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> It's always amazed me how much England is a polic state with information and the internet while being firmly in West as far as democracy and in the line of history that that extends back to the Greeks.

The Athenians had a violent state periodically ruled by dictators (tyrants). Sparta was a weird totalitarian state. Both were tribalist most similar to the Wahhabis. The common culture they brought with them when they invaded Greece would be familiar in lots of countries (e.g. the women were in purdah).

And England has been a prime factory for totalitarianism for centuries: consider Bentham's Panopticon and what country Orwell lived in. And they are the inventors of the modern concentration camp...
I presume you have got your mental health issues handled. If not, then that should be your first priority.

The opportunity at MS is fantastic. Just complete your degree and work at MS for a couple of years. With that under your belt you are well on track to a great career.

It might seem like a lot of effort and time. But in 10 years time you will view it as an investment with excellent returns. In general, having experience at a "brand name" company is a very big plus when taking future steps along your career path.

BTW: on what basis are you unhappy with the quality of curriculum? Have you checked with MS and/or Google how they view your current college? Ask if they would recommend going to a different one.
I suspect that the most important difference between great and typical engineers is that the great ones make a better product, not that they make it faster. If my hunch is correct, worrying about concepts like "10x" is missing the point.
Even if it isn't the mythical 10x ratio, hiring somebody that can do 3 times more than the next person is a no-brainer. Although I honestly wonder if that baseline is dragged down so hard by all the people that really can't do the job they are supposed to be doing. Programming is hard, and doing it well is even harder. "Everyone can code" movements are great propaganda, but I'll be honest, I've never known anybody that actually could code who wasn't a couple of standard deviations smarter than the average Joe or Jane.
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And it if I understand OpenBSD goal correctly, they take any kind of edge they can get to find those missed parts.

Their formula for what is worth essentially boils down to "if this approach can find at least one bug no other approach would do it, we will use it".
Most people using this probably have homebrew installed, which makes /usr/local writable for the main user.
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I believe the problem there is that you can't define what "clear evidence" is, until the trial, when it's already been collected.

This gives policemen some really bad incentives to follow through on. Currently, the penalty for obtaining evidence illegally(or suppressing exculpatory evidence) is a slap on the wrist, so LEOs would have an incentive to collect as much evidence as possible, ignoring due process violations, because there's always a chance that evidence is ruled "clear evidence" at trial.

You would have to institute severe penalties for police officers, and then you are likely to end up with a law that has little effect in practice, except for corruption - LEOs will shy away from using it, except in cases where they know they can get away with it(bought prosecutor/judge, friendly jury, etc), or, admittedly, in cases where they really believe they're catching The Bad Guy(tm). The problem with this kind of law is that it has little effect for the majority of people(except for the headline that we caught one more Bad Guy(tm) per year using it), but it usually ends up as a tool to oppress minorities or those with deviant political and social views, as those are the ones a jury is most likely to be biased against.

Consider also that most criminal cases actually end with a plea bargain pre-trial. There is no jury to argue in front of in most of them, so all you'd have in front of you is evidence that the prosecutor is claiming to be "clear evidence"(still unproven), and your overworked PD telling you that the likelihood of the prosecutor not getting a conviction is in the single digits. You would have to allow judges to rule on whether something is "possibly clear evidence", but judges naturally favor the prosecution(most judges are ex-prosecutors, and they are usually on friendly terms with prosecution/police officers).

Due process is already trampled daily, without this "clear evidence" law that you propose. Police officers fabricate justifications for stops and searches out of thin air, prosecutors violate Brady by hiding exculpatory evidence(so much so that Chief Judge Kozinski highlighted it in a dissent - http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/epidemic_of_brady_vio...), trials take a stupidly long amount of time, PDs are exhausted, overworked and underpaid, etc. Your theoretical addition to it won't really make a significant impact - there's a million other ways for prosecutors to get a conviction, this will just be one extra tool in the toolbox. It won't be making the situation much worse, but it'd still be worse.
> The only reason iOS can do this reasonably well is because the actual resolution is exactly 2x or 3x the resolution presented to the software.

On the iPhone 6+, this is not accurate. Most apps are rendered to a 1242 × 2208 pixel resolution (3× the “logical” 414 × 736 resolution) and then downsampled to the screen’s physical 1080 × 1920 resolution afterward.

On OS X, the default behavior for “retina” displays is to render everything precisely to screen pixels at 2x the “logical” size, but users can alternatively select a different virtual display size, whereupon all content will be resampled for display.

> theres also not much evidence that resampling from arbitrary virtual to physical resolutions will actually look good

Every photographic or video image you look at on your computer or phone has been resampled to different pixel grids several times in the course of its production, and is typically resampled one final time when rendered to screen. There is thus lots of evidence that we can relatively seamlessly resample just about everything, and only dedicated pixel peepers will care strongly.

As for non-photographic content like line art, maps, text, rendered video game output, etc., we could just render these directly to a different grid.
Ah, okay. I guess I misunderstood precisely how it worked. I haven’t actually ever used an iPhone 6+ myself. Thanks for the correction.

Still though, the point remains that most apps use the setting with resampling and most users don’t seem to obviously mind.
Rather than a homegrown script, I use: http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/gwx_control_panel.ht...

It works fantastic for me, haven't had any GWX issues since I installed it. Having said that, I don't use OneDrive, so can't say whether it affects it or not.
> See you are arguing that only a monopoly is illegal and unethical.

No I'm not; what gave you that impression?
Its whatever works for every person, but I'll throw in my own experiences and say, that by taking a detour into Ocaml I was actually greatly aided in understanding Haskell. And that having spent a great deal of time with a number of Lisps. I had grabbed a copy of RWH, dug into it, been a little defeated at first, took a studious detour through RWOcaml and have returned to Haskell with a clearer view. Again, to each their own, my own experience was actually the opposite of your statement.
These older databases often allow the use of indexes as an option. Of course ISAM (Indexed Sequential Access Method) is indexed. But also it is often possible to add indexes to the networked database internal structures. An alternative is to use hash tables with overflow. In any case you must usually periodically scan through the database reorganizing the indices and/or location of records, which can take up a lot of time and usually requires taking the database offline. Here's a good read(first is PDF):

https://www.google.com/url?q=http://advsys.net/ghs/publicati...

or the same paper at Google Books:

https://books.google.com/books?id=YqM3pqFVt8IC&pg=PA8&lpg=PA...
also, if you want a URL to stay private, don't email it to anyone using a cloud email service (including yourself)...
Aha! Very cool; should look deeper. Don't know if there is any ultimate connection, but the fact that LuaJit and Torch7 go together invites exploration.
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It's a terrible myth that someone who is misinformed started.

You didn't actually read the article, did you? Look at the image right after it [0]. Look at the shading on Samus and the pillar nearby. This image clearly demonstrates that the original artwork was designed to achieve a dithering-like effect due to the presence of colour bleeding in the signal. This effect occurs even on higher-end CRTs. What you are complaining about is the bloom effect of the phosphors, a separate phenomenon.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/TpAc9Cn.png
I need to write a browser extension that hides HN comments that include the word 'clickbait'...
so, this post is basically just an ad, just sayin
markdown files probably ?
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Renting from Enterprise in Anchorage (who were pissed that I had been picked up from the airport and taken to a 'near downtown' branch - clearly for locals, because the rental rates were also half the price of the airport branch)...

When I said I wanted to waive the "optional" (to the extent that even their own printed paperwork said "not required to rent the vehicle") waivers and reduced/no deductibles (because between my fire/EMS vehicle insurance and credit cards, all their harbingers of doom about how I might not actually be covered weren't applicable), they outright refused.

"No, to reduce fraud if you want to waive our insurance, you actually have to open a claim with your insurer so we know that it will be covered"... Uhh??? Apropos of how nonsensical this is, isn't "opening an insurance claim without an incident sounds kinda ... fraudulent ... to me". "Sorry sir, policy."

Whatever, needed a vehicle, paid the extra, came back the next day to speak to the manager. CSR who was there the day before butted in, "Oh, no sir, you must have misunderstood me!". Outright lies. I was so tempted to send my girlfriend in later to try to catch them out again.

But most of the time, fairly painless. But when not so, then very painful.
currently I'm into switching all keyboards to same model in work and at home (muscle memory boost)
Some services run as threads in a shared process (svchost) to save some ram because windows has many services. You can see them using Process Explorer from sysinternals.
svchost.exe (i.e "service host"), is a technique for grouping several services into one process.
The goal is to avoid spawning one process per service, saving some memory.

I believe today the gains are outweighted by the costs of this technique: memory isn't really the limitation factor anymore.
On the other hand, grouping several mostly unrelated services in the same process is a security and stability issue.
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I have to agree. His FlightCar experience was demanding a new luxury sedan (his complaint about booking some and getting a 2004 A4 is valid)... and complaining that a car rental might be $100, not $10, a day.

(I do realize that the two examples weren't the same instance.)
BS. It still takes motivation to use the gift.
Congratulations. I enjoyed the clear, transparent blog post, although my fundamental question "Will they shut down the service in the mid-to-long term or force us to become an Atlassian customer?" took some time to get an answer to.

I also felt their blog post was all about their journey, which while interesting doesn't really present any value for us as a customer. It would have been nice to know why the acquisition is in the customers' best interest rather than only the founders' (of course both are important).
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Yes, the point I made about HK/mainland and WeChat applies equally to HK/Western and WhatsApp/FB.
Seriously? The topics in the second half of the class are what turned R into something notable. People would still be jerking around with Matlab or SAS (and getting poorer results in many cases) if Gentleman hadn't decided that microarrays were kinda interesting.

(Kids today! Get off my lawn! Rabble rabble)
Maybe because Jupyter has already more than 70 kernels and got adopted before other notebooks appeared (Beaker, Spark, Zeppelin)?
It would be interesting to have biographical sketches of the best and worst developer in this study.
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The guy's insinuation that your achievements were fueled by chemicals is wrong. I know many people who developed their willpower, made a decision and did something, no chemicals involved. I myself don't depend on (or even enjoy) caffeine or even sugar to get stuff done. I get it done better when I enjoy it. Often the trick is to start doing something small where it's safe to fail ... and as you start doing it, you get more ideas and soon you're in the zone.

Russians have a saying: appetite comes when you start eating.

PS: Also, he writes "I don't make spelling / grammar mistakes" soon after writing:

There’s no doubt that I’d rather surround myself with go-getters who say what they do and never take yes for a reason why not.

Ugh.
Human nature changes constantly, because our nature is determined by culture. Culture is the difference between a society built on hate and fear and one built on mutual love and trust; human societies have taken these forms and many others. And yes, "technology" is part and parcel of culture and our nature. The people of today are hyper aware, part of and responsible to a global culture. They are vastly different from the serf of a thousand years ago or the hunter of ten thousand.
This part was really interesting:

"Giles Slade, in his book “Made to Break,” traces the term “planned obsolescence” to a 1932 pamphlet, circulated in New York, titled “Ending the Depression through Planned Obsolescence.” The term gained currency in 1936, through a similarly themed essay in Printer’s Ink, “Outmoded Durability: If Merchandise Does Not Wear Out Faster, Factories Will Be Idle, People Unemployed.”

I think it's interesting that people thought up the idea of planned obsolescence as a way to crawl out of the Great Depression. It wasn't seen as a bad thing to make things disposable but a good thing to help the working class of the time.

Good. But that bring up something else. What kind of instrument will people think up so as to allow people to be useful (productive) in a society that can automate most tasks and put a great many people in the developed world (and possibly the majority of people in the undeveloped world).

I mean, people had the best of intentions in mind when they came up with those ideas --which we now see as wasteful and look at with chagrin.
The thing is, in this case you can easily inspect the shell script that they're running with that curl command.
Type in jupyter notebook the %qtconsole magic!
I think I might be missing the point of the article. It just seemed to be a bit of a rant (not very pleasant one at that). Is the author saying that people that perform well are born that way, so shouldn't be rewarded?
It's too late. Too bad you couldn't invest while they were growing. They've hit a wall and it doesn't seem like they'll be able to expand outside of Taiwan/Japan
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remember, folks, there's no such thing like planned obsolescence!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
Am in Thailand and everyone has Line. I have all the relevant messengers and really not much pain switching between them. What I can't understand is how WhatsApp squandered its early lead. This IPO represents their failure capturing the market. Had they really executed, they could have owned mobile chat.
Is it just me or he sucks at presenting an argument. I read the whole thing and am still not clear exactly what he is trying to say.

He keeps equating hard work or success with height. What's the point? You are either born to be successful or not? Your hardwork isn't something you did, it was something you were born with?
I prefer using the screen corners, e.g. Preferences > Mission Control > Hot Corners. I've got the bottom left corner set to "Put display to sleep".

For me this works much better than any shortcuts or icons — when you're going away from the machine, just move the cursor to the bottom left corner, and after a couple of seconds the machine turns on the screensaver (or no screensaver, just screen off in my case, as I'm not using a screensaver) and locks the machine (as I've got my settings to lock the machine when the screensaver turns on.
I like the idea of executable cells for developing.

It's been a couple of years since I played around with Jupyter notebooks, but then I got frustrated quite soon:

Stepping outside my preferred editor (vim) was annoying, likewise I had no idea if (how?) I could export the code out of notebook to a regular .py text file (without clumsily copypasting each cell). And the .ipynb files itself seem quite terrible to manage in Git: write something and if you want to 'git diff' the changes, sometimes what you see is okay, sometimes it's not very... easily decipherable. (Text encoded image/png's?!)

My preferred workflow with R is to open the files I'm working with in both RStudio (with vim keybindings) and vim.
Maybe if I just strictly restricted the use of notebook cells just for calling scripts and functions written in external files, and use the notebook as a whole just for presentation purposes, but then it wouldn't be that much an improvement over regular IPython. Any thoughts?
I also considered graphene as a candidate. Or "biofuel made from X" (with very rare and expensive catalyst).
Meh, I have all those and more, and I don't really feel it's painful switching between them.
SOM: Simple Object Machine
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I'm good at tests where you need to code fast and to a high level of quality. But there is no way is keep that speed up for 2k hours per year.

Another issue is of course the person who replays technical debt on every completed JIRA ticket will probably be a bit slower. And the person who removes lines of code and asks if a feature is really necessary is another beast. All that thinking is going to slow down your LOC per second.
I wouldn't mind being called a resource if it was short for "one who is resourceful" but we ll know that's not what it means.

Incidentally HR workers refer to themselves as "professionals".
I'm not saying anything about you here, but I feel like this is what a typical engineer would like to believe to make themselves feel better, but getting things done faster leaves more time for doing them better. Once you're at that stage, it's a simple matter of discipline.
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I'm pretty sure that I'm a "slow" developer. Not in terms of actually coming up with the core fix to a problem that I'm working on (that's actually the most straightforward part of any project) but everything else that follows. That is to say writing clean, well-tested, documented and maintainable code. Is this something to be concerned about long-term or should I just accept that my work will always take a little longer to complete than my fellow developers?
First-order nonsense. Reading through his other posts on Medium, this is not the first time.
Does it produce native executables that are easy to distribute?
Are we sure this guys account isn't satire? https://medium.com/@SellerOfDollars/on-eggs-f5a5ff3fa588
Melville "Bartlby the Scrivener" & Ramsey "When We Are No More: how Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future"

Down "Brilliant Beacons: a History of the American Lighthouse"

Koestler "Darkness Before Noon" & "The Invisible Writing" & "The Ghost in the Machine"

John Gardner - anything really but October light and the sunlight dialogs in particular.
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The second worst thing a Tunisian did today.
450 fiverr gigs.
I suspect the climate has something to do with it, over hundreds if not thousands of years.
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In addition to marketing in SF: (I work there)

Ads, Analytics, Labs (VR), various dev relations, and more.
Hey, that's exactly the sentence where I stopped reading! High five
The only viable intervention is education.

Case in point: school lunch in Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vwC51FxP10

I have an eery feeling that something like this will never fly in the US. People will complain about 'muh freedom'.
It's definitely more than a marketing gimmick. Hardware switches are a big deal. Qubes out of box is really cool. Am emphasis on using as much open source hardware as possible is excellent.

If Intel is the only vulnerability, we're doing miles better than your average device, where any of a dozen sources can compromise you.

Librem is not perfect. It's just a step forward but if we don't start somewhere the ball will never get rolling.

I'm happy to support them, and hope the next 5 years sees a decent cpu without security problems. We're moving the right direction for once.
Back to Burroughs architecture (if only!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems
> Let me guess: most of your hard work came from doing something physical like ingesting drugs like caffeine, adderall, or LSD

I agree that our biology probably plays a much bigger part in determining how productive we are than any simple behavioral change, especially of the type you typically find in self-help books and articles on 'productivity tips'.

But this doesn't necessarily mean that these biological factors are mostly fixed at birth and can only be affected through the use of stimulants. For example, regular exercise, a healthy non-inflammatory diet, and adequate sleep all have the potential to significantly improve productivity.

And even if ultimately all of this is mostly fixed and genetic, and there's nothing we can do to become more productive, I feel that it's a far healthier attitude to at least keep trying than to resign completely. Simply believing that we have zero control over our ability to work hard can become a type of self fulfilling prophecy - believing it just drives productivity even lower.
Keep on keeping on. You seem to be doing fine. You have a good base with real estate and broad market ETFs.