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I guess that what I'm trying to say - and that got clearer to me while replying to other comments in this thread- is that it feels we're using the term "technical debt" as a way to avoid talking about personal skills or lack thereof, and to avoid admitting our or other people's faults. If I say that we need one more week of work on something because of technical debt due to the exceptional circumstances is one thing; if I say that it is because one of my colleagues didn't do his or her job properly, it's different. Remember that the business might have no clue of how long or difficult some tasks are and judge them only by the amount of work required. So a series of bad design decisions and consequent technical debt can give the impression of a very hard task on which everybody is working skillfully, while in fact it's an easy task with somebody that doesn't know how to do his job.

As for your other points: maybe one of my team members produces consistently more technical debt than the others. Is it still technical debt?
Manager or designers can be the source of time pressure for those down in the chain, because bad planning or decisions, made in absence of time pressure, can force others to work under pressure. Again, "technical debt" masks the real problem.
I might not have worked in extremely high pressure environments - but I've surely worked in teams where we were leaving the office at ten or eleven pm every night for months on end just because demented design decisions had been made by the much respected solution architect.
My tax returns are emailed to me. Even though I have never needed them I'm legally required to save them for 7 years just in case. I have a number of other emails in the old list that I don't expect to ever need again but they are still relevant to something and I need to keep them just in case. Odds are my house will not burn down, but I still have fire insurance - most of my old emails are like that: I don't believe I will ever need them but I can't prove it.

At work I've discovered outlook has an expires after tag that I can set on each email - I set this on everything I save which keeps my saved messages clean. I haven't found a convent way to do that with anything else though I understand something like it exists.
I thought your reasoning made sense too. Funny how things work out sometimes.
I have read a few studies on alcohol fuel production, and none of the facilities studied have been a net-producer of energy. While the idea is an intriguing one, energy production is difficult. Has Blume actually shown an ability to produce fuel?

Note: I've always been a fan of using seaside solar-powered electrolysis to produce hydrogen fuel, though hydrogen storage has its own issues.
Many of the countries marked deep green (having higher biocapacity than ecological footprint) have been trending downwards for the past twenty years. The rate at which the biocapacity is diminishing appears to be slowing. But it makes me wonder if there is a way to visualize rates of decline as well.

I also wonder if there is a way to divide this up into spatial buckets so we could see say, the footprint of a metropolitan area versus other parts of the country. While national policies have affect on this, ecological impact is not necessarily confined to political borders.
Actually, the Renderman denoiser is based on work from Disney Research.

https://renderman.pixar.com/view/denoiser

PCA would be one way to do that. This recent paper suggests that they may be decomposing the samples mostly by path type, though:

https://www.disneyresearch.com/publication/pathspace-decompo...
Detached houses appreciated at least 30% last year though. [1] Yes, some folks may face a tax hit if they cash out and rebuy but it's hardly disastrous.

[1] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/vancouver/ten-yea...
I wonder what https://tonicdev.com/ does.
I feel it's a liabilty to keep it online. Storing it offline is useful.
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But US broadband doesn't suck. I invite you to play around with this neat tool from Akamai:

https://www.akamai.com/uk/en/our-thinking/state-of-the-inter...

With a couple of notable exceptions (Sweden, South Korea), the US has as good or better average connection speeds & penetration of high-bandwidth service than its peer developed nations. Italy, France, Germany, Australia all lag the US, some substantially.

Personally, my cable-based service has seen regular step-ups in bandwidth with a much lower rate of increase in price.

If Powell had insisted on "open access" to last-mile ISP networks 15 years ago, would the capital investments in wired networks have played out as they did? Or would the market have looked like DSL in the US, nominally "competitive" by regulatory fiat, but stagnant?
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How do you separate what is true from what is he biased about?
This is a really interesting point. I think when software starts killing people 100 at a time (like a plane crash) we'll get that kind of oversight.
If I didn't know better I'd have assumed from all the first person pronouns that Wolfram is the lead developer and coded 90% of the new version's features himself.
This is just a human population XKCD heatmap with a handful of exceptions.
> Note that the Michelin is also reviewing hot-dog stands in the US and in Asia a couple of small Sushi shops have a star or I think even two.

They're also doing Michelin Bib Gourmands for "quality food at a reasonable price" which is what most hot-dog stand type places have gotten (I'm sure some got stars too.)
What kind of vetting is occurring when you're automatically installing npm modules as you code?

But, "Novice programmers will necessarily produce novice code."

Having had my own variety of experience with CPAN, PEAR, Tcl's package thing, C by way of building my own RPMs and DEBs, and now watching the ongoing trainwreck that is npm, yes. You're right about that.
If you're going to combine all the CPU caches into L1 why not also put the RAM and the SSD into the CPU L1 cache as well and just have 1TB of L1 CPU cache?

Working out the cost and power consumption and die size of that might be instructive -- as a kind of reductio ad absurdum...
Can you foot the bill for bringing it another mile down the road? I know you can do that for electric utilities and water to rural land, not sure about phone/cable.
> A question for Mathematica-folk: does Mathematica have support for direct manipulation like Toby Schachman's works?[] I find direct manipulation more pleasant than typing characters.

Locator comes to mind:

https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Locator.html

https://youtu.be/6wOLBVFdek8?t=11s

And more generally Manipulate which makes it easy to whip together a let-me-explore-how-this-depends-on-that type of widget.
There have already been crises, it is just that some crises are more subtle (though still quite devastating.) Consider the crisis of the Washington Mutual post-merger system integration. They purchased dozens of banks in the hopes of becoming a super-bank, but the details after the deal closes are often neglected. I was a Dime Savings Bank customer. My beneficiaries (upon death) on the account magically got converted into account holders, though only in the 1099 system, not on the reporting/statement system. We didn't even know until the next year when my brother's student aid was declined -- they noted he had ~$17,000 in his bank account, which was curiously about how much I had. He didn't even have a bank account!

Something like this can literally kill a semester/year of college if you arent savvy enough to deal with it. Luckily for us, tens of thousands of other customers had the same issue and the school was inundated with similar cases -- they realized something was amiss.

Incidentally, Washington Mutual refused to help -- they noted that the statement did not show my brother's name. They also noted that they cant talk to my brother since he isnt a customer!!!
Or they have self-contradictory political views, or they're dishonest about what they really believe, or they say different things when it's in their self interest.

Or, quite likely, a mix of all of the above.
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> The alternative is a tightly controlled standard library, but that isn't npm's stated goal.

What npm says it is doing on paper and in its charter is not necessarily what npm gets used for. At this point in the ecosystem's maturity, npm developers are doing their users a massive disservice and opening them up to a lot of risk. Maintaining this line of a vibrant active community, and "developers should be responsible for their own security", rings hollow.

As I see it, npm appears to be acting like there are a lot of unsolved problems in this realm, and in doing so are endangering a developer community that is absolutely full of amateurs.

I would argue that JavaScript is the most accessible language of the current era, and Node.js is being pushed by a lot of third parties as the new easy way into programming. These new guys don't know security and want to contribute to the community, and the npm gatekeepers seem to be doing little to stop naïveté from causing virus-like consequences in their dependency chains. When I was a teenager writing code I had no idea what security issues I needed to patch against. I wasn't educated on it and didn't care. I just wanted to make cool stuff. The problem with npm is that the cost of entry of your "cool stuff" into the hands of a thousand trusting others is too low; there is no delineation between what is authoritative and what isn't.

Debian solved this problem years ago. Restrict npm defaults to vetted packages, and have people add repositories as need be (e.g. multiverse, Ubuntu PPA, etc.) for packages that aren't audited or by trusted parties.

The Node user experience often ignores most security issues for ease of use; this is OK when you are guarding people against the most likely mistakes. This is a problem of setting insecure defaults and expecting the Internet to play nice. The user experience, the marketing message, and the community at large defends its openness to the death. I'm all for openness, but at some point senior developers should be attempting to shepherd their new developers into making secure decisions, and thinking in a way that is somewhat security minded.
Nice. Could you 3D print the entire earth as a globe? :)
I think a lot of the problem is you would radiate like crazy, causing harmful interference. The same thing happens with power line data service.
On plots that large, water is usually provided by a well and a local septic tank with leach field handles the sewage - these are typically factored into the cost of constructing a new dwelling.

Bear in mind that many of these residences were built before consumer access to the internet was widespread.
You're better off with a terrestrial wireless, as satellite internet has severe latency and bandwidth limitations. Fortunately many rural households in the U.S. otherwise out of economic range of fiber are within rage of local WISPs, line-of-sight allowing.
> white collar workplace culture's default of "aren't we all just friends and teammates?"

This isn't a white-collar thing; it's specifically a SV/startup culture thing, and one of the reasons why I no longer desire to work in that kind of environment. Grownups don't have to be, or pretend to be, friends with each other, in order to work well together.
> most people aren't selling bitcoin for national currencies when they are using an exchange, they are trading between altcoins and other cryptoassets.

I'd actually like to know if this is the case. It certainly isn't what I'm doing. I did hold some Litecoin/Peercoin for a while, and I still have Namecoin, but I have enough Namecoin that I'll probably never have to buy one again to keep my .bit domains, and I haven't held anything else except Bitcoin in over a year. So my typical use-case for an exchange is just to exchange national currency for cryptocurrency.

I suspect that I'm not the only one, but I don't have any evidence for that. If you have evidence that my use case is actually the 5% use case as you claim, I'd be interested to see it.
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What you write there is interesting, you should have led with that. :-) Could you give me some pointers?

Coming from Sweden, we have a consensus culture. That makes it possible for the media and the politicians to whip up a frenzy and change the acceptable opinions. The point is, you don't have to dig so deep to find official lies. Quite a few of the whistle blowers are economists. I do believe a large subset in the profession have integrity.

>> I assume you would assign the "smoking" issue to the field of medicine. Which percentage of research in medicine would you expect to be closely related to public policy? Which percentage in economics?

Let me put it like this -- Sweden recently got a professor (instated by the government) in the state defence research arm, specialized in gender. He tends to write articles supporting whatever the government likes... :-)

Regarding research -- smoking was not public policy, but purely company interests. All of health questions regarding choices of medicine, treatments and diet are interesting to lots of interest groups. (And age verification of young people was a big thing in Sweden regarding the immigration -- the international research consensus was thrown out...)

The national economy researchers are much fewer. But there are also quite a variation internationally on how politically influenced academics are. Also, what is sensitive in some countries can be researched in others with e.g. a different infrastructure.

In my native Sweden, the health research is probably more interesting to influence than the economic departments at universities. The political parties are interested in the economists. The big corporations don't really care, they talk to the parties directly. (Corporatism, yes..)

>> There was no talk of "idiots and fanatics" in the comment you replied to, hence the "not phrase it so strongly" part.

The statement "scientific content in most economists is zero" needs that the practitioners are either idiots, crooks or fanatics.

But sure, I'll back down here. A group of people studying a subject without any feedback and internal tests can go crazy, obviously. coldtea used the example Freudians. You might use post modernists too -- any group with a common preconceived opinion about how the world works might become a cult.

There is just to much precedent in the crazier part of academia for my argument.

Still, to dismiss an old field of research needs damn good support.
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Jet.com has something Wal-Mart can use to rocket its online presence forward: advanced online infrastructure, patents, a wealth of technology experts, and users.

Together, Wal-Mart can beat Amazon at its own game by doing what Amazon is already doing (building more, smaller DCs everywhere) using what they already have (massive retail locations everywhere).
>You do realize that is how the creationists argue about the biology academics? :-(

You do realize that I don't care who else argues something in a particular way in another domain, as long as an argument is correct in another domain!

>The problem is that to show something completely wrong (a year or two ago, you'd probably have linked to Picketty?) is a good way to make a career.

Not really. To piss on your own field, is a good way to be considered a pariah, a conspiracy theorist, a nut job etc. Not many grants coming to the self-doubting economist, and policy advisor positions either.

>But to dismiss a field of research, you really need better support.

Like self-deprecating citations from practitioners in the field?

(Even if expecting that is illogical to begin with -- since economics is what puts food on their table --, you'd be surprised how many economists have written self-deprecating critiques about economics)
Funny thing about email. Chatted with some 18year old recently. She said she'd get pissed of if she had to check her email now. She probably wouldn't know how.

It's all social media/chat apps for them now.
I think you have it backwards.

The differences in access speed, density, and power between different types of caches are due to how our physical world works.

Therefore,uUsing a physical analogy is totally appropriate since we see the same constraints in different contexts; namely, there's an energetic cost to be paid for increased physical locality, and this is intuitively obvious to most people.

The specific details (e.g. eviction policy, cache topology, etc.) are mostly irrelevant for understanding this key point.
As the other poster indicates, right now it's more like software wounds by the thousands or millions, and, so far, that's not been enough.
William Stein, number theorist at University of Washington, founded and built up Sage. It's designed to be cloud-based and acts as a common interface for many things (including Mathematica, Maple, Matlab, etc.) but also has it's own libraries. Will recently went on leave from UW to work full time on Sage.

Description from: http://www.sagemath.org/

"SageMath is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It builds on top of many existing open-source packages: NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, Sympy, Maxima, GAP, FLINT, R and many more. Access their combined power through a common, Python-based language or directly via interfaces or wrappers.
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I mean, wow. I've seen half-baked ideas before, but this takes the cake. Typos now equal remote code execution, and it's even easier to enter dependancy hell, because deps are now implicit.
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This makes sense in a vacuum, but it is pretty easy to figure out any decent sized company's tech stack just by browsing their IT group's LinkedIn profiles.
Agree, but that synchronous kludge needs to be temporary. I too have used a similar hack, launching waves of tasks/messages and waiting with a timeout, possibly terminating the slow ones and then starting again. The ones that are slow multiple times can be put into a longer, bounded queue.
Generating in the loosest sense.

Code up the format of a villanelle and find Twitter posts to fit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villanelle

> VillanelleBot, created by Felix Jung, is a bot that composes villanelles using random posts from Twitter. Each line corresponds to a full post on Twitter

If you click on the line it goes through to the tweet e.g.

> i ate curly fries and shaker fries

https://twitter.com/ahtaebvh/status/757935083135258626
Thank You. Looking forward to ur writeup.
Tools like acorn[1] and Esprima[2] can parse the JavaScript source and output an ESTree compliant syntax tree.

Then you can traverse it and modify it like any other AST.

[1] https://github.com/ternjs/acorn
[2] http://esprima.org/
[3] https://github.com/estree/estree
There are many similar programs/games, where you program through icons instead. There is some science behind suggesting there is some transfer to real world programming from that.

As far as I recall, children can learn "Computational Thinking" without having to concentrate on the often heavy syntax of programming.

I agree with you that setting up candy on a table, to take a photo of it and then getting some game-character to move accordingly, sounds a bit far fetched and might not give enough to actually learn programming. But it could definitely work to some extent, and if nothing else it sounds like a great markething scheme.
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All shopping is going to be online and delivered for the same price as going to a big warehouse store. With the dash buttons and the third party integration Amazon is too big to ignore.
20 seconds is completely outside of my experience. You were searching with the gmail frontend, or via IMAP? I have 5GB in Gmail and I get instant results as I type in the search box, and full results in about one second when I hit the enter key. I only have a little bit of email in my fastmail account so I can't really compare it.
Raise standards of living through the existing GDP growth regime, then wait for population to control itself. Trying to force it through controls will most likely backfire.
Ok for your first point - although I'd argue that technical debt is something that usually asks to be repayed within months. A two year old technical debt is just an improvable software - that is, it didn't yet show problems serious enough as to call for a refactor at unchanged requirements.

As for your second point, what should I do? Try to get it wrong? To get it working how? We're not talking of premature optimization here, we're talking about understanding the requirements, understanding the tools, understanding the big picture, understanding your time constraints, and pulling out the best job you can.
I'm so sorry for your troubles. I think there's a huge price individuals are paying for these kinds of things. A much easier case than yours, I once spent months trying to convince a phone company that they'd applied my payment to the wrong account. It took a letter to my state's Public Service Commission to get them to pay enough attention to solve it.
I'm curious as to whether this affects the Jolla as well, as it uses Qualcomm's chipset and kernel drivers (but not Android)
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I cut and pasted from the reg and used 4 spaces on each line to indent. Let me know if there's a better way.

You're right that you could use (f) and (g) to sidestep, but an interest in an enterprise is something resembling equity. So yeah, set up a domestic shell corp, capitalize it, put your real estate in it, and that's probably good to go - I'm generalizing, but you're right. But being able to structure around a particular tax is not the same as the particular tax not applying or not existing. If for whatever Canadian legal reasons liability pierces the entity and goes back to the principals, you have a tax problem. I'm sure there are ways to structure around that as well, but again, I'm way out of my element on Canadian law.

As for (j) that's going to depend on whether Canadian law interprets "immovable property" as real property or not, and then what constitutes business purposes. I'll venture a guess that if a foreigner buys a home, assuming immovable property = real property for (j), and rents it out at market rates at arms length, that's okay. Buying it so their kids can live in it, or "renting" it to relatives or anything other than market rate and arms-length is probably less okay.

I also don't know enough about Canadian jurisprudence and the propensity to enforce the spirit of a law rather than the black letter. So basically I'm a dog pretending to be a Canadian lawyer on the internet. But those are the issues to me. It's certainly arguable from both positions.
It has to parse a javascript file, which isn't trivial. The reason they use regular expression is because implementing a javascript parser isn't an easy problem to solve fast, even though the grammar is available.