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It talks about effects on the culture, but things mentioned like the Beatles appearing on Ed Sullivan happened over half a century ago. You may as well talk about how World War I affected the culture.

Kids don't listen to rock and listen to hiphop nowadays? In my mostly white grammar school (and then junior high school) in the early 1980s, LL Cool J, Newcleus, and UTFO had much more cultural relevance than any rock band. By 1986, when Run DMC covered "Walk This Way", they were considered the new sound, Aerosmith was a rock band popular with people then in their 20s.

Rock has not been at the center of the culture for over 30 years. This guy seems out of touch. Even in the mid-1980s, the rockers that I knew listened to 60s-70s rock more than 80s rock. It was already dead. The old core rock demographic was more into heavy metal than rock. The rise of heavy metal, outlaw country, techno and hip hop finished rock off by the 1980s as any kind of cultural center.

I don't get this navel gazing about the 1960s from a half century ago. The 1990s is what affected this youth generation's culture in which the Internet, Snapchat, memes, FPS games and so forth is a heavy influence on the entire youth culture. Back in the early 1990s, very few young people were on the Internet (few old people were on the Internet too).
Can't they sell carry-on space too?
Thanks. I drive quite a bit (about 45K a year, welcome to North Dakota) and I'm thinking I need to replace my Kio Rio with something that will get 40+ mpg (Rio gets 41 or 32 with a head wind and 50 with a tail wind). I haven't heard anything bad about the Prius.

I was going to break down and buy a truck since it would be really useful, but the Colorado really is poor.
On the other hand:

>Person does terrible in high school,doesn't get into a good college because they don't have the drive or commitment to get good grades.

That was me

>They go to community college

That was me

>surprise, they again get terrible grades and stop going

Nope, that was not me. I got a 4.0 in communnity college

>Anyways, these sales people will constantly pester you trying to get you to signup and take out huge loans because for some reason we think that it's ok to lend someone with terrible credit $50K+ in worthless education.

Essentially, that was also me. I was utterly convinced and sold that going to a high ranking university was the best thing for me

>The end result is either them regretting their decision or trying to justify it with some bullshit about it being a good learning experience or something of the sort.

Back to that being me again

>You can get a much better education for cheaper at a community college.

My community college education was mostly useless except for a few classes: 2 science classes (although one of the profs had a lawsuit with the school which affected our course quality), 1 course in calc, and 1 course in sociology/economics with a particularly good professor. A lot of the courses taught me either stuff I already knew, could learn easily with freely available resources online, or stuff that wasn't true or had no understandable merit.

TL;DR I didn't do my homework in high school. I got a job at a ski resort out of high school, then went to community college, got a 4.0, went to a high ranking university, ended up unemployed with a 50k+ education. Granted, I graduated during the recession, but this exact thing can happen to you if you are going to good universities as well.

I would rather have skipped community college and uni, spent the money on skiing in Switzerland and taught myself maths and programming while continuing to work in ski resorts and something that involved a summer hobby of mine like mountain biking, alpine hiking, long distance running or with video games.
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Anthropic principle, yes, thank you!
"Tents in Mina are reserved through the hajj ministry, which organizes pilgrims according to where they come from."

Seriously is this because of discrimination or due to some sort of "optimization" that is not explained in the article. Vendors speaking same language kinda thing perhaps.

Cant they make people do their Hajj in waves?
'own risk' based on your description would be called a deductible.
While I don't like AT&T and think they are a slimy and unethical company, I do not think forcing them to provide cheap internet access is likely to work.

We have plenty of examples where land sharks and slum lords use rent controls as an excuse to avoid providing many things renters ought to take for granted. This is similar in principle. The the lack of financial incentive AT&T and rent-controlled landlords have they are encouraged to provide reliable or effective service.

I am just spitballing, but perhaps a system of vouchers usable on internet services, given to people on this SNAP program mentioned in the article could be experimented with. If the government were to pay for part of the voucher and the person wanting the service pays for the rest then ISPs would have normal incentive to service these customers and someone other other than AT&T could move into the market because it makes economic sense, or AT&T could step up their game because they want the money.
What could possibly go wrong?

"did you pack your bags yourself? Are you carrying anything for anyone else?"

"Well I'm carrying an Airmule(tm) package. They packed it. They texted a photo to prove it was totally legit."

"Um, really sir? Please come with us"
> replaced by the State, which delivers clinical advice

Or in a sadly large number of states, religious advice (abstinence only education)
Yes, of course there are managers that suck. After all it's just another job. There are companies that suck. Some are big enough to not have to care or notice undervalued talent. If you're talented, you don't want to be there.

But I think it's safe to say, if you're good enough to manage people, you have a job in America. Businesses lust for good managers. It's the only way to ensure work gets done with affordable labor, and many businesses can only afford affordable labor.
I don't find that discussion particularly insightful. Yes, the term is used more broadly, but doing so invites confusion.

Compare perhaps "composer" to "musician", they are both involved in music but operating on different axis. Most people would agree that there isn't a strict relationship superset, and there is overlap. There are skilled composers who are lousy musicians, and vice versa. There are a few people who are top rate at both. However, it is very useful to have the distinction between creating and performing.

It's much the same with mathematicians.
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I.. I see what you did there
The author actually clouds what and why is really happening a bit. Ctrl+D sends the EOF character to the terminal driver. The terminal driver then determines, based on its settings, what to do next.

In the 'icanon' mode, the terminal driver implements a rustic line editor, so you can do things like Backspace to delete previous characters and so on. Pressing Enter during this mode returns the edited buffer line to the program.

Where Ctrl+D, or EOF, comes in is when you want to return a line to the program _without_ pressing Enter. This is where the terminal driver returns the buffer to the read() function for the program immediately. Doing it again with no additional input shows that you were done line-editing, so it simply returns nothing, signaling the program that you're done editing or providing input - the intended purpose of End Of File, the character sent by Ctrl+D. (If you were reading a file and you received nothing on a read... you would be at the end of a file, because why else would the file have nothing else to read?)

But this 'icanon' mode won't be active in your actual terminal shell, because shells have their own line editing implementation, so they turn 'icanon' off by default. You can, of course, turn on or off in the terminal with "stty". Use "stty -a" to see all the other current settings. The terminal application, by the way, sets the EOF to the same value as the terminal driver's by default, in order to prevent confusion.
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OP, you should have requested people put their country in the comment.
I never thought of my TV in terms of ergonomics. Yes, my tv takes perhaps 20-30 seconds to boot if you have it unplugged, but from its normal standby/off mode, it's as fast as any other tv -- perhaps 2 seconds?

I don't have input switching problems, but then again, I typically use my receiver as the switch; the TV stays on HDMI4 (ARC).

I've never noticed non-perfectly-synchronized audio/video so I can't really comment on that.

I've got a Sony x940d, for what it's worth.
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> Promises, Async, Generators, Redux Saga all solve these issues.

I'm aware of all of these and group them in with "callback hell." "Solve" is being overly generous. Generators are the best but still feel shoe-horned in and clunky.

> you either love it or hate - its not a hindrance. I love using ES7 over coffeescript now.

Yet another example of a language that you can't actually write a Node.js application in without transpiling...

> Putting the correct version numbers in your package.json and having your own NPM repo like Nexus (live Java) get rid of these issues.

So basically "don't use the system as intended" lol

> What?

Scaling is a pain in the ass.

> If any good programmer does not choose the right tools for a job then your not good.

This is an oft parroted phrase (usually by over-zealous project managers) to justify using some trendy new technology as though people hadn't been able to write HTTP servers until last year. There is more in common with all of those options I listed than there is difference. Twitter was serving millions of users before migrating away from Ruby on Rails. Instagram and Pinterest are in the top 50 most visited sites in the world and still both use Python+Django. If any programmer can only get the job done with a single tool, then they probably aren't that good.
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Right, but if we assume passenger space trades off one-to-one for cargo hold space [1], then the airline could reallocate the overhead bins to cargo (e.g. raise the floor). Then they could sell out even more cargo space as mail. So, in equilibrium, passengers should have to "compensate" (pay a premium) for the airline's lost opportunity to rent out the space.

Instead, everyone gets some of that premium, human-usable space for free. But if people are going to get some lump of space for free, why not make it the cargo hold, which is less constrained (doesn't have to be human usable) and thus cheaper? They're effectively letting people with more expensive requirements (must be able to access my stuff during flight) be subsidized by people with less expensive requirements ("I can wait until after the flight to access my stuff").

[1] which is probably true enough to a first approximation; you could redesign the interior to have more cargo space and less passenger space
We would appreciate input on how to improve this further beyond the three improvements already mentioned in the article.
I haven't owned a laptop with a VGA output since about 2008, so it's not relevant to me. I don't think it's a smart TV drawback, it's just a "newfangled stuff doesn't support old stuff" problem.
I think home storage probably makes no sense as long as the grid works well. No matter how cheap storage gets, it'll always be cheaper to send power to something that needs it right away, if there is such a something

You're also perhaps assuming that this infrastructure exists. Right now, most US home connections to the power grid can't transmit power outside of their own subdivision. You did say if "the grid works well." You could say that includes, "works at all between you and relevant points."
I believe about the same. That price is in Australian dollars.
The HTML5 specification now fully specifies what to do in the face of malformed input. That's one of the biggest differences between HTML5 and previous specifications.
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It's not exactly petty legalism, they can lose their ability to grant degrees over stuff like this. This is one of the reasons that if you are transferring institutions, as a student it is your responsibility to check transfer credits. After all, it certainly isn't true that all undergraduate curriculum are equivalent.

It's a bit of a pain, but the point wasn't that they should give you some questions from the old exam but that you should actually sit the new one, under exam conditions. That resolves the problem for everyone without you having to spend the time repeating lectures etc. In the best case you don't pay full rate either.
So your credits did transfer then? (some of them?)
Then you shouldn't have any trouble using reason to defeat them. Go on, then.
They're based more-so on reality. You can argue there are appeals to emotion ("protect your family!") but they aren't completely devoid of fact and ignoring statistics.

People hunt (some for game, some for sport) and need guns. People get robbed and would like a gun to keep in the home for self-defense. Some people live in criminal ridden areas where being mugged is a relatively common occurrence, having a gun helps there too.
In "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman", Feynman describes using LSD at the encouragement of John Lily, who claimed it would improve his thinking. Feynman tried it, and thought he'd solved a problem he was working on. As he was preparing to give a talk on the solution, he realized that he hadn't solved the problem; he'd only hallucinated that he had solved the problem. He was furious. That ended his experimentation with LSD. He wrote "I like to think, and I don't want to break the machine."
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Are there any other services which index github as a fallback? I've taken for granted how powerful this is.
Is floor height (and thus window positioning, ...) something an airline can order customized? (genuine question, I always thought of that stuff as fixed, but I could very well be wrong)
Great read, but it really peeves me that the article cites the 76ers terrible, losing record and paints this as managerial failure on Hinkie's part. Instead, the 10-72 record _was_ a very obvious step on the road to "the vista", because it enabled them to draft the number one rookie this year, which is exactly what the author claims is "fine": to have a long term plan, as long as the end goal is profit. (This has nothing to do with the main narrative of the article, but the presentation of Hinkie as a man unsuccessful at long term planning made me uncomfortable). I understand the larger point, though (or maybe this is just a prime example of the gell-mann amnesia effect).
A major part of the art of the handwavey term "good" management at the technical-line-level-and-middle-management stage is exactly in that area of "selling the rest of the business on why this will take longer than it sounds" and "protecting the team's time to work on what the team needs to work on to continue to be able to deliver stuff fast."

Good management means the team can keep working fast. Bad management means that three-to-five years later, someone has to come in and really put their foot down and say "if you want simple features to stop taking six months we have to take the time now." But to be able to sell that message outside the tech team at that point, you sorta have to be an external "fixer" - IME, it's hard to sell your own ability to clean up the mess if you're seen as part of who created it, sadly.

Figuring out the difference between a place with good management and bad management if you're interviewing there can be tricky - but if they don't have tests, etc, and also can't tell you their plan to add them / why they're adding them now, that's probably a bad sign. Or ask them what they've shipped recently and how long it took - maybe easier to look for the symptoms than for specific process failings, since those could be wildly varied.

EDIT: I love working in flat structures where the total relevant number of people to what I'm working on is under 15. Either a small startup or a truly independent sub-unit. But there are few worse environments than a flat structure where 30+ people feel like they should have a say in a given feature.
Some bugs might only occur on extreme conditions.
"It's wrong to think that departments at not-for-profit schools don't have a marketing incentive that is (at best) indifferent to the best interests of the student."

You're right, so let's start cutting off the federal loans spigot to them next.
The key is that every task must have EXACTLY ONE BOSS whose say is final when a decision is necessary.

A hierarchy works fine if it really is a hierarchy. It won’t work if the hierarchy has been poisoned with “dotted lines” or lots of unnecessarily-senior-sounding job titles that let senior people share control over project direction. I’ve worked in groups in the past where there were like 5 senior people trying to pull things in completely different directions, no one would tell us whose opinion really mattered, and we kept having to decide for ourselves.
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> For one reason or another, sorting out architectural issues to scale more gracefully was something I could never convince Jeff to allocate resources to do. There were always too many customer-facing features that needed to be developed.

Some things never change.
Exactamundo. And if you're at a decent company, your manager's job entails promoting staff and recruiting managers. Maybe you'll even physically replace your manager so they can move on up.

Managers are in the meetings where they talk about other managers that suck or other departments that need more help. The whole point is to look out of place. And if they don't appreciate you, you need to take your value proposition elsewhere. And if you look out of place by sucking, you'll get fired.
PSA: The Firebug you know (version 2) is incompatible to e10s and there will be no e10s-compatible Firebug 3. Instead, Firebug.next is built-into Firefox(!):

https://blog.getfirebug.com/2016/06/07/unifying-firebug-fire...
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I'd buy a thicker phone, but not one with a screen larger than 5 inches. 5" without a case is already uncomfortable to hold, and if the battery were directly integrated into the phone, I could get a little more battery in the added thickness. One option I wouldn't mind seeing more of is phones with removable back covers, to let you replace the battery with a larger one, while giving people who want a thin device the option to stick with the stock cover.
Living in Australia, private health insurance, 1% of gross income, ~$1,000 pa.

This is a the cheapest plan at the time that was offered by this provider (NIB) and I only did it so I didn't have to pay extra tax as part of the medicare levy surcharge.
To be fair, those interactions are really hollow. When your cashier says "How are you?" both sides of the transaction know it's just a courtesy. I would much rather spend my time sending a text to a friend than have an empty conversation with someone I'll never see again and doesn't care. Even if one side made the effort to say something meaningful, what are the odds my cashier has anything interesting or meaningful to me that can be said in the context of a 5 to 30 second interaction?

It's not that they don't value human interaction, it's just that they focus those interactions where it matters.
The best part of the story is perhaps the aftermath (the article doesn't mention the part about the plane being sent back mostly in crates, no doubt as a technical and practical necessity, but which was also seen as something of abackhanded gesture, at the time):

The MiG that the Soviet Union had kept hidden from the world for several years was partially reassembled, and then loaded on a boat for its return to the USSR. The Japanese charged the Soviets a $40,000 bill for shipping costs and the damage Belenko had inflicted at Hakodate airport.

I miss the Cold War.
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This is a much better point than the dumb point I made at the top of this thread. The commute from MTV to Palo Alto is humane even by the standards of other cities. What is drawing people to pay PA prices? Do people really just live 80% of their life within walking distance of their PA house? Because otherwise, you really need a car out there, even if you don't have a driving commute.
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The greatness of Hardy is that some unknown person from across the world (Ramanujan) wrote him barely legible letters, and he read them, believed in the writer, and helped expose him to the world.

I was once in a position where lots of people wrote me letters seeking to tell me about their talents. All the letters went unread to my dustbin. True and sad.
Palo alto has their school district.

Rewind 20 years and Menlo Park and Los Altos were more desirable places and more expensive places to live than Palo Alto. Houses are nicer there as well (particularly MP).

What does PA have that these two cities don't? What is seen as the most desirable school district in the area. That's the pitch used to sell properties to overseas investors as well.
The case of the crash of United Flight 173[1] is quite an extreme but still a relevant one on why seniority (in terms of title or work experience) shouldn't be the sole driving factor of decision making. Yes, junior engineers can be wrong but shutting them out by defining a hierarchy leads to multiple issues - a) they don't learn and b) senior engineers don't benefit from useful and creative ideas. A hierarchical top-down org usually forces the people at the bottom to just follow the instructions. The better option is not hierarchy but leadership. There should be somebody in charge of the project and they should be able to take the final call when there is a contention. Yes, some wrong decisions would be made but that's what learning is all about.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_173
Declared malaria-free by who?

(Sorry, couldn't resist...)

Seriously, this is very good news. But... does anyone know how hard it is to keep someplace malaria-free? Is this once-and-for-all, or does it require continual maintenance?
Just more evidence that the primary vector of this terrible virus -- Aedes Aegyptus -- should be eradicated. I suggest a multi-pronged approach, including genetic modification such as Oxitec's sterility in males, release of natural predators such as dragonflies, and minimizing their habitats, i.e. standing water in urban areas.

That last one is tricky, since A. Aegyptus is notoriously tenacious and can breed in a body of water as small as a bottle cap. But, we have to try.
Some people are lonely and looking for help. I've been there and this decision was the best thing that ever happened to me. I've seen it work for countless others. My motivation is simply to help others.
I seem to recall that googling (well alta-vista-ing) bugs in the 1990s was definitely a thing. Always seemed to end up on a usenet group though.
This is fascinating, I guess it really did come from Eisenhower but I've heard many variants. The first time I heard it, it was attributed to Bill Gates deciding where the paths on the MS campus should be (this was during peak Microsoft, sometime in the '90s).

I've also heard a version (or two) in which the campus was specifically one of the top tier US schools for CS (MIT/Stanford/CMU/etc.). The common thread was always that it was supposed to illustrate the visionary status of whoever was in charge, and/or the enlightened status of the company or university. The Eisenhower version would be the oldest one though, perhaps it was the original.