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If your product is creating new market then consider how long will it take to close a deal. If you plan to have a MVP in 6 to 12 months and closing the sale can take up to 6 months (in our industry it can take that much) then you need ~18 months (you can start selling your idea, pitching, seeing your potential customers - in such case this time can go down). Also your money pot should pay somebody to do sales, marketing and operations for you (unless of course you do it yourself).
Maybe the reviewer was a Scot.
I've seen you make this comment before, why the vigilance?
You sure told that stranger there, tiger!

Too bad the comic went past your head. Your distraction is in your head, not in other people's behaviour. Relax, meditate, blaze it. Whichever.

PS. I took a screenshot of your post. ;)
I'm not sure if you're saying you think that Google doesn't use Docs, Sheets, etc inside of Google but that is the entire opposite of what is happening. Anything that you'd normally do in Office is done on Google for Work at Google. There really isn't any other option available.

Disclosure: I work at Google
rich people problems.
> It's a stupid idea and a slippery slope.

You have literally made a "slippery slope" argument, which is fallacious reasoning. [1]

> When everyone has a brain implant that erases the memory of the performance unless they pay for it?

The artists' reasons (according to this article) have nothing to do with copyright infringement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
Sure the press in the US is currently in a pretty bad state.

But after living in a communist country for the last five years I can tell you for a fact it can get much worse.
Sorry to hear things are more difficult. I'd love to hear specifics, if you're interested in sharing. I'd love to try to get them fixed :)

And yeah, I'm a developer advocate on GCP
Mainly because of culture differences.

Good UX/UI people don't bother to pay for their tools, like in most professions, and prefer to work in software like Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, Maya, Poser, you name it instead of constrain themselves to "worse is better" just to feel good.

So in the end, most don't feel the need to join any FOSS community and rather build their portfolio on online design galleries and magazines.
One of the authors of that paper, Matúš Chochlík, has been working on this for years. He has a pretty nice implementation that I've used successfully on a number of occasions, even though it requires a pre-compiler pass to generate the necessary data.

If I'm not mistaken, he has been working into getting the necessary data available from the compiler directly (which this paper would confirm).

Link to his existing library: http://kifri.fri.uniza.sk/~chochlik/mirror-lib/html/

Absolutely great guy, as well. Really happy to see him still working on this, year over year.

Edit: DYAC.
Why then is there no capitalist country that oppresses journalists to anything like the degree that all communist countries do?
We have considered spending some time in Thailand, but we are concerned that the fixed costs of moving (plane tickets, visa, etc.) would outstrip the month-to-month savings unless we chose to stay there for over a year.

While our project estimate could be wrong, we intend to spend much less than a year working on our prototype before we can raise.

Our potential customers are almost all in SF, NY, LA, DC, and Boston. If we stayed in America, we would not be living in any of those cities, but could travel to some of them by car.
Its a bit too far, I agree.

His right wing authoritarian base is a bit terrifying though.
AWS currently has:

- three in the US (1 in Virginia, one in Oregon, one in Northern California)

- two in Europe (Dublin and Frankfurt)

- four in Asia (Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul)

- one in South America (São Paolo)

and both Montreal and India announced. So by part way through 2017, the "numbers" would be sort of comparable but the real factors are your latency requirements, data sovereignty (hello Germany!) and the features you need (and not all features are available in all regions!).

Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine.
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> Open source won the battle of software. The next battle will be about data itself.

Not on desktop, mobile platforms, powerful IDE tooling at the Xerox PARC level, games.
I'm a big fan of python. SKimage is a pretty cool place to hang out
The quote doesn't even make sense to begin with either. I can understand that it maybe feels better, when you can keep your properties in your pocket, but ultimately you know that you will get your phone back from the locker, too, so there's no reason to get objectively more pissed off about that than about the bag.
Are you the interviewer or the candidate.
I would say the optimal solution for the last 2 depends on the total requirements - aka there is no general optimal solution.

Both concerns are about having the need for boilerplate code (either for bindings or for serialization), which is quite repetitive to write and depends on the input types.

Now the possible solutions are from my perspective:

- Write that code by hand, which is quite tedious and error-prone.

- Use some code generator tooling (like protoc) for it. However that might require you to define your types in an IDL before going to code, which leads to an extra step in the development and build process. In my experience this works really well for big teams (because you also have an extra interface documentation against which all parties can work), but it might not be optimal for small teams and rapid iterations.

- Generate the code automatically from the type definitions in your program. Either during compile-time (which would require good compiler support for extracting the relevant details and using them for code generation) or during runtime by reflection. With reflection you are most likely getting the slowest code. But iteration times should be the fastest (no need to change IDL files, run codegen tools, etc.)
You bring up a good point -- our customers will definitely take a significant time to make a sale. Ideally we will raise enough money to wait out the long sales cycle and use that time to make our product more attractive.

We definitely need a strong sales lead, but we hope to pay for that role through outside investment.

If our estimate (20 months of runway in the bank) is correct, then we should have enough time to raise capital after 12 months of MVP-building.
I agree and disagree. No, Kickstarter couldn't be a neutral platform and also do things to ensure that projects panned out.

But Kickstarter could certainly be more transparent. They (and their crowdfunders) intentionally foster the idea that consumers are just pre-ordering real products. There isn't any large disclaimer that says, "Hey, your money might just be going down a toilet! Do your homework and make sure these people are legit!!" Kickstarter wants to (and does) feel like Amazon of the future, which is cool until you realize you're buying a future that will never exist.

In the end, it's really Kickstarter that suffers the most. I'd be willing to bet that having fewer projects (through vetting, curation, or whatever) with higher consumer trust would be more profitable in the long run.
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> I get your point, it just doesn't apply to many real world situations I've seen where you don't have the luxury of just using a higher level language or a library that takes care of all these things

No, I still think your missing some of it. I am not advocating that what I said is the solution for everything.

Someone said that slicing UTF-8 strings leads to string corruption and endorsed the Python 3 frankenstien unicode type as a way to avoid it. I just gave a way of preventing that.

Now you argued that a novice programmer would fail to implement it properly. So you're comparing my method implemented by a novice programmer to a method implemented by profesional compiler writers. That hardly seems fair. :)

So my argument is that if my method were to be implemented by professional compiler writers it would prevent corrupted strings while still using UTF-8 as the internal representation.

> I basically undid all his changes, and wrapped all COBOL string splicing to call a function that always split a string at a valid position - truncating invalid bytes at the start/end as necessary.

> luckily for them they'd accidentally hired someone who had done lots of multilingual programming before.

So an expert programmer implemented a string splitting function that didn't corrupt strings. :D

> but even you made a mistake in your first example of what to do

I writing this on an iPad while watching TV and playing a game on another android tablet while looking at the wikipedia UTF-8 article on a tiny phone screen while a little white dog is trying to bite my fingers (wish I was making this up). Not exactly my usual programming environment. ;)
In case of open source licenses, the opposite of "restrictive" is "permissive", not "more free".

Yes, the BSD license has fewer restrictions than the GPL. That makes the BSD license a more permissive license, not necessarily a more free license.

The BSD license allows licensed code to be used in proprietary software but the GPL requires any derivative work to be licensed under the GPL thereby guaranteeing that the licensed code is always used in free software. Therefore, one can argue that the GPL license is "more free".
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I'm actually saddened that things like tmux and zsh are under weak licenses. The GPL is a license designed to maintain users freedom, and the authors of many programs seem to not care enough about that anymore. It's almost as though they don't realise what an innovative license the GPL was and still is.
Here's a more in-depth and easy to read guide for beginners: http://www.computerhope.com/unix/umake.htm

If you want to see some interesting/convoluted Makefiles, get a very complex, large piece of software (something from Gnome, possibly) and use autoconf & automake to generate the Makefiles, then pour through them to see how they tick.
My favorite quirk was deprecated.

Python 2.x

def function(a, (b, c)):
# pattern extract matches a strictly two-elements

Python 3.x

def function(a, b_c):
# not as clean, nor as expressive
Were you using wal mode with sqlite? It helps a lot with locking.
google cloud seems like a repackaging of internal google services which is fine but most companies don't want to migrate existing code to google's homegrown tech. the story for running postgres, oracle, mssql, spark, hadoop, kafka, etc on google cloud is vastly inferior to the same on aws where they either offer it as a managed service or someone else has done and documented the work required to do it
Maybe that just means the $150M was early too
I think its being referenced because it was brought up at a Facebook Q&A session with Zuckerberg. As in what about the rise of characters in other parts of the world. It's all good that no one is responsible right?
The next step up is userdb though, not MySql
A better title would have been 'Make 101'. Its an absolute beginners tutorial.
Same feeling but in the context of being a parent. On date nights, I usually leave my phone in the car but my wife keeps hers out in case the babysitter calls.
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It has read and execute. However, the JS file is not _executed_; it's _read_ by the interpreter. So an executable bit wouldn't matter as the file could still be read by any interpreter.
Agree with you with on the whole overblown threat thing. But this does raise the spectre of liability for the concert organisers, artists and the pouch company.

Sure, the odds of an individual getting attacked at these events is minuscule. But over time the probability of someone bring a gun into some concert is pretty high. When that happens and it transpires that people weren't able to use their phones to seek help, the class-action lawsuits could come. The obvious solution (to the organisers at least) would be to bring aircraft-level security into concerts (security patdowns, etc.).
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The dolphin kick used to be the strategy for the shorter butterfly events. Butterfly the first length, then dolphin kick pretty much the whole of the next length. They changed the rules so you could only dolphin kick so far off the glide phase
Until there are millions of records grep will win
If you are a heavy Excel user, Sheets just doesn't compare in many ways. Even for basic things such as pivot tables. The interface is just painful, and you flat out can't do certain things.

I really with that team would bring it up to feature parity similar to how Marissa Mayer grabbed everything she could from AdWords in terms of features and UI design.
I'd like to think that most people wouldn't. I'd rather run no business at all.
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A more precise title would have been 'Make 101'. I also wouldn't have read an article by that title, although (not knowing any make) I'm glad that I did read this one.
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2 shirts and 3 pairs of trousers more than most street people, who are the real minimalists of this world.
Yeah I went off a bit there. It's more about Munroe's smugness and seemingly playing to controversy for the sake of it that's so annoying.

Aside from that, it's pretty obtuse to say that something can only be distracting because I let it, and you're being fairly condescending yourself, saying I somehow don't get the comic. But I get it, you think you're cute in some sort of enlightened stoner way, so peace braj and good vibes or whatevs.
Whilst this is largely true, there are plenty of opportunities for harm from contaminated or adulterated drugs, blood-bourne disease from needle sharing, and all manner of peripheral damage from poor injection technique or inappropriate routes of administration. And, of course, the ever-present risk of overdose due to wildly varying purity.

Of course, almost all of those things apply to other drugs when injected as well, but there is some evidence to suggest long-term use, even medically, can lead to Opioid Induced Hyperalgesia[1], which is definitely not harmless.

I'm not disagreeing with you entirely, but I wouldn't paint quite such a rosy picture.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid-induced_hyperalgesia
Indeed.

If his[2] argument were amended with "... unless it affects someone else negatively"[1] then I certainly wouldn't have a problem with it. Cf. people using cell phones to text during a movie in a theater -- it's incredibly distracting and immersion-breaking for everyone else in view of the phone screen.

[1] I think he probably meant it thus, but obviously cannot know.
[2] Randall Munroe, that is.
I have experienced many bitrotted mp3s in my day. Thankfully I've been able to replace them online. As for other files? I can't recall any that are now unable to open for mysterious reasons.

I also happen to run a home file server on FreeBSD + ZFS, though I don't think that machine has ECC memory so it is still technically vulnerable to corruption.
Why is Google working on Angular 2 and Polymer?
It seems there are some ham radio operators here, I hope someone can help: I'd like to get introduced in this world, is there some guide I can read to know what I'll need to learn and which equipment I'd need to buy in order to get started?
That's called a bug bounty.
Free, that being freedom, that being liberty, is not based on the existence of restrictions. The place where everyone can enjoy freedom the most is not the jungle, nor is it the lawless land.

Freedom from oppression means that the oppressors are restricted, and you can't install your spyware and call it DRM that can't be legally removed. Freedom from coercion means that you can't coerce someone, and security researchers can live without fear of EUAL's or copyright licenses that forbid the disassembling of software. No 7-year-old girl will be sued because of art which is based on what I have made, and no one will be sent to prison because they dared to share a copy to a friend.

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I use make to manage JS and container builds. Couldn't imagine using anything else right now.
I am getting a 404 for the algo2-003, but the others work fine.
Can confirm.

I've heard that my company has been told to tighten the belt, that there are a lot of positions in the company that don't produce value to paying customers. At pretty much the same time, I'm seeing a wave of self-aggrandizing motivational posters. I think I see a connection.
It is not minimalism if it is not a choice. It is like saying couples with no access to birth control automatically love children. No, this children are likely just accidents that people endure.
I'm confused. The only adds in the Internet Archive are the ones from the original page. Either you're getting MITM'd by someone who's injecting ads, or your ad blocker doesn't deal with archived links so well.
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Traveling often has forced me to adopt this approach. I do not miss the days where I owned much more. Slimming down your possessions to a couple of suitcases worth is liberating, to say the least. Incidentally, I also live in Japan, but most apartments I have visited here are very cluttered.
> Your distraction is in your head, not in other people's behaviour.

This is absolute nonsense in many/most(?) cases. Firstly, not everybody (well, almost nobody, really) is some kind of Zen Buddhist master who can ignore everything around them at will. Secondly, we humans have hardwired unavoidable responses to certain stimuli that just cannot simply "be ignored".

(I'll happily grant that PP's example might be a tad on the "overly sensitive" scale, but the general argument in that XKCD comic doesn't stand up to scrutiny. See my other comment for details.)

I also sense a lot of condescension in your post, btw. Might want to check on that.
I'm not sure it is so common in UIs. Truncation is done by a single library function, so that's one case where it's used. Another case is for character wrapping, but that's fairly uncommon. I'm having trouble coming up with another case where it's used. Font shaping is done by a font shaping engine, which applies an enormous number of rules specific to the script in use. Text in a text editor isn't deleted according to grapheme cluster boundaries, and the text cursor doesn't fall on grapheme cluster boundaries either. These are all rules that change according to the script in use.
Advanced intelligence definitely does not require the ability to create electricity and infrastructure. Rather, it's the other way around. If you are intelligent you might be able to figure out how to make electricity and infrastructure.

Also, it is perfectly possible to create electricity without being intelligent (the electric eel, for instance).
I don't even know what it is so I wish I had looked it up first but now it's too late. Also mysql will aide in later replicating the application between different locations to ensure availability for each office.
I find myself wonder if it is a problem of human computer IO.

The minimal set of reliable human computer interface is a keyboard and a screen. going beyond that quickly add either noise, delays, or both.
A different era. Japan is not attacking the US ( or anyone else for that matter ).
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> Now you argued that a novice programmer

sigh if only it was novice programmers making these mistakes :-/
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If I had a choice, I'd prefer 4 shirts and 3 pairs of trousers.
Sorry to hear about your bad experience with GCP. In my network there are a lot of people who speak well of it, specifically with an eye to performance. Would you say your difficulties are around the APIs and processes? Or have there been misaligned expectations?
I don't see what this has to do with hipsters. The fonts are not very cool.
It depends. June, July or August?
I think the 'weasel' bit was pure underhanded snark (in a You're no foxes- you're a bunch of weasels kinda way). The original proposal within Debian was "IceRabbit"
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CNN is the biggest joke of a media company now. Their blatant bias and support for spinning false narratives and editorializing all of their headlines is disgusting. From promoting mass shootings for days on end and giving them airtime to showing 100% positive clinton headlines next to 10 negative Trump headlines, to reporting on what X____ said on social media (huh?), it's become a complete waste of time. I wish there were trustworthy, neutral, objective-as-possible BIG media with high visibility in this country that didn't pander to one interest group or the other. Not possible I suppose.
I've never met a person that regretted a single one of their children no matter how many they had or how poor they were.

If I ever do meet such a person I will gleefully judge them as a bad person.
It's very likely that it would be easier for her to kill herself with illegal drugs in jail than outside of jail.
Best to contact a radio club in your region. Try these guys: http://www.fediea.org/miembros/?call=rcb or http://www.ure.es/
> It seems to have been an enormous frustration to Alan and his colleagues that they were unable to persude hardware vendors to make such hardware at any price

No surprise there. Hardware production is frankly inherently conservative unless one is a startup (aka, nothing to lose but ones pride). This because you have all the up front cost of tooling and production runs before you even know how well something will sell.
Answer me this, does anyone have a good cross-platform method of writing Make files? I guess with Windows now having bash, I can actually just target bash scripts?
Ive been using this for a while, it's a really great project!
Verifying your infra against the inspec tests is really valuable.
What a luxury position to take. So you really can't be a minimalist unless you're wealthy enough to own a whole bunch of stuff but don't. Poor poor people, they can't even be minimalists.

> It is like saying couples with no access to birth control automatically love children.

That's like saying that couples without access to birth control can't love their children because they can't make a conscious choice. But guess what, most of them do love children. In fact, most people love children, it's rare to find someone that does not.

> No, this children are likely just accidents that people endure.

No, these children are for the most part desired, and their parents love them, just like those parents that had access to birth control.