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> Look at any comparable business and the talent makes a way bigger % of the money, actors in the movie industry, musicians in the music industry, professional athletes in NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA etc.

Actors or musicians have a very narrow slice at the top that makes decent money compared to that that is taken by industry machinery, and a lot of lesser "professionals" that make very little compared to the middle men. Same with athletes; the major enterprises you refer to are the top tier within their sports, with a lot of lesser venues underneath.

The Olympics is kind of weird, because it includes lots of sports that don't generate the interest of major sports, and large numbers of teams -- many from areas that aren't major media markets for the sport in question -- for all of the sports, even ones that are major in at least some corner of the globe. By doing that, it effectively is, from a marketing perspective, like a combination of the major and minor leagues together -- the ability to make money is influenced, to the extent its influenced by the athletes at all, only by a very small subset of them, and mostly by the ability of third-parties to weave narratives around the aggregate of the competitions.

You could make an "Olympics" that would support a distribution of pay more like the NFL, but you'd need to kill most of the sports, and many of the teams in most of the remaining sports, to do that. And it wouldn't look much like the Olympics.
The title seems very derogatory and the article seems like a hit-piece, when they mention that he's a Trump supporter.

How about also mention that the Google founders are investing just as much money in an anti-aging cure:

http://www.digitaljournal.com/life/health/google-founders-in...
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Completely agreee. Highly mutable => in memory ( then add a secondary stream for colder storage backups just in case).

A relational db is originaly meant for fetching data from a slow storage to a fast one, and the other way around, in a smart way. Doing it 500 times a second isn't a scenario for any db.

Build your own in memory data + process tructure, maybe using something like and agent network and using eg akka or erlang for failovers.

I'm curious as to why uber had to rely on a relational db for this case...
Right. I've engaged in a couple of such discussions on reddit. To say I'm unhappy with the two major candidates would be a huge understatement.

But no matter how strong our emotions are about such things, should be extremely clear-headed about what our vote means. And, the point I try to hammer home, that we each need to take full responsibility for the result of our vote.

If you want to vote to 'let the world burn', as quite a few Bernie supporters are talking, so be it.

If you want to vote to 'send a message', so be it.

If things go very badly after November, then you're not allowed to say "my vote didn't really matter" or "I had no choice but to vote the way I did."

Own your vote; make it, and accept responsibility for your portion of the outcome.

537 out of 100,000 Nader voters in 2000 changed the world, and not in a good way, in my strongly held opinion at least.
Everything mentioned in this article is a relatively small factor compared to the largest -- Didi Kuaidi is a Chinese company, and Uber is not. Didi may indeed have the superior approach, but we won't know until the two companies both try to enter a new market outside of their respective countries at around the same time.
In my experience it's a lot better, less picky.
The amount of electricity generated by coal is down significantly in the US. In 1997 it was almost 53%. Today it's around 33%. So that change is happening.

Based on my local grid, my car runs on roughly one third coal, one third natural gas, and one third nuclear. This seems pretty good, especially as it seems like the coal part will continue to decrease throughout the lifetime of the car.

Of course, with SolarCity joining Tesla, soon you'll be able to get both the car and the energy to run that car from the same company. Assuming your living situation allows for solar power, anyway.
It's not their site, and it's not their content. It is not ok, not in the least.
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I looked at the previous submissions of this essay from 2011 [1]. I can't help but think that the author's idea would have been better conveyed as "I am not a software engineer."

Meet someone who identifies as a software engineer where they. Engineer and gardener are not mutual exclusive identities.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=chrisaitchison.com
Thanks! I'll have to keep an eye out for it.
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If that does turn out to be true it will be very impressive, has there ever been a vaporware project that raised this much money?
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I worked at Kagi around 2006, and it was a very odd operation. They still were using Mac quadras for business logic and Win NT4.0 for many servers. They were struggling hard then too.
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And I think a site's ToS could potentially forbid this and thus provide an avenue to sue either you, Brave or both.

Aside from that, I don't think the "my device, my choice" adblock arguments go here. I think it's pretty obviously immoral.
How are you handling dosing/delivery method? I've been (over)thinking this for a while now and my prototype "lego hopper with RC servo controlled bottom flap" didn't work particularly well, and would get jammed with kibbles, and wasn't particularly consistent in delivering a fixed portion of food.

I'd like to find a nice big & cheap auger that could pull or push to dispense, and have a lot more control.

The other suggestion someone made was a hopper with a close-toleranced vibratory table/spout to bounce the appropriate amount out.

All this assumes you want arbitrary duration/portion dispensing, otherwise you just need N bowls, and a rotary cover that opens each at a set time (which is most commercial ones I've seen).
> I don't think that types are the issue but rather that such languages were not designed with macro systems in mind from the very beginning. Some added complexity is unavoidable, of course.

I thought I had a reference somewhere to back that up but can't find it. However I do massively agree having had better planning early in the language could have prevented some serious headaches (its one of the reason I have concerns about Go).

That being said there are some that think macros are inherently code smell particularly if your language has lazy evaluation. e.g. Haskell programmers can go quite far with out having macros. That is controlling evaluation may free the need of a majority of macros (ignoring the verbosity saving aspects).
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Perhaps a phoenix-type situation is in order. I'm surprised when anything works for more than a year without incident, these days.
Just in time for NIST to recommend against using cell phones as two-factor authentication!

And folks wonder why people don't trust the U.S. government to be competent …
I read that book when it first came out back in 1999 or so. It was the first "software engineering" book that actually felt sensible to my pragmatist mind. I still quote "tracer bullets", "boiling frogs", and "select isn't broken" liberally.
Where there's money there's corruption.

Also would have been interesting to hear more about these IOC positions, how are the people selected for these roles and how often do they change? I bet the answer is nepotism. FIFA is another rotten nest.
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I don't follow sports, my knowledge about the Olympics dates from high school, and let's just say that this was before 1992!
Well as far as personal sentiment goes, I'd rather watch the javelin thrower before any amount of basketball.
Tesla's end game isn't automobiles.
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My mistake; that certainly seems legitimate.
This is one of my favorite books about software development. I read it early in my career, and it was a big influence on me (for example, motivating me to learn Python).

One thing I've always thought ironic is how much nicer the typography and design is in this book, which was published by Addison-Wesley, than the books the Pragmatic Press publishes. And don't even get me started on Pragmatic's embarrassing covers.
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Cyborg competition is going to be more or less entertaining depending upon the sport.

For many events in the Olympics, I'd completely agree with you. Human variation adds a lot of drama. If every sprinter were to run on the same Footech XYZ-4 Hamstring, etc., it's hard to imagine there would be many differences between those sprinters. It'd be boring without other changes to the sport.

On the other hand, doping and augmentation could allow entirely new types of sport. Diving from 500 meters. Sprinters with pit crews like race cars. American football players with their brains removed. I might be interested to watch some of that.
Engineers solve problems all the time either through experiment or applied science. Their goal is to make progress on the immediate project. Writing about it would be a sidetrack.
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Sorry, new to this.
You're just another carriage return line feed in the wall
"Why so serious?"
In a forum frequented by as many developers and engineers as this place I would expect a concept like decoupling to be better recognized. You switch the energy generation away from consumption. Your individual car is then out of the problem.
Santiago scored 1 on "Gay friendly" despite same-sex unions are legal in Chile and most people don't care (there are transgender and gay politicians).

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Compromise causes war?
Movies are one of the last things we'll see adapted to AR. Even adapting the medium to VR is a difficult challenge. Disney has a lab that's taking a crack at it though.
I don't know if there is any principle like this, if not I will coin it here...

xlayn principle:

Any organism conformed of several type of different units with one of them capable of political capabilities will transform itself to have a head (read it as president, board of directors, human head as brain, stakeholders, etc) and will transform itself such as that the head become the goal at the expense of the rest of the organism.

e.g.

-head decides to overeat to enjoy the related pleasure
at the expense of other organs in the body
-company shift objective to make money to the board of
directors at the expense of the employees
-humans as the "reason de etre" of the world destroys
every other specie for the sake of their benefit...
-this article...
-corrupt governments

edit: Please let me know if a principle that states this exists.
Hyperloop is basically a napkin idea that happened to get a lot of people interested in it. I don't see what's shady about it, since he's not using it to raise money or anything. Official involvement has basically been the idea and some small competitions for proofs of concept.
> Taxi experience in big cities in China is generally better because of heavier regulation and competition.

The taxi experience is the US is bad because of heavy regulation without competition. Competition is the only thing that helps.
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There is a GIF there showing Ruby code too.
Perhaps I should have said just "terrible practices". The brand is about perception, and lots of liberals perceive Chik-fil-A as materially supporting regressive social values. Too bad the chicken is fantastic.

With Uber you have the perception that the company is exploiting drivers, driving down wages, disregarding how it puts women at risk, and all kinds of sexist behavior. http://time.com/3595318/uber-sexism-tech-delete-app/
This is wrong. Especially if you are self-employed you do not need to pay VAT (to simplify it: VAT is for end consumers). Where do you get that 60% ? If you are not self employed you have to pay wage tax, so there's not much difference to income tax.
Another example in science that you'd think is well understood, but isn't is water. We still don't know why and how clouds form or why ice is slippery, we don't even know whether liquid water is strictly speaking a liquid and not a crystal some of the time.
Calling it a macro system is probably a stretch of the word :) but if you check out APT you should also check out the far sexier Java Agents [1] which is code that changes other code during runtime (ie alters structure and provides meta programming).

[1]: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/instrume...
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Is that really so terrible? A road with some grass along it?
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I agree. I think a similar situation obtains in academia. Economically, reusing the existing academic infrastructure to fund FOSS development would be a perfect fit, because both FOSS and research are "public goods". But the success criterion for research involves novelty. Some funding for FOSS skates by nevertheless but it's an uphill battle, due to the problems you mention (but even worse, as a production-quality implementation of something that someone else has already published a demo/prototype of is less novel than an 'original research result').