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> Newer languages/frameworks look great when you run through tutorials, but you're going to have issues once you need to do more complicated stuff.

I think this might be a bit of a benefit. I've been messing around with clojure/clojurescript in my free time and playing with a lot of libraries that while reliable are certainly less documented than say Rails or Django. It's actually been a really positive experience since it does force you to either dig through all the relevant source code or go have conversations with members of the language's community. Going to the source is just good exercise and also helps avoid the feeling of encountering magic. Talking with other developers using or making the libraries I've found I end up having more conversations about how things should or could be done (and why). At work or when talking about older stacks there is usually a Right Way(tm) that has been found and accepted and so the why or [sh|c]ould conversations have already been had and are academic at best and crying over spilt milk at worst.
Jonah so good
That was then. This is now.
Because we all do web applications in C.
Atlassian does have a sales team, but it's an external one, their "Experts"[1]. These companies get a cut of each Atlassian license sold, and also charge for setup, configuration, and custom add-on development. Personally, I think it's a brilliant strategy... external, technical salespeople!

[1]: https://www.atlassian.com/resources/partnerList
sketch (http://www.sketchapp.com) is a good illustrator competitor, as well
To be fair, other companies are taking notice. Oracle is now allowing people to pay for cloud computing with a credit card and no contact with sales staff.
Sequel::Model's quite optional - it doesn't force you to use the AR pattern. It's built on top of Sequel::Dataset, which is entirely usable all on its own.

ROM also uses it as its SQL backend: http://rom-rb.org/
I don't think the honest explanation of the reason he chose to leave the Results ecosystem is shitting on it; and I think that description is itself a sign of the kind of the kind of tribalism in technical communities that obstructs fruitful discussions of technical subjects.
A lot of Japan's economy is still cash-based. On common paydays like the 25th and (to a lesser extent) the 15th of the month you'll see long lines at the ATMs. The heist happened on the 15th.

The maximum withdrawal amount in this case is only about 1000 USD. Not that much. A lot of people will withdraw the max on the payday.

And it was only 10 transactions per ATM in average, spread along 2 hours.

To the extent that these ATMs are just terminals that serve a variety of networks, I wouldn't assume Seven Bank is at fault.

The real WTF is how cards can still be cloned so easily, how they got the passwords, how the S.A. bank didn't notice a spike in transactions from Japan, etc.
> by helping the maoist separatists of the north-eastern part, but bangladesh never does that.

A lot of the ULFA leaders were living in Bangladesh and got tacit support from the government of Khaleda Zia.
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I agree that there's a lot of AI hype and I suspect that we won't see all that much come out of it.

At the same time, there's a bit of a cop-out that goes on when we privilege our own cognitive processes over those of an AI just because our own minds are, more or less, a black-box.

I think he does a lot of that in this article. At the end of the day "human intuition" is just a filler until we figure out what's really going on.
Running bash commands in the background properly
Sodium batteries have been around since the 1960s.[1] They're a high-temperature battery, 90°C and upwards. Ford built some experimental vans with sodium-sulfur batteries in 1991. Two of them caught fire. That technology was abandoned for mobile applications.

There's still interest in this for stationary energy storage on power-grid scale. But not for mobile. Sodium catches fire if exposed to air.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%E2%80%93sulfur_battery
Of course Atlasssian has a sales team.

They have quite a big sales team and 'evangelists/consultants' that will come out to you, give you nerf guns and convince you to buy more Atlasssian products. Hell, when they caught wind that our company ditched Hipchat for Slack, they were over the next day to find out why and how they could get us back.

Of course Atlasssian has a sales team.
> This is just marketing.

I mean... if your assertions are true, this seems more like "straight-up lying."
You will indeed be able to do Jeopardy too, and hopefully much more (we found that answering factoid questions isn't the most critical function so we haven't prioritized it, but it's coming).

Many of the services that are on the platform can do things that were inconceivable just 5 years ago (like having a general visual classifier handle earth imagery with high enough accuracy to be useful http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ibm-watson-california-wa...). Yes, there are alternatives - which is the sign of a healthy market - but we keep improving ours to stay state-of-the-art and to introduce higher level functions.
As a "Platinum Expert" I can tell you our sales are a fraction or a fraction Atlassian's total sales.
>They might not be called sales, but there are people at Atlassian who's primary job it is to talk to people and sell them software.

And we're through the looking glass...
Oh yes. I remember it well.
1.4 billion yen stolen from 1,400 ATMs across Japan. There is a 100,000 yen limit per card per day from convenience stores.
Unlike, say, Oracle :-)
And if I'm not mistaken professional race drivers are faster without autonomous stability systems running, because consumer-grade traction control "plays it safe" so to speak.

Could a traction control/autonomous steering system be designed to push the envelope and risk losing traction as effectively as (or far more effectively than) a pro driver? Almost certainly, but I'm not sure how hard of a problem that will be.
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just a comment (example from your website):

--

I outsource my payments so I am out of scope for PCI aren't I?

No you are not! If you process card details you are in scope, its just that you may be able to reduce your exposure to security down to the minimum by partnering with someone else

--

[Why is missing ]

How do I know the above is true ?
If you can cross-link your exact statements with official documentation that would help [0][1].

Also believe, some sort of automatic consultancy in this field is viable source of income.

PCI for humans kind of thing. Good luck!

[0] https://www.pcicomplianceguide.org/pci-faqs-2/

[1] https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/
This has been Microsoft's model for many years. It's not clear whether it works very well for anyone in the relationship other than Microsoft.
Hey I know the guys behind this language!
Yeah, if they don't have a sales staff there are a ton of delusional people on linkedin who pop up for the search "Atlassian sales"
Your comment has some merit, if we ignore the fact that now same kernel is running across devices, with same subsystems and same applications, with possibility to write one application that works on all. While it is difficult to write UI to scale across screen size and input types, it is possible to build responsive UIs and people are doing so.
Well there is civetweb (BSD) which was forked from an earlier BSD release of mongoose but has now diverged a little on its own.
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This is generally true but there are some exceptions. I've read multiple reports of devs saying that their revenue on Android matches or exceeds their revenue on iOS. I'm not sure what the differentiator is here but it does happen.
It was a joke, but to be honest, I always make exceptions for self-contradiction and the possibility that I am unaware of my own ignorance. I believe humans are by nature contradictory, we're wired for bias confirmation, not truth. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
>Suppose I told you that I heard a friend was buying a lot of sleeping pills and I was worried. Would Watson say I hear you are thinking about suicide? Would Watson suggest we hurry over and talk to our friend about their problems? Of course not.

Although the author may be right overall, this paragraph certainly assumes a lot, and is probably wrong. Computer systems have been able to make such correlations for some time now.
There are at least two kinds of sales but in this case there's "Order taking" versus "product pushing"....

Is the boasting about"no salespeople" suggesting that they do not do outbound sales I.e actively working to drive sales?

Either way, wearing "no salespeople" as a badge of honor seems misguided, only technical people would value that. A well run sales operation is a key component of a healthy company.
Analogously, The title could have been changed to

>"Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no engineering staff"

They just have to change job titles from software engineer to software expert
Are they still getting DoD funding?
Moderation is always censorship. But censorship isn't always problematic. Government censorship, or censorship by an entity that has effectively the same kind of broad control over media of communication is problematic.
Pretty funny. The Onion for tech!
Tesla buys that tech from some outside vendor.
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OFC they have, but;

Sales team means, people who try to sell product aggressively or try to convince you with calls, emails etc.

They dont need that kind of team. As they said, product already speaks for itself. They dont need to focus sales.

How many JIRA owners get a mail/call from Atlassian? For sale?
You are saying that the Japanese didn't pay for their current pacifism with the blood of all _their_ soldiers that died in that war?
"The primary work they do is removing profanities and indecent images at the behest of the state."

I'm sure that's the primary function of the Chinese government's Central Propaganda Department.

Censorship is when someone or some organisation who has power over you, control your ability to access information.

From the government regulating the content internet users can access deleting content contrary to the government's goals, to administrators of personal websites deleting comments by people espousing views, considered disagreeable by the owner of said website.
Track per 3 minutes is 480 tracks per day.
Sodium batteries run at very high temperature and are finicky. They have been used for decades on submarines where they can be managed by trained personnel and where a large heat sink is available. I would be wary of consumer sodium based batteries.
Thank you for mentioning this.
another one is potassium, and giving that the future is metal-air batteries, potassium works great there (its oxide seems to behave better for recharging in that scheme than lithium's)

Wrt. possible short-term lithium supply issues, i can see how Musk would just build a new mine operation if necessary, like a Giga-ship to mine it from seawater :)
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For those of us that are not professional software developers, could someone explain the differences between Nit and Python?

They seem to be syntactically similar, at least to my layman eyes.
whoops! you got me. Have an upvote. :)
I've been living in Japan for a couple years, and this reflects my experience too with regards to most people I've met. However, it's not just the government, but also a powerful and ageing elite which shares these views. Admittedly not people you'll meet everyday, yet they wield obvious political influence.

Anecdotally, I hadn't met any such people until yesterday, where I had to attend a rotary international conference for a scholarship I receive from them. The audience was composed of around 700 people, most of them CEOs of local corporations, politicians or otherwise wealthy and connected people. The average age must have been somewhere in the late fifties/early sixties. The invited speaker was Masahiko Fujiwara [1], a mathematician turned essayist, who probably should have stuck to number theory. It was basically an hour and a half of chauvinist propaganda, hailing the past greatness of Japan, the superiority of the Japanese people, and mocking (I quote and translate) "Americans, Europeans and white people" at every turn with racial stereotypes. And the entire audience was laughing and clapping their hands! It's scary to think that these people might well be a representative sample of the ruling Japanese elite.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahiko_Fujiwara
Produce independently reviewed citation that you are state of the art, or even close to it, in any of these functionality.
Another approach would be to use cron/anacron/launchd. Although these are technically serve a different purpose (running commands automatically), I find a lot of my background commands also should run regularly.
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What's with the hate?
I think you have a point if you're talking about a personal website, but I think things get a whole lot blurrier when you're dealing with places that are communities, have an ethos of free expression, or have taken on the characteristics of public forums. I think it's an oversimplification to view those solely through the private property lens.
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Sales team means different things to different companies. To you it means an aggressive person hunting you down, to me it means a consultative person to follow up a lead.

How many JIRA owners get a direct contact from Atlassian? Every one which is likely to turn into an enterprise client.
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Fair comment. Lucky for me I guess, because I can be often be an arsehole.
No it's not....
I recall reading an article (can't find it at the moment) that suggested that the ugliness of hybrid/electric vehicles was, in general, a deliberate move; that people buying an EV didn't actually want an EV (even if they thought they did); they wanted their neighbors to think they wanted an EV, and designing EVs in a distinctive style allowed that market to be tapped much more effectively than if EVs had followed the design patterns of IC vehicles.
>we'll see a rise in full-service highway gas stations to fuel driverless trucks

Not really - all AV trucks will be owned by consolidated corporations, think Uber for trucks. These corporations will have service centers in strategic location, AV trucks will come for refueling to these centers.
The true beauty of those word games is that they don't have to pay their salespeople commission, because they "aren't salespeople"
Palantir doesn't have salespeople. They have forward deployed engineers.
If by "hate" you mean "trivial and important fact checking", what's 'with it' is that there are a lot of media-fueled myths about startups and business in the world.

A lot of them are hurting actual entrepreneurs in the trench and the parent is doing the good work of nipping this one in the bud early.
They painted it.
Jesus christ the "Sydney tech scene" got absolutely reamed by Bloomberg in this. Was that really necessary? Do we even hold ourselves out to have a tech sector worth mentioning as such (as opposed to a few lucky breaks that would be successful independently of location).

Does this reveal something about how venture capital interacts with software and software business models in general?
> a large number of traditional (and not very innovative) machine learning algorithms wrapped into a platform with a huge marketing budget.

Maybe that's the path to intelligence -- a bunch of ML and reasoning algorithms we already know about just working together and fed with a lot more data...

Once you take apart any AI thing (or any complicated thing n computing) you discover it is just a neural network, just SVD, just NLP + expert system etc. At least that is how I felt about it when I studied in college. The veil of mystery was lifted and it was just algorithms + math.
> How common will electric charging stations be if it turns out that EVs can't rise above 10% of the total car market?

One of the beauties of EVs is you don't need charging stations. I leased a Nissan LEAF 2 years ago, and it almost only gets charged at home.

You can't really know whether EVs are going to take over or not, it depends on too many factors. If our government gets bamboozled with Hydrogen the way they did with Ethanol, then yeah Hydrogen cars could become more popular than EVs.

But I would argue that even in that world, EVs are the better choice. They are lower maintenance and like I said, you don't need refueling stations. Your car refuels while it's parked in your garage.
Nit is statically typed, Python isn't. Syntactically, Nit's more like Go, Swift, or Ruby -- newlines can mean something, but it doesn't seem like indentation matters because there's an "end" keyword.
Security is been addressed long time ago. When you create a new project it comes with a insecure plugin, for fast development. You just have to disable it for normal operation.
The main pain points when I last tried it were the lack of support for other dbs, having it's own package system which means everything as to be repackaged for meteor and the struggle inside the comunity between switching to react or keeping the old much simpler templating engine.
It might be interesting to read what the rethinkdb is doing with the database and with horizon, since to me it looks that they are in a way trying to fix some of meteor down sides.
Disney and the future of American programmers?
There have always been a few F2P games that aren't awful, and if there's starting to be more of them now, that's excellent news.

But the fact remains that 95%+ of F2P games build their entire business model around dark patterns[1], and as long as that remains true, new games will reasonably be expected to prove themselves better than that.

[1] http://darkpatterns.org/, if you're not familiar
Who is it?
An incredibly... Unpolished strategic video game, in particular.
And Hacker News deletes it, <sigh>
Images of a New World: The Watercolors of John White (2012)
Damn, that was really confusingly worded.
Epic

Edit: I don't think this item has been deleted, it apparently was flagged and has been "moderated" automatically without human intervention?
I was banned from Facebook for writing about Facebook censorship
My suggestion to India: focus on encouraging the would-be Elon Musks in your population. Give them permission to do it. Remove the barriers to them doing it.

You'll get there much faster if the private sector were doing it.
The context is that the author wrote a negative review of a space strategy game because he had poor experiences with it. This article seems to be a way of saying that he was wrong to say the game is objectively bad without denying his own bad experiences are an objective problem.

The solution is to tune the game and add additional mid-game content (the part of the game with the most room for dynamism), which the author points out is on its way.

One of the more interesting comments said that the game would be well served if its developers collected play through data and started prioritizing the game seeds that tended to cause the most interesting games, arguing that there would be enough seeds to hide the lack of randomness.
This is in desperate need of a natural language processing library called 'wit'
I admit I was conned by this article to seem legitimate. Can you recommend some posts/articles/books that are not fluff pieces on this subject? really trying to understand this subject
Who are they and how do you know who's on the end of that button?
But he talks a lot about analysing data in context (which it seems is shorthand for "prior information that is relevant to the current input") and it's not unfair to say that we're still a long way from having machines that can make the sorts of connections between different texts that the author describes.
I actually think the right thing would have been to shoot the tortoise right where they found it. These kinds of things are more done for the selfish joy of experimentation then for the actual benefit of the animal.
Uber knows when your phone is about to run out of battery
Most hydrogen-powered cars are electric cars. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_vehicle (listing upcoming hydrogen vehicles, all using fuel cells).

And that's actually the point of switching cars to electricity: we have many sustainable ways of making electricity, and zero ways of sustainably making gasoline. Get cars running on electricity, then continue building out the infrastructure.
Hm. Well the bottled drinks in vending machines was 100yen back in the 90's when I was a child, and is now 120 yen, so many things have increased in price or have followed the American CPG way of maintaining sticker prices but decreasing the payload in the package.
It's launched already, deemed successful.

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/india-successfully-...
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A deliberately obtuse tactic. Your point is not well made, and is a waste of thread space. The arguments in favor of the original comment have been stated by others. I will not continue replying.
Sure here are two (you may have to follow some links to go to the actual publications):

Speech to text: https://developer.ibm.com/watson/blog/2016/04/28/recent-adva...

Emotion: https://developer.ibm.com/watson/blog/2016/02/29/another-ste...
As well as the all-important business cultivation engineers.
South Africa has had chip-and-pin cards for a very long time, but like many other countries the magstripe was kept for compatibility with US cards (I was told). I used to think this was common the world over. Not so?

(I know the US recently went chip-and-pin.)
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Nope.

Initially, deflation is a symptom as you suggest. The problem is that deflation is a stable state within the economic system.

Once in deflation, people say "I could invest this $100, and in the long run I'll get back $98. Or I could stick it in a mattress and get back $100 in the long run." Investment ceases. If a manufacturing line needs to be refurbished, the owners will lay off workers and quit rather than pouring in money they will never get back.

This is why the Fed in the US panicked so hard when during the last recession: we were approaching the stable state and they were willing to do anything to prevent that from happening.
It's worse for gamers, because it implies that making good-quality premium games is not sustainable as a primary revenue stream.
After being trapped in this hobby for years now, I've finally settled on (for the time being) a nice 10" RC from GSO/Astro-Tech, as well as an ES80ed and SVQ100-3SV and a Losmandy Titan mount. While not specifically a mount for beginners, it is a nice choice considering the RA and DEC axis comes apart to reduce weight and it doesn't use a proprietary mount control protocol like some companies -- Looks in the general direction of a certain high-end red-colored mount manufacturer
The best part of an electric car is starting every day with a full tank. I could never switch back to gas for that one reason.

[edit: yes, I know it's an anachronism. I still dial phones, too.]
It seems they tested whether a hammer could break the surface enough. Larger debris would create a significantly larger disturbance and would probably be more effective.
on a side note, that article has been vandalized.

"Allied commando unit known as Z Force led by Major Pidar McBlyat"

His name is made up of 2 common russian swear words
Thanks! Always liked KDE so nice to read.
I hope a record is kept of the changes, I bet they'd be really interesting from a historical perspective.