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No, because these people have done terrible things, and society will not allow them to be redeemed. Is it more cruel to put somebody in a box for decades, or put a bullet in their brain and get it over with? I know which I would prefer.

Three strikes laws are idiotic, as are most manifestations of the US criminal justice system. I object to the knee-jerk reaction that the death penalty is inherently bad, in all cases, under any circumstances, and if you don't think so too, you're a terrible, awful, probably racist bigot.
Interesting. In which language is this "readily solved"?
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It depends what you think 'believe in it' means. When there are several different possible explanations in science, when a scientist says they 'believe' one of them they're not saying the same thing as when a religious person says they believe in their religion. They're just saying they think it's the most likely explanation and are prepared to expend time and energy exploring that explanation to see where it takes them, on the working (but not literal) assumption that it is true.

In particular they are not saying that they will ignore and attack any evidence against that explanation and act in every way as though it's proven truth, no matter what. At least, not if they're good scientists.
The title of the article is "Physicists discover 'apparent departure from the laws of thermodynamics'"

The last paragraph of the article begins: "Of course, this work does not violate the laws of thermodynamics"
Of course, this work does not violate the laws of thermodynamics

Knew it was click bait and still clicked... Dammit.
> If (and it's a damn big if) you outgrow Node.js you're doing well. Then (and only then) look at the alternatives like Play Framework, Spring Boot, Vert.x or whatever else floats your boat.

I couldn't disagree more. If you like the concept of type safety, don't waste your time.
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It was very much seen that way back in the day at Birmingham University. We wrote an x11 window manager with audio and graphics processor apps for our first term in 2nd year. I saw academia start to go down the pan at college with the introduction of "ICT". To me, this was nothing but subsidised Microsoft training.
There was a similar trading game that I played on the ASX (Australian Stock Exchange) when I was in High School. I tried to do it by just buying regular stocks, but when I looked at the leaderboard the people at the top were always buying 100,000's of a penny stock and selling when it went up. So they could win or lose the game based on luck and how much they bought of that particular penny stock within the game window.

Looking back now on that stock trading game, especially because it had a fixed window of time, it really favoured taking the big risks with these penny stocks. You weren't playing with your own money, and you weren't playing the long game either as there was a time you were effectively cashed out. I'm not sure that's the sort of wise saving & investing for the long term that one should be teaching teens/children. It's more for the ASX itself to train another generation of traders, which will make the business richer.
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If you're trying to pull a sled through the arctic, then you probably want huskies, not chihuahuas.
Branch predictors made the phones faster and this affects the user experience.
But if you want to test the performance of branch predictors you have to compare similar things, you cannot benchmark two different OS and apps because you get and OS and app test not an processor test.
What matters in deterrence is getting caught, more than the actual duration or intensity of the punishment.

(It's also important that people are not punished when they're not guilty, which the US tends to forget. The other side of reinforcement learning. The tendency of US police to administer adhoc punishment up to and including execution on the street is a problem. You can't say "don't commit crimes or you'll be in trouble with the police" when simply driving while black can get you in trouble with the police.)
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I'm no language historian, but I did limit my timeframe to my personal experience of 36 years of development for a reason. There was necessarily incredible research in the 20 years prior to that, which made it into useable languages, of course this is no hard cutoff, just an arbitrary personal choice, and I am happy to stand corrected. My point was simply that at least in the languages that make up 2σ of all code running in production in the last 20-30 years very rarely do they include "language" features that did not appear as truly innovative sometime before that. It may be argued that simply including some prior research in a useable language is innovative, or that the incremental improvements are themselves innovation, but then we are bogged down in semantics. In summary every time anyone in recent years has claimed to be innovating in language design someone else counters it with prior art, and that Go never pretended to be innovative in this direction. Given the lineage, and experience of the Golang authors it is more likely, in general that they considered and rejected, rather than ignored.
More frequent feedback isn't anything new. This is how one is _supposed_ to manage.

Look, if you walk into a performance review and you don't know how it's going to end, your manager is doing it _wrong_.

Your manager should know your strengths and weaknesses. They should know your successes and failures and _why_ they were successes and failures. They should know your goals and form a plan for you to help you accomplish them (a serious plan, not some "well, they make us list three goals every year" crap). The only way to get that is to have open, frequent communication with you.

A good manager is there to help you succeed. If not, they're just a boss.
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JavaScript uses one thread so not switching threads with all its contexts saves a lot of overhead.
Or my favorite - Business Administration with Concentration in Management Information Systems. This was my route and it laid a great foundation of how business works (you know, that part of a company that PAYS for IT... as well as business-focused IT (which does lag behind new uses of tech but does cover being ready for fundamental shifts/disruptions - which has been around in the business world since the beginning).
I'm laughing at the name "Manbang". What do you want to do tonight? Let's Manbang and chill. :-)
Exactly. Every good manager has a succession plan in place for each employee.
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Ha ha ha ha ha. No you are not.
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I think he is referring to the use of "virtual reality" instead of "augmented reality" and not to the use of "holographic".
Not really. These are big companies, not hysteric startups where everyone works 12 hours a day, deluding themselves that they get more done that way (dunno how common that is with Berlin startups TBH).

Personally I am much less stressed out doing corporate contracting than I was with the shitty freelance work I did before, subcontracting with web agencies that haggle about every hour.

This is how my rate developed over the years:

* 50 DM/h working for a great agency as a student (that was in 2000)
* 15 €/h working for an agency as a student (Yep, I was dense enough to take a paycut. Didn't even occur to me to ask for at least 25. So much facepalming...)
* 30 €/h working for the same agency when I decided to do freelancing full-time
* 30 €/h, then 40 €/h working for a small software company (First time I got to 40 hours a week of billable time. I was swimming in money! ;)
* 45 €/h working for another agency (iOS development)
* 50 €/h first contracting gig at $BIGCORP (160 hours a month - 8000€)
* 65 €/h second contracting gig at $BIGCORP2 (which is where I still am, 160+ hours a month - > 10k)
* 65 €/h working for a friend with a product idea (only a few hours, far from full-time)
* a few fixed-price projects in between, most of them were a desaster, one was decent

Regarding "wasteful"; It's supply and demand. For some reason the capitalism game works much better in contracting than with permanent jobs in Germany. I think part of it is that employees are so hard to get rid of and the overhead is high (~40%?).
To me this seems effectively like a slot machine, where people keep feeding in money for someone else to eventually win some sort of prize. I would equate the lowering of the price to a small payout so that the person keeps playing for a bit longer.
I'm currently in Antarctica, the giant cold dead place, and I can assure you that being crowded is one thing we do not suffer from.
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If there's no deviant material available on the service (and let's assume there won't be), it's not necessary to track who's interested in it.
Yes, that's accurate.

I don't think typescript is necessarily the answer though. You don't fix the problems caused by weak implicit type casts with static typing, you do it by turning off weak implicit type casting and raising a lot more type errors.
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JavaScript was explicitly designed to use one thread and prevent all kinds of concurrency problems. It requires getting used to, but it's very powerful.

Look at this page and tell me the JVM is better: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurre...
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The best on demand is on progressive peoples demand.

I wonder how much telecom infrastructure suitable for streaming is there in NK, outside central Pyongyang. Would that be basically a glorified hotel entertainment system?
I don't get your comment. So that an adult male is raped is a lesser problem than either a teenager or a female is raped. I find this conclusion quite disgusting. Also take into account that most of the incarcerated people are male, adult and poor.
I think this actually varies from school to school. My undergraduate university, where the CS program was part of the engineering school, focused on software engineering. My graduate university where the CS program was a part of the college of arts and sciences focused a lot more on theory. But my view here may be skewed, because I only remember one professor who taught most of our theory courses -- I took most of his classes.

From roughly the same number of years in university, (8ish) I can say there were some clear professional benefits from me having done a masters' program. From my advanced software engineering course I was able to talk to my teammates about Gang of Four and better ways go about problems than if-else loops. From my theory courses I was able to identify problems they were seeing, tell them which algorithms would probably be worth looking into etc...

That is all stuff one can learn outside of university, but I learned it while I was there. I get giddy whenever I can try something new and all the writing I did (I wrote a few academic papers) made me really comfortable with writing technical design specs and documentation. When I was in academia I had to document everything anyways so its become second nature to me.

I think 2-3 more years of working would have certainly looked better on a resume, but I think my skill set has added to my team as a whole and I'm glad I did it.
Well the cheaper and more effective solution would be to carry around a syringe and a small bottle of epinephrine.
For that to be true, the Arsenic user would have to have some way of cashing out at least a large portion of that $3500. The only way that could happen is if they were actually on the payroll or otherwise being paid for goods/services from the auction company.
I bet there is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_%28computing%29
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Thanks, they're both good suggestions.
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One thing that's worth noting is that most US white-collar jobs DO come with at least 5 and more commonly ~10 paid holidays per year. They're in addition to the vacation days quoted and are so taken for granted that employers don't bother mentioning them.

(Things are different for many blue collar workers, since Americans expect services to be available even - or especially - on holidays.)

I've yet to hear of a white collar employer that didn't grant New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day. Presidents Day, MLK Day, Columbus Day, the day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and New Year's Eve are also common (the latter three because at least half your employees will take them as vacation days anyway, so they're not very productive.)

At an office with a decent culture, upper management will often grant an additional couple of paid holidays just because of timing (and because heck, they want to spend a long weekend with their families too!). If Christmas falls on a Weds or Independence Day on a Tues, you'll also get Monday off. If that holiday falls on a Thurs, you'll get Friday off too.

The holidays obviously don't make up for the ridiculously low number of vacation days we get, but they may be part of a miscommunication for non-Americans working for US companies, if in other countries the number of paid holidays is typically explicitly stated in an offer. If you're ever uncertain about what holidays you'd get in a job, ask.

But 10 days being "generous" is bullshit anywhere I've worked.
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https://www.boltdepot.com/Product-Details.aspx?product=1884 almost is fully sunken into the shaft ("no, the shaft gets thinner" IMO is not a valid argument)
Isn't the max path issue an operating system bug exposed because the tool you were using was designed to run on an OS without that bug?
Daylight savings time? What's the connection to the software industry?
Absolutely not. The GPL boundary is very clearly defined and intentionally has never been brought to court.
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Speaking of North Korea, my favorite source of "fake" news is DPRK News twitter.

https://twitter.com/DPRK_News
How do you actually use openstreetview.org? All I could see was a map, no imagery. At first some roads were highlighted in pink but as soon as I zoomed and panned a little bit, the pink lines disappeared...
The US is unusual in first-world countries in having this system. England&Wales releases most of its summary (US: misdemeanor) suspects without bail surety. Indictable (US: felony) offences are 40% not bailed at all but remanded, usually because these offences involve violence.

The UK system also allows another person to stand as guarantor without having to put the money up front, which means there's none of the short term loan shark business of "bail bondsmen".
Don't forget that they expire as well - I have two kids that require the pens and even with insurance it works out to quite a cost.
I believe it's relevant to point out that most CPUs are synchronous in response to the claim that "Processors really are fundamentally asynchronous."
True, that one looked ok, but 48k of RAM is a step down, and I don't see any other peripherals (e.g. bluetooth) that would make me want to switch.
If you have the skills you don't even need strong negotiation skills.

You always have the ability to just get multiple offers and walk away from the worst.
> What if the `$app` contains spaces?

The author writes "Whether dealing with string literals or back-ticks for expressing a command line, you can refer to a variable foo as $foo and it will be escaped properly."

http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/manual/running-exte... confirms that `` has special escaping rules designed to prevent the problems you pointed out.

> Or hyphens?

The interpretation of hyphens depends on the program being called, not the shell. There is no automated way to escape them.

I agree with everything else you wrote.
Ten years ago a friend and I (both with little technical knowledge) made an extra display on our flat wall using an old overhead projector and the lcd display from a busted sattelite pro laptop.

A decade later achieving a similar thing using more recent technology is so difficult that it is noteworthy.

I dont have a point. It just seemed an interesting comparison.
..I was going to write my usual long speech about how all humans are basically the same. but you know what ? Nah. There will always be narrow minded people. And to battle narrow-mindness one should read books (good books[0], that is).

If dismissing someones opinion not because of the opinion itself but because the author of that opinion linked in an unrelated opinion piece to a completely different persons opinion (edit: that, by reading it, may even be a satire) makes your boat float, then we have nothing to talk about really.

Have fun in your academic life. (sincerely!)

[0]http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.2/4230.html

edit2: I'm sorry if i offended you. I don't know anything about you really. I was just going a bit into the extreme to make my point.
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It has to be accounted for in time and date calculations and that poses a new set of challenges.

It is also just one of many geographical, cultural, and temporal challenges that need to be addressed by any business system relying on accurate international dates and timing.
Thanks. He isn't actually saying these numbers (-25 m, 8m) are expected in 2100, he's stating that the peak higher sea level in the older but comparable times (that is during https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eemian around 115 kyears ago) was up to 7 meter higher on the extreme points. Which is a good illustration that the "bathtub mental model" is false. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is much more constrained to cite that, they present the following (the 2013 results):

https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg1/WG1AR5_Cha...

The worst projected total average increase at 2100 is around 40 cm if we do some corrections in our fossil fuels use and around 80 cm (on average) if we don't (so called "business as usual", they technically call it "RCP8.5" (1)). The local increases (which we now know can be significantly different) are drawn with the scale up to around 1 m for the "some corrections scenarios" if I understood. But it will go up afterwards for hundreds of years, and it can't be stopped.

Mitrovica believes these are too conservative as even the current measurements already hit the upper bounds. It seems anyway the world is more or less behaving in the "business as usual" sense regarding the fossil fuels.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_Concentration_P... It's worth always looking at the RCP8.5, as that's what's going to happen if no significant changes happen. It's not "the most improbable" but "the most probable if nothing changes" and I admit I personally tend to see the graph with more paths as "OK this one is the highest, it's extreme" when it's the default one!
But is it meaningful to talk of spending a year or more of subjective time accelerating at 1G?

According to the Wikipedia page you link to, it does not become harder to accelerate a spaceship the closer it gets to c, at least from the point of view of its occupants.

So you've been accelerating for ~300 days (shipboard time), and you're now nearly at c. In fact, you're only 10m/s below it, so you should reach light speed in a bit more than a second.

But we know that's never going to happen, because it can't.

I'm assuming (I don't know, I'm a layman) that that final second-and-a-bit will stretch like taffy, in time-dilation terms. You're already travelling at 0.999999966c, at which for every second of shipboard time more than an hour will pass on Earth. Dilation will only increase the closer you edge to c: at some point, every yoctosecond of shipboard time will equate to many times the predicted lifespan of the universe outside.

It's hard to imagine something terminal wouldn't happen to the ship in that final second, assuming there's anywhere left for it to happen in.
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Seastar is an advanced, open-source C++ framework for high-performance server applications on modern hardware. Seastar is used in ScyllaDB, a high-performance NoSQL database compatible with Apache Cassandra. Applications using Seastar can run on Linux or OSv.

The seastar project home page: http://www.seastar-project.org/

NoSQL data store using the SEASTAR framework, compatible with Redis.

githhub: [https://github.com/fastio/pedis]
I wonder why glucagon isn't done in the same format as EpiPens are. I'm a T1 diabetic and I have one glucagon vial at work and one at home. In the case I go low (barely responsive low) someone has to go grab it from the fridge (it needs to be there) load the syringe and use it on me.

When people sleep over I teach them how to use it and I do something like a show and tell at job from time to time so new people know about it.
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Per Martin Lawrence and Chris Farley, I always thought it was cigarettes.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/matt-foley-in-p...
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Don't know about the US but in Israel anything to do with programming is in such high demand and so overbooked (therefor requiring competitive grades to get in) that you get what you can.

I got into my bachelors in 2002, at the nadir of the dot-com crash (when demand for CS education was at its lowest) & my grades in high-school were just good enough to get into the Math & CS combined program (both CS or SE had higher requirements).

The only other option would have been to go to a private college rather than a state university, which would have had (at least) double the tuition and (at most) half the prestige/employability-potential of a university degree.
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There is a problem here, but to be clear, the solution is not to convert CS into vocational training. The problem with the way software engineering was introduced into US universities is that it was usually dumbed-down to broaden its appeal. I do not know if it is still like that.
I think I remember reading something about how the network inside NK was basically running off one (edit: a few) IP addresses with an enterprise local network.

I think that was posted on HN, I'll try to find the link.

edit: was it this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12123888
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> So there's an example of node-specific problem and there doesn't seem to be any impetus surrounding solving it.

??? There's so little impetus around solving it that both sides(npm and Microsoft) have put in significant effort to do it - npm 3 reduced the chance of having a very large path, and preview builds of the .net file api are removing the MAX_PATH limit.

https://github.com/Microsoft/nodejstools/issues/69

https://github.com/Microsoft/nodejs-guidelines/blob/master/w...
DST adds complexity to the already ugly mess timezones are. Timezones are literally driven by real-world politics, and they can be as messy as only humans can invent.

See also: http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html
Because if taking a sick day cuts into vacation time, it incentivizes people to come into work when they've got the flu and get everyone else sick too. Which is worse for the company than just granting a few sick days without affecting vacation time.
Dealing with time-zones and daylight savings time (which countries have it and which don't) can be a very challenge and messy problem that is really easy to get wrong.

Heres a pretty good video from computerphile on the subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY