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How can things be correlated? what is correlation if there is no causation, I feel confused about that ... as your The "Spooky action at a distance" is just correlation.
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This comment puzzles me.

How do you think anyone got hired 10, 20, 30+ years ago in tech? How do you think candidates are evaluated in other fields that do not have some equivalent to FOSS?

I have a friend interviewing for a high-level marketing position. They look at your resume, ask you about your past work, give you some short tests or scenarios, and make a decision based on all the feedback the collect. It's not a perfect system but it's how the world works, basically.

Also, it helps to have friend in high places. It's often a matter of who you know.
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If one is to create such a "Manifesto," one should not beg so many questions.
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My first thought is that it is related to RIAA or equivalent rules, rather than something technical.
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Our elevators are 0 indexed. LOL that would only be really funny for programmers though.
Yes, that is wrong. It sounds like you might be thinking about the standard deviation of normally distributed data. In this case, you can say something like, "the probability an observation will be within about [mean-2sd, mean+2sd] is 95%".

But that's assuming the distribution is normal. In other cases, this doesn't hold, but there are more general statements, like Chebyshev's inequality.

Chebyshev's inequality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev%27s_inequality

EDIT:

I have no idea when people would describe SD as MAD, but wouldn't be too surprised, since people first coming into statistics often seem to have trouble conceptualizing how a squared difference could be viewed. It would be surprising if a trained statistician mixed the two up, because SD and MAD arise from something they should be familiar with--Lebesgue spaces.
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In our university, some guy figured out the phone numbers of the phones in the elevators. Sometimes we'd dial that number and have a random conversation with a random person. Other times we'd dial and just listen in. Caught a few juicy tidbits of conversations between faculty, but nothing major.
> This then presumes that those kids who do actually make it to the pro circuit aren't then the ones that also have the advantages and put in extra above and beyond the other kids (and with a little bit of luck on top).

This was my point: the kids that figure out how to put in extra effort during scheduled training will rise above the rest; ones that try to train during scheduled rest periods start to fall behind because they're not getting enough rest.
I think they mean inline your CSS into a script tag, not into the elements.
Worth pointing out that Representative Culberson (R-TX) represents Houston, TX, home of the Johnson Space Flight Center. There's a two dollar dollop of pork to go along with the nobility of science here.
I don't see how any redesign could help with that. There is only a single Apple Store in Berlin and it's probably similar elsewhere in Europe.

The only way to get an appointment is to get one immediately once they make new ones available at midnight.
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I'm sorry, I glanced through the write-up and I just don't buy it. Who's going to forge a flail?

This just screams "No true scotsman" to me. Give an example of a flail and, well, it's not a TRUE flail because...

The paintings of flails aren't TRUE flails because...

The example of a physical flail isn't a TRUE flail because...

The last time I saw someone actually minutely go through all the evidence and point by point address why it must be dismissed, it was in a flat-Earth video. Seriously. "Where's there's smoke, there's fire" exists because if you can show flails all over the historical record then there were probably flails.

Look at this quote from the article:

>“But wait,” you may ask, “what about those flails at the Met that you just mentioned?” This is where the story gets interesting. My working hypothesis is that all the flails at the Met, and those in similar collections occasionally found elsewhere in the world, are, as Warner asserted so bluntly, fakes.

Well, actually this makes it really easy to be a flat-Earth apologist.

"What about the NASA missions, people going to orbit and seeing the Earth? Faked, forgeries. Done in a studio. People have been painting for millennia, it's just that now it's digital. What about the fact that you can talk to someone in China or Australia and ask them about where the sun is? They're lying or simply mistaken. How can they be mistaken about whether it's day or night? Concussion, dementia, practical joke, etc. Point is it's fake. Okay what about the fact that ships disappear hull-first as they recede into the distance? Optical illusion or a trick of the eye. Not real. Okay, what about satellites, GPS? Fake, a forgery. It's easy to come up with a fake system, you could do it on your own computer, you could model a fake "planet" that is a sphere a hundred times the size of earth and make a fake "GPS" system that reports fake values. But why would anyone do that? I don't know, why would anybody fake a flail."

--

EDIT: I don't know why you guys are downvoting me. When authors write provocative pieces purporting that something never existed at all, they're almost always wrong. Example: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/27/joe-goulds-teet...

[Here's Mitchell later on: "In 1964 Mitchell published the second of two profiles of Gould for The New Yorker, later collected in the 1965 book Joe Gould's Secret. Mitchell asserted that the Oral History never existed. Upon the publication of Mitchell's "Joe Gould’s Secret," in September, 1964, people began to write to him and send him notebook copies of the Oral History. "I wish I had had this information when I wrote the second Profile," Mitchell told people who wrote to him, "and if I ever write another article about Joe Gould, which I may do, I’d like very much to have a talk with you.""]

Please see my reply below for where our author uses the same very extreme viewpoint.
Sure, that's true. You can be an awesome developer by getting deep in to the code and never talking about anything else. If that's what you do then great, but remember that your career path won't stray far away from being a developer. Often people do want to do more after they've been coding for a number of years, so it's worthwhile cultivating other interests and "soft skills".
> Alas, the perfectionist in me wishes I could get a proper 100 in both tests...

I have a client that is hoping for a similar result. I worked for half a day to raise their mobile score from 60 to 71, eliminating all JS-related concerns.

Then I ran the test again without making any changes. The JS section was still gone, but the score changed to 59.

It really sucked to write that one up to the client; luckily they are pretty patient.
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I disagree. Balance doesn't bring happiness.
First of all I do not believe balance is a definitive state but rather a constant work. You need to constantly put things back into balance which is exhausting and time consuming.

Secondly nothing great ever happens when things are in balance. Everything is just average. You work enough to be able to do enough "life" things.

I strongly believe you need to be out of balance to really enjoy things. You need to go all in at work for the necessary period time to be great. This is when you really get pleasure out of it. But at the same time you must counter balance by doing every life events available (i.e. never turn down a friend diner, the gym, a date, a concert, ...). Go long at work and short in life basically.
> even if you have an appointment, you have to wait

Am I the only one who finds this vain and disrespectful? I'm on time to my meetings. I'm on time to dinner after boozy brunch. Yet Apple can't help but overcommit when I take the time to schedule with them?

Go ahead and charge me a $20 cancellation fee for a "premium appointment". But don't present your brand with all the poise and discipline of a teen Hollywood wannabe.
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Even if you want to eventually you won't be able to code around the clock.

I', now 29 but working for startups putting in 8-14 hours a day takes its toll, and now I can't sit at a desk or my acid reflux will kindly tell me to take a walk.

That or too much stress is hit, I'm out for the day with chest pains for the next day.

Whats worse is you tell this to others and they don't understand because those that have not experienced it don't understand.
This is the correct follow up question. Nothing like sending out some ants via mail.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_...
Also, in episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes that same rib twice in succession yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe? That this is some sort of a magic xylophone or something? I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
> Have you seen white people in poverty? They are no different than black people in poverty, and are just as needing of our help.

I don't disagree that this is a huge problem but consider what it's like for someone trying to work their way out when they obviously, unavoidably don't fit in. The key point here is simply recognizing that different areas of discrimination have different impacts and they combine super-linearly.

If you're poor but white and male, once you get started on the skill ladder you'll be able to quickly adopt many of the other cultural trappings and start getting breaks, which are self-reinforcing.

In tech, say you go to a local OSS developers meetup. You're hiring and there's a bearded white guy with a messenger bag who sounds interested in ES6 — do you stop to quiz them about whether they grew up in Palo Alto or the more dismal parts of upstate NY before telling them to apply? The same process often goes down a different path if the person in question is female, latino, black, etc. and someone subconsciously wonders whether they're as qualified and that conversation doesn't happen at all if someone came to a meetup or two but felt out of place and decided not to keep attending. That kind of thing happening a couple of times early in someone's career can have a massive impact on their lifetime trajectory and because so much of it is subconscious it can happen even if everyone involved would have chosen otherwise if asked.

In much of the business world, someone from a poor white background has to watch their accent and learn to wear a suit, etc. An African-American can do the same thing but will also have to deal with being confused for lower-level staff or even the security guard, caterer, etc. Sure, someone motivated can rise above that but simply having to think about it, or spend time ensuring that you're always bringing your A game to your attire, social negotiation, etc. is a distraction from the actual business that some people are fortunate enough not to have to deal with.
A vintage 6502 Lisp:

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Or given lots of hotels are likely setup the same, write an app that lets people take advantage of this / broadcast their own tunes to these services, so they can choose their own lift music in a Sonos-like way.

If this were an officially endorsed thing, hotels could even stick a Physical Web Beacon (https://g.co/beacons) in the lift, pointing customers to your app.

All that said, I guess my above scenario, headphones may be a simpler option ;).
Or, you can be a broke-ass cracker in Appalachia - although most of them aren't much into hiking if there isn't a trout pond at the end or they're actually driving deer...
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I do not understand how the reader monad is different than promise.

It seems the reader monad just delays execution of some code until you call 'runWith' and you can define state variables throughout your code before calling runWith.
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We seem to have a similar system in Poland. My friend was coming home once and the elevator started talking to him, trying to sell him some service. Following the moment of surprise, he managed to regain sanity fast enough to catch some of it on video.

Turns out the emergency system on this elevator is too an embedded phone...
The OP makes no effort to address the class distinctions among weaponry. Crushing weapons, heavy things either with or without chains/rope, were far easier to make than cutting things. A stick, a bit of rope, and a lump of iron. That's far easier for a village smith than a forged sword. So perhaps the reason we see so few is that they weren't carried by the history writers. And, i suspect, such a literally flexible device is far more likely to survive that first impact without shattering than even a weighted club.

Note the LOTR clip where it was used as a left-hand weapon, essentially a shield. It doesn't need to do any actual damage. It's all about keeping your opponent at a distance and their eyes off of you. A lump of iron flailing around almost uncontrollably does exactly that.
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I know this phrase from the electronic music artist Fatboy Slim's "Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat"

(Warning, explicit lyrics)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wBoRkg5-Ieg

It's a fun dance song, but the literal total opposite of a healthy lifestyle.
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Non-newtonian physics is by far the weakest of the hard sciences but as I understand it "[spooky] action at a distance" has a formal meaning[1] in particle physics that has to do with quantum entanglement. Here's the NIST article on the substantial findings that lends credence spooky action specifically[2]. (I'd imagine the physics stackexchange will have a great discussion on this, and the AskScience on Reddit will have a thread approachable for people who aren't Leonard Susskind or his coterie of brilliant post-docs.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_at_a_distance

[2] http://www.nist.gov/pml/div686/20151105loophole.cfm
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You can think of eastern Ethiopia as the last African colonies, since the Ethiopian Empire grabbed a lot of it during the "Scramble for Africa".
Same here. It's also been a great opportunity to step back and reevaluate some early-startup engineering decisions that've made the new service codebase fun to work with. Rather than having a single backend that has to handle all possible situations ("this one thing we're talking to speaks XML..."), we can only deploy the stuff actually needed for that one service ("I think we can safely assume all-JSON here"). I highly recommend this approach.
That's a funny sentiment, because I'm here on a saturday morning (like all mornings for the last 30 years) browsing the internet for news with a particular interest about programming.
Needs to look like a Dalek or other recognizable robot and people will blithely ignore the invasions of privacy and whatnot.
I almost read the title as about rendering it in a 4KB binary - realtime fractal rendering is a pretty common effect in the demoscene and definitely doable in that size category. Here are some examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w_xEUoK79o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvC8maVHh8Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFCcneO5HIA
An interesting anecdote I remember reading that Henri Poincare, one of the greatest mathemetians of all time, only worked 4 hours a day because he couldn't sustain more than that amount of time in deep concentrated work. He'd then go play cricket and read for the rest of the day. You need to find your own "sweet spot".
Poor developers are covered under "talent" mentioned above.
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I distinctly remember sitting in yet another dull sprint retrospective and thinking, "Boy, I wish I were a firefighter."

Granted, that line of work comes with its own drawbacks and I would certainly get bored of it the same way I get bored of software (or else worn out from the demanding physical aspect), but some days I'm surprised to find myself wishing I could "dig ditches out in the sunshine" or something of the sort for a living.

This combined with the "eat, sleep, code, repeat" mentality I see in others makes me wonder if I'm really cut out for a software development career.
I see what you mean, but what I meant is that either we get much better at explaining math or we exclude a good portion of our population from being able to program. If you respond with "all you need is high-school math plus more math in college" you're missing my point!

I'm not in any way anti-math.† Imagine that monads were a part of Scratch (the children's programming environment), and I was trying to explain them to my young daughter. If she couldn't get it should I say to her, "this is only high-school math plus a bit more, come on, don't use the fact that you're 11 as an excuse". The other day somebody pointed out that in Tufts they have shown that children as young as five can think computationally. This is the level I'm talking about. I'm talking about being able to teach programming to people who are normally (for whatever reason) math-phobic.

(† I took three years of 3rd-level math.)
I code for fun as a way to restore myself mentally after coding for money...
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>Why are we making a special case for software developers, on points we would agree on in other professions?

Because our profession mixes work and pleasure like no other. Lots of people work on pet software projects outside of work for 'fun', we go to tech meetups and hackathons for 'fun'.
What's with the articles lately discouraging hardcore programming? Are we hackers or not? I just want to sit in a cellar with a big Unix beard, drink Jolt cola and do programming 24/7.
I didn't downvote, but I found that your comment didn't add anything to the discussion. You said stuff about yourself, gave no new information, and invited polarizing comments.
Key takeaway - Don't do it for an employer.

Do it for you.

As a hobby, or as a business where you're rewarded for hours worked and quality of final product.
>The field isn't rapidly evolving.

web/mobile from only 5 years ago was so different from what we have now.
Yes, by "placeholder" I mean the IMG element that loads with an initial low-res/default "src" attribute. Then the actual, higher-bandwidth image will load by updating the "src" attribute.
What a totally irrelevant post.

I was posting about the Chinese government response. The way they handled the problem. At no point is anyone denying the attack.

>All the world should have sympathy for each other agasint terrorism.

Really? I find that naive - if terrorism has taught us anything, it is that all the world should be deeply critical oh how any country responds to terrorism.
I have had a literal ditch digging job, and I hated that even more. But I still find myself longing for such a thing. Maybe if I could just have 3-4 days per year? xD
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I think there is an entire population that would find that infinitely more entertaining.
That is so wrong. Outsourcers require an insane amount of management. Add 12 hours of time difference to the mix and the real fun starts.
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> You don't get that passion by doing it 9-5.

You can't get passion for a subject by dedicating a majority of your daily hours on it? Seems like that could be the very definition of passion.

I get what you're trying to say, but I firmly believe you are wrong.

> I'm trying to make it a point to spend at least an hour a day bike riding or roller blading or just even spending time with my wife.

One hour out of 15 you spend awake? Seems like your hobbies are getting the short shaft here. But then again, so are you - having a diversity of experiences will make you a better programmer by opening your mind to other experiences, rest, and the time to allow your brain to bake a problem into an elegant solution.
> It hits all of the points that make it easy to contribute

Where's the documentation?

> Reporting Bugs

> Don't.

Hmm...
If I were hiring recruiters then I would absolutely look for this kind of passion. The point is, if you have the option to hire someone who works just for the money, or someone who has a personal interest in their work, usually you want the latter. Not all companies have that option, and not all developers fit that definition. There is room for everyone in this profession. But let's not pretend that those who practice less because they don't have a personal interest will magically end up as skilled as those who love it and put in the hours to become great.
At least it is still "eat, sleep". Soon it will be "soylent, provigil".
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A business will consume you in ways you'd rather not think about. If you're a founder, you won't be sitting coding all day long for happy customers. You'll be juggling tons of crappy responsibilities and shipping code that is good enough to work (kinda).

Just find a better company or work on Open Source and then grow this into a business (look at how Ansible or GitLab pulled that off for example).
It might just be particular to here (Australia) but firefighter is actually a very highly sought after and difficult to obtain job.
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> How do you think anyone got hired 10, 20, 30+ years ago in tech?

I wasn't active in the profession back then; I have no idea, and that's why I asked. My question was not rhetorical.
> horrifying

is definitively too much. And also the interpretation is too strict. Why being outraged for something like this?
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There is connection.type (bluetooth, cellular, ethernet, wifi, wimax, other, mixed, unknown, none) and connection.downlinkMax (megabits/sec of the first hop) both available.

You can read the W3C draft for more details: https://w3c.github.io/netinfo/

It's not perfect but far better than nothing. It's relatively easy to figure out a "slow" profile based on both device and connection and optimize some of the heavier resources.
Talk to the person. Let them describe what they have done previously. Ask how and why decisions have been made. What they would do better. If you know your stuff yourself it's not that hard to figure out if the applicant knows his or her stuff.
I dont think that it was a bunch of text - each feature was one short bullet point. How would you communicate new features more efficiently?
I do sympathize with your idea of giving responsibility "to the grownups involved", but in reality ordinary people seldom take that responsibility. They just take cues from somewhere else if society does not give it to them (Sheryl Sandberg, for example).

Why should traditional systems be deemed inferior to pop media in directing people's lives?
Hrmf, between this and all the talk about a module marketplace i wonder if they are trying to avoid a "PC clones" scenario. Meaning that if all they control is the endo, and someone else releases a clean room implementation of same, Google's control of the ecosystem goes out the window...