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Remember the European Constitution that failed a few years ago? (At least the three hundred page document that they were calling a constitution.) I was shocked when my German friends mentioned that the German people would certainly have voted no, but they never got the chance. The German legislature voted for it, and that was it. Apparently most Europeans had no direct vote up or down for that constitution. And when it finally failed, it came from one of the countries that got a direct referendum.

But then thinking back to the US Constitution, it was voted in by the state legislatures without a direct vote, too. Somehow that seems OK back then, but an affront to democracy in today's world. How times change.
My first impression of the result was shouldn't there be a requirement for a larger difference than 1 - 2% for something like this to pass? A majority of at least 65% for example? I don't know what I'm talking about really but that seems logical, what do you all think?
I'm having trouble seeing how this is actually different from a normal generational collector to begin with in practice (as opposed to implementation details).

The differences I read into it are:

- There is one heap rather than a young and tenure heap, but tenured objects are marked as such.

- Rather than moving an object from one heap to another, the write barrier tags the object being written to a tenured object (and presumably all its children). Not all collectors move actively (as opposed to lazily at collection time) to the tenured heap, but I'm pretty sure it has been done.

- 'Young generation' collections happen at a specific time: when a goroutine terminates, and happens more or less like a quick version of a semiheap copying collector, in that it just drops all objects not marked reachable.

So there is interesting stuff in there, and it seems like a very appropriate approach for an event-driven environment, but it still seems like a generational collector to me.

Also, I'm confused how the separation of the goroutines is maintained in this heap. When a goroutine advances its current pointer, what happens if it bumps into another goroutine's initial pointer?
Democracy works just fine, but it needs _some_ responsibility or bad stuff happens.

These last 5-10 years have been horrible for the EU. On the hight of this current migration crisis, the UK decides to hold their election.

If I didn't know Cameron was pro EU, I'd see it as a completely UKIP-skewered dickmove. The UK is letting go, just as the "tug-of-war" gets even more hairy.

There's a lot to be critical about with the EU, but going our separate ways isn't the solution for Europe vs the world. And at the height of this crisis it is just... cowardice? I don't know.
>> "Get real. Stopping at a checkpoint is not going to drive an bid for reunification."

No need to be condescending. Border controls are one issue. I didn't say they were the only one. Today's decision is going to cause many issues for Northern Ireland and if a persons daily life starts to get affected by the decision they might eventually be willing to put to the side their built-in unionist/nationalist mentality and figure out what's actually best for the people. I don't know what that is but ruling out unification or independence would be silly.
"You might find your conversations work better if you respond to what people are actually saying rather than repeating yourself"

You're going to seriously say that after your last few posts? Two posts into this exchange, you moved the goalposts, and you hammered that button repeatedly.

But at least you actually looked at the proof you repeatedly demanded, even I had already mentioned the pages. You didn't bother reading much of it, or to note that goes well beyond a couple scripts on that page to other incomplete scripts and as-yet entirely unimplemented scripts. But you at least made that minimum effort.

And the limited time to work on these things is exactly the issue. There are scripts not yet in the standard and major language scripts that aren't complete - but we've got "pile of poo" and a slew of emoji. And now, we've got four power button icons that a handful of people demanded.
I believe the EU has already put out a statement saying they want the exit to happen quickly, and they don't have any desire to renegotiate.
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Depends on the number of unionists who are more pro-EU than pro-UK. It's not as likely as Scotland leaving (which is very likely), but I suppose it could happen.
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I've had the same "flashback" for a financial account site I inherited. Offshore work done in a hurry...

In fairness, though, it's hard to constantly be on your guard NOT to EVER update something that might be visible to another concurrent request. It's interesting that the MS web app model for .NET was to make a new instance of the service code for a page for each request, to at least avoid this problem the moment you "walked in the front door".

TL;DR:

shared.setState( "Oops!" );
Except light roasting preserves a higher caffeine content. So this method is objectively more efficient as a stimulant delivery mechanism.
> We haven't figured this shit out yet. Kings anyone? How about the best wrestler gets to be in charge? ideas?

As a Swiss citizen, I think the swiss system is very close to perfect in this regard.

Sure, emotional and stupid arguments sometimes prevail, but most of the time the people make the perfect decision. Public discourse is most often also very rational, more so than most world parliaments.

Irrational arguments have been a staple of especially the British political system. I am amazed at the low level of discussion in the UK even by their representatives.

Direct democracy is something that has to be done regularly, otherwise you end up with situations like the UK or California.
It's not exclusive to the Japanese because I've been doing this my whole life.
> Can someone explain what happens next?

People can guess, but there's a lot of uncertainty on some points.

> Will UK really leave the EU?

Most likely, as I understand it, the next British government will formally start the (at least) two year process of exiting the EU. In the short term, they are still in the EU.

> Will EU ask them to leave or just wait for UK to initiate the process?

As I understand, under the applicable treaty, the UK has to formally initiate the withdrawal process. The EU has asked them to do so without delay, which is what Cameron had promised before the vote, but Cameron has since said that he plans to leave that to the next PM.
As one of the better performing companies in this study, I can attest that preserving the quality of our support as customer count grows is really hard.

But response time is just one, quite imperfect, metric. I wouldn't draw conclusions on that. We don't prioritize support based on customer $ value, and in my experience, customer support from our vendors never seems to be correlated to how much we spend!
This is nothing new, the Laetrile crowd has never gone away. A good rule of thumb is that a good crackpot idea never dies, it just finds fewer adherents over time.
There's a fair amount of work on voice over IP and packet switched networks that predates (by a wide margin) 1994, including connections to the PSTN.

For example, see: https://www.ll.mit.edu/news/ieee-milestone-packetspeech.html

And: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephen_Casner/publicat...

And: https://qos.ittc.ku.edu/research/thesis/documents/michael_to...

etc.
> liberal enlightenment - not so much.

Colonialism? Or else why does the UN extend throughout the globe?
the older generations can show up on voting day because they don't have to work
Off topic but interesting: Queen City is also uses to refer to Manchester New Hampshire. I was curious so I found a Wikipedia entry that lists all the cities with that name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_City

Maybe save some people some Googling.
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I can't link directly to districts on this page but have a look at /Westmidlands/Wallsall and /westmidlands/wolverhampton.

I don't know but I suspect a fair number in those towns will have joined in with friends/family as part of the general mood.

Petrol price rises coming through soon unless you guys all start buying sterling again. Some companies have hedged their supplies but others buy only a few days forward. Priced in $ of course.
Cool site. Keep up the good work!
What prominent lies from Remain? There was a lot of what people were calling scaremongering, but if you look at the markets it looks like it was pretty accurate. I've seen thorough takedowns of blatant lies from Leave, but haven't seen anything similar for Remain.
Well it won't be old people and such, a population with very low digital knowledge/presence and deep gaps of real life knowledge.
The title is written such that they would have you believe it's the people who voted to leave the E.U. who are doing the Googling.

How does WP know it's not the other way around? It could be it's all the people who voted to stay...
So when googling something is an indication of what people actually know??

This only tells you what people were looking for not what articles they read or what conclusions they drew from the actual articles they read. We have truly jumped the ship if people are drawing conclusions based solely on what people are searching for in Google.

Here's your sign. . .
Intuitively, it seems sub-optimal (for Americans and Canadians) to send your backup across the Atlantic ocean - probably slower than something on the same continent.
I should have placed quotes around "alt-right" as there's not much "alt" in "alt-right" either.
Third wave coffee isn't soylent.
This is such a weird, pedantic definition of 'empty'. When people say a place is settled, they don't mean there is no room for another human being.

Europe was also mostly empty in this sense in the 1930s. Why was there this big war, the Germans could have just walked into those big empty spaces in the Ukraine and built some farms.
Bunny hopping adds a skill floor to the game competitively because everyone who can't do it simply gets blown out. You cannot compete without being able to master this skill. That's a skill floor.
No, It's really not.
The short answer is no, because the population demographics is not changing that rapidly.

Also, More Mexicans Leaving Than Coming to the U.S.
Net Loss of 140,000 from 2009 to 2014; Family Reunification Top Reason for Return http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/11/19/more-mexicans-leaving-...

PS: But don't let facts get in the way of your preconceived notions.
I guess I don't know what you mean by Hellenised and 'child of classical antiquity'. I either wholeheartedly agree or think there's a categorical error (maybe surrounding the definition of Christianity) in your thought.
Democracy is fine. The intellectual class just needs to learn to respect it. There is pretty much nothing that deserves to be decided by the will of the people--their values, their emotions, their world views--than the question of "what body politic do I want to belong to?"

The deep irony of the anti-Brexit narrative is that the same people would froth at the mouth if you said "India would've been better off economically if it hadn't separated from the British Empire." Whether or not that's true, it's an argument--like the anti-Brexit rhetoric--misses the point completely.
While I find it interesting, I would be more interested in seeing the times of these companies when you are a paying customer. I expect faster responses, but I would not get surprised if some took ages..
Switzerland is also much smaller than the UK or California in most respects.
Ooh, good point. Gibraltar is a very interesting case. As far as I understand, they really strongly want to stay in the UK and not join Spain, but they also really strongly want to stay in the EU, presumably because of Spain.

That's a tough one. No idea how that will turn out. In my mind, I now see lots of bits and pieces of the UK becoming parts of Scotland.
Simply put, there never was austerity in most of Europe. That's a propaganda line to simultaneously cover the lack of economic growth for nearly a decade, and to use as an excuse to acquire a larger State through even greater spending.

You can go line by line down the list of European countries and their government expenditures. Only a few of them reduced spending, most have increased spending. In actual fact, only two or three nations experienced any real austerity, but they all pretend to have.

What they're really experiencing, is the total suffocation of economic growth by extreme debt. The exact same thing Japan has been enjoying for a quarter century.
"The Citizens of America, placed in the most evitable conditions, as the Sole Lords and Proprietors of a vast tract of Continent,comprehending all the various Soils and climates of the World, and abounding with all the necessaries and conveniences of life, are now by the late satisfactory pacification, acknowledge to be possessed of absolute freedom and Independancy. They are, from this period, to be considered as Actors on a most conspicuous Theatre, which seems to be peculiarly designed by Providence for the display of human greatness and felicity" -- George Washington, shortly after the Treaty of Paris (1783)

Even if manifest destiny was not primary in the hearts and minds of a majority of colonial American citizens, their most potent leader saw it as the common bond that would unite the colonies.
It sounds like the author didn't have experience with larger systems

In actual _large_ systems like Facebook or Google you explicitly keep runtime applicaiton configuration info out of the config management system and use another system entirely to manage that. This lets you easily manage test/deploy, shard services easily, and do rolling deployments with config info updated instantly across the fleet if necessary.
what part of California are you referring to?
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interesting work. if I am understanding correctly, you are essentially using the randomness generated by the scheduler to produce art pieces. do you have a public link to your work?
This will no doubt give Trump some twitter scale ammo, given his bickering with the UK, who discussed banning him.
It may sound silly, but here's a few:
* extra customs checks, even if there is no customs rate
* different VAT procedures from the common market
* courier and postal services delivering strictly within the EU, or charging a premium for dealing with the barriers of delivering outside of it

Apart from that, anecdotally, even within the EU, we noticed that UK customers were strangely much less informed about SEPA bank transfers (between € accounts, within EFTA) than even non-EU EFTA members.
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I can't speak for the ethics of the other members of the management team, but I think it's unreasonable to assume that the decision was made for any other reason than necessity.

It may be that the decision to hire new people a week earlier was out of optimism that moving to the bay area was not going to be necessary.
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https://www.facebook.com/WTFlockNews/videos/1132580646806052 Nigel Farage made direct, public claims that the "money going to the EU" would be redirected to the NHS. An hour after the referendum he went on TV claiming that his adverts aren't what he said. This is just the most recent, flaming pile of noxious vomit to come from him but not the only one.

EDIT: I completely misread the parent post. My bad! :)
> I'm getting tired of hypocrisy being held up as the ultimate sin.

I didn't say it is the ultimate sin. So should it not be criticized and pointed out? It is like saying "well murder is worse than theft, so don't talk about theft". That's not how it works. I think every culture and society has a strong bias against hypocrisy and it is a popular topic in folk stories and culture (say making fun or criticizing hypocrites).

Just like many pointed out at a core character flaw in the author -- he was stealing food and not abiding by the NDA, implying they probably would not want to be friends them or work wit, because there is an integrity issue (which I agree with), hypocrisy is the same way -- it points to a flaw deeper issue at the core. If it is of a company, it points to a structural or culture issue.

> Expecting people to be 100% consistent 100% of the time is ultimately silly.

Just like people in power are watched, criticized and held to a higher standard, so are companies. With people say, you might care if US president is doing cocaine or likes stealing from department stores, but you might not care as much if someone you never heard across town does it. Why? Because those in power, when they corrupt, they can cause a lot of damage. I was a bit extreme in the sample, but think about this one as well -- someone who holds nuclear launch codes should not believe that the world was created 4000 years ago. This can happen in US and is worrisome right?

And it is the same with companies. A company like Google which control, manages, stores and handle a large amount of world's internet and data traffic, having "minor" integrity issues is a huge deal. Some 2 person company who is spamming everyone with Viagra emails, is doing a lot worse, but nobody cares about that, because they don't have any power or influence.

> This applies even to the parent-child relationship

Agree on principle, in general here. But that is a bit odd case, mostly because it turn the "company is a family and is like careful watchful father, looking after its children". There is something very jarring about that to me.

> Same thing for a company and culture. You have to preserve the culture, and if that means ejecting people who mean to do it harm

I think the debate is about culture and the artist pointed towards what the culture might be. I think they are trying to say there is a problem with it.

> As for the 'Don't Be Evil' - lots of people at Google still believe in this.

Of course. The best PR is the one that is bought internally. Assigning high ethical standards and morality to companies is the problem here isn't it. The fact that many seemingly bright, analytically minded people bought into it is a bit worrying.
This is anecdotal, but my 8-year old daughter found it quite intuitive to learn programming based on message passing (on Scratch).
> Or is leaving the EU a one-way thing?

It's possible to get readmitted, but only with the consent of every single member state.
So in other words, a lot like most of the media then. As well as quite a few university students and most politicians.
This is basic tooling vs intelligence. One company sells an appliance/tool with a specific application. The human does the thinking and the tool does what he/she says. The the other sells an intelligence that picks the tool for you. This integrates the tool and decision making upstream into the brain. It also scales as problems get more complex and the user wants to make decisions through abstraction.

One of those is a bet on optimising for the future, the other for the present.

On another note using implied insults is not really in the spirit of hackernews. It significantly reduces the quality of your comment. Many of us here do work for both of these companies and have a strong respect for each other's work.
How many apps open maps? I've always seen apps embed a map, sometimes with apples, sometimes with google's
Soylent is an objectively more efficient beverage than third wave coffee because it is more nutrient complete!

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Some voter demographic info - http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36616028

- Rural areas mostly voted to leave

- Younger voters voted to stay, but turnout by younger voters was lower

- Of 30 areas with the fewest graduates (I assume this means college? wasn't clear) 28 voted to leave
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When it comes to politics, intelligent and rich people have proven themselves just as capable of blunder as the simplest common man. Just switch the ignorance for a sincere belief in things that aren't true.
Plato was always cautious of Democracy. If you are interested I would recommend give his "Republic" a read.
As someone with no dog in this fight, I have to say that many of the pro-stay comments here are dismissive, arrogant, and the epitome of hand-waving "we know best and everyone who disagrees with us is stupid or evil." It's an ugly and insular attitude that is itself usually a sign of ignorance of the other side's arguments and motivations. As a dev, I find it hard to believe that someone who can be so easily blinkered and so dismissive of others is going to be able to show flexibility and humility in their code and engineering decisions.

And maybe you're just that good at compartmentalizing, but I wouldn't want to risk bringing someone like that onto my team. How can you work with people who you think are stupid and ignorant when they disagree with you, even when you won't explain your reasoning? And how will you ever be able to switch sides and admit you may have been wrong when you state your initial position in such absolutist terms?
Probably Marin.
A local coffee shop does this and the results are excellent. As he suggests it maintains crisp aromatics. They use a special double walled vessel with ice separated from the coffee so it doesn't become watered down. The taste is very good.

That said, so is that shop's cold brew, espresso, and pour overs. I think quality of ingredients and the attention to detail they pay is more important than the specific technique. To me this is more like getting your sourdough in a boule vs a baguette than a "stop drinking cold brew" experience.
It already has!

This comment -- https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3721#issuecomment-...
There are other axes of comparison besides moral reprehensibility.
They're referring to California's statewide referendum system so the answer would be "all of California".
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> She has lobbied Congress and The Senate at the federal level and written a state bill (with 2 other high school students) that passed and was signed by our governor.

At least doing auch lobbying and drafting was possible. This would be unthinkable in the EU. The disconnect to even the highly involved politically aware person in the EU to the power structures is huge. In manu cases purposefully and by design so. After all, the EU was born oit of a price pact essentially stablished though conglomerate economic interest. (steel, coal, electricity, transport, machinery).
the general public is too dumb to vote on matters like this. This is when democracy fails. Remember, Hitler was elected as well.
Well, in my case specifically, it was a program that generated coloured images based on a set of simple rules (namely, don't reuse the same RGB colour for any pixel & try to be as close to the colour of neighbouring pixels as possible). I wrote a brief overview around the time I finished the first version[1].

More recently, I wrote a new routine which generates several of those and then averages the RGB channel values on a per-pixel basis, and then repeatedly re-averages the original images with those average images to create more "generations." I haven't written anything up about that because the code required to sum and average pixels in a PNG is significantly less interesting.

[1] https://medium.com/@kapuramax/procedural-image-generation-in...