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> Medication is fairly inexpensive and if I have major surgery, I will only be out a couple thousand (the cost of a laptop).

I suspect that not everyone would think this is a small amount of money. From this article:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/my-secre...

"Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency."
Elevator open/close buttons are enabled when you put the elevator in "service elevator" mode. There's usually a key switch for that. This is for freight; it's not a maintenance function. In "service" mode, the doors won't close unless you press the door close button, so you can move things in and out without interference from the door. With some service elevators, pressing a hall call button when the doors are open rings a bell to tell you to stop hogging the elevator.

Other key switches may include "independent operation" (decouples that elevator from the group controller) and "attended" (enables buttons Up, Down, and Non-Stop).

When moving in or out of a multi-elevator building, ask to borrow the service elevator key. That's what it's for.
> You seem to be interested in this subject. As an outsider, I've been wondering why there hasn't been more of a ruckus after the Royal Mail privatisation.

I think people just care a lot less about the postal service since we stopped writing personal letters with the advent of email and social media. It's just not the lifeline it once was. Postal services are now in the business of delivering junk mail.
> A doctor I spoke to about CBT said he thought CBT was effective for the relatively intelligent, introspective people they might have had in early trials. Rolling it out further beyond that group had lower success rates.

That would seem to be a testable hypothesis that would make for a great finding if it was seen to be true.
I have yet to see a 'working' crosswalk button in my nearest (non-NYC) metropolis. This would be because every light-controlled intersection I traverse on foot is on a programmed loop. Reliably, the crosswalk lights go to "walk" a second before the parallel street goes green. This happens five seconds after the perpendicular direction goes all red.

That's not to say that sensor-controlled intersections which take the crosswalk button into consideration do not exist- there are far too many intersections which I haven't the time nor the inclination to tour.

Ultimately, my point is this: simply because all the media on placebo buttons dwells on New York City does not mean similar devices don't exist elsewhere. I bet here, folks just don't care; they press a button and eventually get through a light.
It was originally posted with the title:

NeXT vs Sun head-to-head programming competition (1991) [video]
I'm guilty of pressing it repeatedly sometimes just because I'm bored
I'm not offended at all, just wondering why somebody would choose such a condescending tack. Again I ask, have we considered that maybe those poor people that you're referring to, know what is in their "best interests" better than we do. Perhaps they have perfectly rational reasons, maybe other than simple economic self interest, for voting against social programs and taxes.

This whole mindset of "you're too stupid to know what's good for you, so just let us smart people be in control and make things OK" is something that is very condescending and is repugnant to many (most?) Americans. Which is one good reason it's hard for politicians pushing such policies to gain ground. It might be better to actually, you know, talk to those people and try to understand what their principles, goals, and motivations are, instead of assuming that they're stupid.
No disagreement here. :-)

Turbo Pascal, Turbo BASIC, and Modula-2 don't have any of the ugly formality of Ada though. I'm not making the point that C and C alone is the only language less frustrating than Ada. I'm saying that for many systems, the comfort and simplicity of C allow you to solve problems which would be too frustrating to solve in Ada.

I find Modula-2 pretty dreamy; it's a shame that it's mostly dead.
"Performant" is a perfectly fine word. You might even call it cromulent.
This happens a lot with Mail.app. What I do now is just use Cmd+0 to show the main Mail window, or Cmd+1 for other apps - Evernote and Skype come to mind.

Another thing that annoys me to no end: alt-tabbing to Finder takes you to an open window in another desktop! I want to open a new window on this desktop. I guess the linked trick may help with this behaviour.

Edit: Found a solution. Alt+Cmd+Space brings up a Finder search window on your current desktop. Good enough.
Coming from Linux/Windows, I was always slightly annoyed that you could only command+tab through a single window for each application, but now that I'm used to it and have grown accustomed to command+tilda to switch between windows of the same app I find it nice.
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Try cmd + ` (backtick)
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As a former expat, my understanding of the distinction is that expats realize they're temporarily in the foreign country, and are not consciously working to "go native". Immigrants believe that they've moved for good, and are more likely than not to, for example, hope that their children are a better cultural fit with the host country than the parents were.
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You know Go existed before 1.0, right?
I found my self thinking that performant is definitely a word, and it is, in French.
Or you could just press Command + N.
Fair point, but the criticism generally is exactly that:

> CBT is in part about finding the flaws in your thinking that fucks you up.

That is, it focuses on conscious thought rather than unconscious. It seems to be enough only in the more benign cases.
I'm not an expert on type systems, but I don't think it would add that much in your case. You might get more out of it if you wanted by using phantom types, which is just a way to differentiate among structurally identical types, like this:

reduceGraph :: Graph a -> Graph Reduced

Now you can't pass unreduced graphs to functions where you expect some sort of an already reduced graph, and you could encode as much invariants as you wanted in your types, but yea, in cases where there are homogenous types with little variance (machine learning, statistics, your use case) static typing won't probably bring that much (unless you go nuts with dependant typing I guess).
Or you could just press Command + N, and open a new window.
Very interesting, thank you for your explanation. It's funny because France is like Australia: CGT when you actually profit. But could it be that the Australian and French banking systems aren't as complete as the US system, hence not offering loans against public securities? Between that and the fact that "start-up millionnaire" is only really a SV syndrome (The French economy is so stagnating and our administrations so moronic that you wouldn't become millionnaire with a start-up in France), maybe our governments haven't faced the situation often yet.
...and Avie, from this video, came to Apple with him :)
The slightly confusing window manager was one of my reasons to switch back from Mac OS to Linux 6 years ago. With a tiling window manager I never looked back. Everything can be customised to match your workflow. Regular setups with floating windows feel awkward now.
Command + Tilde.

⌘ + ~
I just use Expose to switch between windows.
The big soap dispenser things are all but unheard of in the north american hotel market
System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Keyboard > Move focus to active or next window
There's no secret to solving this problem, and it works basically the same way everywhere

Yes, in France you might be 1h/2h by car from a hospital depending on what you need

You have a tiered system: 1st level is "everyday stuff", 2nd level is regional centers (so you get routine surgeries and more complex stuff), and at the 3rd level you got your excellence centers for specialized stuff (think transplants, major surgeries, etc)

In the US case yes, you might want to have a 3rd level center per state (might not be exaustive)
As a long time user of both I don't think there's any doubt that OSX's window manager is inferior to Microsoft Windows'. Windows can handle things like multiple monitors and full screen modes much more seamlessly with less confusion. If it wasn't for the Unix layer, and the occasional need to open XCode, I personally would have ditched Macs.
The second part also shows a counter example.
Some other keys that work while using Cmd+Tab:

- Press "q" to quit the selected application

- Press "h" to toggle hiding the selected application

- Press "1" to show all open windows for the selected application

Does anyone know if there is a built-in way to only switch to the frontmost application window (by default Cmd+Tab puts all app windows in the foreground)? Sometimes I need to switch between two windows of different applications which I both want to keep visible on the screen, but switching to the destination app with Cmd+Tab ends up covering the entire screen because that application has other windows.
[Command + `] - a very useful shortcut in OS X for switching between windows of the same application.
Perhaps you've only stayed in hyatt properties?

In the last year, I've been in a full service Marriott, Hilton, Sheraton and a Hyatt - and out of those, only the Hyatt had toothpaste. The Sheraton also had one, but it was clearly marked as a special promotion, and my last stay at a sheraton before that, had no such amenity.
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You probably know this, but it's the same stuff -- I would wager a hunk of the original interface builder code written for the NeXT machine runs on your Mac today when you use the interface builder part of xcode (though I haven't looked recently). You probably know this too, but all those classes that begin with the "NS" prefix come from "NeXT Step" -- same stuff, just updated.

It seems likely to me that all these dev tools from 1991 have something to do with why there are > 1M iPhone apps today. That and the enormous market attracting developers...
I once knew a clinical therapy student who was studying in the psychodynamic school and heavily anti-CBT. Is that what the state of the field is really like, there's a rivalry between the two schools?
It's worth noting the study was specifically about CBT for depression, which may not indicate similar effects for CBT for other disorders. As always it's worth reading the actual study and not just the headlines. From the study:

"The present meta-analysis is not without limitations. First, this study only included depression, thus, excluding CBT trials aimed at treating other diagnosis, such as anxiety, posttraumatic stress, eating, schizophrenia, and sleep disorders. There is no reason to expect the present findings to generalize to these disorders. In particular, anxiety disorders, which include a heterogeneous group of disorders that probably yield different time trends, have been subjected to the CBT approach. The clinical presentations of, for example, panic, obsessive– compulsive, and posttraumatic stress disorders are very different, as are the CBT approaches used. A meta-analysis of five trials comparing cognitive therapy with exposure therapy to treat obsessive– compulsive disorder (Ougrin, 2011) did not indicate a decline for the newer trials."

The paper (linked to in the article): https://uit.no/Content/418448/The%20effect%20of%20CBT%20is%2...
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Depends on your definition of "broke". If you think of something that requires tax money to function as perpetually broke then you're only seeing half of the story. Do you agree that, per person, the British spend less per head on healthcare than people living in the US? If so, why do you think this is?

As I said in a different comment, many of the problems in the NHS have come from privatisation. If you want the NHS to cost less, take a look at what's happening with PFI. Just by stopping PFI funding of hospitals and going back to the old funding model of government loans at low interest rates could save huge sums of money.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs/11748960/The-PFI-hospita...
Given the slightly less than rigorous reputation psychology has lately, what are the chances the initial measurements that determined CBT were woo to begin with? There are certainly enough incentives on the part of the practitioners to give the benefit of the doubt to the efficacy of expensive new techniques.
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While I disagree (static typing is much more than catching type conversion errors), my point was that it makes experimentation and design exploration much easier and faster. Without types, you'd need mock data for even the simplest of programs, and changing mock data structure is much more painful than changing a type somewhere and getting the places (all the places) where your program turns then out to be incoherent. Not to mention that types are much more than Persons or Gorillas, they can be higher order functions too (Person -> Gorilla) that are passed around.
> IMHO Ada violated the most fundamental principle of programming, which is DRY (Don't repeat yourself).

DRY is far from being "most fundamental". Much more fundamental and important
are keeping modules composable, not mixing things of different abstraction
level in the same block of code, avoiding circular dependencies, or avoiding
unnecessary dependencies are more fundamental. DRY is just most easily
enforcable, that's why it's so popular.
Steve Jobs is dead. Can we finally fix this? Or can someone convince me that the behavior we have suffered through for ages has more value than frustration?
I'd be rather surprised if hotels routinely got their mini-sized bathroom products for free. In the case of the big chains, they mostly slap on their own house brand anyway.

But, yes, there's at least the opportunity for boutique hotels to use a "luxury" shampoo/soap brand as part of their overall image and guest experience.

Whereas for toothpaste, it's pretty much Crest or Colgate. Or, if you're a somewhat frou-frou B&B in Vermont or California, maybe Tom's.
To clarify, when I said I'd favor socialized medicine that we drastically underfund, the goal was to stop wasting resources on medicine. I.e., we should bring our health care utilization/spending down to UK levels, since evidently that doesn't significantly harm health.

Using a definition like "meets the costs of providing the services it mandates" inherently contradicts this philosophy since in the US, all sorts of crazy services will be mandated. E.g., mammograms for women under 50.
So the 90s are just reaching Shenzhen?
If someone continuously keeps getting tricked into voting against their own self-interests, with the belief that their vote will actually benefit them, then yes, they absolutely deserve contempt.

As the saying goes: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." A large part of the American populace has been getting fooled repeatedly for decades.
As a counter example to the OP, Canada always has barriers for public transit, but Poland does not.
That looks like a MacBook Air clone.
Interface Builder remained nearly unchanged all the way up until Project Builder turned into Xcode and shortly after IB got blended in. Here's a screenshot from IB under OS X 10.2:
https://cl.ly/0J1g1p1m0T3C

I personally liked the two being separate applications. IB is still great today, but it (and Xcode) slowed down noticeably when the two combined.
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I know scientists mean well, but there is something rotten at the core of conventional psychiatric practice. Sometimes people are helped, but there's a lot of "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again," where the psychiatrists try pill after pill on their patients, trying to find something that works, or helps a little.

W.C. Fields' advice was "... try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it." [1]

[1] http://www.quotecounterquote.com/2014/04/if-at-first-you-don...

What my girlfriend needed was sobriety, but none of her psychiatrists has been willing to give her time. They're just being 'damned fools'.

"The Case Against Antipsychotics" (linked in my earlier comment) tells of an approach called "Open Dialogue Therapy", which was developed in Finland in the 1990's (pg 33). They avoid jumping straight to medications. Most "psychotic" patients do just fine when given a supportive environment and adequate time.

I'm going back to the courts soon to ask them to protect my friend from her court-ordered medical practitioners. One of my points is that they never gave her a chance to demonstrate that the drugs were unnecessary. She escaped from her court-ordered sedation, briefly, and started to do better... She couldn't handle the stress of her new job, did NOT take a good lunch on her second day, and resumed drinking. There are some good drugs that would have been helpful for keeping her off alcohol (naltrexone, etc), but at her next appointment all she got was the SSRI she asked for. She thought this "anti-depressant" had helped years before, but really it just helped her relapse (then). This time the SSRI and the benzodiazepine caused her to 'fall apart', relapse, get arrested...
By "broke" I mean telling the government that it desperately needs more money or else services will start failing.
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I don't think a tool has to be hard to use to be better. You can learn most of Lisp and Smalltalk very fast, but they're regarded as some of the most useful and effective tools out there.
I've certainly seen them but they're not that common--especially at the big chains.
Thanks for explaining what it does, I couldn't figure it out at all from the article, and of course I tested it on apps that already had windows open, so nothing changed! The "open a new instance" phrasing is rather misleading: it's not opening a new instance of an application, it's opening a new window in an existing application.
I worked with Ada in the early part of my career. For the most part, the strong typing really helps but it can often make the logic messier that you can't push an integer subtype one past the maximum value. Unlike C, the code base tends to remain quite readable and understandable even in big projects and it is more fun to use than Java (which I find to be soulless and dull).
I'm aware of the context parameter passed to KMS, and it is indeed something I plan on adding - one step at a time!

This was largely a side project that's gone quite well so far(!) - it's something I'll continue to add to. Any other suggestions are more than welcome.

Like it says in the readme, I just wanted a simple (single binary) deployment - it's in no way a dig at credstash.
No, it's not really needed at all.

First, it's a casual turn of phrase -- he means "most of them". Is the art of the conversation completely lost?

Second, he speaks of his own personal experience, so there are no citations. Unless some team of statisticians studied him, he is the utmost authority on the matter (of his own life), and others can just take his claim or leave it. What they won't get is a citation -- or rather, he just gave you the citation, his own.

A lot of people have forgotten to think independently -- without Cliff's Notes and citations to give them pre-digested knowledge.

Heck, most papers, even in hard sciences, have been found in meta-studies to be worse than 50% right and not reproducible either -- so unless someone plans to reproduce and further study a paper on their own to verify the results, having a citation is almost the same as flipping a coin to decide on the matter, as far as the truth of the subject is concerned.
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I get you--I mean, if this was Credstash-compatible (using DynamoDB), I'd probably use it.
This article discards the boring, plausible thesis in the first paragraph. The rest of the article is given over to speculation.

CBT requires a lot more work from both the patient and the therapist. I can easily believe that as it's become more popular, it's being applied less well or to populations where it's less appropriate.

Anecdotally, in my experience, there are enormous differences between therapists. I have had very ineffective treatment which did seem a lot like "just get happy, stop thinking bad thoughts". And I've had effective treatment where a perceptive person cut straight through to reveal my self-defeating patterns and gave me skills to do better. It's a constant battle but I'm glad I did it this way.

CBT isn't for everyone or every problem. But I would be surprised if the main insights were totally wrong.
the unix layer is (mostly) a non-issue now with the windows 10 anniversary update, though that doesn't help for xcode

personally i found exposé and spaces to be way ahead of windows a few years ago, but the new task view in windows 10 and multiple desktops have basically caught up, and i think combining them into mission control was actually a bit worse than just using the features separately

window management with aero snap and actual, real maximized windows was always better though

of course, all this and much much more have been possible on various linux desktop environments for a long time, if one doesn't run any critical windows-only (or mac-only) software
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Are you arguing that 'negotiated prices' are not part of a free market? I mean, sure, negotiated prices are a way to hide information, but as far as I can tell, the less regulated a market is, the more "negotiation" is involved in pricing.

Frankly, it's one of the larger reasons why I don't want to be in business for myself. As a consumer? At least outside of healthcare, most of the prices are set, more or less, the way commodities are. There are laws saying that when I get to the cash register, I'm entitled to the lowest marked price in the store. Hell, even with things like cars, which are notorious for ripping off consumers, you are paying at most like 20% more than your neighbor. If you are buying, say, bandwidth, or nearly anything else sold to businesses? It is completely normal for the initial quote to be 200%-400% more than what you end up paying after negotiation.

Now, how much does this have to do with it being a business, and thus having the expectation that you have professionals on hand to do the money-dance, and how much of this is that there's a lot less regulation in the business sphere than in the consumer space? I don't know. I don't think it has as much to do with the cost of the goods involved as you think; I think the biggest contract I signed was around a third of a million bucks for a five year lease; Well under twice what someone doing what I do, only as a worker would pay for rent in my area. Most of my contracts were in 'mid-priced car' range, and still there was a tremendous difference between initial quote, and what I was actually expected to pay.