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> Apply this perspective beyond software development. Law, medicine, firemen, teaching a kid to play baseball. Why do we continually look at software development different than other acquired skills?

Well, that's a good question. What do you think it takes to break into law, medicine or fire safety? I can assure you that being willing to put in significant work, and tolerating adversity, is a hard requirement for each of them.

Much of my family is in medicine, and I used to work in law - both professions are absolutely merciless in comparison to engineering. The expectation that would-be [doctors, lawyers, bankers, etc] put in the work is unwavering, and the professionals in those fields can be huge dickheads to boot. Yet, they somehow manage to attract more than their share of candidates.
> No, just no. There is no point to any of all this search technology and this accumulated knowledge if no one uses it.

And here we have a prime example of why beginners find the programming community to be so abrasive, and worse, it's sitting at the top of this comment thread.

Ask yourself, would this be the answer you give to a 12 year old girl who's taken an early interest in programming? Or a single mother who's trying to switch careers to improve her lot in life? Or your own mother, for that matter? Is it really constructive to be so abrasive?

I'm starting to understand why we have such a problem with diversity in our field. This type of response is, in no uncertain terms, the response of a bully.

Pause for a moment. Try to remember what it was like when you were first starting out with programming. When "the fucking manual" was actually really confusing and loaded with domain specific terms, acronyms, and syntax. Can't remember a time when you didn't learn something immediately? Fine, step outside your world of programming and try to recall any painful memories you might have about trying to learn something outside your area of expertise.

Ever go to a gym and ask someone how to do a basic lift only to be scoffed at? Ever been to a foreign country and have someone berate you for not understanding how to navigate through some strange process or not knowing how to speak their language well enough? Perhaps you have, and it hurt, but you brushed it off and continued on. That's great for you, but not everybody is like that. A lot of people get discouraged and never continue with that sport, or with traveling, or with programming, and it's tragic because they might have otherwise excelled at those endeavors.
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Summary:

JPM estimates that if the ECB just focused on reserves equivalent to 2% of gross domestic product it could slice the rate it charges on bank deposits to -4.5%. Alternatively, if the ECB were to concentrate on 25% of reserves, it would be able to cut as low as -4.64%. That compares with minus 0.3% today and the minus 0.7% JPMorgan says it could reach by the middle of this year as reported yesterday.

In Japan, JPM calculates that the BOJ could go as low as -3.45% while Sweden’s is likely -3.27%.

Finally, if and when the Fed joins the monetary twilight race, it could cut to -1.3% and the Bank of England to -2.69%.

What could prompt the Fed to go NIRP: a recession.

"With IOER at 0.5% and the Fed maintaining concerns about US money markets, the US is not close to considering NIRP. However, if recession risks were realized, the need for substantial additional policy support would likely push the Fed towards NIRP."
However the common crime or sentencing enhancement of breaking and entering with a firearm has clear and important motivations, it's a signal the criminal is entirely willing to use lethal force against others while in the commission of that sort of crime. Those and the more direct sort of forcible felonies have an inherent element of violence in them. Merely selling drugs---a voluntary transaction---while armed is a different thing.
Sam what to you think of Andy Rubin's hardware incubator Playground Global? ($300m funding round)

http://playground.global/

http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/07/andy-rubins-playground-inc...
You can see that there's a difference between saying "Google it" and saying "You're saying 'foo', but you probably want to Google 'bar'"?

Or that there's a difference between saying "RTFM" versus "This is in the manual in the section 'FooBar' - what are you doing that isn't covered there?"

Because too many SO comments are simple RTFM responses.
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In the various reviews I've seen for this store, no one seems to have raised the question of, how would a store like this be profitable? It's selling books at the same prices as Amazon online, but with the added overhead of being in a very high-rent space in an upscale shopping center. There seem to be lots of employees for a book store. At the discounts that Amazon offers, their margin on books is thinner than most bookstores. Sales would need to be very high to make this pencil out, from what I can see.

This might be a play like the old Crown Books stores which sold only best sellers at a big discount with the idea of making it up on volume. But Crown did not last long. Amazon does have good data about what people buy, so perhaps they could maximize revenue per square foot by packing popular sellers in. On the other hand, one departure of this store from typical bookstores is that books are all facing out on the shelves, meaning fewer titles and probably less revenue per square foot.

I'm wondering how this approach to bookstores could pay off for Amazon, except by putting competitive pressure on any other bookstores in the area. But Barnes and Noble closed the store it had in this shopping center quite some time ago. Is it advertising, an attempt to upscale Amazon's brand? Amazon has the number one favorable brand among consumers from what I've read, and it's certainly where most people go these days for books -- last report I saw said over 80% of book buyers use Amazon. So what the business purpose of this store is, unclear to me. But it's Amazon, and surely they're just a few steps ahead of what I can see.
Hey! I resemble that remark!

Truthfully though, in my experience most devs get bitchy only when they get unrealistic expectations placed on them.
Never used them but wordery.com might be an option
I agree and it was edifying to find the actual data to back this up. Although, you can see that there were genuinely lowered prices, so there are deals to be had specifically on Black Friday.
> Might explain why winners of free market capitalism want to institute measures (laws, regulations) to keep others from achieving the same level of winning.

I don't think that's an accurate description of reality. My take is that everybody wants to institute measures that benefit them and hinder others... but the "winners" (i.e. the rich) have comparatively more political power and thus also more success forcing these measures through.
Programming is akin to woodworking. Lots of tools and all of it is for wood. Use the right tools to craft the right solutions.
> Stop being annoying, and just help me!

I don't see this, for beginners the reply will be "I'm trying to bake a cake" ... "I need to get milk from the store" ... "I need gas to get to the store"

Each ... is a back and forth focusing on the actual problem. Beginners don't necessarily know what information is useful information. This is why physically working with an experienced developer is so useful, because that exchange (which provides a useful learning experience for the beginner) is so much easier in person.
I think you were running with encryption turned on. This is a unique feature of Weave Net, but has some costs.

Without encryption, Weave Net uses the same VXLAN technology as Docker Overlay; goes at close to native speed.

(note I am a friendly Weave Net developer)
I don't use golang; what's faster than Gin? It seemed performance centric: https://gin-gonic.github.io/gin/
Fair enough, but I'd argue that if Twitter ever wants to become profitable (and sustainable) it needs to start attracting more casual users. And those casual users don't want to scroll through pages of irrelevant tweets just to find the one or two interesting ones that might be hidden in there.

And to be honest, the kind of user you describe in your post sounds like someone I wouldn't want to follow in the first place. The signal to noise ratio would just be too low. At least with this new algorithm I might follow them and catch the occasional popular tweet from them.
You can certainly show someone the technique. But it will not help if they don't ever attempt to put said technique to practice.

For a given... "repeat customer", I will eventually resort to search links, "What did you try", and then eventually "RTFM", "Google It", etc. - and intentionally not answering the question, to force them to go through the motions - if they don't appear to be doing so.
Hey HN - I'm one of the creators of Suto. I created it because I needed to buy a projector and spent hours researching the best projectors and still couldn't make a decision. I finally asked my friend who knows a lot about projectors, and he gave me a super simple answer. So I thought it would be cool to have a friend like that for everything.

Would love to hear your feedback on Suto's helpfulness/experience, or any questions you have!
Related: A simple SMTP mailer in elixir: https://github.com/antp/mailer
It's more than just gaming. They have total control of their appstore and if you have an app they don't like for whatever reason, it will be banned.

We have given these companies the ultimate power over our apps/businesses.
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Right, and even still it's pretty trivial to reverse a domain from an IP address in most cases.
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>So not thinking about things you don't like makes them disappear?

Precisely. Never underestimate the power of the logic-proof compartment. Every propagandist since Edward Bernays has understood that you can repeat information enough times to make it real. Likewise it works in reverse.

>...and before you know it, I've read them and wasted my precious time. How come?

If you're still here, then how precious is your time, really? Or are you simply trying to justify not spending your every waking moment...what is it they say in Silicon Valley..."hustling"?
We have an immense corpus of traffic incident reports. Its disingenuous to suggest only 'the vaguest idea'.

And the Google car can already identify a person in the road. That's critical, at least for lawsuit purposes. "You mean, it knew there was a kid in the road, and it did nothing?!"

And lawsuits will happen, the first year. Nobody cares about the vast improvement to humanity; they care that a Google car kit their kid. There's where it all fails.
This is great news for education tech. Also very interesting that YC is focusing so heavily on the "education vertical". Can't help but wonder if this is only the first such consolidation. Could easily imagine YC joining forces with other vertical accelerators that have deep expertise and networks in things like synthetic biology, hardware, food, etc.
> Frankly, it was Sam's Club that really surprised me since I always assumed that they offered everything at a lower price as a perk built in for membership.

As a general rule, anytime an institution [0] has an established reputation for lower prices such that people assume their prices are lower without doing comparisons, this becomes a license to charge higher prices.

[0] this is true beyond just institutions, too; "economy" packs of products frequently sell for higher per-unit costs than packs with fewer units per pack, because enough people assume that the cost is lower and don't do the math.
I have NFI how to interpret it either.

Which begs the question of what they're doing with the data.

The mind boggles.
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omg Please let this make it to Adobe Illustrator!
It's almost comparable to Gin, which isn't slow by any means.
Was it TSX?
I enjoyed this article a lot. It has some really good advice on both the beginner and professional sides that I'll definitely be keeping in mind going forward.

But I think the article, and the comments here, have a bit of a blind-spot: teachers and/or mentors. As much as people seem to want to believe that it's easy to self-learn programming, the issues brought up in this article are among those that give the lie to that idea. There would be tension in any field if untrained beginners were asking questions in the same forums used by experienced professionals.

Questions like "javascript while loop not working" demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding that professional support forums like SO and IRC are not designed to address. Most fields recognize that those sorts of fundamentals are best learned with the support of teachers who can evaluate what is missing in a student's mental model and answer questions in a way that builds knowledge. I don't see what makes us think our field is so different.
On a side note, the item id of this post is a palindrome: "11066011", which you can often see in GA algorithms because of how sequence splits happen.
While I get the humor in your comment, I'd be curious if 'relaxing' some of the behavior parameters would result in some not-very-useful conclusions from testing:

"Tests indicate most efficient driving technique to include lots of honking, flashing high beams, and spraying winshield wiper fluid onto cars following too close on the highway."
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The model I described is the historical model, as developed (and later repudiated) by Einstein. It does not "predate the entire concept of metric expansion". The whole point was to reconcile expansion, which was both predicted by GR and confirmed by Hubble's observation of recessional redshift, with the belief that the Universe was infinitely old and unchanging.

And there were many variants of Steady State, as the model was discovered independently after Einstein, and refined throughout the 1950s as its adherents struggled to explain new observations that distant quasars are far more common than near ones. There was even a brief (and apparently failed) attempt by Hoyle to revive a Steady State as late as 1993, involving widely varying rates of expansion in different regions of the Universe.

What ultimately disproved Steady State was seeing the CMBR. None of this has anything to do with Olber's paradox, which is not an issue in a Steady State model for exactly the same reasons it's not an issue in modern cosmology.
Exactly. There is an interpretation where the "population" is interpreted as a mathematical ideal process (with potentially infinite information content) and any real, physical manifestation is considered a "sample".

The old-school interpretation is stricter and considers both the "population" and the "sample" to be physical real things. It's understandable because these methods were developed for statistics about human populations (note the origin of the terminology), medical studies etc. (The word "statistics" itself derives from "state").

Somehow, frequentist statisticians are usually very conservative and set in one way of thinking and do not even like to entertain an alternative interpretation or paradigm... I'm not sure why it is so.
It's "cite".

And the better solution is to finally ditch backwards compatibility with the 8086 and implement a sane instruction set that isn't just a virtualized layer à la x86
That common approach is both elegant and tricky. It requires very precise clocks and time synchronization, as some non-commutative operations are order-dependent (such as list insertion).

That is why Google's TrueTime API (introduced in Spanner[0]) is such a big deal.

[0]: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...
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Over the past few years, we've put together a couple of (reasonably short) guides to asking questions on Stack Overflow; if you're a beginner (or simply struggling to learn the Stack Overflow way of doing things), it wouldn't hurt to read them:

- http://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask

- http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve

Disclaimer: I work for Stack Overflow, but these were mostly written by folks who don't and who just wanted to see new users have an easier time - I just edited them.
It's only a reward if you consider your time spent researching worth less than the discount you actually receive.
Yeah let's all rely on pseudo-science with no empirical evidence to back it up -- except for U.S. statistics on imprisonment.

HAHA SNARKY COMMENTS!
> LA Times article says Russia ended up evacuating them?

This would be irony overload.

For someone who still remembers the cold war this is almost unthinkable.
I don't really think this article warrants a serious conversion.

He leads with "I’m not endorsing either side", then proceeds to denumerate every wrong that SO regulars have inflicted on poor, benign newbies, and intersperses it with quotes with hard-working, incipient programmers ( who are, naturally, all from Reddit) who've been abused by oppressed by this ill-tempered cadre of SO devs. Many of them decide to quit the dream they're working so hard at because an experienced developer didn't debug their while loop.

Naturally, he's peddling a book that teaches you how to install a text editor and run hello world. The only travesty here is that he's getting from free publicity for this troll-bait.
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This would be far more interesting if it had items that weren't electronics. So many products are sold with what is called a "Minimum Advertised Pricing Policy" that it makes it risky to sell less than the competition (which is probably selling at the absolute lowest price the market will allow).

Apple for one has one of the most aggressive policies. I'm sure Target is counting on their size, and the fact that its a one day thing when they offered their discounts.
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Ad Blockers wouldn't matter so much if

a) people would self-host ads or b) the target of the ad would host them (but not a third party). You could randomize ad source code and layout such that an ad blocker would have no chance removing it.

An alternative would be c) if there was much more diversity on the advertising market, and every site would serve ads from multiple competing agencies (with different formats and different URLs). This would also make it harder to block, and also make it harder for advertising agencies to create profiles (one of many reasons people block ads).
Traffic to .onion URLs is terminated within the Tor network. It doesn't pass through exit nodes.

HTTPS is actually a bit redundant for .onion URLs, as the hostname is a representation of the host's public key.
Very interesting article. Makes me think this is a tendency that we should all look for in ourselves since it could be we start pushing harder to maintain our new 'status' of winning.

It also seems a bit sad that we tend to get so wrapped up in our successes that we will start cheating to maintain our new self identity.
> "My sympathy is mostly reserved for chronic pain patients," Mogil tells me.

Same as: "My sympathy is mostly reserved for black child slaves than for the white child slaves."

There is no difference! These who fails to see that can be said to have a degree of lack of empathy.
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Well, it would be much worse if they refused to implement those enhancements, or tried to force proprietary or gmail-specific alternatives.

They pretty much had to do something to improve e-mail's abysmal confidentiality and authenticity, and at least they used open technologies which can be configured on a Debian VPS in a couple of hours using a HOWTO.
The example was just that.. an example. And a short one at that. It was intended to be illustrative, and not a definitive overview of the problem.

In short, the answer you give doesn't matter. What matters is the attitude of the questioner, as shown by AndrewUnmuted, below.

A good questioner can say "That's not a good response. I'm trying to do X because of Y and need help with Z."

A bad questioner says "How dare you question me. Give me an answer now!"

I have 17 years of experience in running an open source project. My conclusion is that the content and/or the tone of my answers are less relevant than the attitude of the questioner.

People who want to solve a problem don't pay attention to the emotional content of an answer. They keep pushing for a solution, no matter how much they dislike the questioner.

People who have an attitude see personal insults in technical responses. An answer of "Your question is answered at URL X" is an offensive response which is intended to personally denigrate the questioner, and insult his intelligence. The only proper response for such a questioner is to insult someone back.

As I said below, the only real solution to such people is to inform them to be polite, and then to ban them. They are toxic.
There's also the problem that so much documentation is just straight auto-generated javadocs or xmldocs, with nothing beyond what you'd get looking at the method signatures.

MSDN is better than most, but there's still a ton in there in places that has no examples or usage information, no indication of what valid inputs are, no indication of any other external state that could derp things up.
I really like this idea. Continue paying all your drivers to be ride along with the autonomous car for safety reasons and an emergency override. They'll probably get really low insurance rates for having a human assisting. And when they leave or retire don't replace them. That's about the smoothest structural unemployment transition I've ever heard. It won't happen though because just firing, and fighting the protests/lawsuits is probably cheaper.
What i have been doing for years to fix the 'missing important tweets' problem: create a list with the most important people, and set that as your main timeline. The official client doesn't have this feature, but third-party clients like Tweetbot and Echofon do. Works for me.

I don't really understand why Twitter doesn't simply re-use an already working mechanism (lists) that they have neglected for quite a while. Maybe they could autofill a list with suggestions ("important people" or something) and present that as an alternative timeline.
If travelling is not your cup of tea, doing a little creative art work ( or anything that can be done is a short time and have a tangible result to show for it) can do wonders.

One of the causes of burnout is putting in long hours to finish something that later amounts to nothing (because it never gets released or the end product is much below your expectations). All work and no satisfaction.

In such cases, small work that can be accomplished in a few hours can give back the oomph factor and infuse some energy into one's life. Glass painting worked marvels for me. Nowadays I find it fun to just take my time and colour a picture with crayons :) Yep I have kids.

A cross country hike or some carpentry maybe?
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So true. And not just thin skins that get discouraged. After 25 bullies, you stop asking questions. Eventually you hit a brick wall and try asking again, just to meet more glib or hurtful answers. You get discouraged by the death of 1000 cuts. You stop.
So if you were a ImageK12's company, does it make you a YC alumni? =)
What percentage of world debt is on negative interest rates?
Despite the fact that it's a comedy, I find that the show Shameless does a pretty good job showing how difficult it is for a bright kid to have a fitting education in that kind of environment.
> I don't see this

Try sitting on an open source mailing list sometime. :(