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The guy who was also in the discharge unit, getting kicked out... we'll I guess that is as credible as an internet stranger's personal experience.
I just came here to say that. FuckedCompany was hilarious back during the first .com crash.
You usually marry because you want to be with someone, not because it's efficient.

I don't know. You decide to live with someone, share your life with them and and possibly have children with because you want to be with them. Your decision to actually marry them is, in my experience, often driven by some additional external force.
The announcement Reddit thread contained a Reddit employee mentioning that they already have a cache of the majority of Imgur images because they've been using it to create thumbnails Reddit displays alongside the headlines.

Apparently they've been storing the full size images too and not throwing it away after creating thumbnails (wise move).
Useful for what?
If it is true, then a lawsuit for defamation should not be successful.
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Considering the point of inflection for sales/revenue in your businesses, did you find a silver-bullet? If it wasn't just one thing, were there steps or progressions you took towards creating a successful sales pipeline?

If there was one thing you would have done differently or changed early on, what would that have been?

And, is there any other advice you might have for someone in my position?
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yes that's what I used as my target is a resource-restricted router that does not have space for any python, that's the only occasion you can call it agent-less, but most people are not using that mode.
This is a highly cultural phenomenon those which one can not generalize about. Nordic countries have low level of poverty AND marriage. But Nordic societies are much more accommodating towards such a situation, and so it doesn't cause the significant problems it does in the US. Laws and regulations make it much easier for mothers to have a job and raise kids. In the US the workplace is less accommodating and so many mothers are forced to stay home for years with their kids. This creates an economic disaster if the parents divorce because the mother now has too little work experience to get a good job and there are limited social programs for single mothers.

Secondly a factor is the nature behind the split up. Single parent households does not signal family breakdown in the same manner as it does in the US. Fathers are usually very active participants in their children lives even if they are divorced.

I think the lesson American are trying to push is that people must be married for the benefit of children, while Nordic countries rather push the idea that every father has to take responsibility and engage with their children.

I think one should accept realities of modern societies and find solutions to that rather than dreaming about a 1950s world which is never coming back.
It very much is necessary. Take the linux kernel's eBPF interpreter for example. Since the code runs in kernel scope and in many critical places (system call interception, network processing) it's important that the code executes within a bounded amount of time.

I think its restrictions are that it only allows forward jumps and a limited amount of instructions.
I think this is a very fair point. The user interface tries to innovate, but personally I think it's a miss. I wish they kept the N9 style UI that was pretty widely applauded.

The cumbersome interface and missing native application features were the main points why I switched back to Android.
Agreed, this fits the definition when in this context and with this intent
Agreed. The world is not this black and white place we might sometimes try to make it. Rather than writing diatribes about how people are "objectively" wrong about matters of no consequence, why not save the effort and call people what they want to be called?
> There are a billion Chinese, so I wouldn't blame them for not learning English while living in China. It's just not worth the effort.

I don't blame them. For the ones who get accepted to US institutions, it's definitely worth it.

> Also the fact that Chinese is almost as far as you can get from any western European language makes it really hard to learn English (or for us to learn Chinese for that matter.)

Well I definitely disagree there. I'm studying Chinese. The characters are hard and that's it. Chinese grammar is super simple. There are no tenses or subject verb agreement so verb conjugation is not a concern. After you learn the basic grammar, Chinese is just about memorizing lots of vocab.

> I can't imagine the Chinese government encouraging its citizens to lean English for political reasons either.

They can do what they want but I believe most countries these days appreciate that globalization is inevitable and that learning other languages helps assuage the burden of embracing that. China doesn't want to go back to its cultural revolution experiment and the world needs China.

China has some really interesting geography that most westerners will never see. That could change in the future with more people from each culture learning other languages. Chinese are already touring the world. When will China itself begin to become easier for the world to tour it?
That's splitting hairs when every last dime of their revenues come from government contracts.
http://isskyscanner.deadyet.lol/ apparently yes? Hmm....
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> "there's only one library that does it and it's one guy's graduate thesis"

Those libraries aren't tried and tested. They can be reimplemented. And in some contexts, they shouldn't be trusted as a black box.
Correct. Indeed, the NIST uses Newtons now. http://www.nist.gov/calibrations/force.cfm shows that pretty clearly.
The CEO was very offensive and way out of line by asking such racially-tinged questions in a technical interview but I think people in the US go way overboard when it comes to the N word. It's essentially treated like the V word in Harry Potter which it's ridiculous and childish. People can't even refer to it in order to discuss it. College professors can even lose their jobs for talking about it in a classroom. I mean, Obama got some bad rap for talking about it on some interview. It's insane. And it's all cosmetics since the actual roots and possible solutions to the racial divide are rarely ever talked about or dealt with.
If you use the right tools (static analysis and sanitizers and fuzzers) your own code (and any code you rely on which you have the source for) will be handled.

If you rely on binary dependencies which have quality problems, then u can't help you there. But that could be an attack vector in any language.

And if you are worried about the operating system itself, then there really is no easy way around it unless you want to run a unikernel for everything.

And even then you may hit a CPU microcode bug it hardware bug...
Imgur forgot its roots as a dumb image host, rapidly crufting-up its service with things that were not only annoying but interfering with its basic function. If you can’t easily see an image as soon as you click on it — on mobile or otherwise — then the image service has completely failed.

The sad thing is, they could have added non-intrusive ads. DaringFireball does it; write a single line of text such as “This image brought to you by FooBar, Inc.” and SHOW THE LINKED IMAGE. No pop-ups, no tricks, no obscurity; ad+image, done.
I don't think the nightlife is extensive and amazing in san francisco. Everything closes @9pm and there is nowhere to go!
In C# you can often avoid reflection using dynamic.

Java generics problems: "primitive types" cannot be used as type parameters. Type erasure makes type parameters unavailable at runtime, which sometimes causes many problems.

When you see java code passing a .class as a constructor/method parameter, that is often a workaround.

Try Stream.toArray(). Type erasure makes it a pain and forces you to provide an array Supplier.

Other Example: you cannot have overloads of a method one taking Function<T,U>, other taking Supplier<T> because their erased signatures are equivalent.

Disclaimer: I still prefer Java when C# is not an option, yet I reserve the right to criticize its shortcomings.
I'd wager India are holding out for a 1 billion dollar bribe like the Chinese got! http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-china-idUSKCN0Y404W
The problem is not that Thiel's action here is unethical or illegal so much as it breaks norms. That's why you get so many slippery-slope arguments.
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If Gawker hadn't published anything litigable, they wouldn't have had any problems. If there is a litigable claim, there should be at least the possibility that the person who is being litigated against has done something wrong. Who cares about the motives of the person exposing the wrongdoing as long as it's accurate?
Of course Imgur could take revenge by breaking all images that are still linked to from Reddit.

Did Reddit make backup copies?
We changed the title from "51 Fractals – tutorial (only 25 lines of code)".
This is an application of anti-revenge porn laws which were made around the time I wrote my blog post. I should have been clearer.

I'm generally very suspicious of pragmatism - it's very often a cheap excuse to do whatever makes us feel good or seems convenient at the time. I totally understand that instinct, particularly in this case. I think Thiel is awesome (I generally want Thiel to be our reigning monarch) and I absolutely detest Gawker and think organizations like it (together with their public enablers) are one of the most dangerous social forces in our society.

It's just that on principle, I'm really unable to convince myself that this is the right thing.
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A job interview it's certainly not the place to ask those kind of questions.
Lots of guesses as to what Julia can or can't do in here, primarily by peopl who obviously don't follow the progress of the language. Slowdown? I'm following Julia closely, and I have quite a hard time doing my job and keeping up with commits and the issue/pr tracker at the same time. That Julia doesn't get as much PR now that it's a bit more mature cannot be too surprising. How many articles have you read lately about the thousands and thousands of people who will be learning C(++) over the coming years? Not many I guess, but does that mean C is dead?
> Incandescent bulbs never had any variation, they're all around 2700K.

That's basically my point. Of course people will complain about the light since LEDs act differently and buying options didn't properly explain how to get back to something that looks like what people had.
That seems to be what the data is saying. I think the article is trying to paint it differently and they don't actually understand the data.
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You're absolutely right and the Parsely article completely ignored this fact. There is probably some truth to 'the public reads whatever it is the media decides to write about', but they are completely ignoring the law of diminishing return. If someone artificially limited the number of articles about trump to not exceed the number of articles about Clinton, all the people who want to read about Trump would flood those articles. This would also deter journalists from writing all the low quality articles. The large quantity of low quality articles are also pulling down the average, hiding the fact that the good articles are getting much more page views. These are the articles that make other journalists want a piece of that pie.
Interesting stuff. I was always intrigued by Plan9 (via Go). The same thought had crossed my mind too, that Plan9 may be a great dev environment for Go; apparently the 9p package is excellent.
I checked out that site before commenting. All of the examples they use are of sites that employ the so-called dark patterns as part of a larger, otherwise legitimate site. So while your ad fits the definition that they offer I believe that, given the examples listed, the label is applied more narrowly. This might just boil down to descriptivism vs prescriptivism.
I want to make a blog series about these words. Mansplaining? Used to mean condescending entitled douchebag. Now it's anytime a man says something I don't like. Feminism? Putting an end to sexism. Or anytime a woman say something I don't like.
Given that a C server is most likely multithreaded, wouldn't it be more heavy weight than an equivalent green thread/coroutine setup like golang?
The <textarea> place where you write your answer really needs to be improved. It would be nice if they could make it wider, or allow for it be expanded by native browser functionality. Also, it would be great if when I pressed the tab key, it inserts a tab into the text buffer.
> That seems like a very low salary for any technical lead position. Are the wages in Canada generally that low? Most lead positions in the US regardless of geographic area start in the low six figures.

In the non-coastal, non-major-city US, it's rare for a salary to hit "low six figures".

Wages aren't quite as low as listed for Canada, but most leads here are in the $80-90k range.
I think you've got it. If free, github. Otherwise, DigitalOcean is a solid choice and it's only $5. You can do soooo many other things with you DO box too, if necessary.
Exactly. They ignored the law of diminishing return.
Have you looked at languages like Nim [1]? Garbage collectors don't have to be of the stop-the-world variety.

[1] http://nim-lang.org/
http://nim-lang.org/docs/gc.html
I was doing an analysis a while back to figure out YC's IRR, and the problem wasn't outright dead startups, but the walking dead.

Silicon Valley (YC included) has a large number of these. I remember one that is not "dead" by any public measure (live site accepting new customers), but upon digging I found that the two co-founders now work at Facebook!
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Yes, but finding tactics reprehensible won't change the tactics of powerful people and organisations.

One can consistently dislike how the justice system is controlled by money, but one can't consistently take sides between Gawker and Thiel. They are both acting within the limits of the same system - it just so happens that Thiel is the bigger fish.

If the justice system wasn't run with money, then Gawker wouldn't have been able to threaten people with less resources than them, and Thiel would not have been able to threaten Gawker.
No, that's in theory. In practice not much: any practical sufficiently complex type system quickly gets extended to become Turing complete; from time to time the compiler might get yell at you when you hit the maximum allowed type recursion limit, but usually everything just work.

I believe that type checking in unextended Hindley-Milner type systems is exponential, so, even if the algo is guaranteed to terminate in theory it might not do so before the heat death of the universe. Again, in practice outside of test cases demonstrating this 'feature' it doesn't matter.
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Facebook and Buzzfeed sound like awfully solvable problems. Just install Leechblock and set a block for them during work hours.

The rest sounds like mis-management issues, which I think has more to do with lack of analysis than programming itself.

Porting Agile or Scrum to an organization and not checking whether that port breaks things is absolutely insane, but it seems par for the course nowadays (imagine how much shit a sysadmin would get for setting up Apache and his setup refused all requests...ah well).

Same goes for pair programming. Does it work better than the alternative? Yes? Great. No? Knock it off then.

What are PC unit tests?

Code reviews seem like a great thing IFF they work properly. Proofreading, style compliance, teaching, catching errors, etc. If none of those things happen, they are pointless. Might as well swap the company cars with wheel-less Tesla's or something.

It just sounds like you've got the management equivalent of a bad sysadmin going.
It's probably a marginal issue, but would decreased living costs reduce salaries? Presumably if living costs were lower companies could pay less while still offering a higher net-income than other areas. I guess what I'm asking is how connected are the high salaries in the bay area with the cost or living there?
And how many of those services share their user profiles with imgur so that imgur can monetize that data by selling expensive premium ads to advertisers?

No one is arguing that facebook/google/tw... (well maybe twitter heheh) aren't profitably mining lots of user data. But imgur probably isn't able to mine much value out of it's own data.
Or my personal favorite where intrinsic types aren't objects so I can't use them in generics with makes the whole Lambda/Stream api a complete disaster.

Sure, I could use Integer/etc, but now each stage of my transform is creating a ton of garbage and I no longer get data locality.
This listing won't be full without David Hahn aka "Nuclear Boy Scout". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
Then the borrow checker is just flawed.

I know, I know, no non-trivial checker can be both sound and complete. But if too many useful programs end up being rejected because of that gap, the type system must be changed.
The next step is smooth coloring. I've written a post explaining it here: https://csl.name/post/mandelbrot-rendering/

The js code can be tested on https://csl.name/mandelbrot
> (a) Thiel was funding an unrelated case merely to exact a personal revenge

That would be unethical if the case were frivolous, or designed to bankrupt Gawker through "court fees" defending themselves against unreasonable complaints, or so on.

Gawker's going bankrupt, if they do, because they lost the case, for what I think were correct reasons. It can not be unethical to help someone get justice they were owed. If there are more cases like this one, I hope the plaintiffs win those cases too.
It's just more convenient to have a marriage certificate than to be common law, legally and otherwise. There are built in protections for you, your spouse and children. I'm not saying you need to do it but it one less hassle to deal with in your day to day lives.
This exact thing happened with Something Awful and some other image host.
btw, here is the URL for a Java-Generics-Program from the paper:
https://gist.github.com/rgrig/b4cdaed3ed9a70dbdb6f158f14b572...

comment from the source:

// Encodes a Turing machine that counts in binary, and then halts.
// Gives stack overflow by default.
// If you increase the stack size (javac -J-Xss100M Main.java),
// then it type-checks, but it takes a lot of time.
The problem here isn't Peter Thiel destroying Gawker, because this was a case where Gawker did do wrong and was found liable for damages. In effect, Thiel paid for Hogan's lawyer the way the government pays for criminal defendants' lawyers.

The problem is when a different billionaire uses the same tactics to bankroll much less meriotorious lawsuits against media that hold them accountable, not media that publish sex tapes. This isn't theoretical, it happened to Mother Jones.

It's a problem with the property of the legal system that it can be weaponized against someone who has done nothing wrong, as well as the ability to bankroll this weaponization secretly.
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Hmm, that is when I got out - two boot drops, both seemed fine. The infantry is much less likely to draw underachievers though, so we'd be less likely to see the low quality recruits.
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I corrected it now. Thanks for the good catch!
If you think those layers are unnecessary, then don't use them. Create your application using assembly and syscalls. Don't forget though, version 1 needs to be done in 3 weeks...
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Yeah I'm with you on that angle. Dumping money onto lawyers to attack people you don't like costs them legal fees to simply defend themselves.

The post I was responding to was advocating apparently limitless free speech, though. Chilling effects SHOULD apply to certain things, and unapproved pornography of yourself maybe should be one of those?

Limitless speech but limited recourse isn't worth advocating, IMO.
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This looks cool, but I wish there was more information. There aren't any presentations listed yet and no speaker biographies, so it's hard to get a sense of what it's actually about.
The past discussion was interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9746405
This article basically says How to stop poverty? Give people money.

Yah, that works, but it's better to stop poverty by giving people the tools/opportunity/social environment so that they won't be in poverty in the first place.

That's the idea of promoting marriage, and this article justs seems completely oblivious.

Giving people money to get out of poverty should be short term help, not the long term end goal.
> Even for new grads, the correlation is slight, the company has found.

Small_correlation != no_correlation
Plenty of languages today have Turing complete type systems. I believe even Haskell with GHC extensions is.
The drive to make imgur its own community with its own comments, logins, etc greatly predates its support of gifv. If anything gifv has saved it tremendous bandwidth. Its been hosting gifs since the beginning, even absurd 50-100mb ones. They never bothered to put in a reasonable file size limit. Also, this move also only happened when a lot of traffic was going to gfycat, which supported mp4/h264/webm/whatever files for ages. gifv support from imgur pretty much killed them.

I think the larger narrative is that imgur wasn't some geek's side project. It was a VC-run enterprise that will eventually find a way to be profitable. I think ultimately, this type of service is difficult to monetize. Reddit running its own makes a lot of sense.

From an experience perspective, my god, its terrible. I'm constantly being nagged to install the imgur app and sometimes Im not sure if the comments I'm seeing are reddit's or imgur's due to using a dark theme on my reddit app. Its all around a shitshow and I'm surprised reddit tolerated them for so long.
True, on OS level not that much. Although things like multitasking, nightshift etc. are quite neat. Smartwear/watches are something that wouldn't get any love either.

And yes, web apps need to get better to work. Android compability is nice but will never be nicely integrated (especially if dependent on Google Services). And only a fraction will develop native apps.

But convergence is a killer feature, indeed!
There's not much demand for it outside of Japanese cuisine. I keep hearing about how much better crickets and other insects are more efficient for protein, but supply and demand is why I have yet to see any sold for human consumption.
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