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I created a compilation of some of the most important "influencers" in CompSci. There are many other lists, so in order to bring something new I tried to find personal / peculiar / funny / sad / ... facts about these trail-blazers of computing. Not easy however so if you have any info that is less well known about these pioneers, please share.

I'm hoping to get more people interested in the history of CompSci with this effort. I strongly believe studying history (and historic CompSci papers[0]) also helps to put current innovation into context.

[0] https://blog.valbonne-consulting.com/2014/06/09/an-incomplet...
Huh?

I’m in no way mentally prepared to be a nurse. That is something I suspect I would never ever be able to do. That has to do with skills (especially hard to learn skills, like interacting with people properly), it also has to do with being emotionally ready to do such a job. Especially a job like being a nurse is in my estimation not something you can just teach. You need people who are prepared, ready and willing to do the job.

I think very, very few of those 1,000 programmers would be ready to work in hospitals. I would not at all be surprised if you could find more great programmers among 1,000 nurses than you can find great nurses among 1,000 programmers. To me being a nurse is an extremely demanding job.
As a businessman, I'm going to find the cheapest way to do something at the necessary quality that I can, regardless of how much value it adds. If a faster database is worth $50M to the company, and one person can do it for $500k and the other for $200k, I'm going to choose the guy who will do it for $200k (assuming he's up to the task). It's all about supply and demand.
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I'm always afraid of that Microsoft will one day re-closed-source .NET again like what Oracle could done to MySQL (well that evolved into MariaDB).
Clickbait based on a 5-year old source which actually says, "Twelve trials were included in this review which reported data on two outcomes (dental plaque and gum disease). Trials were of poor quality and conclusions must be viewed as unreliable. The review showed that people who brush and floss regularly have less gum bleeding compared to toothbrushing alone. There was weak, very unreliable evidence of a possible small reduction in plaque. There was no information on other measurements such as tooth decay because the trials were not long enough and detecting early stage decay between teeth is difficult."

So studies showed flossing helps prevent gum bleeding. This is not what the article reports.

Are there studies of effectiveness of tooth brushing? Imagine the control group - people who don't brush their teeth at all!
A glass of wine a day is actually a pattern that experts suggest avoiding. http://www.ias.org.uk/Alcohol-knowledge-centre/Consumption/F...
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Turning that around, a CEO is paid 100mil/yr, is he creating more than that in value?
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I wondered that too. But I also worry whether the immediate-term indices of dental health that hygienists are taught to look for correspond to long-term dental health endpoints.
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Not sure about (a) at all.. I had a completely different experience.
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Entertaining strawman, but a sane 'no' would look more like "There's no reason to think the stream will lead to maiming, and you're just lying to me when you say that the subject streaming her own view could jeopardize the police operation."

Edit: I think I misread the first sentence, I suppose you meant a content warning rather than cause and effect, but that's not a great reason to turn off cameras pointed at police.
Might be worth someone writing "a panicky guide to installing varnish" for such database issues. Pretty embarrassing though!
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The requirements this young couple have is mind boggling. The have 111 sq meters and think they cannot have a kid in this space? A lot of my friends live in ~40 sq meters and are happy to have their own place at all. With a kid, even two. Surely they would like to move to a bigger places, but this isn't a showstopper. They would love to have 111 sq meters place.

Rising prices of properties is a real issue, but this particular couple is way above the standards I am used to.

What is the socially accepted minimal living standard for a couple with kids in the US / Canada?
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> I am literally sick to my stomach

> I feel like I was just stabbed in the chest.

Placing this particular incident aside, this kind of hyperbolic speech seems pretty common in comment threads across the internet. It's a lot more dramatic and antagonizing than simply saying "I'm outraged!", and it certainly isn't unique to "the feminist lynch mob".

This observation very well just be confirmation bias on my part.
The benefits of alcohol drinking are very hard to separate from other factors that also differ between drinkers and non drinkers. There may be benefits but the data is hardly conclusive.
Poverty is relative. What we call poverty is a lot more comfortable, and safer, than the conditions the immigrants came from.

We haven't eliminated poverty in this country because we keep moving the goalposts.
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Definitely cool.
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Chinese new moneys' are nothing good but harmful. They see housing as an investment, not an asset, or something that can live with. They just want to rock more money and everybody is suffering with huge housing price after all.
The effect is very obvious. I'm not ashasmed to say that since the age of 18 - your last year of free dental care in Sweden - to the age of 31, I didn't go to the dentist at all.

I brushed mostly regularly the second half of this period, I never flossed. I'm a computer geek, I can get caught up in code for days without brushing my teeth but try to do it regularly.

The result was 13 years of plaque and two visits to a dentist to clean it all out.

Dental plaque is a coating over your tooth and your gums will grow over this coating. So I think it's pretty obvious that dental plaque can cause cavities between your gums and your teeth, infections in your gums and all this will in turn lead to periodontitis.

And also you have saliva glands at the bottom of your mouth that bring with them additional minerals and stuff that get stuck to your teeth, forming plaque. So the front bottom teeth are even more important to floss.

Now I floss regularly and I'm proud to have actually made it one of my daily habits.
Equally cool (and with Ubuntu, react-native is really becoming a useful 'standard' for cross platform GUI work)
If you skipped the linked PDF with his tribute to ARPA/PARC, read it. Here are some quotes that I just put in my quote file:

>"A fish on land still waves its fins, but the results are qualitatively different when the fish is put in its most suitable watery environment."

>"Because of the normal distribution of talents and drive in the world, a depressingly large percentage of organizational processes have been designed to deal with people of moderate ability, motivation, and trust. We can easily see this in most walks of life today, but also astoundingly in corporate, university, and government research. ARPA/PARC had two main thresholds: self-motivation and ability. They cultivated people who "had to do, paid or not" and "whose doings were likely to be highly interesting and important".

>"Out of control" because artists have to do what they have to do. "Extremely productive" because a great vision acts like a magnetic field from the future that aligns all the little iron particle artists to point to “North” without having to see it. They then make their own paths to the future."

>"Unless I'm badly mistaken, in most processes today—and sadly in most important areas of technology research—the administrators seem to prefer to be completely in control of mediocre processes to being "out of control" with superproductive processes. They are trying to "avoid failure" rather than trying to "capture the heavens".
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I think the insinuation was that Company B would be liable for A's costs only if Company B's patent claims are not held up in court
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Learning a second language is a great thing - your mind becomes more flexible and you get access to movies, books and songs which you wouldn't be able to enjoy otherwise - having to cope with language laws, though, sucks big time.
Except it's hard to identify the 10x'ers, unless you do it after the fact (i.e , too late).
Am I the only one who feels like this is anything but native?
Brushing teeth isn't the only way of cleaning them. A lot of people use sticks or other means that are harder and more effective at cleaning teeth.
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He is not talking about 1980s communist-era trains, he is talking about HSR which was "technology-transferred" wholesale from Japanese and German companies under small-series licensing deals, then eerily similar trains were manufactured en masse locally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China#Techn...
The thing is that no one is going to explain to you what's going on in China. Understanding the Chinese ecosystem takes considerable effort and the people that do understand would rather talk to others in the know than to a wall. I actually cringe a bit even writing this.

If you want to think that there's no difference between PayPal, eBay and modern Chinese versions you are free to do so. But until you've used these things in China (or at least had sufficient imagination), you won't actually know if there is something there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZsvJUa9FpI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY
http://a16z.com/2015/08/06/wechat-china-mobile-first/
'Error establishing database connection'

How very meta.
> Is it deterministic in a way that's useful?

Yes, because it allows to maintain a consistent state across distributed nodes.

> From the perspective of the end-user its going to appear random

...but consistent. If every node picks a random revision on conflict, then when multiple clients try to continue editing, they'll end up increasing the conflicts.

> The split heals, the system picks B because 500 > 100, but the write you actually want to dominate is A. The user can't control which replica gets hit more often, or when a split happens, so while this might be deterministic inside the DB it is semantically random from the user's perspective.

Yeah, but what happens if B picks B, and A picks A? Now the write you're looking for is either there or not there, depending on on which node you're talking to.

> how would this look any different to the user?

Everything is going to look random to the user, no?
yes, I too find that Google Drive apps works better under chrome and leads to weird errors in Firefox. So I have Chrome hanging around just for this case.
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+1 but also a modern twist: intradental brushes. They're a piece of wire with a handle, coated with bits to pull plaque off teeth.

You use them exactly like a toothpick but they have a nice big grip and you can get 90 degree versions with long handles for your back teeth.

A pack will easily last a year.

Cannot be bothered flossing (and I salivate a lot which makes it harder) but intradental brushes are now part of my daily routine.
I think its worth mentioning again that what Uber ended up using has no resemblence to an RDBMS (single table, manual indexes).

So regardless of whether their complaints are justified or not, it should not be taken as an endorsment of mySQL over postgres, but rather of an endorsement of NoSQL over RDBMS .

Which is really just what every company at these scales do (except for google and f5 if whitepapers are to be considered).
China has the advantage of adoption en mass of mobile tech due mainly majority people has access to the net via mobile. Mobile payment is common. And they have a whole money making industry build on top of live tv apps (like vine, periscope). Scale and speed of adoption are keys. China has less tech people who're fixate to certain "ideology" such as JavaScript everywhere, HTML5 for everything, functional all the way etc. They just choose the tech that makes money. China is cutting edge in making use of tech to make money.
Indeed, in this specific case the article says "Her social-media followers, police said, were encouraging her not to give in."
It's not something that people pay attention to anyways...
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I wrote a library, react-native-style-tachyons[0] (based on tachyons.css), which makes it easy to have at least consistent styling for react-native.

I think this is a good thing for shareable components, as they would have consistent spacing etc.

[0] https://github.com/tachyons-css/react-native-style-tachyons
Are WeChat payments credit though? I was under the impression it was stored-balance?
I'm not at all impressed by the account, especially its puerile agenda, "obscures a lot of the content" indeed, of trying to paint the armed civilians and their actions in any bad light the author could dredge up, and one wonders if he has ever read anything about "modern" combat or the eternal fog of war. It's not like the concept of supressive fire is at all new, think of the effect of our arming our troops with semi-auto rifles and carbines in WWII; Wikipedia has an account who's details I can't vouch for but that goes into the whole fire and movement doctrine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantry_tactics#Squad_tactics and covers German and British versions as well (and before that, the clip fed bolt action rifle, exemplified by the Mauser 1898, started having profound effects on infantry tactics, although it's been overshadowed by the development and deployment of machine guns).

Also, either out of ignorance or more of his demonstrated malice, which in this context is all but unforgivable, it starts with mentioning the controversy over the law that's going to force UTAustin to allow students to carry concealed (which is pretty ahistorical, seeing as how states like Colorado have had such laws for years without major incidents), but doesn't mention how back in those days dorms had armories, and some of those armed civilians providing supressive fire were students who retrieved their rifles from their dorm's armory.
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If she had shot herself, or her child, or one of her neighbors, while she was in an unstable mental state, people would be outraged that the police had not done anything to prevent it.

It's also intolerable in a society with the rule of law that someone could opt out of being subject to the law by waving a gun around and refusing to comply with a lawful order from the police. If that worked, everyone would do it. It would be impossible to enforce the law.

If she didn't have a child with her, maybe they could have waited her out. They had already been there for quite a while before they decided to act. But to suggest that they just walk away and come back later is absurd.
Cost of living ? If you make 30k in Budapest, you will live a better life than with 140k in California.
Nice investigation into how exceptions in gen_servers are handled with surprising result.

At least I believe most Erlang developers will find it surprising.
Java 1.5 is also twelve years old. A big chunk of that time is the stagnation after 1.6 when Sun was on the ropes and Oracle hadn't stepped up to make any improvements yet.

I was using the same cutting-edge version of Java for my high school AP classes as I was using in my senior year of college, which is sort of unheard of among the other actively supported and developed programming languages.
Thing is, teeth are so close to each other that literally nothing can get between them, not even food. I have however few teeth that get food in between, but these are the ones that already went bad and were fixed, and have gaps as a result of that.
You can't use supply and demand to defend low pay for some jobs while saying other jobs aren't paid enough, it's the same mechanism.
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So your argument is that it's okay that we've made it worse for the people who already had it the hardest because the rest of the more wealthy people in the country benefitted from it? Sorry, but that doesn't make it better.

As for the rest of your post, my comment implied a context of the moral an legal framework currently in place in the US and most countries people would actually want to live in. But you're willing to dismiss major components of domestic and international law as well as the basic moral principles most of us live by with a vague existentialist argument about whether fairness even exists. We're not even debating the same thing, and what you want to debate isn't something I'm interested in debating.
Sounds like the greatest advantage China has is a non-segmented software eco-system where a few companies dominate the market with apps that can do many things. In contrast to the US where companies focus on just a few key features and users have multiple apps doing various tasks.

There are definitely pros and cons of both ecosystems. But from the common everyday user's perspective, I can see how China's ecosystem is more user friendly. Perhaps that's also why they have traditionally non-tech savvy adopters (farmers, fruit stand owners) using these apps.
Absolutely this. Please, please take him back. Seriously, we'll pay you, just take him back.
Amazing that companies that spy on you like Google and nowadays also Microsoft enjoy such a good reputation basically by giving away technology for free.

Meanwhile Oracle could just as well rebrand themselves to Satan.
What will happen when a car or trunk with a height higher than accepted is on the road ? On a tunnel it is easier to guard against it because there is only 2 entrances and it happens a lot, but on a road with multiple cross road it will block cars and the tram. All this show is poor planning, the solution is to use a car line for a tram line or to plane a tram line in advance. But it is still a nice hack, and it will be interesting to test how drivers will behave with it.
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So this is not an argument against flossing it is just there are no studies for it, correct? (Haven't followed the thread)
Fair enough, it's more space than I have for two children. It's a bad example that trivializes the actual extreme difficulty Vancouver families face getting affordable housing.
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I've worked as a "real" native Android and iOS developer for a fair few years and just started working on a project which is built using React Native (Android and iOS).

You're right that the development experience is nothing like "real" native. It's using lots of web tech so it's never going to feel like Java or Swift, however, that comes with its own advantages such as code reuse and libraries.

I'm actually really impressed with the quality of the apps you can create with it. They feel native and feel really smooth, but you need to be aware of the limitations. The major one is that the apps are essentially single threaded so you need to be aware what work you're doing to avoid UI stutters. That does make it less suited for very data heavy apps, but you can work around it if needed.

Overall, as a "real" native developer I'm pleasantly surprised.
You don't need to believe it because that's not what I said.

I said "just because there is a definition doesn't mean it's a good definition". That doesn't mean I think it's a good definition or a bad definition. I personally prefer the definition used by massshootingtracker.org, which concludes there have been 1300+ mass shootings since 2013. However, I also think someone will argue about any reasonable definition.

I also said "It doesn't matter that the federal definition changed a couple of years ago." That doesn't mean I think any definition will work, only that for the purposes of this analysis, we can choose either the old definition or the new one - or any reasonable definition.

I'm willing to accept the old definition and focus on the real "salient", to use your term, issue, which is that the results of this op. ed piece are worthless, because of poor use of statistics.
>I'm a Chrome user but I still love to run Opera, Firefox and Edge now

Chrome has never actively tried to uninstall/remove competing browsers or corrupt your ability to reliably run them, I distinctly remember my own install of Windows 10 destroying my bootloaders set up by Linux and uninstalling applications automatically. Although it has show the ability to send as much information as it wants back home.

>If Windows is bad, I hope it improves.

I'm sure people in 2001 were saying the same thing about Microsoft and it appears they are emulating it again.
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