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I'm the opposite. The stress of finding contracts or not getting an income until I do, managing the sales, business, and financial side of things almost more than what I liked about being self-employed.

Some things suck, but I don't care what happens at work unless I'm clocked in and I have weekends now.
Even more low tech, select all and paste it elsewhere.
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> It has nothing to do with the model and is just a question of whether b is a variable in the big O notation.

There are models, like the cache oblivious model, where b is assumed to be a variable, so the model matters.

> a binary tree and b-tree stay within a constant factor even as you vary b.

it's not a constant factor if b is a variable. It's a factor of log b.
I have a Roku and casting YouTube and Netflix works great.

One caveat is Netflix doesn't autoplay to the next episode after casting a video.

I really wish it had Google Play Music though.
The fact that one (in a lot of countries) has to do this in a van, because of regulations, is kind of tyranny: Either you get in-prisoned in debt/rent, or you get to live in a van or on the streets.
Ah, it was a mistake to mention anything else with you, even in parenthesis...

You are not going to touch that the international community, not only US and Sweden, agree that Putin's Russia is much worse.

(As you are certainly well aware of: The democratic peace theory discuss wars, not involvements in coups during the second "great game", that of the Cold War.)

4 comments (in 2 places) without touching my point... :-( You are not serious, bye.
I went the contracting route, which gives me the freedom of working remotely, setting my own hours, and unlimited vacation. These were the three things I felt were lacking in every other company I worked for. Some people worry about the uncertainty of paychecks every two weeks, but I am under contract with a company that finds all the clients and guarantees 40 hours a week of billable hours.
Good on you for fixing it. I'll have another look after you put up a new build.
Particularly when you have no control over the ad blocking.
A lot of effort on somebody's part. Probably an intern.
A C API can stay relatively the same if you switch a function to a macro, or make it inline. In a lot of cases you don't actually care which of the options it might be to begin with - the syntax generally stays the same, and the situations where you care (Mostly just function pointers) are somewhat uncommon. Such changes would easily break a simple wrapper though. That said I do see your point - It's not like the C code is guaranteed to work either, so perhaps that is acceptable. The maintainer still has to weigh the disadvantages of supporting a Rust wrapper to the advantages of allowing Rust code.

My original point (which has gotten a bit muddled in the details) was just that there could be room for a language closer to C that offers to fix some of the more annoying issues, while still keeping very good compatibility with C overall and avoiding the need for 'wrappers' and such to interface it with C code.
Another gitup user here. What kind of updates were you hoping for? Seems pretty solid to me.
Assuming you're talking about casting from a chrome tab, I thought i had this issue, but it's a simple fix.

After you start casting, click the cast button again. You should see a volume slider that you can adjust.
>I have the impression that the challenge is in observing the correct algorithm rather than calculating the probability

I've got a stats PhD and I guessed the solution but couldn't calculate the probability of having a max cycle length of 50 or less. To be fair, the calculation isn't hard once you see it, but it's not trivial either.

The 30% figure threw me since I know the probability of a random permutation having a fixed point is 1/e (just over 30%), so I went looking for ways to link the cycle length to the Poisson distribution.
Similar but less extreme version: "Just" a "mobile office"

http://davidmckinney.com/blog/2013/12/29/redesigning-the-off...
By mr david awesome mckinney :)
I misread the title to say "Agar.io" and was incredibly confused.
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This has been removed from the more recent Kindles, since the Kindle Voyage at least.
Can't agree more. Again, what's in "continuity of human race" for ordinary people, like me and the most over here?
What would be the best way to make money betting on a crash?
My friend was brought in by a client after the previous contractor had spent 300+ hours coding a simple organizational website - here is who we are, here is our phone number - using node.js. I doubt the website will ever see more than 20 concurrent visitors.
Flagstaff, AZ gets electricity from the Cholla Power Plant in Northern Arizona. The plant burns coal and is considered one of the dirtiest power stations in the nation.

Just consider that owning a Tesla or any plug-in electric in Flagstaff is completely backwards.
Suggested rephrasing.

>will pay for it by charging to charge

will subsidize supercharger access for Tesla vehicles via selling access to non-Tesla Electric vehicles
I'm generally a big fan of DJB, but I see a few problems with this scheme.

First, it seems like the prefix-free requirement means that the strings can't contain internal NUL bytes. In Python you can store 'a\0' as well as 'a\0b' in a hash table -- how do you handle this with crit-bit trees?

Second, in Python, unlike JavaScript, arbitrary types can be hashable. Tuples are hashable. How do you store ('a', 0) and ('b', 1) as keys in a crit-bit tree?
For anyone who hasn't seen it, check out the "peerflix" project on github. It's an amazing way to stream torrents, and you can easily cast them from chrome.

Basically you just do:

peerflix 'magnetUrl'

And then navigate to http://localhost:8888 and cast the tab.

Unfortunately it only works with MP4. There may be some workarounds with an ffmpeg command in the middle, but I haven't experimented with it much.
Well, I actually learned Angular 2 before I learned Angular 1.
What's the big advantage of jQuery with animating? Are you referring to the animation built into jQuery?
Thank you for the advise.

My daughter and my wife are certainly doing well but not as well as they can be. It's not like I can't provide for them at $110 per year.

I think I will be talking to a lawyer if I do decide to leave.

And if you think 5% is bad... I negotiated up from 0.5%. I'm not sure I agree that 5% is bad. It is above average for a CTO from what I understand and I'm sure many of those CTOs are just as critical to their companies as I am to mine.

As far as the wage claim... I don't think I can. Technically it is on the books as a deferred bonus. The company paid me minimum wage for that time and I stupidly agreed to it. I'll talk to the lawyer, though.
His "Can I live without my precious possessions?" answer is the most engineering LOL thing I've read all day:

"Pile up my crap. Anytime I need something in the pile, take it out of the pile and save it for later. Monitor usage."

Thank you for posting this.
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Really? That's your nightmare scenario? A bunch of immigrants, and some of them will turn to terrorism - a threat that kills less people per year than, say, automobile accidents or medical mistakes.

How about climate change? Meteors, supervolcanos? These are all things that have destroyed the majority of either humanity or life on earth at some point in the past. And then there's horrors of war, plagues, earthquakes, and tsunamis, which have the capability of killing double-digit percents of regional populations in short amounts of time. Terrorism has never killed even a tenth of a single percent of any population.

Sure, you can worry that terrorists /might/ get nukes or biological weapons. But unstable national governments already have these things. The number of times that the USSR and the USA accidentally almost started a nuclear holocaust via tens of thousands of superbly-engineered ICBMs is vastly more concerning than a bunch of poorly funded, poorly organised idiots that might set off some homebrew weapon.

There are vastly more impactful things that /have already proven to exist/ to be worried about and prepared against.
There are lots of crazy people that obsessively build monuments.

http://inhabitat.com/incredible-cathedral-built-by-one-man-w...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Castle

Weird coincidence, tuberculosis was involved in both cases.
Those two effects are mutually opposing forces - are car owners willing to take the risk of someone contaminating their car by smoking, spilling, eating, puking or having sex to earn a pretty penny?
As this was the first really expensive car I’ve owned, I needed to find a way to help pay for the car. Naturally, Uber came to mind

The subprime lending crisis in a nutshell
Hence the acquisition of Cruise by GM (i'd guess)
GM Expressed Interest in Lyft at $6B
I'm pretty sure Udemy is going the route of Yelp!. Both need a ton of user-generated content. So they throw ethics out the door. !00% marketing. And finally when there's enough content, they start being ethical and claim to be the hip and trusted website. And today Yelp! is the most popular place to check out if some restaurant / store / etc is good.
No, in a capitalist utopia they are.

I don't know if you consider the existing society capitalist or not, but I can't give serious consideration to the idea that corporations even vaguely represent the aims of society. Yes, you can claim that people have aims, not societies, but people constitute societies, and the aims of 99.9% of people are not aligned with the aims of the corporations.
I wouldn't get too dogmatic about REST. I've been working with it for years, and it seems that every time somebody makes a semantic HTTP API, they run into a URI length limit at some point.
"Tesla also has an 8 year, unlimited mileage warranty for the Drive Train & Battery. This was great, as I did have the drive train replaced at about 65,000 miles and the battery replaced at about 76,000 miles."

You can read this as:

"Tesla also has an 8 year, unlimited mileage warranty for the engine and fuel tank. This was great, as I did have the engine replaced at about 65,000 miles and the fuel tank replaced at about 76,000 miles."

That just makes it that much crazier. The most important and expensive components of this car actually do break down fairly quickly, but the manufacturer just covers them under a lifetime warranty!
As someone working on getting rid of a cofounder like yourself, where I did all the work and they sat on the sidelines until they saw a product and then decided to reach out to get his share, this shows that you aren't as invested even though you are a cofounder. There's a reason why the "co" is there, because both people are working on founding not one person waiting for the other to do all the work so they can just throw an idea into the bucket every now and then so that they can get a piece of the end result.
The article says "That afternoon in the office, Michael emailed each employee a personalized PDF receipt of a Wells Fargo wire transfer ...". The sample shown is for $12,000. The total for all employees is probably over $100,000.

If this happened in Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's office has jurisdiction. They have a Major Fraud Unit. "The Major Fraud Unit is responsible for prosecuting cases involving serious and complex fraud, also known as White Collar Crime, where the loss exceeds $100,000. The Unit emphasizes theft cases that are accomplished by lying or the breach of a trusted or fiduciary relationship with the victim as opposed to the taking of property covertly, or by force or fear." Any questions?

The Santa Clara DA's office has a staff of over 500 people. This is one of the things they do. White-collar crime prosecutions often start at the DA's office, rather than coming from police agencies. The DA's office has their own investigators. There's also a process for getting restitution from convicted criminals. This routinely "pierces the corporate veil" and means the criminal is ordered to pay up as part of their punishment.

[1] https://www.sccgov.org/sites/da/prosecution/DistrictAttorney...
This water is so pure it could strip the minerals from your body
I'm of more or less the opposite opinion: DNSSEC overall is pretty terrible. DANE is possibly a slight improvement over the existing CA system for some threat models, though only very slight. That improvement is frequently zero depending on the chosen threat model, though I've yet to see a real-world scenario where it's worse.

DNSSEC is a complicated proposal with basically no adoption that requires widespread adoption to accomplish anything. We've had much better (though still not perfect) ways to improve authority-resolver security for years (DJB's DNSCurve for example). Given this, its only purpose is to make DANE happen. That benefit is way below the cost (again, maybe actual zero benefit depending on your point of view). It may even have a negative benefit by delaying a switch to an actually-good solution once someone figures one out (which nobody has, quite yet).
If angular were produced by superior engineers, it would be easier, not harder, for lesser engineers to grok it.

The problem is not with you, but with a those that made angular more complicated than it could have been.
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True. But by space flights I mainly mean traveling to other planets and solar systems
For Angular 1, I'd recommend sitting through Dan Wahlin's hour intro to Angular. Don't code, just watch. It really helped me get that initial chunk of knowledge in my head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9MHigUZKEM
What's your point exactly? While the term "state militia" is a bit unusual these days, that's effectively what the National Guard is.
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> That was below-poverty-line benefits as defined by existing law.

Its way above the poverty line for any household size greater than 1. ($11,880 + $4,140-4,160 per additional member) [0]

[0] https://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty-guidelines
Right! Why would I buy a car when I can get a self-driving car to pick me up and drop me off when I need?
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The OpenBSD developers dogfood the OS on their own laptops (mostly Thinkpads). I'd imagine that's one big reason why it works so well. In contrast, I've heard (but have not verified) that many FreeBSD devs do much of their work on macOS, and ssh to or virtualize FreeBSD.
If Google and Apple both came out and said 'this is the future of audio' and showed a USB3 connection to some nice Grado or Sennheisers, i'd be all ears.

Instead I suspect Apple as usual will say 'these are your new headphones' with a crappy pair of earbuds that cost eleventy gillion pounds, and we'll all retreat back to not giving a toss.

Apple are ace sometimes - I love my Macbook Pro, but smartphones are at a point where my girlfriend (an Apple fan) is considering moving to Android after seeing my Nexus 6p. Apple don't have the weight in the industry they used to have.

Basically -

1. Headphones need to be USB3, with 2 ports available.
2. Standard protocol, with all the bit and sample rates.
3. DRM is fine, but it's optional
4. Spec is open, but well defined so manufacturers, even cheap ones, can join in.
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Number two is extremely compelling, I'm surprised it's not standard.
Activision bought Sierra a couple years ago. They revived the brand with a number of new titles and a new King's Quest, but it's been pretty underwhelming so far. :/
Even Disney rotoscoped. Tools are tools. They are all useful, the secret sauce is knowing when and where it's appropriate to employ them.
> They say the issues at X aren't technical hurdles, but a combination of red tape and knotty internal politics

Unsurprising. The valley (and tech in general) is forgetting it's power doesn't come from management and politics.
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>some of them will turn to terrorism - a threat that kills less people per year than, say, automobile accidents or medical mistakes.

Yes, some currently turn to terrorism and kill fewer people than automobiles. You're implying that the number of deaths won't grow at all when an entire region of the globe loses it's major cash cow.
I don't think you really have to do it in a van. If you're going to work remote and don't mind being lonely, you can buy a house just about anywhere in the country, which means you can find a house for $50k instead of $500k.

If you check out his list of things he likes about van living, most have more to do with working for himself rather than all the traveling. He doesn't come across as one of the wanderlust folks.
Nice idea, I didn't find a good client on PC that does it.

But it shouldn't be up to you or your followers to sort the tweets, I don't understand why Twitter doesn't implement this basic feature. The hell it could be something done in the front-end with no server-side code involved at all.
"Hey, did you know that if you forward your receipt to this website with a bitcoin wallet address, they'll send you as much as $20 depending on how you voted?"
Right — assuming people bought their cars and used them normally (10-15k per year), having to replace the battery and drive train for say 50% of cars under warranty would be pretty die. He's also quite likely effectively free-riding on the supercharger system.
This would have appealed to me about two years ago, but not that much anymore, and I'm still close to a decade away from paying off my student debt.

I'm more interested in 'settling down' and 'getting to work' these days, realizing that my sense of personal success is mostly dependent on quality relationships, productivity, and a sense of community belonging. Now, I've done my fair share of living life on the road, and I always enjoyed the experience, but just like the comedown from a psychedelic drug high I was always grateful at the end to be back home squared away in my "real world."

My issue is not with the self-determinism or the low-impact tiny house living, just with the transience of it. Is he certain that he'll be able to be productive working out of the back of a van or in random cafes around the country? What about stimulating interactions with colleagues? Girlfriend??
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> it's not a constant factor if b is a variable. It's a factor of log b.

It's between 1/(sqrt(2)-1) and sqrt(2)/(sqrt(2)-1), depending on how full the b-tree nodes are.
The author gets the definition of big-O completely backwards. Every single time the author says "Big-O" he means "little-o".

Here are the definitions:

https://cathyatseneca.gitbooks.io/data-structures-and-algori...

Basically, big-O is a claim that your process is at least -this- fast. Small-o is a claim that your process can't be faster than -this-. He means the latter.

> Still not convinced? Think I'm misunderstanding Big-O?

Yea, I do.
Paper counting scales quite well. Infact it is trivially scalable.
Anyone know if this includes the iOS version?
I like it too. The cons just don't exist in my pow:

one downside was that it didn't work on things like airport access points, but those break regular tls too.

an other downside was the fact that google didn't want to integrate it in chrome because the notaries would have to be always up. now they run transparency logs that have to be always up anyway. so.. what's the difference?

The Perspectives Project piked up the idea, and it seems less dead that Convergence: https://perspectives-project.org/
My officemate is a cyclist and photographer and built out a Sprinter van as a mobile production/adventure mobile. It's got a couch that converts to a bed, fold-out tables, water tank, sink, electric chest fridge, PV panel and battery, inverter, and roof platform. Super functional. All hand built and I can't imagine he spent more than a couple grand outfitting it.
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That doesn't really help, though. With "marks on paper" voting, you don't have to deal with the hanging chad problem, but you get whole crops of people who don't fill the bubbles completely, or who partially mark two different bubbles, or a whole litany of other potential ambiguities.

I still agree that paper isn't vulnerable to the mass-scale undetectable vote-rigging that electronic machines have the potential to be! But it does have its own weaknesses: people who decided to switch to electronic definitely had credible reasons in mind at the time.
>>The answer is, unsurprisingly, everyone who pays taxes.

1. Not every one would work to pay taxes, when there is a way to not work and still get paid.

2. Lesser the number of people who work lesser the pool of money to share among the remaining.

3. Those who still continue to work feel cheated all the time to be working and making up for everyone. While they push insane hours to make a living, punished all the time for earning, endlessly being asked to pay for others, or be called greedy and evil otherwise.

4. Mass exodus of people follows to places where there is a decent rewards in return for work.

5. Ecosystem as a whole has endless iteration of fewer and fewer contributors, and more and more people who think are entitled to free cash. At some point it all collapses in its own weight.

1 - 5 is basically the story of every single socialist economy in the past 150 years.
Eh the $1k of lifetime Supercharger energy per customer aren't very concerning for Teslas bottom line.

I'd be much more concerned they have to keep warranting so many batteries and engines. This guy got a new battery and engine at 75k miles, so they are pretty much down >$10k on his car alone. And he's far from the only one who casually mentions having the most expensive part of the car exchanged for free.
I was browsing in Chrome with a brand new phone which thankfully did not have anything on it. Despite clearing all the app data (which normally cleans out browse-by if it's just annoying page javascript in my experience) the damn vibrate, play noises and throw multiple pop-ups just kept on coming and would not let me close them.

I had to resort to a factory wipe to clean it; it was not a great deal since it was a phone I'd literally today just taken out the box, but if it had been something I had data on and used for a while, it would have been a serious PITA.

I suspect the ad network malware pumper saw the visit spike and decided the traffic volume warranted an exploit delivery instead of their usual junk ad content.
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Interesting take. There is already a subprime lending crisis in the automotive loan market, along with a glut of used cars that somehow arent depreciating. I wonder if people start deciding that they want to overspend on a car they want and decide to "uber" their way into affording it...
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Did you read part II of the series? It's a deeper analysis than you seem to give him credit for.

His argument is that in this universe, the specific laws of physics we have here enforce the property that memory access takes o(sqrt(N)) time [1] where N is the size of your data set.

[1] - What's actually going on is that it takes o(N * sqrt(N)) time to touch N bits of information. Since for any particular bit, it might be very close to the processor and thus fast, but hitting N bits necessitates that most of the bits you access are far away.