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> The colleague I mentioned earlier was new to the company and among other things that we spoke about, we seemed to disagree on whether or not it is a good idea to introduce new patterns/paradigms into existing codebase. I am of the opinion that code should appear as though written by a single author even if it has been worked on by different people. His was that introducing newer patterns improves the quality of the code. While I agreed to an extent with him, I would vote against this if it violates the principle of least surprise[1].

Regarding that point, I disagree with you as well. To totally abstain from new patterns / paradigms make it easier for a codebase to become completely legacy to the point of needing a full rewrite. And full rewrites never happen [1]. In general, I favor reducing tech debt with gradual adaptation of new patterns supported by good unit tests and high test coverage for codebases in ongoing projects. Admittedly I have no idea the functionality or role of the specific codebase you're referring to, but that is my general philosophy.

[1]: "Things You Should Never Do, Part I" by Joel Spolsky http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
Awfully confident about that?
> In India it's not only easy to build political parties and contest elections but also very good chance of winning them…

Great! I agree that is a nice quality about India that western countries don't have and should (or may be not?) envy. Perhaps Indian citizenry can use this opportunity to take the corrupt establishment down and prove to the world that it really works better that way!

> Giving one instance of 1984 just demonstrates stark biasness/ignorance, in fact it was the pre-private television/internet era. Free speech has taken itself to an extreme level and powerful politicians/celebrities are ridiculed like anything.

I agree with you here too. But only that it's your ignorance and your bias (being an Indian) in the first place. Free speech is not about ridiculing/insulting people at all. It's about the ability to criticize and emphasize opposing views without fear of retribution.

That's mostly it at an operational level.

> You seem to have zero understanding about Modi and in fact it's due to that "free speech", that perception of yours have been created.

I call it bullshit. 3000 innocent people were massacred and you call it propaganda? If it wasn't Modi (or person X) who according to you should be held responsible for the needless bloodshed?

Do you have a different bunch of individuals who you think did it and not Modi/other jokers? And that will you be able to put forward enough evidence and witnesses to prove the guilt of such individuals in place of the said person X who the media wrote about? If not, it's bullshit that you're selling here.

> The India you might have lived has changed a lot, it’s more open, more daring and more “democratic” than ever before!

I'm glad you feel that way but I don't know what you mean by more "democratic" (in scare quotes) than ever before? It somehow still sounds like some people are more equal than others.
Modern plane autopilot is perfectly capable of automatic takeoff and landing.
How about $500 million fine for Mr. Elon Musk with five years supervision of public statements by or for Tesla by government appointed lawyer.
TCP's not that resource-intensive.
Certainly laws against purchasing marijuana (where they still exist) don't do much to stop young people from buying it. And smoking weed isn't any better for your lungs than tobacco is.
I think the issue is, everyone believes they should be able to become a stakeholder in a resource that is, by definition, naturally constrained. Only so many people get a say in a geographic area, and the stark reality is that once you reach a certain critical mass, you're incentivized to protect your quality of life over allowing for more people to join you.

Strangely, its thought of as acceptable for tech workers (with their new found purchasing power due to disparate wages compared to traditional workers) to displace long-time residents of a community, but those same tech workers are aghast when communities would prefer they not come.

“We don’t need one more job in Boulder,” Mr. Pomerance said. “We don’t need to grow anymore. Go somewhere else where they need you.”

Indeed. It seems I'm a bit late to coin the term "tech privilege".
It's not so much that urban development kills "character", it's that current urban development methods are ugly. They have no class to them. The "not in my backyard" argument will always be brought about by people who's previously beautiful surroundings are replaced by brick rectangles with evenly spaced windows. The trick is to make urban areas attractive but not gentrified.
pandas is very good for scientific computing and data analysis, but beware, the documentation quite frankly sucks. Stack overflow seems to be the best way to learn things
Instantwatcher.com is your answer, with direct links to watch on netflix.
They should just repeal zoning laws entirely. Maybe make an exception for polluting heavy industry, or for people using government money or government-backed loans. It should probably even be a constitutional amendment.

People who want quiet suburbs can pool together a corporation to own a planned community. That limits the scope of their NIMBYism to just their community, and as shareholders they could vote on whether to get paid for selling their land to Walmart or Google or the people wanting to set up high-density apartment complexes. Plus they have an even stronger voice in their immediate community, so they can do things like build walls to keep the homeless out. I think getting bought out as a shareholder would warm them to the idea; if Walmart buys the land next door you just want to complain, but if you're getting some of the money you might be in favor.

The government should only have the power to prescribe structural integrity rules, fire safety codes, building codes for number of exits, etc.
I don't think that that's true for Pandora:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Genome_Project
Nice little project, really clean code - super easy to understand after reading some of the Matrix spec.
Coincidently Hacker's Delight 2e is available on Safari Books Online for any other fellow subscribers.

https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/hackers-delig...
Was looking forward to reading this, but seems like it's just a plug for a book. So I'll part ways.

tl;dr Trust is giving up control. Trust requires integrity, competence, and authority. Sometimes people betray trust. If it's a large betrayal, part ways, otherwise apologize and forgive.
The process you describe is effectively translation. This works with natural languages as well.
Tom Steinburg phrases what I've been thinking for years pretty well: "...urgently tell [facebook] that to not act on this problem now is tantamount to actively supporting and funding the tearing apart of the fabric of society"

The filter bubble puts artificial divides between people, strengthening those divides and making it seem as if anyone who disagrees with you is part of a radical group that all agree with each other. Facebook and Google are tearing apart the internet community and the results are already showing.

For example, look at the anti-SJW movement. A large chunk of them assume anyone who calls themselves a "feminist" is batshit insane and also wants ridiculous things like "safe zones". I doubt such a movement could have popped up without the filter bubble artificially dividing people on the internet. The filter bubble silently manipulates how people think, in a very destructive manner.
I have the feeling if this happens land will be bought up by corporations, not the other way around.
What does "courting the racist vote" mean? Because the most racist people I've ever met were always on the left. They do it in an underhanded way, as in assuming certain people based on color are unable to do things on their own and must be helped, resulting in dependence and the destruction of families. The left also will be racist towards other groups and denigrate them even when its their own color. Makes absolutely no sense.

The party of self-determination, republicans, individual voters have always been about working hard, individualism, keep what you earn, support your own family and don't kill your babies. Who founded planned parenthood, what motives did they have on abortion and which party glorifies it? Which party wants it defunded because of abortion? Who is racist again?
True, forgot how big the JS ecosystem is.
Good insight. I suspect that some American hesitation about "density" and "apartment buildings" is based on specific history from the 20th century and 'white flight' era. Do people from other countries really fear and disdain apartment buildings the same way? I don't...

Related, interesting quote from someone talking to Jane Jacobs: http://www.citylab.com/design/2016/05/happy-100th-birthday-j...

New, high-rise public housing surrounded by pretty but functionless lawns had erased the formerly dense mix of retail, institutional and residential uses. She learned about what was lost from settlement house workers and tenants.

As one resident told her: “Nobody cared what we wanted when they built this place. They threw our houses down and pushed us here and pushed our friends somewhere else. We don’t have a place around here to get a cup of coffee or a newspaper even... But the big men come and look at that grass and say, ‘Isn’t it wonderful! Now the poor have everything.’”
I didn't find this piece particularly illuminating, frankly.
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This plugin (((and its counterpart))) make me long for the bad old days of browser-helper objects and Visual C++.

They'd have enough time to think better of it -- way before getting "Hello World" to build.
They do need a regulation that we can cancel a service using the same methods as ordering the service. If I can order a service online, I should be able to cancel it online.
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Yep. Go to many/most parts of the country and you can find a wide variety of cuisine prepared by Mexicans. :-)
There are games for animals, and the animals certainly seem to enjoy them.

https://youtu.be/la6vK6hI7rM
Again, the article has a specific definition of what it means to speak "one language" - it means to renounce all knowledge trapped inside the dead language, cultural and all. Therefore yes, if you both only spoke English (in the absolute case at issue) you woudn't have different cultures, by definition.

Language and culture are not linearly independent.
You have the excelente https://brianketelsen.com/i3-windows/ posted earlier here. I use it daily, it's really great.
Are you advocating something on the scale of a home owners' association, a suburb, or a large city?

Any way, I fail to see how it would be materially different. A group of people, who collectively own the land make rules (laws) about how it can be used by other member of the group.
Doctors. Grants, loan forgiveness programs, stuff like that should incentivize people to go into medicine. Have to fix the limits on residencies and such too.
Dat double negative clickbait title
In a theoretical economy, maybe. In reality you'll have a small increase in wages, but likely business owners being chronically short staffed, going out of business, or choosing not to start a business. Even if wages to go up perfectly like in an econ textbook, that will increase the cost of goods and services which may not matter much for the wealthy residents but will make the city much less attractive for visitors/tourists and cut into the elevated wages. Remember, workers are consumers.

There's also the issue that raising wages will not fix the problem if landlords capture the wage increase by raising the price of housing. It's all about buying power, the absolute numbers mean nothing.

The free market can't solve all of our problems, and even if it could housing in particular is too important to wait on supply and demand forces to fix everything. Moving has very high material/time/emotional costs and humans need uninterrupted housing to maintain a decent life.
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Problem when you set up teams like this, they need to find any and all alleged 'sleights' to justify their existence. This is why we now know the term microaggressions and cultural appropriation. And how a poster showing cartoon swimmers acting "cool" and "uncool" is called "super racist" because you know, physically harming people for the color of their skin only happens in the movies, so we have to call a clumsy graphic designer at the Red Cross a "super racist."

Between campuses and media, it's basically a witch hunt to find the racist white male who sexually assaults. Title IX ensured that this would happen. The end result? Mother's are scaring their sons from going to college, from socializing with women. And basically masturbation to pornography has supplanted sexual activity with partners.

Pretty sad state of affairs. Universities are suffering for it. It won't take much for tech schools trade school to redeem their worth and will be the go to destination for males. Universities are becoming the "finishing schools" for socialists now.
Somehow, I was expecting a virtual world simulator before opening up the link.
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I would assume the forward radar isn't capable of seeing anything past a foot or two off the ground.

I suppose I don't really know, but that was Elon's answer to "why didn't the radar see it?"
It means I know my life, my experiences, my tastes, and my thoughts, far better than you.

Don't even try to claim primacy of such knowledge. Not of me, not of anyone.

(Now, if someone's saying one thing and doing another, point that out. But a person owns and has priviledged access to what rattles within their own skull.)

The economics I cited and referenced is most decidedly not pop. I've got my own thoughts on some matters, those aren't what I'm presenting here.

You're also now going all ad-hom on Freakonomics. I didn't say that Freakonomics is right. I'm presenting it as a valid argument, in place of constructing a similar one from whole sauce for your entertainment. The point isn't that either source are authorities, but that I've read and agree with the reasoning.

And just hang onto that cloth you're about to hand me, I've little need of it.
When posting on here, make sure you either remove the attribution parameters (utm_medium etc.) or assign them correctly.
Out of curiosity, how do you define success Vs other fields of medicine? It seems like something almost impossible to compare.
You were right. I updated the sample in article. It is using `concat`.

> The concat() method returns a new array comprised of the array on which it is called joined with the array(s) and/or value(s) provided as arguments.

Taken from the MDN.
Amazon UI is terrible. PBS is making a huge mistake. Children don't use amazon prime and parent's aren't going to suddenly like using it because of the kids shows. Watch the clicks disappear by 60% overnight.
The title was the only thing interesting from the article. Everything else is most probably made up.
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Great piece. The first thing I've read that captures what's special about SC. I'm an old who until very recently didn't use or understand it. But once I did, I was over come with my inability to describe why it felt so different, so significant. This article captures what I didn't have the words, or will, to put into a coherent thought. Thanks.

P.S. you should repost this after the holidays. Its not going to get as much play as it should with people away from their desks.
Which companies would be subject to such regulation? For instance, a startup without an established customer support center would be fined and forced to shut down because of those fines or because of the money spent on customer center ?

What would be the kpi for customer service? Time spent on the wait line? Customer ratings?! Business days before an email reply? What if someone malicious starts DDoS me with fake customer service requests just to make me unable to deliver an "acceptable standard of customer support service"?
In Europe people go to the park to have solitude with nature and go home to interact with people [on the street by the house].

In the US people go to the park to interact with people, and go home to have solitude [hopefully with nature in their backyard, but even if not they want a quiet apartment without lots of people near them, or at least the illusion of it].

Some people prefer the US way, some the European way. But you have to build the city to match what people want.

The ugly urban cities are a result of a mismatch.
Mention about Servo missing.
But what is a "homeserver"?
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Interesting point, but surely the bar for where "critical mass" occurs depends entirely on social factors. That is, the neighborhood where I live (outside Tokyo) can absorb a lot more stakeholders than neighborhoods in Boulder, just because people are accustomed to different lifestyles (more apartments, fewer lawns, etc).
It's called the Foreign Earned Income Exemption, FEIE. You can find details on irs.gov. It's true and lots of people do use it.
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I think people would have trouble setting up anything larger than a suburb. It's different because currently even the likes of Google can't just buy your house and replace it with a self-driving car garage. In this hypothetical world, all they would need to do is convince one of N different communities to sell or lease them the land.
Which Bad Religion album is this off?
"conscious mental decisions made by winners and losers, in both training and competition, are the ultimate determinants of both fatigue and athletic performance."

A favoutite quote of mine: "You have to make a sustained 'conscious effort', to win."
I usually do this kind of processing by linux pipes, head, tail, cut, sort, uniq, and inline Perl. It is kind of similar to using monads, but you have to handle the formatting to and from text. A few ones of my own creation are a tool for counting and a tool for generating histograms in text. I often chain 5 or 10 of these commands together. My basic data type is similar to CSV, but using "|" instead of comma as separator because it tends not to appear in text as much. On the other hand, not being put in a binary format, my data is very accessible.
Clever headline. Almost makes you think the NYTimes is telling the truth. But the places I've worked, the desire was always to resolve the phone calls one and done. Get the answer, get them resolved so they don't have to call back. The conspiracy theory the NYT is cooking up is clickbait.
You don't even need those things. Without them, medical schools still accept less than half of those who apply. Let's say they increase capacity so that everyone who applies gets in somewhere. The bottleneck would still be, as you point out, the number of residency slots that Medicare is willing to fund.
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most higher level scientific concepts can’t be expressed
in any language other than English. Out of the total
number of human concepts that have ever been communicated,
the majority are only available to English speakers.

Please provide examples to support your baseless claim.
Heh, Evernote, down 75%. Ouch.
For a lot more detail, including a better explanation of homeservers, take a look at the Introduction to Matrix guide in the documentation: https://www.ruma.io/docs/matrix/
> autopilot uses a single forward facing camera combined with radar and sonar

It is actually camera-only per comment of Mobileye's CEO.
If you can't disable "secure boot" - you should return that piece of lock-in trash and request a refund.

Lenovo are also infamous for refusing the refund the Windows tax (i.e. when you want refund the price of Windows that came with computer pre-installed, because you don't want to use it). Only taking them to court can help.
It would be more interesting to look at their wealth as a percentage of the world's wealth. We have greater output per capita (GDP) today than back then so while the nominal wealth amount may be considered low it's quite possible it was a higher percentage of the world's wealth back then than it is today.
I don't think liberal zoning is the problem. I've seen my city go through massive changes in the last 30 years, top of the list being a radical increase, a liberalization, of zoning. They are allowing more and bigger developments. Multi-story and multi-unit developments are everywhere, but that isn't making housing any more affordable.

A piece of land with a liberal zoning is worth more. It is a target for redevelopment in order to max out the zoning. The net result in my local is the steady replacement of anything old (ie 10+ years) by newer ridiculously large replacements. Apartments and other attached units are now so expensive, and prices rising so steadily, that the logical thing to do is let them sit empty. The pittance one might claw back in rent pales in comparison to rising prices, and who needs pesky tenants anyway.

So... liberal zoning --> rising land values/prices --> redevelopment is better than renting --> fewer rental units = higher rent. It's true up and down the west coast. Now if a government told owners that no, they are not going to rip down that apartment block to replace it with luxury living, all-one-level, condos (ie for old/rich retirees) then perhaps prices might stabilize, sending more units into the rental market and so also stabilizing rents.
I feel that in many of these discussions, it's beneficial to see NIMBYism as a response to an incomplete insurance market, as described in [0].

This is not to say it is a complete or normative defense of NIMBYism, but rather that a lot of knee-jerk SJW sort of reaction is missing the point and failing to address, or even really attempt to understand, where NIMBYs are coming from.

Part of me wonders if this could be solved by tech, particularly insurance products that offer homeowners protection against the variety of ways that seemingly-great expansion projects can go wrong. I'd enjoy working on that sort of problem, except that so much of the current interest in this entire topic is political, and politicians have some incentive to maintain zoning-like systems because it offers them (the politicians) great opportunities for rent seeking, by being the gatekeepers of an approval process that should instead be more straightforward and just hedged by homeowners in the form of custom insurance products.

[0] "Why are there NIMBYs?" William Fischel, < https://www.dartmouth.edu/~wfischel/Papers/00-04.PDF >
I found that the quicker I answered questions the more questions I received.

A kind of Jevons Paradox for tech support? :)
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