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UK supermarkets are a bit ahead of the curve here. All the large ones have a home delivery service, including Walmart-owned ASDA. It's quite cheap too: £1-6 if you buy £40, for various time slots. They all use their own vehicles and staff, so I suppose Wal-Mart can reduce the risk by using Uber/Lyft. I wonder though, does this mean no active cooling on the way? Can you trust that the ice cream is still frozen when it arrives?

I have found home delivery very useful, especially after having a baby. I don't enjoy going to a supermarket after work on weekdays, but receiving a delivery is easy and means the weekend is free. The main psychological barrier is that it takes surprisingly long to choose groceries online, almost as long as walking around the store. They try to make it easier by suggesting things you usually order, but it's still something you have set aside time for.
Strange, the article doesn't link to the output:

https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6577761/G...

I had a listen yesterday. It's okay. Nothing revolutionary. Competent though.
I saw this the other day, and for as much attention as Adwords gets for serving malware related ads, I am a little surprised this has not gotten more attention. I have never used Facebook ads, so not 100% familiar with the process, but if it is as the article states, this is huge problem in my opinion. I don't go a day on FB where I see friends who have clicked on some link somewhere and now their feed is full of obvious spam related posts until they fix the issue. Whether this is specifically a result of them clicking an ad or not I don't know, but I never click on any ads on FB or links to articles simply because I am afraid of having my own account compromised.
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It's right in the end: Goethe's lawyer revealed his reservation price of 1000 talers to Vieweg and he bid just that.
I'm always surprised grocery delivery is still a big deal in the US. All the major supermarkets in the UK do home delivery, next day, for a £3-5 delivery fee. You can go the site, fill your basket, and checkout. You also get a 1-2 hour delivery slot so you don't have to wait at home all day. We also have Amazon Prime Now doing grocery delivery within 1 hour in some cities. I can see how it would be a problem in some less densely populated areas in the US but how it's not done in all cities is beyond me. Any one know?
Sure and why would people use an app for a ride when they could just hail a cab or drive themselves?
Okay, I'll bite. Analogies are not really helpful for software development. Comparing software development with building a house doesn't work and this comparison with foods doesn't work either. The problem is not in your mocks or your layers. Software development is about translating prose into code. Given that, it doesn't really matter if your shell is imperative or reactive because your job is translation not creation.

I had a feeling something was going astray when the examples were primarily about data access and I/O. Reactive is (at best) a framework for handling streams and events. CRUD events aren't a great place to start because you're only showing the happy path. What about sequencing? What about retry? What about conflict? I'm not questioning your concept; it's the application.

Reactive isn't a translation technique which is ultimately why these analogies fail. Sometimes I wish software engineers could have a Roy Fielding/REST moment where someone comes along and clarifies the purpose of software engineering by pointing out the fact that everything you need already exists. In lieu of that, I'm sure that people smarter than me will eventually abstract away the reactive boilerplate behind some language keywords because the alternative (i.e. more data access and service endpoint examples) is really tiresome.
In regards to hardcore, I think it should be placed on the border between metal and punk, much like crossover.

Also Black Metal's strongest ancestor is arguably crust & d-beat, which is not shown (And crust/d-beat falls on the line along with hardcore)

But go to a hardcore show and it will be pretty clear who the metal kids are and who the crusties are!
UK experience suggests there's a decent market for delivered groceries: these stats (http://www.igd.com/Research/Shopper-Insight/Pushing-online-s...) from 2015 say that 11% of shoppers used online-shopping-with-delivery for their main shop, and 26% had used it at least once in the past month. So there is a decent demand there willing to pay delivery charges that can sustain a with-human-driver style delivery service.
> Nothing slower than having to wait for something to be faulted in.

There is something slower. When your executables are so large that you have to hit the swap drive on process swaps.
Maybe I'll have to give it a look. I get the impression it wants to add a bit of its own special sauce into things.

I was just thinking along the lines of building the libraries and binaries together and adding an init script or two, without anything else.

(Also, what's the prototype? That sounds interesting.)
Exactly. For my toddlers I also view it as training in some level of obedience (not running to the other side of the store), social interaction, dealing with disappointment (no you can't have the batman matchbox car set), learning about money (goes in hand with the disappointment factor!), helping me to pick out food, learning what stuff is called, a little hide and seek fun within the obedience bounds...it's like a little slice of life learning all in one place.

Overall it is a challenge for a parent though, so I'm not convinced that many won't just stay at home and order food from an app with the kids watching TV.
Pirahã has several different channels, such as whistle speech, hum speech, musical speech, yell speech, &c.
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003175.h...

The Pirahã also have an unusual counting system (none).
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001364.h...
...but this cuts against the argument that the medium very much influences the message.

I've heard the argument that some of these channels may be influenced by the jungle environment (whistled language elsewhere is frequently used outdoors because whistles carry farther). And I think whistled or musical speech is likelier to occur in tonal languages with a simple phonology (Pirahã's is very simple and very tonal). Dan Everett's claim was that a cultural avoidance of indirect references influenced the grammar of Pirahã (to put it crudely).
Thanks. Another very good extension for youtube is 'Youtube Plus':
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-plus/nkdal...
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I did this around 2004-2005 in high school, and it was one of the more educational learning experiences I've had. Sadly the resulting system was nigh-unmaintainable, on the level of old-school Slackware, so my install only really lasted a year or so before I scrapped it because I wanted to run some newer software.
I find that a lot of times people post here with "Remote" jobs. Then I contact them and they say "we're not looking for anyone in your area". Doesn't remote imply that the location doesn't really matter? I'm even in the US.
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No, it makes a trade-off. Especially on the stable channel of Debian/RHEL/SLES, an update will most of the time fix more bugs than it introduces.
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If you do it in the evening it's only £1 usually. Hardly any reason to go to the supermarket anymore.
I automated this using Docker, and talked about it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGp16yvSrFE

https://github.com/ianmiell/shutit-distro
Huge +1 for this resource!!

I have learned so much from this and I haven't even made much progress on this yet. I get so interested in the details I deep dive into everything. I know it will all continue to pay off in my career. It is a priceless resource!!!

Just one example, did you know there is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard, go ahead and `man hier` for quick details!

Also, did you know the /usr folder is not really 'user'. Some say it means 'Unix System Resources' and their are plenty of discussions around this.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/130186/what-is-the-rationale-...
"Why did X have an omelette for lunch" is not going to have a Wikipedia article, let alone people talking about it over half a century later.

I was saying this is most definitely an odd incident. It's certainly not routine. How many hiking trips do we know of which ended up like that?
While I was caught up in the anti-Walmart meme [and I'm using "meme" dismissively] for many years, today Walmart provides jobs in my community and those jobs appear to be stable with regular shifts because I often see the same cashiers at the same times one year to the next. I'll add that Walmart also generates local sales and income tax revenue [and sometimes property tax] that helps make schools and roads and fire trucks possible.

That's not to say either Amazon or Walmart is moral. It's more that because Walmart has a greater dependency on the commons around me and I believe its interests and mine are less orthogonal.
Planning in advance could really save a lot of gas, time and money if customers decided to shop online more. The last mile seems like a tough headache in term of logistics, but I'm sure there are many people who would love to not go shopping if it was convenient enough.

Although I don't think it will viable at first, so I doubt that market will really grow, since the economies of scale only happen if enough people shop online in a small region. Ultimately companies like Walmart still want customers to roam in their supermarkets to buy things they did intend to, as a virtual store and online ads seems less appealing than a customer just wandering in an aisle and discovering an article.
Loblaws, a big Canadian grocery chain, has really been pushing their Click and Collect service lately. You shop and pay for your groceries online. A staff member will go around the store getting your items, and you park in a designated area in a certain time slot and they bring your groceries out to your car.

I guess most people using the service order groceries at the office and pick them up on the drive home.

I'm not in their target demo because I don't have kids and my life isn't that busy, but i've been surprised at how busy the designated parking spots seem to be whenever I go to one of their stores. I've just checked their website and there are no fees for using their service as long as you spend $30.
My guess is that its due to traditionally very sprawled out cities in the US. Huge amounts of the population live miles away from grocery stores. I think in New York you were able to get delivery for years for groceries if you were willing to pay the local grocer extra.
This is a more just WRT you fighting with Elixir:

> Simple things like loops and encapsulation seem incredibly complicated. Something as simple as setting a value in a two-dimensional array...

- Elixir doesn't have loops. You use recursion.

- Elixir only has modules for organisation, and modules are just functions. It's just functions functions functions all the way down. You can nest modules in modules and so on, that's how you would achieve encapsulation.

> defmodule Foo do
.. defmodule Bar do
.. def add(a,b), do: a + b
.. end
.. end
> Foo.Bar.add(1,2)

- Further to that, you'd generally use processes for holding state, but those processes are also just functions, nothing special or different. See http://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html

- Use maps, not lists, to emulate a 2d array. Lists are not designed to do what you're trying to do there. As you've found out, it becomes incredibly ungainly. Daniel Berkompas wrote a post on this exact thing recently: http://blog.danielberkompas.com/2016/04/23/multidimensional-...

I would stay stick with it. If you shifted across to Scala and tried to do things in the way I think you're doing them atm, you might as well be writing Java: changing to Scala won't make it any easier to adapt to a functional style.
>Tell me if this sounds familiar: you just turned off the light, your head is on the pillow, your eyes are closed, and yet, instead of drifting off to dreamland, you find yourself thinking about something that happened earlier in the day.

Hmmm no, doesn't sound familiar to me. I fall asleep quickly and it has always been this way. My sleep tracker says my average time to sleep is seven minutes. I always wondered how common this is?
True, but I feel like food prep and cleanup is a much bigger deal than the actual trip to the store. I've had the teething baby and can tell you the trip to the store was not the hard part. Unless this is remarkably inexpensive I don't think the "making ends meet/clipping coupons" family crowd is going to use this with any regularity.
A missing flight is definitely odd! Whatever the reasons for it may be.
Very attractive interface and in my opinion does well to set up the content. Easy click through. And, on the matter of content, this is really a nice tool. Hoping it can continue to grow and have its own editorial voice. Nothin' wrong with that!
So do a number of US groceries, either independently or through a service, including Google Express (or both.)

And we had Prime Now first.
Have to put a plug in here for the Astonishing Legends, podcast they do great work and are pretty damn entertaining. I would highly recommend anyone interested in this and similar events check out their two part series on it http://www.astonishinglegends.com/portfolio/ep023-dyatlov-pa...
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All these niches need real focus. Yahoo! was built on a generalist/populist bent, which is why they initially succeeded but also why they found so hard to keep up: you simply can't be the right thing for everyone all the time, but there is also a real risk in taking your products apart. How would you manage a migration from open-to-all YMessenger to industry-specific YCommodityTradingMessenger...? You would basically have to double your maintenance costs in the short run, duplicating a lot of code, guarantee interoperability... it's a lot of work, and none of this would get the mainstream exposure Y management always craved.
> nobody ever has to go to the bathroom

My favorite movie of all time is called Stranger Than Paradise by a director named Jim Jarmusch, in part because of its original treatment of these issues. The film is peppered with subtle little moments where, for example, a kitchen cabinet doesn't close correctly, or someone doesn't hear the person they're talking to correctly and asks them to repeat themselves.
Erlang programs are typically structured around OTP-like style. In this style an executing process consists of an "upper" half, written by the user as a module of callback hooks. And a "lower" half which is reused in all components. The lower half usually doesn't "trust" that the upper half is doing things correctly.

Furthermore, Erlangs core is functional, so data is by default persistent which makes it harder for code to do "nasty" things to other parts of the code.

From a correctness perspective it makes it harder for code to mess up. From a security perspective correct code with hard error constraints is safe, leading to controlled process crashes with no memory corruption.

Of course it is no panacea, but it goes a long way toward making systems safe.
Simple solution would be to ask to do less, but make sure to frame it correctly. Since you were given more responsibility over time I'm making the assumption that the VP trusts you and your work. I'd suggest going to the VP and telling them that you're falling behind and it would be beneficial for you and them if someone else were either hired on or brought in to share the load. It's not a problem of you not being able to do the work, rather you're not able to find the time for everything.
You might not see this but I totally get what you mean. It'd be interesting to see something that broke programming down to that sort of core level. I'm sure it exists somewhere in some CS lab right?
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> Comparisons are intuitively boolean unless there's a clear reason to be otherwise

To support sorting. The result of a "comparison" does not imply the testing for equality or equivalence. I can "compare" lots of things, and my results are not strictly boolean. A "comparison" often implies one thing is "better" or "worse" or the "same" as another thing.
Another 30something here:

Just spent the past month forcing myself to understand Snapchat and I finally get it now. Took a bit, especially since the whole experience is heavily gamified. I swear the developers are huge video game junkies!

The big takeaway is that Snapchat is just much more personal and real than the text based social networks.

For those interested in trying it out I recommend.

Mark Suster => https://www.snapchat.com/add/msuster (Venture Capitalist, tech/leadership 'Snapstorms')

Justin Kan => https://www.snapchat.com/add/justinkan (creator Justin TV, now Twitch, very open in business/tech)

Here is my snapchat as well https://www.snapchat.com/add/mrelijahlynn

edit: This article got me to try Snapchat, I was a big fan of Justin TV and streamed a ton of content, including live broadcasts from the Ron Paul Blimp. http://justinkan.com/why-i-love-snapchat

Also, this article can get you up to speed on the very different UX => https://bothsidesofthetable.com/snapchat-101-for-vcs-and-old...
Communism may not be the only reason, but it is certainly a strong one. Latin America has suffered with communist/socialist sympathizing governments for a long time, even if the respective countries are not "officially" communist.

For example, here in Brazil we have more than 30 political parties, and they're almost all pretty much left-leaning, to the point that the social democratic party is labeled "right wing" and "neoliberal", whatever that means. It's pretty much 50 shades of red down here.

I never mentioned GDP until you did and don't consider it sufficient to evaluate quality of life in a country. It was you that brought it to the table.

But anyway, my original post's intent was to show the contradiction between the idea that Cuba's problems are due to the embargo (while they could still trade with every other country in the world) and the idea that trade with the US, described as "American imperialism", is the root of a country's problems. If that were the case, Cuba should be in a great situation, since they're free of the imperialists, and that is simply not the case.
The entire point of insurance is to pay based on risk. Someone with a bad driving record should, and does pay much more for insurance than a normal person. An old person should and does pay more for health or life insurance. A wooden house costs more to get fire insured than a brick building.

The point of insurance is not to let bad drivers get away with their bad driving. It's to make sure you aren't punished for bad luck. But if we can exactly predict the probability you will get in an accident, there is no luck involved, you are just a bad driver.
Everyone in your town was unemployed, had irregular shifts, and didn't have a functional fire station before Walmart came to town?

I think you're missing the nuance between "Walmart should leave," and "Walmart shouldn't have come."

Of course, we can only act on the future, so maybe the nuance is meaningless at this point.
Another example of how languages don't matter, and that developing a good enough language with all the nice ecosystem that goes with it, is a massive amount of work, that can only be accomplished by OS vendors or years of dedicated OSS contributors.

At that moment, I think most language developers should turn to LLVM to spread their languages more rapidly, rather than trying to mess around with all the realities of language making, especially when it involves statically typed and compiled languages.
This is possibly the next generation of video/audio/image codecs.

What he did was create a specialized compression algorithm that works very well to compress the data that is each frame of Blade Runner, and decompress it (lossily, like mp3) back into a video stream.

To put this into perspective: Blade Runner is 117 minutes long. At 25 frames per second, that is 175_500 frames.

As he says, the input data he used was 256x144 with 3 colour channels, meaning each frame was 110_592 bytes. This results in an input amount of 18_509 MB, uncompressed.

His neural network compresses each image down to 200 floats though, i.e. 800 bytes. So the whole movie as compressed by the NN is 132 MB.

A friend of mine who works with neural networks estimated his NN to be roughly 90MB at 256x144, so the storage needed for the movie he created is about 222 MB.

This means that if this technology can be made fast enough, and the reproduction high enough in fidelity, we could be looking at replacing compressors (Fraunhofer MP3, Lame, MP4, DIVX, JPEG) made to handle all types of input equally well; with compressors that can are so good for one specific set of data that compressor + data is smaller than anything the traditional compressors could create.

And even if its not fast enough, it can still be a very efficient compressor, trading size for CPU.

Plus, lastly, the NN itself can be compressed as well, and classic compressors can possibly be applied to the frame data.
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Hailing a cab wasn't a viable or affordable option if you lived in the vast part of the United States prior to Uber. Your options used to be 1) don't go out 2) find a designated driver 3) don't drink, or 4) drink and drive.

I've got a ton more options on how to procure food.
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Also pretty similar to React Storybook[0]

[0] https://github.com/kadirahq/react-storybook
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And why did they misspell Matrices as "Matrixes"?
I've dealt with the ogg container format a little and from what I saw it seemed quite reasonable, at least for the codecs it is typically used for, but for the sake of argument I'll assume everything in that article is correct.

In that case, ogg competes because it beats AAC on quality per unit size (low bitrate vorbis supposedly beats out low bitrate AAC at least, and I guess opus is supposed to be really good), and FLAC, which usually comes in its own container format but sometimes is distributed in an ogg, has smaller file sizes than ALAC.

I don't think AAC had much traction before it became the iTunes Store format, and ALAC remains one of the least common codecs. Both of them would have lost out to vorbis and flac. Perhaps the reason they were chosen is because they have standardized DRM solutions (at least AAC).
> say that you bought a pair of brand Y shoes. If someone then compliments you on the shoes, you are more likely to buy brand Y again, even if the compliment had nothing to do with brand Y.

What? Isn't that perfectly expected and reasonable?
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What is the ordering experience like? Do you have a set order that comes on a regular basis? Or are they one-off orders, or a mix?
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