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Don't large corporations switch to a statically typed languages when their code base grows? (FB tried Hack, Google still uses Java(Ads)/C++, Netflix using Java) Personally I felt the same when dealing with large code base. Does this apply to anyone else too out here? I'm really curious to know how much of the main revenue generating and critical code are in a statically typed language.

That being said, I love python and its the goto language when it comes to shell scripting replacement/quick internal web applications/dev ops stuff etc.
The actual practice of writing programs is, a few outliers aside, incredibly different in 2016 as compared to 1966.

(And even just looking at languages, Fortran 2008 is hardly recognizable as compared to FORTRAN IV)
offtopic: has wired stopped blocking adblock users?
And so can IDE generated code from drag and drop controls.

Visual Studio and many others have this out of the box but there's plenty of companies that do well selling exactly this like telerik.

I personally don't and been doing it the "hard way" since the beginning because it feels less confining. And I don't want to rely on an IDE to build something. Plus the code it generates was always kind of kludgy.
So they have Wal-Mart in Germany, or did he get his degree in Germany and then return to the U.S. and do his research there?
The game's technical issues aside, I'm sure that Niantic/The Pokemon Company executives would not agree with what you said. Pokemon Go is a worldwide success and the top grossing app in both iOS and Google Play stores.
David Chang himself throws me for a Strange Loop. On the one hand he is a genius and I'm so intrigued by his take on food, but then he'll talk about how he loves gas station hotdogs or orange chicken from Panda Express. I love that he can be pretentious in his unpretentiousness.

If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend the PBS series The Mind of a Chef. The first season is all about David Chang, narated by Anthony Bourdain. It's on Netflix and at least the Ramen episode is on Daily Motion.
Really great article. I think I had some kind of weird meta-experience reading it where I was reminded of Godel, Escher, Bach in the unfamiliar context of cooking. I'm sure the author of this article would've appreciated that (as well as the author of G.E.B.).
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I read this acquisition as trying to take over as much of internet traffic "market share" as possible. Verizon is well into the online advertising game with AOL, so the larger piece of the pie they own the more control they have, and thus the better for them on the long term.

It makes sense. The best buyer had to be someone that isn't Google or Facebook but is significantly invested in online advertising.
> they're in between a rock and a hard place.

This is completely OT, but I've always enjoyed the spanish version of that idiom: "entre una espada y la pared" (between a sword and the wall).
With dice, each roll is independent of the others. With earthquakes, the probability of an earthquake occurring in any given year is (almost always) dependent on how long it has been since the last event. That is represented by the hazard function in the post (lambda t). I say 'almost always' because for a few distributions the hazard rate is constant with time.

An interesting thing about the hazard function with earthquakes is that it isn't always monotonically increasing; I've done this analysis on some other faults that show a very high hazard in the years to decades after an earthquake, and then the hazard drops down and doesn't recover until the far right tail of the distribution. This reflects temporal clustering of earthquakes, which is something we're gradually becoming aware of.
I disagree entirely. I didn't quite grow up quite in a trailer park, but close enough. I even served some time in a fundie "school" that was 30 people K-12. That this guy came from a disadvantaged background and went somewhere despite a lack of education mattered a lot to me.

I was lucky to get involved with computers, which at the time were something where you could pick up on your own and still end up with a good career. I don't know where I'd be without that; surely not with a doctorate doing research. Seeing this guy make it as far as a major scientific discovery warms my heart.

I hope his story inspires kids everywhere to persevere. And that gatekeepers everywhere think about the people they're excluding because they don't have the right pedigree. Without the University of Gottingen's willing to gamble, his talent could well have gone to waste.
If it was my e-mail provider (like, the one I manage, based in Germany) they could bloody try. We keep our mouths well shut until the day we're presented with a court order. And we already had some major abuse cases with foreign countries. We only complied with one (had to) where someone imported explosives and border police was... quite unhappy.
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Well the Titan X is a new chip: GP102. So they could have picked and chosen features from either GP100 (professional Tesla) or GP104 (consumer GeForce).

We know almost certainly it has lower FP64 perf than GP100 because it has 22% fewer transistors and the FP64 units take a lot of transistors count. However it is less clear about what the FP16 performance is. Nvidia could have decided to match GP100 on that regard.
I am 39. I feel this way every few years. I look back on the previous few years and realize that the ideas/goals that I had, I did not accomplish. I then start to look for new ways to accomplish them. I still have a 8-5 that I need to pay my bills.

So I start with the 1 hour a day idea. Goto work, come home, eat dinner with the family. Then I get 1 hour to do whatever I want. No interruptions.

Then, well, it is Friday, perhaps I can take my 1 hour and goto bed an hour later, now I have 2 hours.

Saturday and Sunday, maybe I can do 4 hours.

Oh, back to Monday - Thursday, 1 hour.

This makes me feel that:
1. maintaining my 8-5. Bills paid. Wife is happy.
2. I have time each and every day for my goals/ideas. Some more than others.
3. I am making forward progress.
4. I don't think about my 8-5 holding me back, because it isn't anymore.

What do I do during my time:
1. code
2. EDM
3. read about things that interest me.

When I was struggling years ago with an 8-5 that I hated but needed to keep. I bought a good pair of headphones and I used them everyday. I felt that it kept me motivated (I could pump though them any type of music I wanted, mood dependent) and it kept me a bit isolated from co-workers and I could just focus on work. Sometimes distractions cause you to be stressed because it increases the time it takes and therefor you feel behind in your day instead of on pace.

One last thought. Can you get some exercise? For me, if I can I just feel better.

Keep your chin up!
Why do people still build business process tools when they could point and click in Salesforce?
>I don't support any side, I'm just trying to show that the first comment regarding consistency is indeed accurate, Twitter has none.

No argument here. Twitter's inconsistent, if not outright apathetic about abuse no matter where it comes from. It's been pointed out there's no shortage of harassment and abuse from people on the left on Twitter. Maybe not at the rate and volume of the "alt-right" types, but it doesn't matter. Twitter needs to clean house.
But that could be represented with an int, right? Why float?
That research does not exist, because it's astoundingly narrow and this topic is immensely difficult to research, in general, let alone compound some kind of review or whatever it is you're looking for.

Have you tried Googling? Here are some interesting results (keep in mind science is almost never a home run; that is, you're not going to ever find a study that's like, "We definitively solve this problem for all time and for all mankind"):

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephen_Tallman/publication/228123261_Effects_of_International_Diversity_and_Product_Diversity_on_the_Performance_of_Multinational_Firms/links/00b7d5267dc1adc6d2000000.pdf

http://asq.sagepub.com/content/44/1/1.short

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/diversity-work-group-performance

http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/why-diversity-matters

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-diversity-makes-us-smarter/

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/why-does-lack-of-gender-diversity-hurt-performance

http://enewsline.aacsb.edu/diversity-in-groups-can-improve-innovation-and-performance.asp

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053482209000795

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212567114001786
50 years from now, I can't imagine people driving cars as we do today. I do know that human-operated cars are old, but it does not mean that we can't do better nowadays.
I found that choosing to build a family has been the most rewarding decision I've made, including a couple failed startups and an adequately successful venture. Learning and growing have always been objectives for me, but the big picture of learning to be a husband and parent have brought tremendous meaning, purpose, and vision to my life.
Are you using their shared IPs or do you have a dedicated one?
Yes, but that's not my point. My point is these torrent sites have links, not just hashes.
The simplest method is time and materials. It integrates well with unfamiliar clients, open ended requirements like "overcoming difficulties" and vague boundaries like "administrative tasks" because it avoids disputation over contract scope.

There are other methods related to perceived value. These have the potential for greater upside and greater downside.

Good luck.
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Interesting. There is a lot here that runs counter to expectations.

For one thing, NYC is still more expensive than San Fran.

For another, there are a bunch of cities more expensive than Detroit.

Still, quite interesting. I'd love them to overlay some other factors:

1. Growth in rents

2. Price/rent ratio

3. Total cost of renting or ownership

4. Variance in rent within a city
Indeed. It would be even better if it were translated into English from whatever hybrid internet-speak language this is.
I disagree. It was classism and credentialism that almost kept him out of science. What's amazing is that through perseverance and luck he overcame that exclusion. The story contradicts the just-world implications of classism, and so I believe this article doesn't perpetuate it; it cuts against it.
No, I think the failure is to realize that you might have a huge userbase of assholes, but assholes still have money advertisers want.

If you want to build a tolerant community, you build it. You don't take an existing one and try to put the screws to it until it becomes what you want.

And if you want a diverse and female inclusive culture, you build one, you don't do it by taking an existing group and cracking down the cohesive elements they've developed.
This is the game that taught me time management skills as a wee lad. I think it has held up remarkably well after all these years too.
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Same experience here - we were migrated without warning 3 days ago and the majority of outgoing messages were subsequently deferred for 12 hours or more. When we reported the issue we were basically told they would be delivered eventually. No offer to migrate our traffic or to compensate us in any way.
If this is related to the problems at Reddit it is only so tangentially, but my feelings on that site have been very mixed since I deleted my account there. I think that the subreddit structure and making it "a community of communities" showcases both the best and the worst of audience bubbles. At their best, like-minded people share interesting things with each other, build communities, and even form friendships. At their worst, they become echo chambers that are almost as liable to turn on themselves as they are on outsiders.

I've heard people make the case that audience bubbles are bad for society at large, because they narrow down what kinds of conversations people have. But ever since leaving Reddit, I've noticed my own outlook on life improving. I think that audience bubbles cause an individual harm, similar in kind to that reported by people who de-convert from extremist religious or political ideologies.

I wonder how much better off people would be if social networks implemented some kind of "group hug" algorithm that made posts less likely to spread if they were too in-groupy, and made people more likely to receive posts from wider and wider venn diagarams of adjascent audience bubbles the more insular their own posts seemed to be. You wouldn't even have to force people to confront antagonistic views, just make them more likely to see more moderate ones.
Consider the types of goals you have pursued, what effect these have had on you, and those you'd like to pursue:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/07/18/pushing-and-pulling-goa...

It's becoming neglected at this point, but the archives are solid: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com

Helps one cultivate a little perspective and introspection.

Maybe read Yates' Revolutionary Road. TL;DR is that having a self image and/or dreams that don't match your actual ambition, commitment, and situation is fucking poisonous. Read the novel though, if you've got time.

Think about how you can be happy. Like, what happiness even is or would be for you. Consider consulting: Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus and other Epicureans, Ecclesiastes. Try Eastern sources if you like, but be aware it's much harder to sort the wheat from the crystal-healing-easy-zen chaff than it is with Western works. Don't expect too much with anything short of a sustained, intense, difficult struggle over years or decades—in other words, lower your the expectations of what you'll get out part-time work on material aimed at monks who immersed themselves in this stuff all the time. It can be really good even just dipping your toes in it, but don't expect magic or quick solutions—or solutions at all, for that matter.
The thing is they're not really apathetic. They seem to pick a target once in a while and go overboard with the retaliation. And it seems to be just out of the blue for no specific reason other than the mood of the day.
I find this project quite interesting.

Do you think it could provide a good development environment?

I was thinking that with something like Eclipse che this could be useful when traveling
If it was another company doing this, there might be a chance it is meaningful. Google is not that company, however. They started and killed visual programming projects before, dumping everyone's data. The last one was called App Inventor. At least they made the code open source so MIT could write App Inventor 2 based on it. The best thing they could do to make me think Project Bloks will be meaningful is to give it to another company in a similar fashion. Otherwise I expect they would just kill it next year anyway like other projects of theirs.
Why do people play D&D instead of WoW?

Perhaps, in part, because one allows for a greater expressiveness -- albeit with a little more planning and cognitive load.
Wow that is ridiculous, I had no idea. Thanks for the link. I guess "normal" Pokemon rules don't apply, perhaps that's why I've been having trouble!
I think this is the future. One device that works everywhere. Ubuntu tried it unsuccessfully. I doubt this one will succeed either. But eventually someone will.
> There is no privacy online and no alternatives to Skype that we can get anyone to use.

WhatsApp is used by 1 billion people worldwide, so no, this is completely false.
One of the creators here. Fair point regarding expectations. But I'm pretty sure if we had said "SaaS tools" people would have been thrown off since there's a fair amount of non-SaaS. And the subjective words are submitted by people who've used the products, so they're more feedback than anything- we probably should have made that clear in the UI.
Marissa Mayer has done some things to try and right the ship initially.

1. Reduce flex time or work from home: The logic on doing this was questioned at the time, but working with your colleagues in a confined space has proven to be beneficial (Pixar, Yahoo, almost any start up)

2. Developing child care policies that included having the kid be close to her (or this could be Marissa Mayer).

However, she allowed herself to become a larger than Yahoo personality. How many articles were about her describing her life, things she did, she was promoting her brand, not that of Yahoo. She then fell into the acquisition trap of getting Tumblr.
Can anyone comment on the likelihood of being able to create this for the amount they propose?

I have been burned by hardware devices on kickstarter, and I have heard my hardware friends say that it is much harder, and sometimes they can tell right away that they cannot deliver the product for the amount raised.

I don't know if that is true here or not. Just wondering if someone knows if this can be done.

(I know, keyboards and monitors already exist.)
Which book, the Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis?

The thing is, he worked really hard to avoid calculus because it was too new and not widely accepted. Whenever he could give an argument without calculus, he would. It is hard to read but because he's trying to write calculus in the style of Euclid. So most proofs that would involve limits or derivatives would be written in a really roundabout way in terms more familiar to people at the time used to Euclid's geometry. This style of argument survives today in relics such as the geometric proof that lim sin(x)/x = 1 as x -> 0:

http://math.stackexchange.com/a/75151

Not only supermen were able to read the Principia, as obviously it was read and its ideas spread far and wide, but perhaps modern supermen would be required in order to see the actual calculus behind the veil of Euclid that Newton had to cast it at the time.

I actually do read an English translation of the Principia from time to time for bedtime reading, and it's not that impenetrable.
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>Here's what I see, over and over again: Trump does something that is not exactly racist but ambiguous enough to be interpreted as such.

By far the most plausible explanation for that behavior is that he is in fact a racist. However, you've made it clear that you won't believe Trump is a racist unless he goes on TV and says "I am a racist". By your standards of proof, hardly any racists exist in the entire USA. It's also inaccurate, by the way, to say that birthirism is driven by partisan politics. The mainstream of the Republican party never touched it, and it was not a component of McCain's campaign. It's driven by people who don't like the fact that the current President isn't an old white dude. After all, McCain himself really wasn't born in the USA, but no-one ever made much of that.

My own preference for POTUS would be someone who, say, doesn't retweet bogus crime statistics by white supremacists, or promulgate factually inaccurate and highly incendiary stereotypes of Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists. You may be ok with a POTUS who does those things. If you are, then there is probably not much point in us having a discussion.

By the way, it might surprise you to know that you also have confirmation bias. (As confirmation bias is something that we all have, it tends to be a bit of a double-edged sword, rhetorically speaking.) I can see that you are not going to accept that Trump is a racist simply because you interpret all the evidence on the assumption that he is not. However, the alternative hypothesis you're outlining is that he's someone who cynically exploits racial tensions for political gain. That is hardly any better.
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1. The Bible. It encourages me to live in a way that's also good for others, especially when I'm feeling selfish and cynical, and it teaches me how to interact with them in a healthy way (e.g. the book of Proverbs).

2. The Elements of Style. I always enjoyed writing, but at first school taught me to write in a flowery, longwinded way. This was the book that cracked the code for me to good writing. It dispelled a lot of self-serving and ultimately self-defeating habits and paved the way to clean, helpful English. When I finally got into programming in my late twenties, I found that many of the same principles make good code.

3. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. This is like the Elements of Style but for graphs. Again, it encouraged me to cut through the hype and deliver the content as clearly and succinctly as possible --- to serve the reader, not stroke my ego.
> And, worst of all, they took a beloved franchise and essentially gutted it, which is a huge disappointment to everyone who's loved Pokemon since the '90s.

So like every other non-core Pokémon game? People forget almost every non-core game aside from Stadium has bombed or gone unnoticed.

I'm not worried about Nintendo as much as I am worried about Niantic. Nintendo will make tons of money again this year with Sun and Moon and I am sort of suspicious GO will get that game a couple more sales (I personally will get it because of GO bringing back my interest). It seems Nintendo can release and re-lease anything Pokémon related and make a profit. They recently put the original three games (Red, Blue, and Yellow) on the 3DS virtual store with the ability to transfer your Pokémon from there to Sun and Moon (crazy!) and probably made some good money even if that cost almost nothing to do.

Niantic is the company that has something to prove and the way they handle the new few months will be crucial.
Ecosystem changes are only deadly to a company if they don't adapt to them.

Before videogames, Nintendo made playing cards. The console-locked model has been profitable for them for decades, but I wouldn't cash my chips out on them failing to make the roll to mobile just yet.
Good idea! We originally had the descriptions there for the options but that gave away the answer. Showing the description once you answer would be helpful, we'll add that.
Are there graphical languages that advocates like?

The only graphical language that I've encountered professionally is LabVIEW, and I've yet to see an instance/programming style where it has been superior for anything but quick prototyping.

A language that's editable in both flowchart and traditional formats could be very useful, if executed in a way that doesn't cripple the traditional side of things.
It's also encoded in the return type of the function, so you get static type checking -- a property not present for exceptions.
Whoops, I was.
Milo was temporary banned, at least three times, and had his verification revoked. You can't say he wasn't warned.
It's also a total bore if you live in a rural area.
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This game was interesting in that you become really powerful, like the traditional video game protagonist, but you are bested not by literal monsters but by an increased awareness of the suffering of people around you. You solve problems by being there for people and guiding them with your insights. Really perspective changing for me; realizing there are constant opportunities to help other people that are mostly ignored.
No, we're talking about applying the violence historically used against literal fascist marches against people online he's declared to be his enemies, because "the only things fascists respond to is violence". We're talking about an online culture where it doesn't matter if the targets are actually neo-Nazis or conservatives or anything else, because disputing any accusation against them no matter how trivially falsifiable marks you as supporting them. Our political discourse is in a dangerous place and I see no way out anymore.