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How well do you understand an internal combustion engine?

Do you know it well enough to be able to diagnose an issue ad then fix it? Can you listen to it, identify when it's not performing well, and then make the tweaks to it in order to get the most efficiency?
If you say yes, I would be very surprised, and yer every day, people all over the world rely on these things to get them to the place they need to go.

There is nothing wrong with these developers, they don't know these things because they simply do not need to. The tools have abstracted away those details, as they should. There is simply too much in the domain of writing software to know, and even in web development, there is too much to know. Most people focus on what is needed to get the job done because in most places, you are judged by your results and not your knowledge. What good is know what a singleton is if you never use it? Why do people need to know what the doctype does when <!DOCTYPE html> is good enough for the browser to interpret? By abstracting away these details, people can focus on higher level problems, like solving the actual requirements.

If people need to learn those things, they will do so.

Good developers seek to learn about their tools. Great developers learn to separate out the wheat from the chaff and focus only on the knowledge that is important.
Stack overflow has an interesting difference to most websites: their users provide their content. Users that run ad-block are still potentially valuable.
But they at most work with IRS numbers regarding federal income tax.

Lets be real here: any money that's leaving my pocket that goes towards "compliance", "fees", "fines", "tickets", or what have you is Tax.

Now, I don't have a problem with tax itself (as a concept). I get that services need to be paid for, and that's us.

But what I want to know, is out of my paycheck, how much really is taxed? No one can answer that.
The Parse infrastructure itself was written in Ruby then in Go. But the customer facing CloudCode feature was in a Node.js environment. Thus it makes sense that Parse Server which needs to run this cloud code would be in Node.
I'm not quite sure where you're going with k vs k+1.

we know that s + d = 209 (1)
and we know that 6.5s + 2d = 836.5 (2)
we can rewrite (1) as d = 209 - s (3)
substituting (3) into (2) we get 6.5s + 2(209 - s) = 836.5 (4)
solving (4) for s yields s = 93 (5)

alternatively, you can solve the system of linear equations

[ 1 1 ] [ s ] = [ 209 ]
[ 6.5 2 ] [ d ] = [ 836.5 ] (1)

[ s ] = [ -4/9 2/9 ] [ 209 ]
[ d ] = [ 13/9 -2/9 ] [ 836.5 ] (2)

[ s ] = [ 93 ]
[ d ] = [ 116 ] (3)
if you are so smart, do not keep idiots in your connections.
You made the same mistake I did - read the second half of the paragraph more carefully. There's a special clause in there!
I can relate. I spent half of Player of Games just trying to internalize the pronunciation of Jernau Morat Gurgeh. That aside, great book.
Still would be nice to include remote work within the US.
I'd be curious to hear more about this, both why you were wanting to train 3 hours a day and how you approached refining your routine. Any chance you've blogged about this somewhere? (The idea of building a precise routine so your music trigger lands at the right moment resonates with me.)
I agree and would go further by saying that improvement only happens with quantity at the interface between your normal output and your limitations. So those times of uncomfortable struggle against great personal odds... That is where you begin to improve. And like you mention, this is the case with just about everything.
I don't know why. It just adds a level of indirection. Comparing anything with gross pay is pretty meaningless.
Hi, your site looks like a great place for my (office furniture) company to advertise. Do you segment by location? How can I find out more?
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The value problem: when I think critically about it, the fact I visit a site doesn't really mean I couldn't function without it. It's disposable.
question about this: if i send mail to my IMAP or POP server over TLS, it may still travel to various spots on the journey to its final destination unencrypted using SMTP, right?
Sept. Doubt it.
We really want to support remote location and will add more locations outside the US soon.
About the "other" location, you're totally right, will be fixed soon :)
I wonder how suitable this is for 2D development. Anyone know?
Treating infested water with lamprey pheremones - sounds like the beginning of a horror movie.
Honestly, I never wanted to enable ad-blockers. I started doing it because of ads that flash, make noise, slow down the site, obscure content, ect, ect.

I really wish ad-blockers would default to an "block annoying ads only" mode; or some kind of whitelist mode; or even some way to crowdsource so that only annoying ads get blocked.
Take this with a grain of salt. After all, Europeans could only contemplate why Colosseum was needed somewhere at the start of XX century. Before that, the modern concept of "stadium" as a place of mass watching of sport performed by professionals was unknown.

Yes, we only then caught up to Rome.

Gladiators were perhaps boxers and ice hockey players of Roman age. Yes, it was dangerous and traumatic, but rarely lethal and very famous.
What do you practice?
This sounds great but Google has been making it harder and harder to run your own mail server even for personal use. I think they would be happy of email servers were only run by a few large companies. They make it sound like they are doing the right thing but really they are bully the industry to do it their way. So many people have Gmail accounts that you can't run an email server that cannot send email to Google.

I've run my own email server for about 15 years. Every now and then I have to drop everything and implement some new technology that Gmail demands I have. Granted SPF, DMARC and TLS are all great technologies but I take issue with Google making the decision that everyone is going to switch, now and with out sufficient warning.
You don't have to own a copy of the copyrighted materials to have some use fall under Fair Use doctrine. Making a mixtape for your girlfriend falls under Fair Use. Making fun of the mixtape on Youtube also falls under Fair Use. Unfortunately, the big conglomerate "content" industry has pulled the wool over a lot of eyes lately.
They recommend using an operating system (Windows 7) for which mainstream support ended over a year ago.
How does your service compare to Codementors.io which does similar stuff?
Hurts. Hurts bad. Tiny type in many primary colors on a black background. 1985 called, it wants its screen layout back.
I helped build mTECH if anyone has any questions.
I make my living from advertisements but have had to enable blockers on certain sites which are not just aesthetically unusable but actually unusable because of ads. I'm talking to you Bon Appetit and Epicurious!
>I doubt that there is a way to build a webmailer without processing the emails content at some point.

It is disingenuous and/or ignorant to suggest that temporarily loading an email into memory for the purpose of displaying it on the users screen is the same as parsing and catagorising the text and storing the results of the analysis in a database for the purpose of manipulating the user.
when one or 2 words change in a long or dense line, it's nice to have the specific changes highlighted

imagine a for loop in which a variable (used on every line) was renamed, and buried in the loop an assignment changed slightly (eg, + became -). with a standard diff, it's really hard (for me) to pick up the minor change. with word by word diffs, it's pretty easy

(i use netbeans diff, not this tool, but they appear similar)
Ah neat, shoot me a note to stephen@officesnapshots.com :)
WHERE, OH WHERE, DID MY LIBIDO GO? HOW HORMONE DECLINE CAUSES LOW LIBIDO
Sounds like you should find better candidates....
I agree. That's a big subset of "crap" features you can know are bad beforehand. After all, you know exactly, if a given feature is designed to help the user, or to hurt the user, or even strong-arm them for money.
Really good pop is almost never mediocre. If it was mediocre, it wouldn't break through. The difficulty and sophistication of ongoing pop success is underestimated.

There's an important distinction between "I don't like this", and "This is not good". Most people fail to make that distinction - they think that if they don't like something, it must be bad. Taste and quality aren't particularly congruent. (As a corollary, sometimes we like things that are actually bad.)
AWS equivalent for logistics.
This kind of advice is a double-edged sword. It does point you in the right direction but when you meditate shortly on the meaning of the words "quality" and "quantity" I think you're likely to conclude that the thesis "The Key to Higher Quality is Higher Quantity" can imply almost anything.

For a long time I've been an opponent to this mantra and in a way I still am. This is because in my opinion a lot of people define "higher quantity" wrongly. Learning flash cards mindlessly all day will hardly help you become more fluent in a foreign language; preparing loads of meals or even the same meal very often doesn't help you become a chef if you aren't fully concentrated on what you're doing.

Lately I am of the opinion that you have to practice with a zen attitude, like it is described in "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind". And because of that I think the author of this article also gets it wrong when he says:

As Ira Glass so famously put it, the best way to refine your craft is to create a huge volume of work. Not to create the most perfect piece you can, but to create many pieces of work.

I guess what Mr. Glass hints at is that you shouldn't become paralyzed by being caught up in thoughts. That is: It is useless to think "Oh this needs to be perfect" or "Oh this needn't be perfect because some clever guy said so" because in that instance you've already lost concentration and you are not really stretching your skills. You certainly have to TRY your best every time. In other words: Strive for perfection but don't get distracted by having dualistic thoughts about your practice.
Will the Tesla Model 3 Really Sell for $25,000?
It's what the email server that you are making the IMAP or POP connection to does next that matters. If you send mail to a Gmail account it should make a TLS connection to Google's servers directly.
I won't disagree with anything you've said there. Creative types are always harder to incentivize (just look at us programmers).

But stepping back for a moment and looking at it from a purely financial point of view - if you're working for a company with 500 employees, how will it matter to the bottom line if a portion of them are editors instead of moderators; instead of software developers?
Huh, I love the Mistborn books specifically because I found all of the names so easy to pronounce and remember. There are cultures and different species in there, and those names all felt pretty similar in structure to me. (Kandra being the most obvious example.)

To me, the different feeling backgrounds of the names of normal people were something I attributed to the world being a big place, and although we were viewing people stuck within a class system, the naming was so "all over the place" because they're an assimilation of the entire planet.

Fast-forward to the newer Mistborn series and the names have seemed to align pretty well to names similar to the nobles of the earlier books. (Which may be attributed to the fact that many of the characters you follow are directly from that lineage.)

In contrast, I've had a harder time with the Stormlight series because of the number of characters, as well as the names of things and places and people. However, I've never been great at epic fantasy either. Maybe that's why the Mistborn books feel so different to me. Books with me in mind?
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I've actually noticed this phenomenon quite a bit on Facebook in the past few years and it's part of the reason I've started withdrawing from the service. It makes me feel like I have no control over what's being displayed on my screen and that Facebook is just blasting my eyeballs with whatever is available in hopes that I will stay on the site longer, boost their metrics, and maybe click on an ad or two. (Thank God for uBlock)

Disclaimer: I've never been an active Twitter user and am probably too anti-social for my own good.
A closer look to HTTP/2 PUSH
Out of curiosity, what are you paying a developer $8 to do?
I've also seen zealous appliers of this principle turn their product into crap by saying no to everything.
does that really mean that space is really so constantly twisting and turning that SOL can't be exceeded?

IANAP, but I've never read that space twists to prevent the SOL from being exceeded. I think you're thinking of time and mass. It would require an infinite amount of time or infinite acceleration to for something to accelerate to the speed of light relative to something else.

Space is twisted by the presence of matter, and we call that gravity.

If it's photons emitting from flashlights pointed in opposite directions relative to each other, then are they compressing space as they travel so as not to exceed the speed of light

No. My understanding is that from the point of view of a photon time is completely stopped. Nothing moves relative to it because of this. Since nothing moves relative to it, nothing is exceeding the speed of light relative to it.
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Yes, TLS protects the information in transit but it does not prevent a malicous intermediary from reading or altering your mail. Sort of like an envelope could be opened at the post office, read, and then resealed before you get it.

You need gpg or s/mime to guard against that.
I'm not sure anybody has a problem with their "Good Credit".
Reading on paper: use post its to mark a page every time a new character is introduced.
I guess I was trying to be funny and make a point at the same time... Of course people would think they were related.

The initial messaging could have been more positive, absolutely.
It doesn't even need the hardware part in most cases. OS keyrings support pkcs11 interface with signing exposed. That means you can just send data to be encrypted for example by gnome-keyring and the browser never sees the actual key.
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Analysing your own strengths and weakness is a classic Dunning-Kruger problem - you don't know what you don't know, so you can't assess your work accurately.

You can either fix this by trying to copy what other people do in as many different ways as possible, or having a real expert around to say "No, try this instead."

Doing stuff over and over only helps if you're creatively blocked and are terrified of producing crap. It's a good first step towards building momentum, but it's just a beginning.
> Street congestion is increasingly a problem, not so much because it slows down private cars but because it slows down buses. Those bus delays in turn increase subway ridership, and overcrowding slows trains loading and unloading.

I think the issue is population growth not matching funding (or Albany robbing us). I don't doubt that this contributes, but I'd be surprised to see people switching from buses to subway being a leading cause of subway congestion.

> Although uber does probably deserve some of the blame t

Again this seems like a really small thing. I doubt uber created many new taxis, so much as absorbed yellow/livery cabs. I'm sure it has an effect but I don't think it's the core issue.

> The answer is a congestion fee like Bloomberg wanted to put in.

100% agreed with the congestion fee, bummed it didn't happen.

> That leaves the majority of Manhattan with spare subway capacity to move people around.

I don't think this is true. One of the reasons the green line is so overcrowded is because so many people work on that line. It's not only about where people live. If you put people next to the E, it doesn't mean they only take the E.

> it is because of crowding on the Lexington line that I suggested densification should start at the south-west part of the neighborhood which has access to the sixth avenue line subways.

I agree that we should rezone and that the preservation stuff is a nightmare.
Is this for real?

It was my understanding that in US people take SAT after finishing high school and use these scores to enter universities. But this quiz looks like it's intended for 10 year olds.

Do I misunderstand something here?

Edit: here's my own frame of reference for a math level of a 16-17 year old just out of school. Problems are definetly harder than average, but nothing out of scope of state-approved math curriculum:

http://new.math.msu.su/admission/exams-write.html

(Russian, but understanding the language is not necessary for half of the problems). Of course, I expect a general exam to be easier, but not so drastically.
Some use sure, but if I have an scan on my harddisk of an entire book that I don't own, are you saying that's potentially fine?
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In particular, DAB depends on exact time synchronisation to avoid interference. Every transmitter in the country has to broadcast the same OFDM symbol at the same time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-frequency_network

The kit is supposed to accomodate loss of GPS, but evidently doesn't handle error so well: http://www.microsemi.com/products/timing-synchronization-sys...
The chips are down for Moore’s law
Are Traditional Intranets Dead?
Yes, I believe we're at the limit of what we can do with electromagnetic radiation. That's not to say that there aren't other forms of wireless I haven't thought of, but we've been trying to squeeze bandwidth out of the electromagnetic spectrum for over a hundred years now, and its limitations are pretty well understood at this point. If we're all carrying neutrino-based communication devices in 2050, I'll be happily proven wrong.

This is not to say that there isn't exciting stuff going on in the QRP DX world (like JT65), but we're not breaking through the power-bandwidth-distance frontier, just finding interesting new ways to trade the three off against each other.
To be honest, the best part isn't the proof, it's the editor's note from Dyson.
Facebook removes parodoy page and “transfers” likes to the original page
In this case just taking more than a millisecond can cause scheduler collapse. So it's a pretty easy mistake to make.
Issue here is detection of conflicting ops vs. fact of conflicting ops.

The monotonic sequence provides that detection means. So in the example you gave, the tardy (expired) tx commit would abort since its lock id would break the monotonic sequence of accepted lock-ops (which clearly can have gaps, 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, ... etc.[)]
I have had the same experience. Give them an API and they glue things together like there is no tomorrow, dealing with edge cases I probably couldn't have come up with on LSD.

Ask them to fix a bug in a procedure using call/cc, and in the best case they will rewrite without call/cc 3 times as long.
I dont see the point, Rails already solves the problems that Dj-ango is trying to solve again. Rails/ruby combo already solves the problem in a very elegant way. There is no need for another half baked solution that tries to solve the same problem.
OK fair enough, yet one example, and news media are the worst at accuracy about drugs.
I think that's fine for developers starting out. But once you start writing software professionally that is for "the enterprise", it's important to understand the underlying stack. Knowing how your kernel's plumbing of pipes actually works (for example) is invaluable in certain cases. Knowing how your framework's black boxes work is very useful when you run into performance problems or find bugs. Yes, abstractions are good. But the higher you go up the stack of abstractions, the less you know about what's actually happening and thus the less you'll be able to do to actually debug it.

EDIT: Sorry, I didn't read the OP. Yeah, his requirements don't make much sense (unless he can do the whole industry a favour and explain what he means by "full stack" developer).
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" weak form of the efficient market hypothesis which states that: future prices cannot be predicted by analyzing prices from the past ..."

No. That is the consequence of the efficient market hypothesis being true. The hypothesis itself is subtly different. Though most people miss it:

All information from past prices is in current prices.

That is a better formulation.

I spent five years studying it and I think it is robust if you remember that it takes time for information to be consumed. That is why HFT works, because it acts before the information can be processed.
>The government pays tech very well and hires intelligent people.

No they don't. Or at least, not the parts I worked in. Maybe the really secure stuff gets paid well, but from what I've seen government jobs are one of the worst paying jobs for an IT individual.
I disagree, I've come across several cases where front-end-only state need to be shared by components not naturally sharing some common parent component in which the state should reside.
In revenue terms. In units sold, cell phones outsell PCs 3:1. I'd bet that we see similar ratios when wearables (in all their forms - smartwatches, glasses, VR, implants, smart clothing, tattoos...) hit their stride; maybe 3B wearable computing devices sold at an average price of $100 or so. The lower price drives higher volume.
My favorite Pynchon name is Carmine "Two-Ton" Torpidini, from Vineland.
Scaling deepdream to run on 8'+ panoramic landscapes (tech + gallery)
Yeah, they do look slick. Fran and Joe Corneli from TeX StackExchange did a good job.

Mine is jugurtha dot hadjar at gmail dot com.
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R. Daneel Olivaw was Chetter Hummin (and Eto Demerzel).
"All information from in past prices is in current prices."

All information from past prices is in current prices.

Duh!
This, usually. It's fair to point out that very specialized clocks, such as Google uses with Spanner, can allow you to achieve some consistency without coordination/locks, but for pretty much anyone else the rule you stated very much applies.
I think it depends on your age. I had roommates through university and afterwards, and it was fine. But now they'd drive me crazy.

"Are these your dishes that were left in the sink?"

"I have someone coming over - can you go to the movies or something?"
As is often the case, this explanation fails to take cosmological expansion into account. An expanding universe is a cooling one. The explanation is correct as far as it goes, but failing to take expansion into account either dates the explanation or fails to evaluate a factor that's a bit more complex than relying on the finite age of the universe.
Did the article title not bother anyone else? The title has 3 mentions of "Apple" and none of "Windows" in it, but the article is really a feature showcase piece for Windows 10.
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