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The finance industry where F# shines is willing to invest, I suppose. OCaml e.g. is backed by Jane Street and F# is even simpler in that regard because the hardest part is efficient runtime which is for F# is .NET - already done well by MS. But what some corp willing to invest in tooling for F# could do while MSVS is closed source and is not most transparent IDE in the world to say the least wrt plugins.

> too proud to admit their flagship language from their high-profile hire

That's acute while we know that high-profile hire's past victories (Turbo Pascal, Object Pascal, Delphi) were never about the language, but about incredibly polished IDE, compiler, libraries and runtime.

> yet it's still a novelty for, as MS has said "scientific and engineering" applications

MS marketing wisdom is overrated, to say the very least. Look at Tablet PC. Windows XP Tablet PC Edition released in 2001. Ink APIs are all way through Windows SDK since back then. And they never realized that stylus thing is something more than just a 'uhm, you can draw a kitten, maybe?'. At least they never articulate anything more than that in any promotion campaign. And now Apple released iPad Pro and will eat the TabletPC-Covertable-Surface market.
I don't think a responsible person can possibly vote for a major party candidate. Doing so just results in the same powerful interests remaining entrenched.

There's always the "oh no what if so and so gets elected" but it always turns out that any major party candidate does pretty much the same stuff once elected. Obama continued and extended the Bush Doctrine on foreign affairs, for example.
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Helium [...] is critical to [...] MRI scanner

Is that still the case, now that high-temperature superconductors are available, which work just fine while being cooled with much cheaper liquid nitrogen instead of requiring liquid helium?
The idea of 2π as symbolic entity in its own right, should be easier to accept than τ.

Introduce a single symbol that joins 2 and π, a bit like the Jupiter symbol (http://unicode-table.com/en/2643/), and pronounced 'two-pi'. Like τ it also starts with a T, for turn.

That would be totally backward compatible in reading, writing and speech.
I see this all the time in our PRs:

UtilHelper.processItems(List<object> items) : List<object>
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/
I remember clearly when we finally drone-bombed the 9/11 attackers to dust, what a glorious day that was. wait, what?
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Servo is using zero-copy parallel parsing of html, css and parallel rendering, right? Is it trying to reduce in-going data duplication?
Any insiders (actually understanding this questions ;) who can comment on this?
So many things wrong with this argument. The biggest mistake is the idea that there is no competition. Of course there is, the telecoms are still competing with each other to get these agreements with the landlords.

Still the renter lacks a choice right? Not so fast. If internet is so important to you, as OP tries to make the case with questionable statistics near the top, then choose a building with internet you like.

The world is not Burger King where everything is have it your way. There are a finite number of Oreo flavors and yet no one is writing blog posts demanding their congressman do something about it.
Can't we put hydrogen in our balloons?
I've found the class of "doctors HATE him" banner ads to be worse than broadcast TV ads. A Kia Sorrento ad will at least have some pretty scenery.
Or rather more simply - do code reviews and decide on which of these things you want to include and teach everyone about:

a) the agreed way

b) other code they haven't worked on

in the process. Finally if you know someone else will be reviewing your code you'll produce better code in the first place.
More than two parties is not that great either. At least here in the USA you need to win a majority of the electoral college to win the presidency or else congress will elect one for you.
I believe the implication is we are less than '5 minutes to midnight'
We are supposed to fear the Chinese? Russians? The citizens of those nations should perhaps fear those governments, but the typical American has nothing whatsoever to fear from them.
Part of it is because the US government directed the reserve to sell Helium off to pay it's debt.

We were using Helium decades ago though, I'm not sure why the price has always been cheap enough to justify using it as a party favor. One would think it would follow a typical supply/demand curve at some point.
> And you characterise this as a failing of the other party (the bank)?

Yes. And not only that. I would go as far as saying that it is the failing of the German system in general. Heck I am being too nice here. The way everything is structured in Germany is based on one idea and one idea only. The German worker > all others. Nationalistic pride at its best.

Why would bank employees speak English when dealing with foreign business consultants? its 2016, the world should speak German by now instead!!!

It is beyond me that in 2016 English literacy in Europe's biggest economy is basically 0. In fact, I speak 4 languages and all of them were useless there. Go figure...
There is lots of it now, so the market price is low. The reason that this is a problem is that compared to other raw materials like oil, there is basically nothing that can be used as an acceptable substitute for helium in its scientific/industrial uses. Also, the prospects for finding new helium reserves is much lower than for many other materials.
Are those accounts tax exempt, or tax deferred? The equivalent in the US is called a 401k, which is just tax deferred. Still shifting wealth, so I suppose we're talking shades of gray.

Anyway, I'd just as soon do away with market-distorting tax code like tax-advantaged retirement accounts, mortgage interest deductions, etc and just lower the marginal rates accordingly.
You're asuming that the ones that didn't vote would have the same distribution as those that did.

Instead, maybe they actually were apathic, and their votes would be roughly 50-50 - so Leave could still win.
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> overuse models from programming when thinking about other aspects of the world

Arguably we already do this when we try to map problem-domains to class-hierarchy structures (OOP)...

When/if we see these flaws and start using general data structures to model the world, we'll have moved forward...
So we shouldn't have done anything after all the major terror attacks in the past decade ? You need to elaborate more on your general point.
Has nothing to do with the point being made.
Much appreciated but I have contacted my lawyer and he should take care of that. Thanks for the offer though :)

edit:

> Regarding contract issues: Let me tell you about random mails in Hebrew that I still get every now and then or my time in Israel, Tel Aviv, trying to get a bank account.. :-)

haha I guess we are on the same boat then!
Newbie here. How is possible encription without sharing keys? Any example?
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You misunderstand what Americentrism is. It is about the presumption of US morals and standards when judging other countries and cultures. Some would say that your use of the word "America" to describe the United States is itself Americentrism.
As you can see, if there is zoning, it’s often decided together with the developer – and has building heights, shape of roof, amount of floors and windows, etc already included.

Generally, the largest difference is that we just zone 90% of what we zone as mixed use, and let the market decide what it’ll be.
I migrated a droplet from Singapore to Bangalore on the 12th. It hosts a site that was averaging ~ 15k page views per day, predominantly Indian traffic (banking recruitment guide). Since then, the traffic has been rising steadily and yesterday crossed an all-time high of 26k page views. (No other changes made to the site)
Any particular reason? A brand new Cayman is pretty high on my dream car list.
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Cameron did not say that. He said "Can we be so sure peace and stability on our continent are assured beyond any shadow of doubt? Is that a risk worth taking?" which is absolutely valid. It is forty years since there was a fascist government in Spain, 30 years since half of Europe was run by authoritarian communist regimes, 20 years since there was genocide in Kosovo, and a war in Ukraine is still ongoing. The EU has been absolutely vital in stabilizing the continent over that timescale. Croatia and Serbia were involved in a civil war where 20,000 people died within our lifetimes, and Serbia will probably join Croatia as a member of the EU within the next decade, with open borders between he countries and guaranteed rights for minority groups. Cameron's comments were absolutely reasonable.
But as you just pointed out, regulations are more likely to help big corporations by stifling competition, allowing them to snowball as is the natural consequence of competition free capitalism.
Potable water is not expensive everywhere.

Also, laying a second, redundant network of water pipes so that we can flush with "gray water" would be ridiculously costly.

In buildings that can recycle their own water, gray water systems work, but it's a whole new problem to retrofit buildings with one.
They share data between governments to avoid local privacy laws... I think that the laws need to be updated to reflect that.
I can only guess that the price of replacing an MRI scanner is more than the expected difference in operating cost of nitrogen vs helium. Everything I know about MRI suggests that the machine itself is fairly pricy.
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I've been to farmer's markets where this is essentially what they've done.

One problem is that the space is so large. I really like the idea of these become community centers, though I'd prefer the small downtowns get their identity back.
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I enjoyed this 2014 blog post on how they avoid use-after-frees by design, by letting SpiderMonkey have responsibility for all DOM garbage collection:

https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2014/08/26/javascript-serv...
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Your reprieve may be coming.

Leverage has allowed retailers to grow faster than normal, but it can also swing back and shrink them at an even quicker pace.
You can get a lot off rom chips, it's always the second thing I go for after serial ports- and if you run into a password on the serial port, than it's probably (often hardcoded) in the rom.

Sometimes they don't include headers and the like, so looking up a pinout and soldering to the IC helps in that case too- tapping into the serial connections between chips can reveal a lot too.
You have little to no experience in writing a scientific paper, little experience in reading papers, and I don't know your field or if you're reading bottom-tier papers or high quality papers.

I'm therefore not sure what to make of your response. Is it just a complaint to the universe or do you want something specific?

Because I can complain about crappy papers until the cows come home. But that's a well-worn story that doesn't interest anyone. Even me. Everyone complains about it. Here's a 1962 paper in my field on the very topic: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/c160006a001 . Here's a book on the topic: https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Science-Robert-Goldbort/dp/03... . Here's a cartoon from PhD Comics: http://www.nature.com/scitable/ebooks/english-communication-... (or see http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=405 for a translation guide; PhD comics touches on this topic often).
What's with the attitude? Calm down. They've only said they're more careful online (a good thing), not that they're actively trying to avoid government-level surveillance.
I never was a weight weenie in my cycling. I never understood the obsession.

Humblebrag: I could bunny hop my 28 pound trial bike 2 ft, and sidehop 30 inches too.
You could use messenger.com with a desktop user-agent. That site works fine on a phone screen.
Microsoft Azure had already (Edit: actually three) datacentres in India:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/regions/

This completely confirms the region as a technological hub moving forward.
Can you actually extract a significant amount of Helium from atmospheric air? I was under the impression that it was far more likely to escape into space because it's so much lighter than the other gasses in our atmosphere.
Using tau would uglify euler's equation, wouldn't it?
Sounds like you need to split your methods/files into smaller single-purpose chunks.
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Because the willingness to pay an helium balloon to a kid is higher than in most helium use-cases. (=> The added value per volume is way higher).

And there is also no - safe - cheaper alternatives.

That's how free market works !
Which is negative when it comes to FTL...
Yep, fortunately I had about 3 months, but in retrospect it was too close for comfort and I should have had more saved (was at about the worst time for me--just added six figures of debt due to grad school). Whether it's 3 months or 6 months or 12 months, the point remains: If you can't afford to lose your job, you will do crazy things and work insane hours just to keep it.

The other thing to consider, which only applies to crazy countries like the USA, is that losing your job also means losing your health insurance, which can be a significant risk to your life. Sure, there's COBRA, but it's super-expensive, and should be factored in when calculating how much you need in savings.
is_emtpy and make_empty are just going to irritate every C++ programmer in the business, since all the STL containers use empty and clear.
Typically, but not always. I've belonged to gyms that have had a metal mesh (along the lines of a stiffer chain-link fence), flat metal (like a high school locker), and wood cabinets for their lockers.
That's what made us think. This has been nothing but a farce, a dick measuring contest inside the Tory party.

The UK will keep being in the EU's are of influence, whether we like it or not.
Then those differences can or ought to be documented. Having fresh eyes on something is good for discovering unwritten processes, rules, etc. If you're doing X because Y, but you never wrote down Y. A new person enters and sees X but doesn't see it's utility (is it better, faster, gives you more robust systems), they may attempt to remove that from the process or tool chain. They may be right, they may be wrong. Because they don't know Y and perhaps no one else in the office does either, at this point.

Document the tools you use, why you use them (even if it's just: we were familiar with T1 so we chose it over T2, that's not a bad reason unless T1 has some major flaws or limitations). Document the processes and provide rationales as best you can.

This is my viewpoint, at least, as someone who's done a lot of work on the maintenance end of software development. I don't know why in 1984 something was done. I find a particularly gnarly bit of code or process and I want to fix it. Turns out they had a good reason (most of the time), but it's outdated because X. Or it's still relevant, but non-obvious until you get to a certain level of familiarity that only happens for the original developer or a maintainer on the project for 20 years.
> However your comments read like you've adopted the opposite bias rather than less bias.

I'm adding this to my selection for future usage.
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I find it worthwhile to think about questions like this, whose answers, on some level, do not matter, but, on another level, can be felt to be more or less in line with insights about the underlying structure.

Examples of other questions in the same category:

- Whether the natural numbers should be defined so as to include zero or not (and, relatedly, whether counting should start on zero or on one).

- How to structure a database or a piece of computer code (including the details of how to formulate individual lines of code).
Just curios how does this automatic refactoring across entire code base work? Do they build AST's and then refactor? Or it at more surface level where you are replacing text intelligently?
Also, there's an unstated reality here that the person who sets the standards is a senior person (in the company, in his career, in the industry) and may just be letting personal judgment and past success - good in its time, but not necessarily timeless - override his judgment about a legitimately new and better way of doing something. This is tech after all: progress is valuable, and objectivity is hard.
The market has been distorted since ~1996 by the federal decision to sell off the National Helium Reserve.

That said, the "we're running out of helium" scare stories are misleading. The reason no one has looked for it directly (instead of as a side product to natural gas) is that it's been too cheap to make that profitable. Medical helium is an inelastic good, so discovery will increase as prices rise.

Like the difference between "proven reserves" and the amount of oil actually in the ground, we are "running out" of helium only for the discovered-and-exploited version of helium.
Have you watched the linked video? If not I will not be able to explain what's going on as well as the presenter.

He is able to show that many common physical calculations for volume or area all relate to the same generic form.

He also is able to present many other cases where pie wins out. It is very much worth a watch.
To some extent, sure. But also I've noticed that easy, cheap global communication enabled by the web and similar technologies has given people wider access to info and viewpoints from around the world whereas in past generations, you had to study abroad or live in a cosmopolitan city to get a lot of that.

I don't mean to suggest that provincialism is dead and buried but I do think that a 20-year-old today has much greater odds of at least being aware of the views and outlooks of people in other parts of the world than a 20-year old in 1970 or 1980.
The referred paper:

http://www.omicsgroup.org/journals/genetic-fuzzy-based-artif...
Does it help the pedagogy and understanding? Does it help form equations that match the form of other equations in some mathematically-meaningful way?

Then, yes, I'd support it just fine. So the sarcasm fails.

One of the other things I don't see mentioned very often in this discussion is that mathematics evolves. We almost never get it right the first time. The original Maxwell's Equations were 20 equations, rather hairy ones at that, now expressed in 4 with superior notation. Derivative and integral notation did not spring fully-formed from Newton or Leibniz, it has evolved. Matrix notation evolved. Number notation has evolved.

The idea that pi itself may have to evolve because it wasn't quite right is perfectly natural and normal. What's bizarre is the idea that it must be held to be perfect, that criticism is all-but-morally wrong, and that anybody even talking about it is crazy.

I blame our terrible math system, for teaching people that math consists entirely of edicts handed down from, I presume, aliens, or possibly some form of diety, since apparently it can't be humans as we're not allowed to touch the Holy Notation. But that's not how it works in reality, and there's nothing bizarre about the idea that we might want to change pi; what's bizarre is the idea that such a thing is blasphemy.
I'm no linguist, but is it truly something ambiguous or are you being a stickler? I've seen some of the comments on some of those exercises, and there are plenty of indignant sticklers mucking about.

It's the same on CodeCademy with some of their exercises. "Well shouldn't it really be like this?!" No. The accepted answer works fine. Don't over-engineer a simple solution.
And yet Gitlab is eating GitHub according to this other article.. What an empty baseless article.

We use Jira (self-hosted) and I can not imagine ever switching to Github Enterprise the featureset doesn't even compare.
As a half German myself, be a little offended and remember our history for what it was.
But did they campaign on facts? Did they have a plan? Are they going to use this plan for brexit? Where is the plan?

I understand that the plan is maybe not detailed, but I assume they have some kind of detailed roadmap on how to proceed? The Scotland independence referendum had a very detailed plan, hundreds of pages long.

The other issue is the British government: that Cameron did in fact not prepare for losing is his biggest blunder, and history will judge him for that.
Does it match _all_ the criteria above?
"Bluetooth 5 Promises an End to Pairing

The power of Bluetooth is set to explode when the next version of the wireless technology is released at the turn of the year. Bluetooth 5 will offer eight times the broadcasting capacity, have four times the range, and run twice as fast as current Bluetooth technology, the organization responsible for development of Bluetooth announced on Thursday. The increased broadcasting capacity could pave the way for the introduction of "connectionless" data transfers, meaning that the need to pair a Bluetooth device like a headset or wireless keyboard with a mobile app or computer program may become a thing of the past. Longer range means that it will be possible to use Bluetooth devices throughout the home, and higher speeds will make these devices more responsive."

http://ccm.net/news/27500-bluetooth-5-promises-an-end-to-pai...
> its 2016, the world should speak German by now instead!!!

In which other countries have you been and lived?

Would you get a bank account easily in the UK if you speak German? Ignoring German:

Are you certain that you'd get a bank account in France, Spain, Italy? You're coming off as rather agitated and aggressive here, plus these 'German pride' and 'Everyone should speak German' references are getting dangerously close to a rather painful and sensitive subject. I'm not sure if this is intended?