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>Asking someone on a date that isn't interested in you is harassment.

Wow. No, it's not. Not for normal people, anyway.

Normal person A: "Hey, what do you say you and I have dinner one of these nights."

Normal person B: "Thanks, but no." [TOTALLY OPTIONAL: "I don't think my girlfriend/boyfriend/wife/husband/... would like that."/"I have a strict no-relationships-with-coworkers/vendors/customers/people-I-meet-in-the-gym/... policy."/"That's very kind of you but I'm afraid I'm not interested."/"Please don't ask again and we shall never speak of this."]

Normal person A: "No problem! So, about that [situation-appropriate topic of discussion..]"

A asked B on a date. B was not interested. No harassment was involved.

To be very clear, the above dialogue could have gone (and unfortunately all too often does go) differently. Had A persisted after a clear refusal, that could very easily veer into the territory of harassment. Furthermore (and I know this will be more controversial), B could have messed the above dialogue up too, for example by failing to give a clear and unambiguous "no." Does this place a certain burden on B merely as a consequence of A's unrequited interest? Yes, but part of being an adult is being able to say "no" to reasonable requests from other adults.

Strive be a normal person like A and B and it should be possible to ask someone on a date, or be asked on a date, regardless of context without fear or discomfiture. (Note: situations of extreme power imbalance, e.g. professor/student, boss/subordinate, need to be navigated with extreme care. Normal people refrain entirely, in such situations, from romantic overtures unless and until the mutual interest (it does happen sometimes) is blindingly obvious, and they then scrupulously avoid even the appearance of impropriety, e.g. by waiting until the end of the term, or transferring to a different department, or something.)

>Calling someone a MILF is definitely harassment.

I'm not going to argue there. It's extremely offensive, at the very least. Normal people don't address other normal people, with whom they don't have an intimate relationship, using sexual terms.

For what it's worth, it sounds to me like the female employee in this case was a model Normal Person ("sure as friends in work context" is about as unambiguous as you can get!). If the sum total of the communication had been

A: Could we hang out?
B: Sure, as friends in a work context
A: May I tell you a secret?
B: No, sorry.

I would regard A as a Normal Person as well, and the dialogue as innocuous. But I'm assuming A was inappropriately persistent/insistent (not to mention the MILF part, which is inappropriate in itself) and the dialogue, no doubt, goes on from there. So, yes, fire his ass.
They are working on a "next-gen" operating system. Something entirely unlike what we have come to know as a GUI.

I just thought I would leave this comment here so in a few years someone will find it.
> Really what I would love is a gaming focused Linux distro that actually works.

I think SteamOS was supposed to be that distro, but at some point it just kind of... ran out of steam?
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I've just thought of an even simpler formulation. Imagine that Alice tells you: "I have three coins, each of them is either heads or tails. You can ask me about one of them, but then the other two will disappear." Bob, who is far away from Alice, tells you the same thing. They also claim that their sets of coins are "identical", though you're not sure what that means.

1) If you ask Alice and Bob about the same coin, their answers always agree.

2) If you ask Alice about coin 1 and Bob about coin 2, they are different about 5% of the time.

3) If you ask Alice about coin 2 and Bob about coin 3, they are different about 5% of the time.

4) If you ask Alice about coin 1 and Bob about coin 3, they are different about 20% of the time!

Why is it shocking you ask? Well, if coin 1 is different from coin 3, then at least one of them must be different from coin 2, which you didn't ask about, but could have. So the probability of the last situation can't be larger than the sum of the previous two. But here it is, almost twice larger. Quantum magic :-)
I think it just drives the cost per like up. I suppose there may be some threshold where the price is higher than the benefit, so perhaps that's the goal?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXOaCkbt4lI is the video. It took them a bit of work but stability is possible.
I agree, the naming seems really unfortunate. I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla argues trademark infringement.
I ran a nearly identical screen theme for a long time, before switching to byobu. Nice to see this broken down, screen's format strings are quite dense.
So I can reserve a truck for $1,500 and an ATV for $750. I know it's just the reservation fee, but it doesn't make any sense to me.
Or "We put our work where our mouth is", proof that they follow their own advice and have relevant expertise.
I try to make a private study of the global survey of Wisdom Literature in an attempt to distil the essence of what it basically means to live a good life and be a moral person. Everything from Confucius to Aurelius, from Goethe to Gogol. And on and on. Wouldn't it be prudent, whilst you have such an assemblage of noble thinkers, to compile some sort of universal knowledge base of choice epigrams. For the purpose of henceforth explicitly delineating what it means to be "beneficial" and "just" for all future readers to come?

In any case, this looks like a necessary and timely line of inquiry and am looking forward to the fruits of these endeavours. Good luck!
Yes, that's the story I've heard too, and I can absolutely believe that. While the rest of us threw stuff at the wall and got frustrated when it didn't stick, they had a benchmark to aim for.

Here's an early article on our attempt [1], and you can see how far the specs were from a tolerable tablet or from being able to shrink the it down to a phone form factor (the original design actually called for a very small dumb handset for the tablet that magnetically attached to the speaker magnets in the tablet, and induction charged; amusingly Sony finally relased a handset for one of their phablets a couple of years ago - we were over a decade ahead of our time ;) )

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/freepad-norways-alternative-to-...
I'm not so optimistic here. To my knowledge if it hasn't been changed to force interconnectedness of email, I doubt it will be changed only to force interconnectedness of social networks like FB. But i guess we'll see.
"I am not sure that philosophers believe they are doing work like mathematics"

As someone with a postgraduate background in Philosophy I can say that, within at least the Western Analytic (mostly anglophone) tradition, that many do in fact think exactly that and I would tend to agree. Many Philosopher see their closest relations reside in Mathematics and to a lesser extent the hard sciences. They prize deductive reasoning and argument with truth as the aim.

They are not consciously engaged in a project of cultural preservation and would welcome say Indian or Chinese contributions, but the barrier to understanding their contributions are often very very high (conceptual and not just large linguistic barriers with lack of access to good translations) and so very few people bother to engage when grant applications need writing.

History of Philosophy, as the study of past traditions, thinkers, and arguments plays an outsized role in Philosophy 101 undergraduate courses, but in fact represents a minority of research activity. The majority of research philosophers are active in work relating to new work and living or recent figures such as David Chalmers, Saul Kripke, Ted Sider, David Lewis, Ruth Millikan, Dorothy Edgington, Timothy Williamson, David Parfit, and many many others. To demonstrate what I mean look at the citation network of the top journals in the subject:

Force graph visualisation:
https://kieranhealy.org/philcites/

Blog post explainer:
https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/18/a-co-citati...
I thought this was a joke, and I'm still not sure...
The two systems are definitely not in the same league (agreed!), if that's what you're pointing out.

That said, the time required to calculate an intercept point is not the hard problem, so 1-2 seconds versus 30 minutes is not really super relevant.

Arguably more relevant factors are detection, precision, accuracy and ultimate intercept effectiveness.

In the case of ICBM you're essentially trying to hit one bullet with another bullet... hundreds of miles away. It doesn't matter that you have 30 minutes to think about it. It's still ridiculously hard to actually know there's an icbm, where it is, and then be able to hit it with another missile (and have that make a difference).

RPGs around a armored vehicle are way more straightforward by comparison. The projectile is easier to detect, it's a much smaller volume of space (easier to scan continuously) and the projectiles are traveling slower!

Still I imagine it's quite a trick detecting incoming then swiveling, aiming and firing (accurately) your defense auto-cannon all in 1-2 seconds. It would be very impressive to see that in action.
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It would play out similar to the Flash of Unstyled Content issue, but substituting "unpredictably wacky" for "unstyled".
Applying to 5-10 jobs a day might be (partly) why it took you 6 months to get that job.

Unfortunately, tailoring your resume and cover letter to the job increases your chances of a response quite a bit, and that can easily take you two hours to research the position, the company, write a cover letter (or email), and adjust certain parts of your resume.

And if they insist on you manually entering your resume into their Taleo (or similar) software, that can easily take an hour.

And if they want code samples, finding (or making) something appropriate and cleaning it up could easily take 2-3 hours (or more).

And meanwhile, if you're lucky, recruiters could be calling to interrupt you at any time of day to have the 'getting to know you' conversation or pitch some new company they want to throw your resume at and probably not secure an interview for you.

And then at some point you need to actually find the series of jobs to apply to, and if you have any filter at all that can take a good solid 2-3 hours of browsing various job sites.

After doing 2, maybe 3 of those a day, I always got pretty drained and sick of doing it instead of going outside and enjoying the day, something you don't usually get to do when you're employed and working all day, so it's a rare opportunity to take advantage of it. Plus, job searching all day every day just drains the life force out of you (well, me at least).

I had four different resumes I sent out last time, each highlighting a different type of experience (I'm somewhat of a generalist, so I've got experience in many industries and with different tech), and I still made company-specific tweaks on top of that.
“Look Mommy, … a crank!”

“And on the internet too Jimmy, how unusual.”

By the way, Aristotle covered this type of discourse in "On Trolling": http://crookedtimber.org/2016/05/07/aristotle-on-trolling/
He's talking about postfix, not prefix. It's closer to being a synonym of suffic.
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>so most children or children-thrown objects would not be targeted.

>most

Great/s
At the risk of sounding facetious - isn't the whole Leibniz versus Newton thing akin to VHS vs Betamax? Considering Leibniz was perhaps superior and certainly published first, I believe Newton's principia was a more complete body of work, more widely read and as a result more widely disseminated. I read somewhere also that Leibniz came with a good bit of (potentially heretical) baggage that might have made it more difficult for his work to find mainstream acceptance. He tried to meet up with John Locke on a couple of occasions to discus his monadic theory of mind but Locke was always "unavailable".

Also, worthy of consideration in the wider context of OP article is that both versions of calculus emerged from pretty much the same European cultural milieux - there was much exchange between English and German academia and both came up with it similarly because it was "what was happening at the time".
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Google should sue them for misusing their trademark.
My field was languages. I was always good at that, but turns out it's not a hugely practical degree subject. I got exposed to programming doing speech recognition/synthesis.
Tesla is dead, he died on January 7th, 1948.
Based on the fact that every image on the site is a digital rendering, I'm going to guess they need the reservation fees to actually build the first vehicles.
what's wrong with government spy truck? Did someone come to the sudden realization that there are sanctioned government agencies whose sole job is to spy?
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> As Richard Feynman said, "QM is not only stranger than you can imagine, it's stranger than you can possibly imagine."

Don't think Feynman said that. It's kind of the antithesis of 'the pleasure of finding things out'.

It seems to be a quote from an essay by JBS Haldane. 'The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.'
First, there are other valid options, like BitBucket or GitLab. Second, if
GitHub deteriorates for any reason (and it will happen sooner or later; ten
years ago nobody would have even think that SourceForge could go awry, and
look at it today), you'll need to update all the possible places where it was
mentioned as a distribution point. Thus, you should treat it as an auxiliary
thing, and host the canonical distribution yourself.
...so next step would be strapping anti-tank mine to heavy duty quadcopter?

Another possibility would be adding stealthy nose-cones to RPGs. Then you have to increase radar power of the defending system. ...which would help enemy artillery to target the tanks.

I'm not saying this system is nullified. Just that there will be ways to bypass it.
Mono was a long time on Hans Boehm's GC and despite feeding it a lot of metadata never got satisfying results with it. Eventually they replaced it with a custom GC (SGen).
Makes me wonder what will happen when an average phone will be able to do ANPR easily...
Being under constant threat helps to develop defensive technology. Israeli developers have very tight feedback loops. And they see first hand what happens when they fail.
Small suggestion: I'd reformat the date since the current format ("on Thursday, 26 at 9pm") doesn't seem to work well with Gmail [0].

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Parallel query will probably win for sexiest new feature (rightfully so!) but remote apply is very useful in the real world. It will greatly simplify reading newly written data off replicas: http://michael.otacoo.com/postgresql-2/postgres-9-6-feature-...
Thales, Edison, Siemens, Hertz, Westinghouse, Thomson, Ferraris, Maxwell, Bell were already taken. They needed to go into first names now I guess :)
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Hey Bill! Thanks a lot :-)

I know, the name thing, what can you do? I worked on Persona before this, so I guess I'm not surprised by the Mozilla enthusiasm for reusing project names.

Have you tried the Activity Stream add-on? Captures so much of what we wanted to do with Chronicle. It's amazing what that team was able to crank out in four months.

The Search add-on turned out really well, though I wound up having to rewrite it in XUL after the MVP feature set got trimmed. It took some pretty strange requestAnimationFrame hacks to get highlight stealing working, I blogged about it: http://6a68.net/2016/highlight-stealing-hack/

Let's round up the Chronicle alums and grab drinks in SF sometime!

See you in the comments section ^_^
There is already a super-fast flat-file database system that supports sorting (alphabetically and timestamps), ultra-fast lookup and retrieval, and optimized caching -- it's called a filesystem.
IMO the asset pipeline is not worth the complexity. CDNs + caching do a good enough job of getting stuff to clients, so the complexity (and distinction between dev mode and production mode) isn't worth it.

My problem with routing is that the default is an implicit semi-REST pattern, and that routing a lot of verbs to the same controller method is tedious. I prefer Sinatra's "ground up" model instead, although you can certainly write a rails router that way (and sinatra has the same verb problem.)

But I concede that's a matter of taste.
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Yep, FCP's successor is Miro. I haven't had a chance to look into it, but their sales people claim it's all new.

Noction has pretty much taken over the entire market. Overall their product is good, but the Internet game has changed a lot since the original FCP days (lots more direct peers, lots more exchanges, lots more route servers, lots more paid peering), and I don't think that things like FCP/Miro/IRP do well once you move past paid peering. Things just become too complex. IRP exposes some of this to you, but the implementation is kludgey (routing instance per peer, DSCP bits to identify peers on exchanges, and more).
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Yeah, definitely!

That is also what's confusing about the reservation price. If I was a buyer of trucks on a fleet, you can be darn sure that I'm paying more than $1,500 to land a truck.
I kept looking for a note saying that it's a sub-company of Tesla, and I still think that it is.
It can be argued that money was freely given by people who were issued tickets because they didn't want to deal with challenging the ticket in court.

I've done the same (got an open container ticket on the boardwalk in coney island, where they sell beer. the cop said you have to drink it within 20ft of the establishment that sold it). Admittedly, in that particular case they dismissed the fine and sent me my check back.
> exceedingly few of them even know the extent of what taking responsibility for ops includes

When you don't know the extent of your ignorance, everything seems trivial. A.k.a. "how hard could it be?".

I have a feeling the more ops-y things I do gets more in demand as organizations move towards the cloud. Measuring performance is not trivial in a shared environment and failure scenarios can get very complex. And every development decision suddenly affects the bottom line when billing gets granular.
They are arrows, logical implications :-)
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Yeah, for me, it's the intercepting projectile. One is a bullet fired from auto-aiming system, the other a rocket with a guidance system. Bullets vs. rockets definitely not the same thing.

Still, the performance of Trohpy is impressive. And, it has actually been proven to work in combat, something we pray to never see with ICBMs.
I've been thinking about this problem lately, and I thought the article gave it a good treatment. However, the problem I saw is that unless someone has already used the right provided language primitives for their data, you suffer the expression problem again anyway.

A pattern that I believe can help solve even this level of expression problem is the facade pattern (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facade_pattern). In other words, to expand upon what has existed before, one writes a layer on top of the third-party package that belongs to the current project. That layer implements, by default, everything in the external package, and it gives you the ability to extend it as you see fit. In addition, you get all the other benefits of the facade, like being able to swap out, fix, or extend specific implementation details without having to alter many places in code where you relied upon some external package's API decisions directly.

For me, it's still a thought experiment. I do not have a lot of personal experience trying this methodology out in the extreme in production. Has anyone else tried it and can comment?
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It is probably safe to assume that just about 0 percent of people under the age of 20 have a college degree (not including the few savants who graduate high school before turning 18), which essentially makes this statistic useless. It gets even worse when you take into account the commonly understood fact that it takes many students more than 4 years to complete a degree. This attempt at using a statistic that does not make sense in context really degrades the value of the entire article and makes it seem like the nations youth is worse off than it actually may be.
DevOps is one of those terms, kind of like Agile or XP, that means different things to different people. To me, DevOps means Developers and Operations working more closely together, and walking a mile in each other’s shoes (you’ll hear the word empathy thrown around a lot). Developers should support their applications in production (including pager rotation!) and architect, design, and build applications with infrastructure supportability in mind, and Operations needs to engineer infrastructure using better development techniques: test driven development, automation, and with developer ergonomics in mind (providing a standardized, scalable platform and not just isolated snowflake systems).
It's more akin to taking a pair of pennies and giving one to two people in different houses, both of whom have their eyes closed. If the two people immediately open their eyes and look at the penny, they find the two pennies match 80% of the time. OK, no problem, someone sets them so that they match 80% of the time before giving them out. But if they flip the pennies over before opening their eyes, the pennies match only 50% of the time. So clearly something is effecting the state of the pennies after they've been separated.

My understanding of Bell's inequality is that experiments had two electrons traveling in two different directions, through two different measuring devices measured ended up being measure as spin-up or spin-down when measured at different angles. There were certain levels of correlation when the measurements were done at different angles, but those didn't fit when compared to other correlations (IE, you couldn't have 90 and 45 degrees match 85% of the time, 45 and 0 match 85% of the time, and 90 and 0 match only 20% of the time).

Worth noting that this doesn't necessarily mean, as some claim, that "the cards" aren't 100% red or blue at any given moment in time. There are certain valid interpretations that are deterministic (De Broglie-Bohm, for example). I believe Bell was in favor of deterministic interpretations.
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The radar signature of a small projectile coming in at, say >30m/s is indeed a lot different from a running, tiny human. What about something like a soccer ball, though? It's a small-ish projectile, coming in quite slowly. What about a hand grenade?

Hopefully they test for this stuff and have a firm idea of where they want their thresholds but, then again, sometimes bugs happen. https://www.wired.com/2007/10/robot-cannon-ki/
ha! yea, I tried it early in development and it was a bit of a mess I should give it another shot that it's a little more mature. Their whole steambox/steamcontroller thing seems to have flopped but I'm sure it's better than it was on initial release.