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Up until the last line I was with you. But those are separate things.

Just like any organization it's all about the team/people. The government is clueless without a proper strategy and most of the political scene isn't bold or capable enough to do major state reforms.

I envy Estonia and Cyprus, they both in a critical time, took bold decisions that both required great effort and persistence to accomplish their goals. Greece on the other hand keeps on choosing the short-term seemingly easy way that ends up -of course- being an illusion.

I believe we had an opportunity to show that we want change, but we the Greek people keep on failing. I keep losing faith not at the politicians but on the will and maybe intelligence of the people and after so many years in misery, it's beyond tiring to see almost no progress and in some cases steps back. The populism and having a majority of weak politicians is killing this country.
REALLY flexible...

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/10/every-day-i-learn-something...
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1. I'm studying set theory, and finite is quite rigidly defined (albeit there's multiple definitions, which require the axiom of choice to prove identical.)

We can define natural number as an ordinal that's well ordered by its element relation and the reverse of the element relation (all those terms are defined). Or just as a finite ordinal, in the sense of not being equipollent to any strict subset. Or as the ordinals not containing any limit ordinals or being a limit ordinal.

2. This should probably be thought of as the machine doesn't halt, but in some models, we can "prove" that it halts and has any result. This is kind of like how you can rearrange the terms of some series to sum to any number. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_series_theorem

(I wonder if there's a way to get the computability result from this result by some clever isomorphism.)

Edit: fixed definition and added another one.
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> If your threat model includes "I don't trust GitHub/their servers", then yes, you obviously have to verify offline.

Given that both git and openpgp are designed to be distributed and resistant to attacks on any centralized party, that's a reasonable model to have in your head when checking an openpgp signature on a git commit.

> What specifically do you think people are going to think has been verified?

That my ultra-paranoid friend John who doesn't even use web browsers has signed commit xyz - that's what I'd think when I checked the signature in command-line git. Whereas seeing the "verified" picture in the GitHub page conforms that John signed commit xyz or some script kiddie found a vulnerability in github's rails app or the US government sent an NSL to GitHub or ...

For many threat models that's still a very useful guarantee. But it's a very different guarantee from what you get when checking a gpg signature on a git commit locally, and that can easily be very confusing.
According to this article (in Norwegian) cutting subsidies has broad cross-party support: http://www.klassekampen.no/61942/article/item/null/presses-t...

More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_support
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I totally take your point (yes, the 2nd image is 'better' for the most part), and it's one I considered when I wrote my comment. I think it's interesting to compare it with OSX and its global menubar.

I'd like to see a windowing system that totally revamps how we think about screens, apps, windows, tabs; menus, toolbars, etc. When should a menu be linked to an app and when should it be linked to a tab? How can we meaningfully manage all these things together? Do we really need a 5th level in this hierarchy? Is it really a hierarchy, or should an 'app' be able to overlap more than one screen? Does it ever make sense for a tab (image a 'naked' pane displaying an image) to be available to more than one app? etc.

I feel like, yes, we need to solve these issues at a higher-than-app level, because every app doing its own thing will just be incredibly confusing.
That is REALLY interesting! Quite a useful and nice way to work with tax. What does the percentage increase to in the following year?

It is a shame that the UK does not have anything like this. The best you can hope for is to contract and that give an average tax of around 26% to 30% depending on how creative your bookkeeper is.

Germany as my alternative example is quite a different story, there being freelance is very difficult due to the cost of healthcare that you HAVE to pay and their tax law is extremely complicated, you pay loads more tax than the UK for example. I know some friends who too permanent employment in Germany as it was more beneficial than being freelance.
so it's a git rebase history!
This sort of logic is enshrined in consumer law as well - the courts idea of a reasonable lifetime for a product is tied to the amount you pay.

Not exactly; in the UK it's tied to "reasonable expectations" for that kind of product. Certainly non-smart heating controllers would have an expected life time of 10-20 years, so why do the more expensive smart ones get away with a lifetime of less than 3?
To those who a curious about "why?" = this is from some of the guys who worked making Opera and for those (but not only for) who liked it more than other browsers.

Not only opera had a very nice engine of its own (not anymore in Vivaldi, though), but also great functionality and ways for customization
> JavaScript is actually an incredibly flexible and effective language.

== vs ===

No integers.

Assignment is declaration.

Prototypes.

Curly brackets & semicolons.

Semicolon insertion.

It may be flexible (in the sense that an Alfa Romeo driven into a telephone pole at 120 mph is flexible), but it sure as heck ain't effective. JavaScript is the great shame of the computing industry: that it exists, and that it is used, and that it is used in more than just the browser, is an indictment of our entire profession.

JavaScript: take off and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

JavaScript: you'll envy the dead.

JavaScript: a mistake, carried out past the point of absurdity.
Like what?
The more I know about things outside programming, the more I see how interesting it is and how much boring, repeating stuff you have to go through to have fun in other parts of life.
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It's more like "Do the right thing to make the most profit."
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I would say that boats have Wind Turbines rather than RATs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine

The power comes much more from the wind than the vehicle moving through the air (though I am very aware that the speed of the boat affects the apparent wind the generator will experience)
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I find SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER and LIKE US ON SOCIAL MEDIAS popups and ads much more inconvenient.

Sorry for the late reply.
Right, but as the article points out - you get compensated (10x) better for it in the management track. There are outliers of course, but they are just that - outliers.
My office has a café level coffee setup like the one you describe. Slowly improving, still manage to cock it up completely now and then.

Are there any things you would tell yourself if you went back in time to when you were new to it? Just on the lookout for things I can improve!
> Yes. Yes it is reasonable.

Reasonable, sure. But is it realistic when we have things like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11430596 ?
I miss when pictures were meant for special moments / events, not for every single day.
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Let the people die, woo!

Literally the entire point of a safety net for individual people is to prevent people from falling into despair and dying (of starvation or illness) due either to poor decisions or pure chance. To remove said safety net is to say that you value having a bit more money over people's lives - you would prefer that people die than lose money.

To put that a way you might understand - humans have an almost universally recognised right to food, water, shelter and medical care because these things are really, really important. To deny people those things is to say that those things are less important than having a little more money. You can't seriously be saying that.
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Regarding your first point, not sure if author covered it, but in Google Content Experiments with multi bandit approach cookies are stored, so user who sees variation b will keep seeing b while the experiment is running
I've tried most of them and I keep coming back to SmartGit (http://syntevo.com).
The BBC and every other mainstream media source, it seems.

I had never heard of this, and the only "major" source I could find was a Reuters wire story (that seems to not have been picked up by other media): https://finance.yahoo.com/news/iraq-probe-claims-unaoil-corr...

Honestly, from reading that, it's not clear why this would be a story worth covering. Corruption in Iraq is like rain in Seattle: Depressing, but barely newsworthy.
what corner of Western Europe is that?
> You're right that it's not a good idea for generalists to pick up Noise and go to town with it. Noise isn't misuse-proof.

Nor is SSL. Couldn't an opinionated SSL library (supporting exactly one protocol version, one cipher only, etc) provide the same simplicity of use while remaining interoperable and reusing an already-validated protocol?
It's a nice feature to add signature verification to the UI, but it does leave out the trust aspect of PGP. Showing a green "verified" badge may be misinterpreted by users who are less familiar with PGP because they may think of it as meaning "you can trust the authenticity of this commit," which is not what it actually means. GitHub can verify that the signature matches the public key that the author uploaded to their account, but that's not actually useful unless the person viewing the commit trusts that public key.

It would be great if it had three different badges to distinguish between different things: perhaps a red "unsigned" for commits with no signature at all and "invalid" for commits with a bad signature, a yellow "verified" for commits with signatures that match the author's uploaded public key, and a green "trusted" if the person viewing the commit has marked the author's public key as trusted.
> How much did Pfizer pay in US taxes between 2010 and 2012? Zero. What was Apple's US tax rate in 2014? 3.7%.

That would be because Pfizer legally had no profits. Apple has a 15-39% tax rate (almost certainly closer to the latter), not a 3.7% tax rate, because that's the law in the U.S.

> Like most Fortune 100 firms, through legal maneuvering, Pfizer has been offshoring profits for years in order to avoid paying US taxes.

They do this because U.S. corporate taxes are absurdly high. Of course, it's only convenient for large multinationals to avoid taxes in this fashion; those same high rates bite their smaller competitors badly, making them far less profitable (imagine having to pay nearly half of your profits in taxes annually!). The situation works out well enough for the large companies.
Where did you hear that story, in Norway?

Had he had information about the Vikings, he would had used the Viking route going around the coast that is way easier than strait on the Ocean. Don't you believe?.

In Columbus times, there were real stories of manmade and natural objects on the beach(Portugal and Spanish beaches) after strong storms, that were not native from Spain and Portugal.

Those stories are documented on Spanish documentation. The Indias archive contains an incredible amount of documentation.

Columbus probably had some hints that there was something at America's distance, because he used that distance in order to calculate the earth radius if it(America) this were Japan. But he was totally wrong on what it was(thankfully).

In X century there were accurate records of earth radius but Colombus uses a new value considering America's distance as the extreme of the world, because Colombus believed that was the Indias(India, Japan...).

Why he used this value? We don't know.
Financialization of the economy and rentier capture of value/profits. There are six billion people who are waiting to be brought up to the average American's standard of living but have no path to it. Vast investments in housing, education, transportation and healthcare are needed, many times more than what even China has attempted, but this cannot happen as long as ROI is higher in the financial sector and increasing levels of debt prevent forward movement. Debt forgiveness and plain old money/land giveaways need to come back in style.
The question isn't really what country they're from though. How many of those users can't speak English?
The BBC is certainly pretty much independent of the folk who actually compulsorily fund it (£3.65 billion tax-free income via the licence fee) even if they never watch or listen to it.

The EU chip in a bit too. Not much as a % but it was £3 million of EU funds (i.e., European taxpayers who don't have a say in that either) between April 2011 and November 2013.
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Likewise here. I'm 47, been programming since I'm 12. I'm very good at it. I also know I'd be a bad manager, unless I work with /very/ good people.

And yes, Ican relate to the article; I've seen (I still see) junior managers who can barely tie their shoes make more money than excellent engineers with 25y experience, but that's the way the world is...

Basically 'engineer'/'programmer' is a calling for some; it is for me. People for whom this is not a calling will never be /really/ good at it (for one thing, they don't spend their spare time doing it!) and eventually gravitate out of it.

But the ones for whom it is a calling, well, sod the money, give me some nice project/people to work on/with and I'm happy.

Or, do that but also get the money by going consulting. That's what I do for the last few years. It's quite exciting being a 'mercenary' in a way, and you can dissociate yourself from the companies/products and focus on the engineering.
> He would have been unhappy with the other choice as well

> "No matter which road you take, you'll always sigh, and wish you'd taken another."

There's no disagreement here. It's the same interpretation of the poem.
That's very interesting. Thanks for posting that.
I'd like to have that too!
As a Swede currently listening on the newly released album of Amon Amarth, this is cool news. I'm proud of you, long dead ancestors!
I personally think vertical tabs rule, and I remember them fondly from OmniWeb, but it's not something I would switch my main browser for.
I would have this dilemma too.The choice of whether to take up a Technical Management role to remain in coding is something every hacker will face.I say hacker because I consider a hacker different coder on the basis that a hacker loves what he is doing.What you need to realise is that context matters a lot:
For example,from the OP's link "When I pointed this out the manager said [...] Eventually I gave up and left.
This change could be brought about without being a VP/CTO too.It would involve taking up more responsibility than what your current job description dictates.If you as an employer care enough to bring about change and be considered responsible for such changes ,then you will be able to bring about the change you wanted.
The OP also says "(I knew several people) but they were afraid to make any changes".This shows that those people were not ready to take up the responsibility for the matters discussed.I feel that the difference between a programmer and the rest of the professions that the OP mentions is the difference between "People Management" and "Code Management".Something which commonly intersects in the role of a "Technical Lead".

Also keep in mind that it commonly happens that one of the first few programmers become a CTO? .That is not only because of the requirement of such a position but also a genuine care for the product which leads to him shouldering responsibility for the same.

So now if you were doing this responsibility shouldering and people management for 10 years,you cannot expect yourself to up-to-date and be tech savvy forever.
Some people move to that position to also ensure relevancy.
-It is much harder to remain relevant as a programmer in comparison to being in a managerial position.

TLDR;It all depends on how much you like to code in comparison to see through a finished product which sells.Both are symbiotic fields which need specialists in each area.
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No amount of cute phrases will change the fact that it is being spread by people who actually understand its flexibility instead of focusing on something that rubs them the wrong way (which, most of the time is the result of working with other, often shiver enterprisey language(s) and thinking that that's how it's done) quite effectively and there's no sign of stopping for its growth.

And that is good.

With things like rust and go backing us up in places where more verbose and static code is beneficial (for performance?) we are finally entering new age which leaves closed corp-controlled "enterprise" things (java, net - looking at you) behind.
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Spooner's essays on the Jury representing the whole people (not merely the majority), and the criminal intent, are among the most important political writings. Comparable to Bastiat's "The Law." I recommend "The Lysander Spooner Reader" -- and make sure you read it all.

Frankly I don't really believe anyone is educated enough to even have an informed discussion on politics if they aren't familiar with the arguments presented in those two books.
> Convincing people to give him the job is part of the needed skill set!

My experience is that companies (many, perhaps most) are falling all over themselves to give senior programmers a shot at managing people.
It's a bit ironic that I've been 'down voted' for a sarcastic comment about censorship...
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I love the website UX/Design. Especially the flowing comments layout.
You should check out Boston. Tons of tech jobs and way closer to skiing. When I studied in Cambridge we were only 2 hours away from skiing at Waterville, door to door even on weekends with "thick" traffic. There's a reason so many skiers are "Massholes." That quick jaunt up I-93 is fantastic.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Harvard+University,+Cambridg...

Also my dorm in Boston to Sunday River which is a huge ski area in upper Maine was just about 3 hours.
And you never have to do anything boring or repetitive as a programmer. Sure we can automate a lot of things away once we know how to do them. But the task of staying up to date or learning in the first place involves a ton of repetition. And then there's the repeated task of learning when you get to a new project with a new language and new hardware.

Of course, you could just be repeatedly implementing the same thing with slight variations for years so minimal repetition in learning but maximal repetition in doing.
It's never been any different, that's how people are. What's different is that in periods of technological change people will engage in new behaviors which are then unfamiliar to us. So we take notice of them and realize that there are a lot of problematic aspects to culture and society. Oh golly gosh, people spend so much of their lives just stumbling through, unthinking, sometimes unfeeling. Anyone who has spent any time studying mindfulness is well aware of how pervasive that mode of living is for all people for most of their lives. It's not that we are automatons, it's just that we are creatures of habit and imitation and we find it very difficult to be truly individualistic. It often takes a great amount of training to be routinely "present" and mindful in every day life.

Let us remember the era that has just passed not so long ago prior to the advent of smart phones and prior even to the widespread popularity of the internet. An era when many people in the developed world would digest "the news" from only one local source and be satisfied with whatever they got fed. An era when most people would spend half their non-working waking hours watching whatever was on one of a few channels on television.

Yes, people should live their lives a bit more thoughtfully. Yes, people shouldn't be so caught up in all the trappings of documenting and effectively "scoring" their lives via smart phones and social media. But at the same time it's difficult to make the case that this is a decline. This is just different. And compared to people living passive, purely consumptive lives filled with monotony and vast sameness, it's hard to complain. People are doing things, experiencing things, and sharing their lives with their friends. That they are not doing it in the maximally best way is a complaint people could make about any generation in any era. And it's not as though people are wasting their lives in worse ways or to a higher degree than they were before, but merely that we'd grown accustomed to the old ways of doing so, and mentally swept them under the carpet.
If charging time is an issue for your application, isn't it easier and more effective to switch batteries instead? (Or at least electrolyte?)
I fit the description of the perp. I take a lot of photos and don't spend a massive amount of time browsing through them. But I do this because I know that one day I will be old and frail and won't have the physical capacity to get out there photographing any more. At that point, I will be content with task of organising and curating them all.
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"...based on the ultra-conservative assumption that we each upload about two photos a day to various Internet platforms, that means we take about four billion photographs a day."

2 per day? I guess I'm a massive luddite then. 2/month possibly.
I wasn't the one who downvoted you.
How do you know now what you will be content to do when you're old and frail?
> > [1] In the US, pediatricians recommend only nursing for the first 6 months

> That's what maternity/paternity leave is supposed to be for.

And of course choosing to take that leave is choosing to abandon the startup. That's fine; as you note, one always has a choice. But one simply can't have two top priorities — and there are only 24 hours in each day.
This is some next level 0.1% shit.
Haha. That's a good one.
I think GP was suggesting that technical bandaids were being placed on compound fracture type injuries, rather than addressing the root issue.

If you sidestep the problems entirely, sure, but I think that's the minority of cases where a genuinely hard social/political problem exists, a technical approach attempted, and the outcomes measured. We can all readily recall Uber as an example in the positive direction. What we are worse at is seeing or recalling the hundreds of times humans struggled with a technical solution that hacked away at the visible leaves while the root remained unaddressed.