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Author is using Colemak [1], and essentially using it as a way to force relearning how to actually type with "proper" form. It's an interesting idea, but unfortunately the author is only a week in and typing only 20 WPM.

Has anyone had experience learning an alternate keyboard layout? How long did it take? How did it affect your typing speed?

Also curious, does it help with coding? Personally, I find it's very rare that my typing is a bottleneck with coding, but I'm still curious if skills on an alternate layout actually translate meaningfully to coding.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Colemak
>and Nobody Will Tell Me

Possibly because you're Gawker, a tabloid that's disgusting even for tabloids.
I guess, I mean, this feels like fighting fire with fire. Which is fine ... but what bugs me about competitive humble-whine-bragging is that I feel it's ineffectual. So hearing this as a pro-grad-school rant actually feels even a little worse than hearing the anti-grad-school rants he's complaining about.
Well, that's cool. Maybe Perl 6 will be the next good example of a multiple dispatch language.
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As someone who runs Ubuntu Desktop, should this be concerning?

Currently I am running 14.04 which I keep regularly updated. The only other software I have installed is plex media server and chrome. Seems like I would be more at-risk if I were running more 'non-main' packages, but I am not really sure what that means.
Interesting concept. One of the biggest issues is transportation once you get there. Are you supposed to get a Cab/Lyfy/Uber or rent a car?
I saved it at Instagram just fine.
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I think I was pretty clear that the amount of money and power existing in asymmetry is the issue, not whether I like it or not.
It needs one large read-only copy of data, plus one hard drive with updates. Those updates are limited to say a 1000 mile range (most people don't travel 100 miles from home in a month; in any case most people travel the same routes)
I don't know if they fixed it with the later versions, but the first Chromebook Pixel has a nasty issue where the "don't check for google's signature on boot" flag can unset itself if your battery drains.

Real pain in the ass. Keep backups...
I don't unfortunately. The discount/credit requirements can vary a lot from what I've seen though. Some companies require you to do certain things like track certain vitals, while others just want a PHA filled out. Those goals are usually passed on to employees in the form of gift cards/cash in order to incentivize them to actually do these things. The product we built was effectively a CMS that allows it to be customized for each client.
I sense a lot of naive optimism in your approach.

You understand the goal of any business, especially an internet business, is to become a monopoly right?

Look at Amazon, Google, FB, etc. They only became profitable once they became monopolies, and thus could set their own prices based on whatever metrics they chose.

The reason startups take outside funding is so that they can become a monopoly in a given market, and then charge customers whatever they want.

Don't fall for the marketing hype. Startups don't save the world. Scientists, doctors and inventors do. Startups just make a few people very, very rich at the expense of their customers by selling them mostly crap they don't need or want, using psychological manipulation (i.e. marketing).

Once you understand that this isn't some noble quest, you can finally begin to understand how to play the game (of thrones).
It's a shame this has come out now, I'm preparing for university exams next week and this would have been perfect! I'm sure getting feedback from a student's viewpoint would be good for this project. Looks awesome!
Totally correct. The intention is to serve the general interest (through Keynesian reasoning), but its immediate effect is to quite literally implement "socialism for the rich". You may call it capitalism, but it sure has nothing to do with free markets.
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'It sounded like my child': the 'virtual kidnappers' scamming Americans
Why does Erlang allow so many processes to crash and how does promote reliability?
Every year there's a genuine effort to reign in payday lenders in my state. Alas, those businesses know how to lobby. Bills die in committee, key votes won't budge, etc.

"Petty" issues like this don't light the activists' fire sufficiently to bring the heat required to push thru change. Another similar issue is predator towing operations. Every one agrees they have to go, but they're far down on the list of priorities.
I've never taken insulin personally, I was on metformin and linagliptin.
The annoyance comes from the hardware being slicker than the software.
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As someone who dealt extensively with piles of legacy Python 2.7 code, I can wholeheartedly agree with this. If the "forced" 2-3 change would have occurred right away, I am certain my employer (at the time) would have forked Python itself.
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When all you have is a hammer....
I use this for some OSS projects I help maintain (symlinks in Dropbox, actual dirs on my GOPATH, etc.). The use-case for me is syncing between my laptop & desktop without having to remember to git pull everything before a flight/trip.

There are occasional conflicted copies (once every few months), but it's rare and I don't recall encountering one in quite some time (months).

Tips:

* Don't work on things concurrently
* It's brittle (like any sync service) if you're editing things when that folder is still updating. This is especially so when it comes to git.
* Repositories with lots of small files take a long time to sync.
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>The more common story is Apple, who dominates hardware...

what hardware market does Apple dominate? None that i can see
> Hypothyroidism

Accounts for about 10 extra pounds on a normal-sized human. Didn't stop me from losing 35 pounds in four months when I was 100 pounds overweight.

> PCOS

Same as above, assuming PCOS is a cause and not an effect. There seems to be some debate on that in the Ob-Gyn community.

> Cushing's syndrome

Cushing's is fairly rare, and is usually curable.

> complications of depression

Yes, depression is a big psychological cause of overeating. Been there. Disentangling the depression from the food is part of the therapy, though. Particularly since it becomes a self-reinforcing cycle where depression begets comfort eating which begets more depression.

> The accusation was that these cases are self-inflicted. It's WAY more complicated than that.

Always self-inflicted? No. More complicated? Yes.

However, except in rare circumstances every underlying condition is treatable or curable. There are synthetic hormones for hypothyroidism. There are cortisol blockers, surgeries, and other treatments for Cushing's. PCOS is incurable but treatable, ironically considering the subject by weight loss. Depression is treatable, though it can be a struggle.

Obesity may not be self-inflicted in all cases, but it is almost always resolvable. I'm resolving it, despite having two of the things you listed. You can't just throw your hands up and complain about "conditions" as an excuse to not do anything about the problem. Hell, everything you listed has potentially serious problems if untreated even if it doesn't cause weight gain.
> If a Debian pkg maintainer releases a new version, there is no guarantee that it doesn't break some other functionality. Simply patching without putting serious work into it is the trait of community distros like Debian and Fedora.

That seems like an unfair statement. Debian is a stable distro and I'd say has a pretty good track record of doing what it does. It seems disingenuous to suggest they're patching willy nilly.
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Thanks for sharing your experience.

It sounds like you were facing a really tough competitive landscape. Throwing in the towel sounds like a wise thing to have done.

One thing I didn't totally get from the post is what exactly you were trying to improve about the shopping experience? It seems like there is a lot of room for improvement for both buyers and sellers. Could you have vetted sellers and/or tried to answer inane questions from buyers yourselves (acting like a web cache for popular requests), saving both parties the pain of waiting for a response? What if you offered some kind of reputation service? I'm sure you thought about this stuff, and I'm not saying any of this is easy. I just would be curious to hear more about how you thought through finding real, sticky product-market fit.
If you like text adventures and need to take a break from coding them, you might like the Parsley System analog games from designer Jared Sorensen. Jared took aspects of the text adventure games we all loved from back in the day and distilled them into a (party?) game.

They are good examples of puzzle design and help expose the underlying pieces of a classic text adventure should you need some inspiration for your text game, as well. I own a complete set of physical copies, but you can pick the PDFs up for a couple of books from his site, Memento Mori Theatricks (http://www.memento-mori.com/parsely/).
A lot of good food for thought here, but then it goes off the rails:

> But capitalism needs to keep everyone working at a manic pace, boosting productivity endlessly and recouping none of it in real wage growth, and that requires the concept of the loser.

I am no great cheerleader of capitalism, I could go on and on about the way people worship at the alter of "free markets" as if a market is inherently virtuous, but this is utter hogwash. Capitalism does not require the concept of a loser. It's the base human instinct of comparison to ones neighbor that requires the concept of a loser. Making everyone happy and prosperous beyond ones immediate tribe is just not an instinctive goal in large-scale humanity.
I think it's worth remembering that when people talk about "Lobbying", they are often talking about a particular subset of lobbying attached to extremely vast sources of money and power. More, the unrestricted nature of that lobbying, in practice, breaks the system down.

It would be the case if this were happening with well-intentioned environmentalists too, although I'm sure it would look very different in the particulars. The fact is though, that in history doesn't teach us to be concerned about vastly wealthy and powerful environmental interests. Maybe that will change someday, but it's not the history of our planet at least.

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I work for a major university and I am in the process of applying for a master's in engineering to enhance my skills (primarily) in AI and systems engineering. This is a remarkable opportunity to get a master's for free while continuing full time work. I doubt the author had anything like this in mind.

It's also expected (all but explicitly required) to have a master's degree or higher to expect any kind of management role here. May seem weird to you, but higher education plays by its own rules.
Harder to mess them up via software, backup to the cloud by default, and they are more secure.
Really pleased to hear that. We love ChartJS, switching over to it from Highcharts was a breeze and I'd recommend others take a look too. From what I remember the API was nice and simple to work with.
I think it's clear that the company doesn't know what they are doing. It's hard to be that consistently unclear. It sounds like they are trying to pull a bunch of smart people in a room and come up with a problem they can solve. Most people figure out what they want to do first and then start a company. It appears that they decided to start a company and then figure out what they want to do.
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I guess it's TreeEuropean from Joshi's code: http://www.markjoshi.com/design/DesignCPP.zip
> It's a ponzi scheme

No, it's not. It's intergovernmental debt, it's essentially meaningless.

If I write myself an IOU for $1mil, I'm not going to be especially concerned about my solvency.
"dozens of terabytes" aren't as big as they used to be: http://www.amazon.com/12TB-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBLWE0120...
My state's current Attorney General, who has jurisdiction, is pretty good at this sort of thing. Previous guy was quite a bit more laissez faire.
"How does a 20-year-old college kid come to be the CEO of an international startup and the owner of a VC firm? If his last name is familiar, it’s probably not just because he is the Founder, CEO and Chairman of the Helena Group, but because his dad is Bill Elkus, a successful venture capitalist (“one of the top 50 to 100 Venture Capitalists in the United States by Forbes Magazine in its annual Midas List on three separate occasions,” according to his website bio)."

Is it really that hard to figure out this is just something to keep the kid busy (and maybe brush up against some Hollywood starlets)?

C'mon, at least mount a hostile takeover of zombo.com or something.
There's lots of countries that have socialist policies that are doing just fine, many of them western countries. Sometimes they are better off than the USA. Socialism just happens to be a dirty word in American culture.

Here's one example of socialism in western culture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care

It's not all-or-nothing.
The Silo series by Hugh Howey was pretty great
Sure, but if we want automatic cars to eventually replace manual cars we need to make sure they cover 100% use cases, not just most of them. Some people drive 10 miles to work and back, some people do 1000 miles a week driving through multiple countries. You need to deal with both, because nothing is stopping me from hopping in my car right this second and driving across the continent if I wish to do so. I wouldn't want an automatic car to hinder that freedom either.
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I suspect you haven't been in a big city much if you think thousands of stop-and-start intersections would be easier to automate than a far fewer number of continuous lanes and offramps that work via simple merging.
> Because American companies can't make diesel cars?

If they can, they're keeping it a secret.

My family bought a 1982 GM diesel. It was an absolutely atrocious car. Everyone that bought these diesels got burned. Lessons were learned.

"Everyone knows" that American buyers won't buy a diesel, just like "everyone knows" that American buyers won't buy a wagon.
This doesn't happen in countries unlike the US where "jaywalking" is not a crime or even a concept. I think even people that know intellectually that the cars should stop aren't going to push their luck in traffic traveling at speed.
We're talking about the performance penalty compared to normal Android. Baseline performance penalties (compared to ...?) are present in both environments.

Besides, the JVM is a very good optimizer, and a good choice for certain types of high-performance tasks, especially since it can continually re-optimize the program as needed. It beats C in one of the anecdata on the Benchmarks Game, and is competitive in a few others:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/java.html
There are actor frameworks in c++ like caf and theron, not sure how simple to use though.

As for garbage collection - that's a problem, but maybe with the right dual core mcu with 400Kram(a $2 esp32) and some fancy concurrent garbage collection this will work well ?

Also at first i'm not sure this should be aimed at the embedded community, more towards the maker community.
I used to have some trouble sleeping in hotels for the first night, but now I don't see to have any difficulty. I think it's mostly due to having slept in a lot more hotels over the years, it now feels like a "normal" experience.
Uber are still in Berlin and Munich.
It's just the latest in a trend. Generous final salary pensions, inflationary tax breaks and support for first time buyers, arguably even high spending on geriatric health care. It all drives up prices and costs for the tax payers of the future. Shame they don't have any votes to cast in today's elections.
As long as software exists, by definition, zero-days will exist. A zero-day is simply a bug in its most nascent state; one person has found it, and nobody else knows about it. Whether the finder is a "security researcher," a "blackhat," or a "nation-state" has no impact on whether the bug exists or not. In fact, the bug exists even if nobody finds it! The distinction of who found it, and what they do with it, is purely political. Anyone can still exploit the bug.

Sure, maybe the "friendlier" bug finders will responsibly disclose any bugs they find. But there will never be a way to guarantee that all bugs found will be responsibly disclosed. Even if we convince the FBI/NSA to "responsibly disclose" every bug they find (will never happen), what about every other country? The hundreds of security firms? The thousands of independent hackers and "researchers?"

Zero-days will ALWAYS exist. Software will ALWAYS be exploitable. Worrying about how people react when they find those exploits is the similar to arguing about gun control. Sure, maybe we can convince some actors to responsibly disclose, but the bad actors will always keep the exploits for themselves and use them "irresponsibly." And there will always be bad actors.

So instead of fretting about what happens when someone finds a bug, why don't we prepare for the eventuality that all bugs will be found and exploited, often times without anyone's knowledge? Why don't we build security systems to be tolerant of exploits, instead of resistant to them? There is no security panacea, just as there is no reliability panacea.

We build distributed systems with the assumption that nodes will fail, and we call that "fault tolerance." We don't say a system is broken because a node fails. We say it's broken if it cannot handle a node failing.

Why can't we do the same for our security systems? Exploits are as inevitable as any type of system failure. We need to design for exploit tolerance with the same enthusiasm we design for fault tolerance.
In American English, a 'magician' is somebody who pulls rabbits out of hats, and a 'wizard' is somebody who does supernatural things. We don't have as good of a separation for goochelen/toveren, but most Americans would use 'magic tricks' for goochelen and just 'magic' for toveren.
To be fair, most people should not be owning/driving cars. Walking is completely reasonable in dense cities, and yet they persist.
Are you sure your coworker isn't actually a stock photo?
My bad, I didn't realize the OP's company was forwarding traffic to a 3rd party. That's indeed a bad idea.
It seems to be really hard to get people to compare driverless cars with real humans, and not imaginary perfect drivers.

For another example, there's the nigh ubiquitous question of how to handle ethical dilemmas, like a crash where you have a choice between crushing a nun and crushing a baby carriage. Nobody ever seems to consider the fact that human drivers will almost never consider the ethics of the situation when choosing an outcome, and in fact probably won't deliberately choose any outcome at all, but will merely brake and steer by reflex.
Modern urban planners can take a lesson from this. People abandoned light rail in Los Angeles because they preferred their cars. A car provides anytime, anywhere, personal door-to-door transportation versus the fixed-time, fixed-place, mass transit system that only takes you part way like fixed rail. Light rail will die a similar death in U.S. cities, especially when self-driving cars decrease traffic by a significant amount in the near future.
maybe the kid just created it for his web design/ecommerce 201 class?

way to freak out Gawker.. what do they want you to do? If they are simply trolling you, then it's your job to filter the shit out, instead of freaking out and making a headline article about it...
Shorting might be an option for the retail investor but I doubt it's so simple when your dealing with the amounts of a large bank. Banks usually borrow stocks and then sell them back (in order to short) and finding a counterparty for that might be very costly.
> But at some random point of time, the trust will just break. Even in Japan no amount of measures will stop the market's instinct for self-preservation as yen holders flee to other assets.

"There will be a financial crisis at some point in the future" is the safest economic prediction anyone can make, any time.

Do you have any more precise claims which we can use to evaluate your model of economics?
Thank you and every person involved for e10s! :)
But it didn't raise money from venture capitalists during that time, which is the context of the original quote.
>They're not going to default on their own debt since they own it all and can print whatever they need to keep it serviced.

I wouldn't discount this possibility entirely. As recently as the late 90's Russia defaulted on their own debt.
I do the same, but will walk as if I'm about to (as long as I'm in a crosswalk, where drivers are supposed to yield to pedestrians). I can stop walking way faster than drivers can stop their cars, so they basically have to lose the game of "chicken" or be willing to run over pedestrians in crosswalks. Only once they've visually committed themselves to stopping do I take that last step into the path of the vehicle.

It's a little douchy, but goddamnit, California law says I've got right-of-way in crosswalks. When you're holding a mutex, what you do is get rid of it ASAP and get out of the way.
The OP seems to be interested in a SaaS (alternative for GitHub). For the people that think you always have to install GitLab, instead of running your own GitLab server you can also use GitLab.com with unlimited projects and collaborators, see https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/
Indeed. (I have a project that needs to distinguish between cats in the dark. No kidding!)
It's a Commodore machine. I already threw out a C128 because I didn't need it anymore and that was a huge mistake. I'm not trying to make a killing on this thing but I'm pretty sure it's not something I should just throw out.
The first time I met a few semi-prominent VC partners to casually chat about an startup I was thinking about, I was surprised at how well received my napkin idea was. At the end of the walk around building they had said they would love to help find an angel round and I was taken aback at how eager and positive they were. I even mentioned that it seemed unreal that they'd be willing to jump in that quickly. One of the partners laughed and said "Are you kidding, you gave me a solid pitch with technology we believe you can build. I spend half my day sorting through pitches that involve some obscure form of perpetual motion or pyramid schemes. Our chat was better than most formal presentations we get."

I've since made it a bit of habit to gauge the quality of pitches a VC I talk to has gotten recently. Many of the stories I've heard make this pitch seem almost competent.