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> For instance, there is no English translation for the Japanese wabi-sabi—the idea of finding beauty in imperfection—or for the German waldeinsamkeit, the feeling of being alone in the woods.

Writers who proclaim that English has no translation for word x from language y, only to provide a matter-of-fact translation in the very next clause/sentence always make me chuckle.

Or they provoke pedantic ire. Depends on how much sleep I've had. :p
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Really, it's hard to handle branching worse than CVS does, and if SVN doesn't do a stellar job either, I don't see it as a barrier to switching.
True. It takes all kinds of questions to get a good impression.

But I'd just like to protest, my answer was not 'brute-force recall'. It was simple experience. See, I've written code at all of those levels. None of it was booklearning.
"The evidence over the past 35 years has not shown that correct code is 'simple' in C."

"Your firm belief is contradicted by 35 years' worth of memory safety track records of large-scale software written in C."

Keep in mind, of those 35 years, it only makes sense to consider the last decade-onward (or so) in comparison. While the language hasn't changed a whole lot, programming methodologies certainly have. How many of those libraries in question were written within the last 5 or 10 years? What is the code coverage on them? Et cetera.

I am not trying to argue that C is perfect and everything should be written in C. That would be crazy! There are definitely issues with C no doubt--but so many people say C is dangerous and difficult when in fact they don't even practice using the language. This is no different than practicing Violin on a daily basis and saying Cello is difficult so people should stop playing Cello (not a perfect analogy but you know what I mean).

The other comments is just me ranting at how the majority of programmers don't understand important computer-science concepts because of their removal from such concepts by higher-level languages. And sometimes its important to have a higher level abstraction to help solve certain problems. But, people have a tendency to become lazy and therefore they lose the fundamentals over time.
They were even used as trig examples in maths lessons! "Here's how a detector van triangulates on a license evader's house..."
We've asked you before not to post personal attacks and ideological rants to HN. Please don't do this again.
Mapping Mountains
He specified junior programming in his argument. If you have a 55 year old who is clueless or green, it might be a tough sell.
Record yourself giving the talk a week beforehand, and watch the recording.
Have you tried writing the integration spec first?

My workflow is to start with the coarsest-granularity, most outside-in test i can. The nice thing about those tests is that you can write them based on the requirements, without thinking about implementation much, and then directly see what implications they have for implementation. Whereas if you start with fine-grained tests, you only discover the constraints that the requirement imposes on the implementation when you bump up against them halfway through development.
>life is circular motion that has the general character of memory and reproduction.

This is totally random but that bit reminded me of a quote from Black Elk Speaks:

>Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. Our tepees were round like the nests of birds, and these were always set in a circle, the nation's hoop.
I wanted to do this, but used VTs are pretty expensive (mostly the cost of shipping).

I do have an old French Minitel terminal, though - anyone know what the protocol for those is like?
Do you use the same (de)value justification when billing clients for your security services? Or, maybe, it's precisely because you're all security professionals who make a living by identifying security flaws and you'd prefer not to introduce competition from the open market. Unattractive bug bounties ensure you can justify your services.

Just like Uber is to the taxi industry, bug bounties are a disruption to your own business model.
In my area, usually the employers with job-posts that mention a long-list of techs are from health insurance/claim industry.

Occasionally I saw ads like that being posted by small game companies/digital marketing companies; they fall under the "fishy/avoid" type of companies.

Luckily the sane/majority of the companies here listed their main preferred technology.
There aren't any mysterious symbols left in Rust that aren't in C++. Can you name one? The Perl comparison doesn't make sense to me.

Also, idiomatic code doesn't match on errors; it uses try!. And nightly now supports a ? syntax that's even shorter.
If you remove the risk of prison for nonviolent offenders, you're creating a world where large businesses and their owners will no longer care whether they do something illegal, they will only care about the risks of getting caught versus the potential profit to be made. You turn the criminal justice system into a risk analysis that happens in some board room. There will be no real detriment to rich people for breaking the law - worse case scenario they lose some money, the equivalent of you ruining the financial security of thousands of people or causing billions in irreversible environmental damage and getting a speeding ticket for it.
I feel old; I used a Wyse 320 and later a VT220 as my sole / main IO device in 1995-96 - connected to a SPARCstation 10 via a multi-port serial box at 9600 baud, with heavy use of GNU Screen.

Even now, I still use a variation on that - a tall terminal window, ssh, and screen - for the majority of my work.
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> The fundamental right to other people's wealth is a very slippery slope.

All rights - everything a society does - require contributions from others. The premise that people somehow create wealth all by themselves and therefore have no obligation to share it is false.

Everyone's wealth depends on enormous contributions from everyone else, current and past. How did they build their app without the free K-12 education (and the education of your teachers), the roads, telecommunications, laws, protocols, police ... the economists whose centuries of work have provided the wealth your investors and customers have; the scientists who developed the theories; all the open source developers who gave away their work and set open statndards; the soldiers who work for paltry wages in the crappiest working conditions in the world, and some of whom died, to provide the security necessary for our economy and society to survive; the political leaders who generation after generation have built democracy and civil rights ... whoever developed English and the ones who developed C++ ...

All these people give us the opportunity to thrive. Do you think we would do so well without them? Are many startups happening in Somalia or Syria? Why should you or I be excluded from contributing and pulling our weight?
Agreed. There needs to be a point where authorities step in, identify the individuals and arrest the one making the threats.
>If an expensive feature has discoverability problems, it probably doesn't sound awesome from Apple's perspective.

That seems to be a thing with Apple in general. For example, I just recently discovered that by holding "option" while clicking the "Format" drop-down on the Preview program's Export screen, you can get additional formats to appear, magically. For "advanced" users I'm guessing?

How the hell was I supposed to know that ??? Where else can I see additional things by holding down "option" ???

Yes, Apple is simple, but there's a lot of cute little hidden things that you can do by combining option/apple under the right circumstance. I feel like I'm playing Super Mario Bros. and jumping wildly into the air to hit some hidden block.
Best suggestion list I've come across. Please Twitter think about this stuff.
It's difficult to codify "career advancement". What does it mean? To whom? I've been a "programmer", "analyst", "database administrator", "developer", "consultant", and "manager". What order shows advancement?
Exactly. If your solution is to "ignore trolls" then eventually you have to upgrade your ignore to the entire community.

USENET is dead because they couldn't keep the troll/spammer population in check. Smaller forums with more control survived because they were more resilient and didn't offer as big a target.
Easy:

http://serverfault.com/questions/176822/how-do-i-use-a-minit...

With a RPi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5CltdZktlw
> Ideally what you need is some tool that you start, use the site, then stop and it marks any CSS it didn't "see" used throughout that time. But I don't know of such a tool.

You can probably make a tool which works 90% of the time but it's an unsolvable problem to completely automate given the dynamic nature of web and JavaScript code.
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> Rust code as much of th Rust standard library is simply not ready for "serious" usage.

Can you elaborate on this? I've been getting serious usage out of the Rust standard library for years...
>You don't think someone like Madoff deserves the worst punishment we have available for current non-violent offenders?

No, no--I am merely asking and want to know the purpose of these long terms. I don't believe I mentioned Madoff in particular but in general with respect to things like drug distribution, computer hacking, etc. As I said in the beginning, I believe there is some price to be paid. My confusion is why we sentence some people to 1 year or to 10 years in prison for a non-violent crime, and then some for 200 years. So my observation of the non-violent criminal justice is that punishment is not meted out in a deterministic fashion, even if it's intended to rehabilitate. While if you are convicted of killing somebody, it is almost guaranteed you will lose your freedom indefinitely.

I know of someone who was accused of hacking a computer network without actually producing much harm aside from snooping at info, yet he was asked to serve 2 years.

I'm not educated or well-informed in these aspects. You seem to be mistaking my asking of the question with advocating a position. I apologize if I have offended you.
In public we arrest those who break down civil society by smashing windows, beating people up or threating law-abiding citizens. On the internet, we dispute whether anything is actually going wrong. Or how to automatically solve it.

At some point I think a wet team is the only solution.
Yes. Language learning, for example. Speech recognition is being used for a lot of IoT stuff, home automation, and toys and the like. Lots of other really interesting niche applications.

We do research consulting in speech & language, and tons of small start-ups come to us with a variety of really interesting problems.

cobaltspeech.com
All the talk about home incarceration type programs seems like it wouldn't work out all that well with a population that (I assume) mostly rents and (I assume) often has trouble keeping their finances in the black without any punitive measures.
> The concept of a corporation using your code for their profit without giving back is mostly just an imagination.

One of the authors of the Python requests HTTP library has called out Uber for using Python, and almost certainly using requests, and not paying any money

https://lukasa.co.uk/2015/08/Funding_OSS/
I was discussing an identical project with a coworker a while back, and have been stalking ebay for VT2X0s occasionally since. However they seem to be incredibly rare in the UK, and all the listings shown require shipping from the US with monstrous fees.

Although my idea was not necessarily integration in to my work flow, more a dashboard of network/server stats etc.
This should exist for Wikipedia. Would be great to autocomplete sentences as well as code.
The -li Ending, basically just the diminutive, is not necessary to convey the meaning. -br is "cold", -brot is "bread", -brotli is also "bread". I kind of like the whole archive.bread thing, but with the German sound to it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/2h8ich...
I agree we should be sending less people to prison. But then the problem becomes how to punish people for doing these things?

Some people do not have the money to pay compensation. Some people will avoid community service. Some people will disobey home detention orders. What do we do with these people now?
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Sigh... I feel like I'm not getting through to you here. Yes your layer works pro-bono but the rest of the time he works for money, and his entire conception of legal advice revolves around that. What's good for the goose is good for the gander: Your lawyer isn't paid to understand the law. He's paid to protect you from other lawyers. And other lawyers peddle FUD, so your lawyer has to protect you against FUD. Of course he's going to advise you to protect yourself! And if you've got an aggressive adversary, then you probably should.

But you don't need to protect yourself. You're legally allowed to read stuff and write something similar. Just don't copy it.

> I wish that were true, but many current laws say otherwise

I'm going to disregard this statement (and it's conspicuous lack of citations) because you're not a lawyer :)

> You're just hoping the world is as free as you say it is.

No, I'm just reading Wikipedia:

Clean room design is usually employed as best practice,
but not strictly required by law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design#Examples
It would be really helpful if the owner of this spreadsheet would make the header row sticky for simpler browsing
There are still crimes where the punishment should be a short rope and a tall tree. Forty years of a roof over your head, a bed to sleep in, and three squares a day is insane.
Hold your horses. It seems the natsec apparatus is divided on this case and many have been vocal about it, including the Secretary of Defense. I don't think Issa himself cares very much about this issue, it's more likely that someone close to him, someone not too keen on having the courts ruling on this, fed him the NAND mirroring line. A good contribution to the debate congress was having but not enough to justify this inadvertent canonization of Rep. Issa.
I'm not sure how linking (as part of compiling) works. I thought how it worked was by copying the compliled thing from other files into the same executable. Is this not the case?
You need to raise now. Perhaps you shouldn’t have spent all that money
Matching new graduates with jobs in tech
No you don't. It now does python to JS compilation. And that's if you want client side callbacks.
Can you explain why? What if we relax it to say that copying from one uninitialized variable to another can be omitted?
Because context.
For all the good that Twitter does, it is farceorsecwhat social harm is done.

I don't use Twitter and likely never will. It's a cesspool of discrimination and abuse. I hope it dies as a medium.
Not sure I follow. Are you saying robbers, rapists, carjackers, thieves, murderers, drunk drivers causing vehicular manslaughter etc etc should NOT be punished because some other "bad" behavior is not punishable by law in today's society?
"Just ignore it" is the same as recommending someone leave a party when they're being sexually harassed, as if that's a satisfactory solution. It's punishing the wrong person.

Kick the jerks. Ban them if they are repeat offenders. Provide mechanisms for people to shrink or expand how much information is shared and how easy it is to contact them.

I'm actually dismayed that to this day very, very few sites enforce a system where you must be recommended by someone in order to join, or by a friend to ask to be friends/communicate with someone.

Those that get perpetually harassed would be far less likely to have to deal with trolls if those trolls had to be a "friend of a friend". Is vouching so technically complicated we haven't done it yet?

There are social structures and conventions that haven't really seen much traction in software. Someone's totally out of control at a party? Kick them out and kick out the person that invited them too.
What I mean is that "there will be consequences" is a thought that should cross one's mind before doing or saying anything in a public forum. Why should one not accept any responsibility for what he says in public? Can I walk around Harlem with a racist sign without expecting to be roughed up at some point?

(Btw yes, that sort of reactionary persecution can happen and does indeed happen in all sorts of places. It's part and parcel of meaningful political activism anywhere in the world.)
The trigger was always a sudden surge in ocean temperature.

Aaaargh! This is not the only cause of coral bleaching! [Edit: removed apparently-distracting sentence.] Blaming climate change for coral death is sort of an "E: other" multiple-choice answer for when we've already eliminated sewage, agricultural pollution, chemical pollution, fishing techniques like cyanide, uncontrolled seaweed (often as a result of overfishing herbivorous fish), sedimentation, etc. Blaming climate change is the favorite maneuver of careless locals eager to blame the rest of the world for their dead reef.
For many qualified technical people, $15k + recognition is worth more than $500k + guilt + possible prison / looking over your shoulder for years.
Volantio is hiring full-stack developers to help fix travel tech
We (Volantio, the B2B arm of Adioso) are looking for full stack developers with great communication skills who can help make some of the world’s biggest travel sites suck a bunch less, by providing tech to airlines and other travel companies (and drag them kicking and screaming into the 21st century).

We’re a close-knit team and have a variety of challenging work on our plates. This role is not just your typical coding-at-a-desk-in-perpetuity type position. One day you might be knee-deep in stack traces, the next you could be flying to Bangkok to meet an airline, but then the next you might well be battling CSS animation issues.

Skills/etc:

- Have built non-trivial applications in small teams

- Totally comfortable in Python/Django (or something similar)

- Equally comfortable in JS/Coffeescript

- We like Postgres and redis, so it’s probably good if you do too

- Used to working in a fast & iterative continuous delivery environment with plenty of testing

- Happiest working in a cross-functional team with a very shared codebase (being small, we avoid specialization where possible)

- Excellent organizer & communicator: We’re somewhat distributed by nature, so communication is critical

- Excited by/love of travel

- Patience: Sometimes our customers don’t move as fast as we’d like

- Curious, humble, and willing to learn

Bonus experience:

- Graphing & visualization

- Analytics tech

- Machine learning

- Crufty old APIs (SOAP, etc)

- Travel tech (GDS, CRS, etc)

- Enterprise technology integration

You'll be a core member of our team and be able to shape the role and take it in a direction that you find exciting as we grow the company.

If this sounds interesting, we would love to hear from you. Please include whatever info you believe is relevant: resume, GitHub profile, code samples, links to personal projects, etc.

You can apply by emailing us directly (jobs@volantio.com) or on Angellist: https://angel.co/volantio/jobs/88656-full-stack-developer
.chick sounds offensive, but for different reasons.
It's like a reverse placebo effect. When something changes, people will start going over it with a fine-tooth comb. Some of the "flaws" that they might present as problems with the new system may well have existed with the old system, but they were just overlooked / forgotten.
I understand there has to be some price to be paid. My question is the length. Is the term deterministic or is it arbitrary? I have never really understood why some non-violent crimes are sentenced with 10 years in prison versus 200 years in prison. For example, a self-victim crime of consuming drugs is punished harshly in Singapore.
word != phrase
Or you could just run cool-retro-term[1] for the similar visual effect.

[1]: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
https://www.barackobama.com/climate-change-deniers/darrell-i...
Wouldn't anybody who knows the law know enough not to post any actionable advice.
Study: People Want Power Because They Want Autonomy
Is the GPL unmodified? The GPL permits commercial use. IANAL
A little off topic, but I was wondering what kind of "wear and tear" occurs on a phone at the molecular level? I imagine a phone with a "pin" verification will be tapped fairly regularly in certain places on the screen (especially if the user never changed their pin).

Also wonder if any of that "wear and tear" would show up in the circuits that detect taps. Again, if only specific places on the screen are tapped for the pin (never changed) it may leave enough evidence somewhere somehow at the molecular level.

Anyone here with knowledge in this area that could debunk or validate this concept?
NYSE, Nasdaq reportedly want to take on IEX with their own "speed bump" tech
Reddit has removed all posts about Brussels from the front page
And again cheating is much greyer area than killing. The marriage, the wedding, being faithful are very artificial social constructs. I for once, would never, ever want somebody to be punished because she cheated on me. I may not like it, but I don't think the state has anything to do with it.
> If you have allergies it's a great reason to learn to cook your own food

Yes, but they may severely limit your life-choices, and it also defeats the purpose of ingredient labelling (if you can't rely on it).
A headline can not contain enough information to convey scientific findings. For some more broad context, see this quote from the article:

>“Some of the claims in this paper are indeed extraordinary,” said Michael E. Mann, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University. “They conflict with the mainstream understanding of climate change to the point where the standard of proof is quite high.”
> Spoken like a truly out of touch academic.

I agree.

Deterrent factor is huge. Most if not almost all people fear having to spend time in prison. And there is no question that it guides their behavior. And the people who don't fear being in prison don't need less of a reason to be out there. Prison is punishment. No way to compare that type of loss of freedom with home detention.

For all the crime committed now, there is no question that crime would increase if the punishment weren't viewed as taking away a liberty in a consequential way.
> Produce more work until it gets better. That's all.

Yes, but get some valuable feedback (whatever that means in your concrete situation) on your way. Otherwise you could end up writing rubbish for the rest of your life.
Sure, but if you use strict versioning in your package.json this isn't really an issue...
I can't remember the exact model number, but a company sold gas-plasma-discharge orange-on-black compact "flat panel" VT220 clones years ago.

I owned one for a while before selling it off (along with a 19" gas plasma flat panel for a MicroVAX that I got at Goodwill for $25 - now THAT was a steal that I turned into a nice profit!).