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>Beginners need guidance. They’re dumb and they flail around and they get stuck on “easy” problems. That’s why resources like Learn Python the Hard Way and Stack Overflow exist in the first place.

No.
There's a lot, A LOT of resources online for beginners.

let the nerds run SO, it's perfect as it is for people who know what they are doing.
Stop spending so much money creating movies. They sink so much money into big action packed CGI pieces of rubbish when they could make 10 movies which have a decent story and longer shelf life for the same budget. I was on a flight recently and it was fortunate to have most new releases. I had to spend 20 mins searching to find one that I thought would actually be good. It was a long flight so I watched one or two of the recent 'blockbusters' too. While slightly entertaining I will never watch them again. If you want me to buy a movie or rent it multiple times create something with a good story. We don't need anymore superhero vs superhero movies or reboots.
Journalistic "Outing" started with OutWeek, a gay publication of the 1990s which pushed the gay agenda by finding public figures who were closeted gays and publishing stories about them. But the big change was in 1995 when the Wall Street Journal did it to the publisher of Rolling Stone magazine.[2] After that, it was almost mainstream journalism. This issue seemed to be over; the "outing" side had won. Are we seeing a reversal of that?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OutWeek
[2] http://articles.latimes.com/1995-03-10/news/ls-41090_1_jann-...
Is it? Please tell us what's the going rate for privacy then since you seem to know that that figure is not correct. What if it were you privacy? How much would it be?
Hey (zohaibility from Devstash here) congrats on getting the app out. It would be awesome if you open up source code of the app, that way people can contribute :D
> But in the last six months, the sequel strategy seems to be deflating. Several follow-ups—including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Zoolander 2, The Huntsman: Winter’s War, Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, The Divergent Series: Allegiant, Barbershop: The Next Cut, and Alice Through the Looking Glass—have “disappointed or flopped outright,”

Not surprising, they're all crap films.

EDIT: but of course, Millennials get the blame.
Yes, but if you're reading it, it's for you.
> only real world application is black markets; money transfer

Currently bitcoin is in between a commodity & a currency. Given that the R3 bank network will be more of a transfering network and btc having difficulty with scaling, I see bitcoin as a currency. It bas lots of potential uses, here are more than the ones you touched on currently:

* Pricing and purchasing conduit to all major crypto currencies.

* Crypto speculation/investment vehicle.

There are more applications than the 4 we listed but I somewhat agree with transaction vol being the metric. For all other alts and btc actual trade volume is more important than market cap. like fiat, it is based on trust and ascribed value. just because there are provable transactions and known amounts, volume & transactions are an insication of value (or perceived value) and this likelihood people begin accepting them
Except that that progress is impotent. There are several instances in the books were mugal tech is belittled as irrelevant to a world where such problems can be waved away (dentistry, flying cars etc). And wizard conflicts go on without input from mugals even where they do much of the dieing. The message is that there is a world of elites fighting battles that we illiterate peasants cannot understand. We should just trust that those who attended Eton have is all in hand.

And there is a parallel justice system akin to the ecclesiastical courts of the past whereby initiates avoid the laws governing the lay peasantry.

I would disagree with the world being racist. There is a faction that promoted blood lines, but not necessarily blood lines tied to race. It's elitism rather than racism.
It's kind of a pity that three years have passed since it arguably went mainstream (among the tech literate at least) and the most prevalent use case is still by and large speculation. Making money is cool and all but the technology had a lot more promise than this.
Likely, since even in a situation where they were the subject of a real campaign, inducing clinical degree of paranoia would very likely be an objective.
Long settlement times are a feature, not a bug. It reduces externality costs (drugs and terror) and reduces insurance costs. (reverseability)
>What would a well trained engineer do for such app?

If those were the limits of the requirements, then yes. Your job is to fill the requirements while minimizing dev costs. Sometimes that means some compromises in latency, or other aspects of UI polish.

As a dev, that's understandable. As a user, it's annoying, and I'm going to look for any option that lets me do the same thing while avoiding the annoyance. The software has to provide an overwhelming benefit to make it worth my while (e.g. my laggy banking app that lets me remotely deposit a check).

Honestly, I don't know much about UX and customer engagement or how much it hurts a company if a customer waits to get to their PC to use a service, but it seems like a concern that's often downplayed when the requirements list is being written.
Hit the nail on the head. Until Toronto can match the competitive salaries in the Bay Area I will be working in the US.
Excellent, are there any comparisons for the amount of energy used between that and a more native program? With comparisons for things like impact to cpu cache and memory?

Just throwing out a technology doesn't invalidate my point that javascript likely has a lower bound on energy and cpu/cache impact.
Most of the movies I like to watch would never be made by Hollywood today. I watch AMC and TCM and Grit, pretty much all old movies from the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s. I would bet that most of them were made for a million dollars, or less, frequently with the studio's stable of contracted actors. They could throw out a lot of different concepts, when every movie didn't have to make a billion dollars to break even.
Part of the problem IMHO is, that SO tries to be two things at once. It says, it shall be a help portal for programmers, but at the same time they want to be something like Wikipedia for programmers.

Both things do not fit well together. When you want to help others, you must allow any question that is earnest. When you want to be an encyclopedia, you have to filter questions very harshly.

Sadly, together with this, the self-moderation feature of SO attract people that are more interested in enforcing rules, instead of helping people.
#3 is an interesting option that I hadn't heard of until now. Would this option be available to remote workers? Or is it reserved only for those working with companies that have a physical office in their country as well as the US?
Back in 2009 and 2010 I used to participate heavily on SO. I asked and answered questions and it was a great resource for me.

At some point I stopped needing it, my questions became too specific and I got tired of answering the same questions. At that point I had about 20k karma points.

I've recently needed to ask a few answerable questions so I went back.
All my questions were closed or down voted and people reduced me for asking such bad questions with 25k karma.

SO is now useless unless your question fits exactly into some mold they require, ie questions someone with 2-3 years experience might ask.
Lesson learned is that if Google returns a result that doesn't appear to match your request, then ctrl-f is your friend. This applies in many areas besides programming.
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It's not an exchange. It's verbal noise. Nothing is gained by either side.
This looks like a problem that would be solved by splitting that Python manual page. All the information is there, it's just that the whole page is rather long and it's possible to miss that it is in there.
R3 offers no efficiencies over incumbent transfer systems. SWIFT/ACH/etc are far more efficient than R3. R3 seems to be figuring that out, and is rapidly pivoting from their original goals (including blockchain)
When I was getting started I occasionally got some angry responses on SO. In the end it was good for me. People were willing to point me in the right direction but when you don't even know the fundamentals they're just wasting their time and doing the work for you. If you take the time to learn the fundamentals, any basic question you have already has an answer on SO and you will be able to use it.
Nice place to pick up an online fight though (when you're up to it) :)
I don't agree. The pattern of paranoia about surveillance predates such organizations. See Tausk's famous essay: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_the_%22Infl...

Significantly, it's often the doctors who are believed to be behind the surveillance. So I think your proposal is unlikely to work.
Google X’s Andrew Conrad is developing an early disease detection system
foreign production companies have difficulties competing with the budgets, so their strategy has always been produce big budget movies for global ticket sales.

But I dont know why it has to be mutually exclusive
Well, while I agree that SO might have become a somewhat elitist plateform, maybe partly because a lot of professional developers are using their SO account to enforce their curriculum, it is not either supposed to be a kind of nursery for "wanna be" developers that happen to have a quick look on programming languages, and think SO is a forum where any question can be asked.

Sorry to say that, but I'm neither surprised nor offended by the closing of that post.
Up until this month - most of the speculation has been dead. That's why coinbase is pivoting. The majority of bitcoin is being used by people who need it in order to run their businesses.
One can't apply for H1-B. A company on your behalf has to do that. And I never heard of option 3. Do you have a link for that?
Just as the article observes, it's really ironic that many, many google searches for "how to do X in language Y" lead to questions on SO that are marked as [closed], 'not a good question', etc. Often, the accepted answer is a variation of RTFM, but sometimes with an inline code example.

Also ironic is when the question asks for help in choosing between frameworks or libraries of comparable functionality and it gets marked as [closed] 'opinion-based'. What's a good question then?

I understand that SO wants/wanted to discourage becoming just a copy-pastable repository of code snippets for common patterns, and that they also don't want to be full of thinly-veiled marketing posts about why framework X is better than its competitors. But then what content DO they want? (Rhetorical, but in-depth questions about API usage are probably the best ones to ask.)

I treat SO as read-only, and that makes it a valuable resource for me.
It has little to do with anonymity: local newspapers demand you sign off comments with your Facebook account.

The result? The only people that comment are trolls with fake account, people who have too strong opinions or don't care about their next job interview or people with "correct" opinions.

Meanwhile I rarely see anyone here or at the Ars Technica comment sections suggest we nuke one country or the other (and if anybody do we collectively moderate them beyond ground level.)
Built this a few days ago. Still rough and still working on features but would be delighted if people gave me feedback.

My aim is to help with sending out service status notifications manually when you have services specific to customers.
Not sure about the team bits, but Worms in the 2000s was basically ultra-DLC before DLC even existed. Every 'new' game for a long time kept the vast majority of the old bits from the previous games, added a few new items, and charged full retail for the privilege.
I had been participating in Stack Overflow since its public beta (though I'm not an active participant anymore), and this topic comes up every now and then, but the astronomical growth of Stack Overflow has not stopped. The composition of all-time high users are also quite a bit different from a few years ago. I am not saying there is not a problem, but I take complaints like this with a grain of salt these days.

End of the day, I think it is important to keep in mind what Stack Overflow is not: it's not Khan Academy. It's not college classes. It's not your IRC buddy. It's more like Wikipedia (but not quite exactly that) than those things. Some choices should be made to keep the content quality high.
Another related phenomenon, not the same one as is described by the article, but certainly contributing the same thing is what Patton Oswalt calls ETEWAF. [0]

ETEWAF stands for Everything That Ever Was, Available Forever. Basically, Oswalt argues that having massive easily-accessible archives of media going back decades is actually hurting the entertainment industry, because every time something new comes out, it's compared to the best of the best right away. Not only does it contribute to the "everything _must_ be part of an established franchise" attitude as described in the article, but it also hobbles new entrants in franchises by setting impossible-to-beat standards. It hurts new entrants in franchises because people treat new movies with the expectation that if it's not better than the best movie in the entire history of the franchise, it's not worth watching. And, getting back to the article's argument, it hurts non-franchise works because if something doesn't tie in to an existing decades-old pop-culture saga that everyone's archive binged on, it's not worth bothering with because it won't have the emotional connection that something in a franchise has. It's a double bind.

Another consequence is that you can't do anything unironically anymore. Every new entry into a genre has to make fun of and subvert genre tropes. They have to have characters snark "Oh, this isn't like the movies, [creature]s in the real world don't work that way!". You can't just do a straight-up action-adventure movie now because they all have to be half-comedies where the cast mocks the genre tropes as they unfold.

As much as I love being able to do huge archive binges of my favorite things, it's ultimately going to kill the ability to produce anything new. Honestly, I just want some straightforward pulpy entertainment where nobody cares about either fitting in with past material or defying past material.

[0] http://www.wired.com/2010/12/ff_angrynerd_geekculture/
The StackOverflow question given as an example is a terrible question.

Odds are that neither the person asking the question or the person who wrote this blog post realize how big the subject is, but since the question just says "tell me everything and I'll figure out if it's relevant," there really is no good way to answer, other than a link to the doc page and a little prodding along the lines of "what are you actually trying to do?"
The companies that are trying to fill the void are following the rules. That facebook group is working outside of the law; some of the rides are probably illegal, and if it continues for long, it'll likely get cracked down on a bit.

Before rules were formalized for pedicabs and for electric cabs (which happened at different points in Austin history), the drivers worked for "donations" to avoid some of the legal trouble of selling rides without being licensed to do so. So, it's likely that the "donation-based" rides are skirting the law (though riding pretty close to the edge of it, and the e-cab company had a variety of run-ins with the city over that while they were sorting out the legality of the thing). The ones with a set price probably aren't legal, at all.

I know the fellow who owns the electric cab company in Austin, and I know a lot of pedicabbers. Those folks pushed the barriers to entry way down over the years, to the benefit of everybody wanting to offer ride services in Austin. The process is so much less onerous now than it was a decade ago, and, most importantly, it almost entirely stopped favoring traditional cabs a couple years ago. Everyone has cooked up a silly conspiracy theory where the taxi companies wield tremendous influence over city council; with the new 10-1 city council that's an absurd suggestion (Austin effectively ousted its entire city council and started over from scratch a couple years ago, with district-based council membership...it'd be pretty difficult to buy the current city council). I don't even believe it was a valid criticism of the old city council (I had many nasty things to say about the old city council, but being corrupt generally wasn't one of them).

The TNC debate has pushed the barrier to entry down a little further, and that's a good thing in a city with very poor mass transit. But, and this is a big but: We really need to acknowledge that Uber/Lyft were not asking for equal treatment to cabs; they wanted special treatment that would make it harder for cabs, pedicabs, and e-cabs, to compete with them (because they would all be subject to the old rules, and only TNCs would be exempt).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Andrews_Drake

At the July sentencing hearing the presiding judge, Richard D. Bennett of the Federal District Court, issued harsh words for the government, saying that it was "unconscionable" to charge a defendant with a list of serious crimes that could have resulted in 35 years in prison only to drop all of the major charges on the eve of trial.[61] The judge also rejected the government's request for a large fine noting that Drake had been financially devastated, losing his $154,600 job at the NSA and his pension.
I'd respect him more if he had the nerve to do his "politically incorrect" impression of Serge Kovaleski to his face on stage during a live broadcast of SNL, just the way John Belushi performed his Joe Cocker impression, instead of cowardly lying after the fact that he didn't know the reporter he was making fun of was disabled.
Maybe SO could better integrate this type of thing with results. Example: "Your question is simple but I know this great starter guide or Book on Amazon that can help you find your way".
Perhaps I misunderstand your remark, but AWS (2006) predates Hacker News (2007). According to Wikipedia, that is.
dang, this looks like it might be good but it seems to be down
At this point I would rather go to reddit (reddit!!) with technical questions instead of stack overflow.
I think it's a bit like Wikipedia: the more you hang around, the less you like it. It's understandable though; after the 12324th question that basically boils down to "please do my homework", even a saint would lose his shit. It's the inevitable fate of every "beginners' resource", from IRC to forums, in the long run.

Personally, I had decent experiences in most cases. I never got over the fact that it refuses to become the de-facto point of reference for stacks, i.e. questions like "what are the best web libraries for $language", "what is the best practice for deploying $framework" are brutally rejected. And it's a shame, because those would have helped immensely -- it's very easy to learn a language, but it's really hard to figure out what you should use from the surrounding ecosystem.
Am I the only one who thinks Thiel should be left out of the story of Gawker and HH sextape? In the light of a lawful verdict his motive of bankrolling the lawsuit is completely irrelevant. The only discussion where Thiels involvement is relevant is the one about how a commoner (or millionaire in the case of HH) needs a help of a samaritan/avenger billionaire to get justice.
The problem is that most users are not reading the FAQ and they don't use Google nor the search function on SO itself. This leads to the frustration of the experiences users who see a lot of malformed/unanswerable/duplicate questions. I see this every day. I usually don't comment and just vote on "close" silently but there are some users who are openly communicate their frustration and honestly they have a reason. I think that SO should come up with some NLP solution which filters out those questions and informs the offending users that their question is problematic. I have asked a LOT of questions on SO (136) and if I follow the guidelines I ALWAYS get quality responses. The problem IMHO is the lazy newbies who don't bother to read the guidelines / FAQ.
Yeah, this is really a Python Doc fail, rather than SO fail.
It is interesting that they think that would work. For me personally it would simply mean that i would not buy stuff from them, as they are unable to accept my money. AKA they would lose 100% of the revenue compared to 1-2% or whatever the percentage is.
Florida doesn't really prohibit it though. The last sentence of the the relevant statute is "This section does not apply to the offering of a discount for the purpose of inducing payment by cash, check, or other means not involving the use of a credit card, if the discount is offered to all prospective customers."

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...

As a Florida resident I can tell you that if there is any enforcement of this, I've never seen it. It's very common to see verbiage like 'must pay x% if using credit' or 'credit cards additional $x', especially in non-chain restaurants. Some gas stations just list two prices. I don't like it, but I am not going to carry cash around so it's just how it is; I was almost denied service at a restaurant once for pointing out that their credit surcharge was not legal.
Google really tried to unlearn this a couple of years ago.

Back when any question you would ask would have at least 20000 answers it seemed only the pages never contained the text, they only where in the index because of some link with that text.
Interesting. I haven't noticed movies bashing me over the head with liberal views, but I'm not conservative so I might just be oblivious to it. Do you have any examples?
Bitcoin is heavily subsidized via newly minted bitcoins that are awarded to miners. The real cost per transaction is closer to $10.00

https://blockchain.info/charts/cost-per-transaction
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/32923
This exemplifies why I've always been mystified by those that say Perl is line noise, but don't seem to have a problem with C. It's obvious to me that what one considers hard to read code, or colloquially as "line noise", is greatly impacted with how familiar one is with a language and the idioms of that language being used in the code in question.
I do generally agree that Stack Overflow as a community is too enthusiastic about closing down some questions. It's always particularly frustrating to Google for some weird error message and find a Stack Overflow discussion which has been killed off because the question was inappropriate :)

But, that said… I'm not sure this is a particularly convincing example of this phenomenon. This is an example of something which can easily be found by reading the documentation, and I'm not convinced that Stack Overflow is the correct place to ask for other people to do your research for you! In individual cases I don't doubt that it's fine, but I imagine it gets frustrating to deal with repeated questions of this character, especially when we now have the benefit of such easily-accessible online documentation.

There is a balance to be struck, I guess. No reason to be rude even when silly questions are being asked.
> What's a good question then?

Read the FAQ and you will know.
Good point. The Python manual pages are actually rather long-winded, and try to intersperse narration with sporadic usage examples. It's too long-form to be a reference, and too context-free to be a tutorial. I'm not surprised Python questions are so frequent.