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>Unfortunately, precedent-based law purports that its precedents carry the status of universal truths, rather than just the somewhat arbitrary decisions they were.

No doubt it is far from perfect in practice, but which one(s) is(are) and why?

For example, I don't know if Common Law is any better or worse in practice (not even sure how that would really be measured) than the Civil Law system, but I always thought it is a little overly ambitious to think we could codify a rule to be applied to every possible factual situation before they occur in a statute, whereas the Common Law system assumes that we can't do that, so it acknowledges there will be cases of first impression (sets of facts we haven't applied to the law before) which will create new law (precedent) to be applied to future cases with similar facts. I do know Louisiana is the only State to have a hybrid of Common/Civil Law (due to French influence), honestly I don't know a thing about it in practice, but no other State has been convinced to adopt it and they haven't been convinced to drop it either.

>So after the current contradictory system has fallen apart

Our Common Law system is based on the old English Common Law system, so it goes back to the Norman Viking Conquests (~1100). Since the start, we have obviously developed an extensive body of case law and for the most part we rarely cite the old English Common Law cases any more, but it is still a 1,000 year old legal system. It is another very interesting question, can a legal system even change from Civil Law to something else without a full change in Government? For example, could Louisiana even drop its Common Law/Civil Law hybrid and join the 49 other States, or could another State drop their Common Law system for Louisiana's hybrid, and if so what does that transition look like? Just reading your sentence, I have to say it sounds ominous, as in system fall apart doesn't mean Common Law legal system but the entire rule of law (US Government, Bill of Rights, etc...), admittedly I am reading into what you meant and maybe it would be no difficult task to just move away from Common Law and maintain continuity of everything else.
Do Oil Companies Really Need $4B per Year of Taxpayers’ Money?
What a sleazy click-bait. I won't click it as I already assume the contents is about recurring PayPal payments -- last time I checked such payments could only be cancelled through PayPal. That's my own experience as well. So, if we're to believe "slate.com" (and whoever authored this article) I could enumerate a rather impressive list of web hosting companies who doesn't let you cancel recurring payments (not even donations)!
I got that impression as well.

I think he's on the right track with some frustrations but the whole piece kind of sounds like me a few years ago which can basically be summed up as: "fuck this is fucking stupid. why did they do it this way? fuck this." I'm not saying he's wrong but it does smell a bit like a lack of experience. That can result in some great new ways of thinking and doing things but it also has the downside of not realizing that sometimes decisions were made because they were the best ones given the circumstances or there's serious blind spots in one's experience that keep them from seeing the true value of a decision.
Regarding file watching. Some programs support polling which although less efficient usually is completely adequate for development use cases.

Today the status on this issue changed from 'No status' to 'On the backlog' so it will be fixed someday. https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-con...
As a side note, meaning of the full name:
Orkut: Blessed city (old Turkish)
Büyükkökten: from big root (Turkish, literal translation)
They are/were not all incompatible. Once there was a lot of compatibility, backwards and by layers/libraries/translators.

maclisp -> Common Lisp

-> Eulisp (Eulisp took a lot of inspiration from Common Lisp)

BBN Lisp -> Interlisp

-> Common Lisp

Common Lisp ran inside Interlisp and Common Lisps had Interlisp compatibility packages. If you bought Xerox' Interlisp-D, it came with Common Lisp. The Xerox Interlisp community later contributed to Common Lisp. For example Interlisp LOOPS was developed into Common LOOPS (LOOPS in Common Lisp) and this was then developed into CLOS, the Common Lisp Object System. The Portable Common LOOPS implementation was even the reference implementation for CLOS.

Scheme -> Racket

-> Common Lisp

Scheme had some minor influence on Common Lisp, and Common Lisp had some influence on Scheme (numerics, CLOS, ...). Years ago there were Scheme implementations in Common Lisp, compatibility languages, and even a Common Lisp implementation in Scheme. Nowadays almost nobody cares any more to make applications or libraries able to run in Scheme and Common Lisp from one code base. Take Common Music. Version 2 ran in CL and Scheme. Version 3 is Scheme specific. Actually it is specific to its own Scheme version S7 and a new surface language: SAL.

This compatibility does not exist anymore. Interlisp is gone. Scheme is now its own language universe. PLT Scheme was renamed to Racket to prevent users from thinking Racket cares about compatibility with Scheme.

What was once a language group with dialects of a core language, is now not more than a bunch of ideas, where independent language camps pick/mix freely whatever they find important. For all practical work (!) they are now fully incompatible. Some languages still have a common core (Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, ISLisp, Visual Lisp), while others have new cores: Scheme and Clojure are cores of new languages, with their own syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Neither of those cares about any form of compatibility or code sharing anymore.
Really? Because it is one of the most liberal cities in the US.

Source: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/08/08/chart-of-the... , also I lived there for 25 years.
>you are in a position to use the force with sadness rather than hatred

That's a very wise thought.
Depends.

In my case, i moved from a job where i worked on high-performance computing/driver-level stuff and got to play with some TOP500 machines unconstrained, which was rather fun.

The new job was in telecom, and i worked on a somewhat higher level, doing with data processing and networking stuff. Not quite to my taste at first, but it paid 3x as much.

Key words are "at first" - the more i dived into it, the more i liked it, and i learned a lot along the way.

So, if the new job is something that you see you could eventually enjoy or get use out of, pick B. If you desperately need money, pick B. If you are reasonably sure you would hate it over there, pick A.

Something like that...
Seems like the simple, "Nice work!", fits the bill.
I'd be interested in seeing if the effect is continuous or happens more at certain ages. Like take a group of people who are obese and say in there 40s, half were obese since they were children, and half became obese after 25 or so. See if there is any difference in brain development if the person was obese while they were still developing.

Not sure how you would account for effects of just being obese longer in general tho.
I am from Western Ukraine and while I have seen women wear crowns of woven flowers I didn't know that there was such a beautiful wedding tradition. Or the fact that it's being resurrected for the sake of peacefully asserting Ukrainian nationalism in the face of armed conflict and occupation by Russia.
Patent trolls neither develop patents (or if they do it is BS maths as a process or otherwise obvious patents), nor do they use the patents themselves. They make money from licensing / extortion.

Mr. Abplanalp is the opposite of a patent troll.
Can you explain what it is about the operating system that makes a big difference? I have a mix of Android and iOS devices and I really don't have a preference. I never sit down with my tablet to use Android, it's to see the Snapchat my daughter sent me or to play Sequence or to check my email.

Likewise I'll pick up my iPod touch when I want to listen to a podcast, browse Instagram, or use Find My Friends.

There are hardware differences that make me use one device for it's camera or more reliable bluetooth, but I don't really associate that with the operating system.

Do you use a Windows Phone device because of the operating system or because (for example) it has an excellent camera or does something special with your XBox?
Since decisions are often made under the pressure of business goals from a technical standpoint they are almost always the wrong decision. In instances like that it takes a certain amount of experience and backbone to either say no to horrible hacks or put in the right kind of mitigation and fixes as soon as the business goals have been met. If it intuitively feels wrong then I don't really care what justifications people had at the time for writing a horrible mess. Objectively it is a horrible mess still even if I forgive the people that made the decisions that led to that mess.

Since I wrote that post I've seen the same mistakes repeated over and over again. My tools of choice at the current time are terraform, packer, some kind of secure storage mechanism like hashicorp vault, and plain old shell scripts or rake files.

I'm also not advocating checking in secret tokens into the code base but you need something that gives you access to the place that holds the secure tokens. It is important to draw that distinction since the extra layer of indirection actually provides you enough control to revoke and recycle tokens much more quickly than if you had checked everything into the code directly.
Yes you are right. To be more accurate, I should have said convicted of some of the charges on the underlying insider trading case not the insider trading charges (as you note, not for the actual count of insider trading itself but the accompanying charges).

I may have subconsciously done that because the counts she was convicted of blur with new charge and I wanted to distinguish the underlying case/charges with the new charge which was triggered by claiming innocence of the underlying case.
After ten years of AWS, and with the vast operating income AWS is now providing Amazon - yep.
Google PM here.

That's not exactly right. You need a Google account, but it does not need to have gmail attached to it. Yes, lots of people don't know such a thing exists...but it's easy to set up.

On the "standard" Google account creation page is a link that says something like "I prefer to use my current email address."

As long as you have an email address that Google can validate, it's fine to use that instead of a gmail address.
The reason there's currently fear and uncertainty is because there's good reason to be. Tesla's troubles with people improperly understanding that their feature is a "beta" and watching Harry Potter on the highway aside, Google has routinely avoided mentioning their disengagement figures and "would-be accidents" avoided solely because they have professional test drivers, while repetitively citing how many total miles they've driven. The technology ISN'T there yet, but some PR departments are going full throttle that it is. This sort of disingenuous marketing is what causes these incidents, and causes these headlines to be blown out of proportion.

Nobody's flipped out about car manufacturers having cars that can parallel park themselves and brake themselves to prevent collisions. Reason why: It's tested, it's reliable enough for a Detroit company to advertise it, and it's not oversold as "autopilot" or "self-driving". It just is.
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That has a longer story attached to it, another windmill in the background is also on fire. I suspect a fault in the grid coupling causing overvoltage (which would cause the windmill to start acting as a motor, in which case it could easily exceed it's designed maximum RPM, and with the air braking it a fire is pretty much inevitable in that situation, the alternator windings are not made for that situation).
Some person doesn't like Snapchat. Their dislike of Snapchat and inability to install it on their phone due to choice of platform has absolutely nothing to do with, and absolutely no influence on what phones other people buy or what apps they install on it.

I have an Android phone and it doesn't have Snapchat on it. I also have friends with varieties of phones, and Snapchat, and they're very intelligent. It's donwvoted because it's a pointless "get off my lawn comment" that says nothing other than "I look down on all Snapchat users".
With google cloud sql and amazon aurora being mysql compatible do any of you get the temptation of starting your projects with mysql instead postgresql?
And how to you keep a book from being interpreted? I can barely utter a phrase without having to deal with my wife's misinterpretation.
In the article, one of the Yine people who the team works with had a father who was half Mascho, but was abducted as a child and used as a translator, she learned the language from him.
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Another odd limitation: No support for internal load balancers; all LBs must be public. They have it as an alpha release available on request, so it's coming, but it's a serious deficiency right now.

The lack of a hosted VPN solution is also weird.
I was just thinking about how the Google Self-Driving Car effort has become more aggressive recently. On a five-mile drive through Mountain View this afternoon (on El Camino and a residential neighborhood) I saw FOUR of the little bubble cars, and one of the Lexuses.

Of course, on each of the cars I saw closely, the operator had their hand on the joystick...
There's always the option of running certbot in certonly mode - in fact, that's what I do for the majority of my setups (mostly because certbot doesn't support nginx).
> PLT Scheme was renamed to Racket to prevent users from thinking Racket cares about compatibility with Scheme.

No, PLT Scheme was renamed to Racket to reflect the fact that the base language does not (and had not even prior to the rename) really target compatibility with any of the scheme standards, though using its module language approach, Racket includes both R5RS and R6RS Scheme implementations, so its not at all the case that Racket doesn't care about Scheme compatibility, its just bigger than just that.
If programming were easier, why would coders make six figs? Doctors and lawyers have regulatory bodies that protect them. We just make make our jobs too frustrating for non-nerds.
I think your gut feeling needs some serious recalibration. Please consider "the Hilbert matrix" (http://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/2013/02/02/hilbert-matrices...) and more generally condition numbers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condition_number), and in regards to "computationally efficient differential inversions based on small changes to the matrix", consider what happens to a polynomial's roots when you make small changes in the coefficients.
Google and Facebook share new Open Rack Standard with 48-volt power architecture
I moved from Farmington Hills, MI (across the street from Novi) to San Jose, no way I'd go back there. 70% because of the winter.
That seems like a problem on another level.
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How do you know? The question is whether they're safer than human drivers and I think it's hard to tell from the public evidence.
Except... What if none of the people who were forcibly DNA tested were the shit smearer?
Dynamic DNS providers that are on the Public Suffix List are essentially treated like TLDs in terms of rate limiting, meaning each client subdomain has a separate counter. They should probably be on the PSL anyway; browsers rely on it for cookie scoping.
Better yet - JIRA + Standups where you need to tell what you did.

It's not like you can just filter the tickets by person for each single day...
About 7 years ago I had the FBI show up at my office and ask me all sorts of weird and leading questions. Not knowing any better I answered them the best I could.

The FBI agents then told me they'd be calling the DA to press charges and have me arrested for lying to a federal agent unless I completely cooperated with them in an investigation and offered them full access to my phones, my home and all my computers.

It is very likely in your best interest to avoid speaking with law enforcement.
But that doesn't tell me how Bloom filters work. I don't care about his dinner or what favors he owes, unless he's planning on turning those expository details into a clever metaphor later in the article, or if they really are something that's important for me to understand.

I'm all for educational pieces that are told through a conversation between characters - you can get some creative writing out of that. However, the bug that he's asked to fix, the Polish typographer friend, and the dinner scene are barely connected to the subject. We don't even get a nice technical explanation of why the bug is impossible to fix or what that means with regards to the trade-offs in using Bloom filters.
My point is the distinction is artificial. I've worked on both sides of the fence and the more you know about the other side the better programmer you can be. Being an application developer that is completely oblivious of deployment, build, configuration pipelines means you won't be able to build the best application you possibly can if you knew about those things. Similarly being a generic UNIX sysadmin that worships at the altar of Puppet et al means you will constantly be fighting with application developers about how to do things because you'll be unaware of their needs.
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/04/19/MIR.html Has some stuff about MIR specifically, but is still pretty high level.
Xenix-UNIX was way under powered on 16 bit x86s. By the time 32 bit CPUs came along, there were better ports of UNIX like Linux and BSD.
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I wasn't giving examples of Mozilla doing exactly what Chrome is doing, just counterexamples to your implication that working on Rust means no work on improving memory management in Firefox.

That said, it's not even like a single-GC approach is incompatible with Rust: https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2014/08/26/javascript-serv...
For me, the Adobe suite is one thing Windows has over Linux. That and easier hardware support. I'm currently running Ubuntu on my desktop and about 1 in every 3 times I suspend the machine, it needs to do a full reboot. Also every time I do a software update, I need to reconfigure my video card.

Currently, I have to switch over to my MacBook Pro to do any work that requires Adobe software, and then back to my Ubuntu machine for development. So if this Windows 10 thing works out, I might consider switching over (although last I used Windows I wasn't a fan of juggling three different shells--four if you count git bash: PowerShell, cmd.exe, and Cygwin).

Otherwise, I might do what I should've done in the first place and ultimately get a new Mac that can support 4k properly--the one I have is the generation right before 60Hz 4k support, and the 30Hz my current one is at is surprisingly annoying to work with.
While there's reasons for wildcard support, I find the support for SAN and just many certs to be just fine in a lot of ways. I've purchased wildcard domains in the past mostly because it was more cost-effective than buying the individual mail, testing, www, and so on subdomains, especially if there's a cost associated with adding more subdomains later.

Having a scriptable renewal process and no real cost associated with getting additional subdomains on the cert (besides operator time) covers some significant portion of the generalized need for wildcard domains. I know there's other reasons, sure. But it's definitely not stopping me.
Clarification: writes to files less than PIPE_BUFF may be atomic, but they aren't necessarily consistent. This is another important property as you want reads following writes to always have the written values. I think I tripped up over myself since in atomicity you expect the 'all written' and 'nothing written' states, but there's also 'all written but nothing visible' which is a third state which feels like it's part of atomicity, but I guess it's really part of consistency.
Thanks. Saved me more than half an hour, I guess.
perhaps 'Good hustle'
Thanks for the history. My point was just that Lisp is not merely common lisp, and that Common Lisp and Scheme aren't the only two camps.
what's it called?
I see "Oh, _my_ God" as a statement of allegiance, as opposed to just, say, "Oh, God."
A Higgs manipulator.. We'll get there, we made the first steps.
While I disagree with the sentiment, I've heard people who argue that folks who stay in one job for a long time are more likely to have not kept up with best practices, aren't enough of a go-getter, and stuff like that.
I think art has existed and will exist no matter how shitty the situation is. I'm not even arguing New York is better than Germany. This is where I think there was a misunderstanding, because I've been just talking about how "creating a scene" is not something you can just do anywhere, it has nothing to do with money and has everything to do with population and audience.

To create a scene, you go to a concentrated enough place to gather people. Why would anyone decide to go to middle of nowhere and try to create a group of like minded people? (Again, i'm talking about the past, I do think it is possible nowadays with the Internet)

When you say rents were very cheap and depressed in Berlin, I doubt that it was cheaper or more depressed than other parts of Germany. Where would German artists go for larger population? Berlin. Unless you think german artists should have and could have created a "scene" from a smaller town in germany, I don't think we are disagreeing about anything.
>- EC2/VPC (compute) didn't have a simple NAT-instance until a few months ago.

Managed NAT is new, but the nat instances that previously existing could be spun up without any configuration outside of disabling src/dst check and configuring a route to point to them, and they've existed for many years. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/VPC_NA...

>- S3 (storage) still has nothing like Nearline (GCE) and Glacier is so confusing and complicated that few bother using it.

S3 Infrequently Accessed? https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/
Plenty of those DSLs already exist, the cfer project[1] that I contribute to and SparkleFormation being two I can vouch for. I don't find CloudFormation particularly annoying or difficult, and certainly better than the alternatives (BOSH/Terraform/etc.), given such a wrapper, and cfn-init with CloudFormation metadata is miles ahead of "well, install Consul and connect to the cluster and eventually reach the state you want to be in" for my uses.

[1] - https://github.com/seanedwards/cfer

[2] - https://github.com/sparkleformation/sparkle_formation
No use at that height. The minimum I've seen in base-jumping is around 30 meters with instant chute deployment and perfect reaction time.
what's so frustrating about it?
I saw a demo at SIGGRAPH last week with VR using helmet-LIDAR for model building and geolocating. It was the $8K spinning LIDAR you see on Google cars. Cant wait for the $100 version.
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When you're logged out of a virtual game, nobody can force you to log back in. But you can wake up someone who's sleeping.
A.I. workers wont play Pokemon or order Amazon on company time.
Or will they?