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> impact disrupted the glue and be whole side of the house (plywood, sheeting, siding) just fell off!

I don't believe this story can possibly be true. No one glues on plywood, sheeting, or siding. If you glued on the plywood sheathing, you'd have to nail it in place while the glue set anyway. Ditto for the siding. I guess you could glue the sheeting in place, but that's not structural so it wouldn't fall off as you describe here. Gluing the sheeting would probably cost considerably more than just stapling it in place, which is what actually happens.

If this story is true, the builder is doubly stupid, first for building a house this way, and second for spending more money to do so.
Are you actually using that as an example of ugly houses?

Because to me, it looks infinitely better than the endless and faceless American suburbia.

And frankly, some of those are low-blows that look like they are about to be torn down or aren't actively being inhabited or maintained. And they still manage to look on par (at least in uniqueness if not in presentability)
NB: your first and second paragraphs somewhat contradict one another.

The fact that this is about power plays does impact profits. However those profits are extracted (by decreased employee choice and mobility) rather than created (through ingenuity).
In that regard, venv is better. It's better to have a single place where you install your packages rather than a few different places, especially if you're working on a team. It would be hell to have a mix, not knowing exactly which goes where or why, and then explaining to another team member your setup in a coherent manner. It's much better to just know that your packages are either global or local and no in-betweens.
Very few countries are successful in exporting culture at all.

For instance, the EU is requiring that 20% of content on Netflix be European in origin and considering the population size and economic weight of Europe that is more a guarantee that Europe doesn't get shut out instead of a level playing field.

India has a huge movie industry (which is unusual enough) but it gets almost no attention from outside India except by expats.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Global_Trap

Another aspect is that Anime has developed a postmodernism that is very different from the navel-gazing postmodernism of Hollywood which could be characterized by the movie "Pulp Fiction" Anime is easy to relate to, if you are inclined to relate to it, is because it is about a very small world. When you see anime for the first time (for me some early inputs were "Star Blazers", "Urusei Yatsura" and "Nadia") it looks like a huge world. Nadia in particularly uses the trick of making it seem like the world gets bigger in every episode.

After you have seen enough anime you realize that Ataru Morobishi, Usagi Tsukino, and Haruhi Suzumiya all go to the same high school, that the monsters in "Nadia" and "Neon Genesis Evangelion" look the same, etc. It's not about a large universe, but it is really one of those closed spaces that Haruhi wants to move into.
So is being a janitor. you're well compensated for your trouble, Tim.
Proctor & Gamble. Huge, diversified corporation. Google 'em.
Some, but things that would be package-compatible are likely to be source-compatible anyway and shared among Linux, BSD, and Illumos pretty well with existing mechanisms. It's the base operating system that is hit-and-miss with code sharing.
One of the primary reasons for the push for cash-less societies is for the government being able to put a negative-interest rate on personal savings (for economic and social reasons - none of which are good).

This can't happen if you can take cash out (and to a lesser degree if you can buy gold/silver).
Cranking out houses meeting a real-estate checklist perfectly describes, say, Brooklyn brownstones— but they also have far more elegant facades.
You're hallucinating an argument right now. Nobody here wants to infringe on someone's property rights. It's a submission about why some houses are ugly, with a comment thread about why they're ugly.

Your comment is bad, but by that I don't mean "punishable by 15 years' hard labor in a Siberian gulag." Is that hard to believe?
* It is a proof-of-concept implementation to show that porting Postgres over to C++ is feasible with minimal changes. It is not official.

* We need to refactor the increment operator because the variables are of enumeration type.

* We have not yet tested compilation with clang. But, I presume that minimal changes would be required to support compilation with clang. PRs are welcome!

* Not really. Our hope is that the PostgreSQL core team would consider gradually migrating over to C++. I think that this refactoring can be done without breaking external interfaces.

Thanks for the positive feedback.
Possibly he already had a visa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
I agree with other commenters on verbosity. But there are some interesting viewpoints hidden in the wall of text, like when they say that while software used to be embedded in hardware now hardware is being embedded in software.
Can confirm, any 'real world' engineering will use the NASA definition. The best way I've found to understand systems engineering is in how my org implements them - a project has a systems engineer and a project manager working alongside each other. They have small overlaps but by and large, the PM is responsible for the non-technical management of the project whereas the SE is responsible for the technical management. This encompasses scope definition, requirements specification, system and subsystem interfaces, testing and verification regimes, etc. etc.

They take the intangible requirements of the client and beat them into a robust series of defintiions that outline what the whole raft of pieces that must assemble together to perform that duty must do, and then also confirm it does indeed meet the client needs. Meanwhile, the PM makes sure the team delivers on time, within budget, with the right organisational oversights to confirm processes are followed, quality management is maintained, etc.
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Lots of ways to review them:

https://people.cs.umass.edu/~btaylor/publications/PSI000008....

These are also just the first steps. Not bad given what hardware and software verification used to look like a few decades ago. I think the verifiable ANN's will be more structured or constrained in their development or even use cases.
My pet theory is that schools are so dysfunctional because of a massive agency problem. The principals--the kids--lack capacity, so the agents run amok. Actually serving kids' needs becomes a side-show to cosmic debates over the social condition.

Publicly-run schools can't even make basic operational decisions (hiring and firing, closing down unnecessary facilities, etc) without dealing with the last stand of the labor movement or the repercussions of decades of racial oppression. CPS didn't create the excesses of unregulated capitalism, but we punish it by forcing it to pay far more for the same level of credentials than the private sector. CPS didn't segregate the black population of Chicago into the south side, but when CPS tries to close down under-capacity schools, we make it pay for those sins. We impose regulation on the business of educating kids that are so stifling that we'd never dream of imposing similar ones on a private-sector industry, for fear of killing it.

Which is not to say that those cosmic issues are unimportant. Maybe people with English degrees should be paid more and maybe black communities need more resources to deal with the impacts of segregation. But school districts are entirely the wrong level of abstraction for dealing with those problems.

Privately-run education doesn't entirely solve the agency problem, but it insulates the business of teach kids from the irrelevant politics.
Well, then you must have clicked a different link from everybody else.
They are far too much house on far too small a budget. They are about maximizing those wealth-connotating features of a home which are comprehensible to the upper-middle-class laypeople who buy them: raw square footage, bed/bath count, "classical" architectural features (poorly executed, because the intent is to check "expensive-looking" boxes, not actually to execute a quality building).

This same style is very consistently-expressed at differing scales in different housing markets across the U.S.; the lot size varies with land prices but the ethos is the same.
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A major difference in lifestyle (and I guess also financial implications) not mentioned here or the companion article [1] is that many search funds end up buying companies in less-than-happening locations, whereas MBB have offices in major cities. So for a search fund you have to either be willing to go live in the rust belt for 5+ years or accept that your chances if finding a business in/near a big city are lower.

[1] https://hbr.org/2016/03/why-more-mbas-should-buy-small-busin...
The BBC has been doing this for the World Cup for a long time. They even use semantic web tech from Bulgaria to do it...

http://ontotext.com/company/customers/bbc-dynamic-semantic-p...
Of course there are counterexamples but most websites aren't using SVG. Out of the Alexa top 20 only live.com is using svgs everywhere where they make sense and only yahoo.com is using them in some parts of the website.
Just because someone studied biology at standford - or even computer science at Stanford - does not necessarily make one a good dev., that said, smart kids who get into such programs are likely higher in potential. Moreover, good devs usually have a few years under the belt.

They hire from a lot of places and do piecemeal, often shoddy consulting work, it's not a product company, there's nothing special about them.
Pretty cool as this is orbiting the closest known star (Proxima Centauri). Still hopelessly beyond our current reach though, at 4.24 light years away.

Anyway, maybe this will encourage us to push for interstellar probes/ travel...
As one hypothesis, because as a "corruption safeguard" the purse strings are kept far away from the people on the ground. Which is how schools end up getting shipments of new computers but no desks to put them on, etc. Can't have the "technology director" getting too chummy with the classroom teachers.
We must remember the frame of reference for these works. The audience.

Most art, and certainly most paintings, movies, and most of Bach's work, is written for a general audience. Works of advanced, pure math however are written for a very specialized audience, purposefully.

This does not mean, though, that math cannot be written for a general audience and be understandable or even "beautiful". As an example, Cantor's diagnolization is understandable by a 10 year old. The profoundness of the question it asks is also understandable, as is its initially seemingly mind-bending inscrutability. What's more the solution and the logic of the proof are perfectly understandable and some of the easiest to understand explanations literally use a child's method of counting (mapping fingers to numbers). This is a beautiful work of math. And much math could be written for broader consumption. It's not done frequently only because that isn't the task most mathematicians set themselves to.

Moreover, even outside the actual proof, many math results can be described in understandable and even beautiful ways. And the derivative results of mathematical discoveries are often easy to describe, understand, and appreciate as impactful and beautiful.

So, I think this is a function of choice and focus. Perhaps math could indeed more popular if greater efforts were made here, but mathematicians as a group on the whole haven't set out to popularize it.

Now, no matter how much effort is applied, math will probably never quite be as enjoyable to most people as music or movies. But with such efforts math may be more appreciable to a wider audience, as say paintings or poetry are.
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I have been getting spammed something fierce for the last few days, and figure they must have come up on someones radar. Can anyone give me a name/number?

" See who welcomed you to empowr "
If you want to make the best use of the interior space, you don't carve up a half dozen secondary masses (using the article's term). You do this because you have bad taste and think it looks fancy/expensive. i.e. You think it looks like a proper mansion when in reality your 3000 sqft house should not be carved up into half a dozen independent chunks as if it's a palace built up over 4 centuries.

Maxing out the use of the interior space means one huge box, which is what most "ultramodern" houses in cities are. It's not my aesthetic, but it least it makes sense, unlike putting tacky form over function in the mcmansion style.
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why not? The regulation only allows them to be longer than the specified lane length, yes, but that still means that one lane can be shorter than another.
Trying the same thing with a larger delta (jquery-2.2.4.min.js to jquery-3.1.0.min.js) produced different compressor rankings, though:

85578 jquery-2.2.4.min.js
86351 jquery-3.1.0.min.js
8663 jquery.bsdiff
101359 jquery.ubsdiff
8380 jquery.ubsdiff.brotli
9209 jquery.ubsdiff.brotli9
8853 jquery.ubsdiff.bz2
9550 jquery.ubsdiff.gz
8360 jquery.ubsdiff.xz

In this case, bzip2 of the whole file did noticeably worse than bsdiff's compression of three separate components. brotli of the whole file still won, though. Which made me wonder if brotli of the individual components would do better than brotli of the whole file. Turns out it does: 8006 bytes.
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No. "Copyright (c) 2013-2016 Evan You" ... he clearly owns the product or at least makes claim to do so. Such a claim of ownership, and likely valid claim at that, immediately refutes your position. While others are entitled to create derivative works, it is only by the good graces of the property holder.

But more importantly, there is a fallacy that the material goods or machinery that are used in the creation of a product (the "means of production") are somehow responsible for that product coming to be. That's nonsense. It was nonsense in the industrial era and it's even more apparently nonsense in software development. Sure, factories were hard come by back in the day, but having a factory didn't mean you'd be successful: you had to think and if anything is an individual endeavor, it's thinking. Now that the means of production can simply be owning a computer... something open to a wide variety of people of all backgrounds... one sees the relative individual contributions to success or failure more dramatically.

As for someone going off and, with the owner's permission, forking the project: they will only be more successful due to the individual contributions of those making the fork. Some vague abstract notion of "community" will not suffice.
I have gone in deep with SVG, rendering them inline with backend code that embeds locale specific text and hyperlinks. I am a big fan of 'use' and sprite-sheets. SVG everywhere is what I like, in fact I prefer to embed a PNG in SVG rather than using native images.

I also prefer to work in SVG directly, i.e. not with some export from an Adobe product. Inkscape is helpful at times but normally it is much easier to do one's own primitives than to have some path that does a circle in however many points. It is great when you can do something like an Instagram icon in four lines of SVG (including colour gradients) than the 1.4Mb EPS file provided in their brand resources.

I do scour the web for things in SVG that are to my personal standards of doing it, i.e. cruft free with a sensible viewbox etc. Yet rarely do I find anything that is that good. It is like the difference between HTML and MS Word documents exported to HTML, with proprietary tags etc.

I do not work too well with the graphics team I work with when it comes to SVG - they are still in the print era and not on the same page as me. They are no more able to work with SVG than the Office Manager is able to make the leap from MS Word to editing HTML in 'vi'.

Regarding usability, for 'supported browsers' (no IE 9-) SVG is great. A year ago I would not have thought that.

For us programmer types SVG is accessible, for graphics guys it isn't really. This I like as I can work with my frontend developer on SVG and not really need 'assets' from the graphics guys still stuck with GUI desktop publishing software that should have been left in the 90's where it belongs.
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Technically, Larry is the CEO of Alphabet, while Sundar is CEO of Google. Larry doesn't deal with daily shitstorms- that's Sundar's job.

By the way, Sundar is a genius- absurd level of memory recall, extremely logical (vulcan-class), and pretty personable.
Are you talking about the low level SDL2 API or the simple game API?
Nope. I'm specifically describing only the rough edges of C.

Things like defining a NULL pointer to convert from any zero value.

Nothing as ambitious as a nrw language, like I said above.

I want a modern version of exaxtly what C is, without some of these undefined or implementation defined legacy warts.

And I understand that defining some things may make the program barely measurably slower. Someone can opt in to raw C if they care. It could even be in the same file... Think scoped "pragma overflow" directives that last for the lexical scope to get raw speed by opting out of defined semantics.
I agree. I think the main purpose is a "2D Accelerated Rendering" replacement that allows for shaders and other custom techniques.
inherent problem with the watch is that it's not a standalone device, its an extension of the phone.

but you're right, there's alot of revisionist history when it comes to apple product success during Jobs era. iPhone didn't become this massive product til 2010 when the 4 was released. that device changed everything for them
I find this such a funny example. Because you know, driving immediately to the airport and buying a ticket is really going to make a difference. No- not really. That's not a logical request at all. It's just demanding.
Not really. There's a hundred of them. A whole bunch of candidates that are at the borderline and are ancestors of every member of the species.
The points the author spelled out are just field agnostic design principles with brief examples.

Re: Focus on the exterior vs the interior

I don't think it makes sense to talk about interiors in this post. An architect might focus on structure inside and outside, but his focus on design is mostly outside. Once you get inside a home that someone lives in, it's hard to isolate the architect's work from the interior designer's in a photo.
NB. There is an amazing discussion in the comments following one of the linked blogposts.

https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/mathematical-embar...
Inertia, social conditioning, and perceived ROI of effort put in are what seem to combine to make it unlikely for that to succeed. Already been done a number of times even with backward compatibility. Some changes were very minor. Just C subsets get you pretty far with CompCert exemplifying that. Basically no take-up.

Probably need a killer app/platform like C itself and many others had. Will take a small, like-minded group of OSS contributors or paid developers w/ mandated language to created it in the dialect, too. Good luck...

EDIT after seeing other comment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_(programming_language)

I think a subset of Cyclone would be your best bet if you're eliminating as much undefined behavior, etc as possible. All the stuff in top-half of features with just a few from bottom.
I'm a native Texan, which I point out solely to rebut the assertion that all--or even many--Texans are in favor of the death penalty, and I very much oppose the death penalty for reasons exactly such as this. Maybe this man committed a crime; it sure seems like he did. But maybe he didn't. Or maybe he didn't in the way that the state, or the psychiatrist, or the eyewitnesses claim he did.

That's the problem with the death penalty: There are vanishingly few situations where we can be 100%, absolutely clear on whether a person did something that warrants permanently removing that person from existence.

We are a nation of laws and we are also a nation of fallible human beings. If we could be completely certain, then perhaps I would be OK with the permanence of death. But we can't, so we shouldn't be killing criminals in the name of the people or the state. Because what happens if we are wrong? What happens if we are wrong 138 times[0]?

Why have we forgotten that "[i]t is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer?"

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It depends how you want to contribute.

If you want to offer your services as a programmer to the biology community, there are several open source projects out there to develop LIMS (lab information systems), user friendly interfaces to many common analysis tools, and web portals for various research communities to share biological data. I wouldn't consider any of this to be 'computational biology', however.

It's a common misconception that computational biology (or bioinformatics, or whatever you want to call it) = biology + software development. While it's true that the biological research needs more software developers to build the infrastructure necessary to manage and access a growing amount of biological data, that's not the role of computational biologists.

The computational biologist is just a biologist who uses computational methods as opposed to traditional laboratory methods. Some may not even write that much code, and the code they do write may not even equate to 'software'. The skill set involves algorithms, statistics, and AI much more than software engineering.
To me, "McX" evokes the image of fast food. Something bland, unappealing, and one-size-fits-all that sacrifices quality for mass production.

The later McMansions may have evolved as a response to the perception of them being generic by slapping on superficial and poorly designed accents. It doesn't change the low quality. Burger King isn't considered any better than McDonalds just because you can "have it your way".

But mostly it's about the houses being unnecessarily large. Now that I think about it, the McDonalds metaphor here is probably meant to be that they're Super-Sized houses.
Exploring the wider picture and integrating the issues at hand isn't a straw man argument, it's called thinking as well as not being naive to the ominous specter of slowly creeping authoritarianism.

People find "careless" designs interesting. Who is he to dictate how private property should look? He is utterly intolerant of personal freedom and promotes sterile, totalitarian looking architecture.
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