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Yea - I'm not really sure what the take away message here should be (although I found the article interesting).

I'm currently working at a late project right now that started early enough, but took too long to hire enough people to finish the project in time, and didn't use the time at the beginning of the project well enough to gather information about the current and future processes. Maybe that's an example of what the author means, but it certainly gets more complicated than "started too late" quite quickly...
Maybe right now but not forever. Mass production makes things cheaper. Mules (and horses) were abandoned decades ago (almost a century now!) in favor of tractors. Because tractors were cheaper.

You have to feed a mule even when you don't need it. You have to house it in a climate-controlled building. You have to clean up after it. You have to medicate it, raise it for years until its useful, bury it when it dies.

No, animals are vastly more expensive propositions. Especially in a war zone.
Does Ads need to be clicked for it to become good ads? What has happen to display ads? I personally think some ads are like reminder, remind be of a brand, remind me of something i know, reiterate, stating the obvious, all these are marketing, and what ads should be.
The reddit post has a bunch more info: https://www.reddit.com/r/MarioMaker/comments/44b7cd/a_3bit_b...
A neat response to the same problem posted yesterday:

http://akkartik.name/post/wart-layers

Basically, layers with numbers and preprocessor directives to inject (tangle) code in the proper places without worrying too much about language abstractions.
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no, having getters for each member variable is a sign of pervasive action in distance and lifetime problems.
See my comment, but it's a joke response to a spammy predatory journal, which was then accepted since they exist just to take money from scientists.
"In Ovid's narrative, Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory. According to Ovid, after seeing the Propoetides he was "not interested in women", but his statue was so fair and realistic that he fell in love with it."

Ovid lived over 2,000 years ago.
America's wartime footprint grew smaller. You can't grow a business in a shrinking market.

Essentially the govt/military market is too erratic for sustained business growth. Anyway that's what the employees at Roomba said when I was interviewing.
- Why this project took 2 years if I can rewrite this in 2 weeks

- Code is messy, I should rewrite everything using pattern X, framework Y

- Who makes such awful design, it barely works
I would! I interviewed, but they were already shrinking that division so no jobs there.

And the military robots are far more interesting. Instead of a simple cheap wheeled thing for kitchen floors, they are talking tracks and legs and flying! All the cool stuff is in military/industrial.
Could someone explain what this does.
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Not for me. I hate JSX, mainly because I like coffeescript and jade. I write all my code, view and otherwise, in coffee.
What's your usecase for f-droid ? For most apps there,except ad-blocking, you can find nicer versions in the play store.
While I would also be interested in more data about conformity (or otherwise) today, when I look at statistics like lower drug use, etc. I don't see conformism. I see better critical thinking skills and perhaps more developed prevention programs in schools. I'd also be interested in looking at the rate of these actions under the care of parents who engage in them on a regular basis, to really identify whether there is a difference between positive social choices and conformism.
From his about: "I am not a very good programmer. I forget to write tests, my documentation is sparse, and i’m pretty apologetic about it at any code review. "

Guy who doesn't write unit tests suggests work around to dealing with problems in code that has no unit tests...
The guys were making bomb disposal robots not predator drones I don't think activists had any effect on their prospect, and could we please stop calling them "warbots"?

Selling of a chunk of your company for a short term cash flow might be a good reason.

However there might be a more straight forward one as working with the military isn't easy or cheap, they are your most picky costumer and unlike people who order Roomba's from Amazon actually know how to formulate contracts and keep you honest.

Military contracts come with years of support and services and while they can be very lucrative they also can have a very negative effect on the company as a whole.

When you sell something to the military you are usually bound by a contract to continue supporting that product for say 10 years.

This means that during these 10 years you can't discontinue that product or have to keep a large stockpile of replacement units and parts and more importantly keep the in-house knowledge required to support it which means keeping the personnel who were involved with the project originally or ensuring that every bit of the knowledge is transferred this isn't cheap and in the tech industry isn't easy.

Military contract pretty much mean that you have to magically increase the average employee retention period for more or less the duration of the contract, in many other cases the contract might actually force you to transfer some knowledge and skills to sub-contractors that would provide the global service the military might require which means some of your IP can leak.

There's a good reason why so many companies are either 100% dedicated to the defense industry (and many of those burn out quite quickly because of how demanding those contracts are) or have their defense oriented subsidiary very well isolated from the main corporate entity.

That's because when you sell to the military it might actually restrict the potential market as the contract might specify exclusivity or give the DOD oversight on all your future deals (to prevent technology transfer to non-friendly actors), when you are a tech company that can be an issue because quite often there will be quite a bit of lateral technology sharing across the company (one of the additional reasons why big corporations tend to keep their military subsidiaries very separated).

Which now could mean you are restricting your commercial products from being sold as they now might require a DOD oversight as well; a possible example in iRobot's case might be that the same algorithm that allows your Roomba to detect objects such as cats and babies is the same algorithm that is used by their commercial bomb disposal robots to detect road side IED's so now the DOD might either force them to modify it sufficiently or restrict sales of the Roomba's to "friendly" nations.

Dumping their military/leo department in some one else's lap releases them from most of the commitments, protects their future IP from oversight and gives them a short term cash influx that they might need.
Trying to find some ideological reasoning behind this is just silly.
Modern web sites look like crap and don't work. My banking website recently switched to a mobile first website ('responsive' is a lie). Now the UI is so giant that it cannot show a list of 6 account names with a balance next to it on a single desktop screen with a resolution of 3360 x 2100 pixels.
Can this problem be solved by installing a custom ROM, such as CyanogenMod? I've only used Nexus Android phones, so am curious how to stay updated if using a phone from an OEM.
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In Erlang and OTP in Action, Joe Armstrong is quoted as saying (and I'm paraphrasing here 'cause I don't have the book in front of me) - "First, make it correct. Then, make it beautiful. Then, if you need to, make it performant. Because 9 times out of 10, making it beautiful also makes it performant enough."
>"No thanks." ?

If you then showed them a real computer, nobody in their right mind would have said "yes." The thing about smartphones is, they don't actually do anything new. The only thing better about them is the form factor, they sacrifice everything else in comparison to a real computer. None of those things you listed are inherent to smartphones.

>The smartphone is one of the most significant inventions of the last 100 years.

This is hilarious. Oh yeah sure, nukes are pretty forgettable compared to smartphones, because now anyone can post on Hacker News from while on the toilet.
I'd like to point out, in support of your arguments, that all artistic works are derivative. Creative works are not created in a vacuum. They copy and derive build upon the cumulative works of the rest of society. Nobody should ever have been entitled to a lifetime copyright.
That's a government problem, not a smart phone problem.
I loved this. Then I thought how about if you could use words which appear in the shadow over the day.

As ever someone had already had the same idea written the code to produce the OpenSCAD files for different wordings and put it on Github:

https://github.com/roipoussiere/Customizable-Shadow-Display
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Yeah, this is an opportunity for Obama to get airtime for a jurist that is too far left to ever get confirmed.
There ya go then. Though, Clojure doesn't have most of those additional things I listed either, as most of them are requirements of the VM rather than the language (it does, however, have a slew of other things that make it awesome, and it has the language level features I mentioned)
Cuckoo's egg:
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Rule Of Three covers steps 2 and 3. This they used to teach in our 1st year computer science program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(computer_progra...
As someone who has been hospitalized with delusional bipolar disorder this upsets me to no end. I used to think the right thing to do if you were delusional or suicidal was to go to the hospital. I don't know anymore.
Actually, in medicine, pathos is actually interpreted more as "disease", as in pathology which means the study or science of disease. And psyche as a medical term doesn't refer to the soul, but to the self or conscious personality of a person, or to quote William James: "Psychology is the Science of Mental Life, both of its phenomena and their conditions". [1]

I therefore have to respectfully disagree with you that it's a bigoted term, because a more nuanced view might consider that the term Psychopathy can also be translated as "disease of the mind".

The issues around psychopathy that were addressed in the DSM-V, from what I can see, were that the DSM-IV took a categorical approach to diagnosing the illness, whereas the DSM-V takes a dimensional approach, which addressed a number of problems with diagnosing the condition.

1. http://psychology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/cacioppo/jtcre...
Obviously you have no study to backup your claim that carrying arms is helping in these kind of problems, since there are no studies where the absolute only differing variable is the presence of guns.
I picked up (what may have been) a 1 MW Algerian Longwave station yesterday on 150 KHz. My QTH is Kansas. LW propagation was very good yesterday.
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I totally agree with you on this. The code for all three languages is clearly not optimal.

I wonder how much of this performance difference is C++ being very good at optimizing your code rather than the runtime being more performant. I don't have any numbers, but I feel like that's not a negligible factor.
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> Now she had to ride home with her roommate Rebecca, a nerd who would force her to listen to pretentious “indie” bands on the drive home.

Sounds like an increasing emphasis on the value of all individuals to me.
Pyra might be the best chance to get a N900-like device. Not too alike though, as it's not really a smartphone. Sad times.
To clarify, with plugins such as ctags, rtags and YouCompleteMe. I would never be able to write large C++ programs in vanilla vim. Maaaybe plain C, but definitely not C++.
As far as micro-benchmarks go, this one is particularly egregious. It is likely completely dominated by the array reallocation. So a runtime that - say - chooses to preallocate an array at size 1000000, or to go to 1000000 at first resize would win at this benchmark. More realistically, a runtime that conserves memory by reallocating arrays with a 1.5x factor vs a 2x factor will appear slower.

It's exactly because you don't want to rely on the runtime making the right call for your use-case that you preallocate arrays where it makes a difference (i.e. where you're appending a million items).

And 99% of the time you're doing less than 100 items, and so the array reallocation behavior just doesn't matter.
What people never learn, human intelligence is not learning by analyzing and doing it better. human intelligence means actually doing something which could never be calculated and which could be a total mess, however it could still be the right thing.
Current AI's will learn, but they will learn with their input, which is something humans don't do, their thinking is abstract.
> Can you name any?

Clash of Clans is like that. Even when you just want to do some non-multiplayer thing like rearrange your defenses, if you have no connection the game won't start, and if it loses connection it kicks you out.
Sorry my previous comment has been cut-off, phone issues.

Yes Google extracts a lot of value, but it does offer a lot too(and let's not forget the moonshots). And btw, the reason your friends pay a lot is partly because there's a lot of competition on their keywords. Is that Google's blame ? And that's the reason why uber drivers make less - competition.

BTW isn't it often the trade-off ? choose small, local businesses - and get far less innovation and value - or large business and get more innovation(because they have the capital, plus other structural benefits) and value, but lose lots of control and get more value captured ?

I think the best we can have is competition between the large and the small. So you have Amazon and Ebay's merchants ,each restraining each other. Maybe we need more stuff like that ,competition between the centralized and the distributed.
The point is that we did not have an opportunity to influence the negotiations and therefore the text of the treaty. We instead are presented almost with a fait accompli that we must either accept or reject altogether.
You didn't argue for why the chain analogy applies here. You just argued that we should reject the entire agreement if one part is so egregiously bad that it outweighs the others, which is obviously true. Why does the "weakest link" analogy apply to the actual TPP, which, as far I know, does not call for the murder of any children at all.
Probably not many. Most people realize that even if you make advances in only commercial technology, it eventually ends up as part of the war machine anyway. Not working on "better" weapons isn't the answer you're looking for.
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The framework of explicit "imaginary property" is new, within the past few decades. Thinking of copyright (et al) as general property rights leads to errant conclusions. Such as that at copyright expiration, the owner is forfeiting their "property" to the government. I refer to it as baseless because it's not modeling physical reality (information isn't exclusive-use), but backfitted based on wishful thinking of how some would -like- the world to operate.

Registering a work would be quite easy in this day and age - a hash for confidential priority, and then an easy upload to cement the registration. "Little Jimmy" wouldn't need to register anything until he decided to start distributing his game, and only then if he wished to take advantage of copyright.

Works being implicitly granted copyright is at the root of the problem with DRM.
A DRMed track is not a creative work, but a mechanically-created derivative of a creative work. Allowing the original creative work to remain secret while still allowing copyright on mechanical derivations of it creates the situation where the content creator can have their cake and eat it too, by releasing a crippled limited-purpose derivative with no intent to add the work to the public domain.

The crux of the matter is this - if creators use the law of the computational jungle to prevent full access to the work (to remix/port/etc) after copyright expiry, then why should members of the public not similarly revert to the law of the computational jungle wherein copying is Free?
Globally 500 kW transmitters aren't actually that special, Europe has a lot of transmitters even more powerful, some transmitting at up to 2000 kW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_medium_wave_t...

I'm honestly wondering why 50 kW is considered a good maximum in one part of the world while others have way more powerful stations...
From the About page:

"The initial focus of Violations Tracker is on things that act against the interests of people who own or use items of technology, and in the interests of the manufacturer or other entities."

It seems he's just making note of anti-user practices on various devices and software, e.g. "Amazon can delete content remotely" on Amazon Kindle devices. Makes sense to me.
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Is anyone else from greater Seattle area experiencing problems with 8.8.8.8/4.4.4.4 ? I noticed disruption yesterday afternoon and let it go thinking it won't be a big deal. But it's not resolving today morning either.
Changing DNS fixed the issue.
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I'm not convinced. Fuel and electric power are hideously expensive in a war zone. Even if the robot cost only thousands of dollars, running it will cost tens to hundreds of thousands.
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This article is based on self-reporting by teenagers. How can it be used for concluding, well, anything? If you want to see how things like pregnancies are decreasing among teenagers, you would have to get that data from hospitals or such.

The only thing this tells me is that teenagers have become less comfortable about revealing anything about their sex life or smoking. In an age where Facebook photos and Tweets can cause you to lose your job, that is entirely unsurprising.
How else would you write an article that expresses your purely subjective opinion? It isn't titled "Why you don't like smartphones."
> I totally agree with you on this. The code for all three languages is clearly not optimal.

That's not really my point. My point's we have no idea what TFA is trying to do or see[0], so you may be able to say "this is stupid and nonsensical" because it is[1], but you can't say "I've got a better version" then provide something with a completely different behaviour.

[0] most likely they just threw some shit at the wall, ended up with relatively long runtimes and called that a benchmark

[1] or maybe not, maybe it's a reduction of actual workload in the system doing computation based on some sort of dynamic number of items so you can't preallocate the intermediate storage and the point's to compare reallocation overhead[2]

[2] not very likely though, considering you never need the array in the first place as you're just summing each item with the previous one, then summing every 100 item of that… anyway
This is precisely the core difference I was talking about. If you want someone to learn about the details of their differential equation solving, then you could probably construct an argument for Sage. But that is not always the educational goal. Indeed, for everyone but college level STEM people in a "Diffeq solution methods" class, it will most likely not be the goal.

Mathematica says: You shouldn't have to know the minutiae about differential equations in order to solve them; we'll figure out the details for you!

SageMath says: We'll give you a buffet of solvers with different internals so you can pick the one that's right for your problem!

Both approaches have merit, and drawbacks. But if you asked me which approach I support, I'd have to go with Mathematica. Theirs is more ambitious, and far more powerful if they are able to "get it right."
The key point:

> Ammon Bundy (I did not meet him during my visit to the refuge) may or may not know the history of land use in the West, but there will be no repeating the free-grazing era of the late 19th century. Not in the fastest-growing developed nation on earth, on a planet that will soon play host to nine or 10 billion human beings. Nothing will be free. What the militants are asking for is almost exactly what more mainstream political leaders like Utah state Rep. Rob Bishop or the American Lands Council, now headed by Montana state Sen. Jennifer Fielder, say they want, too. The Malheur occupation, with the incessant press coverage in its early weeks, was the soapbox for disseminating payloads of misinformation about America’s public lands, about their management, about how and why we have them. Every soundbite was delivered to further the goal of privatization.
A delicate mule is that times 10. Farmers turned to machines because they were vastly easier to maintain and use. Hay, oats, water .. all harder to ship than gasoline or diesel. All temperature-sensitive and can spoil.
I read this a while ago, and while it's not a great work of literature (it rambles here and there), I still recommend it if you're interested in Stoicism.
>Smartphones will be their first and last computer

No, unfortunately smartphones are toys at best. Nobody uses them for real work, just consumption and browsing facebook. When they go to work, they will use a real computer.
So what's the conclusion of this besides some useless numbers?
It's the persistent world problem, you can't play WoW offline because it's meaningless to do so.
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Hah! I also notice that some famous works are, oddly enough, rambling and awkward. So much of Da Vinci's writing is petulant or boastful or both.
Spot on . . . to borrow from Thoreau, ''the mass of men lead [sex] lives of quiet desperation''. (As a man, I'm more familiar with the male perspective.) I think even a crude early version of a sex robot that males could interact with at home would revolutionize society with all sorts of consequences to romantic relationships, birth rates, social development, and so on. Combine the physical manipulations with AI and VR and I think it will be as or more important than developments like self driving cars and 1 hour drone deliveries.
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