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"The key thing is just that I don't develop much of reaction and I can easily forget about the substance/activity. It just doesn't stick. It's not that I'm actively resisting a desire, /I just don't have one/."

That's exactly the end result of the actively trained willpower for me.

"I'm very curious what you're basing this on. I would say that is quite a claim to make. And how far? For whom? Is there a cap? Does it depends?"

All I can give you for sure are my own experiences and the methods my parents used in this regard. However, these are close to what I've seen in martial arts training and other domains. Since my childhood years my parents were very watchful for my instincts and urges and intervened most of the time. They made me aware of my impulses and what triggers them and when I failed to control myself they actively pushed me to slip into a harsh or painful lesson. I remember one of them when I had a definite plan for my hard raised money and they exposed me to a good salesman. I knew what salesmen do and they warned me that that one was better than the others and I had to resist or risk my money on some overpriced unimportant thing for me. I lost, but the lesson stood and now I'd say it worth both the money and the bad feeling that came after. I had many lessons, starting from addressing the appetites for sweets (like any kid) to resisting the provocations for violence (where I had to consciously know when it is or isn't necessary), but usually it didn't come to the hard part.

I think the most important bit was that I developed a sense of my own willpower resistance and its limits. Of course there is a cap, but I kind of sense when I'm about to slip, and I routinely test those limits in a controlled environment. The willpower is not there to be abused, it's there to buy you some time to change course when you realize you're going to be trapped. And yeah, it depends on a lot of things.

"I haven't observed that my willpower ever increased. If anything, it decreases over time if I try to apply it to the same thing. If I went to do something for a month, it's harder to do it next month. I can make a given activity take less willpower. I can become more efficient at it. I can apply motivational tricks."

I think here you confuse willpower with motivation. Willpower is the ability to exert self control regarding your urges, when you have them. What you describe here is a case where you don't have any urges at all. It may involve willpower if you abstain from something when you push yourself to do something else, but it's not used directly. Motivation is another thing that it's addressed enough in our society.
There are numerous reports from NGOs about the social impact of the credit card system and some reports from European Parliament detailing the use of financial systems for US surveillance, most recently around the fiasco resulting in SWIFT2 (aka SWIFT1 with a different name and more servers). A key recent instance of the political use of financial systems is the blocking of Iran from SWIFT, well documented to have been campaigned by Israel via the US defence establishment. They eventually convinced Europe to sign off on it too... amusingly India just said "we'll stop using cash for oil and ship them gold instead". Also http://www.scribd.com/doc/215642587/Finance-and-the-Future-B... (my talk from HAR2009)
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No electronics replace the headphone jack, instead there is component that seems to channel sound from outside the phone into the microphone... or from the Taptic Engine out. 9to5mac bad copy, iFixit good research.
>if you can actually write out code by hand, then you probably know the fundamental patterns (I'm talking fundamental, as in a common for-loop) essential for higher programming.//

What if you can write the pseudo-code but not the specific syntax without a reference it auto-fill out your IDE? Is that enough?
Other security controls aside, for the user thing we make it mandatory to have USER directive in the Dockerfile, else the docker builds fail.
It took me over a week to grasp how routing would combine with redux, async, react and then server side rendering.

We got there, but there just hasn't been a simple (to reason about) way to do this in javascript. Acknowledging that the current library is fighting (I would call it an anti-pattern) with react is probably a good step. Thanks devs!
Not OP, but my personal experience, having done some remote work for a big multinational and now for a startup, the reason it worked well for me was because I already knew the people very well.

If I were to join a team of people I've never met to work remote there are too many subtle unasked questions in the background. For example, right now I have one guy I work with who I only met - and only briefly - after months of working together. I often was in doubt about Skype chats and emails, did I go too far? Was that humor appropriate? His response seems chilly, and he hasn't responded for 5 minutes now but until I said THAT he always responded right away, did I offend him?

You can just brush it off and ignore it, and it may work out - or it may accumulate under the surface until some day it explodes. Or more likely, it's going to fester below the surface and hinder communication: You are less likely to communicate and when you do then only the minimum when you are unsure of the other guy, even if it is just slightly. It really does not need to be a major disagreement, the small and sometimes (when remote, often?) imagined ones are that hurt.

It feels much safer to work away from others when you already feel safe about what will happen when you screw up, or when you make a mistake on the project or in the communication, when you understand the other side from experience. Otherwise imagination takes over, your brain fills the parts that are not visible in remote communication, and when it has no data to do so it will just fill in something, and if you don't feel extremely secure in yourself and in your relationship that may very well be small subtle fears.
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I recently visited the Seattle area and the surrounding burbs a few months back. We drove through this one area called "Newcastle" and they have this mini downtown shopping area. The entire place smelled like a Chinese restaurant.

Since statistics trail the reality by a decent margin, the person I was with indicated it had been occurring for already a decade. Several areas already closed down their offices and moved to more affordable locations with a very large amount of office space available. It is almost like a dead city in the burbs with all the empty offices, except for the traffic of people who don't even need to work there.

The schools have also taken a huge hit in quality with once high ranked public schools now ranked among the lowest.

As far as real estate goes, the developers don't care, and they influence alot of local politicians. Foreign buyers just sit on the property with ultra fast purchases, muscling out alot of new home buyers. Then when the price hits a high, only then do they sell. All it does is damage the local economy as they have no real incentive to participate in a constructive manner. On the other end, attacks and aggressions against minorities fell a bit as the more racist types get forced out of the market and them and their police buddies can't randomly attack minorities without some repercussions. All in all, it's complex, and maybe they'll find some long term resolution.

We also visited the area further outside the burbs and there are (relatively) massive home development projects everywhere.
Really, posting a link to `git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/` was probably not a nice thing.
Official aws cli client is written in python and supports every aws feature, so you could not go wrong with that. I wouldn't touch PHP and Node - to fragile and messy to depend on them. So API-wise python would be my first choice, java second. Maybe Go if you need native performance (if you don't know then you probably don't).
>There is no scenario where the cost curve per kWh of battery storage goes up.

Lithium shortage.
Yes, I like this. It's important to learn what react is and why it's good for handling state in a component before you start trying to build the routing of a full web app.
And here's a chrome extension that disables static headers, for us who dislike them / low res devices / zoomed pages.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fix-fixed/fmekfmdh...

I mean, nice for your plugin for those who like it. I just found this a bit relevant.
You may be interested to read this, though the end result is somewhat disappointing / amusing: http://www.kmjn.org/notes/broken_wifi_access_points.html
Archive link: https://archive.is/n9Qb7
Samsung actually blowing up also has no effect on you if you're an iPhone/iOS user and want to update your device for the ecosystem.
I suppose there's a difference between the "from the ground up micro-architecture" and "using a micro service or two" that should really differentiate the various "should we use microservices?" discussions.

Several sites I'm aware of have an Facebook-style chat service, which is basically an off the shelf node app on its own. This makes far more sense than trying to build such a thing into their legacy app. It also perfectly describes a very useful micro service, in a very different environment to yours.
Yes. I looked at it on my phone, then thought screw it. I will read it when I'm behind a real monitor.
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>I think managing RW teams well (getting needed work and shielding members from most non-tech crap) is a pretty rare skill.

I can't agree more, here's an article elaborating on the topic :

http://read.reddy.today/read/3/remote-teams-are-the-future-b...
I'll go against the majority (or vocal minority?) and say: I like your title, it's good because it attracts attention (I wouldn't read the post if it were a "understand the implications of having a microservice architecture" or whatever others recommend).
that guy is insane - it's a constant reminder to never get too overzealous about the value of your work. But I do have to admit, gotta love his intensity.... but he's a bigot so fuck him lol.
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Agreed. I think that's the key, you learn by first grasping a basic understanding of a concept and then reinforcing it through application repetition. But the initial understanding is absolutely vital, otherwise chances are you end-up in the mindless rote repetition you mentioned.
Maybe not today, I bought a Oneplus 3 with 6GB ram because I plan on using it for some 4 to 5 years.

I used my old HTC Desire HD for 5 years, it became ram strapped lately with its 768mb
" Then again other things in the past were a no-brainer future (e.g. less working hours - see experiments in Kellogs) but the world spinned to a different direction."

You are more efficient when you work less (obviously, because you have an internal deadline that says you want to finish before your time is up), it is just that the culture surrounding software engineering is biaised towards long hours, half in which you are not really working or working with a terrible productivity, or worse, be in endless meetings. It also pleases management to work more hours, because you "work harder" :-).
WestJet fly from Glasgow to Toronto, with a stopover in Halifax, with a 737-700 as of last year. Unlike those examples, this has no true business class seating at all.
Can we get a decent JIT or VM for bash lang, maybe it will help get rid of that systemd junk shitting all over my init.
If you're doing this then you don't know what you're doing infrastructure wise anyway.
Point is that there are hundreds of millions of us whose numbers are still guessable.
In a previous job I gradually instituted by own work-from-home policy for similar reasons. This situation was more due to negativity breeding itself in the office (which was a result of politics) and less about the politics directly.

When I'm having a rough day, I might be sitting there silently thinking negative thoughts about some situation I just dealt with through the computer. But if someone else exclaims some frustration aloud while I'm also in a bad mood then I'm more likely to join in on the bitch session. Eventually I realized how toxic the environment was, and I started working from home as often as I could get away with. Occasionally I was reprimanded for not showing up enough, but that led to an Office Space-like situation where I would show up just enough to avoid the hassle of "a talk."

My productivity at home was well over double (or in the office it was far below half, depending on how you look at it) and my outlook on life became a lot more healthy.
Chris' site didn't go anywhere, it just changed URLs: http://catseye.tc/
Remote work is going to be the future - aided by VR technology collaboration in teams will become much easier.

I already look forward to living in a little house on cheap ground somewhere in the nowhere and do my fork from there :)
Seriously, videoconfering (hangouts, webex, zoom.us, appear.in, etc...) solves this. As a matter of fact I can get a face to face meeting faster with remote worker than on-site workers.
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I agree. The content is most definitely there and I learned a few things, but the signal-to-noise ratio is a bit high for my tastes. The "like"s and whatnot are distracting, I find.

I would humbly suggest that Julia work on her writing style. She's in a good position to do so: there's stuff to be said and now it's just a question of tweaking the manner in which it's said.

Edit: why the hate? I didn't think I was being a jerk...
To be fair, the reason for a lot of that is his schizophrenia, so cut him a bit of slack.
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This would be OK for "Powerpoint" games. If it is real time, forget about it. Even real time WebGL kind of sucks on most devices, triggering DOM manipations and repaints isn't going to help.
Not all gas generators are peaker plants. Gas is displacing coal for what is often termed "baseload" (though I don't like the framing implied by the term).

The batteries will nibble away at the most expensive peaks first, the plants that run for only very short periods per year.

Meanwhile solar and wind will roll out to displace fossil fuel usage as well. Ideally they'll meet in the middle at some point, but it appears financially viable for this process to start now, and await further drops in pricing to expand later.
What a bullshit. I'd call this Russian way of doing business, where you benefit from unhealthy connections with state. 2500 houses? Go find out how many houses are there in California.
Agreed, maybe he could design it such that those who maintain the longest streaks get bigger and bigger "dividends" from a pool of the accumulated dollars of other users. There may need to be some sort of anti-abuse system put in place for that too though.
I'm okay with your statement, its your right after all, but lets see if you have the same views in 5, 10, 20 years time from now. I wager not, but thats entirely up to you. Responsibility for ones social existence is one thing; calling it 'socialist bullshit' is another thing entirely. There is nothing in this statement of belief, that we are all very dependent on each other, that makes it a socialist ideal. Even the most rabid totalitarian-authoritarian imperialists have to admit, they can't make all the good shit themselves...
My memory of 30 years ago is a bit rusty, but I don't recall an easy way to format an Apple II disk without putting either Apple DOS or Apple ProDOS on the disk. This version is smaller, more widely compatible, and adds several third-party add-on features to ProDOS.

So, it's useful any time you'd format a disk in your Apple II emulator. Now you get more utilities, and you disk works on a wider variety of hardware.
One huge mistake some companies do is treat remote vs on-site workers differently, making on-site people feel bad when they "work from home". If remote is available it should be available to everybody who doesn't need to be physically in the office, otherwise resentment starts to build up.
AFAIK, Sky has rolled out IPv6 to all staff now. Except, well, it's enabled at a cabinet level (AIUI) so everyone served by the same cabinet has IPv6 now.
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I've had the same great, simple experience with Flynn. The terminal commands you give are barely different from Flynn's. And I like Flynn's capabilities better, at least for now. They've already figured out the routing fabric (unlike Docker, per the article) and they have a great redundant DB capability, sorely missing from other PaaSes, even k8s.

I have no doubt that docker will eventually catch up though.
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You're looking for Malbolge: https://esolangs.org/wiki/malbolge
It ain't gonna work if you need people watching the electricity prices and deciding what to do. It need to be devices talking directly to the power grid. And that need standards for things like communication protocols. Does anyone here know how are those coming along?
Well you know, we were talking about Elon Musk after all. So that kinda assumes, that we're not talking about jobs for survival kind of situation. Even if it is the vast majority of population.
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Good. I'm glad to see public pressure and armchair lawyers being properly ignored.
Anyone who seriously works in networking still needs serial ports all pro grade networking gear uses it for console and OOB connectivity to the AUX ports (in ciscos case)
Room temp superconductors will probably also take a while to come down in price enough to make sense and will see some limited deployment for costly applications before that. It's unlikely that we'll go from "no superconductors except in MRTs" to "superconductors as an essential part of the power grid" in a time frame that is measured in years instead of decades.
I think a more apt analogy would be a public book library that gets rebuilt 4 times. On the 4th time though they built it alongside the old building instead of demolishing it.
The future of transportation - grid balancing batteries that have wheels and incidentally take you somewhere you need. ;).
It sounds like you don't believe that there should be classified information. I'm happy to explain why I believe otherwise.
> ll. Posix-mode shells now allow double quotes to quote the history expansion character.

Yikes, finally you can use `echo "Hello World!"`
I really like this one:

jj. New prompt string: PS0. Expanded and displayed by interactive
shells after reading a complete command but before executing it.

I currently use my PS1 for a lot of dirty things that would have their place in such a PS0 :).

Now, I just have to wait until Bash 4.4 lands in Debian…
Tell HN: Using AI to arrange school classrooms and reduce conflicts
Classroom conflicts are so old, I think the system lets it happen at least subconsciously, for emotional reasons and the sake of tradition. Or maybe it's to teach emotional resilience unethically. It will never end if we ask for conscious acts of willpower.

There could be an algorithm which is in charge of classroom configuration, seat order, and analyzing where conflicts may arise according to visual cues or grades information, children interaction and such, and arrange the classrooms as needed. It doesn't mean "put the smart with the smart". The whole point is that the algorithm could be more subtle than what was tried.

It'd also protect sensitive teachers and put them with the right kids. They could still sit with specific friends, just the algorithm would confirm and reorganize. Like a sorting algorithm. They don't have to be watched all the time, it could be like 5% of the time, or the first week, just enough to gather information. Simply changing the line of sight of seats according to affinities (like the Okcupid score) is an obvious straightforward improvement.

Not only there'd be less violence, but there'd be more happiness, more performance, more relaxed teachers, ect... Just from not having it done randomly. I don't believe in the ability of children to form bonds judiciously, especially at classroom-scale. Even if the skill matters, it is up to debate where are the biggest benefits, and whether this is the place to learn it. Within 20 years, depending on the algorithm it might have an effect within society.

The school system is not solving it, so I am posting here to spread the idea a little. All adult conflicts come down from childhood. If you believe in the virtue of randomness, you can just add randomness to the algorithm. You can have as much chaos as you want.

The school system is like throwing a bunch of crabs in a box, and see what happens. It is primitive.
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Doesn't everyone want you to think they're loving it?
LSDJ is fantastic. It really is the software for composing chiptunes. And it's so cheap!

Of course, the hardware will cost you ~$100 (GB, GBC, or GBASP, flashcart, and flasher). So there's that.
I used treason as colloquialism to describe two felony charges under the Espionage Act.

The intent of the Eespionage Act was to protect U.S against traitors inside US.

>I am sorry to say that the gravest threats against our national peace and safety have been uttered within our own borders. There are citizens of the United States, I blush to admit, born under other flags but welcomed under our generous naturalization laws to the full freedom and opportunity of America, who have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life;

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29556
So the simpler and better solution for [eg] icons or graphs is for idiots, and the Very Smart Developers are are all off building solutions that might, just might have utterly trivial perfomance gains at the expense of easily writable and modifiable code? Hmm.
As expected, this was not thought up by anyone who actually lived or grew up in a country along the coast of the Mediterranean.

The way the Aegean islands were supposed to be replaced by a plateau is particularly freaky, like hearing a plastic surgeon tell you they plan to replace your head with that of a donkey.

A truly callous, tone-deaf proposal, even given its historical context.