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My problem with these sorts of discussions is that they try to put technical know-how on the same footing as social aptitude, charisma, and other "soft skills".

I can throw darts on a map and find billions of people capable of "connectedness" and "leadership". Finding you capable "technical" talent on the other hand...

This ease is mostly due to connectedness and leadership being naturally grown out of decades of organic social interactions that people need to do in order to... you know... survive. You can accidentally reinforce these properties just by being 1.) a member of the human species and 2.) alive.

No one accidentally reinforces the understanding required to mentally maintain the thousands of arcane exceptions written by the result of C-Levels pivoting endlessly across outsourced teams for the cheapest price, compiling the world's worst spaghetti code responsible for an everything-on-the-line application.

And if this seems a bitter, then look into your own organizations and experiences: Who gets fired/quits the most? Human Resources, C-Levels, Marketing or the Technical team? Whose ass is on the line when the fires start? Who is expected to work 10+ hour days every day for all of eternity?

Looking for unicorns does not make you a unicorn hunter. It makes you delusional. A senior knows unicorns don't exist even if people look to him/her as one.
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methodonpointerotpointer is not a breaking change if you read the specs. Rust doesn't even have a formal language specification.
I've been getting into playing with Arduino's and Photons, and have some ideas that I'd like to THINK about taking to market, but all of these sort of intros seem to stop at the PCB stage. They leave off the part about how to get an enclosure made - designing one, prototyping it, injection molding, etc.

I think it's because that's where things get really expensive...
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When the network is up, it's very fun. But yeah, drawing certain UI elements seems to be dependent on the response from the server. You can tell when you're really lagging because the UI stops rendering. It also doesn't seem to have any concept of retrying dropped packets, it just gives up and you need to force-quit.
Christ almighty, why not just use SAS at that point. Ross Ihaka was so disappointed by Revolution's value-subtracted offerings that he disowned the entire R project.
Always love to see web based presentation tools.

I've been using Bespoke.js [1]. Minimal core, and drop in plugins as needed. I also made a skeleton for quickly making new decks [2].

[1]: http://markdalgleish.com/projects/bespoke.js/

[2]: https://github.com/makenew/deck-bespoke.js
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> You way involves the employer making a deduction from each paycheck and then making an ACH payment for each employee to the institution of the employee's choosing.

The other replyer already addressed the fact that companies already do this with paychecks.

With what I'm proposing, the only reason a company would even need to deal with an employee's 401K information is if they do contribution matching (which many companies don't). It's up to the individual to make the contributions from their paycheck and claim a deduction on their tax return at the end of the year.

> when buying mutual funds through your 401(k) you aren't charged any fees for trading.

They make up for that with high management fees.

> Through my IRAs at least I get charged a commission for every purchase

Not all brokerages do that. In any case, here it's a fee you're choosing to pay presumably because you get other things from that financial firm that you value. With a 401K your tax break is being held hostage in return for whatever fees your employer managed to negotiate on your behalf.
Hitchen's Razor - "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."
What about /.bots or /.ci ? Those are specific to these types of services.
http://courses.reactjsprogram.com/courses/reactjsprogrambund... like it's structured in a similar manner and it says that the React Native course is coming soon.
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Yeah, I heard about it. I think Eagle is a sinking ship. The low-end PCB design software market is going to be swallowed up by KiCAD, which has been getting much better ever since CERN decided to sponsor it.

Can't beat free and unencumbered. Thank the European taxpayer and move on, IMO. The market is going to be KiCAD at the bottom, Altium Designer / Pads / Orcad in the middle, then Zuken / Allegro / Expedition at the top.
I think it's more than that. The Minuses have a definite air that the others, more randomized, don't. I think it's a little Andy Kaufman like - much humor is ultimately malicious, and when you strip out the punchlines, you're left just with the setup in which Jon's loserdom can't be ignored.
Seriously? Any new thing has hype? New presidents, scandals, etc. You can just read over the topics and continue to upvote items that you find worth while.
How is it compared to reveal.js?

http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/
The issue is defining what it is to be "well lived". With out a sky daddy, you're pretty much unable to declare anything good or bad.

Some men want to watch the world burn. Tell me why that is wrong? You will say that human life has value. I will ask, honestly, why? From a purely reductionist perspective it doesn't. It's all just atoms. I kill cockroaches without a negative thought. There is no reason to not have the same view of people in a purely materialistic worldview.

Again, if one's aesthetics is gruesome, but enjoyable to that person, you cannot tell them they are wrong. You cannot interfere with them from an ethics perspective. They want to kill, steal and rape, you have to let them. Otherwise you're forcing an external model that you deem good onto them. We've already established that there is no actual good model.

The result is that we must accept hypocrisy. We must all realize that might makes right. The most powerful, flawed group of people are correct. They are the law.
East bay is 2 hrs from SF ?? Oakland ?
Living in Switzerland, working in Science. It's been bad, but compensated for now. But soon its going to get worse. The referendum on mass migration results has not been fully implemented, so the EU has only refused to ratify one treaty (H2020).

Once the Swiss government actually implements the anti mass migration and breaks the core of the bilateral, a lot more treaties will go on both sides. This has not happened yet, and you can feel the worry on the political, economic and academic top. The quiet before the storm is almost over. Switserland, was not even part of the single market (customs for goods is still a thing here).

Switzerland also had the advantage of buying an insane amount of euro's and is tightly bound to the success of the eurozone. The UK central bank does not have such a stockpile of euro's and is much weaker in that regards.

Switzerland, is not a good example for the UK.
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It's quite a shallow idea that right and wrong in life are exclusively related to consent. Just building on that concept (not to compare to software issues), one could say that it's fine to own slaves as long as they consent to selling themselves to you. Ethics is clearly far more complex than just the issue of consent. And that even ignores the issue that the real world is far removed from the abstract principle of consent given imperfect power balances and imperfect knowledge on each side.
Historical reasons mostly.

First, Raft wasn't a thing when we started.

Second, the consensus algorithm we use today is used for cluster membership, schema changes and other agreement purposes, but not for the main transactional path. However, in versions before 3.0 it was.

At the time, we wanted to make really different tradeoffs than something like Paxos. Namely, we wanted to be able to run with two copies, rather than the three that Paxos/Raft require. We also wanted crazy throughput and low performance variation, which are hard things to get with Paxos/Raft. The main tradeoff is that our system doesn't work well across high-latency links, which is ok with us.

Ultimately we added a second layer protocol for transactions in 3.0, and this made the transaction path not dependent on clock skew. This layer actually looks a lot like Raft, but does differ in some key ways.

We may even someday switch to Raft for the core agreement stuff, but there's a lot of work to be done for that to happen.

This link has more info about how transactions work in VoltDB:
https://voltdb.com/sites/default/files/tn-transactions.pdf
Theses reports seem pretty anecdotal. Is there some hard evidence or an official spec? Seems like a bunch of people with glitchy phones or batteries blaming the weather.
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Microsoft was at the 2016 UseR conference, they're presentation 'How Microsoft uses R presentation' was a complete sales pitch.
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I dunno about "don't change anything" with regards to Gentoo.

Frankly both Gentoo and Slackware is in the end about letting the admin/user have the final say. Even if this means blowing their virtual foot of with a virtual shotgun.

You can see this in how gentoo provides all manner of useflags that ebuilds take into account, and how slackware have no dependency enforcement.

The impression i have is that Canonical and certain DE people get in a row over trademarks and UX.

Canonical wants to present a certain UX when people use their distro, while the DE people wants a fixed experience for their DE (to the point of reshaping whole distros to their demands).

Those two goals clash.
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And yet you comment on this, and presumably read the article.
I see that Charles Schwab is listed as having 2-factor authentication via hardware token, and Citibank is listed as not having it. Both of these are only partially correct. For example, Charles Schwab allows it on their brokerage accounts, but if your company sets up your 401k with them, then it's not supported.

Citibank does support it, but only on their "Gold" accounts.
> The Standard Chartered people had to invent a new language (mu) [1] which doesn't have laziness and the horrors associated with it.

This is a terrible myth that needs to die. Mu is strict because it was designed to target a pre-existing strict runtime. Nothing at all to do with any perceived downsides of laziness, including space leaks.
It is a quite useful definition. Until it's proven, someone claiming that it's great is spewing quackery.
Well this is Claude Shannon, the "father of information theory" and "founder of digital circuit design theory", not your average grad student of back then, or today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon
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Yeah, well, I agree that people should stop using DRM, but it's not like it seems to be happening. And from a business point of view, it can be really hard to make that case.

Anyway, the world looks really bleak for open platforms right now.

The main example is Android. If you have like one toe dipped into a role related to infosec at the moment, you can't serioulsy recommend that people you work with or care for even touch mainstream Android phones. Because the patching situation is such a dumpster fire.

Even Google's Nexus crap that is getting patched, seems to be set on a 2 year lifecycle, with 2014 phones getting end of lifed a few months from now. Pretty weak sauce if Google's intention is to set any kind of example for vendor security support on Android.

My sister runs my first iPhone, a 2012 iPhone 5, fully patched. It's going to be supported for another year or two, probably.

https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705#nexus_device...

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I don't particularly want it to be this way, but I have to almost force people I care about to buy iPhones. It feels bad, especially in cases when they'd have better use for their money.

So with Apple, specifically, they're really good at the closed platform game and I don't see them getting out of that, especially if they're getting more into things like payment services or automotive. Their crypto stance really implies that they want institutional-level trust from their customers. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/03/follow-t...

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Game consoles are unlikely to quit DRM too: the only thing that'd make them stop with DRM per se is probably to make all games just streamed from the, uh, cloud. Doable... maybe soonish but that'd rule out a lot of people and use cases where the connectivity just isn't there.

That's kind of why I suggested my half-baked idea to pressure, force and shame closed platform vendors into proper legacy support as part of the "social contract". Or whatever. Not that certain "social contracts", like the ones Western countries have with banks are working out all that great at the moment.

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But as I said, this idea of mine is half baked. Someone like Apple is only part of the puzzle, since apps and games increasingly rely on server backends to work properly. It's not like Apple could save the gaming world's cultural heritage in 2030 just by offering a binary blob that runs all iPhone apps from 2010.
Yes, it does mention these things. Perhaps not early enough? The "really happens"/disasters are towards the end of Part I, and there are few project cartoons giving hints.

There's so much to cover, I started out with the formal stuff first. It seemed like a good order, but perhaps it is a bit off-putting at the beginning of the book.
>That road involves decades of trials and costs billions of dollars per approved drug.

Only because we've had time as a luxury in the past. I imagine new variants will get fast tracked. FDA bureaucrats hoping to lazy their way to retirement will be under a lot of pressure to actually get things done quickly when there's so much social need. No one wants to be the POTUS who didn't fast track life saving antibiotics if they're shown to be generally safe in early testing. The FDA is a government organization and as such is subject to the politics of our leadership and indirectly, the electorate.

The FDA has a page about this process here:

http://www.fda.gov/forpatients/approvals/fast/ucm20041766.ht...

At least 774 drugs have gone this route:

http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h4633
> What is not mentioned is a new class of antibiotics discovered in 2015

Call us when any of them survive the valley of death that kills 99%+ of substances with interesting in vitro activity to reach clinical use and the hypothetical becomes actual. In the mean time, real people are dying real deaths.
Canonical want to be in control because they are looking at trademarks etc. Also they are a small player in the pool compared to certain other companies, and thus have to fight harder to be heard.

Btw, all you need to distribute snaps is a web server afaik.
People finding meaning in religion falls under my suggestion that people find their own meaning. They find it in that religion and belief.

Now, you and they may take the opinion that their meaning exists whether I believe in it or not, and that their view is truth and my view is heresy. That's fine, they can believe that if they want to. I don't. However, my belief system has room for theirs.
Yeah, so don't make an enclosure. For one-offs and small runs, there are companies that will sell you a box - you design your PCB to fit. Way cheaper.
They do, it's just that most of the people put away for drug crimes don't have deep pockets and good legal council.
Stock buybacks have gotten popular over dividends because Shareholders ask for it not management. For the average long term institutional investor, dividends are taxed while increase in inherent value (as opposed to market value capital gains) is not taxed at all. So most large shareholders have been pushing companies to do share buybacks instead of increasing dividends for exactly this reason.
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This was demoed today on the ASP.NET Community Standup at http://live.asp.net.
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But how long is that going to take? Resistance has very high fitness in the presence of humans using antibiotics (avoiding death); resistance has very small negative fitness in the absence of humans using antibiotics (saving a tiny bit on metabolism). However long it took to evolve resistance, it'll take many times longer to de-evolve it. And given randomness, a tremendous number of copies of the resistance genes will hang around anyway so the resistance will come back even faster the second time.
This is super important for science. If we do not know the number of unpublished negative studies - we cannot be certain that the published positive studies actually mean anything and we have the problem illustrated by this xkcd:
https://xkcd.com/882/
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The only situation where buybacks are generally considered a good idea is when the company is undervalued and has sufficient profitability and cash reserves to buy back a portion of outstanding stock. This shores up the share price in the short term, and once the company is trading at higher values it can raise much more money on additional stock offerings since investors are already willing to pay a premium for the scarcer shares.

Unfortunately, asking a CEO whether their company is undervalued is like asking a barber if you need a haircut. That's how you run into situations where companies with absurd cash reserves like Apple and Microsoft are buying back their own stock, but for what purpose? They already have boatloads of cash! They don't need to raise any more!

There are plenty of simple options to deal with this. A law could require stock buybacks to be matched with dividends or taxed at a punitive rate. Alternatively, it could be mandated that buybacks require a majority of shareholder votes, thereby aligning shareholder needs with company activities.
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I have implemented this before. I have it in production right now.

The fact is people hate typing stuff from their phone into their computer. Specially if you phone is not always within reaching distance. If you have to do it with tons of different logins you will be annoyed. As long as you have 1-2 accounts its fine, but if we really want to role it out everywhere, we need something better.
What stopped a French person getting a visa to visit Ireland pre-EU membership and then walking across the border?

Or I mean, Irish citizenship rules are very lax re: US citizens of Irish descent in particular, what was to stop them migrating to the UK en masse while we were in the EU?
That's definitely one reason for the lack of step-by-step tutorials. Another one is that each product is so unique, with its own needs when it comes to later prototyping phase and then manufacturing.

Also, designing a enclosure is a completely different beast. Nowadays you would typically start out by 3D printing stuff and then later on in the process get it manufactured by injection molding. That means going to the factory and making sure that everything is set up right before they start the manufacturing the part. Again a very ad hoc procedure that's unique for every product.
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> the biblical accounts contain the direct words of Jesus

That's not really a counter argument, as what qualifies as "biblical account" was decided many hundred years after the historical events.
Sure. My point is that this is similar to what we guarantee: the compiler used to compile some code, and now it won't. As they say, "It has therefore been disallowed in Go 1.4, which is a breaking change, although very few programs will be affected." Our breaking changes have been similar.
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I got around this on my iPhone6 using a battery case :)
Nowadays, I just leave it off, though.
"But I don't think it is a path to meaning."

No, it's not the path to meaning, but it is one.
I wouldn't say it "just happened" to survive against communism, that was because Edward Bernays [1] provided the framework to produce modern propaganda (PR) to the west while the communists were still producing fairly simple and naive versions.

I'd say the race right now is between new methods of distraction and keeping the collapsing system going just a bit longer with increasingly insane economic tricks. I'm not sure a breaking point is inevitable, there might just be a reasonably smooth slide into neo-feudalism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(book)
Everything we take for granted today must have been by definition been invented previously, so any list of who-invented-what contains Great People Of The Past but doesn't contain the rank and file of those who worked in obscurity and achieved little, leaving the impression that in the past folks were smarter. It is a form of survivorship bias.
Why is he doing this with an x86 compiler. The c64 used a 6510. None of this code would ever work.

...Oh, if you jump to about halfway through he starts using an x86->65xx translator. Okay. Nice.
It sounds though, like you're upset with certain "social" complaints that some people have had with games lately, i.e. being upset about women being over sexualised in games, or what not.

If you mean with "social" anti-social complaints like hating and bullying white males [0] and the like, then yes! I oppose everything that resembles stuff like that all day every day and do not consider anyone who does not condemn this a true gamer. Because what they do is no longer about games, they just use game media as a vessel to spread their poison into the fun-loving gamer community.

Great! Imagine if there were laws to make sure those people had to disclose when, why and how they were making money associated with games!

No, I don't want to solve everything with laws. I don't want to be babysat by the state. The community should just shun the the dishonest people, foster a positive culture of honesty and build proper review facilities. We don't need the state for that. In fact, I'd argue we need anything but the state for this.

It sounds more like a bunch of people are saying things you don't agree with, and so you've decided they aren't "true gamers" so you can brush off what they're saying without having to really think about it.

Oh, yeah, totally, how did you know? I have many tiny little boxes with labels in my brain, and every time someone says something I don't like, I put them into one and lock it firmly shut so I never have to think about it again. I have no shred of intellectual integrity inside me and thrive on ignorance. Me making a distinction between true gamers and those who have hijacked some of its media for hateful messages is a manifestation of my hate for reality.

[0] http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/224400/Gamers_dont_have_t...
You are presupposing a suicide bomber somehow had a bad life. I am rejecting that assumption and saying a swat team and the person their shooting could both have lived a great life.

Following the rules of society results in lower friction, and is generally a net positive trade off. That does not mean it's always the correct path. After-all George Washington could easily have been shot as a traitor.

It may seem the strange for a hangman to respect the hanged, but morality and rules need not be 1:1.

PS: This also set's up an interesting freedom duality where someone is free to impose rules and others are free to break them. With the right set of rules you end up with a Darwinian system with huge pressures to enjoy conforming. And a safety valve of people rebelling if the rules are unacceptable. Oddly enough this actually maps fairly well to the real world.