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I like seeing local enthusiast pages like this.

It would be nice to see a clear last updated date somewhere since most pages of this kind stop getting updated.

I was able to see from the Github link that it is indeed being updated like your page says, but I'm not sure if everyone would understand the Github interface. Might just feel overwhelmed immediately? I could be wrong though!

Thanks for reminding me that I'd like to do similar info for local areas around me.
We've seen experiments globally where highly planned developments, and even 'projects' fail.

However I am unaware of any experiments, natural or otherwise, with systemic encouragement of desired development goals.

I see no environment in cities, suburbs, or rural areas where there is a strong vision and drive towards building community.
It's not sufficient to just lean heavily on cash. You also need to have a legitimate-looking explanation for where the cash came from if the tax authorities check up on you. Even if you can work anonymously and get paid via anonymously mailed envelopes of cash or Bitcoin, good luck living a normal middle class lifestyle while avoiding income taxes.

Buying a house or renting housing leaves a paper trail. So does renting or buying a car from most places that sell or rent cars. So does paying utility bills. So does paying for prescription drugs, medical services, car insurance, life insurance... So does paying for higher education.

I guess if you had some cash-only tax evading side business you could use cash to buy things like food, clothing, gasoline, and miscellaneous household goods. But you're not going to be able to dodge the taxes on middle class life's major expenses -- at least not without tripping the same mechanisms that catch drug dealers buying cars etc. with cash. I suppose you could live like an off-the-grid survivalist who never interacts with ordinary businesses. That looks like a lot more work than living an ordinary life where you work at jobs that don't involve trusting other criminals, buy things and pay taxes like usual.
Is Oracle paying more for talent than its competitors, namely Google or AWS? Until the answer is "yes" I'm not going to believe their statements about a better cloud.

Otherwise they're competing on niche or price, and that's not going to stop the gorilla.
I'll agree with @Mikestew that this is pretty familiar territory. But it did get me looking to see how well the original Interstate planners did, in terms of leaving unallocated numbers available for future expansion.

Surprise, surprise: regional economies expand at different rates, which forecasters don't always get right. It's not as messy as Social Security numbers or area codes, but there are definite pockets of congestion.

For example, the East-West corridors between I-80 and I-90 have been graced with more highways than expected. We've had to come up with two versions apiece of I-84, I-86 and I-88 in different parts of the country, along with one I-82. By contrast, there's been no East-West build-out whatsoever between I-30 and I-40.

More details are here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Interstate_Highways
You clearly haven't followed this Administration's activities much. Executive overreach is a daily activity the past 8 (actually 16) years.
This is definitely a very soft introduction for beginners to both Python and programming in my opinion. I didn't go past the first two exercise groups.

I would omit the remarks at the beginning about 2 vs. 3 compatibility. Not only is it wrong as an absolute, it doesn't add value to the tutorials. The audience this is appropriate for is unlikely to care or even understand. Simply link directly to the Python 3 version to download.
It's not so much that the CIO/CTO wants the ability to call up a vendor, or have his employees call up a vendor for support. What a CIO/CTO wants is the ability to tell his CEO that "Yeah, we're having a problem with our database, but it's Oracle so we're good. I'm kicking the vendor's ass, but he's going to make things right on our next renewal." It's all about plausible deniability, and goes back to the days of "Nobody got fired for buying IBM."
> This is classic second-system thinking. 'This time we'll do everything right! This time we'll write it without any bugs!'

It's not only about things done wrong but also about X11 not fitting very well into todays hardware environment. Today a lot of the X11 protocol (w/o extensions) is either things done really bad or things simply unused most of the time because today nobody uses bitmap fonts and everybody renders into pixel buffers anyway but it has to be implemented because the protocol demands it. The implementation being old and barely maintainable combined with protocol being horribly outdated seems to be a good reason to start from scratch. Wayland as far a I know is also a much simpler concept.

> What could radically improve a next-generation X replacement would be to use a higher-level language than C, which would remove entire categories of errors as possibilities. I'm thinking either OCaml or Common Lisp could potentially be excellent choices, for very different reasons.

Sure C is bad but I don't think languages focusing heavily on a functional programming style are a good choice for this type of software. You probably also need this low level access C provides at some points. I would tend to Rust here as it was designed to also fulfill such needs.

> But replacing one large, old, battle-tested C project with a large, new, untested C project isn't going to usher in a happy world of simplicity and security.

I don't have any numbers but the security track record of this "old, battle tested code" seems not to be the best.
I didn't mean to necessarily imply that they are. I'm posing the question honestly: What makes you think that they aren't to blame for their own plight? Is it a sense that a minority group is, by definition, incapable of being at fault? Is it not possible that, without making per se value judgments, a culture is fundamentally incompatible with Western society and norms?
http://www.cheatsheet.com/business/high-on-the-hog-the-top-8...

- GM - $3.58 Billion in subsidies

- Ford - $2.52 Billion in subsidies

- Fiat Chrysler Automobiles — $2.06 Billion in subsidies

Took 10 seconds of Googling to find that.

Plus Tesla is actually innovating on a massive scale and pulling the world into a more sustainable, quieter future. I too hate subsidies but as long as the US Governemnt is going to keep up corporate welfare it may as well be towards the actual innovators building a better future than the laggards trying their best to maintain the status quo so they can extract maximum profits.
I tend to use the term to undermine the importance of my own feedback and to encourage action. E.g. when someone's agonizing over a choice: "I'd prefer X, but I think this is a bikeshed issue - just pick something and roll with it."

This tends to include things which boil down to personal preference (coding standard whitespacing arguments, emacs vs vim, etc.), naming things (which can easily be renamed later with refactoring tools in static languages), and other minor self-contained decisions which can be easily changed at a later date.
Suppose I make my first $10M getting lucky in technology, then make my next $1B getting lucky in real estate by leveraging my lottery winnings.

What's the source of my wealth in this case?

(this seems to be a clarifying exaggeration of what is being asked here)
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There's another rule this one doesn't touch. Route numbers that are divisible by 5 are considered major routes, and with a few exceptions go from one geographical extreme to the other -- Interstate 5 goes from Canada to Mexico, Interstate 80 goes from San Francisco to New York.
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See https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/18374#issuecomment.... Open-source Julia builds also need to support non-Intel processors and architectures, and operating systems where MKL isn't available.

If you have a specific operation where MKL is noticeably faster than OpenBLAS, report it. OpenBLAS can always be improved if they have specific workloads to target.
>After 10 days of vacation all I can think about is that I'd love to figure out a way to get 10 more

This is every vacation for me. Scheming ways to never come back.
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That's the Register for you. Having followed their work for well over a decade now, I might suggest there's a certain element of haste in discounting their coverage on the basis of their deliberately irreverent style. It's not that they're not nice to Elon Musk; they're not nice to anyone.
I'm pretty sure, given the opportunity, that I'd love yachting and recreational aerospace.
That may be true, but if you take the set of all people who have worked hard, not all of them will be rich. Being a hard worker is not a requirement to be rich and there are certainly people who are rich not through any hard work of their own (inheritances, for instance). To paint everyone who is poor as likely being lazy is insulting.
Likely because it's presented as a rebuttal to the article, when the article makes no such claim. It's a non-sequitur at best, and possibly a straw-man argument.
The ground below about 6 feet remains at a constant 55 degrees year round. If you make use of that as a heat source/sink, you can cut about 30% off of your HVAC bills. I wonder why more people don't do that, especially with new construction, when it can be installed cheaply.
He's basically talking about the human equivalent of focusing on your engine's efficiency relative to Carnot efficiency instead of focusing on its absolute efficiency.
they may not have been necessary for your projects, but they're absolutely necessary for any real-world production grade apps. Angular is solely targeted in that direction. 90% of the React examples I see when I interview people are handlebars/mustache 2016, and would be better solved with server-side rendering in the first place.
Well if you are asking where did their initial wealth come from, you are correct, it came from oil.

But keep in mind that they have more than doubled their net worth in the past 8 years. And in those 8 years it was a diversified portfolio that more than doubled their wealth, so given that more than half their net worth was accumulated with a diversified company I can see where Forbes is coming from.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/koch-brothers-net-worth_...

For what its worth Bloomberg also lists their industry as diversified.

TL/DR you and Forbes both have a point and the only reasonable thing is to is to take Obi Wan Kenobi's advice and agree that you're both right "from a certain point of view"
The TAO test is NOT basic and an MCSE has no bearing on the knowledge required to pass it.
> It's a real testament to how great the web can be

Doing something in a browser that we could do 30 years ago on a desktop isn't that great a testament.
Parent commenter wrote: "[t]he problem is that the people who enjoy the benefits are not the people bearing the cost... if you want to live on a cul-de-sac in San Ramon... you now need to drive your car to work on an elevated freeway through Oakland."

You wrote: "[i]t's the road users who are enjoying benefits while foisting costs off on the residents whose property they drive past (or whose former property they drive over)."

I'm pretty sure you two agree.
Udacity is great for learning what you need to learn. From what I've heard they do a good job of providing you the tools you need to get started but I don't think any of these online nano-degrees should be considered a means toward a job. So to answer your question "is it worth it?" maybe

I haven't used Udacity personally but I've used Treehouse and Lynda to learn some specific technologies. I used what I learned to take on side projects and those projects have been impressive enough that resulted in getting interviews and eventually a job with a YC company. (I would also note that I have a four year Bachelor of Science in Computer Science).

I've never considered finishing their courses as a certification that would entitle me to a job. So whether it's worth it or not it all depends on what you get out of it. For me, I wanted to do something specific, their courses covered what I needed to learn to do it, so I took them and used what I learned to do what I wanted to do. What I ended up building with my new found knowledge got me the interviews and eventually a job. So you can say it was worth it for me.
now you understand how some of us feel about Java... ironically, JS is just a natural evolution of Java, taken to a logical conclusion, so to speak.
Aline here. Wow, huge thank you for the awesome shout-out!

I am indeed focused on interviewing.io, but I like to think it's a more efficient, productized way of doing what I was doing as a recruiter. You get free interview practice, and if you do well, you start getting invites to technical interviews with great companies, bypassing all the crap you'd normally have to do to get in the door.

https://www.interviewing.io
> are you actually saying that a destructive culture should be dissolved by reeducating? Mao would be so proud off you.

Isn't this the main idea behind modern jails? (Idea, not implementation)
I'm going to repost a comment from citylab page:

This piece is lying or deceptive, depending on your perspective.
The Roman Empire may have built cities on grids, but most major European cities are generally not on grids, at least not in the sense of American cities.
Just have a look at London, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Rome and many more. They are full little side streets that head off in unpredictable directions. They're not full of Cul-de-sacs, though, as most streets are not dead ends.
But, don't pretend that the main alternative to cul-de-sacs is the American grid. Both are awful, compared to Paris! Without being an expert, I would guess that what makes European cities more enjoyable that American ones (they usually are!), is that they have many streets that are for pedestrians only - this makes for a much more enjoyable experience walking the city, and creates lots of wonderful spaces for restaurants and other venues to have outdoor seating.

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I find even having a .org email address to be a pain when stores/customer service/similar ask for it. They're expecting a .com or .co.uk on the end, I find, and I have to clarify what I said was right. Tempted to get a separate "easier" address to forward on :-)
I'm no Luddite but I basically yelled at my business partner the other day when he took his hands off the wheel, eyes off the road, and was punching out an email as if we were on the train.

I've done plenty of computer vision projects and pitched in on some autonomous driving/flying hobby projects- so I'm definitely willing to accept our robot driving overlords, but maybe I know just enough about it to know we're not all the way there yet.

I feel like Tesla is in a bit of a Catch-22 in that to get the system better you want as many people driving with it and feeding you data. At the same time people are people and they will get lulled into a complacent state and begin not paying attention pretty quickly.

That being said, if there was some data that said right now, today, Tesla autopilot is better than the average (or maybe up to the 75th percentile) driver, I'd be okay with people just letting it take the wheel and not screwing things up.

EDIT: Just to be clear, we were in a Tesla w/ autopilot. We weren't just coasting down the highway at rush hour in a regular car.
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I haven't read any of your other comments, but it sort of seems like you're inviting the hostility with this one.
If that's pretty much all there is, you'd be better off saving ~150kb and just using ES6 template strings.
That seems more like a complaint about just unicom. It looks like China has a problem similar to the US when it comes to ISP monopolies, except that theirs are state owned and there was no period of free market competition where people could realize how good it can be.
A wrinkle: Snowden was 18X, so he wasn't doing standard basic training, but accelerated basic/advanced combined. So a shin splint injury that might have been manageable in normal basic training, in 18X...?
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Or dilute shareholders by selling stock.
Don't know him very well, we were only on the same team for a couple months and didn't really keep in touch or anything.
ugh, more ME noise. so ME has a lot of evidence that they are lying through their teeth, if they were so worried why let all the other brands do the hands free thing? http://www.caranddriver.com/features/semi-autonomous-cars-co...

* ME boasting about their tech making hands free possible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCMXXXmxG-I&feature=youtu.be...
The same logic suggests they could grab Snowden off the streets in Moscow.
> But I don't work for a bakery -- I work for a large company with a complex tech stack writing web applications that will have to be maintained by some poor sucker long after I move on.

Or rewritten because the flavor of the month has changed.

>Tools like React/Angular, Webpack, and npm allow me to do that in a way I couldn't as little as 3-4 years ago.

What exactly couldn't you do 3-4 years ago that you can now?
I recently went through Learn Python the Hard Way (which is currently all written for 2.7), then enrolled in a intro python class at the city college that's all python3. The transition was a bit of a struggle; would have preferred to skip LPTHW for something written for py3+.
Lets not act like the other vendors in the database arena are cherubim. MS, IBM, Oracle, NetApp, EMC, all perform audits, and try to squeeze the most out of large enterprises. They see large companies just like casinos; as whales. And part of that is because it's a lot easier to just buy the big packages than try to roll postgres or mysql into a stack built up on other OTS software.

For example, I'd prefer to run Debian instead of RHEL, but since the stack I have to support uses Oracle and Websphere, my hands are tied.
US routes are mirrored -- US 1/2 in the Northeast and US101/(Defunct)80 in California, with US 90 ending in Texas. The 3 digit routes -- except 101, because the Federal Highway System had a lot more exceptions -- tended to be more tenuously associated with their "parent" route.
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In hunter-gatherer times, I would hunt so my family could eat. If I hunt from 9 to 5 and didn't catch anything, I would have to keep hunting, or my family would go hungry. Nature is not a fair employer, it does not give meat to me because I worked 8 hours. I only get the meat if I catch it.

Today, society built many layers on top of nature. Big business bureaucracy guarantees food if you work for 8 hours. But at the edges of society, it is still very rough.

My business isn't going to grow just because I worked 8 hours. It only grows if I solve my customers' problems, regardless of how many hours it takes. I think this applies to the common "rich people" positions as well.
My own experience is that the big risk that I did not account for, as a founder without venture backing, is that you become ramen profitable and just sit there for a decade.

This is hugely destructive for the founder in question. If you don't have vc baking and you don't sell to a big name? Looking for a job after running a business with a gross of a few hundred thousand a year is just not the same as looking for a job after working for one of the big valley companies. I mean I exaggerate and say that employers treat me like I was unemployed, and it is not that bad, but compared to working for large companies with reputations for hiring good people, running an unfunded, ramen profitable company looks pretty bad on your resume.

I would argue that vc mitigates a lot of these risks. First, you have a name, a reputation to put on your reputation. Second, the bit about get big or get dead? In many cases, that is as good for the founder as for the vc. You are way less likely to end up starting your career over when the thing fails, both because of the reputation factor and because either you got big (which is good for the career even if the company gets dead before you can cash out) or you got dead fairly quickly, and have less time to explain away.
Thanks for the comment, I understand why it is not option.By the way I do not understand why I received downvotes.
+1. Success factor, API.ai, Evernote — three logos from my memory
Not a new sentiment, to be sure, but probably the best articulation of it I have seen.
That's a really good point, that I should have been aware of.

The more I reflect, the more I see this as about poor expectation management and messaging from the Angular team than an actual story.
til: people who are not working have a lot of free time

I guess the author has never heard of homelessness. instead of being homeless, or being forced to find work, young people are living with parents longer
Roma Gypsies have been unsuccessfully trying to integrate into Europe since the 15th century. It's funny how the human rights Nazis support them but care less about their helpless and hopeless victims! In Bulgaria, many retired people live daily under the Gypsy terror, and nobody cares! These double standards make me sick! There are rights but rights come with responsibilities! If you reject to accept your civil responsibilities, you waive your rights - it's that simple!
Seems like what you're describing is a planned community or also intentional community. The latter being more of focused on the community part and the former on the planning part. Washington DC is a planned community.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_community
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_purpose-built_national...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intentional_communitie...
> If beating AWS on price is trivial, why is nobody doing that to beat them?

They have a huge suite of offerings, good reputation, huge amount of third party tooling, and the services themselves are somewhat sticky.

By that I mean, I could probably switch over to your cheaper cloud service. It would mean having my engineers go through and build stuff to fill in the gaps or transition away from things that are very AWS specific.

Or I could just pay a bit more money and keep developing features as AWS isn't too expensive and does what I need.
A rare occasion where Betteridge's law[0] apples in a non-cynical way.

.com was part of the zeitgeist of the late 90s and its cultural ties to the web and technology in general haven't faded since.

Even using a .net domain makes you look a little off; I don't see much utility in attempting to use any of the countless TLDs that have proliferated since then.

I get the impression that ICANN is trying to undermine the ubiquity of .com. I think it's a noble goal, but it hasn't been successful so far and I don't see any reason to believe things will change.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
The problem is that the capital cost is very high and since you're not really capturing a cash flow, its hard to finance.
Do not worry about things that you don't control. Our job as innovators is to find opportunities that we believe in and give our best, independent of the outcome. Moreover, Tech giants cannot focus and move as fast as a tiny startup.
I've had a .name email address since the TLD was released. Never had any problems with validators.

'Name' is a surprisingly easy word to mis-hear over the phone if it's not expected, though.
WiReD was located just off of South Park back then.
I tried to read Brave New World. Really pushed myself. Is it me or is BNW just Christian horror?