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These are just my opinions. I tend to state them forcefully, but they're not really anything but my idea.

I don't like Ruby because it hits a sour spot for me. It used to be very cutting edge, but then stagnated. It has all the problems of a dynamic language, but nothing to really offset it. Its tooling is fairly good for assembling new projects, but not maintaining them.

I think if I went somewhere today, on the spot.

1. FSharp & C#. The .NET Core stuff is exciting. I view, "enterprisey" is just, "I have libraries for lots of things I don't want to solve like calendaring." So long as I can quickly develop and deploy code, those kind of social things are immaterial. People worry about .NET core performance even as they ship Node code, so I find that concern somewhat manufactured.

2. OCaml, in the same vein as F#, but I think this lacks a lot of ecosystem stuff so I suspect it will always be secondary.

3. Go or Rust. I could just bite the bullet and do it. It's doable, it just requires a lot of thought.
Interesting how the flowchart and the article differ a fair bit.
This list is OK, but I think there's a major omission: be ready to fight. If you are ever probed for weakness, you must make it clear that you will not be easy to victimize. You don't have to win, but you have to fight and make it as difficult as you can. It doesn't matter at all what the fight is over. Someone took a scoop of your mashed potatoes? Fight them. Make them regret it as much as you can.

I feel so sorry for anyone who goes into prison who does not understand this.
So the guy sues them, settles for $20k, sues them again for a different reason, and has the audacity to say he wants to appear on another episode and think there's even a chance of that happening?
didn't find it in the text, but did he mention which dll-injecting program caused it?
I'd love to hear the shark's side of this but I am not surprised to hear someone say that the show doesn't accurately portray the deals. Having participated in televised 'reality shows' (Robotica, Battlebots) it is clearly entertainment value rather than the putative subject matter that the producers are interested in. Mostly its little stuff, like the gift basket from Robotica was said would include "New Balance Running shoes" but instead had some fairly poorly made off brand shoes (the box said "Quolity Shoes" (yes with an 'o' instead of an 'a' in Quality). My wife and I agreed that it felt like the producers were trying to produce a show "experience" with props for the "contestants."

But from the article there must be more since the guy sued and then settled for $20K? What did the contract say? And the licensing stuff is pretty crazy in TV (so many people want to be "on TV" it really is amazing).
The argument in favor of an electron-positron collider is that there is much less "junk" in the detector from the hadron collision. So the trade-off is that you produce a lot fewer Higgs bosons, but, in principle, you are able to measure each Higgs much more precisely. Having a machine at 250 GeV puts us at the sweet spot for producing the Higgs with mass 125 GeV.

There is some discussion in the community about whether it truly is going to advance the field to build such a machine. It's not super clear whether the various proposed 250 GeV machines will improve on what will be done by HL-LHC. From the Chinese point of view, though, it absolutely is the right decision to build this machine on the way to a 100 TeV hadron collider, since they desperately need to build up some local expertise in constructing/operating a large collider.
Because missile guidance technology is a little more sensitive than the iPhone 8's screen dimensions. Because the specifics of the US space surveillance and communications network isn't something you share with anyone but the closest of strategic partners. Should china decide one day to join the club, to participate openly in defense projects and initiatives, then perhaps. When they allow US officers to serve on their ships and in their bases, as Canada/US/Australia/UK officers do in the west. When they allow US warplanes to fly in their airspace. When they allow Canadian ships to ply their waters without escort. Then perhaps. But that won't be for at least another generation or two.
o. There is a new address@hidden family of operators to transform the
value of `parameter'.

Can anyone show an example of that? I'm not sure I understand that feature.
Sure. I know the owner of BT's.
One thing that really annoys me is the fact that drug makers can refund the co-pay to customers. In the auto repair industry, I believe this has a name: insurance fraud.
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Really? They admit that they say they're investing $200k and then don't invest $200k?
And you also learned that the standard deviation on the stanford-binet scale is 15, not 10. :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_classification
Wait, what does communism have to do with this?
Yes, the title is misleading and the author is verbose, but the gist of the story is corroborated :)
So you can offer free internet access at your business in order to attract customers (e.g. Starbucks or McDonalds);

The Court holds, first of all, that making a
Wi-Fi network available to the general public
free of charge in order to draw the attention
of potential customers to the goods and
services of a shop constitutes an ‘information
society service’ under the directive on
[electronic commerce],” the decision reads.

However copyright holders can still obtain an injunction forcing the provider to institute some measure of access control which must collect the identities of end-users to provide a deterrent. TFA does not mention any requirements on retention or access to this tracking data.

"The Court nevertheless underlines that, in
order to ensure that deterrent effect, it is
necessary to require users to reveal their
identity to be prevented from acting
anonymously before obtaining the required
password,” the ruling adds.

So in essence they want to treat open WiFi APs as a type of mini-ISP. I'd say this is extremely problematic.

If you have to disclose your identity in order to use free WiFi it pretty much kills free WiFi. The court seemed to understand that terminating the service was not an appropriate remedy, but then proceeded to shoot it in the back.
Consistent enforcement is key. You can have all the policies and procedures in the world but if not everyone is motivated to follow them all the time, they're pointless. Also required: the ability to stick to the policies and procedures in the face of "Just ignore the rules this one time--we urgently have to ship this month!!" Cave once, and suddenly every month becomes "urgent".
> there is high probability that my code will work correctly right away

I'll bet my Python code has a similar probability of working correctly on the first run, conditioned on the complexity of the task.
One person does not an organisation make. One claimed instance of 'discrimination' - I use quotes on this word as it is often used in circumstances where other terms would be a better fit - does not a policy make. One person who feels violated in some way does not an indictment against a whole organisation justify.

If someone at FSF knowingly and willingly acted in a discriminatory way against someone and said discriminatory behaviour was sufficiently serious that the person being discriminated against can be assumed to feel violated in a real sense, action should be taken against that person at FSF. If FSF as an organisation has a policy promoting such discrimination this policy should be held to the light and discussed in the open so the reasons for that policy and the instigators thereof can be revealed. If the policy turns out violate basic human rights it should be changed or repealed. If FSF refuses to do so... then is the time for actions like this one. Assuming that the claims made in this thread are serious and provable the end result might be the same, or it might not. Maybe FSF would change its ways instead and remove any such policies and/or people from its organisation?

Sending accusatory messages to a mailing list and 'taking your marbles to go home' is not the best way to induce change in society, no matter how aggrieved you feel.
> He was the only employee allowed to work from home, because he was deathly allergic to computers (no joke), and had a special setup at his house where the computer was isolated in one room, monitor pressed up against a window, and only a keyboard and mouse in the room with him.

Story aside, I'm intrigued by this. Was he allergic to PCB dust or something? Or is this some sort of joke or reference wooshing over my head...?
I think we are talking about different things.

Yes, if you build a component based api that supports multiple modals, resuing backdrops, lifecycle hooks, that api would suck and be a real pain to build a service version on top of.

A React component should not be trying to do all that, but merely produce the appropriate HTML for a modal dialog. That produced HTML can equally be used to build one-off "are you sure?" dialogs, a modal service, or what have you.
Lots of times, unforeseen questions come up at meetings, in fact, if they don't; that's a sign the meeting wasn't really productive at all. Google should be on a large screen in the conference room. Or Bing if you're into that. Most meetings I get invited to end up with "action item" which means really, people go back to your desks and Google, research, test, decide, etc. so we can have a followup meeting to decide what we could have decided together in the first meeting if we didn't shut ourselves into a conference room, away from the world on the pretense that the meeting will be 100% productive that way.
You will be downvoted here, but this is US economic imperialism in action.
How about if a bunch of other large countries simply dropped the laws and outright encouraged their population to 'pirate' American media?

If the countries/regions were large enough (like say, the whole EU, or China or Australia or whatever else), that'd really put the US in a bad situation. Either compromise and fix copyright laws, or 'fight back' against countries powerful enough to threaten them in return. How far would anyone go to 'save' the status quo?
I was not making a year-over-year relative statement. 2014 levels also were next to zero. (Every year is next to zero.) I am making a much wider statement.

I asked you to sum up all seed funding in existence: what number did you get? (This is the number that I call next to zero.) It doesn't matter what year you pick.
Read the court notices some time. A few years ago, BofA sent me a notice saying they were settling all kinds of accusations of fraud for some billions of dollars, but noted that the voluntary settlement was in no way an admission of having committed any of the violations enumerated.
Growth is good for amazon.
The chap's lack of experience makes him unqualified to expound in the way that he does. I'm sorry I read the article. I wanted to warn other people away.
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If it's profitable for them, why not.
This guy has it right.

Take the facts as they are, stop pretending that somehow they don't apply. They do apply and we need to deal with it.
Hopefully we just turn earth into a nature preserve.
The article mentions he already settled that for 20k. Now he's suing for damages that the re-runs are causing.
I didn't read the arrows about suicide as a joke. I read it as "if you are not desperate enough to consider suicide, then your situation is not bad enough to warrant faking your death".

Or maybe I'm just reading too much between the lines.
One red flag is this: does a company zealously track every hour of vacation time but not even give you a place to log overtime? These two things should be treated with equal importance because they are fundamentally the same measurement. If they expect you to take precisely 2 weeks of vacation a year then be sure to reward them by doing precisely 8 hours of work each day. If they have leniency in vacation, reward them with some leniency in when you are willing to handle emergency situations.
This seems like a meaningless argument. It's like saying:

"We are all just brains in vats in a giant floating supercomputer storage facility in space hooked up to a networked virtual reality system! Everything we perceive is false since the true reality is brains in vats! You think that's a snake? Nope, just an AI being fed to your vat brain by the supercomputer. There's no such thing as snakes."

There's no way to prove me wrong, but it's not a really useful thought exercise either. How does that help us solve the problems we want to solve?
Well, you really shouldn't measure any kind of human productivity on a daily scale.
Maybe they should fold the R&D department into the marketing department. That's where all the drug company money is spent.
I consider 40-ish to be "normal" but I don't always organize my time that way, it's just some ingrained cultural thing because I'm from the USA.

When I feel like I'm working much less than 40, I check my productivity. If my productivity feels good I stop worrying; if not then I try to work more. (I've been in the game long enough to have a pretty good sense of this.)

When I feel like I'm working much more than 40, I worry about my time-management and try to correct it.

I would find it completely reasonable for someone else to do the same reckoning with 30 instead of 40 hours, as long as they get shit done.

On the occasions when I've found myself stuck in crazy ruts, like six months at 80 hours per week, in hindsight it's always been because I followed some wrong lead -- a workaholic boss, an arbitrary deadline -- that I didn't actually have to follow.
Outside of ideas the GPL license is intended to address, curious what is limiting in the Simplified BSD license.
The US should give him a job hacking China
I think a lot of people have responded with this critique, which you have stated succinctly here. In my defense, I thought the last section of the essay responded to that point, but clearly it did not.

Basically, I think if the fear is not willful competition, then it is the opacity of complexity, which we deal with today. But I might have to address this elsewhere.
That seems pretty obviously correct. If you spend less on marketing then you, of course, also hire fewer marketers, leading to lower salaries and less required office space.
Absolutely right. It's pretty clear that the fines don't prevent misbehavior.
But you need to get agreement to implement/work with these automated fixes, and now you're back to it being a human problem. If you're 3rd engineer from the left proposing this, your human problem is convincing your team lead or management to invest in these tools. If you're team lead, your human problem is convincing the rest of the team the tools' value and getting them to buy-in to using them.
Eh, usually use up of limited resources for irrigation (oil, fossile water), but this could create transforming machines from glass and energy. Well.. if you like sand boarding or dune buggy this thing has a downside..
He hasn't changed, and it's particularly difficult for him to change given his condition. From everything I've came across that he's written over the years, the racist, misogynistic, and generally derogatory stuff he writes seems to come out when he's not lucid and is having an episode. Schizophrenia isn't something you can really change, just at best manage with the help of others, and that, while maybe not totally exculpatory, does at least require us to be more tolerant of him than we would be for somebody who wasn't dealing with schizophrenia.
Actually, based on my experience, what I found most remarkable about writing code in Haskell (which I admit I haven't done much of) is that I'd spend an enormous out of time wrestling with the compiler, but once I finally got all the type errors to clear out, the odds were surprisingly high that the code would "just work", which is not an experience I had with even other compiled languages (Java, C#, etc).

'course, it probably wouldn't work fast, and it was 50/50 whether I'd introduced space leaks, but...
I don't think you're responding to what I actually said. Perhaps it was poorly worded but what I intended to say was twofold: I am a member of the group (the privileged class in america) and that I exhibited prejudice. I made no further claims.
Is not it easier to move abroad? In many countries student loans are included in personal bankruptcy. And you get citizenship with passport after 5 years of residency.
I suppose there's always the argument for survivability. The greater the number of humans and the more distributed we are, the greater chance we (that is, humanity in general) has at surviving.
They probably conveniently forgot that..
I'd say working with JSON in Elm is pleasant and simple, but it does require familiarity with parser combinators.

It's a common challenge for Elm beginners.
Yea, but we were talking specifically about 30 somethings.
I laughed out at this one.
Did you mean Salesforce has personal relationship management tool? I don't think it's a PRM problem.
Interesting addition ${PARAMETER@OPERATOR} parameter expansion. Taken from the new docs, see:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/52z087/bash_44_relea...
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> If you have to disclose your identity in order to use free WiFi it pretty much kills free WiFi.

Don't you already have to do this with most free wifi? A lot seem to offer a free 30 mins but more than that are you have to create an account.
Jungle (Upton Sinclair). I never tire of reading about the immigrant experience in America, especially as a Chicagoan in this case.

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (Doris Kearns Goodwin). Similar time period, but focusing on a vastly different world in America.
Wingtip turbulence, most likely.

In the UK during WWII, it was discovered that you could flip over a V1 flying bomb by putting the wingtip of your plane just under the wingtip of the bomb, at which point its gyro would get confused and it would flip over and spiral into the ground. This was apparently much safer than shooting them because otherwise you'd get caught in the shockwave when they exploded (they were bombs, after all).

Here's a terrible Daily Mail article, but it's got the famous photos of someone actually doing it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1384740/Kate-Middlet...

BTW, wikipedia claims that in at least one case the V1 engine quenched after tipping, at which point it regained controlled flight and came down to a safe landing near Tilburg, where it was captured for examination...
I'll never participate in Shark Tank.. one of two investors I'd even consider taking an investment from on that show, doesn't even appear in the majority of the episodes. That would be Chris Sacca.. I think he's brilliant.
The nit picking I refer to is not about arguing, once a non-standard piece of code is pointed out, the reviewee usually agrees to correct the issue. I refer to the fact that the reviewers will look at the leaves in the tree and not notice the burning inferno and smoke up ahead in the forest...
It helps if you speak spanish.
Like they did with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale
I remember seeing somewhere (can't remember if it was online, or on the show) where the Sharks talked about how a lot more goes into the deal then the little snippet of them talking that is shown on TV. Obviously that makes sense, as the info from the little snippet is often superficial. The exposure for the company presenting their items is probably one of the best parts. I would think if you are set to capitalize on that then you have a good shot of doing decently, even if the Sharks don't back you (although this guy even has problems with that).

Sounds like this guy just struggled with his business and it basically ran into the ground.
I agree with you in a sense. I think that the algorithms as they exist today are not capable of sentience.

I was trying to draw out this thread with the statistical and symbolic implementation piece, but that went on too long as it was.

Then I realized that Searle had made that essential argument so I used him.

And that, everyone felt, missed the point. They are right but it is this insight you present here that motivated that detour.
Don't larger companies in Germany usually do flex-time (Gleitzeit) for non-management employees?

So, my boss can require that I work an extra 10 hours this week, but I need to get it back at some point, right?
Starbucks in Canada: I just accept an agreement and it works. No login needed.
Parsing command line with one C++14 statement
Do you also account for the fact that you are way more likely to be promoted if you work overtime?
Im motivated by my bills.
I have always thought a good book (probably a novelty but whatever) would be how to prepare for prison. For example what sort of physical training + psychological training + diet would be optimal. What sort of defense training would you study. Where would you put some if any remaining assets.

For example before going you might want to gain as much weight as possible (who cares about looking attractive). Generally more weight will increase strength regardless if it is fat (although muscle would be better). Or maybe gaining a lot of weight is a bad idea... don't know but I am curious.
Does it count as irony that the only hope for a sane work week is coding with rules?
A little anecdote: there was a case of O(N^2) in readline with long lines. Essentially a bug in the redisplay logic. It affected Bash, mysql/psql, Python, etc.

After having suffered from this for some years, last year that annoyed me enough to start digging into readline to figure out what was causing it. In the end, that prompted Chet Ramey to come up with a fix which looks like it is now being released!

I promised myself that when this one was fixed, I'd look into why most readline shells can go nuts when you resize them - somehow they don't always discover that the line width has changed.
Cloudflare and rss
OS X has been stuck in 3.2.57 for years due to licensing.

I like being able to SSH into a fresh Linux box and feel at home, but at some point, they'll be so different that I might as well permanently switch to Zsh.

I keep hoping for Apple to adopt Fish, last I heard the guy works there, and it's totally Apple's thing to have its own shell. It would be fun at least.
LOC?
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That caught my eye as well, though my thought was more along the lines that 'during your PhD' could have been left out and the statement would have retained its truth. Probably more due to PhD students generally trending older and the conclusion being more a matter of timing than particular circumstance.

None of which is to disagree with the ideas regarding unionization. I just think it's largely orthogonal.
I mean communist regime, like in Eastern Europe, not the ideology. I understand the difference. The point is, in communist regime, it used to be, if you upset some big shot in the communist party, or were just a troublemaker, it went onto your file, it affected your family, and nothing short of emigration could clean that. In other words, there was a central hierarchy in the society that you had to conform to. So the same advice as in the article applies to any such hierarchical regime that affects your entire life.

While corporations in capitalism are also hierarchical, the risk to ruining your life is much less, because you can always change the corporation and start with a clean slate. Your family is not affected (or only very rarely). Even in hierarchical system of corporation, this gives you freedom that is incomparable to being in prison or under totalitarian government.

It's of course up to you if you choose to exercise that freedom.. It may backfire (with bad bosses), but it may also be worth it (with good bosses) and most importantly, it can be lot more fun.