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Took a graphic arts class in high school, was deep in the flash animation/game scene for a long time, then made my own UI's for my own games, tackled multiple different designs for websites over the years, did some mobile app design, now I've gone more analog and designing physical card games with Illustrator. So yeah, I've been using design skills pretty much my whole life.

That being said, I'm not great at creating art, just putting together existing art assets or assets provided to me. I'm kind of glad the current trend is flat simple colors for everything. It makes design so much easier for me. I do still struggle with overall composition and brainstorming different visuals for how something can look, though.
Presumably if you're living with your partner, you're paying 50% of the rent. I assume most people living with their parents are not paying any rent. At least in high-rent areas like the Bay Area, that's a significant savings in the order of $1000-1500/mo. Not to mention saving on parking, utilities, etc. Plus depending on the family there's likely additional time and cost savings with cooking and household items. Who knows, maybe some people even have their family or house-cleaner to do their laundry.
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Regardless of how much they've changed, 2011 Dropbox was decidedly not two guys in a garage and their complete and total lack of security engineering diligence and multiple overlapping process failures that must have occurred to lead to that incident call every future "At Dropbox we take security seriously" into question. (See also: "goto fail".)

At some point, Dropbox clearly didn't take security seriously. They claim otherwise now. The question is now "at what point should we believe them?" It's subjective and my opinion is that the 2011 management that didn't take security seriously then probably still doesn't take it that seriously now - they've simply hired underlings to worry about it.

I have experiences with companies that have security in their DNA from day one, and I've {observed, worked with, been a customer of} a whole fuckton more who bolt it on later once time and money permit. Most of the latter do not actually care one whit about security, it's just one more "avoid existential threat x" box they have to tick as their business grows.

Google falls into the former. Dropbox and Slack and LinkedIn fall into the latter.

https://www.troyhunt.com/we-take-security-seriously-otherwis...

There is no reasonable amount of time that needs to pass until I willingly let a Dropbox or a Slack or a LinkedIn run code in my workstation's kernel. Maybe that makes me a jerk - if it does, I apologize.

PS: That's not how you spell my username.
> Given the hurdles on iOS that Pebble can't seem to overcome (for which they are not entirely, if at all, to blame)

That says more about iOS than about Pebble. Get an Android. The experience is much better.
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Unfortunately, that's not the social norm. Yes, you can specify this money you left is for the back of house, but from what I've seen if you just leave money on the table/recipt the courts say you've implied that you left that for the "service" (the wait staff).
We have an internal framework that compiles a state machine DSL into lower level code to execute queries on TrailDBs. However the binding in Python is fairly thin, and the same can be said for the other ones like the golang one. So before optimizing with a lower level language or a special DSL I would verify that Python or any other of the supported languages doesn't satisfy your requirements.

And continuous data is handled by sharding TrailDBs across some fields in our log lines, this way all the related events for a cookie in a given day belong in the same shard, each day the shard mapping is the same and we can just download the same shard ids from S3 and process the files sequentially using our DSL language. With a bit of code you can make this whole process of downloading from S3 and processing completely automated, this is in fact what we do with our data pipeline[0][1].

[0]: http://tech.adroll.com/blog/data/2015/09/22/data-pipelines-d...
[1]: http://tech.adroll.com/blog/data/2015/10/15/luigi.html
Sure, but you could always have something like a script that takes a Vagrant VM or a docker container and turns it into a hidden service on Tor. The script would take care of making sure the only access to the VM is through Tor and that the VM learns nothing (under normal operations, I am not even thinking about patching side-channel attacks and escalation-to-host attacks here) about the host's identity or location. I am thinking something like:

vagrant up --provider=tor my-service

Where my-service is any Vagrant node (a config file for setting up a generic VM with whatever software / conf you specify) and the vagrant command outputs the Tor hidden service address in the last line, after loading the VM locally on top of VirtualBox or similar.
Erratum: that's US$0.50 per peak watt. Although capacity factors vary by latitude and mounting (electronics are now cheap enough that some new utility-scale solar PV boosts its capacity factor with heliostats), a typical capacity factor is 20%, which means:

- US$24000 of panels per person, or

- US$800 per person per year, assuming 30-year lifespan, which is

- 8% of nominal world GDP of US$10k per year per person.

Worse, though, is that this reduces the carrying capacity calculation to some 12 billion, which is a number we might actually reach, although not soon. We're projected to reach 10 billion in 2083 by the UNFPA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth

What's actually going to happen, though, is that PV prices will start dropping again; the majority of marketed energy consumption will be from photovoltaic cells starting sometime in the 2020s; energy prices will drop well below where they are now; we'll increase our per capita marketed energy consumption far above current rich-world usage, but much of that will be thermal, not electrical; and we'll use a lot more than 10% of the land area for solar energy gathering.
When doing serious development and hitting these issues, the workaround isn't to continue using a broken language. The workaround is to use a different language. The first question 'Does this language run on the target system that I need it to?' isn't a yes or no question.

Take a look at this example - http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-origin-of-wasabi/

A language that compiles to PHP and ASP, what a relief.

And for the contemporary result - http://blog.fogcreek.com/killing-off-wasabi-part-1/

When the platform catches up, then you can go back to mainstream development with a useful language.
That's really interesting - I hadn't heard of this difference between languages. Thanks for sharing.

Do you feel differences in context-type of a language means persuasion techniques differ as well?
Coub is very popular in Eastern Europe, but it is not well known in US yet. We are not locking content on our platform, our goal is to deliver our content in every social network, messengers, media. We already work great in FB, Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, Telegram, Kik and lot more. A lot of media and news sites use coubs as a quote or animated illustrations. And we are heavily focused on more integrations to make coubs work everywhere.
The Tor hidden service setup process seems extremely simple to me.

First google result I get for "tor hidden service instructions" is https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en which explains the two config lines you need to add to create a hidden service

Literally all you have to do is add this into your config file.

HiddenServiceDir /hidden/service/path
HiddenServicePort $EXTERNALPORT $INTERNALIP:$INTERNALPORT

If you're hosting anything at all this shouldn't be even remotely difficult.
Screw their offspring? By what law of nature did the property and wealth of a person's parents become an entitlement to said person? How did it come to pass that parents are sacrificial lambs to their children? What, if any, responsibility does a child have to go and make their own lives and happiness in your view?

If parents decided to reverse-mortgage, sell, or otherwise not bequeath their hard earned property to their children they are acting completely within their moral rights. It doesn't matter if the parents hold on so they can continue to buy food or so they can cruise the world: it's their stuff. The child is not "screwed" out of anything because their parent's property was never rightfully the child's in the first place. If the parents decide to be generous and give their kids the house, car, bank accounts, etc.... lucky kid.

The only case when this above is not true is when the child is not yet an adult or was born with defects which impair proper functioning as an adult.
My wife, myself, and my baby are all moving back in with the parents in a few months time. They have a McMansion, so from a cost and space efficiency standpoint it makes great sense. Plus, free baby sitting.

It has always weirded me out how easily people discount the benefits of learning from their elders in the states. We feel lucky to give our daughter a lot of exposure to decades of life experience and wisdom.
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The effect is more complex and there are more dynamics at play.

Certainly, any one car being used is less people-dense than a bus or train. But people are more likely to "take the leap" to a lower-car-use life when they have the option of being able to call an Uber to get to a destination that's not well served.
plenty of games use aws, so i'm not sure why you say that.
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Haven't worked with solr but with elastic-search which are both based on lucene.

Some issues are:

async indexes, unable to modify/remove indexes, unable to grow/shrink number of shards etc (basically search why not use es as primary data store)
I'll go out on a limb and say that 99% of technical hiring managers seeing that the application was written by a bot will want to interview that guy today.

Said it so many times before, it's shit like this that puts you way ahead of the crowd when it comes to interviewing.
Agreed. I've seen many simple, bulletproof UIs and APIs that only support a discrete set of workflows, so they ultimately fail as expert tools.

Sometimes you don't want an expert tool, you want an easy button. That's fine. But often there's an inherent tension between 'can never fail' and 'lets you open up the throttle and tear through your problem'.

Compare the editing and reviewing workflows supported by a share drive and those supported by git. A shared folder is undoubtedly simpler, but good luck maintaining a coherent revision history or editing a document in parallel on different isolated subnets.
Same, i moved all my storage over to Infinit on an ongoing trial run. Funny too, because if Infinit works out, i'll be canceling my Dropbox plan.
There's an opposite trend: the "single mother" family.

I haven't heard of anything resembling an extended family house occurring in North America.
It's usually the person who says "You've lost" and mistakenly references Godwin who has lost (all hope).

If you're more concerned with the form of the response than the content...

> How is calling me "sheeplish" helpful for this conversation?

You're the one calling yourself sheeple so you can act hurt. The parent used it as a broad descriptor of anyone who just believes what they're told.

It wasn't directed at you so how is you falling on your victim card helping the conversation?

> The goal of the TSA is to create security theater,

I doubt you'd get any agreement with that. From them, the politicians, the taxpayers, or real security experts.

> and that goal is effective at preventing terrorists from even attempting to attack airports. It's difficult to prove this, of course [...]

There's literally no reason to suspect that it works. Theater fails in all contexts because only one person needs to realize it's fake and point that out.

> while most folks consider security theater useless, they're wrong. It has value.

Negative value. It reduces vigilance where it's truly needed.
Cars is not a bad movie, it did very well, it was just a little below normal Pixar quality but still above most other studios work.

The good dinosaur, Brave and Monsters university all still good but not quite Pixar.

Cars two is an absolute disaster though and it's a shame it wasn't covered in the book. Something clearly went very wrong with this movie and they redid most of it in ten weeks or so I read, it seems to go against all the values and things they talk about and it does feel as if the story they tell about themselves is perhaps worked as much as the stories they make.
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I think even in your "non-GAAP" metric case, I would hope an employee has an idea of the risks and isn't banking on near-term payouts (months, not years).

Parent's merely suggesting a Q&D sanity check that would help a lot of people who choose blissful ignorance. If you feel like I'm oversimplifying, would you mind elaborating further or sharing examples?
Good protection laws likely have stipulations that they cannot be overridden by other agreements. Some laws don't even hold if such conditions aren't included, such as unreasonable anti-compete clauses. Best to always talk to a lawyer :)
I don't think you can call it a fad because that implies that it's a purely social phenomenon, but in reality it appears to be tightly intertwined with economic factors. In particular, it seems to be mostly financial issues that are encouraging the shift in the US towards multi-generational households.
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I have no idea if this business model work for x264, but I sure it's work for Qt and few other open projects.

Unfortunately companies that developing game engines not going to benefit from copyleft licensing since there is no demand for GPL from real game developers. After all there is very few open source games around and only bunch of them aren't clone of something else. Probably none of these projects ever going to need anything as complex as CryEngine: there is enough of good open source engines for indie games.

So if they release engine as GPL they simply won't get any more developers in community. At best there will be few incompatible forks made by developers who only want to release changes under GPL.

PS: So just keep in mind that in case of CryEngine "source available" offer appear because it's only way to compete with other commercial engines and make money. They intentionaly keep it proprietary instead of going open source since it's better for their business.
> Well at this stage in the game, it seems like everyone right now who owns a house is someone who owned a house 30 years ago

That sounds like a perspective limited to a handful of major coastal cities. Go buy a house in Des Moines for $150K or something.
I can learn programming if I have a programming text translated to my language, right?

I don't quite understand why learning english is relevant here.
It's the other way around. Tax-fleeing Californians who moved to Austin expected an anti-regulatory climate, and found that the city is more conservative than they wanted. Austinites are fine with tech startups but don't try and strong-arm them into changing their laws to suit the needs of out-of-state corporations.
Trial by jury showed up around then for land disputes. But, it was trial by ordeal that fell off not Judges in the 1200's. Also, we are talking ~500 years after the fact so there is a lot of back and forth involved.
Always doesn't mean that it is a good thing.
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One thing which jumps out to me is that "other living arrangement" was higher back at the turn of the 20th century. Does anyone have any insight into why it was so high then but has declined since?

The reason this surprises me is that college attendance (and, thus, living in dorms) was much lower then. What were these other living arrangements that so many people were living in?
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You have nothing to back that claim up.

You are grouping a bunch of very different people into one group the very thing liberals are normally quick to react to when it's done by the right.

You are part of the very reason there even is a right wing.

But each to their own of course.
Only 17.3% of the voters turned out. Hardly the will of the people, just the ones who cared enough to vote, or were literate enough to understand what day of the week the vote was, or had a way to get to the voting station.

Also, the ballot question itself apparently was worded so confusingly that it wasn't clear what box to check. Here's the actual ballot question (from http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/local/dont-mess-up-your...):

Shall the City Code be amended to repeal City Ordinance No. 20151217-075 relating to Transportation Network Companies; and replace with an ordinance that would repeal and prohibit required fingerprinting, repeal the requirement to identify the vehicle with a distinctive emblem, repeal the prohibition against loading and unloading passengers in a travel lane, and require other regulations for Transportation Network Companies?

Then there are two boxes below that. Next to one it says “For the Ordinance” and on the other, “Against the Ordinance.”

The writer points out that it's not clear which ordinance the boxes are referring to, or what the net effect of your vote. Usually, on ballots I've seen over the decades, there's a summary phrase on the ballot like "if you vote YES, you are supporting gay marriage" or something like that, nice and clear.

If a clear phrasing had been provided, I wonder whether it still would have gone that way.
I don't think symbol name length is usually what people are complaining about when they call a language verbose. It's usually closer to the number of symbols required to write a program, and CL usually does pretty well on that metric.
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After reading this story https://web.archive.org/web/20150208082806/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CB_CUBA_SECRET_NETWORK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT i'm left with the question: what would be the most valuable data to get into Cuba to help the local population. Books? Audio? Video? Software? what would you bring?
When Dropbox rejected Apple's acquisition offer, Jobs was pretty angry at them, so it is unlikely that Apple is willing to help them now.
This is cool, but trying to reason about compilers may not an individual developer as far as simply profiling changes to the sections of code the program will spend the most time in.

Don't guess, profile. Don't talk about something being faster until you load it with production (or production like) data and run it a few times.
Crystal has a Flag attribute for enums (Flag enums):

http://crystal-lang.org/docs/syntax_and_semantics/enum.html
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There is a great post [1] on stack overflow that might help contextualise this development.

[1] http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/203288/understandin...
Absolutely. That's why I only mentioned it in reference to an existing public company.

As I mentioned, in a private company, it could well be possible that 99% or 97% or whatever of stock options prove to be worthless.
juries are supposed to be juries of peers, to make sure that what one did is really a crime as considered by his peers. Lords judge lords, commoners judge commoners, clergy have its own justice system... For the same reason the jury should come from the vicinity of where things happened. With geographical mobility and everybody becoming a peer to everybody one can see how "jury of peers" got stretched so that a bunch of Texans from some faraway county would be deciding some tech patent case.
Thanks; those are excellent points IMHO. One important nit:

> poorly thought out, sensationalist, over-emotional reporting that is devoid of facts and plays on fears (this type of "reporting" occurs on both sides, unfortunately)

I think it's important to point out that this is a false equivalency. The conservative outlets that do reporting like this, such as Fox, Rush Limbaugh, the WSJ (it's editorial page, at least) etc. have far more audience than the liberal equivalents (the Huffington Post might be one, but I think even they are better than the three I mentioned).

If we try to be extra fair and say it's equivalent, we hide from what I think is the U.S.'s and world's biggest problem.
f(x) = (1 - x^2)^2

This satisfies 2) but not 3).

The point x = 0 is a critical point but it is not a global minimum and it is not a saddle point.
Or look at the recent iTunes fiasco, where they deleted your music on the local HDD, and mis-matched the music in the cloud:

https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-mus...
Considering the second part of my comment, I'm not sure how this is anything but a non sequitur. You start with "No", and then do exactly what I say you should, which is to explain in detail what the problem is, and not just resort to "not free" as your evidence.
No. It's caused by price controls on sugar.
LPUSHX got my attention so I opened a pull request making it variadic (along with other commands) three years ago [1]. Of course since then the codebase changed and it can no longer be merged.

If there is still interest I could try to fix it, although I don't use Redis as much anymore and I have not looked at its code for a long time.

[1] https://github.com/antirez/redis/pull/1232
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So I've actually been doing this in various forms for the past few years. Mind you I actually chose to go with Plivo (a competitor) instead of Twilio, a decision I'm still thinking about to this day (MMS primarily). The way it works for me is I actually use Slack as the interface to my contacts. Each person is their own private slack room. I use it just like any other, I send them slack messages and it sends them a SMS and vice-versa. So far it's been pretty great, I get to take advantage of all of Slack's clients and I just write the code that transits the messages using the Slack API. What's really fun is that I'm starting to allow slash commands so that my friends can use some of them in the rooms with me and we can have sort of a shared chat-bot experience over regular SMS.

If anybody is interested in seeing the code, some parts of it are already open source[1]. The most interesting piece is the dialer, as someone in the thread pointed out, setting the caller ID on the outbound is tricky. On Android there are actually APIs that can intercept outbound calls, manipulate the number, and make the call to my gateway and then input the actual number as DTMF codes followed by a terminator. It doesn't always work but in 95% of cases I've never had a problem.

[1]: https://github.com/saarons/ward
On the coasts this isn't true since long time home owners (like parents) have been in their houses for decades and are insulated from the crazy property value increases. If you are a 30-year old in San Francisco, the difference between living with your parents and paying 1/3 of the mortgage in a house they've owned for 20 years and living with a partner and paying 1/2 the rent of a new apartment would literally be somewhere on the order of $1,500/month.