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Yeah, nice movies. But damn, read the books! Adding to those two, I'd definitely read:

* Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 (1973) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_on_the_Campa...

* Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (1967) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s_Angels:_The_Strange_a...

His ability to just push himself into the situations and into what he was writing was outstanding. He saw and he wrote, one of the best writers from U.S.
I had a similar attempt.

http://m1el.github.io/jsonht.htm
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) did this last year:

http://rfcapture.csail.mit.edu/
One of the points he makes in the paper is that none of the 36 quantum mechanics textbooks he found in the library held that fields were fundamental.

"30 implied a universe made of particles that sometimes acted like fields, 6 implied the fundamental constituents behaved sometimes like particles and sometimes like fields"
Pilot wave theory :)
Not being memory-safe is a bit of a bummer. Do you have a story for taking advantage of all the tooling thats been built up to defend against C's pervasive unsafety? Sanitizers being the most notable.

On balance even without them this'll probably be safer than C (as long as you're avoiding like, 90% of its pitfalls).

Either way, hope this works out for ya!
Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams has recommended the systems approach vs. a goal-oriented approach. I think he explains it in a more accessible way. Here's his presentation pitching his book: Passion is Overrated and Goals are for Losers http://www.slideshare.net/Scottadams925/goals-are-for-losers...
You are right that C++ methods need to be invoked in C++ code. However C container types are too weak/inconvenient to wrap C++ code. I am wondering if something like Zig can be used to create STL like containers that can be used at the API level?
Why not use one of the dozens of templating libraries?
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Points 1, 4 and 5 are exactly the same in C++ too. What makes you think you can do better than the guys who are driving C++ development? (Honest non-rhetorical question.)

Points 2 and 3 don't really belong in a programming language.
I worded it poorly. It's not a work visa for that case specifically, but I know there are work visa's for people who were students that have their h1-b applications in the lottery. I think non-stem students with masters get 2 chances while STEM students get 3? I work with a lot of immigrants so this is from what I understand. Sorry if I'm giving false info.
This is exactly what I'm talking about. We are just biological organisms evolved over millions of years to simply continue the human race. Why would you expect to find meaning?
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I never looked into, but I wonder if there's something in Python 3 that makes it hard to do these kind of things to, compared to Python 2.7.

Python 3 is the platform I use for almost everything, going back to 2.7 is always a major pain. 10 minutes into some 2.7 work and you have to deal with encoding and you start wondering if it would be quicker to just upgrade to 3.5.

Of cause if you mainly do numbers, there's perhaps little gained from Python 3.
First I need practical example walk-throughs. Like the stuff on egghead.io.

Then I need to do the stuff myself.

Later I need the theoretical explanations.
Are they ML like ADTs with pattern matching? That would be awesome.
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Note: the site I mentioned did hit the database quite a few times for each page. It was a nice challenge.
The ICSID website has pdfs of their decisions. If you use the search function, and pick Instrument(s) Invoked - Treaty - Other treaties - NAFTA, there are only 25 results, so it should be quite quick to read through and see if you like them or not.

https://icsid.worldbank.org/apps/icsidweb/cases/pages/advanc...
There's some truth in that, the site I mentioned in 2010 was running DB servers with 144GB of RAM -- unlike SE we rented servers, the colo numbers didn't look good.
Why did you wrap that in a closure / immediately invoked function expression?
Why the indirection creating types using el()? Why not create the nodes directly with el()?
I don't think this has anything to do with "suffix-if".
Simple mockups are not good mockups
Not doing so is a perfectly defensible decision. Not informing the user of the environment variable, however, is indeed a fairly awful mistake.
The graph is both accurate and misleading. Funding is often cumulative to an extent.
Yes, it's called "OPT", but is only for students on f-1 visas to get practical training in their areas of study. While it is temporary work authorization, it is not a work visa. There's a pretty huge difference in that h1bs offer a path to naturalization, whereas f-1 opt does not.
I mostly disagree with your points, with the exception of the last one.

I used to work in the team that runs Amazon.com. All of the systems serving the site can be re-built within hours and nothing can serve the site that cannot be rebuilt within a very thing SLA. However, I understand that not all the companies have this requirement. This feature is only relevant when a site downtime hurting the company too much, so it could not be allowed.

Reflecting to your points:

- Lots of data -> use S3 with de-normalized data, or something similar

- Running a VM has 3% overhead in 2016, scalability is much more important than a single node performance

- High security environments are usually payment processing systems, downtime there can be a bit more tolerated, delaying transactions is ok

- Amazon uses DNS for everything, even for datacenter moves. It is usually done within 5 minutes

- This is a networking challenge, using something like EIP (where the public facing IP can be attached to different nodes) makes this a non-issue

- Amazon has an SLA, they extremely rarely have a full region outage, so you can juggle capacity around

Losing a dc out of 3 does not require work because you can't handle the load, it is required to have the same properties (same extra capacity for example) just like before. Spinning up instances should not DDOS anything, it is with constant load on the supporting infrastructure.

The last point I agree with.
Yes, banality to an embarrassing extreme. That someone would comment "I find this is quite new & profound" gives me a philosopher's wince.

Oh well, maybe said commentor is 10 years old.
The salient point here about the photoelectric effect is not a pre-existing mental image of bouncing balls, but being forced to explain the fact that decreasing the intensity (amount of light) of monochromatic light doesn't produce electrons with lower energy (only changing the light's color/wavelength does that). This cannot be explained with classical waves; less light waves would produce lower-energy electrons.

now we can start talking about wave-packets, but then we staring to blur the lines between what is the difference between a particle and a wave-packet.
Here is the paper of actual study:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070928231853/http://www.academi...

It is infuriatingly short of methodological detail and the little that is there is very much open to questioning.
Poor water management likely triggered the demise of the Maya Civilisation
I clearly do not want to support russian propaganda but as european I distrust the usa as much as russia. The usa has a way to big influence on european media. Its very nicely described in this video of german satire show "Die Anstalt" how big german media companies are financed and controlled through transatlactic companies: https://youtu.be/1ntSxZatFv8 (only german, couldn't find one with english subtitles). There is also a nice video of young journalist Tilo Jung how he asks german government about the fact that russia is renewing their atomic weapons (its bad) and then he asks what they think about the fact that the usa is doing the same inside germany with their atomic weapons (good).

Also they descripe nicely how the usa is and was destabelising the near east and we europeans have this huge crisis next to us now because of those actions. https://youtu.be/MCjeHLjyiMo

In the end for me the usa is playing this game of the good and the bad as much as russia is and as a european I see ourselfs in another political situation than good and bad, we are something third.
That's exactly correct. Public unions aren't as easily accountable to the market. The incentives are disaligned. While private union incentives are generally aligned with business except in more extreme cases such as subsidized industries.
- finite:
Infinity is weird. It's very hard to make arguments that hold when infinite resources are in the picture. Finite also includes the time dimension. If you have infinite time and/or space, intrinsic meaning may be possible, but I really have no idea.

- physical:
That there is no other plane of existence to progress towards, heaven or enlightenment or anything else similar to those.

- universe:
Whatever it is that we inhabit - multiverse, universe, inside of a black hole, we're not quite sure yet as far as I understand the physics (which isn't very far at all unfortunately. It is fascinating though)
> For Facebook you only need an account to see content that the user / page has deemed not public.

Or want to view public pages without them being covered by some obnoxious "See more of PAGE by logging in."

Yes, it's the account owner's fault for using Facebook in the first place. But they're likely always logged in, and so are most of their visitors, so they're only marginally aware such problems even exist.

Blame that can be squarely placed at Facebook is exploiting such gaps in knowledge from their users to pressure non-users into signing up.

> This is no different than every other site out there.

This is vastly different from almost every other site out there, except for a few big players. The Internet is still a huge place, at least for the time being.

Facebook is a major erosive force on the Internet as it tries to quietly subsume and privatise it, and using it to publish content on is contributing to the demise of one of the few globe-spanning projects our species ever managed to get right.
I certainly hope not. It's literally the first environment variable listed in the Docker CLI reference doc: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/cli/
I laughed along with the rest of us when we discussed this a couple weeks ago[1], but then a friend of mine said she'd love to get their own power feed to their house in Los Angeles. Apparently one of the neighbors draws 4 times the power[2] of a typical house and causes brownouts which wreak havoc on their electronics.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12289729
[2] I speculated they were growing weed, but they don't know what the neighbors were doing to use so much power.
I was in Lima recently, and there was a ruin right in the nice Miraflores area (with plenty of high-rises) that had been a temple complex of some sort. Where they hadn't excavated, the outer layer of brick had just crumbled to dirt, and looked like nothing special. Apparently part of the temple complex had been leveled and used as a soccer field as recently as the 1980s.
Phonetically similar. It's one way to choose an English name.
Automatic factories are extremely useful to kill the ServiceLocator anti-pattern.
I was talking to a winemaker friend of mine about such things and he confirmed the ideal weather for particular grapes was shifting north and recommended growing grapes in Colorado.
Zappa didn't trash hotel rooms or have outrageous parties, he made art and had a family. The self actualization was making that art into a life that paid the bills and fulfilled the rest of the responsibilities that everyone experiences.
Have fun coding
There is a name for "strategy pattern" that existed long before the GoF book: higher-order function. But what's worse, in that it causes confusion, is when names are repurposed, "Functor" is a useful abstraction in programming, but is not related to your usage above.
You can bootstrap in any language that is widely available, so today that could be Javascript even. The biggest advantage of C as a language is, that a simple compiler is very easy to write. But I would bootstrap from Lisp (Scheme). A naive interpreter can be easily implemented in assembly and then you have a nice high level language for implementing the target system.
What's crazy to me is the company didn't expect anyone to take their story public. Not even the woman in marketing.

I hope you guys continue to expose fraudulent startups and CEOs like this. It really is a service to us all.
I would experiment with the hypothesis that perceiving value and experiencing it as such are skills you lack but others possess

No experimentation necessary, it's blatantly clear that's the case.

that may be improved through deliberate practice

Perhaps. Or maybe it's just trying to distract yourself from reality through what are commonly accepted "values." Hard to know. I read all those studies about "happiness" coming from great relationships, and family etc...

None of them question why happiness is a virtue - it's as though it's implied that hedonism qua epicureanism is preferential. That's what I can't get past.
Yeah, I'm not sure why you got down-voted. In the 1890s people that everything was a wave but then phenomena like wave function collapse and the quantum Zeno paradox were hypothesized and observed. To combat this you can introduce mathematical tricks like delta functions but this more of a hack.

Perhaps, the biggest philosophical problem with waves are their integration requirements and the potential for such iterations to exceed cosmic speed limits. When the function is continuous a perturbation at one end must effect the other end.
They don't, already? ;-)
Is there a reason you are willing to share for the "without any trips" criterion?

I have been working remotely for some six years. My current employer hires mostly remote engineers, and we're always looking out for good people.

We try to get developers together a couple of times a year, which it appears your circumstances would rule out; correct?
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Perhaps in hopes they won't follow his mistakes? Also, in that Wikipedia article, he's quoted to have sang in the opera to meet women.

> "I joined the opera to get my union card and meet girls. I was a saloon singer, so I went down to the Baltimore Opera and learned an aria and auditioned. I figured I'd do one show and quit. But the girls were everywhere and the truth is, the music was really decent."
The content to it was horrendous. Just scanned the 10 points out of morbid curiosity, and the last one is "see a doctor."
Simply the idea that in the absence of universal meaning, it is the individual that must create meaning. It's along the same idea of what Thompson is writing about.

The downside of this approach is if the firmament for what you created meaning from crumbles or never really materializes, leaving a void.
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Even doing this with unrelated parties inside the company is dangerous. The best thing to do is just CC your own lawyer. It's sad, but you potentially open yourself up to liability by warning your co-workers. If you do want to warn them, the best way would be through a quiet, short conversation in a private place away from the company. Possibly your lawyer's office.
I would have left the company at red flag #6, inability to tell a compelling story.

And I am looking at this from a software developer's point of view.
Wel, too bad they did not implement this with python 3, and actually gave some meaning to the type annotations… I mean

def dprod(l0: list[int], l1: list[int]):
return sum(x * y for x, y in zip(l0, l1))

Wouldn't it be much nicer?
> The vast majority of WhatsApp users have never heard of Richard Stallman, never mind read his essays on cloud computing.

I agree, but the problem here is ignorance. Ignorant people are always going to get screwed, that's why we should fight ignorance and educate users. Fighting people taking advantage of this ignorance is just fighting the symptoms of the real problem that is ignorance, it is also a losing battle. So, I prefer spending time educating people about these issues rather than attacking whatsapp, facebook and other apps they love as this just makes us look grumpy. I think it's ok to use the cloud as long as you're aware nothing you put in there won't be spied on unless you encrypt _before_ uploading it to the cloud (end to end), then you should be ok. So either don't put anything too personal on the cloud or encrypt it before hand is the advice I give.
I agree in principal, Hence, why I suggested Camus in my original comment.

But what happens when you can't attribute meaning to anything? Do you revert to religion or suicide (Those were the three options for camus)?
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$100 equals 40 hours of work in a blue-collar job down here in Argentina. It's probably even worse elsewhere.
The alternative being templating which is several orders of magnitude more complex. Fortunately, it saves you a few characters here and there.
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I'm away from my well annotated copy* of _The Proud Gentleman_ but this letter has almost certainly come from that collection. It makes more sense in context of his other writings from the time.

Another quote, from the same, which I remember as vividly as (and juxtaposed with) this letter:

"Everybody is looking for someone who can stand up in the wind. It is lonely standing up and crowded lying down. I refuse to be an anchor for other people’s dreams—but then I refuse to anchor mine to anyone else."

* I wish my younger self knew the risk of loaning such a loved and personal book
Well that's essentially what I do - with an over current of dread.

I think if I could afford it I would probably be a habitual heroin user. From what I read, it seems to push all of the same biochemical "happiness" and "fulfillment" buttons as all of the other relationship/activity/experience things that people like to do, albeit with some side effects.
I totally agree! I have a number of trusted family members and advisors that have saved my bacon many times.

But I accept that I will make mistakes throughout my life. When I do, I think about them to figure out why I made the mistake and how I can avoid it next time. Then I let it go- beating myself up doesn't help. Honestly, if I'm going to make a mistake at some point, I'd prefer that it be sooner rather than later.

I'd say I had strong ethics to begin with, and these situations gave me a chance to test (and uphold) them.
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Calling an electron "a particle" presumes that it is always localized somewhere, and has a defined travel path. But it doesn't; when measurement happens, it is localized at some specific point, but that's all.

Something that can be localized only at interaction points, and not elsewhere, is not a "particle", it's something else. Perhaps "field excitation", like a hot spot in a microwave.
Could you elaborate? I'm in a place where stuff does not matter anymore (never did actually) and I try to focus on experiences. Is that path also a mistake?
> Open Water SCUBA License, Private Pilots License, Skydiving license, Hit 100 some odd countries traveling, Competitively Cycled/Ran etc...

Genuinely curious: why did you pursue those things listed, and did you enjoy them? Or was it to check a ticklist?

Also, I've assumed you've been on a sex binge before? Nothing came out of that?
In your second clause i think perhaps you mean materialist[|ic] (or maybe physicalist) not physical. A soul, heaven, or other spiritual entities or spaces, aren't necessarily incompatible with a physical universe.
I recommend "Site Reliability Engineering" from O'Reilly. It is about how Google uses Software Developers to achieve scale, and puts a focus on how developers can build and design scaleable systems
Is this a better alternative?

https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2014/05/hunter-s-thompson-t...
My favorite passage from this:

"a man who procrastinates in his CHOOSING will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance."

So very true.
Why the need for full determinism? Unlike Einstein, I have no problem with God playing dice; this allows for free will, among other things (randomness is in the [computational] eye of the beholder).
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I would second talking to the DA. The photoshopped Wells Fargo receipt is just too much.

You'll be doing someone downstream a huge service. Someone these guys would end up scamming otherwise.
is it possible you desire something to desire?

That's an interesting philosophical ouroboros.
Thanks for the clarification. They did mention OPT and OPT extensions while they waited for the lottery, but I couldn't remember the name.
Instant is a new kind of CMS that just plugs in into your existing website - regardless of what technology is used to built this website. It adds content management to any website - in under 30 seconds. Let marketeers/content managers make changes directly on the website without the help of a developer.

Any feedback/ideas/questions are greatly appreciated!
Keep it up Penny! I have only worked for one startup ever right after graduation, and when I think back of it, those 2 years were not only too good to be true, but they did happen. There are good leaders out there, keep having faith!
I'm confused as to how this can be compared to optimizely which is an incredibly powerful A/B testing platform. This doesn't seem to handle A/B testing at all?

It's essentially a HTML WYSIWYG editor (unless I'm missing something).