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They didn't entirely have their heads in the sand.
--They invented the world's first digital camera
Source: http://petapixel.com/2010/08/05/the-worlds-first-digital-cam...

-- They developed a massive patent portfolio including many digital photography patents that had an estimated value of $1.8 to $4.5 billion at the time of their Chapter 11 filing (read the article if you're interested for why it got sold for far less - it's fascinating)
Source: http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/innovation/the-lowballing-o...
Do you mean -buildmode=shared and -linkshared for linux/amd64?

Don't you have to link the executable explicitly with the shared libraries? I.e. no dlopen()-like plugins?
Yup, I've read Musk's biography. Very familiar with his unusual style. But they've achieved something a private company has never done before. They were the first non-nation state space company to launch a liquid based rocket to orbit.

I guess we should politely agree to disagree. They're amazing however you look at it and the rest is just splitting hairs.
I really dislike this attitude. We don't know if we'll live that long and I'll enjoy it more now when I'm still young and healthy enough to do stuff.
That's about taxation, not tax policy. How much money you need to collect and how you collect it are two very different beasts.

Virtually any unconventional earnings have the potential to screw you based on the intricacies of law, rather than the average tax rate employed.
What a complete waste of time and money. These are all very marginal nice to haves. What people want is for their subway commute to take less time, end of story. Or for those on crowded lines like the 4/5, less crowding. Maybe ease the crowding enough that you could even reach your hands into your pocket to grab your USB device to use those new USB outlets they're hyping (there's no way you could currently on many lines during peak)

The only new feature worth a damn in that whole story is adding more countdown clocks, but even that just quantifies but does not in any way reduce the waiting time.

Typical case of totally different priorities between NYS and NYC. Cuomo obviously does not ride the subway. NYC needs to secede already

Edit: I didn't notice the price is $27 billion. This makes me angry. That's enough to make some pretty substantial "real" boring improvements that would actually improve service. According to wikipedia Phase I of the Second Ave Subway cost "just" $4.5billion. And we're going to blow $27 billion on prettier signs? Are you !@#$% kidding me? I wish I could vote against you more than once, Cuomo

Edit 2: To be fair, there is one useful feature of the new trains: More space to pack more passengers with the "open gangway" design. But the rest is a waste
I wrote a book for one of the pubs you mentioned and have talked to several other authors. Know what you're getting yourself into - you're going to be responsible for all editing so it is A LOT OF WORK. Never ending work. And it will never be good enough but dates move forward.

You don't make any money publishing with a publisher - not directly from the book, anyway. Maybe a dollar or two an hour. Do not do it for the money. Once you're done, however, you can demand a higher salary as an 'expert' - say an extra 10% or 15%. Or double your income if you move into contract or consulting. :)

One STRONG recommendation is to not promise the publisher first stab at any future books. Some publishers have this in their default author contract - that you can't publish with another publisher without first offering the publisher the opportunity to publish first (maybe for your next 3 books). That clause is one I would demand be removed from the contract.
In the small print:

> "E-Residency does not confer automatic market access to the European Union."

Kind of defeats the purpose of using the system I would think.
Well then you wouldn't use this project, would you? I wouldn't use a phone book for a user directory, but I also wouldn't suggest the phone company has failed by not releasing a book consisting solely of my employees' details.
I frankly don't understand your response. I described a list of despicable things humans have done, and you're suggesting that I'm not pessimistic about people.
BLR: 9:00a-6:30p [includes 30m paid lunch] + 30m commute each way
I will second this. I have had several bad experiences with Packt.
> And let's not even start on how Germany suddenly seem to be in control of the Euro and seem to be essentially dictating monetary policy in Greece, Italy and Spain.

That's a very simplistic view. If Germany would actually control the Euro, the ECB (European Central Bank) monetary policy would look quite a bit different.

Greece didn't protest when they took the money. They protested when they had to pay it back and called that 'undemocratic'.
What is Berk's model? How well does it do across different risk bands? What variables are fed into it in the states where it is used? How does prediction success vary across types of crimes, versus demographics within crime?

This article treats ML like a magic wand, which it isn't. There's not enough information to make a judgement on whether the tools are performing well or not, or whether that performance, or lack of it, is based on discrimination.

Where we do have information it is worrying:

"Race isn’t an input in any of his systems, and he says his own research has shown his algorithms produce similar risk scores regardless of race."

What?!? The appropriate approach would be to include race as a variable, fit the model, and then marginalise out race when providing risk predictions. Confounding is mentioned but the explanation of how it is dealt with, without doing the above isn't given - just a (most likely false) reassurance.
yeah, probably not the best place for that question.
a good start aside from mozilla could be:
http://www.w3schools.com/
happy learning.
What is a "faith routine" ? Thanks
Or you could just find something not fire-retardant and apply the lighter to it directly.
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Definitely figure eight. He says as much in the article.
>> In MVC terms, that's either (a) the M, or (b) the C. Not the V.

Wait, what? How is the user supposed to invoke CRUD ops or printing or searching without a V? I don't think we are talking about same things at all.

In fact all of these operation span M, V and C. It's not anything new either it has been around at least since Smalltak (in current terminology).
I am late to this discussion but I have one important thing to add: make sure in your contract that the rights to the book revert to you if the publisher does not publish the book in a timely manor.

This happened to me just one time, and I learned my lesson: I signed a contract with good terms, and half way through writing the book discovered the publisher was also producing a competing book. They decided to not publish my book, but did not revert the rights. I got to keep $5000 in advance money but I was unhappy. I wanted to give back the $5000 in return for the book rights but the publisher said no.

Edit: I have published 12 books with mainstream publishers like McGraw-Hill, Springer Verlag, etc. and many more self published books via Lulu and most recently Leanpub. I totally enjoy writing.
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Very broadly, it seems like tax policy fails to cope (pleasantly) with anything other than totally standard earnings.

If you earn a steady wage, or simple capital gains, things go fine. Anyone dealing in options, variable hours, contract work, or anything else unconventional faces totally irrational outcomes unless they're exceedingly careful.
Maybe an editor can allow you to expand function calls so they appear in-line when you want to read them as such. Often I do have the nested call hell, but the alternative is an absurd amount of writing/testing things twice.
TIL, another reason to perform 'defactor inline-method' (with directed feedback of course).
From -269ºC to -196ºC is actually a huge improvement. Its the difference between liquid helium (expensive) to liquid nitrogen (cheap). Getting something that cold is hard, but keeping it there is just a matter of insulation. There seems to be a different kind of physics when you get that cold. Stable single atom structures, superconducting magnets, etc. It's all based around the idea that nanometer structures are now stable.

The big issue with bringing these kind of products to the general market is that we operate at a much higher temperature, the range of liquid water. And these technologies may never be able to improved to a point that they work at room temperature. Instead of moving those technologies into our range, I think could focus on moving our technologies to that range and improving/shrinking containment vessels. Self contained units with periodic maintenance/refills are viable (eg vacuum tubes). Having someone to top off a super computer's liquid nitrogen every couple of weeks is not a hard ask. We just have to make everything else work at that temperature so the entire unit can be cooled and contained, instead of just a specific section. Integrated circuit boards are already black boxes to 99.9% of the public, so sealing them in a cooled vessel is viable.

I know MRI/NMR machines already operate at that range, but they are way to big/specialized to be considered the general market. No one has an MRI machine in their medicine cabinet. I was once interning for a chemist, and asked if he ever thought we would have desktop NMR machines. He said there was no way they would ever be small enough. I then pointed at his laptop and remarked that is what people thought about computers 50 years ago.
The templating is very inflexible and the routing becomes extremely complex as your application grows in size. There are also a lot of gotchas with the runloop that require time and experience to understand.
Admittedly I haven't written much code with exceptions, only when using C++ frameworks that heavily rely on them, but this was always for tools where productivity was more important than performance, my actual background is game development.

I have stumbled more recently over another case where the constructor/destructor paradigm in C++ is not ideal, since in some cases it 'encourages' constructing objects on the heap, just for the reason that allocation and initialisation are the same operation, I haven't thought this completely through yet, but bear with me:

Basically I'm trying to write code in a way that minimizes heap allocations. In the extreme case I have just one big 'application object', and all other objects are embedded in this application object. For variable number of objects, pools/arrays with the max capacity are embedded. If taken to the extreme, this model only does a single allocation at application startup (or it could even live on the stack).

However, there are systems which need to be initialized later, and in a specific order (for instance rendering, audio, input, etc...). The objects for these systems have already been created and had their constructor run, but they are not ready for use. That's where I need separate initialisation steps, unless I want to put those objects back on the heap. And in reverse, I need to teardown graphics, audio, input before the big application object is destroyed (and the destructors of the embedded objects are called).

Now I don't think that this extreme case of trying to minimize dynamic allocations down to 1 is particularly useful in real world code, it's more of a though experiment, but in this case, the good ol'e C way of separating allocation/deallocation from initialization/teardown is actually more useful.

Unfortunately I have stumbled over C++ frameworks which basically require to create all objects on the heap, which in my opinion is a design fault. A framework should not dictate to its users whether objects are created on the stack, on the heap, or are embedded in other objects.
Those things of which you speak of as possible are indeed possible. They are not, however, true facts which reflect the reality of the past 46 years. As the citations I've given support. Strongly.

They are, by the way, books. Of whose existence I'm somewhat aware, and which was a point of my earlier comment.

I'd suggest you read some.
Don't underestimate humanity's ability to ruin things. :D
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I wonder if you can share the data behind this fact? I'm always looking to add missing datapoints to my brain. Much appreciated!
I work for Google in MTV now. I typically get in around 9:30-10 and leave around 5 with half an hour of lunch and sometimes a trip to the gym in the middle. I never work or read email in the evenings, so I probably average slightly under 7 hours a day.

There's no pressure to work more, and I really value and appreciate that.

Still, I feel like admitting to enjoying your free time and working ~35 hour weeks is a scandalous taboo that would ruin your chances to get hired elsewhere, so I posted this on a throwaway.
Just be aware that they solve very different problems. I'm actually very confused about how the author of the article jumped from a budgeting tool to a double entry bookkeeping application and they somehow solved the same problem. I guess if you just need some method of recording all of your income and expenditures, they overlap in that area.
In which case you might use something more like https://robohash.org/ (which was just the first off top of my head).

There are a number of convert a hash to some stylized avatar tools out there already. I've seen fewer examples like Pravatar with actual headshot photos for design use.
True, unfortunately most scientists are nowadays practically obligated to state a potential real world use case for their research in their publications even when they are engaging in basic research. And mainstream media rather naively picks up on these statements.
Sites breaking on desktop is so bizarre, it's like something that shouldn't even be happening since HTML's base defaults work for it.
There is a school of thought that says some crime is necessary for a healthy, functioning society. Personally, while I would hate to be the victim of violent crime (obviously), I actually do agree that cities with very low crime levels are often stultifyingly uncharismatic.

https://www.d.umn.edu/~bmork/2111/readings/durkheimrules.htm
How well does the PS4 API work on Windows, Linux and Android?

That is kind of the point of Vulcan.
Graphics drivers are a big one. But things like touch screen drivers can be a problem.

I haven't looked at the situation since 2011, so I'm not up to date.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/aboutparliament/en/20150201PVL...
I have written some tech books, one of them best-selling, tech edited others, and written a preface for one. I am also the author of published novels.

The amount of money and contract terms vary widely with the publisher. This is where a contract with one of the big publishers is in your favor. You can also consider self-publishing, but that is a different business model, which I will not cover here.

Don't be afraid to ask for different terms.

In particular:

- You can negotiate for an escalator clause on the royalties. This means that the more books you sell, the higher your rate.

- You can ask for a higher advance or a lower advance and higher royalty rate. You can ask for the advance to be split differently (on contract, 25%, 50%, full MS, final acceptance, etc).

- You should negotiate the option clause. This is the clause that says they get the first option on your next book. Specific terms to negotiate include limiting the scope - not "next book" but "next book on the topic of game development with Python". Also make sure they have a limited time to consider your proposal before deciding to buy it or not. 60 days seems to be a common number, but you can probably negotiate that down.

- Strike any non-compete clauses (that you will not write a book on this topic for anyone else or self publish one).

- Strike any cross-accounting clause. This is where you must earn out the advance on every book you have for a publisher before you can receive royalties on any book (and royalties for book 2 can be counted against the advance for book 1, and so on).

Some publishers pay monthly, some pay quarterly, some bi-annually. Take this into account.

Ask your publisher what their marketing and promotion plan will be for the book. How much support are they putting into it?

Earnings vary a great deal, but I have been very happy over the years, and book earnings have paid large chunks of my mortgage. How much you make depends a lot on the size of the audience, what other books are in the market, the timeliness of the book, and the publisher's approach to distribution and marketing. It tends to be on the small side and I realize my experiences are not typical.

It has opened doors for me and my co-author. We've been offered jobs, contracts, writing opportunities, and speaking opportunities.

I would say this was the best career decision I ever made. It's also draining and time-consuming, so be aware it's a large project.

Good luck!
As a senior level engineer myself, I always say, "I want to do my part, and part of that is to help you do yours better."

As long as someone isn't being willfully ignorant, I'm more than happy to help them, as them doing their job better helps me do mine better.
Game developers don't test, they debug. That's why he draws wrong conclusions like "inline everything manually".
>> When it's a pure function that's not a problem.

That was my point. He's conflating two different things. I understand why inlining mutation has benefits. Just not inlining functional code.

>> And of course, almost all interesting software has mutable state.

Of course, but I think most programmers overestimate how prevalent state needs to be throughout a program.

I once wrote an RSS aggregator as an eight-stage pipeline. It checked about 40k feeds, each every 60 seconds. Every stage had a 'main' file where the vast majority of state was kept. The rest was functional libraries. I suppose that would be a demonstration of what Carmack is proposing, with the difference being that my pure functions (the majority of the code) had clear names and were unit-tested.

It worked so well that almost every large program I've written since has been designed the same way!
Nice hashtag. This isn't twitter though. Ive worked at exactly 17 startups. AWS was a steaming pile of sh!t with robotic middle managers, most on visas from the curry capitals of the world. Theres no necessity for the same exact language to be used. But when each team is just mavericking their own thing hoping it gets picked to be added to "the panel" you get a grab bag of absolute shit. If only you saw the code behind these services....
>In your traditional bricks n' mortar company, it used to be that the marketing manager could just hand over big chunks of budget to an agency and watch them splash it

This is the story that online marketing gurus love to tell but it's not the case at all. It fits their narrative or they just don't know how it is measured. The reality is that digital has a lot of data but it's not actionable at all. People in digital like to think it is, but it just cannot compare to downstream POS data, for example. And for a LARGE portion of the business models, digital just could not provide the marketing-measurement feed back loop for a long time. It is just now starting to come of age and has a lot of catching up to do.

And there are plenty of lunches in digital too.
This is not a matter of what you feel or believe, it isn't rent-seeking by definition, period.

Rent-seeking is everything where you extract value by not being productive in the sense of creating new wealth.

Building a house is damn expensive and creates a lot of new wealth, while maintaining a house preserves the wealth you created before.
Any blog post on how you did it and what tools you have used?
I'm mostly concerned that he's going to get sick from improper shielding or something.
Thats crazy! I'm a firm believer of finding something you love doing (that also can make money), and doing it as much as you can. But at the same time enjoy your life... Meet people, take vacations, travel!

As time goes on hopefully you have built up a unique arsenal of skills, knowledge, and connections. BUT please enjoy this process because it's your life...
The novel "StarFish" by Peter Watts (and it's sequel) plays with this notion a bit actually.
I think that there are some benefits that make more sense for some groups than others. This goes towards the intersectionality of privilege.

Of course we should help people in poverty of any race. But class isn't the only thing that makes it easier or harder to become a programmer.

I don't have a good idea of precisely when aid should be class-based vs when it should be race- (or other category) based, but bear in mind that when programs merely try to help one group who is being discriminated against, they're not doing it because they hate other groups that are discriminated against. They're just doing what they can. They are trying to help, and even though I wish they could do more, I don't fault them for having limitations.

To your point about "no black people", that would be racist / bizarre because it's not clear that the category you've defined is discriminated against. If you defined it based on class, that would be fine - even if it disproportionately benefited white people (eg need based funding in North Dakota might help more white people, but that's okay)
OK, if a SELECT statement is sufficient by itself, surely you can tell me the results of this:

SELECT * FROM stuff WHERE thing=2

Of course you can't. Because every declarative process has two main steps: declare and execute. SELECT and enter() both only declare; they must then be executed against data in an engine to produce a result.
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Commandos are deprecated, like cowboys :)
Genetic storage is way more resistant to bit rot than conventional computers. DNA is not stable, has a full time support system fixing it, and still has a relatively high mutation rate. But biological systems on the whole are much more resistant to individual errors.

Yes, single mutations can cause horrible diseases, but these mutations are either in the active site of proteins, or disrupt folding. A large portion of proteins are "bulk." If you look at protein simulations, only a small section of the protein is simulated, and the rest is just approximated as charged mass. Changes there are much less impactful and noticeable. As for it to be a disease, it had to be present at time of concept. If it happens during life (which is does, millions of times a day), the cell either ignores it or dies.
Is Pokemon Go down or not?
GoKit looks awesome!
Best? I don't know. The etcd implementation is pretty well known too: https://github.com/coreos/etcd/tree/master/raft

I'm just more familiar with the one from Hashicorp, and it's used in a few production systems.
This link explains it - https://www.reddit.com/r/adops/comments/2tzbex/help_vast_vs_...?

I am a beginner in the adtech field, and found the word ad-tag confusing. this link explains about ad-tag
http://www.adopsinsider.com/ad-ops-basics/what-are-ad-tags/
I've found that my past employers actually didn't care at all about my degree. I actually never finished university but it never comes up. They want to see what I've built and hat is the determining factor. The first job is the hardest since you have to build a portfolio on your own. After that it has seemed pretty easy.

Not trying to refute your point but rather to suggest that there are other ways to get n the door aside from leaning on your degree.
I use this humble little browser almost daily, to test that the web app I'm working on can run inside QtWebKit windows of desktop applications (mostly for making sure that I have all the necessary polyfills and vendor prefixes in place).