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Lots of good advice here about pushing back. Be sure to do it in your own voice of course and no need for a revolution. It may be best to focus on small things and grow from there

In that vein, the BBC used to vet new hires (in an assessment) around how they would react to a colleague who kept asking for help on similar things but refused to learn how to do it themselves.

No idea if they still do this but worth thinking if you are enabling your colleagues to just dump it on you.

Ask yourself, do you completely take over? Have you tried getting them to do it by talking them through but not hands on solving it for them?

Often quicker a couple of times to just take over but long term they'll be reliant on you and you'll be stuck helping them solve that problem time after time.

Harder to do that with tasks from a manager or similar, but I've found it helps to talk through what you'd have to do, what you'd have to drop and problems you see coming. You'll probably still have to do it but you can make explicit what will move down your pecking order.
I agree; bad words are bad because they have a negative feeling or concept associated with them (fear, disgust, racism etc..). They work on an emotional level, so you must make a conscious decision not to become offended even if the intent behind the words weren't hostile towards you.
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I'm a solo developer in a non-tech group and I'm all about this. I add every idea to the issue tracking system. I prioritize based on consensus, feasibility, and alignment with our group's strategy. Half the ideas won't ever materialize and that's okay, because the other half are more important.
Someday, someone should write a Ruby VM in Crystal.
With chain-mail gloves, there's a decent chance you still have hands after the explosion.
Stupid people's mom is always pregnant, so yes, it is normal to meet stupid people on internet as much as in real life.
The only way to deal with them that I've found is: smile and wit.
Use sarcasm to smash them to the ground while being absolutely polite. It is really satisfactory (and "super effective!).
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I say it to all my friends all the time - Amazon is a tech company that happens to do retail, not a retail company that does tech.

It's no coincidence that Amazon calls a unit of storage space in its FCs a "bin" and also happens to pseudo-randomly distribute products in the FC. I am convinced that Jeff Bezos' long term plan is to automate everything, and treat every problem like a CS problem so your CDN analogy is spot on. Pricing is automated, ordering is automated, and I'm pretty sure with Kiva storage positioning is dynamically optimized too. [0]

The thing is, the further invested Amazon is along this path, the cheaper and more profitable it becomes to continue. Moreover, the harder it becomes for new players to catch up.

Will be interesting what the plan is with these planes, I note Amazon also is investigating entering the shipping industry, a space pretty ripe for disruption[1][2]

[0] http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UtBa9yVZBJM

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10907163

[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-09/amazon-is-...
Apart for different syntax:

Plus of NIM:

* powerful compiler can produce C, C++, JS, ObjectiveC code

* GC can be completely removed to adapt to the program

* support parallelism via threading

Plus of Crystal:

* use of types union permit to mix types in almost every data structure, let you pondering if the langugae is really strong typed

* so similar to Ruby that porting a 100-lines library (with no fancy-metaprogramming) to Crystal is often a matter of few hours

* use of green threads suits very nicely with HTTP request/response cycle (like GO and Erlang), where using threads/processes is more memory/CPU consuming

What Crystal still lacks is parallelism, but core team are working on that.

Said that both are modern, fast, elegant languages, with a good standard library and a vibrant community.
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> Unless I'm missing something, the only new thing here is the paint on the plane.

Amazon has committed to buy a 20% stake in Atlas with options to expand to 30%

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/atlas-air-grants-amazon-war...
You are being disingenuous when comparing "willfully donating" and 100% inheritance tax.

I don't care what people do with their property out of their own free will.

I do care when people are trying to instate authoritarian totalitarian governments.

I oppose inheritance tax - as that inheritance has already been taxed at least once.

I have plenty of good solid arguments on my side.

And I would advise you to put a bit more thinking into your ideas.
Golang never posed as functional. It is this way by design. The same holds for C. If you need a functional language try something else.

For me, the code does not prove anything. It would prove if Golang posed as functional and you had to do it this way.

Disclaimer : Big Golang fan.
Well, for starters, it gets you up and going with a new project in like 60 seconds, as opposed to hooking everything up yourself (package.json, scripts, dependencies). The cli can also do awesome development watching and great production builds with about 10% of the config that webpack does. It's optional, but man, it kicks butt and gets the job done! :)
Amazon can't really compete with DHL, and likely won't ever be able to.

Sending a parcel within of 1 day from anywhere in Europe to anywhere in Europe for about 5$? That's cheaper than Amazons shipping (although amazon uses DHL), and faster.

And while DHL is already using drones for deliveries on the coastal islands and testing them on large scale for cities, Amazon is repainting an airplane with another name.

I'm not sure Amazon can ever compete on a truly global scale.
Watching the video, I'm not sure what I'm looking at. On the left are a number of buttons with objects, on the right a cursor colors corresponding objects in the image. It looks very human in behavior but tells me nothing of what is happening here.

It also claimed they use communication to the GPU, but none of that is visible in the demo. It looks like a magic wand (like Gimp's) that selects pixels of similar color for videos, except much slower.

And finally the times mentioned: the first two images took an hour or more to label, the third seven minutes. I'm guessing that's their innovation but I'm wondering what object recognition program takes more than a few seconds to process a frame in the first place. They mention being 'pixel perfect' but any object recognition would be, given it can recognize each object in the image and thereby classify each part of the image.
> There was a common headline at the time in newspapers: "apesar da crise", meaning "even though in a crisis", followed by the report of a new market/business sector record in profits.

A couple of months ago in a conversation with a Brazilian colleague of mine, who has been living in europe for some years now, the subject of Brazil's crisis popped up. He told me that, at least when compared with the economic crisis experienced in europe, Brazil's crisis was a crisis in name only, which barely had any impact on the economy in general and disposable income of the average brazilian in particular.

Now, having read your comment, I have to say that it fits precisely with the observations made by my brazilian colleague.
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Let's please try to use language more precisely. Are you really suggesting "hipster" is "completely meaningless"? I mean, it's not completely meaningless when a baby gurgles. Do a Google Images search and let your mind do its magic.
DHL ships everywhere except for the US, where you're right, they do outsource shipping to the USPS.

DHL used to have its own delivery network everywhere in the US, too, but they found it hard to compete.
Noe one denies the virtues or achievements of logic, but as you know, the good ideas are also the most dangerous, since there is real danger of falling in love with them and applying them to everything ie. to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

The idea that facts and logic are everything suggests that we could feed facts into some ubercomputer and the Truth would come out. As of today, it's clearly not the case--computers are excellent at computing, but they are pretty dumb. Humans must be around to select, prioritize, assign values, interpret, and put it all together. Otherwise, computers only spit the most mundane truths out of facts plus logic, and that was precisely one of the decisive criticism of positivim.
Yeah. I think it's a huge issue when people romanticize the hard work they have done in the past and expect the same from their children. It's one thing to say "my kid should be financially literate" and another thing to say "I sweeped floors at a supermarket when I was a teenager and so should my kid."

IMO our goal should be to make life better for our children, and that involves giving them opportunities and resources so that they don't have to work as hard as us, unless they absolutely have to. My dad worked through college, but paid for my college so that I could focus on my studies. I plan to do even more for my own kids in the future, maybe by paying for their grad schools as well.
Do you guys offer onsite positions only or do you have ever remote opportunities?
Is anyone actually still buying dead wood tech books?
I know for a fact that my forefathers have tried to avoid governments and their meddling fingers as much as possible and have fought really hard in various ways to keep the government of their lives as much as possible.

Thus I owe it to them to keep fighting the government creep towards authoritarian totalitarianism.

What have your forefathers been doing that you are now arguing that 100% of what I have earned and paid taxes on already, should get taxed again at some later date - as a punishment for me not spending it all?
Out of curiosity, how did you get it working for Python?

Last time I checked, there's no official Python support. There are some unofficial plugins, but none of them have true Intellisense support for Python. (e.g. a la Pycharm, or even Visual Studio Tools for Python).

I know they mentioned they were working in it a few months ago on a HN thread, but I haven't heard anything about it since.
But few of them have such a high concentration of true tech companies where the tech is the product and not a cost center.
D does not seem to be the HN darling these days. There have been several cycles of hype and counter-hype on Internet forums about it, much like a sinusoid waveform. What matters is that it delivers in practice and the number of users is growing regardless on the field.
Where? I've never heard that being anywhere in the Bible.

There is a thing about not taking an oath in vain, but that's not the same as bad words, that's about keep a promise if you make one. (It's too bad the same words "swear" and "oath" is used for both intents.)
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Saying that truth is just facts and logic is like saying that music is just maths. Yes, at some level, it is, but I'd rather listen to music actually made by musicians than mathematicians.
> that is until they have inflated themselves out of existence.

Inflation doesn't matter to socialists, because as long as the Mint's printers work they have all the cash they need to conduct a reverse osmosis on the nation's wealth directly into their cronies' pockets.

Then the cronies just save the money in some offshore bank, and the inflation works twice in their favor.

With socialism, the people is the only part getting the shaft. This has been like this for decades now.
There's no need to get into ad hominem attacks.

If you have so many "good solid arguments" on your side, I'd love to hear them. Or answer my question of why they're so much worse than income taxes.

Why do you think that an inheritance tax implies an "authoritarian totalitarian government?" It's a total non sequitur. Does Denmark have an authoritarian government because they impose a high income tax?
> Unless I'm missing something, the only new thing here is the paint on the plane.

In some respects, yes. In other respects, seen any other tech companies painting their logos onto cargo planes recently?

It is an indicator of the way in which Amazon is progressively controlling more and more of their business functions around shipping.
And very often they've no idea that they're swearing. 'Oh My God' was insanely popular in the 1990s even amongst people who had no belief in a deity, which really annoyed me even though I don't identify as a Christian.

I even remember the non-Human character Kira in Deep Space 9 being assigned it in dialogue, it was really jarring. It's as if it had just been reduced to a sequence of syllables and the writers didn't think about what it meant.
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I actually start saying "no" well before my plate is full. Optionality is good, otherwise sometimes you have to say no even though you would very much like to say yes.
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They are supposed to be about a particular implementation, but the USPTO awards then for ideas (stuff like "treat years less than 50 as 19xx and above 50 as 20xx" and LZW, which are each implementable in many ways).

Courts assume the USPTO is competent, so overturning a patent is extremely costly. The bottom line is: practically speaking, ideas are patentable but without complete certainty of prevailing in court.
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> An easy way to shut up the idiots like these is to point out the extent to which miles traveled are subsidized for car drivers (invariably more than for transit, due to how horribly inefficient cars are). When they're forced to imagine a society without transport subsidies instead of one with only _their_ favored transport subsidies, they tend to quickly shut up.

First, I don't think you're going to change anyone's mind by beginning with, "You're an idiot." Second, you're right, I can't imagine a society without transport subsidies; But, considering the state of my community's infrastructure, it's equally hard to imagine being able to subsidize even more transportation than it already does. Maybe if they were decommissioning roads in sync with new transit roll outs...

Main questions I have for discussion (mostly related to rail transit):

Will businesses that are not within walking distance of a mass transit endpoint a see a positive benefit?

Will individuals that are not within walking distance of a mass transit endpoint see a positive benefit?

Will their property values be adversely effected?
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Could you elaborate more?
Seems to be this project? https://github.com/sebastianfeldmann/phpbu
Nim[0] takes an interesting approach. It uses "deferred reference counting", effectively allowing GC cleanup to be spread out over a period of time. This at least helps with GC pauses.

It also seems to allow tweaking for soft realtime systems, e.g. games.

[0]http://nim-lang.org/docs/gc.html
I took John Duncan's course on intro abstract algebra when I was a sophomore at CWRU. I had signed up to take his class on modular forms the next semester but he had been hired away before I had the chance to take it. A big shame as he was one of the best professors I've had (nearly the entire course grade was based on homework- exactly as it should be IMO).
As far as I know, if you do a regular GET or POST using XHR or the Fetch API, the server still replies with the full content, even with CORS blocking it - it's just that the browser doesn't let the fetching code read the actual content. That is, the CORS restriction is applied in the browser after the response has been sent, not in the server.

There is a preflight mechanism which the browser can use to avoid making the request at all, but that's only used for certain types of requests.
We all talk about Google and Facebook's rich data source for human behaviour. We talk less about Amazon's rich data source on consumer behaviour. As Google themselves once said Amazon is a search engine for products/shopping.[0] They said this some 3~ years ago, Amazon has continued to expand since. It is fairly safe to assume Amazon is the single most largest consolidated reserve of consumer behaviour data on the world now.

Facebook can gauge the difference between different types of likes from how you read a page[1], Amazon does too from their harvested clickstream.

[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29609472

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/cover_story/2016/01...
I get dead wood for trickier tech books where I have to flip back and forth a bunch.
a single family (or a single connection to the network, anyway. One customer from the ISP perspective.)

You would think that at least 50% of people would be watching Netflix at the same time each night, but as of yet that doesn't seem to be the case. (At least not on any of the networks that I've been familiar with, which are in pretty tech-savvy areas like I mentioned, with heavy users.) It also helps that you can get one of Netflix's caching servers (can't remember what they're called) once you hit a certain threshold of traffic to their network.

The key though is that the more customers you aggregate the less traffic you can plan for per customer. So for example if you have 100 customers you might need to budget your network at 4-5mbps/customer to make it through peak times without slowing every one down too bad, while if you have 1000 customer you can get by with ~1.5 mbps per customer.
It's a wrong and dumb anecdote because spending money doesn't make it vanish into thin air. It just ends up in someone else's pocket. And from there, one can indeed "keep dividing" as the poor man suggested.

It seems the poor man in that story knows more about how the economy works than the rich man.
"Note from Robert Krulwich: I see that this column has offended a whole bunch of you. Yes, as many of you point out, my viewpoint was white, male (and hung up on fame and power) and many of you have serious, and totally legitimate arguments with my assumptions. Now that I read your comments, I’m a little surprised, and a touch ashamed of myself. But the thing is—those were my assumptions. They were wrong. I say so."

It is so sad that so may discussions end up in places like this. Absolute bullshit.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but bin is a standard warehouse term.
Yes, and from amazon.com too
For me it is easy to afford 500 euro a month. my taxes would go up slightly (I'm not high income, i pay 450 euro a month now and have some rebates) but i'd be ok. for my roommate, who is usually a student but now just gives a few tennis lessons and works in an ice cream store, it would mean becoming homeless. because she could no longer afford the rent i charge (which is 300 euro). And it's hard to keep a job when you're homeless. She'd be reliant on her parents or else she'd need to sell her body. I don't think it's fair to do that to a girl of 19. Although she is talented enough there is no way she will make as much as I do in a reasonable timeframe.
You can build perfectly fine cpu out of wood nowadays
Inheritance tax per say does not imply authoritarian totalitarian government. 100% inheritance tax does. Work out the details yourself.

Your conflation of income and inheritance tax is disingenuous.

My crown argument against inheritance tax is that the property being inherited has already been taxed before.

Another would be that taxing inheritance destroys capital base, which no society really wants.

Third would be that governments are really bad at managing capital. There are plenty of issues in the nordic models, where there are already signs that their massive welfare states are going to implode in the next couple of decades.

p.s.: How is me remarking that you have poorly thought out positions an ad-hominem?
The cost of living follows salaries of the tech sector, not the other way around.

Even the tech hub was not on a peninsula, you'd still have an expensive center and poor people would have to suffer a long commute like East Bay people do in the Bay Area.

Just look at London or Paris: it's not cheap despite not having the same geographical problem. It's not as expensive as the Bay Area because there are many people with various jobs, not just highly paid tech workers.
From Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and influence people":

'''

"I don't blame you one iota for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you do."

An answer like that will soften the most cantankerous old cuss alive.

And you can say that and be 100 percent sincere, because if you were the other person you, of course, would feel just as he does.

Take Al Capone, for example. Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind that Al Capone had. Suppose you had had his environment and experiences. You would then be precisely what he was - and where he was. For it is those things - and only those things - that made him what he was. The only reason, for example, that you are not a rattlesnake is that your mother and father weren't rattlesnakes.

'''
Next thing they are going to ask if a tree has more or less ego than human.
>You have the freedom to use the network for any purpose as long as you don’t harm the operation of the network itself, the rights of other users,

You could argue that taking all the bandwidth is harming the network.

> or the principles of neutrality that allow contents and services to flow without deliberate interference.

As long as no service was prioritised, e.g. every user gets an equal fraction of the bandwidth, then it is still neutral.
He will likely serve 2 years at most, and after those two years one could reasonably predict he'll re-offend. In which case I'm reminded of porridge:

"You are an habitual criminal, who accepts arrest as an occupational hazard, and presumably accepts imprisonment in the same casual manner."

Now, apparently the guy never thought he'd go down for all of his crimes, but he knew arrest was a real risk. Same with prison. I'm afraid I don't have a strong opinion on what the best choices are that a criminal justice system can make. Clearly you aren't going to scare people straight with hardnosed punishments though, because their evaluation of risks are not what you think they should be.
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This one? https://uwm.tv/about-us/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN3_m6Bn21Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBhvUgxfUjk
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Isn't one of the prerequisites of a patent also a 'new and novel idea'? Since the author did not base his work on the patent it is by definition not novel anymore. This is exacerbated by other implementations like libbruce (see other comments).
I use the regular command line. The VSC terminal is currently not that good.