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Design may unfortunately be one of the human endeavors ill-suited for the bazaar, while programming happens to occupy the completely opposite end of the spectrum.

An API is almost as binding as a law of nature. People will grumble, and maybe write adaptors, pile on abstractions, possibly even send you pull requests. But to change an API against the owners' will requires a bold and binary decision to fork with all it entails.

It also doesn't matter. There's only one limitation programmers are often exposed to: that of the choice of language/framework/platform... And witness how much flack a perfectly innocent language* like JS gets.

Within their implementation, programmers have free reign (within reason, don't get your hopes up, tab-indenting freaks)

For design, it starts out with a somewhat arbitrary definition of what is meant by a "style guide". Methods to validate implementations are tacked-on (if existing). A fully-formed style guide (...doesn't exist, but...) would reduce those implementing it to mere tools, while any style guide that allows creativity will inevitably lead to design-by-committee-that-never-meets. At a company, this tension is resolved by iteration, team-work and constant communication, allowing people to form a group identity. But that requires some sort of authority, a hiring/education process that creates a group with some basic, shared understanding/ideology/vocabulary and lots of FaceTime.

*applying the insanity defense
Very clever thinking with the flying harness, but unless somebody has practice doing it, there's no way my sister in medicine or my sister in biology will let me do that.

We actually have an unweighting device for another relative, which looks much like the picture. The one we have isn't suited for much beyond small physical therapy movements.

To speak clinically for a moment, the user experience should:

1. Convey the visual and emotional thrill of riding at high speeds through interesting terrain or cityscape.

2. Provide the most impressive initial experience, even if that reduces long-term playability, as it is not likely to see much continuous usage.

3. Be as easy and stationary as possible. The user is physically capable, but nine tenths of a century is well past the MTBF for standard issue human joints.
If you put an boulder in front of a blind wanderer traveling in a straight line, they'll bump into it and stop. If they're wandering in a plane, however, they might wander past it.

You can install a line of boulders instead. But if it's a blind drifter drifting through a 3D volume, they might drift past the string of boulders.

For every increase in the number of dimensions N the wanderer can move through, an obstacle must block that many more pathways, in order to remain an obstacle.

Complex genomes, having high-dimensionality phase spaces, present fewer systematic barriers to genetic drift, allowing populations to spread out through more of the phase space, which in turn ratchets up the probability some mutation would emerge that increases fitness.
This is why I still choose to go with Mac OS X, even if their most recent hardware is very, very expensive.

I don't have time to tinker with compiling kernels, configuring X11, figuring out which photo management software to use, setting up reliable backups, getting my Bluetooth headset to work, and, yes, getting the machine to suspend when I close the lid and wake up when I open it.

These are basics that will just work with OS X, very, very, reliably.

That said, if anyone can point me to a Linux distro (Debian/Ubuntu preferred) and hardware that actually work reliably together, please do.
Then you'll be glad to know that's what he's doing with Hyperloop - he has just released the idea as a paper, but he's not directly involved in its development, which is being done by independent companies.
That already works! :) I wrote some MySQL examples in bcc that use the MySQL USDT probe points. Eg:

https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/examples/tracing/...
https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/examples/tracing/...

There's also a tool in /tools.

I'll whip up some PostgreSQL examples too (unless someone else beats me to it).
Hahaha, I was thinking specifically of the labor civic that you can adopt as a nation.
> Like-minded people. Living in a region where people are genuinely interested in and passionate about the same things that you are is invaluable.

I was just talking about San Francisco. You can meet like minded people all up and down the peninsula, and in the East bay these days.

> Beautiful environment. This is subjective, but I love the rolling hills, the bay, and the weather. I love how there are bike lanes all over the place, and how nature is just a couple hours drive away.

Yet again, you don't get much of this in San Francisco. You could live in Marin County and get much better environment for a less expensive cost of living.

> The food.

I know I mentioned the food as a plus, but there's just one thing. Restaurants run on tiny margins these days, so if you're shelling out 10k a month for rent, a lot of restaurants start doing the same things. Sort of like how if you need a big budget for a movie, a studio would rather prefer you make a superhero movie sequel.

> The diversity. I like the mix of cultures and the exposure to things that are new.

There is little of that in the city, sadly enough. The novelty is fairly sanitized. It's like, sure, you go to burning man, but during the day you still work at the same kind of white collar job everybody else does
Actually, even if it's a license violation only copyright owner (so wordpress contributors) can enforce it.
Trump might be good for America, in the same way Brexit might prove to be good for Britain. These events pull the mist away, and show that something is fundamentally broken.

Democracy is not supposed to be the rule of the mob. There are supposed to be safeguards, constitutions and general education that mean the mess of voting still leads the country in a forward, progressive direction. Each generation better than the last etc.

Both Trump and Brexit show that somewhere along the line that process has failed. And its their opponents that are to blame - they made too many assumptions, capitalised on the wrong emotions for their personal gain etc.

Bringing it all crashing to the ground in a mix of bad hair and racism gives an opportunity, after the dust settles, to rebuild better than before.

Assuming we survive the global recession to follow shortly of course.
No I totally use it for tiling as well; I just meant that the "too much chrome" complaint about gnome3 can be overcome.

And while not as good as real tiling, keyboard shortcuts to the various snapped positions go a long way for the couple minutes of effort they require to configure in the settings UI.

Edit: e.g. super+arrow keys for various areas, or add in shift. Not a lot of planning required.
I have about 7 years of full time experience on my resume, being in most places a functioning individual contributor. In the startup I have been able to explore other skills such as management and interaction with other parts of the business, all while being highly technical.

In your shoes, I don't know what I would choose, I don't know what to expect from the financial world. Money surely sounds nice.

As a further data point: if the interviews at Google/FB/... were not so crazy, and if I were given some sort of choice on the area to work on at those companies, I would have definitely tried the interview with them as well, but what I liked about these hedge funds is that I was interviewing for a specific role and so the interview process was pretty much focused around that, without anyone asking me to code an rb tree on a whiteboard.
> People in tech want to be in the Bay Area

People tend to confuse San Francisco with the Bay area. Just remember, SF was not a tech hotspot until about 5-6 years ago, all the technology was concentrated in the south bay.

> much less one that would pay comparably.

Well, when you start paying 40k a year post-tax for rent, a lot more salaries start looking comparable.
Take the new job. It's a new field, new challenges, lots to learn.

When you're done there, go to some other industry. Medical devices, alternative energy, aerospace, porn. Live in different regions, different countries.

That's the beauty of software. If you're open to it, you can learn a lot about different parts of the economy.

Or did you specialize in whatever your startup does when you were in school?
Thanks, I did not know about that demo. I want to get the best available, within reason, so I am a bit skeptical of the smartphone + lens setups, but I will keep an open mind. Content is very scarce.
I agree. There has to be an MBA case study in there somewhere. As others have said, they clearly is it as a profit centre (not cost centre).
GPL explicitly cover the library case, a linked library must be relased under GPL too.
You are not drawing any policy conclusions from your statements.

You state that "if you drive a car you are literally contributing to global warming" which implies the policy statement "if it is illegal to drive a car, contribution to global warming decreases" and use this to imply it's not a rational argument to make it illegal to drive cars.

To your great surprise, I will now state that it is actually already illegal to drive cars, and it actually does have the exact effect that you say is not a rational conclusion:

http://www.dmv.org/articles/what-to-do-if-your-car-fails-an-...

Today, today, it is literally illegal to drive a car....which doesn't meet EPA standards! As a direct effect, people do not buy and drive cars which fail emissions standards.

So, yes, the exact policy suggestion that you don't go quite as far as to argue for actually is being enforced and actually demonstrably has the exact effect that you (only imply) doesn't happen.

Since you don't even imply any policy conclusions for the other two points I can't address them, I have no idea why you would mention them.

(If the government made it illegal to collect or pay taxes, obviously its tax base would evaporate overnight, this goes without saying, nobody would illegally pay money to the government out of civic duty despite its now being illegal to do so.)
Definitely a sound argument.

I didn't specialize in school, I like to have a very broad set of CS skills, I found it immensely useful being able to know a bit of everything.

At the same time, in the startup I've been able to specialize in particular aspects of modern cloud infrastructures, and that's what got me in the door with these funds.
The baseband is already at the beck-and-call of your telco provider and has much better access to the hardware than the SIM card.
Does Linux not support palm detection on MBP touchpads, like it does on regular Synaptics touchpads?
Potentially related is the centrifugal effect - the Earth bulges at the equator slightly because of spin. Logically, melted ice would tend to cause water to "rise" more at the equators (further from the ice caps) than near the poles.
Punish/hurt the company with punitive damages, big enough to discourage negligent behavior - 100% on this

Compensate the victims with amount equivalent to their loss(physical) + some decent compensation for emotional losses etc. But that need not be 30X of their actual loss. May be 2x or 3x. The rest of the punitive damages should be awarded to the regulatory body that can improve their oversight, or to a public research body that works on fire safety alarms/products etc for example, or to a public cause/charity that helps fire hazard victims or to a publicly funded affordable fire hazard insurance body etc. I see no need to award all the punitive damages to a single victim. This only encourages the 'sue first and for anything' behavior of the society.
I always think it's funny to see journalists raving over features added to Windows or Macs that have been in Linux for a while. Like PMEM is somehow this brand new thing to operating systems that will "supercharge" servers. Linux had support for persistent memory a year and a half ago...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=PMEM-Lin...

If you google around you'll find PMEM stuff for Linux from 2014. What do they think people have been running their PMEM hardware with this whole time while Microsoft developed this feature for their OS?

I wonder what's next? Zero-overhead filesystem snapshots? A filesystem in user space? The ability to swap USB ports without a two-second delay (hah)?
Interesting. I did not realize that hedge funds would need such advanced tech like that. I have no doubt that they can afford to pay for it.
ther perf gains you're seeing are from architectural and software advancements not pure silicon

you cite nvidia as an example against it but nvidia itself clearly does is not of the same opinion

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/nvidia-vp-claims-tha...

http://www.techdesignforums.com/blog/2015/12/11/iedm-arm-yer...

http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=13298...

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/123529-nvidia-deeply-un...
"for the large majority software development is a by product, not their main business."

And this is why software companies are slowly taking over many other industries. :-)
Instacart’s Unanswered Questions
Elon Musk reveals beautiful solar shingles
"Amazon did not notify customers on Dec 12, 2015, only Jan 21, 2016. But this was all over the media"

But would it have been that difficult to generate a warning email (if not also surface mail to the ship-to address) to every buyer of an affected product after the 12/12 ban, given that they had all needed data immediately handy?
> I've found food in SF to be pretty mediocre.

Yes, I agree, if you stay on the beaten path. Reason is, as I alluded to earlier, is that rents are so high that restauranteurs have to hedge their bets and do whatever is more likely to be successful.

If you open a restaurant in the Fidi or Soma, it'll probably be a trendy fusion place with an Asian twist (southeast asian, lemongrass, et al. seems to be a trend these days) that charges 12 bucks for appetizers.

Venturing out to the Richmond or Sunset, you get great Chinese food, but you have to know where to go. Going to Hunter's Point, you get a couple good soul food restaurants. Go to the Tenderloin, and you get good Vietnamese food.

Where did you go eat in the city, and who took you around?
I remember when this was in the news and had a hard time believing that it wasn't a joke. Even apart from the terrible branding, the idea has several flaws that everyone (except the people behind it) immediately saw.

The second most important flaw is that computers can fool the human visual system into seeing color with only 3 signals, but our noses can distinguish hundreds of individual chemicals.

But even if that was somehow overcome, what is the use case? The company had some demo of a person buying perfume online, sampling each one using a webpage. But if I had a box attached to my computer that could generate the smell of perfume with any accuracy, why would I ever buy perfume again? Just get the box to exude the liquid it was using to make the smell in the first place.
go tell google
Absolutely it's hard to remember keys. Trying to remember hotkeys when I switch between Visual Studio, Android Studio, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe InDesign is actually quite annoying. More so with Photoshop and InDesign.

Anyways it's still nice to have.
Eric Schmidt to John Podesta: DC Lacked Talent in Software Arena for Clinton HQ
I recently read Trust Me, I'm Lying (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13542853-trust-me-i-m-lyi...) and one of the central points of the book is that journalists HAVE to act this way, especially at the moment. If everything is page view driven, the bloggers MUST come up more more and more anger/fear/happiness in their headlines to survive. They also must chase the breaking news, even if it's false. If they don't they will perish.

The same applies all the way up the chain, from infowars to huffpo to the NYT.

The same thing happened before (the yellow press era) and, hopefully, it will run its course but right now, only the maximally sharable posts survive.
This is a good and important point. However is data ransom this kind of duress?

In a sense, paying a ransom is taking the law into your own hands -- rather than say to the FBI, "criminals have asked me for ransom" you are interacting with the criminals directly.

On a literal level you are literally transferring cold hard cash to them.

You make a good argument for why the policy suggestion I made is not a good idea, but I am not entirely convinced by it. As a rule it is not a good idea to engage in vigilante behavior.

Lawmakers and judges would have to use their discretion here and come up with quite nuanced laws.
I bought a Rosewill mechanical keyboard[1] (Cherry MX) about a year ago. People claim it's the best bang for your buck.

A few weeks ago, I spilled tea on it. While it was drying, I switched back to my Logitech K310 washable keyboard[2]. My enjoyment and productivity on the K310 are exactly the same, and I won't be switching back to the mechanical keyboard because it's not waterproof.

YMMV.

1. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UBQZPXK/

2. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008D1JRIO/
Perhaps he should learn to skateboard on a skateboard. These guys may have some great advice to offer: http://www.brailleskateboarding.com/
That's true... I forgot about New Orleans. There are also some other southern cities known for food (Asheville), but they're so small, so once you've hit all the major restaurants, there's nothing else out there.
Google Hangouts works fine. I've had problems with Skype and audio after a distro upgrade on Ubuntu (but an `apt purge` and `apt install` fixed them).

Sleep-on-closing-lid has worked fine for me for many years.

It's funny that, with regards to Just Working after installation, Linux seems to be way ahead of Windows. I installed both of them on my laptop and while on Linux everything worked fine from the start without needing extra setup steps (including the multitouch trackpad; the not-so-standard function keys like keyboard brightness; even the this weird external subwoofer that came with the laptop), on Windows i had to download and install special drivers for all those things, and even for much more basic stuff, like the wireless card (had to dig through old computer stuff to find an ethernet cable to connect to the internet).

Now, i understand why this is the case. Linux distros are designed to be installed by their users, while Windows is designed to come pre-installed on computers. But i still find it curious how Linux is much more non-tech-savvy-friendly in this particular regard.
The point is your phone (if it were secure enough) could treat your SIM card like any other untrusted device accessory, and only let it do stuff it's allowed to do.

[network] <-> [phone] <-> [SIM card]

In theory. Not sure how well practise matches this though.
Sounds like your grandpa is pretty cool dude, sorry to hear hes getting towards the end. I was watching a skateboarding show called King of The Road and the young skaters went to Tony Hawks house and they successfully skated the full loop. When they were done Tony Hawk said, "This was a life's work for me. These guys come here and do it in an afternoon and are just like see ya." Anyways, that doesn't help you with an application, but might be fun to find a skateboarding documentary (Bones Brigade) and some other stuff and go thru the history of skating with him. The improvements and the skill is unbelievable. Good luck, enjoy the time while you got it.

Rodney Mullen From 1984: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfpmO9cPGGY
Vue.js reminds me of Knockout.js. Is there any significant difference between the two?
The whole point of the EU is piece among the European nations. That's hardly a “dangerous idea”.

I don't think peace and competition have to be at odds. We can still have relatively independent states with different ideals and cultures, without having to actually start killing each other by the millions.

And if that's impossible, well, I'll move to the United States, or possibly Mars.
Yes, thank you, my reply was tongue in cheek.

Though some other comments I think mentioned that it probably wouldn't be too dangerous to allow the occasional stroll through the greenery. Doesn't sound too far fetched if you consider I can choose to hang out at the park without a hat in exchange for an extra dose of UV radiation for the day. Not saying UV is on the same level as cosmic radiation, it's just something to think about :)
Depending on the build system you are using, autocomplete and jump to symbol may be something you still have to configure.
> All those cores and RAM become meaningless when I have to do everything in a VM anyway.

Virtualization is a bit less efficient but it certainly does not prevent you from utilizing multiple CPU cores or all your available RAM -- minus the resources consumed by the host OS of course.
> BART gets you into Oakland and Berkeley which are cheaper than SF proper, but it is certainly not as extensive or reliable as NYC's.

Having lived in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and now SF, it really feels like it's not even a comparison. I certainly haven't been to all parts of the east bay, but from what I've seen there a couple of stops in downtown Oakland and Berkeley that have a significant amount of housing near the bart (but worth noting that some of these places have much higher crime rates than a lot of Brooklyn does today). Every further stop in every direction becomes very suburby, with a tiny amount of housing walkable to the bart stop, and the majority of commuters going by car to SF or at least driving to the bart station.

In that regard, it's not too much of a stretch to say that SF has no equivalent of the NYC subway service to Brooklyn and Queens. Bart to Oakland/berkeley is kind of the equivalent of the PATH train to Hoboken & Jersey City, and further areas more like the NJ Transit/LIRR commuter trains from the suburbs.

Given that it seems basically impossible to build significantly more rail lines in the bay area in the next 30+ years, it's such a waste that more effort isn't being spent building up more dense, downtown areas near all the existing bart and caltrain stops. Unfortunately all these areas have absolutely no accountability to SF or improving the bay area in general, and instead put all their effort into maintaining their sleepy suburb feel.
IIRC, Holiday posits that the turn away from yellow journalism was the advent of the subscription model, where papers didn't need to sell each issue. Subscribers then could look at the overall quality of the product rather reacting to the sensational headline du jour.

As an aside, I subscribe to a couple of online news outlets, one of which is mixed subscriber/ad supported. I wish that I, as a subscriber, could see more informational/less sensational headlines as a benefit of being a subscriber.
'If you're reading this, then you'll probably end up in an owner shell at some point' ... Am I that transparent ?
The vertical mouse thing being "ergonomic" is nonsense. There are studies that have shown this. From memory it was generally worse for you to use a vertical mouse in terms of productivity and comfort.

The only thing vertical mice reduce is wrist movement.
Not sure what you mean by "getting all these patterns into Python".

Just because you don't work on projects that can benefit from concurrent IO doesn't mean they don't exist. I work on such a project.
sure but would they be relevant, good features?
Watch his second video, he provides extra explanations including that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDwe2M-LDZQ
* Razer BlackWidow Stealth Gaming keyboards for FPS and MOBA Gaming || http://www.razerzone.com/store/blackwidow-stealth-switch

I love this.

Good marketing video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC93-h3nprs
Except Camus wasn't driving the car when it crashed. His friend Michel Gallimard was.
People have had 50 years to start solving the problem on their own.