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You are correct. At high temperatures, electromagnetism and the weak force merge into the electroweak force. However, these temperatures only existed at the very, very early stages of the universe. As temperatures fell, the two forces split apart into the (rather different) ones we see today, so it is habitual to refer to them as different forces, even though strictly speaking they are different manifestations of one underlying force.
Thus proving once and for all that smoking isn't bad for you!
I imagine he is counting non-discretionary spending, like Medicare and Social Security, which are large, but are also separately funded.
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>interface{} is the new void*

There is an important difference between interface{} and void* which makes it a lot less reckless. AFAIK interface{} contains not only a pointer to data but also a reference to the type of the data. Therefore you can cast that data safely to the original type (or use "switch" on the type).
if origData, ok := data.(OriginalType); ok { /safe to use origData here*/ }
The best captcha system is no captcha system at all. You might take a look at the Wordpress plugin 'WP Bruiser', which is extremely effective at eliminating bot submissions, without any user interaction at all.
Read annual reports on crime stats and other things from your local, state, and federal governments (or equivalent). The world does not change so quickly. The rare time when news actually IS of practical importance to you (like with Flint MI water or the NC water issues) someone will probably tell you about it. Most of the news focuses on the tails of the distributions of things that happen, otherwise it wouldn't be 'news.' Thus if you use the news as a measure of what happens you are taking it from a source of things that literally almost never happen.
Personally my concerns with Condoleezza Rice were as much to do with her support of warrantless NSA wire-tapping as the Iraq war conduct.

The idea of someone who is in favour of the NSA hoovering up as much data as possible being on the board of a company who's job it is to securely manage huge quantities of personal data, just doesn't strike me as a good statement of their concern for personal privacy...
>>> Sidenote: It's also occurred to me over the past few years that it's almost impossible to impose a consistent schema on a large enough dataset

+1.
I agree that NoSql promotes "careless db design" to an extent.

But yes (as an example) situations do arise where you either need to alter the existing SQL table with bazillions of rows of data in it or refactor your design in an ugly-ass way by adding a 2-column table tied to the 1st table by some FK.
> It's possible I had an old version, but I was trying to do super basic things with PIL on 14.04 LTS; literally just cropping a JPEG and things were failing.

It sounds to me that you hit some kind of straightforward bug then, rather than some systemic issue.
A republic bound by a constitution cannot be a democracy of any sort.

The laws bind it.

I suppose since the constitution is completely ignored you might have valid points.
> It would also be a massive effort to add generics to it at this point

Not really. The easiest approach would take like a day for PoC.
I'm maybe too cynical but I always think the main motivation of such articles is to pretend the author is a very good programmer with the implicit assumption that "if you have an opinion about what make a good programmer, you necessarily should be a very good programmer".
I would argue that its already not working. I remember a time when everybody I knew went to google for communications services. After a few years of domination Google started competing with itself and suddenly those of us who were willing to change found ourselves alone.
I think you're splitting hairs. The parent and OP are saying there is a qualitative difference, and by saying "just X and better X" you're trying to say that the difference is merely quantitative. In my experience, when someone makes a claim of qualitative difference, and someone else insists that the difference is merely quantitative, it's because the latter person has not themselves seen the quality of the difference. This applies in many fields.

And that's compatible with my personal understanding here as well. As someone who has been programming for 30+ years and is generally considered proficient, I agree with the parent that the difference is qualitative. This explains a lot of the times when I look at what senior developers are doing and think "yes, that tool is generally useful, but not this time". And it gets frustrating then when they start arguing about "best practices" but I'm trying to make a larger point about "this project".
It's the next logical step after you write a piece which characterizes bad programmers... Same thing only one level lower imo.
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See also: http://blog.burntsushi.net/type-parametric-functions-golang/
> To centralize everything in one place, I'm planning a migration to Open Xchange

Don't know if you know about SOGo, but my e-mail provider uses it and it works quite nicely, it might be another solution to consider.

https://sogo.nu/
There's a point in that where the word "choice" seems rather meaningless. A choice is supposed to be a simple thing, it's merely a decision, not an end goal that takes an inordinate amount of energy. At that point, that's a goal, that's a direction, etc., but it's not exactly a choice since the level of difficulty necessarily implies that you are quite likely to fail, which also means most people will fail.

If anything, your statement would imply that happiness is absolutely not a choice and something most people will never achieve, just like people can't simply "choose" to become an Olympic athlete or the President. The definition has been pulled too far from its original purpose.
> A republic bound by a constitution cannot be a democracy of any sort.

You clearly are using "democracy" in a very peculiar sense. If you narrowly define "democracy" as "lawless mob rule", then your statement is true, but that's not what the word democracy is generally used to mean when discussing political systems.
>Far too many voting machines are still insecure

And they always will be. It's impossible to have a secure voting machine.
The unfortunate thing about AMP from my point of view as a browser developer is that it disincentivizes me from making performance improvements. What's the point in making something faster in a competing browser if Google is preventing developers from using that feature until it's fast in Blink?

Having a new gatekeeper in addition to the standards bodies that we have to get all new features by holds back the Web.
Does anyone know what's in the telemetry yet?
But it's been linked here, with the intent of discussing it, no?
The title, while interesting, isn't the posts title and hides that the post contains a lot more such as Cloud SQL 2nd Gen's GA, Cloud Bigtable's GA, Cloud Datastore's GA (and serving 15 trillion requests per month).

It probably be changed to the blogs title "Advancing enterprise database workloads on Google Cloud Platform".
SQL is a relatively popular programming language that lets you deal quite sanely with relational data.

Then there's Prolog, Kanren, Mercury… which are admittedly not especially popular.

The so-called “impedance mismatch” comes mostly from people who don't understand all that SQL can do and inevitably end up replicating it in some other language.
No, I want the language to have a standard way to extend it that's compatible with the core. Generics is a standard way to do type polymorphism without having the ship people another compiler.
That is fairly standard language. Expect Dropbox's S-1 filing to contain similar warnings about profitability and discussions about investment in various parts of the company
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So, would you say that it's a solvable problem, but it's so time consuming or difficult that a traditional relational database is a more appropriate database for average developers? (Remember, the Diaspora guys were right out of college and inexperienced.)

It's as if MongoDB is great for prototyping, and great for lossy data at scale, but it can't hit the middle.
“Success is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates.
> Has it really?

Absolutely and without a question. You will find exceptions here and there where the integration was done poorly or ultimately didn't make sense but the idea around providing integrated experiences is eliminating friction. Smart phones are fast but switching from one application to another is incredibly slow. Yes it's easy and yes you can download special launchers to slightly improve this but the fact remains that switching applications runs the risk of an application being unloaded from memory, it requires typically several taps and possibly yet another initialization.

But what if it works together in the same app? Take Google Maps and Waze for instance. Waze is awesome for gathering social data around traffic whereas Google Maps had some of that but not nearly at the same level of detail. Google integrated the Waze data into Google Maps so now, in the same application, you have both. No switching required. No need to run two mapping apps (because, let's face it, Waze's directions were never the greatest).

Let's go in a different direction now. Android didn't natively support finger print readers when companies, such as Samsung, started to include them. Due to the terrible integration you couldn't use finger prints so much of anything beyond unlocking your phone and even then there were several security vulnerabilities around that very point. Now that Google has included finger print reading, natively, into the platform you can use it everywhere. It's no longer a weird, separate, nebulous thing.

Maybe those examples are not the best but the point is that you must always march towards less and less friction. Once your app is fast and good enough the next step is integrations into other apps / systems to decrease the friction.
Wow I never looked at abortion and gun control like that. What an interesting perspective!
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> Cortana has replaced the local search on Windows 10. Users will be searching for their local files, which will be sent to Microsoft, which is neither necessary nor appropriate. You now have to expect being put on a list, if you search for "bomb.txt" on your system.

Evidence, please?
Convincing him otherwise is like telling a snowflake not to join in on an avalanche.
My parents believed in "radical unschooling", i.e. they didn't formally teach us anything at all. I had to ask to learn to read.

I entered the public school system for high school and did not find myself at all behind. Much of the history kids had learned was wrong (Columbus, anyone?), I was reading better because I basically read fantasy novels 24/7 for the last seven years, and I caught up in math in one semester even though I started high school not knowing division. I have a BS in CS from Georgia Tech now.

I am not surprised that students are bored in elementary school. I am also skeptical of everyone commenting here to say things like "but in Russia/Singapore/China/Norway school is so much harder!" etc. Any motivated kid can catch up pretty easily. The big fear, IMO, is that you will burn your kid out, bore your kid to death, and crush their curiosity. I am pretty sure all school systems are capable of doing this, albeit in different ways.
A language's core syntax should not privilege its standard library above other libraries.

I'm not so sure. Smalltalk had this in spades. There is a downside to this. Giving a bunch of 20-somethings the full power to basically change everything can result in code-bases which suffer from the chaos of over exuberant hubris. Go is deliberately favoring a certain set of conventions. To do this, they are also deliberately making it harder to change the language from within itself.
Any tax paid only for exercising options is AMT. It is refundable as AMT credits in future tax years where your conventional tax liability is less than your AMT liability. It's still bad news, and an unfortunate result for the fairly well off "little guy" in this story, but it's not as bad as it was in the dotcom bust in an era before the AMT credit existed.
No one read twitter over sms in the first place. It was a quirk of a pivot.
Also time.Time (which could be thought of as two int64s)

Even string ordering there is a lot left up to the implementation as far as how it is done. Do capitals come first? Does capitalization not matter? etc.

For non-intrinsic types you would provide the equivalent `less` function, but in my own programming the bulk of the things I order by are intrinsic.
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Those experts are not experts in educating children.
Well if you're looking specifically for pomodoro journaling, https://pomotodo.com/intl/en/#apps. There's an app for that.
The beginning and root of all good is the pleasure of the stomach; even wisdom and culture must be referred to this. -- Epicurus

A minimum of comfort is necessary for the practice of virtue. -- Patrice Lumumba
A dev/UX agency's experience ideating for Hololens at Microsoft
Students may perform above grade level in reading and math, but tests in these areas fail to measure the skills involved in learning how to learn. No Child Left Behind and its ilk focus on proficiency and remediation, but actually risks leaving bright students behind. When children can breeze through their assigned work because it’s so easy for them, they end up ill prepared for facing challenge and failure when it finally comes. They are left with poor study habits and time management skills because they never needed good ones before. I’m not sure how to measure these skills but doing so may give a more complete picture of a student’s learning situation — maybe a picture that incentivizes challenging students according to their abilities.
I think you didn't understand Chris' post.

C2 is the HotSpot Server compiler. It definitely does not use LLVM anywhere.
Development. Which is why I said "for one-off builds".
Why hasn't it happened to me? I've been writing Go for over 3 years, and I prefer the language stay as is. I'm more concerned about porting it to more platforms. Perhaps that's a reason I'm motivated to desire less language changes.
The notion that 'common good' is a sufficient reason to restrict individual freedom is debatable. Mainly because it isn't really a definable concept and so 'common good' ends up being a magic phrase to justify almost any restriction small or large.

Your point about minimum wages is a bit misleading. These laws are almost always framed as restrictions on employers but it is worthwhile thinking about them as prohibitions on individuals also. They prohibit individuals from taking jobs that they otherwise would be happy to take. For low-skilled workers (including teenagers) the value of a job isn't just the hourly wage, although $7/hour is better than $0/hour also.
If I can use GC, why would I pick go over any of the other compiles-to-native languages with vastly friendlier type systems and language features? Rust, D, Haskell, etc. all offer similar performance profiles and are much nicer for the programmer.
I'm curious why you think Dropbox's features are done better by Google Drive? They are vastly different in ease of use, and, I think, in intended use. Dropbox is vastly simpler for storing documents on your local machine and in the cloud, simultaneously, in sync. Google Drive does not do this nearly as reliably. I used it for awhile and many things would inexplicably not sync.
I don't see how much room for design there is on a Surface book besides the keyboard dock assembly, but even that looks pretty spartan with clean lines and a rather pale gray that could be mistaken for an Apple laptop from the Aluminum Powerbook era. So I don't know what's embarrassing about it except for, contentiously, the monochrome Microsoft logo attached to it.
This book is worth a read:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/high-price-materialism
Tim Kasser, The High Price of Materialism

It discusses studies on how materialistic desires relate to one's emotional well-being (all correlative, as I recall), and then goes from there into a thoughtful analysis of how materialism alters a person's priorities in a variety not-so-healthy ways. I found it to be a pretty good reality check.
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What’s Behind Slowing SaaS Startup Creation?
Spinup of the JVM is 50 msec or so, for a hello world. Perhaps it's been a while since you tried running a small program on it? I can see why you might think the JVM starts slowly if you only ever run huge programs on it.
I guess they could be saying that they don't want to run servers for competitors to connect to, but under patent law, there's clearly nothing preventing them from doing so.
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Wire also takes a similar approach.

I think google is trying to mimic whatsapp here: A single device with end to end encryption so that your keys never leave the device.
In my case it's python, Rust has a bit more of a learning curve / productivity hit.
I'm still complaining though because I like what Go is doing with concurrency and simplicity, but I think it would be almost perfect if it just trusted the user a bit more.
If you haven't seen it yet, a co-creator of evil32 says (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12298230) that they found an old local backup of the secret keys and generated revocation certificates for all of the keys, and further promises that the secret keys never left that machine and will never use them for anything beyond the revocation certificates.
A Roomba smeared dog poop. There's an economic lesson here
I'd like to know about this. Can you link to something about the incentive programs? I thought that they were heavily regional, but I admit that I haven't looked too deeply.
What approach would that be?
You are trying to hammer a screw in. If what you want is a facility for the database to provide you with JSON on query, Postgres has a couple of functions for that, namely array_to_json and row_to_json: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/functions-json.ht...
Yes, they've been revoked. See this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12298230
Box.net was available before Dropbox.
RE: financials -

around $400m in annualized revenue as of last summer (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-24/dropbox-is...). no recent news of their growth, but I would be surprised if they did more than 20-30% user growth since then (not bad, but not a rocketship anymore...which FTR is totally cool with me, even admirable at this stage!)

Jives with back envelope calcs: 400m+ users, assume 1% paid users = 4m+ paid users. each user pays something around $100/year (8.99/month if you pay up front, 9.99/month if you bill monthly, some legacy cheaper, some business customers). 4m x $100 = $400m. It's actually not a bad business! =)

Not sure about costs, but they are cash flow positive from what they've said publicly (http://www.recode.net/2016/6/14/11937132/dropbox-cash-flow-p...) and that's been confirmed from what I've heard anecdotally/personally from some senior folks over there and some VCs who I think would/should know (and that I trust..ha).

so overall, seems like a solid business, i think the issue now is whether they can grow at a rate that's exciting enough to the market to justify a $10b+ valuation...TBD!

as one kind of comparison (not definitive by any means, just one that we have the #s to do..): box did around 300m in revenue last year (so less than DB), but Box market cap was around 1.5B at that point, so 5X revenue. if you did the same math to DB, we're looking at around 2B market cap for DB...1/5 of their last raise at 10B =/

could be viewed as example of raising at higher valuation than prudent (not unusual ha), but who knows, maybe they'll pull a rabbit out of a hat =)
What you said has been repeated so many times everyone just accepts it as true. But if you look at the new age hippies, they're playing the same game, but having a better car is replaced by having a nicer 30 yr old van, or nicer dreadlocks, or being more spiritual, etc. People will always want to be better than other people; having that S class you mentioned is just one of the methods of achieving that. Advertising is just one of many sources which feed you ideas on how to demonstrate your higher value over fellow human beings.
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Or it's been linked here, with the intent of getting us to buy the book.
I can create dropbox accounts for everyone in my family and set them up on all their various devices, and manage all those accounts.

I can have a linux box running and connected to all those dropbox accounts giving us local physical backups of all that dropbox stuff.

I don't see how I can easily do that with apple or google. Maybe there are other newer services that can do that, but I don't want to take the time to figure it all out.
OTOH, the shells help deter you from eating a pound of delicious pistachios in one sitting.
Journal of the Plague Year is actually a fictionalized novel but one written very soon after the actual events so it seems very true to life. I found it a great antidote to the tiresome zombie apocalypses plots that infest our tv screens.

Large swathes of London were dying in horrible ways, nobody knew why, and efforts to contain the plague often seemed to make things worse. People fled the cities (which worked, sometimes) but I found it heartening that people didn't immediately form the sort of murderous, paranoid, isolationist mobs that film and tv would have you believe.
It is really painful that Apple couldn't open source FaceTime because of a patent troll.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1xuzif/what_ever_hap...
A couple thoughts there.

First, not everyone defines success in such material terms. If you don't, you probably also aren't interested in attracting a mate who does.

Second, in a society as laden in consumer debt as the USA in the early 21st century, the nature of the correlation between financial wellbeing and ownership of nice things is far from certain. To put it in its most basic terms, the $40k someone spent on their BMW is, by definition, money they didn't stick in their 401k.
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