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The specs are often more abstract than the implementation. Rarely larger. When they're at that size or larger, it's usually one of two things: deficient spec tool that takes way too much syntax to express problem; more often the spec makes explicit contextual information that usually is just in developer's head. You want that stuff explicit when analyzing security or correctness, esp corner cases or integration errors.
Has anyone tried to incorporate signed executable loader into the Linux kernel ?

Hopefully letsencrypt can start certifying code signing keybase keys.

Also would be nice if someone would offer a service to build executables from open source code and code sign certifying that a particular executable was built from a particular source openly available.
San Francisco was 45 homicides per 100,000 for 2014.
San Jose was 32.

Kansas City was 78. Denver was 31. Dallas was 116.
These were picked kinda randomly.
While I agree with Thiel on a lot of areas, I think he underestimates the power individuals to be more ambitious despite the norms of the local population.

I work for a startup, M1 Finance (https://www.m1finance.com/), based in Chicago which I believe to be an extremely ambitious team: http://chicagoinno.streetwise.co/2016/09/09/a-chicago-fintec....
'Habit' is definitely a better word. The Power of Habit is actually a great book that pretty much articulates its title.

Willpower/discipline is better used to build individual habits. "Good habits" will build on each other and give you huge returns in productivity, time management, and psychological well-being.
When software development is automated away and developers go the way of Milwaukee's tool and die engineers and everyone moves back to the Great Lakes region to get access to our vast reserves of fresh water, I'm really going to lord threads like these over them.
I thought thinkpads were linux friendly? Have you had problems with it?
Because in a 3-bit flash cell, there are on the order of 10 electrons separating one charge level from the next. If a couple too many decide to quantum-tunnel their way to freedom, the bits will flip.
I work in a pretty small niche that's concentrated in high cost of living areas so I would prefer not to get too specific. One example was a company in the same country as Omaha with similar cost of living.

A different company was in a different country than Omaha and the naive cost of living was higher, but the cost of living, after adjusting for taxes, was actually very similar.

I hope that gives enough information. I really enjoy living in high cost of living areas so that's where I ended up, but I did have the choice to live somewhere cheaper.
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I think a problem is with a lot of eclipse based embedded studio's is the driver and board support package code is generated from templates via an eclipse plugin written in Java. Also good luck trying to figure out an Eclipse project file without retching.

Eclipse + Embedded => Cancer
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This the ultimate policy question: What is a public good?

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/12/10/131784161/what-...
But I'd have to carry TWO PHONES!*

*Read: I'd be subject to FOIA requests.
Please take your bad attitude elsewhere.
The key difference between windows and the solar panels, as designed, is the passive design of the solar panels. No need to close curtains on these panels, as windows would require, for reduction of heat loss on winter nights.

The black vanes are cooled, during the day, by induced air flow, such heated airflow going into the building (passively), and results in heating the building, without further action. The panels are designed to prevent winter-night cooling via the panels. Thus you're missing the passive intent heating intent of the design: windows fail as a passive heat source, because of the need to actively insulate them in some fashion in the winter night.
While that may be true for some/most startups in Chicago, the startup I work for, M1 Finance, is definitely looking for people passionate about building a great product and company: https://www.m1finance.com/.
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What should be your next programming language?
You are correct about OS developers fading. The need simply is not there any more and the demand now revolves mostly around high-level jobs. Even in my case, I noticed that the vast majority of companies do not need someone who has written their own X - it is far more valuable to be versed with mainstream implementations of X.

It is also something I find worrisome. Programmers spend their lives building up unique knowledge, only to have it fade into oblivion. We keep reinventing the wheel but don't care to invest in keeping the wheel rolling. :)
As a Chicago resident, my first reaction is to rebel against this.

Why do they call out Harvard-Princeton-Yale, when US News ranks University of Chicago higher than Yale(1). The Chicago area has 2 schools in the top twenty, I only count one in NYC and one in the bay area. And I see many other top 20 schools in "flyover country". Coasts have no monopoly on world-class academia.

How bout fortune 500 company headquarters? San Fransisco gets the prestige of tying with Milwaukee and Cincinnati in 6th, while Chicago is 5th and Houston is 2nd (to NYC at first).

Facebook may be the largest social network in the world, and that's great for San Fransisco. But that doesn't give them a monopoly on talent. We have tons of impact here too, for example the biggest restaurant chain in the world (McDonald's) is headquartered in metro-Chicago. If you want to see power in the restaurant space, that's where to look (sorry if it's not sexy enough for you).

Chicago's GDP is 50% greater than San Fransisco's (3).

O'hare airport has 50% more flights than San Fransisco, and 10% more international travelers(4). Why does the less global city have more international travelers?

So in summary: we have better educational institutions, more large companies, a higher GDP, and are more physically connected to the world than San Fran. Just because we're not the cool kid on the block doesn't mean we aren't as powerful as you San Fran.

That all said, idk, they might be right. The people I hear about on TV do tend to be on the coasts, and a lot of the super succesful people do seem to end up working on a coast eventually.

(1)http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/...
(2)http://www.metroatlantachamber.com/docs/default-source/resou...
(3)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_GDP
(4)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_airports_by_pa...
I think I would rather do future "systems level" work in Rust than C, but I'm not sure it would eliminate the desire for automatic memory management in a casual or "ENTERPRISE!!!" (... no intelligent life here, Scottie) app :-)
There is a nascent GCC port, may be good for hobby projects:

https://github.com/dinuxbg/gnupru
If you pick your locales by homicide rate, you should perhaps consider emigrating.
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I think you're reading your numbers wrong - San Francisco had 5.3 murders per 100,000 people in 2014 (45 in total [1]).

[1] http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-San-Francisco-Californi...
Satan isn't a dreadful spirit of the underworld, he's basically a corrupted angel!

I get where you're coming from, but this kind of pedantic hair-splitting with a condescending tone doesn't advance the conversation. There's nothing "scarily wrong" about a reviewer from 1956 not being intimately familiar with the breadth and depth of Tolkien's canon.
> Ruby on Rails was built by engineers from Chicago based company

Sorry to be pedantic, but...

First, RoR has a BDFL based in Chicago (originally from DK), but is an open source project built and maintained from people all over the world.

Second, the amount of wealth created by companies in NYC/SV leveraging RoR is easily in the billions (not real math, but back of the napkin).

The reality is that this isn't a black/white issue, but one with a whole lot of grey area and a VC speaking hyperbolically in an attempt to executing content marketing[0]. Let's move along and let the market dictate the reality, shall we?

[0] - http://avc.com/2016/08/understanding-vcs/
We currently use Amazon RDS, which doesn't support custom extensions, so pg_partman wasn’t an option for us. I haven't used pg_partman myself, but it looks to have different features.

I think an external tool is a bit friendlier for people who aren't super comfortable with installing Postgres extensions. Also, it doesn't require a restart.

I'm optimistic that Postgres will make all of this trivial at some point.

Edit: changed "more features" to "different features". One of the main goals is the ability to partition existing production tables without downtime, which seems different than pg_partman.
He's a consultant. It's a profession where measuring a city by HYPS grads per square mile doesn't seem weird.
This answers my perennial question of "How the hell do these people survive??"

Any idea where I could find wealth data? Would be super cool to research as I spend a lot of time thinking about stuff like this.
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Its not whether he is right or wrong, it was incredibly rude and poor form.
I don't understand your question. Imagine 70% of entrepreneurs head to SF or NYC because they've heard that that's what you do. Further imagine location has no influence on anyone's chances of success.

By construction, 70% of successes come out of SF or NYC despite the fact that being in SF or NYC is unhelpful. Large number in -> large number out. "A large number of startups come out of SF or NYC" is guaranteed by the premise you're questioning, "ambitious people go to these tech 'Meccas'". It's about as far from a contradiction as you can get.
> The cool tech that I found in Chicago was finance.. the finance scene was pretty cool... but maybe not the ideal industry to spend your life in.

Definitely. The cool fintech in Chicago (not traditional fintech mind you) were the HFT/prop trading shops. Tech skills needed, with I-banking work environment provided (think seedy sort of things transpiring).
Well not that it won't compile without VS, but maybe as a vehicle to for the occasional new feature that just doesn't work quite right on Mac, one drive hosted git tie in's, I dunno but their up to something.
> Chrome was, in my opinion, an attempt to undermine Microsoft's dominance. It was also a business strategy, since a browser monopoly by MS could be the death to www.google.com

Chrome was released in 2008, when Firefox' share was up to 28% [0] and Microsoft's monopoly already was over. IIRC, Google used former (or hired away then current?) Firefox developers.

[0] Per one source I just looked at
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Are you sure that isn't per million?

Because Wikipedia says that the rate for the USA as a whole is 3.9/100,000
> , it was one of the most promising and innovative DB's around. It's a shame it didn't live up to the hype.

It promised master-to-master replication, so has that. Doesn't lose your data (actually fsyncs, yay!). Has a helpful integrated web interface, is HTTP + JSON interface.

I don't know I've shipped lots of products on it. I say it lived up pretty well to the hype...
Glad to hear you say that.

Aside from that the work seems very interesting. I am going to check out Ivory. I have been reading up and playing with Idris and F.

I like F so far, and that you can output F# and OCaml. Idris's goals seem in line with what you were originally looking for. Have you evaluated it?
MorphOS continues to look really cool. I've never taken the time to dig further into but might have to take a look.
Hmm. I find that classes and subclasses aren't all that useful, now that I can use higher order functions :-)

(I still use classes/objects for services with multiple related operations or polymorphism, but not for one trick pony "Executioners" for which Java would use a lambda -- which is what ES6 arrow funcs look like)

I wish I could vote the grandparent post up more.
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Ummm no. You read only the first few sentences. Google sought out to also solve the TSP and used the 50 year old Christofides algorithm which is built on top of Euler's bridge problem (graph theory) solution.
"Why would they spend money improving their site - especially a big name like WSJ?"

Wait, what!? They have EVERY incentive to make sure they provide a quality product.
While the developer in me dislikes the implementation, I still love AMP as a user.

Mobile websites tend to be incredibly user-unfriendly, and I can't stand it. They load slowly, they bombard me with intrusive notifications and popup ads, scrolling is lethargic, and so forth.

As a user, I have two reliable ways to distinguish a "user-friendly" website in search results:

1. Prior knowledge (I've been to wikipedia.com. It's a great place. I'll visit wikipedia.com anytime.)

2. The AMP Badge

The AMP badge is such a reliable signal of a fast, cruft-less mobile site that I find myself avoiding non-AMP websites in search results. This is unfortunate from a fairness perspective ("...but my non-AMP website _does_ load fast!"), but as a user, it's exactly what I want. Non-intrusive ads, instantaneous loading, and general snappiness.

If the rest of the internet doesn't like the AMP badge, well, time to make your website leaner and faster. Until there stops being a meaningful difference between an AMP and non-AMP page, I'll be clicking on the AMP links. I shouldn't have to employ a bunch of counter measures (ad blockers, noscript, etc) everywhere I go on the internet.
You're quoting things ... that I did not say.
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Country, or county?
I think there was an actual church inside the Second Life MMO.
Seriously, that wording is bizarre, like they started with "often," and then later made a "use more convincing language" pass without really paying much attention...

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Right...of center? Is that the context? Probably right.
> animals were able to make sounds with vocal cords well before (like 100 million years before)

Um, no. Even between chimps and ourselves lies a vast gulf of unpronounceability, just due to vocal chord physics. Yet more interesting is the mapping between formants and meaning in linguistics.
If there's 20x the number of startups and 20x the number of workers, the individual odds shouldn't change.
You've just invented the field of program synthesis, which is a super active research area right now in programming languages! Here's the paper list from a class at UW focused on this area: http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse599a2/15wi/ . The Sumit Gulwani paper from the first week is a really good introduction to the field.
As it should. Nobody is going to get a discount on great engineers because everyone wants great engineers, and there are a hell of a lot fewer great engineers than job openings for them.
Areas of Chicago suck. The majority of Chicago is great, and generally very safe. (It also doesn't reek of garbage and urine like Manhattan).

You're pretty safe, maybe safer than national metropolitan cities in Chicago if you don't go to certain areas, such as the generalized west and south sides. Even then, the violence is even more localized than those generalizations.

Yes, homicides in the city limit are the worst in the US. Work in the loop? Probably will never have a problem (I think homicides in the Loop are like 1% or less of the city total). Last I can think of that wasn't at a festival in Grant Park was a murder/suicide where a white-collar employee shot his boss then offed his self a few years back). I worked in the Loop between 2004 and February of this year and I never had a single time where I even felt threatened. I never even got mugged, even while stumbling obviously drunk to the Metra. The Loop is very heavily patrolled.

The real homicide problems are in the very poor neighborhoods on the west and south sides well away from the financial district/Loop. Gentrification in the last 15-20 years has pushed those neighborhoods even further away from the Loop.

In short, homicide's not the big problem it seems in Chicago (yes, it's a problem - but not a city-wide problem - it's a neighborhood issue).
This sounds so wonderful, even as a Tolkien fan, I always thought that many at the side of Saruman and Co. were doing what they thought best, and eventually may even refine their arts to match those of the elves.
This is beautiful. Great work.
Sounds like you are talking about what Sweden announced today:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/19/waste-not-want...
Yea, I always understood those Super Senior Staff Software Engineer roles at these top companies are for the rare "I invented the TCP in TCP/IP" people, not the more common "third average software engineer from the left".
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> Today, the only option for ensuring an XHR request is made when the user re-visits a page via the back button is to (1) add an unload handler then (2) use cache busting.

I'm sure there is exceptions, but in general, the last thing I want my browser to do when i press back, is to start making requests. I expect the requests to have been already made.
This is a review of a massive epic that was written very shortly after its last installment was published. Yes, the reviewer got some details wrong, but there simply hadn't been time for him (or just about anyone else) to have read it through multiple times and analyzed it in depth like so many of us have today. A great deal of the backstory hadn't been published at all. (I'm pretty sure nobody outside Tolkien's inner circle and maybe a handful of publisher's readers had even seen the term "Maiar" yet when this was written, for example.) So I'd praise this review for its early enthusiasm and for its appreciation of some of Tolkien's core themes and give it something of a pass on the niggling details.

[There's a lot more wonderful Tolkien knowledge waiting for you out there, too, if and when you want to delve into it. It starts to lean inevitably toward textual history as you delve deeper, but some of that is inevitable with a work of this scope whose author was so far from completing it when he died.]
This is a different feature unrelated to the launch today. It doesn't always show on top, but often will because the sites posting AMP content tend to rank well.
Yeah, for a very, very, very small subset of words, the very first and most immediate things babies care about, this theory makes some sense.

For everything else, not so much.
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A couple of pieces of plywood, for each window, and some foam strips for air-flow sealing would do. This is not a big effort, just more than your (exceedingly short-lived) cardboard design contemplates.

The gain in creature-comfort in the apartment, might be more than the money saved in avoided heating, as a renter of the apartment.
Of course I don't have hundreds of hobbies but I do have very broad interests.

I was really interested in your views on pivoting from wanting to be accomplished at something to wanting to do the work to become accomplished. Limiting myself to one or two things can bring focus, but I don't think that necessarily translates into the needed pivot.

BTW, my goal was much more modest than becoming a good guitar player. I'd be happy to know a single "real" song.
There's an "About" link on the blog that literally explains what it is.
> You are probably assuming that employees are definitely under compensated

This is a reasonable assumption about startups.
> It's kind of disturbing to see (what I presume to be) a member of one of the best compensated demographics in one of the richest countries in the world suggest that while it's OK for a cashed-out founder to buy houses with their money (at least that's personal), before any of that money goes to a worthy charitable cause, other software developers should get dibs on it.
> I feel like you could not have fully thought this statement through.

I'm not sure I follow. Are you referring to myself being white, a male, my industry, the area in which I live? Why would my post, because of my race, gender, industry, area or country, make it disturbing whereas it may not have been otherwise? Where did I say other developers should "get dibs on" another founder's equity? Who mentioned "worthy charitable cause"? There are so few but I get the general impression you chose your words to try to make my comments appear worse than what they are.

When you give to charity you give money you do not need, correct? So when you pledge X percentage of your equity to charity while, at the same time, paying less than the average salary for your workers who are hoping to use their equity as another way of compensation should everything go well, you're saying that because it goes to charity and because of their demographics, everyone should feel fine?

I only talked about the emotions of such a decision. If someone tells you that they don't need a certain amount of money that they only made because of your and your team's hard work and you're being underpaid, you don't think you deserve to feel slighted? Because that's exactly what happens.

Next time, instead of trying to make me look like a monster for talking about feelings, how about we try to understand each other's view point and talk this out?
Yep I realize it's been there, but (as you mentioned) keeping it updated has been ignored by Apple long time and turned into a community effort. Sierra brought a significant overhaul.
iOS will aggressively auto-correct wufe to wide,[1] but somehow didn't catch that.

[1] Autocorrect should never insert "wide" as a replacement--for any letter sequence--in a message to your wife.
Yes. Eventual consistent doesn't mean inconsistent, but eventually it will be. That means under a network partition (P of th CAP Theorem) things should converge after the network converges. This is precisely the type of semantic that Aphyr wrote Jepsen for. See his testing of Cassandra (eventually consistent) or the CockroachDB team (eventually consistent) or Risk (eventually consistent) running Jespsen to prove things work as expected.
We didn't really find anything that fit our needs. We wanted a tool that was simple to use with the ability to do time-based partitioning of existing production tables without downtime.
It would definitely be lossy compression, but yeah. If you are just talking about 50-200 polygon coordinates... It would be interesting to try and use these types of images in demoscene or size based game competitions.
I can't agree with your view of a possible motive. She owns the domain - she can change her email address at any time to a new one.
Moovit looks pretty and I like the whole "leveling up" idea, but it was terribly inaccurate for the AC Transit routes I take most often. Transit and other apps would have live arrival times within a minute or two of each other, but Moovit would either lack information or be half a departure cycle off as often as not. I gave up trusting it and went back to Transit.