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I stopped posting because people stopped reacting/commenting/etc. It was a black hole that nothing ever emerged from. What was even the point? It even stopped being a form of diarising/expressing yourself.

Looking back, I sort of understand why. I've clicked on "hide all from person X" for a lot of the obnoxious/repeated offenders on my friends list. The ones left are probably the ones that don't post very often anyways. My facebook feed these days is almost exclusively filled with posts from groups/pages I follow due to their theme/topic.

Initially, when facebook was still young, they let you pick movies/hobbies/quotes/people you liked. It was then added to your page as if to "describe" you. At some point, those items became "pages" that were run by individuals that posted things. That was the end of Facebook, I think. So, I picked "Einstein" as a favourite celebrity/author at some point, therefore Facebook had someone create an Einstein group and spam me with semi-related articles? No thanks. That was when I promptly went ahead and removed all of those likes/groups/pages.

That brings me to another gripe with Facebook. A lot of Facebook pages/groups, and the admins running them, seem to view their group of "likes/followers" as a resource. They then go ahead and use Facebook as their own personal platform to espouse whatever thing they believe, regardless if it is related to the topic of the page at all. So, people stopped using their own personalities/profiles as platforms to spread their personal ideas and instead went behind "pages".
The speed limit for cars is often greater than for trucks.
Big difference between a project beginning (experimentation) and going all the way to launching...
Thanks. Well every other year I thought of a company name and someone else took it :( so I thought about just keeping that name to myself. I will take a look.
I think you are right, but for the sake of social stability some sort of more equitable bargain must be struck. The alternative model is visible in Mexico City and San Palo; office commutes by chopper or kidnap and ransom risk every day !
This comports with my thought that automobile screens should just be extensions of your phone, without the separate hackable hardware/os.
This isn't C we're talking about. You don't magically expose random memory with Java code.
Counterhypothesis: capital goes to where it will extract the most wealth, without necessarily producing greater societal value. Often the inverse.
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> the primary reason for greater productivity of European settlers compared to native inhabitants of Americas would be culture

More likely, simple domestication. The "culture" of cities are born of the variety of euro-domestication. Horses, Sheep, etc. (https://youtu.be/JEYh5WACqEk?t=387)
There are reports that it can handle water MUCH better than that. Showers, swimming, etc.

But Apple doesn't promise it and it would void your warranty. It's a question of if you're willing to risk $400+ on people's anecdotes or not.
It burns back into CO2 before too long.
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I thought A380 and 787 had equivalent cabin pressure of 6000 ft with similar humidity features.

That said, I unfortunately did not notice any reduction in tiredness or jet lag in either plane compared to older aircraft. But I did enjoy the lower noise levels and higher stability of the A380, which make for a more pleasant journey overall. I feel less worn off when I land, which means I'll take less to recover from the flight itself, which I find more damaging then the time zone differences.
hehe just came here to post my project - moriclock! Cool to know people still remember it.

I like your idea of coloring of the blocks. I had big plans of turning it into some sort of journaling application.
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The article makes a good point that ammonia is an integral part of our modern world, and it's pretty much impossible to get around it.

However, there are also other places in which ammonia will cost energy. That fertilizer we use ends up in our food which ends up in our sewage. In turn, that excess fertilizer causes algae blooms and environmental damage. Therefore, we need to find ways to remove that waste (Europe already does in many places). Sadly, this costs additional energy.

I worked (very briefly) on a technology that helps reduce that impact, there's a lot of interesting work in this area. Some even uses the ammonia itself as a source of energy.

One process using the ammonia as fuel in a way:

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

Process I helped get some attention at one point:

http://web.stanford.edu/~cantwell/Recent_publications/Schers...
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The great thing about vultr is they have Australian based servers at the same price. I can't tell you how nice it is to have a 10ms ping.
Why is this done? Tradition? Certainly it's an extra expense that releasing in pure digital format would not include -- and it's not like all the music is not mastered digitally now anyway -- nobody is mastering on tape and cutting and splicing....
You can always find extreme cases to support any conclusion. There are bad players at every level, rich and poor.

I do not appreciate victim mentality because i am the grandson of genocide survivors who made it despite having not a dime to their name, no education, no language and the most tragic experience one could possibly imagine. I have zero sympathy for victim mentality.

That does not mean I am not sensitive to the plight of those trapped by circumstances almost impossible to escape. We, as a society, must help them. I do what I can as often as possible.

I see lots of people complaining about the poor while sipping their $5 latte from Starbucks and typing their comments from a $2,000 Apple laptop. Very few of them will stop drinking their lattes and buy a $400 computer so they can donate money and time to help others. As they finish their latte they blame the rich and capitalism for all of the worlds problems. A mirror is a powerful device.
1. I know people who do not consider a smartphone essential. I may personally disagree (to a first approximation for those who can afford one) but not everyone wants to have one.

2. >like all watches this day in age

So, are you arguing that my $30 Timex is a useless status symbol? There sure seem to be plenty of watches of that sort still forsale.
Trader Joes sells .5 mg peppermint tasting ones that work well for me.
I guess I don't need anything except food, clothes and shelter. But I do like/prefer wearing a watch (I'm old). I like to know what time it is or getting to be, and I prefer briefly lifting my wrist within sight, rather than reaching in my pocket. I use most of what's on my Casio geek-watch: time, 5 alarms, stopwatch, timer. I don't use the compass or barometer.
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This is not an overreaction at all. In fact, with the recent Wikipedia search engine debacal, the chances of these so called necessary permissions being unrelated, or coincidence, is nil and none. Jeez people keep up!
For me it would need a large flexible screen on the palm side. This would be much more comfortable to use and with a camera would allow video calls and selfies (if that is your thing). Also, being able to hold it up to the horizon would allow map directions with an augmented reality feel. The other (normal) side of the watch could have had a tradition analogue clock face.
Yeah, and they're the only ones using it. As your link notes, there are significant disadvantages to that system (as well as advantages), namely complexity, greater moving valvetrain mass (you need two cam lobes per valve), and inability to use hydraulic valve lash adjusters (which means you have to periodically adjust them; not a problem on a racing or high-performance motorcycle, but definitely a problem for a passenger car where these days you want to be able to go 100k miles without any service other than oil changes and tire rotations).
A man holding a cat by the tail leans something he can learn in no other way. -Mark Twain

That pretty much sums up my point.
I was shocked and awe-fucked when I accidentally went swimming with my Volvo key years ago, and it stopped working.
>I've never understood why someone would buy a "watch" that doesn't display the time at all times.

Neither did I, however I found over time I got used to it.

p.s. Your photo looks awesome - is the screen really that bright?
Apple, please do to Google Glass what you did to Blackberry.

This will help against police brutality, false reports against yourself, etc.

Everyone needs one, yesterday.
They still fly on the weekends, just not as much. I captured fr24 data for most of 2014 and pulled out the 80 planes that were originally id'd. Here's a time lapse of where they went that year and some stats on how often they flew:
https://craigulmer.com/index.pl?id=alleged_fbi_surveillance_...
I haven't worn a watch in years but I would not buy an Apple or any other "smart" watch. I've always preferred a simple analog watch that just tells the time and that's it.
Because a phone needs to be brought it out to check the time or notifications.
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Word! I just like to add that it's especially indispensable for many community radios across the world. Maybe there are more powerful tools out there (FOSS or not), but I never saw an audio tool with such capabilities which people got used to so quickly like they do with Audacity. The absolutely perfect fit for those community radios where almost everything has to be self-taught.
Nice. I loved Fischertechnik when I was a kid. It almost made me choose a career in "real" engineering. My masterpiece was a gondola system, including two terminal stations. The gondolas would go up and down a "mountain" in the room in my parents' house and turn automatically at the endpoint (with some luck at least...)
And a perfect way to feed the conspiracy nuts.
if you feel pretty much the same every day, you're either a psychopath, or you're not doing anything worth caring about.
I find myself thinking this, from time to time. It's easy to look at a mixed-martial arts fighter, or coal miner, or sweat-shop textile factory worker, or a drug dealer and say: "why not do something less dangerous?"

But the reality is that for many people a safe career is not an easy or even realistic choice. If your options are to live in a ramshackle apartment, never own a car, not have enough money to get married, send your kids to school, bury your family members, or retire, it's harder to turn down a more lucrative and more dangerous career.

I can't pretend to know the motivations of all of the workers, but I am sure that at least some of them made the decision to sacrifice personal health and safety for their future, and their families future, which I think is a reasonable definition of heroism.
It has the slight inconvenience of being rather lethal to people however, which is why it's not used in air conditioning anymore, or if it is, it has to be separated by an extra heat exchanger.

Still not uncommon to find it used in industrial chillers, older ice rinks, etc.
> At its least precise, it can be mapped only to a country.

Even that isn't true. Plenty of corporations have all their IP addresses registered to their main office. In general the way these services work is that they ask the owner of the IP where they are and have no way to verify it at all. And of course there are always VPN services and proxy servers that will let you choose which country your IP address will read as being in. To say nothing of actually malicious parties that can break into a computer anywhere in the world and then make all of their traffic appear to have come from its IP address.

I've also seen the IP address entries for residential ISPs be off by more than a thousand miles simply because the ISP has customers in both places and assigned customers in one place IP addresses listed in the other place.

Geo IP can be useful for showing ads as long as you don't care that it's wrong some significant percentage of the time. Thinking it can be used to locate a bad actor is dangerous and absurd.
I actually bought an Android Wear watch for the maps. I ride a bike, and having a watch tell me what direction I should turn next and buzz me when the turn comes up is actually pretty useful.
Sorry about that. It is running on heroku free instance (limited to 18 hours per day). It should be back online in less than an hour.
>PS. Using "she" for a prototypical entrepreneur is just as sexist as using "he". Try using "they" next time.

Oh, please.
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As someone else mentioned, open source is not a golden bullet. But, it being open source led tot he discovery of the bug and the fix, right?
I think that's so shortsighted, it borders on being rude. It's the most direct impact it has on us, yes, but it's not just food availability for humans that's impacted.

We are looking at the devastation of an entire habitat. Many species that rely on that habitat may cease to exist. As a consequence, many species that eat animals from that habitat may disappear too.

Worst-case, we're faced with the disappearance of an entire food chain. And since many large ocean species travel the entire world, the consequences will not remain local.
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I appreciate the post but I would have to argue that 'looking for a job where I learn / solve problems' Is basically every job I'm at. I always search for a way to do it better than before but I am almost always alone. What I appreciated about what he was saying is that he was not always successful, nor did he stay in the same field (which many people told me I need to specialize). Granted he is probably leagues ahead of me, this makes me believe that my experience is not a unique one which I appreciate.
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I worked on Android in 2008 and now work on applying Apple Watch to heart health (https://cardiogr.am or http://on.wsj.com/1qCfnjR for details).

People forget how long it takes a new platform to develop. It took Android about a half a year to sell even a million units (Apple Watch is reportedly at 11 million). The first phones were frankly not very good: it wasn't until the Motorola Droid and Samsung Galaxy that Android started to get significant market share (see http://imgur.com/nPgiS39). New platforms always develop in fits and starts.

So what am I excited about, with Apple Watch? Think about the health implications of 11 million people wearing heart rate sensors:

1) About a quarter of all strokes are caused by abnormal heart rhythms, which are easily treated but often go undiagnosed for years. How many lives could we save just by building an algorithm for just this one problem?

2) Heart rate variability is correlated with everything from stress and depression to sleep apnea to dangerous heart rhythms to irritable bowel syndrome. Can we build tools to help us understand our inner world in as much detail as photo sharing apps have helped us map our external world?

3) We spend about a third of our lives sleeping. How much more productivity and creativity would we unleash if everybody could use data to get a good night's sleep?

4) The world is full of advice on how to exercise (should you get 10,000 steps? High intensity interval training? Yoga? Crossfit?), but what really works? More importantly, what will work for you?

5) About a quarter of Americans have pre-diabetes, but only 4% have ever been told that by a doctor. Medical research has shown that your pattern of heart rate variability shifts in the early phases of insulin resistance. Can we prevent the next generation from developing diabetes?

Those applications will take time to develop, and Apple Watch is quite clearly a first-generation product, so I can see why people are disappointed. But I think it's worth remembering that even with the iPhone, it took Apple two years to go from the first version to the iPhone 3G.
I recognize and played a lot of them all back in the day. Only things missing are Commando and Ghost & Goblins (I can still hum the tune!).

Amazing what they could do with the SID chip back then. Most PC's and homecomputers in the early 80's had to make do with bleeps and bloops. Literally.

There's a quite a subscene for those interested in SID music. You can find a lot of new C64 cover versions (some by the original musicians) and new work at Chris Abbott's www.c64audio.com. He's done a lot of work in keeping the C64/SID scene alive.
Great reply!
I think you're confusing hitting an objective "technological bullseye" with creating something that a specific niche audience will someday see aesthetic value in; the former of course doesn't happen with every new technology, but the latter most certainly does (albeit with different size niches for different tech: guitar distortion and 8-bit music are a lot more popular than 12-bit CD players)

Eno is spot on in this quote
Jobs had plenty of duds, as well. Remember the ROKR? Or the iPod Hi-Fi? If you do, then you know what I'm talking about. If you don't, well, you just proved my point.

Anyway, disruption doesn't happen in a year with the first version of a product in a brand-new market category. But when watches do become capable enough to disrupt phones, Apple is well-positioned to ride that wave.
You're right that in the case of grabPiFromWebPage returning a JustValueOrError, you'd have to apply a jvoeToMaybe function if you wanted to use Maybe's bind. It could be an issue, but in practice, everyone uses the standard library tools for these things, so this issue shouldn't really come up. The general case problem can still arise, if you wanted to mix HTTP libraries, for example. It just isn't a huge issue in my experience. YMMV.

And I'd argue that the confusion of understanding the following isn't just a haskell issue:

do
x <- stuff
return (whatever x)

You just have to read the docs (or the code) and see what "stuff" and "whatever" do, regardless of whether you're in python, haskell, or whatever. In fact, one of my biggest pain points in python (my day job language) is that you can't as easily infer what "stuff" does, because you can't just look at type signatures. If I want to use randomUniform and see that it returns a Rand Double or something, I can just look up the Rand monad and see how they work. At least in a static language like haskell. Poorly documented monads would probably be a huge pain in a dynamically typed language. Even well documented ones would be tough to use in any interpreted language, because the compiler telling you "No, imh, that has to be a Rand Double, not a regular Double!" is lifesaving.

A pure language is a great match too, because practically all code is deterministic. If you write use it twice it WILL have the same result. The only exception is something in the IO monad. Of course, interacting with the real world/random numbers isn't deterministic, so (in haskell) you need to use monads to do anything. Hence the proliferation of tutorials. So if you see a function that has type (IO Double), it's a nondeterministic double. But if it doesn't have that, then you know it's deterministic, just by looking at the type signature. This is the hardest part of learning haskell.

The point about all this not being self evident because of complicated structures is well made though. There's serious cognitive overhead sometimes, but it's a tradeoff. I've quipped a few times that haskell code doesn't get more complex, it just gets harder. It's a joke, but there's an element of truth to it. You can avoid some explosions in how many edge cases there are to consider by going up a level of abstraction. For example, using functions that operate on lists, you never have to worry about index out of bound exceptions, or using Maybe you don't have to think about handling nulls. But you do have to grok the map function for List or Maybe. Sometimes it's worth it, other times it's not.
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Last time I checked (which admittedly was ~3 years ago), division was about 10x as expensive as addition/subtraction (rule of thumb, doesn't take the complexity of modern processors into account but if you're not mixing too many things it should pan out).

This became noticeable in a codepath I was optimizing.
> 2 are clinically insane

Or buddhists.

> Number 1 are your garden variety nerdy engineers, 2 are clinically insane and probably somewhere in between is where genius lies.

There is definitely genius in realizing the distinction between number 1 and number 2 is finer than it might initially look.
It's not always a choice, the success rate for condom use is less than 100%.

You need to account for such edge cases: it's not just to punish a child because their fathers vasectomy failed, for example.

The benefit of children to society is at least in part socialised.
They don't claim it's waterproof, but plenty of anecdotal evidence supports that it does just fine while swimming.
I think you nailed it. I never was a facebook user, but my wife, kids, and in-laws got into it. None of them use it anymore because it's too difficult to use as a personal sharing platform and there's too much noise that they aren't interested in.
One thing I've gotten pretty good at is taking some question I have about some software and answering it by looking through the source. I've wondered whether people would find it interesting if I showed the process of how I do this.

I've wondered whether YouTube might be a good medium for this. Blog articles feel kind of "produced" -- I thought it might be cool to capture the exploratory nature of how this works.
The infalling gas will, in general, be rotating like water around a drain. The rotation leads to a shear (technical word for fluid rubbing against itself), and since the gas has non-zero viscosity (technical word for fluid friction coefficient), shear leads to heat production.

In the purely non-rotating case, there is another source of heat as well: compression. As gas from far away moves closer to the black hole, the distance between gas molecules decreases, and the pressure increases. This causes the temperature to increase. Just feel the outside of a bicycle pump after quickly inflating two full tires.
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