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> This isn't specific to Elixir/Phoenix/Beam

> Like any well-designed system that separates concerns. Again, this isn't language or framwork-specific.

While it is true you can implement those systems in pretty much any turing complete language, we expect some languages and frameworks to make it simpler to write certain kinds of systems. For example, doing scientific calculations in Python or Julia is much easier than in Ruby. It it not impossible to do in Ruby but that's just how things are today. Since Erlang was designed for handling millions of connections in a fault-tolerant and scalable fashion, we expect it to shine in the areas previous listed.

> citing resilience, efficiency, scalability, and handling traffic spikes seems thin -- these are all things that can easily be attained with just about any well-factored system on any number of languages/frameworks.

Easily attainable? Err... no? Depending on which system you want to build, it is hard on all languages and Erlang (or Akka or whatever) is going to make it quantitatively less harder.

If your reference point is classical web applications that depend on the database, you still have a single point of failure (even when using primary and replicas). You could use primary-primary replication but that is still a world of pain and definitely not easy. Maybe that's fine for the applications you are building but that does not even scratch the requirements of building distributed systems at scale (and your app server talking to the database is a distributed system).

But we don't even need to go that far to see the benefits of Erlang, Elixir, Clojure, Go, etc. The fact those languages enable developers to use all of their machine resources efficiently should be enough reason for moving on. Rails developers complain about slow boot times, slow test suites, while using only 25% percent of their machine resources (1 of 4 cores, for example). The languages mentioned above have abstractions that make developers more productive and yet they refuse to adapt. We saw this happening with the adoption of garbage collectors and it is only a matter of time for us to take concurrency for granted as we do with memory management.
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You're not anomalous. I'm not usually using DDG, but checked it out on chrome 51 64-bit on Win10, compared with google and there is definitely noticeable lag on DDG in many areas, though NOT to the extent of making page unusable.
It could have happened anyway because the Series C investors could have sued. The company (obviously) didn't disclose any of the fraudulent behavior when they raised the C round (= they can get sued). Doing it like that is cleaner and makes sure that the company has a future.
There's an ongoing offshoring of certain divisions anyway, something the article alludes to with the Polish IT staff. That kind of thing is Brexit independent.

Michelin stars are not synonymous with having good restaurants. Something like a good steakhouse is not captured my Michelin, which is a very narrow definition of good food. There's also the requirement of variety, which London does extremely well: food from many different cultures, at different price points.

It's also not that clear that Brexit will force finance away from London, which is well entrenched.
> ".. crawl up into the attic once every couple of days and hook them up"

xD
Nice that you were able to resolve the issue in at least a fair way.
As a software Engineer and tech founder (and Brazillian), I say sorry for all the brainless sh*t people from silicon valley think is right to do to other countries systems, laws and regulations to get more rich and make you all more poor.
If Scotland gets its Independence, then Edinburgh is a great candidate for a new London for the finance industry, as it's already got a decent finance presence.
every website that merely mentions the name of an individual is processing personal data under the Law

Donald Trump wishes Adolf Hitler was alive and could marry Barack Obama.

Oh no.

With its decision, the Peruvian Office creates a new private procedure that would allow any citizen to request that something that displeases them became “hidden” on the Internet to virtually any company local or foreign. In correspondence, it empowers national or foreign private companies to decide what has to be removed from the Internet under secret procedures. We believe that this solution is wrong and, if it’s confirmed in the Courts of Peru, there’s a lot to be worried about.

This is terrible. Should I feel guilty for remembering facts that are deemed "bad" or "defamatory" (even if true) by someone?
The hard truth is it's not about the legal problem in Zenefits. Zenefits is not growing from last October. ARR remains the same 60M for last 10 months. If the company is not growing and it's burning more cash than revenue (way more in Zenefits case), the company should be valued at (cash in hand + ARR) which is 700M. No idea how Zenefits still gets 2B valuation.
If it's the story I'm thinking of, GP has the details a little mixed up. But it's been a few years since the story broke so that's understandable.

The issue was the knife itself being illegal in New York -- a knife that could be bought at almost any hardware or art supply store in the city. Concealed or not, the guy was violating a poorly written law meant to criminalize switchblades in the mid 20th century. But cops had been using it to arrest African American men if they saw the telltale pocket clip while stopping them for something else.

They classified this certain kind of utility knife as a "gravity knife", even though it wasn't. The law outlaws knives opened with a flick of the wrist, and it took a cop five tries to flick one open in court once because they aren't designed to be opened that way. But that one time was all it took.

To bring this back to the original question: in a just world, an arrest for owning one of these knives -- again, one that you could buy at any hardware store shouldn't violate someone's probation. Neither should jaywalking, something I do countless times a day.
I don't think it's a question of willpower. The contiguous US is 48 states, each with the autonomy to calculate and set max axle weight / distance rules and many do. Sliding tandem axles under a 53-foot trailer are not something you just re-architect overnight.

The span under the trailer behind the rear drive axle(s) and the forward trailer axle is much longer than you find on European trucks. That means you need a much longer underride guard. You also have to convince trucking company execs that all that extra weight is a good thing even though they know it's cheaper to pay the occasional settlement after a gruesome accident.

Also, putting the trailer axles further forward to shorten the gap is not possible until Indiana changes their minimum axle length regulation (40 feet trailer kingpin to rear axle centerline) because I believe that while they are the only state to have such a rule, you can't do much interstate commerce with a fleet of trucks and avoid travelling through that state with its central location.

Trucking in the US is massively regulated and bureaucratic and you are going to need a lot more than will to get it to change. I'd love to see safer trucks too but I am not optimistic about seeing underride guards in the US anytime soon.
Can not agreed more.
Not sure what you mean -- as I said, that's what people do around here: interbank rate + bank marginal. Fixed 30-year mortgages are very rare.
From [1]:

> What is the Google Feed API?

> With the Feed API, you can download any public Atom, RSS, or Media RSS feed using only JavaScript, so you can mash up feeds with your content and other APIs with just a few lines of JavaScript. This makes it easy to quickly integrate feeds on your website.

"To quickly integrate feeds on your website".

The latest API deprecations and product removals (everywhere, not just at google) are part of what I believe to be a growing trend to take away the ability for the end users to be publishers and to bring them back to be passive consumers (like in the old radio / TV days).

[1] https://developers.google.com/feed/
To fine a company (and some variants, like Google) in a strike of years and receive the same answer always is indeed an act against brazillian sovereignty.
The Windows version is not availiable because mozjs the JavaScript engine, Or say, SpiderMonkey, fails to compile on windows currently, and servo developers can not know when it will be fixed. Once it can be build on windows, windows version may come out soon.
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Haha, yes, this kind of thing has bitten me a few times. I remember getting SVN really confused where the server thought files were different but my machine thought they were the same (or similar). I think I had to make a whole new repo.

It's now on my mental list for "but it works on my machine", checking filenames and their cases.
Well if that's the case, then whether we will undergo a personality change is not necessarily entirely in our control, because we may not develop the passion for the labor of personality change. It just might not "strike".
Y Combinator?
waiting for non mutating versions of sort and sortby
This is what I've noticed as well. Searching for Rust programming questions is very hard with DDG, whereas Google gets relevant results at the top. Otherwise, DDG and Google are pretty much on par.
Google really hates RSS, don't they?

They seem to be actively killing anything that they have that once supported it
sounds more like government is not doing its job
>Badly hurt by the financial crisis, the Dutch have capped bankers’ bonuses at just 20 percent of their annual salaries — a far more drastic curb than was imposed by the European Union. Several bankers told me that unless the Dutch repealed the cap, they wouldn’t consider moving to Amsterdam. “I’d love to relocate to Amsterdam,” one top executive told me. “But I don’t think we’re wanted there.”

My deepest sympathy goes out to the poor bankers.
Capitalism is the issue because the money is being saved by cutting corners on safety.

Saving resources by skipping on safety features is not exclusive to capitalism. If anything, the correlation seems to run backwards - capitalist countries are generally safer (mostly, I'd say, because they're rich enough to spend extra resources on safety).

In case of non-profits and the government people might actually sue for wasting of money because money is spent on stuff that is not required by law.

Can you give an example of such a lawsuit ever having succeeded?
most people work hard for many hours a week, give up lots of stuff, so they can retire. The trouble is doing this means you give up having a life, and so when you retire you have nothing else. What's even worse is if you do this, then your health suffers. I don't know how many people i've known who do this and then get really angry that they're retired but don't have the health to do the things they always waited for.

Me I work a reasonable number of hours have holidays and breaks, I'm middle aged. I'm not planning to retire, in many ways I sort of am. I do the work I like, have people around me I want to keep. Look after my health, know what my kids are doing. I'm lucky that I can do the work I like, and get paid for it, but I've made choices to avoid the soul sucking super highly paid stuff. I'm pleased with my choices, I'd recommend them to anyone younger.

Saying this, there are times I've worked hard, and times I've had in between. Just working then retiring, then dying sucks imho
You appear to be factually incorrect when you say that their board is mostly Series C investors. The board makeup pre-deal was (i'm pretty sure):

David Sacks (CEO)
Laks Srini (co-founder & CTO)
Lars Dalgaard (Andreessen Horowitz - Series A)
Bill McGlashan (TPG - Series C)
Peter Thiel (Founders Fund - Series C)
Antonio Gracias (Valor Equity - Independent Seat)

https://www.zenefits.com/blog/zenefits-strengthens-expands-b...
I understand why, and once upon a time I was the guy who would commit code where I replaced jQuery and underscore (at the time) calls with native calls. It works, and is totally fine. But what was the point? Some kind of optimization? It was pretty pointless in hindsight and just made my coworkers trouble. Now all my JS code is Ramda/lodash all the way, and it's great (although I opt for Clojure/script when possible)
"Will" in this case, though, is basically a euphemism for "cost of (retro)fitting trucks and loading docks with guardrails" vs "cost of lives lost by failing to do so." I'm not sure how those two numbers would compare.
Ha ha ha. Excellent.
However here you're using a pathological condition (depression) to make a judgment about a normal one (introversion). That is not necessarily reasonable. Introversion doesn't have to imply asocial; but rather just that the person can't socialize or more generally _absorb external stimulation_, _for an extended enough period_. And the world does need introverted people too who prefer to sit around cooking up ideas in their head as much as it needs extroverted people to put together teams to realize those ideas.
Time will weed out the good from the bad, and clever people will surely bring over the good stuff to their favorite languages. Why not be part of that yourself?

For what it's worth I given up on PHP, after using it as my go-to language for about 16 years. I'm drinking the golang cool-aid and never coming back!
2 days ago I was in a store just about to buy my first iOS device, an iPhone 6S. Decided not to do it for two reasons: 1) 50% app store bullshit like this and 2) 50% price
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Does retrial means acquitted? Or just that the previous is nullified?
If there is market incentive to move banking to Holland, it will happen. The bankers will move where the jobs go, they don't have much say in the matter.
Well, Lodash is focused on performance, and 3.X.X supports IE8 and a lot of older browsers, it's a pretty solid util library. If you add in all the good utilities function. As long as you use them a lot in your code, Lodash is definitely worth it
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It seems to be that way. Weren't the Nuremberg trials supposed to have established the idea the soldiers, or at least officers passing orders along can be guilty even if they're following orders? I suppose those were for more clear cut war crimes and the Iraq soldiers were mostly quite removed from the actual killing they triggered.
There's a huge gotcha:
_.map, _.forech, ... can iterate over objects (often used as associative arrays) - Native map can't.

At some point you'll need lodash and co again - at least for convinience.
It's worth noting that the rules in question here were specifically designed to protect incumbents from competition. It was very clear regulatory capture.
maybe i'm slow but it just occurred to me that this apple rule is also why i cant get books on the audible app. i can only "add to wish list." also, i never understood why hbo had two different apps: hboNow and hboGO but now it makes sense.

in the future, i see this as a potential issue / challenge for podcasters who want to create a subscription business model and don't want to give 30% to apple
You are probably right about the flaws, but my concern is that the bar to publish a study that reports "failure to replicate" is higher. This is at the heart of a very serious problem with science these days. Proving that research can be replicated and validated is probably more socially useful in some fields than "discovering" some new correlation. But all the academic incentives point to publishing "discovery".
> Something like a good steakhouse is not captured my Michelin, which is a very narrow definition of good food.

Michelin rates all kinds of places, including sushi bars, Chinese takeaways and steakhouses.
> By putting it into words, you have said "this is important enough to actually say it."

But you have not said this is important enough for you to read, right now, nor especially important enough to remember every detail. If everything written were important to read, we'd spend our lifetimes failing to work through the backlog - of every word ever written since the dawn of writing. There are key points to remember, and then supporting facts to be forgotten after they've done their job of arguing for those key points, and this language emphasizes their key points (in defense of Tesla, naturally, rather than the mundane statistics.)

> Further saying that it is important is a crutch.

Perhaps. But remember - crutches are legitimate medical devices built to serve a need, they have purpose! I tend to use the terser "IMPORTANT:", "NOTE WELL:", "N.B.:"[1], "NOTE:", etc. to call attention to high priority stuff. I'll especially use this style of emphasis in code, where I can't make my text bold, underlined, large-fonted, red, blinking for emphasis, embedded into a modal dialog you can't dismiss for the first 10 seconds, just to make sure you read the damn thing. These are the notes I deem to have e.g. a 100:1 time saved/spent ratio, where I need my fellow programmers to stop skimming as a thousand inane comments before have perhaps trained them to do, and to instead save us all a lot of time and energy by reading the important thing.

But being that terse in a press release like this would come across as incredibly tone deaf and insensitive. Try replacing "It is important to emphasize that" with "NOTE:" and "It is important to note that" with "IMPORTANT:". The paragraphs themselves might read fine, but in the broader context of the press release it'd be cringe worthy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nota_bene
Not everything and not things his leaders did. Just going to Iraq, which he said he personally did.
A small error, which, if I remember correctly, although it's not mentioned in this account, was in a tiny change that was not tested as fully as it should have been, took down AT&T's long distance network in 1990, back when it probably still carried most of the nation's long distance calls: http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/att_collaps...
Personally, I'm surprised anyone trusts a mobile phone or its software for anything important. Malware is so prevalent on Android, half the androids are still vulnerable to StageFright vulnerabilities (and will never be fixed, just phased out), and I know that there are exploits for iPhones as well (because I'm familiar with companies who sell those exploits to governments - but I don't know the specifics of any exploit).

AFAIK, Norway and Israel are the only two countries that require an electronic signature be done by a certified secure hardware element. And I think that's the right way.
Yes 25% of total population voted leave. You can't take this as "75% voted remain". On your figures less than 20% voted remain. The other 55% of the population didn't vote and therefore are represented by those that did.

You can't say a majority voted leave as such, but you also can't say a majority wanted to remain. The only factual figures we have suggested a majority would have voted leave.
Might be a good idea to use a polyfill (like core-js) to ensure the api exists. On modern browsers it would just use the native impl.

Not much to gain though. Just importing lodash works fine.
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"However, when you are targeting modern browsers" - possibly one of the worst mistakes companies do. Then they decide to support older browsers after customers complaints. Then shit goes down!
It's not in some places. You can easily get by in Stockholm, and to some extent Berlin, with just English. Then learn the local language gradually if you stay there. In fact it can be difficult to speak the native language as people will talk to you in English as soon as they realize you're not native.

I've actually had a harder time conversing with people in some parts of Scotland by phone, due to our different accents, than in some parts of Europe. Even though we both speak English as a first language. The UK can have bigger internal differences than the rest of the English speaking world.

Some of this is down to the international (US) English used in non-native English speaking places. I had to write my book on ASP.NET Core in American English, which took some getting used to. :)
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Can someone explain me "If anybody knows the MAC address of one of your sockets, they can control it from anywhere in the world." part in more detail?
>I asked my classmates whether they had heard of the sci-fi writer Rudy Rucker’s book

Rudy Rucker was/is also one of the most prominent cellular automata researchers of recent history. I can highly recommend "Cellab" [1], which I first encountered as CA Lab. You may need to install a virtual machine to get it running properly [2].

[1]: http://www.rudyrucker.com/oldhomepage/cellab.htm

[2]: [In the spring of 2010, the Cellab software became semi-obsolete---in that it won't run under Windows 7. The "good" news is that Windows 7 can in fact run a virtual machine in Windows XP mode, if you download and install some free Microsoft virtual XP software. I tried this just now, and it works pretty well. You get a little window or a full screen which is an XP desktop. And CELLAB runs fine in the XP window—to make it easy to find your files, you drag the CELLAB folder from your normal C: drive (if that’s where it lives) onto the desktop of the XP Virtual machine window.]
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> Try replacing "It is important to emphasize that" with "NOTE:" and "It is important to note that" with "IMPORTANT:".

That would be an equal problem as the original and not how a good writer should solve the wording.

Compare this to, for example, the press releases by a major news organization when it admits it got something important quite wrong. There are many ways to use our language as it was designed without getting meta.
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Is there any alternative API ? This one was quite handy for RSS feed discovery.
"become independent and part of the EU" - an oxymoron, no?
I know, I'm just waiting for the day they announce the shutdown of FeedBurner. That's going to create a LOT of broken feeds if they do...
3 utilities for command-line lovers
Sharing some open source command line utilities I maintain. Would love to get some constructive feedback, improvement suggestions (and some stars on GitHub, if you like them).

- Buku (Powerful command line bookmark manager): https://github.com/jarun/Buku

- googler (Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal): https://github.com/jarun/googler

- keysniffer (Linux kernel module to log pressed keys in debugfs): https://github.com/jarun/keysniffer
Appropriate, given most of the UK will look like the New Londo Ruins soon enough.
Would probably be better if they didn't use a BMW light-cluster in the banner. What with it being German.

Perhaps a Toyota Avensis, built in Derbyshire...?
Though to be fair I absolutely don't see the point in sitting on a motorcycle unless you're driving it. It's not like you can occupy your time with anything else than leaning over to hold the handlebars.
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(arr || []).filter... Is something I do when I'm not sure if the array is null or not. Looks shitty but works fine. (Now if arr is not falsy and not an array either, this blows up. But I don't know what lodash does then too)

To be honest, I'd rather check / handle nulls rather than to rely on an external library semantics. They might also change it tomorrow and upgrading would be a pain.