technology for helicopters? I've read about that kind of thing a few times, but don't know what actual numbers are.
Any senator can put an anonymous hold on any nomination.

It's never been used for a supreme court judge.

This will most likely be the first time and it will be a new low.
It is similar, but you need to have npm installed first don't you? With gradle you typically interact with it through a shell script (aka gradle wrapper) and that downloads the correct version of gradle if it isn't already present in the project directory and then gradle downloads the dependencies. The person who sets up the project would generate the wrapper script using gradle.
Glad you like glide, and thanks! Though I'm at the very most a co-author - I've contributed only ideas so far, and maybe a comment fix or two.

Now that I'm finally done writing this, maybe I can write some code.
Music has a severe affect on my mood.

Pandora was the first algorithm that got a lot of elements right for me. I'd find one or two songs that created a mood I needed, and then Pandora took over and found lots of others for me.

Does anyone have recommendations on other algorithms that work?
No, "good outcome, bad reasoning" is a pretty common opinion about Obergefell.
Honestly just stop reading the news. They just make sensationalist headlines as click bait.
A lot of the media also wants to see the world thrive. "Us vs them" scenarios are counterproductive and cynical.
Really? I had a Nano and I was able to open it with a soft plastic knife. Does Apple really not allow you to replace your own battery?
It will be interpreted as Republicans shutting down the government... again. Moderates and Independents, and Centrists on both sides tend to strongly dislike that, and it could swing the election to a Democrat victory.
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Dam monitoring systems use DGPS, one receiver on the wall, the other nearby.

Without a local reference station, atmospheric and ionospheric disturbances would totally overwhelm the effect they are trying to measure.

This [1] covers it quite well.

[1] http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/office/hudnut/SRL/
Actually, according this New Yorker article the Fed can just print money and distribute it to the populace. It's call "money finance" and has been used in the US before.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/23/printing-money-...
> There are far fewer outright political stories than there used to be. Probably fewer than ever, in fact.

I find that really difficult to believe, but you'd have access to stats and I don't. Maybe just confirmation bias on my part, or maybe disagreement on what's "outright political."

> As for this post, experience has taught us that when a story crosses a certain magnitude, there's no stopping it from getting discussed on HN, so we may as well have a single thread.

Fair enough, I suppose.
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It would be interesting of Obama did nominate a staunch centrist right out of the gate, as a gambit to get in a new justice confirmed before the likes of Donald Trump gets to make a nomination.
Reproduction, replication, are words not accurate enough. The point is that access to the data, the code, procedures, and so on is the rigorous way towards independent validation.

The best part of the scientific method is that any scientific contribution has to pass the filter of independent validation. Now it became technically possible for the authors of the research to give all they have in order to facilitate independent validation.

This is very good news for the researchers, because it is much more feasible for them to make open their results than to wait for the publishing system to recognize that we are in the 21st century.
isn't this the judge that said that torture is not "cruel and unusual punishment" because the Constitution applies to persons and suspects conveniently labeled "enemy combatants" were not persons? good riddance
RIP Justice Scalia. Didn't agree with him on * many things but he seemed like a relatively principled judge, as far as they go.

(edit: Actually, can't think of too "many" things off the top of my head where I fully disagreed with him. I did enjoy reading his written rulings)

In the coming days, it'll be interesting to see retrospectives on how Justice Scalia ruled on such issues as tech privacy and censorship. For example, in Brown vs. Entertainment Merchants Association (2011), Justice Scalia wrote the majority opinion which said that "video games qualify for First Amendment protection"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Entertainment_Merchan...

edit: More context on the ruling if you don't feel like clicking through: The 7-2 opinion struck down a California law that banned the sales of video games to minors, which had been signed into law by (of all the ironies), Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Basically, the court saw video games as art:

> Like the protected books, plays, and movies that preceded them, video games communicate ideas—and even social messages—through many familiar literary devices (such as characters, dialogue, plot, and music) and through features distinctive to the medium (such as the player's interaction with the virtual world). That suffices to confer First Amendment protection.

As described by Wikipedia:

> Scalia's decision also stated that the current self-moderated industry standards like the ESRB are operated effectively to regulate the sale of more mature games to minors, and that "filling the remaining modest gap in concerned-parents' control can hardly be a compelling state interest" requiring a law to enforce.

The two dissents were Justice Breyer (considered a liberal justice) and Justice Thomas, who is seen just as much of the conservative base as Scalia is. According to Wikipedia:

> Justices Clarence Thomas and Stephen Breyer dissented, each authoring a separate dissent. Justice Thomas, in his dissent, considered that historically, the Founding Fathers "believed parents to have complete authority over their minor children and expected parents to direct the development of those children," and that the intent of the First Amendment "does not include a right to speak to minors (or a right of minors to access speech) without going through the minors' parents or guardians."

Justice Alito and Roberts, the 2 other conservative members of the court, concurred with Scalia's opinion, but had reservations about being too lax in regulating the content of video games:

> "There are reasons to suspect that the experience of playing violent video games just might be very different from reading a book, listening to the radio, or watching a movie or a television show," referencing the book Infinite Reality which highlights the psychological effects of virtual reality, and argued that the decision "would not squelch legislative efforts to deal with what is perceived by some to be a significant and developing social problem.
Instructions very unclear, being a meaningless sequence of symbols. Upvoted.

EDIT: Dear me. I hope the downvoters are just doing it randomly, and not pissing on Scalia's memory by actually interpreting my prose!
I cannot see how to do it, but one way to beat that limit might be the use of diffraction gratings. It might be possible to have the light from two opposing edges of the solar disk interfere and produce a darker spot, thus allowing one to draw the time in darker text on a light background.

If that can work, I guess both the design (I can't see how to design one object that shows a number for say 5 seconds; now fit thousands in a single object) and the engineering challenge would be quite a bit higher (at submicrometer scales), and that the resulting contrast of the display would be a lot lower.
It is called openhub.net and yes they are bit behind in pulling repository data. But it still gives nice project comparison and also activity charts. If some projects can't be found there, personally use python with pandas and matplotlib to generate the same, but takes a bit of time.
The phone is not "glued" shut. It's shut with tiny torx screws that are near the lightning connector.
They can publish them, or has that gone away?
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The longest Supreme Court confirmation took ~4.5 months.

But that's the process for one candidate. The whole process of replacing a candidate will take longer.
As much as local solar time differs from your time zone. This would be of limited use in China, for instance, where the entire country is on a single timezone, despite solar time having a four and a bit hour spread.
We will have to wish you to burn in hell when you pass also then. As a gesture of our compassion and humanity.
It doesn't matter anyway, they can't void your warranty just because you did some work on your phone. If you break something then of course that wouldn't be covered, but the warranty would still apply to everything else.
That's the intuition behind systems like Flake (https://github.com/boundary/flake) and its predecessors.

In systems like Flake you are able to get a useful roughly-ordered property which is good for generating ID's and organizing things like activity feeds. Things will be mostly sorted by time by encoding the time in the most significant bits, but they will be fuzzy because of machine and sequence ID's in the LSB's. You will get monotonically increasing ID's per-process because each one spinlocks locally against backwards drift, but you're not guaranteed to get monotonically increasing ID's globally across all processes. One process' time might drift forward, or you might have two ID's at the same time but the instance with the higher machine ID responded first.
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That's not possible, since a senate confirmation this close to elections is likely to just be punted on for a year.
> The author invokes the old myth that "digital audio must be sampled, therefore it's lower quality"

Actually, the author made a different argument: That the removal of the higher frequencies in PTSN PCM combined with the low frequency of modern cellphone background noise made for something much harder to understand. As someone quite familiar with the subject, I think this is a very nuanced and compelling argument.

> Saying that the digital protocol is "permanent" is basically a lie;

The author also did a spectacular job dealing with this in an understandable way too, talking about how it's baked into so much of the infrastructure.
... well yeah it's confusing, but that's what happens when you cajole people into using a pull-based model so that the company can capitalize on those highly desirable market conversion/retaining effects that you wouldn't have gotten if you had done the natural thing and supported the traditional unit of change, i.e., patches.

End result: people are confused and using a procedure that's more complex than what most of their contributions call for, but that goes away when you remember what the numbers for the company are.
There's a precedent to replace 'like with like', so knowing that Scalia was very right-leaning, (if he gets the chance) Obama will very likely nominate a centrist, if not a right-leaning one. At least that seemed to previously be the case... In this new world of scorched earth politics, who knows..

Edit;

My guess for nomination:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Srinivasan

He's a Stanford guy, Indian, already sailed through the Senate for a DC Court of Appeals position, disliked by Unions, and by all accounts a brilliant legal mind. He's successfully represented corporate clients (e.g. Skilling in Skilling vs. USA) and had a successful career in the private world.

This somewhat contradicts my first paragraph, but he's definitely to the right of Kagan or Sotamayor.
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I don't buy any hard criteria for accepting something as "art". Ultimately it's just a status contest. Will the hip folks accept video games into "high culture", or will they keep sneering? Post facto excuses can be made for either choice, but the deal maker is the opportunity for social differentiation.

The best way to elevate the status of games is not by making art games like Gone Home that try to tackle social issues with a veneer of interactivity. That's a transparently wannabe tactic. Instead, gamers could project a hipster-like appreciation of pure gameplay as something that takes effort to enjoy. There's a good case to be made that the unwashed masses don't actually enjoy gameplay once you remove all the set dressing (art, music, plot...), so there's an opportunity for an informed minority to claim better taste. Such hipsterism could sow the seeds for eventually accepting games into the high culture pantheon.

As a bonus, creating pure gameplay is much easier than asset-heavy games. It's well within reach of a single brooding artist on drugs, and you can credibly sell it as a momentary flash of inspiration later. That's convenient, because picking out the name of one auteur from ten pages of credits is a real mood killer.
Text, tradition, and contemporary practice being far more important than justice, to Scalia.
GitHub code search is pretty awful in practice. It's easier to use ack or grep to find relevant information in a repo.
Ted Cruz has already called for the process to get delayed for the next president. (Which seems ridiculous to me, since that's not in line with either Cruz's or Scalia's commitment to constitutionalism and the rule of law, but hey.)

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/698634625246195712

The Senate had been (apparently) filibustering presidential appointments quite a bit more of late, both Democrats against Bush and Republicans against Obama, concluding in the Republican-devised "nuclear option" being used by the Democrats in 2013. Nominations by the president now only require a simple majority, not a supermajority, with the specific exception of Supreme Court nominees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_in_the_United_State...

It would not be surprising at all to see the same sort of filibustering that was previously applied to both Obama and Bush's nominations be applied to whomever Obama nominates to the Supreme Court.
No programmer ever wished for more special cases when integrating date handling code, especially on a networked device and one that's so tightly integrated with other platforms and devices. And imagine the nightmare of testing the device pre-release, all while faking out the dates, both local and on NTP servers and on development desktop machines the under-development devices are tethered to, and somehow knowing exactly when the release day was going to be, possibly years in advance. So... no, I'm not sure about that plan. And I guess the bug would be unaffected in any case.
Thanks! I'm really new to it and I'm using it for basic mirroring for now. But the UI is really enjoyable and I've liked the native mirror support in GitLab.

I do have one issue, but I already reported it here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/support-forum/issues/536
A cogent argument on why the Fed, ECB, and BoJ can and should just print money instead of perma-ZIRP with its nasty side effects of asset bubbles and the creation of massive wealth disparities.
My understanding is that since [flagged] is for stuff that was killed by user flags, other dead stuff is dead for some other reason. Like automatic spam detection, [dupe], moderator actions.
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It's easy to have a bitter satisfaction if the unicorns fail if you're not part of it. But in reality, while it may be true this is overvaluation of companies is coming to an end - the folks that started it all are still big winners.

Those unicorn owners will be just fine.
Why is that realistic?
To my knowledge, the precedent is to replace "whoever left the bench" with "whoever is likely to agree with the current President's party".

Are there any examples where a liberal president nominated a conservative or vice-versa?

(I'm not talking about situations where someone was appointed as a conservative and moved gradually left, which actually happens to all justices.)