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> In this case there is no destruction of property stimulating economic activity, which to my understanding is the crux of the broken window fallacy.

You have a point there. I think what I'm getting hung up on is that it's not so much a creation of value as a redistribution of value (from the comic strip workers to the gas station attendants, and to the government collecting taxes). Of course, there should be _some_ creation of value involved for the buyers and sellers of the gas pumping service, other wise they would abstain from it, and maybe it is this value that the parent comment referred to, and all is well.

> This is pretty much the basis of any discussion on jobs creation.

Actually, I'm uncomfortable with many discussions of "job creation". It often seems that the number of people hired, i.e. the number of "jobs created", is all that is considered, even if the work done is not useful, meaning that a job-creating action is seen as a success even if it comes at a cost greater than that of just gifting the same people the money and leaving them available for useful work.
The only way to get into the pool in my state was to be without insurance for 6 months and provide proof of denial or exclusion of a condition. That was untenable when I was going to follow up visits every 3 months and CT scans every six months.
Sell recruiting software.
>nor could they with the amount of additional parking space that would be needed.

you can build parking deep under ground. Heck, giving the tendency for the quality of offices, you can build underground office floors too :)
> I still contend that the availability/unavailability of health insurance was not the problem that needed solving. Instead, it's one of many symptoms that can be attributed to the unreasonable cost of healthcare, which has escalated in part because of the disassociation between the actual billing and payment.

The rate of increase in per-capita costs has decreased under the ACA. So, while it perhaps hasn't yet solved the problem, its certainly hard to argue that its been thing worse than the system in place before it was adopted.
yeah but at least you get the benefits listed.
Actual intelligence comes from all aspects, not just stuff that is written on a 2-dimesional plane. Being good at that stuff -- in reality -- equates to being good at academic stuff -- which is not actually connected to intellect, in a way that non-academic things are not. Likewise; being good at academic stuff is not an indicator of a lack of intellect either.

Math in particular is only a supplement to intellect, as it is only one of an infinite ways of describing what is first understood through intellect.

Often, organisms who are capable of reproducing mathematical stuff, are void of an understanding of what it is that the math is describing.
I don't get it. Why don't you sell the product you just finished to the new customer, instead of re-doing it from scratch? Is there some sort of contract clause or something?
Hmm, you've blown my mind. I've used traditional metaphors to describe and organize, such as the sdlc and topics like construction as defined by books like Code Complete. In other words, about/around these topics, not strictly limited to their concrete form or process.

I suppose it isn't the only way to look at things, just common.
Though we are approaching the philosophical realm at this point… reminds me of the section of Philosophy class where you learn to question if you can even trust your own senses. I'm not sure, however this is a book for beginners, and I sit on the shoulders of those that came before. Not sure I'm qualified to reimagine software engineering from the ground up as you describe. If you write that book, I'd read it!
The differences largely result from stuff like that fraud, ethics failures, and other issues we've run into in the past.

Just like Bitcoiners rediscovered the reasons our financial system has the various moving parts it does, healthcare regulations tend to have good reasons behind them.
> 11 thousand pages of new regulations can not be called reform.

Why not? Now, if you were complaining about someone, hypothetically, calling it "simplification", I can at least comprehend the objection, but what does the number of pages of regulation have anything to do with whether or not it can be called reform?
They have 4 office buildings and one cafeteria/commons building on that campus - space for around 1500 employees.

It's worth noting that Microsoft's bay area presence is already pretty fragmented, though. They have some more office space a couple exits down 101 in Sunnyvale (not walkable to the MV campus at all), a Skype office in Palo Alto, Yammer in SF, etc. They've also announced plans to renovate and expand the Mountain View campus: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2016/01/21/microsoft...
I don't know the exact numbers, but when I left Microsoft a couple of years ago, the following product divisions were among those based in the 6 buildings of the Mountain View SVC (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Microsoft+SVC+Building+1/@... ):

- Outlook.com (formerly Hotmail)

- Parts of Office for Mac OS X and iOS

- Xbox hardware and accessories (Xbox software was in Redmond)

- Windows Phone online services

- Microsoft Research Silicon Valley (but that was closed in the first round of layoffs several months after I left)

SVC was originally built for Hotmail and WebTV (remember that?).

Microsoft also had separate offices in Sunnyvale (in the big cluster of relative skyscrapers just south of Moffett Field), which I believe were mostly folks who came from Skype and/or Nokia.
Better to see the actual documentation at: http://squirrel-lang.org/squirreldoc/reference/index.html
What the... isn't that about 1,500 too many HR people? Or does LinkedIn do all of their own 401(k), insurance, etc administration?
I assume that its for a yet to be implemented find friends feature, but I was also concerned at that permission request.
I've previously used Go to develop a command-line tool and it worked quite well. I particularly liked the fact that I could cross-compile it so that I had a single static binary that could target various platforms/OSes without the need to compile explicitly on those platforms. I also think that Nim and Crystal could be quite good for this. Crystal, in particular has a remarkable scripting language feel, because of the extensive type inference, despite being natively compiled. It's also faster than Go, which is itself quite fast. Nim is no slouch performance wise either though and has the most pythonic like syntax of the languages I've described here.
Here is an account of long term centrophenoxine use. Not sure there is lots of study demonstrating 35 years of use is safe in large qty of the population so this should be treated as an anecdotal report only. It does cite other study he has done.

http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/64596-my-personal-35-ye...

There are links to outcomes of studies on oxiracetam here which is my go to racetam:

https://examine.com/supplements/oxiracetam/
In what ways do you think the Occupy movement caught on?
How about we "share" something with the bacteria? We create a package, and they pick it up, and it turns out to either kill them outright or leave them vulnerable to some simple treatment.

Might be a bit rough on gut bacteria, though...
> Mimi : As a first employee, for better or worse, the thing about joining a startup is that it’s not a meritocracy, right? If you’re disappointed in a decision that’s made, or if you feel the founders aren’t leading the way that you would lead an organization, it can be incredibly frustrating. It’s actually tricky to be a first employee because you identify both with the founders and the employees.

Best line in this series so far. If you are going to be an early employee, make sure you are compensated for this. Even if the structure is "flat" between founders and employees at some point in time, it can always change, and the founders always win.

There is nothing wrong with this, it is their company after all. But this is a huge point of frustration for early employees (something I've experienced and seen experienced by many others), and make sure you price this inevitable frustration in when deciding if you want to take an offer to be an early employee at a startup. If you are an early employee and want to get something big done you'll have to convince the founders, but if the founders want to do something big they don't have to convince you.
I don't think I have any specific resources to recommend, sorry.

I wrote most of the initial implementation of geckodriver and mostly learnt Rust from reading the official book, writing some small patches for Servo, and working on this project (of course); pretty much the same advice you would get coming from any other language.

I just chatted with one of the other major contributors to the project who said that he was able to learn on the job by reading the existing code, looking up concepts in the book or via web searches, and asking questions when necessary; although some parts of Rust undoubtedly have a significant learning curve it is empirically possible to contribute to an existing project without a significant amount of upfront study. This arguably isn't too different from learning most languages, although you are going to need to read up on the rules around e.g. references and borrowing sooner than you would need to look something up if you took the same approach to writing your first Python.

The type system and borrow checker mean that the compiler will tell you if you're doing something wrong which is both a blessing and a curse; it can be dispiriting to get dozens of compile errors when you are getting started, but once you have satisfied the compiler it's possible to be more confident that your code won't break in ways that are relatively common in Python (e.g. missing or broken code for error handling).

So I'm not sure that I answered your question, but in practice it didn't seem to be a major problem. Of course in a different environment — one where people were less enthusiastic about learning a technology their colleagues were raving about, for example — you might have a different experience.
there are roughly 3000 microsoft folks in the bay area. most are at the mountain view campus next to linkedin and moffett towers across the airstrip. but also a bunch in san francisco (yammer) and palo alto (skype).
NIMBY is a powerful force. You go against them as a council person, your political career is as good as over.
We need a period of time that isn't coincident with a huge recession before we celebrate this too much.
And the year after that, simply _The Theory_.
As an addition to this, it might be useful to go into more detail on the other aspects of making a hardware based MVP - i.e. 3D design, laser cutting and 3d printing.

Personally, I've alway gone in for using openSCAD[1] for the 3d design aspects, though clearly that's when approaching the problem as a programmer! I've always had laser cutting done by external services, but have a form labs 2 and repraps for printing parts. Perhaps this would justify a separate blog?

[1] http://www.openscad.org/
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Yep, again ethereum is pay-to-play. And a complete waste of money/eth.

You'd be better off using IPFS and integrating the storage/frontend so it communicates with your backend cluster. That would keep you off of ethereum.
Then why not build down instead of up? Besides the obvious suckitude that is working under ground? Build 5 floors of prisms and light pipes above ground and send sunlight down 20 stories or whatever the math works out to.
"People are less likely to question..." seems to be placing the blame at least one notch too far down. Try asking how much something will cost and no-one can tell you—insurance or provider. Medical billing at all levels is batshit insane, and it's not the fault of "consumers" (patients) that they can't figure it out. Even trying is mostly pointless.
It will be very interesting to see how the below does in November in Colorado. If this passes and is successful it could act as a catalyst for other states to try the same. Like many progressive issues before it (Same-sex marriage, weed legalization etc) single payer universal healthcare in the US might go through the states first. The insurance, pharmaceutical, and hospital industries know this and are working hard to see it defeated.

http://www.coloradocare.org/
FWIW, considering half the Democratic Party wanted to nominate a candidate who wanted to reform healthcare AGAIN (expansion of medicare for all), that should be an indicator of the quality of this piece of legislation.
There's also this crudely drawn but shockingly engrossing series:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHKuF51aPFaq-2UvU-HkS...

As well as all the follow-ups and side stories by the same person (check their channel for the rest).
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microsoft has a history of leaving large acquisitions where they are. skype (global), powerpoint, hotmail, yahoo ads, & webTV (mountain view), yammer (sf), dynamics (north dakota, but grew in redmond), an app virtualization thing (boston)
That makes no sense actually.
The 2008 WiiWare game "Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King" was implemented in Squirrel.
Another shameless plug: I use this. Thanks pandoc.

https://github.com/yogsototh/mkdocs

It generates presentations from markdown with reveal.js and beamer. It also generates documents both HTML and PDF.
If they don't rise, it's because they would fall otherwise, everything being the same.

What I got from the article is that the author seems to believe that the buy backs are only for getting the executives bonus sold in a way that does not devalue the stock, thus preserving the (undeserved) bonus. But this is only implied, not stated.
Are these 2K HR employees helping other companies in recruitment? (some Linkedin Service that I don't know about?) Because otherwise these numbers would seem excessive to me.
When would code with ! ever compile differently than code without ! ?
Alternatively a style change would help massively. Even if the thread is hidden it should have the same anchoring on the page as a thread which is not, so the eye tracks the positional anchor.
Right, but humans are fallible. Bugs happen. It's a good idea to test early and often, just to make sure: Travis runs are extremely cheap. Better to catch accidents before they make it into an actual release. More testing doesn't hurt anyone.
Keep in mind you dont have to login with your google account - you can create a free pokemon club account and use that.
FWIW, I'm a professional iOS Engineer and I took the Stanford iOS Dev course as soon as it was available, and I loved it.
What's the alternative? You can contribute to an IRA instead, but the limits are much lower. Any other investment products on the market will not be tax-advantaged.

The 401(k) was created by Congress (it's even named after the section on the Internal Revenue Code that created it) and that's where its benefits come from. The only way a similar plan would ever emerge is if Congress decides to create that too.

> The next down turn, who knows, governments have been known to seize retirement funds. What happens if US Congress decides to do that to save the nation?

How would the US government do that? Your 401(k) money is held by a private bank; the government would literally have to seize private property, which on this scale and circumstances is completely unprecedented in US history.
> I would like the code developed now to work with all subsequent rust releases until 2.0 so that I can take advantage of improvements to the compiler and std libraries without any additional effort.

Rust is doing exactly that.
I am painfully aware of what totalitarianism is... Should I not talk about it and warn against it until it's undeniably here? Sometimes it is very hard to figure where you would draw the line on political influence.
Yep. Lots of other people are getting this, too. And it sucks. They all seem to be server load problems, but what gets me is that some things just don't need server updates, and they do them anyway. Oh, so you need to check in with the server every time I toss a pokéball. Niantic, it's like you've never heard of caching, combining packets, and client side prediction, or anything clientside for that matter. Sure it's not as secure, but what are you more afraid of, people commiting fraud on your trivial pokeball tossing minigame, or people uninstalling your crashy, broken game, because you didn't understand that releasing a good, free game based on one of the most popular game series the world has ever known would result in a lot of popularity, and that you maybe should have optimized for bandwith? Mmm. I can almost taste the lag.
Functional calls are not handled, which is part of the problem. There are several working examples in the x86-to-6502 repository. Please add more examples and help with additional translation.
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why would i use voltdb? serious question. this is the first time i hear about voltdb.

i mean, i can use a postgres or mssql cluster for SQL needs and/or i can use riak/... for kv and/or cassandra/... for column indexed storage and/or ... etc. why should i look at voltdb?
There has not been much announced in way of what Microsoft intends to do with LinkedIn, so you haven't missed much. The acquisition hasn't gone through yet.
You also have a lot of rich people in Mountain View. They have NIMBY attitude and money to do something about it.
Yes, I did see leanpub and liked it, but they didn't support sphinx, which is what I knew at the time. Didn't know that they took complete .epub will put that on my list.

Btw, curious what country?
Are you sure the login flow used the official flow API and not collected the login credentials themselves to "helpfully" register the user?

I haven't used to app so I have no idea, just a thought.
Yes, there is a contract clause for the product.
> We need a period of time that isn't coincident with a huge recession before we celebrate this too much.

The most recent recession ended the same year the ACA was passed, the annual average cost growth rates, for private insurance and both major public programs, after the ACA are lower than the 5 year period containing that recession and the passage of the ACA, and even moreso lower than the 5 year period before that (during which there was no "huge recession".) [0]

[0] Figure 4 in TFA.
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This tutorial helped me with generating Gerbers since the Jeremy Blum video didn't really help me there

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/using-eagle-board-layou...
If we're plugging, I'm very partial to Hovercraft, which throws a wrapper around impress.js, and provides a proper presenter's console as part of the rendered HTML/JS: https://github.com/regebro/hovercraft
Well that would be hard because Swift doesn't have a standard library comparable to other languages - most of the things you're used to there is provided the Cocoa. Which also puts a big question mark over the cross-platform lip service - without a good standard library you won't be able to decently write cross-platform software. Just like it was pointless to use ObjC beforehand due to dependence of libraries on Apple OS only frameworks.
Aspirational economies of scale and future technologies developed by others do not change the fact that you have chosen to pour your life energy into selling gasoline from the back of a fleet of pickup trucks.
That's great for you, but for the "young people" coming out of school it's just not the reality. I left school (highest honors, 4 semesters of work experience, stem degree)with 2 offers, both 100% static.

Perhaps people with computer science degrees from the best of the best schools have that luxury, but for the rest of us even an interview in this market is often times asking for too much (and continues to be even over a year out).
Pokemon Go is a triumph of storytelling
Not surprising given the incredible overwhelming number of people trying to play the game. I knew it would be huge, I never imagined it would be the phenomenon it is. (Go to a park at lunch or after work if you don't know what I'm talking about. Any park in the country.)
I am considering very much the same question — in fact, I got here via an HN search for 'AWS Lambda'. I am currently using Heroku + Heroku Postgres, but increasingly feeling overcharged and not entirely impressed.

At the moment I'm weighing up Amazon RDS Postgres plus either Lambda/API Gateway or Elastic Beanstalk.
They acknowledge that. That was their point, that in both scenarios you get that downside but then pointed out a series of upsides of being on the actual Google Campus.

Did you stop reading halfway through the sentence?
Sorry for the insult... but you guys really should have tested this across browsers before it even shipped.
You have no logical grounds for your first sentence. As a result everything else collapses. Meaning is whatever a person defines to have value to them in a material world. They enjoy rape, the it provides meaning. You can't tell them they're wrong because it hurts others abstractly, and can't concretely if that's part of what makes it so meaningful to them.

There is nothing stopping someone from being a great white shark aside from the threat of violence from the group. If someone can figure out how get around that, like with home made genetic manipulation for viruses, well, they get to have their own meaning spread across the world.
Geology has to be better. It'd flood.
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I wonder if parts of it were used in TF2 updates since that hasn't gotten an update in a while
Is the button that takes me to login with Google account the same as using a Google email address to create an account?
I've also run across Squirrel (or a variant of it) on Electric Imp (an IoT/embedded platform): https://electricimp.com/docs/squirrel/
"But the cosmos exists! Consider who created it!"

The difference to me is in being satisfied with an answer that you accept on faith vs one you can prove, though things like many-worlds possibly confound this exploration.
PowerPoint, for all platforms (not just OS X and iOS) is developed at that office too. PowerPoint has actually been in the bay area since it was acquired.

The Web TV stuff was sold to Ericcson a few years ago, and they moved to an office in San Jose at the end of 2015.

I think the Sunnyvale office was mostly teams working on Bing, as well as handful of smaller acquisitions.
Not that Im aware of. They might privately license it if asked. I mainly bring it up as something worth cloning by FOSS team given there's plenty details in paper. Meanwhile, look up Magnus Myreen's publications and software as they're on a row with verified everything.
Sure, I made a mistake. I was using prior knowledge of Framingham/the region that I didn't spell out in my first comment. I should have done that, but I was lazy and it didn't occur to me. Happy? I spelled it out in the next comment to explain the basis of the previous one, which I felt was sufficient. Evidently it wasn't; because you want explicit admission of fault. Here you go.
Normally next to the ocean is not a good place to dig deep. But I guess with enough money you can solve most problems.
The Tokyo's Sky City episode of Extreme Engineering has a lot of information on Taipei 101 (more interesting than the Sky City part frankly).
Which is why insurance, unlike casino chips, has cash deductibles.

The uninsured rate has decreased from 16% to 9%, so there are now a significant more number of people insured that were not before.