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Online reviews were a revelation for me, but they're increasingly being gamed on Amazon (fake reviews, people getting free products in exchange for positive reviews, etc.). I've bought some really mediocre products lately that had amazing reviews.

I've also noticed the quality control has gone down the tubes, with 3rd party sellers shipping counterfeit goods. Amazon doesn't seem to be interested in regulating this.

If there was a company with Amazon's shipping speed but without all the shady 3rd party sellers, I don't think I'd use Amazon again.
It's not.

"Insurance", "loans", "mortgage" are all $44+ per click.

Some very specialized one like "mesothelioma suit" are $800+. Even misspellings like "mesotheliama" are $600+.
The posting from nsxworld is un-informed.

One of the few good things that Mayer did as CEO was to ban Outlook and force Yahoos to fix ymail and dogfood it. I much prefer ymail today over gmail.

Whether she used pine or not is a separate thing, but with her email volume likely would make sense.

In every other way she was a failure though - from micromanaging hiring and approving each resume to "redesigning" the Yahoo logo instead of monetizing tumblr and the smaller controversial businesses she overpaid for.
The attrition problem is well known.
I've never heard someone saying that a company reinvesting profits into itself as "suppressing/hiding" profits. I guess all Warren Buffet companies are also suppressing an hiding profits. Are you calling those companies out too?
> sub par library of content

In the past year, they've produced 600 hours of new original content that earned 54 Emmy nominations, and you get it for less than the price of one premium cable channel.

Nobody, neither Netflix nor Amazon, is going to continue to have the kind of library Netflix did during its peak as a catalog of old movies. The lax and low-priced licensing deals they got back then are never coming back, not with the rise of online streaming as a mainstream channel for media: everyone's building their own content silos, everyone's aiming for exclusive control of something so you pick theirs, and everyone's asking an arm and a leg for their streaming rights since there's multiple bidders with big budgets involved now.

Netflix will have everything Disney puts out for the next few years; Amazon won't. Amazon will have all of HBO's back catalog for a while; Netflix won't. CBS All Access will have the new Star Trek TV series, nobody else will. Etc etc. That's the short-term future, and it's already locked up in contracts.
> Guaranteed to make you a better software engineer.

I wouldn't say it's a "Guaranteed" way to make you a better software engineer, but it does offer a lot of perspective that is invaluable to the fundamentals of microprocessors and how we interface with them.
I think this issue the other poster is referring to is whether we should act to decrease sexism (their argument) or ignore sexism (your argument).

There's no right answer, but the other commenter has a point that if sexism is what causes Mayer to appear more often in stories about underperforming CEOs with exit packages (sexism), and we comment negatively on all stories of the like (neutral), then we become complicit in generating a sexist culture. Essentially because sexists chose the only things we saw to comment on in the first place.
Trucks in general, sure. Urban delivery trucks, probably much less frequently, since they are traveling pretty slowly and making frequent stops. If you were driving around Manhattan non-stop for an entire 8 hour shift at the average speed for vehicles in Manhattan, you would only make it 68 miles.
While Haskell does have customizable infix operators which can be overused and abused, that line isn't a good example of the problem in my opinion. The three infix operators there ($, <$>, and <*>) are all extremely common in Haskell code and are built-in to the language.

Every competent Haskell programmer will be intimately familiar with those three operators.

The problem arises when new libraries introduce new infix operators. I find this highly annoying and almost always consider it a code-smell. So honestly we're in agreement in general, just not with that particular example. I consider those to be basically the "arithmetic operations" of function application. Considering the entire language is based on function composition and application, I don't think it's a bad thing for an economical notation to be used.
It's probably on there due to it's disruptive nature.
The dogfood argument is just such bullshit. Just because you make a product, doesn't mean you're the target audience for that product. It's great to dogfood where you can, but that should not get in the way of your productivity if it's not the right tool for the job (and is not meant to be).

I'm reminded of the April Fool's joke a couple years ago where the lead of the Subversion project announced they were switching to git. It was actually a really mature response, I was really disappointed it was just a joke.
Only 15%, but then they don't do TV, radio, magazine, newspaper or billboard ads.
I get why those features are useful, but I don't see how that supports the claim that you should only use MySQL for things that aren't critical (implying that it will randomly produce incorrect results or similar).
If they are showing one thing to users, and another to search engines, that is expressly prohibited by Google and you can report them. This is what got Expertsexchange.com busted way back in the day.
It goes back and forth. There's a constant tension in Russia's history between the West and "East", used in this context to mean an essentially anti-western turn.
The example you quoted is probably the very basic of operators and idioms being used. These operators have standard meaning in terms of fmap and applicatives.

But, I agree with you that there are obscure operators scattered around the code base and I have to keep jumping away from that point to lookup what the particular operator means in that context.
The status quo is that the company whose questions you leaked will never hire you again in the future, and other tech companies who find out about this while researching you as a possible hire might also decide to never hire you.

It's the difference between a polite "this offer doesn't work for me at the moment", and burning your bridges.

(However, this particular article doesn't seem to discuss any specifics of technical questions, so I don't see an issue here)
Comparison: EC2 charges 9 cents per GB, linode charges 2 cents and starts with a much larger (2TB vs 1GB) free quota. Rackspace charges 12 cents, Azure about 9 cents too.
easier to do when not anonymous?
While they may be common, they're not actually built into the language. They're just regular functions.
The negative ("we are not in a simulation") is the falsifiable version. It could be falsified by discovering a flaw in the simulator.

Bostrom's formulation has a properly constructed hypothesis: see http://simulation-argument.com/simulation.pdf
I would go as far as to say it's impossible to do well.
And you can probably slap another one or two dozen trillion dollars onto that surface GDP figure. The underground / black market economy is very, very substantial.
Harder, or impossible? My understanding was they were forcing it down your throat with no way to disable it.
Any source for this assertion?
This guy's source is terse and clean. I like it.
MySQL has transactions, so why does this example prove that it's unsafe for critical applications?
I had a couple phone screens with them for an AWS role in Palo Alto. They not only forgot to call me for both of them (we rescheduled both times), but my interviewers could not have come across as less interested had they tried. I went through some basic algorithms with them and asked questions about how they wanted to handle errors and edge cases only to be brushed off "do whatever" or "that's fine"--and not in the friendly "don't worry about that" sense, more with a "why are you wasting my time?" tone. I asked about what they worked on and was told either very basic details that I knew as a user or "I can't talk about that."

/shrug A week after the second screen, I got sent a form letter "no" from my recruiter, which was just fine by me. I've accepted an offer from a rival of theirs and I can't wait to kick their asses.
I'm not sure I'd classify them as a standard library; they're essentially just pervasive global variables. For a comparison, think of Java; the standard library is things like `java.util` and `java.swing`, which goes far beyond having the `System` and `Math` classes available in `java.lang`.
Based on my understanding of Amazon's strategy, this is bad news and it raises a lot of questions. The most charitable explanation is that they planned their spending poorly and were not able to match profits - an error which may be a fire-able offence since it could costs hundreds of millions of dollars.

Have they run out of ideas to invest in? Why are they suddenly changing strategy and forcing their investors to eat massive taxes on retained earnings?

Alternatively, are they saving up for some massive investment in the second half of the year?
I'm not really advocating a simplistic reading of Russia's history. There are broad themes that are very important to understanding it, and these are generally constant. Among them is the tension between looking inward and outward, which does, as you mention, swing back and forth over time.

Another important theme is, of course, that the Enlightenment never made it out of the Hermitage.
First, let me say that, in general, a) I support the idea and mission of the SFC, and b) I have never heard of Patrick McHardy prior to reading this article (and linked blog post). In addition, I "have no dog in this fight", if you will. (My only affiliation with SFC is as the owner of a company which has previously donated funds to them. I don't necessarily agree with them 100% but I do support their "end goal".)

This article links to a recent SFC blog post, "The Importance of Following Community-Oriented Principles in GPL Enforcement Work" [0]. Upon reading that blog post, my first impression is that the SFC is attempting to get others to "gang up" on Patrick and pressure him into accepting their "principles".

If my understanding -- that Patrick holds copyright to (at least some of) the netfilter code -- is correct, then Patrick is entitled to pursue any "enforcement actions" he wishes. The SFC is arguing that their "Principles" is the only "proper" way to pursue compliance. That, obviously, is not the case. Patrick is under no obligation to the SFC, the netfilter core team, or the "community" to follow their self-imposed "Principles" or to do what the SFC wishes.

I'm not sure what the SFCs goal here is, other than to gain more support for their own "Principles" and get others to state that they're "right". They're trying to force their "Principles" on everyone and have now started publicly calling out individuals who don't agree with them.

[0]: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/jul/19/patrick-mchardy-g...
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Well, he really showed all those strawmen, didn't he.
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If they can bring down shipping costs either through their own trucks or drones, then the eCommerce business is quite a bit more profitable than it is now. Along with continued dominance in the public cloud business, Amazon investors are going to get a really nice payout.
Reminds me of the phrase,

"When your barber starts giving you stock tips, it's time to sell"
I do the same, but as time goes by I'm inherently less and less trustful of all of it. The incentive to manipulate ratings and reviews is just too great for sellers to ignore, and it's not as though Amazon can reliably measure review honesty.
in the language of business its called "profit motive" and it excludes almost all of human existence except for the part where you have more stuff at the end of the day than at the beginning.
Zero chance of that. Facebook will be doing $16 to $20 billion in profit within five or so years. They'll have accumulated $60 to $80 billion in cash. They'll have a half trillion dollar market cap in the next few years. They'll liberally use the cash and market cap to buy into any market they're missing out on, just as Microsoft purchased LinkedIn and Skype to try to stay in the game.

These types of companies do not dislodge so easily such that they get "eaten for lunch" in the mere span of ten years. It's the exception for one of them to implode. This is especially true given that Facebook is still ramping, their sales growth is still extraordinary and their daily actives are still growing just fine for their size. They likely won't even peak on users for a few years, at a minimum; and afterward, they still have years to grow their non-US ad business a lot, because that part of their business is wildly non-optimized.

In ten years, Facebook will just be reaching the equivalent business plateau that Microsoft hit circa 2000-2003. They're still a very young business in the first half of their growth phase, they haven't even reached mild stagnation yet. A business doing $2 billion in quarterly profit, growing sales at 50%, and they're going to get eaten for lunch within a decade? It's extremely unlikely, as the mountain of cash they're accumulating will buy their continued place in the ecosystem, whether the anti-FB crowd likes it or not.
Maybe blogging platform weren't meant to be extended in the end. Like, don't use woocommerce, use a blog and an online shop instead and ask for both being accessible with the same credentials.
Vortex laser offers hope for Moore's Law
Serious question: How does Google's ad revenue increase when Google themselves were saying people aren't clicking on adwords as much when searching in mobile? Also when people are using voice search such as Siri or Google Now, they are not even seeing the ad results.
I used Emacs for around 10 years, so I do know what it is capable of.

Regarding Lisp many in the FOSS camp that never experienced commercial Common Lisp IDEs should give a try, the REPL is only the tip of the iceberg. Maybe Racket is the closest one can get without paying.

Back in the mid-90's I couldn't even get Emacs to do what Borland got me with their tools or even what I later learned Xerox environments were capable of.

Energize C++ with their custom Emacs was probably the closest thing that one could get, if the company could afford it.
> Your reaction to reading is just an emotional response

That's certainly one claim, but on the other hand we have about a dozen decades of actual neurological research that doesn't agree with it.
I'm guessing here, but if it's anything like every other "reconstructed noise from space" I've heard, it's probably a dull roar. Similarly, it's probably loud enough to cause immediate and permanent hearing loss as well.

Now I really want to know too.
That's not how it works at all. It's a market: there is a limited supply of impressions/clicks, and it is _buyers_ who decide the price. Buyers are rational -- I like to take that charitable view at least -- and are bidding less than the value to their businesses of those clicks. CPCs are actually down on average. If that's true, then it must be simply inventory growth: mobile is providing ever more interaction points with consumers.
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Maybe it's a cultural thing. Milo is basically an example of British schoolboy humor, and the biggest joke for us, watching it, is that Republicans don't get the joke and take him seriously.

But then, Milo is just riding Trump, and plenty of Republicans take him seriously as well. (Not all, of course. Some have retained their integrity https://goplifer.com/2016/07/22/resignation-letter/ )

The problem is that people who are being taken for a ride obviously don't know they are being taken for a ride, or they wouldn't be. And they definitely don't want to know that: they'll just get angry. So it's much better not to tell them....
Is gravity as a force weak, or are we just used to materials where the electrical charge is disproportionate to its mass?

Maybe the kilogram is just a tiny unit compared to the coulomb, and if that relationship was normalised the forces would appear abouh equal.

All tongue in cheek, of course. They're just different ways of saying the same thing. In our collective experience with our regular materials, magnetic forces, when present, tend to be stronger at short distances than gravitational forces.
>but lack a strategy

Diversification is the most important strategy.
It's pretty sad to see someone trashing a process checkpoint and restart facility because they've never seen one before. As other commenters have added, checkpoint-and-restart is a pretty useful facility for a variety of reasons; it's a shame that Unix doesn't support it better.

I imagine if the author of this article looked at a Unix kernel they would start arguing that we should remove context switches because they don't understand them.
> In effect, that turns the GPL into the BSD license, which has plenty of implications of its own.

You still need to retain copyright notices with the BSD license. I think there once was a case where some BSD licensed code was copied into linux and the BSD license was broken.

A better analogy would be public domain. There's nothing really wrong with setting your code public domain (e.g. through CC zero). You're setting your code free for everyone to use without any conditions. If someone wants to contribute, they will, if not they won't. No license is going to change that. And the code in the version you put up will always remain in public domain.
Also, this appears to be down to a getty user called 'buyenlarge', who is listing all kinds of work they don't own.

For example:

This photo-

http://www.gettyimages.com/license/515020819

is actually this photo:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2178341487

which was taken by a now dead photographer called Russell Lee, and owned by the Farm Security Administration.

PS: this same person appears to have about 500k listings for prints etc on amazon.com..... why aren't they a co-defendant?
I pay for loads, and im always trying new ones. If you're product has a better UX, creates more value for my business, has less friction and better and more integrations and ideally costs less: Im in. Im not that price sensitive though. I'll happily pay more if there's more of the other benefits to be had because i can trade that off against the extra ROI i get.
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I would rather pay for something knowing it's actively maintained and less chance of it going away.
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> well, filter should really be replaced by partition, because filter destroys information; use of filter requires manual negation of the boolean predicate < p, which represents duplicated information content

More seriously, `>=` is not the correct negation of `<` due to NaNs. The code as written will return a list with all NaNs removed, because NaNs are neither greater than nor less than any other number.

It's interesting that an in-place sort that uses only comparisons and swaps cannot have bugs like duplicated or removed elements, regardless of any bugs in the algorithm or comparison predicate. The "shuffle via sort by random" approach [1] is a nicely insane test case.

[1] http://javascript.about.com/library/blsort2.htm
I've wrapped datetime for company work (pre pandas, pre datetime64) to make sure it follows the rules of the data analysis platform we developed (adding functions for moving to next month of year based on various financial calendar rules for example). I wish I hadn't done it and had just wrapped a boost_datetime since the performance of datetime is slow when you have a large timeseries of them. The performance is especially unacceptable if you also have timezones attached to your datetimes.

Now we have pandas, yay. But I don't see why one would use arrow. If you're patient enough, could you explain why you would use it? The website doesn't seem to be very convincing.
It doesn't require Apache, but the installer currently only supports Apache. Easy enough to run it on Nginx or another server.
Yes. If you can be promoted directly from SDE-I to SDE-II, there should not be a ~60K gap between. I've had the described thing happen (start interview by assuming level 3, but hire at level 2), and the gap is more like 20K. In other words: they should have known better.
What makes an operator "obscure"? Can functions be obscure too? What makes a function "obscure"?

You don't like punctuation in your identifiers. It's a a fair objection, and a common one for people whose native language uses a small alphabet (as opposed to CJK and other languages that are ccustomed to using wide range of glyphs)
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Very nice. This reminded me of the flight simulator easter egg in old versions of MS Excel.

Does anyone have some good resources on getting started with WebGL or graphics programming in general? I know the libraries (like Three.JS) but I wouldn't know where to start or how to use them. I see Three.JS being used in fancy websites all the time now and would like to stay up to date.
With logic like that it's remarkable that our markets aren't dominated by 50, 100, 200, even 500 year old goliaths.

"They're big! They'll be here forever and only get bigger!"
Plus, it's not like the Internet Archive couldn't store your archive as a public dataset in AWS to reduce their own costs, if they were to decide AWS fit their criteria as a reliable public archive host.

The difference would be that if AWS itself wanted to stop providing public archive hosting, they'd just up and do that. Whereas if the Internet Archive was hosting a public archive on AWS, and AWS cut off support for public archives, the Internet Archive would then work to migrate the dataset off AWS.

Non-profits have incentives to do (whatever their charter says they do.) Corporations just have an incentive to make money. If you want a certain "preference function" to carry on into the future without self-modifying into something unrecognizable, you probably want to instantiate that preference-function in the form of a non-profit.
Ah. Yes. "Thank you" for enriching so much my life.

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In chrome, just prepend a question mark before the URL, which will send you to google with the article as the first hit. Click it and you can read the whole article.
For what it's worth, IDEA Community Edition is free as in speech; Apache 2.0 license.
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