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Ah yes Clojure, Citigroup had a team of 70+ fulltime Clojure developers in Credit last I heard. The examples I'm giving are all strategic commitments to FP by senior management. The Google situation sounds more likely to be viewed as a "problem" by them as (last I heard), Clojure was not on their white list.
Your connection looks pretty good.

My home ISP throttles UDP traffic to about 5Mbps while TCP reaches 80+Mbps. Packet loss during peak hours can be as high as 60% for UDP but a manageable single digit percent for TCP.

My workplace has anti-BitTorrent mechanism deployed and any meaningful amount of UDP outbound traffic is dropped.
That's like saying "people can see monochromatic light".

The correct analogue for sound would be "people can hear single phonons".
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My pet theory is still that the Apple Car project is all just to keep Jony Ive around - he's bored of designing square rectangles, and every day when he gets in his Tesla he swears at the crappy plastic interior. He went to Tim Cook and said "I'm leaving for Tesla to fix their design", and Tim Cook knowing that Jony Ive is probably half of Apple's share value will do anything to keep him on.
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I keep the SMS/voice service because:

- Being able to call out is handy for interacting with antiquated infrastructure at e.g. banks, government agencies and cable companies.

- There are times when I'm willing to receive scheduled calls from e.g. my accountant, my bank (fraud checks) or phone number verification for online services.

- Being able to receive SMS is handy for verification and notifications of things like Amazon deliveries and Lyft pickups, while not being intrusive.

- I haven't found a data-only SIM that gives me unlimited bandwidth.

And I disagree that "someone who volunteers to buy and operate a voice-enabled phone is willing to be called", despite it being the norm in the past. A phone is no longer the voice + SMS device that it once was (and when it was, I would have agreed with you). It's now a small, convenient and easy to use computer, that just so happens to have a phone built in (and impossible to acquire without it).
Voice is far better for bidirectional discussion, and is far faster overall. I can't stand having to wait for the other person to type in a response when I'm in a rush and not multitasking at the moment.

Texting is fine for discrete, concrete information conveyance or things that don't require an immediate response. Sometimes dragging out a low-priority conversation via text is fine, but it can also be a time sink.

And while you may lose body language, you still have all the nuance of vocal inflection in voice that is lost in text.
Letting a developer or engineering job go unfilled for months is nothing, at least in my experience. I've seen a lot of jobs go unfilled for years while the company tried to find a unicorn to fill it, while at the same time priding themselves for being so picky and demanding excessive levels of experience, "full stack" experience, and "culture fit."
Probably at this stage it's all about reducing the noise. I'm not sure what that means, maybe cooling your eyeballs?
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This is a starkly false dichotomy. Less that 40 hours a week does not mean "not available".
Hey there I'm Algerian. I find height to be an interesting topic in Algeria because a lot of people grew much taller after france left algeria, so i think environment and nutrition are big factors. My mom, her sister, and her brother were all born in the early 50s during the war and french rule and they were all relatively short. 5'0 5'2 and 5'7 for my uncle, while her other two siblings a sister and brother who were born after the war were much taller. My aunt was 5'6 and my uncle 6'0, and now his son is 6'5.
They usually get paid by the hour, and if you're on HN there's a decent chance your time is way more valuable than theirs.

It'd be cheaper to use a service like Jolly Roger to keep them busy:

http://www.jollyrogertelco.com/
I can second the "more time for subconscious to noodle around" benefit.

I spent 7 years working remotely part of the year while living in coastal South America, and I've been transitioning to a 3-day week now that I moved back to the States and married someone from my hometown.

I believe it results in better software.

(For contrast, I had a previous approach which was itself pretty good, if somewhat adventurous -- I took fewer projects per year, with a target of working only 1 day out of every 4 in a year. That way, when I worked on a project I was able to be unreasonably focused on it because I was craving collaboration).
I would not ever permit a new programmer near production code on day 1, let alone fix a bug.

That ramp up period involves learning the subtleties of the business, inter-team dynamics and processes.

The first bug I ever fixed resulted in costs for the company. My mentor had left the company within a week of me starting and I waded into the code with good intentions, but put us out of compliance with regulations.
But not 1% of transactions that involve high end buyers and high end cars. As soon as you bring ordinary people and the mass market into the mix many of the "horrible things" inevitably emerge.

Sure you can and do have no haggle dealers who could offer take it or leave it finance options and trade ins. But I wonder how many mainstream car buying customers would consider that an improvement when told "that's what the car costs. Sorry if it doesn't fit your budget."

ADDED: I'm sure the experience of buying a Tesla is nice. But it's nice in the context of people who are not going in with no dollars to put down who want to find a way to get themselves into a Tesla.
Wouldn't PUSH notifications over the Google and Cloud networks resolve this? I know Google Prompt and Authy do this already because of SMS.
Authy posted this a couple weeks ago:
https://www.authy.com/blog/security-of-sms-for-2fa-what-are-...
Undercoating, man, please don't skimp on this unless you live in a desert 500 miles from the coast. Otherwise it will ruin your resale value.
and that high horse is why I didn't comment further initially lol. some people just don't like using apple's platforms. deal with it. just downloading a .dmg is way less overhead, by definition. I don't even like having to auth with appleid.
How about PKI secure data networks like... idk, the Internet?! Google and Apple already provide these mechanisms. Couple it with Authy's REST API and you're 1) secure and 2) in business.
From a quick Googling it seems Windows phones allow you to block calls from a particular number : http://www.windowscentral.com/how-to-block-calls-nokia-lumia

Google's implementation also warns you about potential spam callers. Google maintains a list of spam callers and you can report phone numbers to this list.
Evolutionary consumer electronics. The infrastructure and ecosystem they already had in place was easily adapted to manufacturing the watches. I really can't see a marginally better car ever being worth the gigantic entry cost to the market.
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I found that extremely annoying as a patient at Planned Parenthood, I was always sending their calls to voice-mail and then having to call back through their screening service. I still really appreciate that they do it, though, for those it makes a difference to.
Your choices now seem to be a pair-locked and hardened iOS device, or a recent Android running CopperheadOS. http://readwrite.com/2015/03/05/blackphone-2-privacy-mwc-spi... has some more details on what happened to the Blackphone.
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I really think this is a terrible guideline. While I understand their concerns, there are plenty of people for which a VoIP number is their only number. Kinda just leaves them out in the cold there.
But what if instead of using the 20% to reduce cost, you use it to increase quality. For instance if you have 100k / developer budget and instead of buying a group of 5 avg. developers[1] for 40 hrs/week, you buy 5 great devs for 32 hrs/week. Then overhead per developer stays the same.

Which team would you bet on? The team of great devs at 32hrs a week, or the team of decent devs at 40 hrs a week? You hear about the 10x developer, but if a 1 in 10 developer is even just 1.3x they end up being a better deal at 32hrs a week than avg devs at 40 hrs a week.

[0] Think of an average developer as the avg developer you work with, and the great developer as the best developer you work with.
100% agree. Several products that offer two-factor auth have data to support the fact that accounts with SMS-based TFA enabled are compromised at a substantially lower rate than those without it.

TFA has been empirically proven to be effective, why is this recommendation being made? I can't find the answer in the article or the Github.
Time Management for System Adminstrators offers advice along the following lines (but it works for many technical support roles):

Find a like minded person and agree to a support shift: person A will handle interruptions in the morning so persona B can work on projects, then person B will handle interruptions in the second half of the shift so person A can work on their projects.
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I highly recommend this book, it was amazing. A challenging read, requiring a tiny bit of knowledge, but worth it. It reminded me a smidgen of a Russian novel, where the story of someone's background and family and motivation is crucial, and you need to go a few generations back to really understand someone.
> Tell me exactly how an Apple car will be better than my existing petrol-powered car. Not in an abstract sense, for me.

Nope. Can't explain it in a way you'll feel it. Doesn't mean it's not a thing though.

I thought the Tesla Model S was an understated 4 door sedan with a novel but fatally flawed propulsion technology. Then I spent a day in one. It was enough to convince me to plop down the deposit for a Model 3 sight unseen.

And there's still nothing wrong with my Toyota 4 Runner. But if Tesla makes a light SUV I'm buying it. It's just ... better.
A better example would be any modern SMP x86 machine. These use a quickpath bus to connect distributed memory and cpu, basically a cluster. Intel goes to great pain to give the illusion of a von Neumann machine, but it's a leaky abstraction.
May be there should be a constitutional requirement to put those politicians that call for war right in the front lines along with those who actually fights it. Then may be they would have an appreciation for veterans and their care, cut back on unnecessary wars as they would think hard before putting themselves in harms way rather than war mongering sitting in the luxurious comfort.

Taking responsibility can put an end to a lot of bad things happening in todays society. Doing whatever without having to face its consequences is the root cause of such behavior that causes harm to people.
It might be, but that's orthogonal to the point I was making, which was "yep actually human breastmilk is significantly different to chimpanzees".
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I'm curious: what do you find deeply creative?

For me, observing the world, it's the: "aha!" moment. Simply realizing that this made some pieces fall together. When I discovered GAs in 1989, I had a jaw-dropping to the floor, hit-the-library-right-now for 120 sleepless-hours kind of moment. When I understood Moby Dick to be the American Bhagavad Gita, I had a similar moment.

But, for when I, myself, create - it's been very rare. Probably because I am not a creative genius. At best, I am a poly-something-or-other synthesist. Applying Claude Shannon to evolution was about my peak.

I could say that my moment of creativity came when I was borderline losing it - certainly unstable - maybe insane - probably not recognizably sad.

What is it like for you?
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Don't publish your number beside the 5 people (bank, accountant etc...) you are willing to receive call from.

Alternatively, use a google voice number, turn the apps on only when you need to call / receive a call.
> and that high horse is why I didn't comment further initially lol

Since when is asking for actual reasons ("I don't like it because I don't like it" is not a valid opinion, in my eyes) a "high horse".

> just downloading a .dmg is way less overhead, by definition.

That's a very subjective opinion. Each time I do a fresh install of OSX, the MAS apps are always the quickest and easiest to re-install.

The only valid (but not really defensible) argument I've seen yet, is the one about not paying for commercial apps. Every other claim that the manual method is easier, just doesn't hold up.
So this is either a glorified bucket shop or yet another company with the brilliant idea of setting up an unregulated secondary market selling an incredibly wide variety of different ownership instruments that were never intended to be sold.

IANAL, but if I was their counsel, I would definitely advise them to keep paying me a lot of money for a 10% chance it somehow works out with the regulators.
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Me too.

I don't disagree with these warm and fuzzy environments for kids to learn, but that existed when I was a kid - logo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language) - and I thought it was a joke. It was demotivating and condescending rather than encouraging.

I have a 18 month old, and I don't know the answer yet, but got to figure it out soon...
If you're OK with serial C getting beat by a functional language, I have some simple benchmarks here: http://futhark-lang.org/performance.html

It also shows some parallel C being almost beat by a functional language, albeit one that is very specifically designed for parallel performance.
Oh, you can make great money doing Cobol. Demand is niche, but supply is even smaller.

(My grandfather made very good money in the late 90s converting Cobol and assembly programs in banks and insurance companies to y2k.)
An amazing technology with a negative effect that wouldn't be seen till years later when the people buying (or selling) shoes show signs of cancer? Yeah, that scares me. The idea that "It's OK until shown that it's not" leads to hideous down-the-road effects that can't be undone.
>but it's a leaky abstraction.

Really? The only time I see anything close to a leak is when I look at the speed of various operations (and let's be honest, von Neumann's machines always had bottlenecks, as much as he tried to keep them out)
I disagree that they are ideal owners. They provide absolutely no other income or commerce to the city and it's actually becoming an issue.

http://crescentmovingandstorage.com/problem-vacant-homes-van...

There may be a problem with supply but how are vacant properties a good use of the supply that already exists? What's the point of a city full of empty sky rises?
Maybe you can help me with this. I am assured in normal life that I am "not normal" w.r.t. normal human convention (although I am told I'm a pretty nice guy)

Can you tell me what, exactly, was uncivil? I ask you, because you seem civil, and I'm hoping you won't criticize me for simply not seeing it. (fwiw - I'm a native speaker of the English language in the North American tradition, but I do get out of practice from time-to-time in my travels)
It's about time. Phone numbers change too much to be used as part of a reliable 2FA. You go on a business trip or a vacation, you of course get a pre-paid SIM card with a local number in your country of destination. It's simple and straightforward, most airports are lined if kiosks of vendors. But then you can't access any of your services. You can't do your work. 2FA should be based around something that isn't tied your location and doesn't change so regularly.
Why have you given your number to friends and family if you're not going to answer them?
Yes :(

I tried to find a better way to do that, but public_repo is the least granular permission that github provides.
I'm not a medical professional, but I believe that would impede their function. Eyelids weren't designed to clear off frost.
True, but I still think it can be done better, and the time will only get more ripe for it as more longtime players quit (source: all my friends quit Dota and we've been playing since beta or soon after).
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While you make a good point the secret police forces of the 20th century would have killed for some of the surveillance tools they'd have access to of they tried it over today.

No need to steam open letters and read them physically, phone taps which can automatically surveil entire cities making connections between people, cameras able to follow people's vehicles without carefully coordinated follow teams. Who knows how the resistance would have faired under those conditions.
I get what you mean.

Will a page explaining exactly what's going to happen before asking permissions help?
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Wow! I never realised there were places where both parties payed for a call. That's really rotten.
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Case statements provide control of flow and WITH Recursive CTEs provide looping/iteration/recursion.
Pure SQL functions can accomplish nearly anything (except dynamic execution, think macros) that procedural PL/pgSQL can, WITH statements provide variables and temp tables.
SQL is the most declarative language I'm aware of.
The perceptron back in the 50s was modeled after network of neurons. I think you need to do more research into what AI researchers have done.
I was more thinking about that Hull and Kanata are both enough outside Ottawa that they're in the NCR, but not Ottawa. But, Orleans is right by the main part of Ottawa so I know a lot of people who just thought of it as Ottawa.

I lived in Ottawa for about 3 years (and my aunt, uncle, and cousins all live in the area).
Yes, Excel is limited. Yet, people manage to solve lots of business relevant problems within its constraints.

Excel is very interactive: you can change input and immediately get a different output. (I think you were trying to talk about a different restriction. Excel is very limited in the kinds of inputs and outputs you can make, and even more so in the kind of side-effects you can cause.)
I don't agree with working like this, but I'd expect that you're generally going to get marginal gains from each extra hour worked (up to a point of exhaustion or burnout), especially in the short term, so it might make sense to have people work in this way _occasionally_. I know I've been on "work all the hours available" projects in the past, and I definitely got a lot more done than I would have just working a 40hr week, even if I did feel like cr*p at the end of it.
In a related vein, the kid who built a fusion reactor in his bedroom--which was on the HN front page the other day--had a fascinating comment about visualizing a single neutron:

Q: How does one detect fast neutrons? A: Neutron bubble dosimeter. It is basically a tube full of gel suspending small drops of a special liquid. If a fast neutron strikes one of these droplets, the drop vaporizes and turns into a visible bubble. It still amazes me that a single neutron has enough energy to make its presence known to my naked eye.[1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4tgsaz/iama_i_built_a...
> maybe an old pet name with an exclamation point on the end for extra security

Nope, this is the answer to the recovery question ;-) which amounts to a password anyway. I wish recovery questions would just die finally.

A pattern I've seen often is people not remembering their password and just resetting it via SMS each time, making SMS 1FA. Although very real, taking the real-world risk of SIM cloning is pragmatically still better than reused, ridiculous passwords and/or ones that end up in leaked lists which amount to no auth.
> But coffee took much longer — centuries longer — to catch on in Germany, France or England, where people were hooked on beer, wine and tea, respectively.

From what I understood, coffee was common in England before tea was, and tea was first introduced as another option within established coffeehouses.
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Condos are being built constantly -- and most of them sell out before they go on the market. The condos are all designed to be investment properties because that is where the money is to be made. Unfortunately they aren't that great to live in.

I live near an absolutely massive condo development currently under construction. People actually slept in tents in line to purchase one (and I don't know how successful that was). It's complete insanity and saying "build up" or "build more" lacks understanding of the market, the geography, the culture, and the foreign investment.
This concept is explored in Neal Stephenson's Anathem. To avoid spoilers, I will be vague. One of the orders in the novel runs such an experiment. They have many people watching a pool or water or ice, and they independently record flashes they may see. If everyone sees the same thing, then they have captured a neutrino.
It may be true for "less than 40 hours", but 3-4 days a week literally means they are not available 1-2 days a week, right?
Yes. Cars are a growth industry. Which is kind of crazy but look at it this way. How much bigger will the global middle class be in 50 years? 100?

Oh, and don't forget Africa. Lots of growth opportunity there.
> The problem is the lack of housing supply. Get rid of the ridiculous regulations, allow more stock to be built, and revel in all the free foreign money that's being showered on your city.

I don't know how familiar you are with Vancouver, but housing starts in Vancouver are at a record high and supply has kept pace with population growth[1].

> But, no surprise, it's always easier to blame the foreigners than it is to risk your political capital.

Demand is clearly overheated by foreign capital. To imply that blaming foreigners is a straw man is to misunderstand what's actually happening in Vancouver.

1 - http://business.financialpost.com/personal-finance/mortgages...
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That sounds completely different from what I've learned about Quakers. Source?
I used to be an avid GTD follower (David Allen's "Getting Things Done"). The book was an epiphany for me, but the whole system can be overwhelming. I now just use three text files (for work-related planning) for a Kanban-like system:

* work due today
* work due this week
* work due this month or later

Every Monday, I pull work from the monthly list to this week's list. Then every day I pull work from this week's list to today's list. This allows me to focus on today, confident that I am not missing something. I can then ignore anything that doesn't need to be done until later. This is the theory, at least. ;-)
As soon as you run more than one thread, you'll have to worry about memory barriers, cache coherency, processor affinity etc. Even with one thread, modern IO and system calls are highly asynchronous. Not the sort of machine that e.g. C or C++ was originally envisioned for.