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Carmack is smart, but that isn't what makes him interesting. He constantly re-evaluates his beliefs in the face of new facts, the vast majority of people do not do this, regardless of their intelligence.
Jeff Bezos in Star Trek Movie
> And excuses about how today's customers expect an app-like experience

Yes. If anyone has evidence of this I'd love to see it.
The "generations" are astrology signs for marketers. Make enough vague implications about a large enough group of people and enough will be "true" that they will sort of identify with it.
Delayed in favor of getting Zen to market earlier but it should still be out next year.
When I worked at Bloomberg, if you left after 12 hours in a given day, the other developers would mock you by saying:

"What--another half day?"
There's still a huge gap from $112 to having income in long term capital gains tax. Just because there are more things to do with capital gains tax reform, doesn't mean we can't have common sense reforms like this one.
I am not entirely sure how the calculations are done in order to determine the information contained in the genome of HIV, but my suspicion is that the reason this is more dense is due to the genome containing more than binary bits. I'm guessing that in the genome, for every atom that could be at a certain location in the genome, that would represent a different information state. So each location corresponds to more than a binary possibility (atom A, atom B, atom C, etc.). I think this is not the current goal as our purposes with memory storage have more constraints that merely density, what might increase density significantly could potentially decrease read/write speeds or maybe even energy required to perform read/write operations.

All of this is speculation and difficult for me to say for certain since I am not intimately knowledgeable on the topic, but that is my general guess.
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Which other web server software intended to replace nginx or apache has HTTP/2 or Let's Encrypt as built-in functions?
I used to get the afternoon doldrums. This stopped when I cleaned up my diet (little in the way of refined carbs, mostly no sugar, higher protein, more vegetables) and began regular exercise (crossfit). Now, I may get an afternoon slowdown once every few months (usually from not enough sleep).
Linux is not limited to Canonical/Ubuntu, and even if you do use Ubuntu, that is opt-in (now) and only ever applied on the Unity desktop.

With Linux, there is a free lunch.
you are the one who used the word "invest"; you used it wrong in that case. And to say I'm too caught up in theory is ridiculous, theories (of everything) are how we understand (everything).
I have a forecast picture for you http://eecatalog.com/automotive/files/2013/11/IHS_fullsize.j... it's a couple of years old (from 2013) but as far as I can tell it's definatelly going in this direction in the car industry at least.

See also the members of https://www.automotivelinux.org/ and https://www.genivi.org/genivi-members
SS IS a tax, when you have a dedicated line item in your paycheck. I would like to see some benefit down the line from that tax, wouldn't you?
I think so yes. I haven't used the others to the same degree as the Hashicorp implementation but I have done some research and played around with toy KV stores and have formed the opinion that it's the easiest to get going with and provides the highest performance out of the box due to pipelining.
These things may have changed but were my experience when learning Raft.

I also expect it to become much better now that development has picked up pace again.
DNA digital data storage
>Descriptor layouts are the equivalent of SRT in Vulkan.

I am not sure how. I do not use Vulkan, I use GNM. I asked this because implementing SRT does not seem possible in a platform independent API. So I checked the docs again and the descriptor layout is the same thing I remember - a set of bindings you manage through a bunch of API calls. On the other hand SRT is a plain c-structure. You pass a pointer to structure to a shader as a parameter. Exactly as same as you pass a structure to a function in C/C++. You don't need APIs to create sturctures, you can store them in a file, you can write them from another shader etc. etc.

> It is unclear to me what exactly DispatchDraw is for, because back-face and offscreen culling are standard features of any graphics pipeline.

It's pretty clear what is it for if you actually wrote real-time graphics. JFYI - it's "index shader" essentially. Having control over indices you can implement much faster culling.
Creating great documentation for bioinformatics software
Racists have emotions, too, and often make decisions based on them. 'Feeling' that someone is suspicious is a classic cover for racial profiling.
Yes, I honestly think that Google was probably the most laid back workplace I've ever experienced. It was like a vacation after my previous job. More pay for 1/2 the work is always a nice tradeoff.

I had come to Google from a small company where I was in the critical path, with a feeling like if I didn't put in 110% all the time, the company could go under. The transition from that environment to being a tiny cog in a giant machine was very liberating. The main reason I answered email in the evenings was that it was a habit from the previous job.
Wedge the watertight doors open, disable the salvage eductors and you can sink a ship by cracking a single sea water intake pipe open.

I'm on mobile so I can't provide a link, but look up the Argentinian Type 42 sunk in harbour or HMS Endurance for examples.
If the embedded device needs IP connectivity and it doesn't have any hard real-time needs, it tends to run one of the many forms of embedded Linux.

So, yes... its pretty popular. In fact, its the default choice for most things.
People who are capable of earning greater than $112k a year are probably capable of changing the way they're compensated in order to avoid the higher SS rate.
That's generally the nature of massive reform. It had to be done and there were political costs associated with it, but it was worth it from a net cost and health outcomes perspective. Desegregation was pretty unpopular as well, are you saying that shouldn't have happened either?
USA vacations tend to be pretty stressful to travel to and from and horribly overpriced "tourist trap" type stuff. Turn money into status signalling posts on social media meets bean counters trying to maximize their profit. Its a very old movie series but the "National Lampoon" vacation movies very thinly satirize the actual experience of an American style vacation... that's why they're considered funny.

Its possible to take a euro style vacation, but extremely rare. Also your friends and family will tear into you, lobsters in a bucket style grabbing one trying to escape, unless you do the selfies at the tourist trap thing. "What you relaxed and had fun instead of stood in line for three hours to take a low quality picture? You totally wasted that once in a lifetime vacation."
ARM chips are mostly about low power. Tegra X1 is interesting because of the CUDA cores, for specific types of GPGPU processing.
You can add whatever network connection you like (within reason), as the basis of an implementation. All the Hashicorp implementation requires is that it implements a certain interface. Check the docs: https://godoc.org/github.com/hashicorp/raft
Stagflation?

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/japan/inflation-cpi

Japan's inflation has been hovering around 0% for a decade. Unemployment is low too. The problem is a shrinking working population and low productivity growth.
Most people have no idea how to buy puts or collars.
Sift Science raises 30M Series C
DNA kept cool and dry is stable for millenia. Any storage done with DNA would likely be done in a fixed environment outside of the cell.
There is no such thing as free service. if you want to really hide yourself. look at the tor project.
Chomsky has clearly no idea how politics works in, say, Germany.

> Wall Street Journal, hardly a critical rag, pointed out that no matter who gets elected in a European country, whether it’s communist, fascist, anybody else, the policies remain the same.

That's utter bullshit. He cites the Wall Street Journal to give that credibility, but that fails already. Some author in a newspaper pointed something out and than its a fact? Very very weak way of supporting an argument.

> And the reason is they’re all set in Brussels, by the bureaucracy

That's nonsense again. If that were the case Germany could send its bureaucracy home. But the German bureaucracy is much much larger than the EU bureaucracy in Brussels

> and the citizens of the national states have no role in this,

Even more nonsense.

> “Elections cannot be allowed to change the economic policies of any country.”

Out of context quote. Much of the economic policies is made in the member states. On an EU level there is some stability of longer term economic policies needed. That's what Schäuble was talking about.
I never understood buying clothes online. Its really not the same as ordering the 1.5L Prestige pressure cooker.

Most Indians need to see the clothes, and may be even try them once for the right size. I'm extremely skeptical of buying any clothes or shoes unless I see them.

The only thing people really buy online are stuff they already know about(like the 1.5L Pressure cooker) or throw away stuff.
I think you meant low cost and low power, not power efficiency. In terms of computation performed per joule used, ARM isn't any better than x86, and is much worse on many workloads. They design their parts at a low power point, but they aren't terribly efficient.
Cool! Namespace are a powerful but not very well known feature of Linux.
The storage in the article is 2D surface. DNA storage in viruses is highly compacted in 3D. Single atom storage is limited by the interatomic distance and the accessibility of the atoms (you could use a series of 2D surfaces stacked on each other to increase density). DNA storage is roughly 30 atoms/base or bit. So, probably the single atom method could ultimately be scaled further.
The argument in the article is actually a "for programmers" argument. Mainly that sometimes it's easier to reason about inline code than deeply chained functions, because you don't necessarily know all the implications of calling that function. Or you don't know the potential starting states when writing the function.
Is It Time to Stop Thinking about Projects?
How long can Intel retain those profit margins though? ARM processors are the de facto architecture for mobile and IoT - as mobile processors get more powerful and more desktop class software becomes available on mobile devices, Intel's profitability is seriously threatened.
You did nothing wrong. Keep doing what you are doing, spend some time interviewing, it's a great skill to develop. Don't feel like you're cheating on your wife, your current employer is not your wife. If at any point, they realize that they are better off without you they'll sack you, period.

If the companies you interview with really want you they'll make it worth your while. They'll adjust their offer to compensate for all the items you listed, otherwise, they just accept the fact that you can walk at any time.
They don't lose the investment, though. They put it in back-burner mode where very little effort is expended, re-org the team to work on something else, and the software continues to generate revenue. It's a pattern I've seen a lot.

Another one of those real-world insights I've had is a variant of Conway's Law... the software built by a team reflects that team's communication structures, but if you dissolve the team and hand maintenance to someone else, they'll never make sense of the original code, because it doesn't match the communication structure of the new team.
Are you a global warming denier?

"Climate change" is "fossil fuel"-friendly alternative to avoid saying "Global warming" for what is happening. It is disingenuous to suggests that "Global warming" is unrelated to the article.

The article equates the certainty with which we know results in Psychology and Climate change (the terms are separated by commas as you've noticed). Psychology has a very flimsy foundation: even major results can be debunked (e.g., ego depletion). On the other hand there is no doubt that the climate change (global warming) is happening.

The article can be used as a tool by climate change deniers. They could say: "science have many major issues and therefore climate change is a figment of these communist eggheads imagination."
I can't believe the level of sarcasm and vitriol this is getting. Someone messed up! A bug that happens under specific circumstances that probably aren't being tested for (screen size above X) showed up. Happens to the best of us! The folks who work on the website probably aren't even the same folks who work on the toolkit. And what even if they were? Does that erase the awesome product they created? Sometimes the lazy negativity on the internet bothers me to no end.
Look for any "right of first refusal" clauses in the contract.

I was approached by Packt a few years ago, to write a book in a fairly niche topic (http://amzn.to/29LR9Ly). Their reputation is not the most stellar, but I put a lot of work into making a high-quality book with source code on GitHub and live examples running on Heroku. So I "beat the odds", I guess... earning several times the (small) advance, and getting some positive reviews on Amazon and Goodreads. The money doesn't justify the time that I put in, but it's tremendous resume fodder and played a large role in taking my career to the next level with my next job change.

However, my biggest regret is that I signed a clause giving Packt the right of first refusal on my next two books. Realistically speaking, I doubt I'll ever get around to writing another technical book again. If I do, I'll probably pitch it to Packt and then self-publish if they don't want it. But it sucks being locked in like that.

Truth be told, if I had known then what I know now then I probably would have just self-published in the first place. There's no real money in book authoring no matter which route you take. Publishers don't really promote books, and you're really on your own anyway for author support during the writing process. I doubt that most employers looking at my resume would care whether the publisher was Packt or Leanpub, so I probably would have gone the latter route just for the freedom.

Of course, if one of your publisher options is O'Reilly, then maybe that's another discussion.
How does a quick google search give you the name of the responsible person! That's some insider info :)
Twemproxy (nutcracker)- a fast, light-weight proxy for memcached and redis
Why LaCroix sparkling water is suddenly everywhere – Vox
It was the first video I ever saw run on a computer. I got it on a Nautilus CD and played on my Macintosh LC3. Only 8MB of RAM so it was like 160x120 resolution or something.
> that doesn't even remotely resemble the underlying hardware.

And that is what makes the code portable and re-usable. See also Rob Pike's Eulogy on Dennis Ritchie[0], where he explains the true strengths of C and Unix:

> In the late 1970s, Dennis joined with Steve Johnson to port Unix to the Interdata. From this remove it's hard to see how radical the idea of a portable operating system was; back then OSes were mostly written in assembly language and were tightly coupled, both technically and by marketing, to specific computer brands. Unix, in the unusual (although not unique) position of being written in a "high-level language", could be made to run on a machine other than the PDP-11. Dennis and Steve seized the opportunity, and by the early 1980s, Unix had been ported by the not-yet-so-called open source community to essentially every mini-computer out there. That meant that if I wrote my program in C, it could run on almost every mini-computer out there. All of a sudden, the coupling between hardware and operating system was broken. Unix was the great equalizer, the driving force of the Nerd Spring that liberated programming from the grip of hardware manufacturers.

> The hardware didn't matter any more, since it all ran Unix. And since it didn't matter, hardware fought with other hardware for dominance; the software was a given.

[0] https://plus.google.com/u/0/+RobPikeTheHuman/posts/33mmANQZD...
How is this more "Chrome-sans-Google" than Chromium itself?
Hehe, ironic response about missing the obvious, since the first thing the hacker did was check it wasn't the headphones that were faulty :-)

Asking a co-passenger for a spare set of phones would have left him with the same problem: the plane socket was only feeding audio from one hole, not both.
Phantom stock is super interesting. Do startups ever offer it? I'd be curious to know how it worked out.

It seems like it would be better than the worst case with traditional options but not as good as the best case. I mean, ideally you exercise your options early at a very low price and then enjoy long-term capital gains tax rates. Phantom stock means you'll always pay way more in taxes when you get your equity-based payout - 50%-60% vs 20%-30%. At the same time though you are never at risk of ending up underwater.

It seems like phantom stock would be great as an option for companies to offer employees - i.e. you could either get a traditional options structure or phantom stock. I wouldn't be surprised if there were negative accounting or tax consequences for the company though. And maybe the administrative overhead for offering phantom stock in addition to traditional options would be prohibitive for small startups.
I am reading about this trying to think what it could be useful for. (I am sure there are some, I don't see any use for it with my work).

"Serverless" seems to be the pricing model. It still runs on a server.
Couldn't agree with you more. I get the impression that a lot of people in this thread have never worked on behemoth, million-line enterprise code bases. Cognitively speaking, 4 nested thousand-line function calls is equally as bad as 15 nested 10-line function calls.

> In code as in life, all in moderation.

Beautifully said. Both methods (procedural vs. object oriented) give you different ways to shoot yourself in the foot. Instead of picking one or the other, it's more important to manage the scope at which your project grows. You have to avoid falling into the traps of each style.
Did these code wheel things work? All it takes is someone to go through the wheel positions and type out all the words to a plain lookup table that can be circulated as a text file.
I count at least seven statements that should be cited. I've heard the "harsher sentences before lunch" thing too but have never seen it cited. I've never heard ugly people get 2x the punishment of attractive people.
The problem I see is what happens if the temperature doesn't stay in the required range for whatever reason like power failures, earthquakes, sloppy maintenance - you lose the data. Having such an enormous storage that is so fragile seems to have limited usefulness. If they ever get it to room temperature and have it be stabile then it might be more interesting.
In Defense of Computers in the Classroom
I worked with a guy that was intermediate in his mid 30s after around 10 years experience. Conversely there was a 50 year old guy who became a programmer after he moved to my country and couldn't practice as a doctor. He was senior after about 5 years
Emphasis belongs on abused. Interfaces are swell. Subclasses of classes which implement an Interface are swell too, when they extend simply by altering the way said interface is achieved. When you subclass to "add more stuff", however, you get the kind of nonsense described.
That would be terrible for minified code, though
The implementation of iterators in C# and its consequences (2008)
How far is RISC-V from reality? Is it being worked on in the UK?
IBM Design Secrets
I spoke Mongo down or not.
You should be able to press and hold the back arrow, click on the story directly and quickly press escape to stop the javascript that does that.
I've written 3 technical books. I highly recommend talking to an agent. I used studiob.com. Not only will they negotiate money on your behalf, but they'll get crappy clauses taken out. Stuff you've never heard of like "cross accounting clauses". My last contract had a right of first refusal for my next book in their opening offer. The acquisitions editor even laughed when we asked about it because she didn't know it was there.

The agent will take 15% and believe me it's worth it.

Whatever deal you cut, pretend like it's not going to earn out its advance. Because it probably won't. As everyone says, you're not doing it for the money. You're doing it because you love the topic, love to write, and to be seen as an expert in the field. Writing the books themselves earned me very little money. Follow on work, like articles, and using it in salary negotiations, more than paid for itself.

I'd suggest you figure out the book you want to write then shop it around the publishers (again, agent helps). And be picky about the publisher, talk to other authors that used them. They're not all the same. When one publisher hires editors and pays their technical editors and another expects a lot of self-editing and offers a free book to the tech reviewers, the outcomes will be vastly different.
Thanks. Another source seems to be his linked in page. He started investing in real estate and married his partner. Good for him!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-barnaby-01680389
What does an expert web application development company do on a daily basis?
What on earth are you talking about? Uber drivers in NYC have far, far more onerous requirements - including fingerprinting, drug testing, and a medical exam [1].

[1] http://driveubernyc.com/tlc-license-checklist/
> a kid on the budget I had as a kid would be restricted to texts written before 1923, and/or would resort to piracy.

It's tough to beat the affordability of used mass-market paperbacks—there are usually at least a few decent titles at Goodwill, where even the hardbacks are only a dollar—and our local library's ebook lending system takes about 50x as much time and effort to get you the book you want as piracy, and is so complicated that I can't see all but the most dedicated and tech-literate figuring it out.

I understand ebooks, but I don't understand the ebook market. It all seems about 50-75% too expensive to even be an option, especially since you can't recoup some of the money by re-selling.
The submission title is currently editorialized. Something like: "Hashcat: Advanced Password Recovery" is probably more appropriate. There's a high probability that state level actors have somethings faster.
From the article:
"McKenzie’s team is now looking into the driving factors behind their research such as the “sandwich years” when many adults have at least one person to look after, a child or an elderly parent, on top of working full-time."

This terminology stuck out because I'm smack in the middle of it right now. It's a regular conversation piece when my wife and I get together with other parents.