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You are turning the tables here: it is not me the one postulating the existence of an non-falsifiable entity; quite the contrary: I am assuming that all phenomena in the universe is based on measurable quantities.

You are advocating that consciousness derives from non-physical entities ("it doesn't seem to be physical". To whom doesn't it? To you? To me it seems quite physical!). Which could be very well be true, but that statement is non-falsifiable, like God.

I am assuming the simplest thing (Occam Razor): that all we have is the material world, and there are no invisible pink unicorns. Which could be wrong of course, but then be careful because it is behind your back.

So, maybe you are right or maybe you are wrong. If you are right, we can stop talking right here, since your statements are not based on reason, and can thus not be argued (for or against): you can always postulate the pink unicorn wherever you see fit.

If you are wrong, we do not need to discuss anymore either, since that's the end of this topic.
It's important to separate NPR from Public Radio. NPR, for most people, is Morning Edition and All Things Considered. A very significant amount of the schedule on most public radio stations is not NPR. Market research that this article references seems to suggest that the audience for NPR's broadcast material is aging.
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Reaching for the Stars, Across 4.37 Light-Years
Is it just me, or is the text dripping with warning signs of impending burnout?

It all sounds more trite than personal. The reading lists of inspirational achieve-more themed books. And the insistence on not only being completely recovered but "in a better place" after only four months.

Oh, and the eight blogs submitted here in 40 days.
Erik Prince is actually a good guy. You have to waddle through the metric ton of shit leftist journalist write about him so it's understandable why people like to blame him.

It's funny how Prince gets the blame for what islamists have been doing for decades. Islamic imperialism existed before Prince, before the US and unfortunately unless LKY comes back from the grave with an armada it will continue to exist after we're long beheaded.
I think a software mutual aid organisation could be GPL-compatible, too: it'd be one legal corporation whose members (human or incorporated) would be using the software collectively.

It'd be an interesting idea, surely.
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So is your problem that senior developers just do not apply or that the ones that do apply (from a smaller pool of applicants) get screened out at some point in the process?
That's too bad.

I post to medium, but I treat it as essentially a more modern Blogger. Do you skip any content you see posted to blogger.com or wordpress.com sites too? When I post there, I don't care about what other people are posting there, no more than I would avoid creating a website because many websites are shit.

As a blogging platform, Medium is OK. It's not brilliant. It's just OK. The editor is nice but too limited. The clean formatting is attractive but often I want more flexibility. The stats are useful but oddly, they refuse to show you more than 30 days worth at a time. Etc.

I have sometimes thought about going fully self hosted, but running my own blog is something I did years ago and I can't be bothered with that any more. Virtually all blogging software appears to be written in PHP by people who can't write secure code to save their lives ... WordPress is just a rolling disaster zone of exploits, I don't want viral articles to give me a big bandwidth bill, I don't want to have to set up my own analytics, etc.

Perhaps at some point I'll get over my inertia and move off of Medium, but it'd be unfortunate if I end up being motivated by "lol medium users are all idiots" becoming a meme rather than technical tradeoffs.
I think a more interesting question is...can any successful self-publishing website do the things necessary (whatever they may be) to prevent it from becoming the marketing shit-heap he describes?

I have my doubts, but anything is possible I guess.
I should specify that I've been mainly listening to WNYC. I wouldn't exactly call their run-of-the-mill pieces "fluff", but they're becoming more of an attempt at radio clickbait. "Stay tuned to hear the tale of a disadvantaged minority!" I can only listen to so many of these before I shut it off and listen to the engine.
I think it's possible to write opinionated software; often it turns out that those must-have features aren't actually must-have at all. Joel's own Trello is a good example of something that severely limits its functionality compared to its competitors, and ends up much better as a result.
Hmm, facing left would look more natural to me, but indeed, Google images shows most bicycles facing right.

OTOH, most cars seem to face left.
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Any insight into why Genode went with C++? That, plus swearing to never program in it again after doing so for a decade, rather curb my enthusiasm towards it.
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Testlio raises $6.25M to expand its testing-as-a-service empire
Merceneries aren't bound by the same rules. If they want a specific weapon, they don't follow government procurement rules, you think black water/xe reaches out to minority and women owned businesses first? They don't have a VA. They don't don't have public pensions. They don't have congressional oversight.

It's a gimmick to create "littler government" and circumvent the incredible beaurocracy that the military itself has helped create. It's also a jobs program and wealth distribution channel for a very specific class of people. At the end of it all, it also serves some specific military needs, in Iraq black water didn't follow the same rules of engagement that the military did and military leadership wanted that.
Has anyone completed the Calculus courses on Khan Academy (Integral, Differential and Multivariable)? If so, would you recommend Khan Academy for Calculus instead of the resources mentioned on Better Explained? I'm working through the Linear Algebra courses now on KA and they are very good.
I've a similar story! Working through the Nature of Code[1] is exactly the point in my life where differential equations and vector algebra suddenly made sense to me. Once I became the 'creator' I could see how this math described the real world.

[1]: http://natureofcode.com/
Red Dead Redemption “A Recurring Nightmare” During Development
Am I the only one who thinks that "tabs" should really be handled by the window manager, rather than by the application?
Is it a common thing to realise you are burnouted in front of the kitchen closet? It was the same for me, stuck in front of food and didn't even know why I opened the door. Then I get scared.
My guess would be that people draw left to right, and also start drawing the part that is simplest. If you look at some of the drawings it seems that people get confused about how the gears and the rear wheel connect to the rest of the bike, while the front wheel and handlebars are more often correct.
>the bike-stand is on the left side

Obviously that's just if the bike is positioned facing left.

Nothing inherent about it, you could just as well mount a bike facing right, and it would be on the other side.
You mean this?
https://www.youtube.com/user/mikeselectricstuff
Why ContentEditable Is Terrible, Or: How the Medium Editor Works (2014)
By creatives, does it mean exclusively web designers? I'm not sure I get the purpose of the software if it is not the case.
I had not previously heard of "2U", and I may be atypical in this, but working for a for-profit education outfit is not in line with my personal ethics.
I value very different things than you do. Vim and Emacs have a more difficult learning curve but the beauty of it... and configuring it to your liking is that it can surpass in speed and capabilities what some very convenient editors can do for a single language.

I use MacVim and my .vimrc file follows me around wherever I go. My experience is great in my editor because the few minutes I invested here and there have huge payoffs over time whereas most IDEs plateau.
Sometimes I Feel Like I'm The Only One Trying To Gentrify This Neighborhood

http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/sometimes-i-feel-like-im-th...
> ... built on ... built on ...

Well, considering the dependencies, it is impressive that it still is lightweight :)
Including England, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, etc?
One of my primary reasons for using emacs is because I decided I wanted to learn how to do as much of my computing from a terminal as possible, and emacs is closer to an OS itself than just a txt editor. (I know enough vi vim to do just fine when on systems without emacs though.)

Another reason is because I conciously have decided that gnu and gpl are what I want to run whenever possible, which also affects my other tool choices, eg, screen vs tmux.
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Pittsburgh is about 50 miles from West Virginia at the closest point.

It's a beautiful town.
They just added a "Retrieve license code" link on the web site below the Arq 4 license code field. I was able to upgrade no problem. FYI.
I love NPR too, and I do not think podcasts can even begin to match the audio-documentary experience that NPR provides. Having BBC on it is an amazing bonus.
Now, if only it could cure my procrastination...
When I can't stomach puff pieces on NPR, I usually blame it in my extreme liberal bias, but still take in the information. I still haven't yet heard ANY in-depth stories taking Trump or Cruise to task for their many false statements. At the same time, I've heard quite a few stories on how Sander's policies aren't viable, or the number of ways Secretary Clinton may have broken the law by demanding a Blackberry phone.
Ooooh. Talk dirty to us. YC Pittsburgh batch. Dig it.
You're right. Apologies for misrepresenting Benjamin's position.

(He's correct, I think.)
Reading all these comments makes me not interested in reading the article. How can so many people be saying that the article's subject doesn't match the title unless it really doesn't? Why the heck would I read anything like that? Article titles are totally FOR judging books by their cover.
Delaware provides a mostly sane legal environment for resolving disputes, I've in fact never gotten the impression that dodging state taxes is that big a motivation to register there (as opposed to another state with merely better tax rates), although I could well be wrong. And some states have taxes that are almost a duty to dodge, like Washington State's on gross revenue, even if you're not profitable, designed to capture money from big firms like Boeing in bad as well as good years.
Medium and Svbtle actually opened to the public right around the same time, in October 2013 and January 2014, respectively.
I honestly didn't notice it until the presidential coverage this year. The specific word choices their hosts make when comparing candidates shows an extreme bias toward HRC. I don't know if maybe it's the on-air hosts' age?

That, and anything at all relating to Israel. Even when (?) did the series on Palestinian perspectives, every Palestinian they spoke to 'understood' why Israel does what it does. My guess is there are other voices available.

All that being said, I'll take a little bias to have access to stories that are actually researched and thought about, instead of the 30 second sound bite bull-shit pieces you get with the large nationals.
My simple response is: go make your own blogging platform for artists then.

While I never subscribed to the idea of some centralized blog platform (though I've tried them), I don't begrudge others for taking part, nor do I judge them because they're not "artist" enough.

Whine less, do more.
I agree. I've been increasingly less impressed by their news coverage. You said it exactly right, there are puff pieces and lack of true experts representation on all sides of issues.

However, for me, NPR's true value is it's shows. Diane Rehm and Terry Gross are great interviewers. Planet Money, Wait Wait, and of course all the local public radio shows like Freakonomics or Radiolab. Of course, this speaks a bit to the point of the article, though.
I've been trying to evaluate the different editors.

https://github.com/melling/EditorNotes/blob/master/vim.org

To me it feels like the vim key bindings are more efficient for programmers. No one has ever done a scientific comparison, and it always seems to end in a religious war, but we should do a better job of evaluating our tools. Then hopefully, we can improve them.
What differentiator? They are all using the same source code. Msys, Cygwin, now Microsoft all provide a whole ecosystem of gnu tools. (Git just repackages msys, I think.)

My level of understanding of the difference between cygwin and msys is that, when you build an executable, cygwin requires its own dll's to run it while msys uses the system dll's. The result is with cygwin you have full posix while with msys some things that Windows does in a non-posixy way are missing or wonky. But it is much easier to distribute msys-built binaries.

So what is the differentiator with the Microsoft version? That they are hooking it up to Ubuntu package management?
Normally you should be able to yank the lines you want to copy to the * register (check :registers). The * register is basically the clipboard. You can use it to copy stuff from and to Vim. It does not necessarily work under every OS, but so far in Windows and OSX it worked fine on console and GUI.

For commenting and uncommenting you can check the NerdCommenter plugin.
Snagged my house in Morningside, which is in the city. You can still get pretty inexpensive houses throughout the East End, but you'll need to put in some elbow grease. Average prices seem to be around $200,000 for a decent home in the city. $500,000 and it's a move in ready palace.
Depriving the world's militaries of research brains isn't going to prevent or lessen violence. Those who reach for violence as a commonly used tool will continue to do so, with or without advanced researchers at their side, albeit with cruder tools of warfare in case researchers do decide to walk away en masse.

Perhaps a more impactful approach would be to resist the use of violence per se, not the tools of war. I can see room for research into non-lethal weaponry that can be sold to militaries and police forces as a turn-key, easy to use solution which, on one hand, leaves room for violent yet non-lethal action, and on the other hand doesn't exact a cost in human lives during conflict resolution. Tasers are a crude prototype preview of what might be possible. I'm thinking more along the lines of perfecting a non-lethal weapon that doesn't electrocute a person while running the risk of stopping their heart entirely. That doesn't count as non-lethal!

In short, the author's stance is commendable if short sighted. IMHO there are better ways to resist violence than simply making a one-man stand.
Where does it say it's a web browser in a web browser?
"Semantics nazis"?

Quite a roundabout way for describing people that care for the accurate use of terms...

Is assigning random personal meanings to words a thing now? I mean, talk about putting the p...y on the chainwax!
Ctrl-V to turn on rectangular visual mode, select the area you want to copy (presumably you understand to not select the line numbers), then "*y to copy it to the system clipboard. Once it's on the system clipboard, you can then paste it into another application; generally this is done with Ctrl-v or something similar, but you should check your operating system's user manual to verify this.
Voice is the UI, not the UX, and language is the protocol.
I don't personally use the terminal support. Except it turns out that I actually did, implicitly. I use fzf for opening files, and I noticed recently that it's not actually 'integrated' into neovim, it just spawns within its terminal emulator. I tried fzf in vim, and the result was less than satisfactory, to say the least.
Can't they just rebrand that kind of content as "Medium Social" or something like that?
This is much ado about nothing. Why does it matter what content resides on this site? No one is going to judge the author or anyone else for publishing on Medium. If someone in your circle is judging you for publishing on Medium, you'd be better served to cut them out of your circle.
Why would anyone want to pay to put an article on medium? They had better offer quite an impressive array of discovery features if I'm paying them to use a service that gives me less control over my own content than I would otherwise have.

The problem isn't that people are posting low quality, low effort content on medium. That's a problem that micropayments would solve. The problem is that it has become popular on medium to post certain types of content that other medium users find distasteful.

There's not much a site like medium can do to resolve a conflict of values in its userbase without restructuring the experience to enable the community to fragment, probably at the expense of some nice thing or another.
do you have an ansible playbook for doing that at hand?
Good advice.
But rather than Weebly, why not get back to self-hosting?

The latest Wordpress version and the forthcoming Version 2 REST API (plugin, for now) is going to create huge opportunities for the creation of apps for creating and consuming great content that YOU own. :)
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Food selection is a weird one - it shouldn't take much cognitive overhead, but the more stressed and tired I am, the more likely I am to just not bother eating, rather than take the energy to decide what to eat.

For instance, it's now Wednesday, I haven't got around to putting food in myself since Sunday. I've managed a few hundred cups of coffee though. Kept going into the kitchen last night, and rather than eating kept finding myself chores to do until I gave up and went to bed - which is the place you lie until you hear the birds start to sing, then you close your eyes for what feels like five minutes, your alarm goes off, and you start all over again.

Life is hell, but that's OK. I've made peace with being permanently anxious, stressed, and tired. Sure, it's cost me all of my friends, relationships, etc., but that's OK, they're only things, and nothing really matters anyway - everybody ends up dead eventually.
Looks like the beginnings of a sync adapter (android) except limited to a single app.

I need to better understand the use of NSOperationQueue and why the speaker hates on singletons vs dependency injection.

Singleton: allocs first time its needed, exists for the life of the app. Need to be mindful of how much data it stores, and thread safety

Dependency Injection: allocs and passes to other view controllers as needed. Still need to be mindful of data it stores, and thread safety.

The story at 27min or so is a keeper. Many Async->Async->Async calls all launching independently and updating the viewcontrollers without any control flow.
You don't need a plugin for that. Just set the 'clipboard' option.
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> I use MacVim and my .vimrc file follows me around wherever I go.

Minor nit in support of parent comment: no it doesn't, you have to copy or sync it around yourself.

Atom is a great example of an editor that is aware of the internet existing. Vim, while
my daily driver, is not.
Your first three paragraphs are criticism of defence policy, not of PMCs.

What an Iraqi PM claims to want publicaly is likely to contain at least three levels of indirection, or the person filling the role wouldn't be qualified for the role.
I don't think so: I have a number of programs that support tabs or multiple groups of windows in some form, including my editors (Emacs/Vim), browser (GNU IceCat), and terminal multiplexer (GNU screen). It can be argued that each of those are window managers in their own right, but what this does is provide distinct points of context that I can switch between and ignore.

I also use a tiling window manager (Xmonad); it would not be realistic for my window manager to handle tabbing, as that would prevent me from tiling my browser.

I also have dozens (sometimes hundreds) of tabs open in my browser, which I arrange hierarchically using the Tree Style Tab addon, which I find incredibly useful and essential to how I use and understand the Web (...and my train of thought as to how I got 10 levels deep into Wikipedia and various other sites while trying to research something completely unrelated...).

I'm not saying that this rationale works for everyone; this is what works for me, and I like it.
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Hi buro9,

I'm also using google calendar heavily for my daily live. I usually use it to plan and keep track of my goals/habits too. I really like the idea to have appointments, goals/habits, events, shared calendars for work, family etc. and see my life and my time in one place.

I've wrote a little web app which helps me to keep on track with my habits. You can define a spec for a habit like 'play the guitar each day' or 'sports 3 times a week' and it connects to my google calendar and looks if my current weeks past and planned events match the habit specs. It's very powerfull. Overall I'll automate everything I can in my google calendar with recurring events to have the bare minimum of effort managing it.

If you're interested check it out https://www.time-mentor.com/
Thanks :-)
Soo, are these changes already in the git repository? Because the readme is still pointing out that the repository is for 7.4 and the tags/branches are not very helpful. Did I miss something?
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As per other commenters, your argument appears to be with DoD policy and not with Blackwater.
The new breakindent options sounds very useful. I've run into the same issue from time to time. This hasn't been possible to fix before, has it?
Depending on the meaning of "productive" of course...
It seems to me that there is a yet deeper underlying problem - the expectation that any success should translate into long-term continued relevance. That isn't how things work. Trends wax and wane. And yes, some companies build something that becomes pervasive enough that it doesn't go away when trends shift... but that is the exception. If you build something and get a rapid spike of success, grab on and monetize what you can while you can, and be glad for it. if you can make it last longer, great... but a short-term minor success is nothing to be ashamed of.
What if he is? To run a mercenary corporation you are going to need a somewhat flexible set of morals or at least an "alternative" set of world views.

Is that any different than the Ceo of a pharmaceutical corporation that chooses to treat erectile dysfunction instead of real diseases? Or the CEO of a tobacco or alchohol company?

There are a lot of CEOs with kind of funky world views and opinions of themselves and rationalization about the "good" that their companies do. Being a bit sociopathic is almost a job requirement for them. Erik prince is in a nasty business and I'm not defending that but as portrayed it seems like he developed a world view that is somehow compatible with the work, that just seems like a normal ceo to me.
They are well and truly separate because it is only the losing side that are forced to innovate drastically, that is only the side facing and existential threat.

I also think that these factors are mostly important for the _adoption_ and development of innovative ideas. I don't think going to work trying to invent a better radar is magically more efficient during wartime when you worry about your family being killed rather than during peace time.
Have the various plugins started to make use of the new async/jobs/messages functionality already?