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It is so difficult to balance productivity/convenience and privacy/security.

Only recently did I stop worrying about privacy/security, and frankly my online experience is much better. I can now participate in any services/apps that catch my eye, I now save CC data at some sites, don't have a VPN/Tor slowing traffic and giving me cloudflare walls/"im not a bot" verification, don't have noscript/ublock/privacy badger breaking most sites, can sync across devices and backup online.

Having both secure & private online behavior is a massive inconvenience. You basically can't participate in the online world as it exists. (There are definitely opportunities to create secure/private versions of existing tools)
"Lab protocol stipulated that anyone who figured out how to save time could enjoy his savings as he wanted. Brearley got his day’s work done in a couple of hours, and spent the rest of the day reading and experimenting."

This seems relevant to our increasingly automated/automatable jobs.
It would have been more interesting to interview those of us who live in Europe and still manage to pay our US student loans.

It's a giant pain in the ass, from lenders who have no way of taking payment from anything but a US bank account, lenders who's systems can't handle a foreign address, and lenders who you can only pay via PayPal.

I think my favourite was the lender who told me to wire the money to a friend in the US and then they could pay my loan for me...
Would you consider typing out the commands and posting them somewhere where we can see?
Man, I don't want to pay back my car loan either but those are the rules for getting a loan. They're taking a super irresponsible approach to the problem IMO.
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My public school alma mater is now about $12k/year just for tuition for in-state students. That doesn't include food or housing. Most students take four years to graduate. That's a $48k floor; private school costs more, living away from home costs more.
Yep, delete button or else just use the default behavior of highlighting the full contents of the field to be changed. Mind you, these were dedicated machines that were specifically used for this one purpose and not something anyone would be using for, say, writing emails.
Yes the ID would have to be the same, just like it is on mobile (Android Advertising ID, iOS IDFA) and would be best at the device level but browser would be a start.

If it's unique to every site then it's nothing new, networks can already set IDs today with 1st party cookies. It's being able to have a internet-wide ID that's valuable and is what 3rd party cookies allow(ed).

The ID itself doesn't matter, it's just random characters and mapped in various ways by networks. It's the reliability and consistency on a device level that's needed. Having something like this would make a massive difference - all the cookies/tracking junk would be obsolete, along with the hundreds of pixel sync tags, and would make everything faster, more accurate, more private and more secure.
I see a number of used ones on Craigslist and I was surprised to see there is not much of a a price discount.

Most of these are asking $1000+

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=boosted+board&s...
> offering that as a toggle-able option on that page might be sufficient

Technically speaking yes.

From a marketing/communication standpoint, I would separate this "feature" clearly from the 2 known browsing experiences. It not only clearly communicates to the user that a different browsing experience is about to start. By selling it as "the third browsing mode", it definitely also adds more perceived value to the product.
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I'm not entirely surprised. In Florence, and probably in lots of other places too, wealth was amassed in land holdings and gold (florins being the currency). Land holdings over a 700 year horizon seems like a far better stability bet than equities, since the land itself has intrinsic value even if the occasional war or natural disaster gets rid of whatever is happening on it. Back in the 1400's, the merchant class absolutely made a great living - upper class even. But the old blue bloods (many families of which even went broke, in terms of liquidity) and nobility had land. They used that land to build business and bring in rents, and build business relationships with other upper class families, but even as the businesses faded the land remained. I mentioned some of the old Florentine nobility going broke - many of them preferred hardship to selling their land holdings. Some of them would eventually marry off a daughter to a family that desired the blue blood relationship and some land would go as dowry, thus restoring the fortune in that family (through the wealth of the inlaws). One good example is Lisa Gherardini's marriage into the del Giocondo family - she was of an old nobility fallen on harder times, while the Giocondo family were new money merchants. Some land and a few florins went with her, the Gherardini family were restored a bit and the Giocondo family remained wealthy for a long time.

I'm not a historian, but I've taken a bit of an interest in Florentine history as an adult, so take this for what it's worth. A real historian would probably know better.
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Fascinating: income mobility in one generation (PARENT -> CHILD) cannot be extrapolated to multiple generations (PARENT -> CHILD -> CHILD ...), because socioeconomic status persists across generations even if income fluctuates from one generation to the next.

The example given in the OP is telling: "It's not unusual for the child of an economically successful professional to attend an elite educational institution and then move into an artistic or academic or nonprofit career or political career that might still involve traveling in elite circles but at a much lower salary level than his father's. If the professional's grandson then also attended an elite college and moved into a high-paying career in business and law, statistics would show a great deal of economic mobility while common sense would indicate three generations' worth of a high-status family."

And it's not just Florence. The article mentions another study in Sweden that reached similar conclusions.

I wonder how the US compares to European cities/countries.
> My point is, yes our education system is backwards, but millennials need to learn some form of hardship or hard work.

There is no reason to praise hardship. Saying that they shouldn't inflict extra hardship on others (their parents) is fine, but the ridiculousness of the situation is not something we should pride ourselves on getting through.

No one's parents worked hard so their kids would have as hard of a life. It's so they have an easier one, and that's something we should aspire to.
In "Europe" student loans are almost unheard of. Some of "Europe" will pay for tuition and living expenses like its your full time job.

Student loans in "Europe" are treated like any other line of credit. You walk into a bank and ask for one. If it doesn't work out you can discharge it through bankruptcy like any other loan.
I wrote a distributor/manufacturing system in 1988 that is still in use in 2 companies; domain model still valid 28 years later, though the programming language used is way out of style now
Why swipe around when you could just press a button?
In most cases that makes complete sense... but this behavior has been around so long. Adding a configuration option means they can track data on if this feature is being used and worth continuing to support.

That said, I'm glad they finally did something to fix this bad UX design.
Unfortunately, no I don't. :(

Our lead servo engineer (and a lot of people in the industry) were strongly influenced by Franklin, Powell, and Workman's book "Digital Control of Dynamic Systems," and IIRC there's a chapter devoted to disk drive control systems in it.

I worked a bit on the seek algorithms, but I also worked on the repeatable-runout cancellation system, which was actually a lot cooler to work on but less interesting to most people. It basically did Fourier Transforms to compute "predictable" errors staying over the track caused by things like disk shift or "potato chipping" of the disks. That error could then be injected back into the voice-coil motor to help keep the heads in the right place.

It was all written in a very low level assembly language on a custom ASIC we designed in-house with no floating point arithmetic. :) That was almost 20 years ago at the very beginning of my career and it's still some of the coolest code I've ever written. :-/
Smart move - better to take the $10k than never to see the $100k! That's essentially what all these people should be doing.
As a former participant in these types of competitions, I can confirm.

The teams that win are the teams that practice extensively. Universities like St.Petersburg care a lot and have official programs for preparing for the ACM competition. The students care a lot too as the competition is a way for them to distinguish themselves.

US universities, at least the top ones, don't care that much. American students have better things to do, as you said. If you look at a typical US university team, you'd see a lot of Chinese and Eastern European students that have done IOI in high school. Their advisor would be a professor who typically just signs the paperwork.
You're right, you probably can't afford them. Salary range in my cohort was 60k-105k, but it's typically higher. a/A grads are in the unfortunate position of having their camp be "free" ($5k deposit) up front and 18% of your first year salary upon hire. They basically have to earn more to pay off the bootcamp. I had to pass on my dream gig (apprenticeship at 8th Light in LA) in part because the debt to App Academy would have meant I was starving in LA (flat 18k if you leave NY/SF).

Some of us optimized for culture fit and life balance over salary. I did this because I was lucky enough to be able to. I earn less than a bunch of people from my group who work 20+ hours more a week than I do and I'm happy with my decision - love where I work, love my coworkers.

I'll let the quality of my work determine the direction of my salary :D
Would it help to wear full motorcycle-type gear?
For me, it seems to be safer than biking. I had one fall in two years and ~2500 miles of riding, and usually I find that if you hit something, you start naturally running before you even notice you're off your board. I used to have a bad bike crash about once a year, and have been pleasantly surprised so far on the boosted.
You just said that it removes a bikes greatest feature: the possibility of exercising while commuting. It's a lot healthier, greener, and a better use of my time.
> There's other issues with some fields sometimes getting serialized as string representations of themselves (e.g.: "10" vs 10, or "false" vs false).

With JSON.parse()? That would be a big failure of handling standard JSON if it did that. Do you have an example where JSON.parse() doesn't correctly parse JSON in the manner you suggest? Or really in any manner? I haven't seen it fail yet and if there are known failures it would be good to know about them.

https://jsfiddle.net/jb1wunpc/
Hard work is part of it, but it is really about responsibility. I know when I was an 18 year old I was not the most responsible person, but my parents had taught me enough about money matters to not doing anything too stupid.

Since I mostly f'd off in HS, I had few scholarship options (and the state lottery had not come into effect yet), so I went to a decent nearby college and lived at home while working 20ish hours/week. Even then, some of my peers who went away to big schools with big price tags were saying I was missing the 'real' college experience because I had a job and lived at home. To me the real experience was not worth that kind of money.

Also, having his parents co-sign and then bolt is just a selfish jerk thing to do. My parents had to cosign for the initial loan I received, but from there on I either paid or took loans out on my own. Given how little money my parents already had, seeing them willing and excited to co-sign made me sad. My parents only had 3 years of college between them, but they taught me a lot of life lessons that formal education seems to miss.
I love your assessment. These are the type of people that are hard to side with even when you fully agree with some of their ideas.
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You should watch the Evan Phoenix talk at RubyKaigi 2015 ("Ruby 2020") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaLvtNpoc5o.

It proposes a very interesting path for Ruby to get way faster, without resorting to the JRuby implementation.

Basically what he's proposing is we could compile all the Ruby Stdlib ahead of time to a LLVM kind of bytecode.
Once you do that, a JIT compiler for Ruby code could perform a way deeper optimization, because the compiler horizon-line will be stretched much further away: the compiler will be able to inspect the Stdlib bytecode and make optimizations to your Ruby code taking all that into account!

This could be a revolutionary approach for MRI, please go see the talk, it's really interesting!
> There's no way that the browser could possibly recreate that state by going forward.

Of course there is—just don't delete anything immediately. All your state stays there like it's in its own (hidden) tab and gets lazily garbage collected "some time" later. If the user navigates back, there's nothing to rebuild as everything is still sitting there intact.
Yes, it certainly appeals to me. I like the idea of doing things dangerous enough that one must actually focus and pay attention.

I went right back to motorcycle-riding after the bolts in my thumb healed up. :-)
This. Configuration flags increase complexity. Every time you change the feature in question (or add something that uses it) you will have to take into account every possible flag combination.
> A lot has changed in the Italian city of Florence in the roughly 700 years since the 1427 census

The author must have been using some really bad floating point math, there.
Bootcamps make people employable for sure, I work with a team of people mostly from Bootcamps. I think the problem with some of them is they don't actually like programming. Learning new things and change is met with a lot of feet dragging. Don't get me wrong, I know a lot of programmers that are just 9-5'ers. It just seems like anytime there's any extra effort involved a ton of justification and selling needs to happen.
>relatively low 0.2 percent elasticity of income in the Nordic countries and a relatively high 0.5 percent elasticity of income in places like the UK, the US, and Italy. An elasticity of 1 would mean that income status is perfectly inherited between father and son, whereas an elasticity of 0 would mean no inheritance.

I assume the author means 20% and 50%, respectively? If "1 percent" is all of it and "0 percent" is none of it then I assume he confused percentages with probabilities.
There's a lot of optimization that needs done for realtime.

For any given asset you may have a pipeline like so:

Sculpt hi rez model in Z brush > create low rez model and retopologize (can be a very manual process) > UV unwrap and bake the high rez details down to Normal maps for the low rez mesh > Use DDO or Substance painter to create custom textures for diffuse, metalness, etc > Rig model (if you are animating it) Then export to the engine. Rinse and repeat based on major art changes.
While I’m wary of what people who categorize themselves as “introverts” claim, my comment above was about social withdrawal as a response to loneliness; and further about how a response (reaction) to stress is not necessarily a solution.
Probably because they all stuck to the default 10-year payment plan.
So does golang work on inferno?
I believe it was actually developed in San Francisco with hills in mind.
I've considered what might be necessary to dispose of server-side CSS.

A set of standard page templates could do it. Clients could then choose their preferred client-side CSS to apply. Article, index page, image gallery, catalog entry, search result, etc.

Seems a finite set should cover most needs. Which ought be available from a few fairly standard sources (CMS, blogging engines, frameworks).
This is exactly how all creditors work.

You approach it as such: "I have X for you now (with X being about 1/10 of the total obligation). You either take that, or you get nothing."

To be able to do this, you must have X, and you must be able to negotiate from a position of power (it has to be very difficult for them to collect).
It's replaced my car, so $1500 was absolutely worth it for me. Solves the last mile problem perfectly and ALSO is incredibly fun.

I did longboard before - not sure why skateboarders seem to dislike the idea of electric boards so much.
Reddit might have had an impact, but they have been gathering data to support fixing this for years: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=200049...
In spite of the length of the article, he hardly actually proves anything in regards to his point or how this can be.
You can also just use Python for Visual Studio[0] if you're on Windows.

[0] https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/features/python-vs.aspx
Very good points, yes I hadn't thought about much colder areas. I'm at 41 degrees south where heat pumps still work okay.
I think it is easier to ride a Boosted because you don't have to learn how to push, balance, or stop. You just stand on it.
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If you're going to add theories about why, let's add some more.

1) Last names matter. If you have a name associated with success, you get more chances, which results in more opportunities and a better chance of success.

2) Genetics matter. A person whose parents were unsuccessful but whose background includes genetics for intelligence and beauty will tend to have an innate advantage.

3) Family stories matter. People who know their ancestors did amazing things sometimes try to live up to the family reputation with good results.
It doesn't just need to be a place to experiment cheaply. Many companies building software around ML techniques still rent time on EC2. Unless you are training models 24/7 and have your machines located in a very cost efficient location in terms of power/cooling, It's probably better for your training to be done in the cloud. It think very few use cases fall into the latter category.
The main issue with this style of brake is dissipating the huge amount of energy generated from a person riding down a long steep grade, in braking components that need to remain small and lightweight.
I wonder if it'd make sense to have a low-level API so Kubernetes can talk to the hypervisor and suggest these parameters for new nodes.
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I find this sentiment incredibly odd. It's my commute, and it's super fun. Why would I possibly care if some skater kid thinks it's "cheating" and what would that even mean? It's such an inane point of view, I feel pretty comfortable ignoring it completely.
> It took lots of mistakes, a lot of reading and shooting my own foot to finally start writing worthy code after like 2-3 years.

This is completely normal and I expect this out of any junior developer hire. My brother-in-law went through a boot camp and picked up a job writing unit/integration tests and he makes the same errors. Having to maintain your own code and seeing the consequences of your decisions gets you over this hurdle. I've seen the same for junior web devs coming out of agency work.
> Even the database access was abstracted out, so it could potentially use another DB at some point.

Did they use a library?
Method Cascades. Dart-like for the win.

Smalltalk-like. Go back one more step and the influence almost certainly comes from there. (Drink!)
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Google Firebase uses GCP including GCE extensively.

(Firebase Engineer here)
Thank you. This is the right fix for 99% users who'd otherwise lose data
Yeah, Triad is still in startup mode and picky. eASIC has been around quite a while. They also have ezCopy or something to produce ASIC's from their S-ASIC's. A side benefit is there's lots of pre-tested IP, including Gaisler OSS CPU.

So, worth considering. I need to get numbers on Xilinx, though, in terms of pricing and royalties. Esp if they have something for 28nm, 45nm, or 65nm that will be significantly cheaper than other one.
Except that JS became that faster because Google invested $ millions on making it so.
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Pretty decent ending. Could have been much worse. The calcification thing is silly don't dwell on it.
Yea, their analysis only measures the employee value at interview time. It doesn't attempt to measure the lifetime value of the employee.
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> The truth, however, is that we don't really know what's going on.

Over 14 generations you will get ~ 50k relatives who live today. I bet some of them are not rich.
Unpredictable tangents are often fine, but predictable ones make discussion boring.
Completely agreed. This (hitting backspace suddenly changing the page) is the kind of thing that catches older people totally by surprise and makes them think they have no idea what their computer does or why. Long overdue, but: "Thank you, Chrome developers"
Fascinating story. Is it true that it got you banned from the Internet? That's cruel.
The research going into the gut these days is going to make for some incredible advancements. A research doctor I respect told me that he suspects we have more connectivity between our stomachs and our brains than anyone really realizes. So much of who we are and what we do is centered around how we take in fuel.

Some good news this week for folks who have GERD, or chronic acid reflux, they discovered the cause: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/05/17/researchers-discove...
Re #2: my brother once released a fork of chromium where the only change was fixing the stupid "select the whole url bar on single click". People feel really strongly about certain features.
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I think the debate about Colleges vs. Bootcamps is an apples to oranges comparison

Algorithms are commoditized into libraries. Web design has been commoditized with templates.

Open-ended programming is still more complicated, but putting apps on the web today is easier than static HTML just 5 years ago. Parts of programming will continue being commoditized.

So if it's easy to create something and put it out there, the great and all-important challenge that faces developers today is making it matter.
Sure it's easier to start off with one if you've never ridden a skateboard before but you will want to learn those things if you want to:
(1) still be able to ride it when the battery is dead
(2) not hurt yourself if the brakes fail (and Boosted specifically tells you not to rely on them)
I think the backspace thing matters more than spacebar, because spacebar isn't going to cause you to lose (potentially hours of) work.

I do find the spacebar behavior isn't super predictable when I am trying to pause things, such as youtube .
> It seems to me the complete lack of algorithms is a land mine for any project.

If you hire someone and release them into the wild of your codebase, that's a failure on your part not theirs. New hires are an investment, they shouldn't be treated as an immediate need-based solution. My experience in two fields has shown me that new hires are a drain on resources for a fairly significant time period, regardless of their background. If you're not doing everything in your power to educate your new hires and get them up to speed, THAT'S your landmine. It's your job to get them to learn the fundamentals if they don't have it.