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Subsequent edit: Assuming the universe is infinite, is where the problem begins. There is no reason to assume that.

Original comment:
Is this really not obvious to people? It's about subtended angles - simple geometry. As the Earth's distance from a star increases, it subtends a decreasing angle in that star's "sky." Assuming radiation does indeed proceed radially and in straight lines, at increasing distance the Earth is capable of catching a decreasing portion of that star's radiation. As the distance approaches infinity, the subtended angle approaches zero and the amount of light reaching us approaches zero. The star is just as bright, but most of its radiation goes somewhere else besides Earth.

Imagine building a giant spherical shell around a star. Its radius equals the distance between earth and the star. It catches 100% of that star's radiated energy. Now paint the Earth on the inside of the shell, actual size. It looks, to someone standing on the surface of that star, like the real earth, i.e. a tiny dot. Now divide the surface area of the dot, by the surface area of the sphere (4)(pi)(r^2). That's how much of that star's energy our planet catches. Assuming zero degradation across space.

So imagine you're in a forest of trees the closest of which are 800 miles away from you. You'd see the goddamned sky just fine.
I'd disagree that giving up on that workout was a good idea. I'm heavily involved in the powerlifting community, and there's a well-known phenomenon where people try and talk themselves into taking an extra rest day or two before "leg day" because leg day is so important that they absolutely have to feel 100% when they do it...problem is they do this every week, so instead of doing 100 leg workouts a year at 95%, they end up doing 70 leg workouts at 100%. And trust me, that's not a good trade-off.

The thing to realize is your mind is just trying to trick you into getting out of something, because leg day is hard.
> I beat them at something that they cared about a great deal and I didn't care about at all, simply by inadvertently practicing a lot.

While some may argue that shooting free throws every day for hours counts as 'caring', I would argue that it was your emotional detachment from the results/outcome that made you really good.
Just curious - why am I suddenly seeing so many people referencing occam's razor? It is happening way too frequently to be a coincidence. Was the idea featured someplace recently? It seems like just about every tech-ish thread on reddit and HN has one "Occam's Razor" dude for the last couple weeks.
I still have quite a lot of trouble with the whole Internet-connected always-on microphone in my house thing.

What's to stop Amazon from recording everything? Or some hax0r who finds a way to MITM or otherwise compromise this device? Given how things are going I bet the agreement allows Amazon to record you having sex or talking to your dog and subject it to analytics or sell it to whomever they want. Since basically nobody seems to care about privacy or security I bet nobody would even notice.

Still stuff like this makes me wonder if we might be headed toward a future where there's a kind of bizarre paradoxical ludditism-- where people who are really tech-savvy actually have less of certain kinds of automation in their lives because they know the true cost.
You said 'using' or 'sending to' which imply that by my action I somehow consented to be tracked by using email as it was designed to be used. But there is also received from, i.e. I receive a message from a gmail user and now Google associates my address with some advertising keywords.
You are reading it wrong. They say you can't start a NEW game using an old version.

That clause does not require any existing games to be updated.
If you post here long enough, you'll find that when certain topics arise there are a group of three-letter acronyms prevalent in tech that make rational discussion of said topics nearly impossible.
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What you should've done instead is make another closed source Parse under a different name, get acquired for $X million, then do it again ad infinitum.
Yes, but there's a huge subjective difference between saying "You're an asshole, stop smoking up in a shared-wall-dwelling" and "You're a criminal, go to jail". Most managers are happy to address nuisance issues, but would rather reduce the number of police calls to the property.

Same thing with public smoking laws. People smoking up in a park upwind of people deserve a small ticket, an age check, and a harshed mellow. They do not deserve arrest and prosecution on drug laws.

Enforcement of disproportionate punishment is less attractive to sane humans.
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Mm, but nonconformity also generally means answering more questions and researching more deeply into various subject matter. All of this causes cognitive load. And if you're spending all day every day tweaking your operating system, browser, IDE, or what-have-you, then you're choosing not to spend time on other problems. I'm not saying that's bad; just that it should be something to be aware of. It's why Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg had supremely boring wardrobes; one less thing to think about, one less thing to take time away from solving other problems.
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When I was an undergrad and graduate EE student, the "go to" book to help with electromagnetics was Div, Grad, Curl, and all that (http://www.amazon.com/Div-Grad-Curl-All-That/dp/0393925161). Back in my era it was the 1st edition of the book, not the 4th.

I see another book with good recommendations, A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations (http://www.amazon.com/Students-Guide-Maxwells-Equations/dp/0...) but I have not read that one.

Div, Grad, Curl helped a bit, but what really made it click for me was an excellent professor some other EE math-class-in-disguise that explained those vector calc operations in terms of divergence (source density) and flux (change in time/space).

As far as understanding the linked paper, I can't follow the proof either. Equations 1-4 I've never seen, 5-8 are Maxwell's Equations which are familiar but we wrote them with different notation, 9-18 are again equations I've never seen. The meat of the proof in 19-21 is built on 14 mystery equations and 4 that I recognize.

As a former EE I guess we didn't prove equations as much as take their existence as given and then figured out what that implied for the real world. ;) Other posters aroberge and wraithm have mentioned also needing QM from physics to follow the proof, which must be where the other equations are from!
Twitter is valuable in non-economic terms. Maybe it isn't a viable business. Then we'll build something else to chat on. Maybe it'll be hard to get Kanye and Bernie and everyone to all use the same thing. Too bad. Maybe the diversity will be interesting. I don't really enjoy Twitter that much lately. It got too big. The features made to appeal to the mainstream just make the core users feel unwelcome. I'll gladly use a more elitist Twitter. From my perspective there was a boom like 5 years ago when people really got to know each other on there; it was a kind of intimate setting, and kind of non-mainstream. Now it's just bleh. People are on there out of inertia. Or because they want to get famous.
I love what Daring Fireball does; simply a paragraph describing some sponsor: who they are and what they do. I find myself reading it every time and even being interested. I can say with 100% certainty that I have never had that reaction to any "traditional" ad however.
I think this generation shift isn't new, and I think it's "standing on the shoulders of giants." It's what makes each generation more effective than the last.

Specifically, I've worked with very smart individuals who grew up working on ARM processors and when tried to transition to javascript had difficulty with something like Ajax. I being one generation younger, am somewhat oblivious of ASM, hard disk sectors, etc, but since the abstractions aren't leaky it actually let's me focus on more theoretical stuff.

Moreover, I think one generation from now things like caching will automatically be decided at the storage-engine level, and things that are now manual-work will become abstracted away allowing engineers even greater productivity.

edit: clarity
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Are you assuming that's the case, or is there evidence that this is so?
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Nope. If you look at the actual design, there is not space for a port there. It's only a solved problem if you're content to bulk up the mouse in that particular area, for something that, again, takes a few minutes a month.
I am not familiar with this excact one, and there's a coming soon on the url.

But in general what seem to differentiate us is
- On-demand: someone answers instantly and start working on your project right away. freelancer is instantly matched based on skill and availability.
- quality control: we guarantee quality. Ensure this by pre-vetting freelancers and doing quality control on deliverables.

Should also say that while there are plenty who do development. Very few specialize in business tasks.
We do know the age of the universe, to a reasonable certainty. The discussion above doesn't argue against our current estimate of the age of the universe -- it addresses other issues.
Nice. Will it work?
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Exactly. I was concentrating on backend the last few years and didn't have much frontend tasks. I recently switched to a new project that was developed by a generally younger team, and it's way more complex.

Instead a JSP / ASP / Rails template files with a single CSS and JS page, along with JQuery and a few libs, there is a whole build process with dependency hell and a dozen tools to master - bower, grunt, npm, karma, etc.

Writing the frontend with promises and async patterns is actually more difficult than the backend which has been slimmed down to basic Rest -> Service - DB calls. Honestly, I'd probably do pretty poorly on an interview too, these days, if a 'Ninja Full Stack' dev. was desired.
Have any examples? Curious.
Note that YouTube now has YouTube Red which does get rid of all ads.
People do use treated timber indoors, all the time.
Indeed - but having built an nginx module, it's hard to convince others to use it. Often, nginx users are simply using the binary packages from their Linux distribution, and if they compile their own, they'll have to remember that they have a version that's compiled from source on the system and not the packaged one.
I agree that the large price increase scenario is pretty unlikely, and not what this is about.

This is about bundling decisions together that do not need to be bundled. Changing the game engine after the fact is about the hardest thing you can do, virtually impossible after a certain stage. The decision for the engine is necessarily a very very early one.

But you can easily and very likely need to improve your backend many many times, even far into the games development or after release. Limiting your options for that so early is very risky.

And your are right, that risk could be offset by some large enough benefit you only get with that engine. I just fail to see where that would be. I can still use all of AWS if I choose an independent game engine.
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Hi, thanks for your comment. No, there is no implicit karma/incentive system in place, at least not yet. We want this to be a straight forward platform, where you can create a channel about anything and geo-tag it anywhere, and just chat with others about that. I will be posting use cases in a minute to give you more of an example.
You don't know when, or even if. It's entirely subjective on how secure Amazon feels in keeping your business.

I know of one business where it took 4 years for Amazon to start dropping that hammer. A real killer for any maturing startup.

Yes, you could simply budget for the full price and set aside that money, but any smart executive will tell you that money is better invested in the company. Would you be willing to fire 10-20 employees with 1-4 years of tenure because Amazon decided you were tied enough to them to drop your discount?
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is there a way to update your email address? I started with my backup email, now I like the service and want to use my real address.
This is clearly addressed in the blog post. A GC pauae after step 3 is equivalent to any other pause after the lock is acquired. For example it's not different than a lock server replying OK to a lock request but the client only reads it after two minutes.
First newspaper reports claim that a train dispatcher disabled/overrode the safety system that should have stopped one of the trains, in order to let a locomotive behind schedule slip through.
None of the jobs are posted on that page and also no way contact information.
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I do not believe you have to know what happens inside. And concept of blackbox in engineering actually comes from this insight. But the approach to solve a problem is more important. That is why debugging a code is blamed in testing.
Is was an amazing conceptual comment - thank you
That's not terrible advice from the perspective of forming an academic foundation, but otherwise falls pretty short. If economics was as trivial as an introductory freshman course there wouldn't be a contested field attempting to build models.

Relevant comic and all that jazz:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3117
Pretty much everything the OP mentions is reasonably basic "core IT" concepts. Depending on what he means by "intermediate sql" that might or might not fit into that category.
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a "full stack" dev to have at least a basic understanding of things like DB indexing, singletons, http get vs post.
Where I would agree with you is to become proficient with these concepts it does involve spending some time in the industry so the age thing might be the factor here as well.
Personally I would strongly prefer these types of questions to the "recent CS graduate" type questions some companies are notorious for and not just because I can answer these :)
> 1. Is it ethical to leave my company in the meantime...

Assuming you don't have a specific contractual obligation to deliver a project, yes. A good professional practice is to give proper notice (up to 1 month). And a detailed, written transition plan handing-off your work off to colleagues. Plus, an offer to consult/assist after your departure.

> 2. Is there a way to look for a new job so that my current job doesn't know about this?

Handle any interview phone calls/emails off-premises, only on your personal device, and best done outside of normal business hours. Your lunch hour is fine.

Plan PTO in advance for in-person interviews/meetings. Try scheduling on Thursdays/Fridays and call it an extended weekend getaway mini-break.
I'm curious as to whether or not parents put as much thought into naming their own children as authors do with their characters. I suppose not, because parents start with somewhat of a blank slate. Authors have to find a name that encompasses a fully developed character, even if they are fictional and will end up being less complex than a real person. It might be an interesting exercise to name yourself and your friends now, and see if you can think of a better name to suit them.
I can try... you scorned the commenter for not reading your comment literally, and inferring things instead. When I read your comment literally, I see you quoting people and saying it's not perfect.

Truly an empty comment, as it adds nothing except makes you look smarter than someone else. You don't offer anything insightful, you are trying to be insightful by proximity. So anyway, you reinforced your complex when you said "Try reading what I wrote". So I called you a dick.

Now take your own advice and "try to read what _I_ wrote". I only called you a dick. Why are you trying to make me defend a position I never took about perfection?
> 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.

This is what ABP attempted to do, and the reason why you see people advocating forks or alternative adblockers these days.
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App: Channels
App Website: www.channelsapp.co
Twitter: @TheChannelsApp

What is Channels:
Channels is a simple way to create posts about any topic (something for sale, event, trip, something funny, rant, etc) which is then automatically geo-tagged with your location or any location you choose on the map. Once its created, users can scroll around the map and/or perform tag & category based search to find channels they're interested in like yours, subscribe to that channel, and immediately group chat with you and all other subscribed users. Channels are therefore just location based posts with an embedded anonymous group chat.

How is it different:
- Most social apps require email, usernames, passwords and sometimes other information. This app is meant to be as anonymous as possible, so all we ask is for you to set a username, if and only if, you wish to chat with others or subscribe. - Channels was created to be simple and anonymous so we have no menus or ads or hidden ways to make money; just 3 screens that you can swipe between. - Rather than stick with the norm of comment based communication like other social platforms, we are chat based so each channel is actually a conversation. Just as if this was a messaging app, you can go between channels to chat with different people from all over the world anonymously about anything. - Channels is community driven. We made this app for the community so all posts are by real people, not bots or sponsored data. Upon request we can change this to add more features, but for now we want to make sure everything is community created.
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But doesn't that just seem unsustainable and like a recipe for disaster? In the example you mention Reddit the company is basically tieing it's entire existence to Google's adtech. If google suddenly decides it wants to come out with a competitor and shuts down Reddit's access to the adnetwork, the games over for them as a company. They have no ability to build 1-1 relationships with advertisers because they aren't one of the big players?

This also seems like something ripe for abuse. You use Google's AdNetwork because it's the only way to access revenue for advertisements. But google can keep upping the cost of it and companies are left with no choice but to pay it or fold up shop.

Maybe this is a good thing and companies shouldn't be relying on ad revenue. This is basically what I tell everyone who comes to me with a startup, mobile app idea. But at the same time, there are companies that provide real value that don't have a lot of other good avenues for revenue.
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Pioneer's Android Auto-compatible head unit bridges convenience and safety
Smartphone UIs are designed to capture hours of consumers’ attention, whereas the Android Auto UI is designed to keep the users’ eyes on the road as much as possible. Android Auto with a Pioneer AVH-4100NEX after-market head unit gives car owners the latest integration of smartphones and cars. The term “head unit” is auto industry jargon for car stereo or infotainment system.

Upgrading is really a decision to add smartphone safety and convenience to the car. Android Auto not only makes the smartphone’s data and apps available on the car’s head unit, it is designed to minimize the distraction that it would be to access information like contacts, music, or navigation.
Sample Uses:

- To plan a trip and chat with only the people who are going

- To talk to other users anonymously that are at a venue you want to go to but would like to know what its like ahead of time or coordinate where to go next.

- Alert the community to an emergency at a particular location (I made a Channel for an Amber Alert yesterday so people have a way to share information)

- Advertise an event or something for sale (or find something for sale or an event)

- To find a partner or group of people interested in something (i.e tennis partner, gym partner, people interested in sky diving, etc)

- To explore a new area you've never been with the ability to talk to real people real time.
Reminisce with friends or the world anonymously

- To just talk about something cool, funny or interesting with other people. Who knows, you may meet a new friend!
> some new technology that Gmail demands

> everyone is going to switch, now

The article is pretty clear that gmail users can keep emailing others who don't support TLS or authentication; they will just now see an additional icon informing them of that condition. Nobody is being demanded to switch anything.

disclaimer: works for Google
But how the hell is this supposed to test a high school math level?

These are just simple linear equation systems; where are the roots, the powers, the trigonometry, the logarithms, the limits, the integrals?
use Tarsnap instead of S3

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this... I mean, Tarsnap is built on top of Amazon S3, so using Tarsnap will still mean that your data is ultimately stored in S3. The difference is that tarsnap would deduplicate, compress, encrypt, and sign your data first.
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ComScore is one of the larger providers of these statistics similar to Nielsen ratings they provide a library you setup in your app.

see # 18: https://medium.com/ios-os-x-development/libraries-used-in-th...
... but it ensures your money goes to only the top tier of YouTube creators, and not the people who made the videos you enjoy. (Unless you only enjoy the top tier of creators, that is.) I hope you like PewDiePie, because if you're paying for Red, that's where the money's going.

I would never even consider subscribing to Red until YouTube promises that the fee you spend goes to the creators you actually watch.
Just to play devil's advocate: the vast majority of (even technical) people have no interest in running a mail server. Who should Google optimize for?
> The short reason is that NPM is the most straightforward way to get a script installed as a global binary in a cross-platform manner

Really ? All Unix-like systems (incl OS X) can do this:

/usr/bin/install myscript.sh /usr/local/bin

PS: Oh, just realized that there is npm uninstall as well, but not /usr/bin/uninstall (though it's just rm -f anyway)
it would be a real problem if they drifted at all ... that's kinda the point of atomic clocks, no?
That's extremeley not true, and the whole point of Relatively is to explain why.
> The underlying question is: When we say in general relativity that particles can't travel faster than light, what is that speed measured relative to?

It's based on the observation of two points of references moving a different speeds shining light and the light from each traveling at the same speed. So the speed of light is measured relative to other light. The speed of light is constant, and it is so regardless of point of reference. Flashlights pointed in opposite directions has nothing to do with the speed of light. The light is traveling at the same speed in opposite directions.
Well the current number is zero..... So any number higher than that is a winner for both of us, right?
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I wouldn't be so sure it's not a coincidence.

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