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"This is why Software Engineering as a profession should be regulated and licensed just like other engineering fields"

I may agree, reluctantly, with the first half of this sentence, but I don't agree with the second half.

Whatever happens with code and how we regulate it, we must start with the understanding that it is not like other engineering fields. It's so different that I believe it should be considered a separate field entirely. Actuaries and engineers both need to know a lot of math, but they are not the same fields, and there's no need to regulate them similarly. Engineers don't get to tell actuaries what to do. They shouldn't get to tell software developers what to do either.

One reason I'm so resistant to this is that I was a math major (though I did get an MS in industrial engineering), and I've seen what are essentially mathematical innovations patented under a legal regime that considers mathematics unpatentable to the point where it specifically excludes mathematics from the academic background that qualifies a person to review patents. The quality of patent review reflects the deliberately self-inflicted absence of advanced mathematics degree holders. I guess our best hope is that some of the physics majors will handle this?

This is exactly what you should expect from a cartel: expanding domain, limiting competition.

I am positive that the governing bodies for the "other engineering" fields would be delighted to get control over software, but they shouldn't get it.

This is also why I resist the term "software engineer". Some consider it an appropriation of the title "engineer", and sure, I agree, that's fine (I'm sure they'll get all up in arms about sound engineers in recording studios next, right?). But the appropriation that really concerns me here is the term "software". It ain't yours. Paws off.
I had to learn the hard way that any number the development team gave the marketing group would be used in a way we would come to regret. It's a big part of my cynicism about the industry.

People remember numbers but lose the context. Especially people whose bonuses depend on misunderstanding them.
This sort of seems like a semantics argument. If the effects of "perceived racism" are the same as the effects of real racism, isn't it still a problem? Don't we still need to deal with it?
There already exists C# for Android, it recently became free too when Microsoft bought up Xamarin (the company formerly maintain Mono and the Xamarin Android and iOS wrappers). Microsoft is really pushing .NET Core and the open .NET platform, really an awesome move for developers.

What the parent wanted was official support from Google for Xamarin's Android API wrapper or a complete rewrite of core parts of the OS in .NET instead of Java. It seems fairly unlikely because of all the effort Google has invested in their Java VM and JIT/AOT compilers, but maybe that'll change.
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What's disgusting about it?
One can lie (or at least give a very false impression) by selectively revealing true things.
On the other hand, I think there are some facts on climate change that are hard to deny. We have actual data points of past weather patterns from various weather stations. We have observed various climate effects (glaciers disappearing, ice fields thinning, etc.).

I think it could be said that it is a fact that the Earth has warmed significantly over the past century. I think the evidence suggests that the trendline is atypical of normal patterns. I wouldn't call the trendline abnormality a fact at this point, but I think the evidence is very strong.

If someone had a conclusion was "the Earth is warming but I'm not sure humans are the cause", I would say that's fine. It recognizes the facts and strong trendlines above. It goes against consensus, but if they had some interesting data to go with their doubt, I would hope this analysis would be welcome.

"Global warming is a hoax!" type statements on the other hand tends to be completely dismissive sometimes of even the facts we have.
The take away from all this is you should use Twitter, it worked for President Trump and it could work for you too. :)
My son was based in Mosul. He reported the same tactic. A timer on the rocket; set it and leave. Most detonated against the fence or fell outside the fence. Occasionally one would fall in the compound, once during morning muster. It detonated against the wall of the building in front of everybody. To their surprise not a scratch on anybody.

It erodes your mental health, never knowing when a random explosion might happen. Damaging in its way just like a bullet.
What annoys me is how people treat ideology as the only type of bias. People will accuse a news source of being biased in favor of the left or right and that's it. The reality is that ideology is not even the most interesting or influential type of bias.

For example, news organizations heavily favor sensationalism over stories that are important but boring. News organizations will pander, reporting stories that their audience will enjoy rather than what will educate them. There's a "pre existing narrative" bias, for example Al Gore was a dorky know it all so of course he claimed to invent the internet, regardless of reality.

Maybe the New York Times or CNN slightly favors the right or the left, but give them a story that is sensational and fits the narrative and they won't shut up about it no matter which ideology it harms.
The reality is sometimes the meaning poured behind a symbol gets changed. The SWASTIKA symbol, originally meant "Good Fortune", existed 5000 years before the Nazis used it.
The network effect. Viewers are on Twitter, so no party can succeed without using Twitter for communication.

What's your point, are you saying that new political parties are only allowed to grow if build their own Twitter competitor or have pre-approved ideas?
They need to get this working on the PSVR !
I had missed the point about Nazis already going parading on the street. In that case, indoors methods of dealing with the medals provide a big advantage.

I'd probably have tried to melt them, though.
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interesting - do you pronounce qiuntuple, octuple, etc. the same way?
I don't think anyone is suggesting Google should drop Java, just that C# should be made a first class citizen, side-by-side with Java.
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It'll expand a goo.gl link which would then display the Grabify link. The extension does not support Grabify but will certainly be adding it. I'm not a fan at all of these IP trackers.
I do hope you mean the general "you" in this language, otherwise I will have to ask for clarification if you mean to imply that I am unable to view the world into more than hyposanitization of a singular perspective.

I'm merely confused why white privilege shouldn't be something that is recognized as existing on its own, alongside with class privilege, able-bodied privilege, and all other things that kind of interact and intersect. A black rich woman is in some ways better off than a white poor man, but being black still affects her, bring a woman still affects her. For example, maybe she cannot find a bra that fits her skin color, or she cannot find makeup to fit her skin color but society demands she wear makeup. Similarly, a white deaf man will not have to deal with makeup or bras, but he'll have to deal with the difficulties of being deaf, including the exclusion of the deaf community and the difficulty/on-going discussion in discerning deaf culture as an illness that needs to be cured or a community that should be fostered.
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> we can't read the emails between Assange and Putin.

Perhaps some person or organization that believes in radical transparency will leak them.
This wasn't said lightly.

Steve Jobs revolutionized many industries -- music, mobile, laptops, animation and so on… he wanted to revolutionize education as well. That aim was best served with the original 9" tablet iPad. It stoked the way kids and kids-in-adults would consume content -- learn / read / watch videos before going to bed/sleep or in the classroom.

A slate-like form functionally draws a better parallel to the stone slates we used to have in schools back in the day! iPad Mini on the other hand makes people lose their focus from the original intent of the product i.e. revolution of education. It does fit the palm but doesn't help the cause at all.

iPad proper is easy to tap/touch, carry, flip pages on: more or less like an evolved form of Kindle but a lot more (also the reason why iPad Air still does better than the rest). We already know to whom this product appeals the most. Another reason why Jobs was dead against letting in the porn usecase on the iPad was because he wanted to start with children on board -- again to push for revolutionizing education. Child-safe and all that.

This CEO has failed that goal objectively.

Tim (and his team) don't even know what they want -- their launches signal that they have nothing on their minds except making more money in the name of some marketing revolution. And when something will do well they will surely hide behind that success (like the touchbar MBP) because really deep within they are running blind. Apple will continue to introduce more product lines to open up additional revenue streams and that is all there is to it.

My 2 cents/opinion: Tim Cook, with all due respect, is just a salesman. He thinks revolutionary products are about tech, design, form and function whereas those are merely a few vectors that lead to a revolution but not the revolution itself. I don't think their heart or mind is in the right place.
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> in the past week, as we reel from the 2016 presidential election

Unless of course, you voted for him.

I'm just gonna leave this here, he says it better than I could:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLG9g7BcjKs
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According to click bait media outlets with nothing to base it on.
My original point said nothing on the media's involvement with polling, outside of simply reporting it. As for the pollsters, whether it was ideological bias or simply mistake is also irrelevant to my original point.

My claim is that the "real news" committed the journalistic equivalent of manslaughter. Whether or not they intended to mislead the public doesn't negate the fact that the public was misled. Blaming "fake news" doesn't justify their own role in misleading the public. There is no court of journalism, but the consequences regardless will be that people will trust the traditional news sources less.
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no. his last confirmed public appearance was early october. The checksums of the evidence files don't match post his internet going down. The questions were relayed to him and his lawyer was not present. Do your own research, don't take my word for it, however the "wikileakstaskforce" account was made in October. There is significant skepticism he is alive and the embassy has a bay window which his cat was seen at yesterday. He could simply pull back the curtain or sign a document with the private key to quell skeptics who have become increasingly vocal since his internet was severed over a month ago.

edit: it is nearly 7pm local time in London. Do you not find it odd wikileaks has been rather silent that it's founder has likely completed giving a full days deposition to exonerate him of the crime he is seeking asylum for...in that vbery embassy. A half-decade or greater ordeal. They posted an infographic yesterday, an NEA Bill Clinton leak, and appeal for pardoing Chelsea Manning. No mention that this is day 2 of a major fight for Assange.

edit 2: In fact, according to google[0] there has been NO news about it. There are ~5 stories and none of them relating to todays depo.

[0]https://www.google.com/#q=assange+sweden+interview&tbm=nws&t...
Hm, I'd missed it. Thanks.
Many of the images it showed for what it thought a hexagon is had the wrong number of sides,when I did it.

It also didn't get my hexagon.
There is a non-zero chance you get a substantial appointment.
Do you literally mean hammer and sickle? Or is that a literary device?
The analogy is the least important part of my statement.

I'm not entirely clear on what you're saying. Just to be clarify, suppose that the hack was done either by a script kiddy, or a nation state. Are you saying it doesn't make a difference?
Indeed. Plus I really like that I can install just the C++ tools and not all the .NET languages as well as I don't need or want those! The overall IDE speed is greatly improved as well. Looks like a good update so I am looking forward to the final soon.
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Whoa the receiver pays the fee? Seems like the sender should pay the fee. Same as mailing a check out, the sender should pay for the stamp.
Looking at a generic from Wal-mart: the closest warning is "Take with food or milk if stomach upset occurs."
Great to see some Resharper features making it in, have been waiting for MS to acquire Resharper or Jet brains :P; but why acquire when you can make your own Slack and Resharper :)
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Don't you have to account for their margin of error though?

I don't see them on your link. But usually when a poll says 45% there's a spread in both directions indicating the level uncertainty in their data.

So for example a pollster could find that 45% of people prefer X over Y with a +/-5 point margin of error. Meaning it could be 50% prefer X over Y or 40% given our model

Frequently I've seen something like 2-3% margin of error either way. So with your numbers Florida for example could only be off 1% given the margin of error. I dunno what the margin of error was though.

Remember polls are best guess statistical models. There is a lot of jitter in human modeling. Not least of which is due to the simple fact that people lie. We lie a lot to fit in versus be honest. and we encourage this feeling in people. There's no realistic way I can see for pollsters to account for that
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Great job, Twitter! Now you can go back to promoting the jihadi profiles at the fullest.
"Software has eaten the world, and [Trump's victory] is what's been vomited back up."
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If you use Typescript you can get most of the benefits of React from this little library:
https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder

It doesn't support fine-grained screen update but you get support for Web Components (Polymer) which React doesn't support.

Facebook is being arrogant by not supporting the Web Components W3 standard.
So a person buying a Windows license is indirectly paying for my Linux usage? Interesting!
It asks me to draw a bird, guesses "duck" and says sorry that it can not guess it.
If you want to make C# apps you already have Windows Phone and now Tizen.
Wikileaks staff have generally responded-

"We receive information anonymously, through an anonymous submission platform. We do not need to know the identity of the source, neither do we want to know it.", most recently in the AMA https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5c8u9l/we_are_the_wik...

If correct (and I'm inclined to believe them here as it's a key component of their process), then they would have no knowledge one way or another as to who the true submitter really was. I think Assange is bending the truth by denying the source of the submission—if his staff's statement is true then he would have no way of knowing.

Under Occam's Razor I'd conclude that they got played in the exact way that was intended.
> Why would they make languages other than Java a priority now?

Because mentat asked please.

In other words, it might have less to do with the merit of the language than with the politics of the organization.
This is considered multiple unrelated failures. You usually don't want to (at least to start) design a system to handle this.

handle a machine power down? Yes. Handle a network cable unplug? Yes. Handle 1 machine power down and 1 network cable unplug at the same time? That may be impossible to handle, or it may be an order of magnitude harder to handle.

Get all the single failure issues nailed down. Then perhaps you can do a little work on multiple unrelated failures, but it gets insanely complex fast.
I see a lot of commentary about conversion metrics and how does reach matter etc. So let me share some perspective from point of view of mainstream consumer products advertisers whose individual FB budgets easily push into hundred million dollars plus zone.

The primary business objective of advertising for companies such as mine is to build brand awareness, product benefit awareness and brand identity (eg. are you partial to Coke or Pepsi? Nike or Addidas? etc). Doing this will influence your purchase when you next shop for our categories (eg. your next shopping trip to Walmart or Amazon). Note that we are looking to influence a future shopping trip, any "digital conversion" we may get (eg. click thorough to our product page or an online retailer) really is pure gravy from our point of view.

The primary metrics of interest to us therefore are how many people did our impressions reach (people - not cookies or devices), of the ones we did, how many were in our desired target audience and what was our impression frequency to them (at some point, high frequency becomes excessive). We don't even really look at clicks or conversions unless there is a specific interaction based marketing program.

Hope this helps explain how big advertisers look at media.
It seems very likely to me that the NSA has means to determine the origin of the source that Assange does not have. He's as easy to fool as any other single person who sits in an embassy with a laptop.

So yeah, I would give more credibility to the NSA than to Assange in this case, without any need to accuse him of lying.
Pharmaceutical manufacturers are always required to perform safety studies on their drugs in the US. There's nothing unusual about this.

There's no prescription drug you can take here that is actually tested by the FDA. They work with the manufacturers to ensure the testing is thorough and accurate, but the company's themselves fund and conduct the testing.

http://www.fda.gov/drugs/resourcesforyou/consumers/ucm143534...

"Q: Does FDA test drugs?

A: No. It is the responsibility of the company seeking approval to market a drug to conduct laboratory and animal tests on the safety and effectiveness of a proposed new drug and then to submit that information to FDA for review by CDER physicians, statisticians, chemists, pharmacologists, and other scientist."

http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/ResourcesForYou/SpecialFeatures/ucm...
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No kidding; this was obvious from way back. I'd be very interested to learn the back alley reasons why this was treated as significantly less important a drum to bang in the bulk of the media than the Clinton emails.

It also needs to be brought out in painful clarity: disinformation campaigns are real; they are not always lies; sometimes they are carefully pruning the truth to ensure the chosen outcome comes out to play.

It also needs to be brought out: the cypherpunk model (anonymous hackers sourcing anonymous data) has exploded messily under the presence of coordinated group of actors come out to subvert the hackers.

Makes me wonder how to get involved with public policy, to be honest.
Also, here's Oliver Stone's "Snowden" movie (open with Transmission or similar):

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> Isn't it illegal for Federal employees to attempt in any way to influence an election?

If it is, how does any incumbent (and their cabinet or staff) ever campaign for election to another term?
Thank you for your explanation, it actually brings up several points we didn't know about.

That said, one of the main reasons to use native form controls is accessibility, which is one of our biggest priorities. Maintaining accessibility with non-semantic elements is feasible, but we would end up with bugs fully breaking it, as opposed to a slightly worse UX on some mobile devices.

More importantly, we strongly believe that aiming for the exact same experience across all possible screen sizes is a mistake. If you are trying to write an application that feels natural on both desktops and mobiles, you will need to design two different interfaces, different patterns and probably different amounts of data displayed at once. Your time input example is very relevant: on desktops, you have easy access to a keyboard and a mouse, but sliding UI elements can be a drag. On phones, keyboards are painful to use, but swiping with your finger is extremely natural. Sticking to the native interface (or a customization of the native interface) in both cases will lead to an apparently "inconsistent" behavior, but a user experience that's more enjoyable on both sides.

This is the choice we have made after quite a bit of research, and you can see it for instance on our responsive navigation patterns: we support 3 levels of navigation across the app on desktops, but we limit to 2 on mobiles.
It is impressive how they pull it off with minimal automation. After all, Japanese are known to automate... everything, including processing and packaging of squids and watermelons...
Hah - these days 1.0 is still alpha. Docker was still unstable at v1.6 (but I was able to deploy it at v1.8.2 if I carefully avoided many of its features). MySQL is actually pretty good at 5.5 / 5.6 but earlier versions were a bit of trouble ...
I agree that C# would be a step up, it's not a big enough difference to justify a migration. Also the cross-platform tools aren't good enough yet
Yeah, well, the General Theory of Relativity doesn't predict the motions of galaxies very well (without dark matter), and is not compatible with quantum mechanics. But try getting GPS to work without it.

You think 2016 wasn't hot? (surprise answer, it really freaking was, and it's getting worse: http://www.nasa-usa.de/feature/goddard/2016/climate-trends-c...)
There is a comment on this article by me with a link to a video addressing "white privilege". I'm in class right now so I cannot go at length on its contents. If you want further enlightenment, watch the video.
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When trying to open up a project I'm getting : Error trying to load the project 'Users/user/Projects/Project/ProjectName/ProjectName.csproj': Version string portion was too short or too long

Anyone know why this would be? This runs fine on windows VS
It was clearly intended to weaken Clinton's public standing whether or not she was elected; it's also arguable that it wasn't really designed to be hard to trace, so it may well have been designed to do the same thing to Trump.
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The Visual Studio REPL is much more polished and feature-rich. It has basically the same code editor and intellisense as what you get when working on a C# file. Multi-line history with editing, file-system aware imports, and a lot of other small features all add up to make it possible to do rather complex things in the REPL.
>To be fair, those systems have drastically fewer users connected and it's comparatively easy to scope usage and subsequently resources for them.

Something that one voluntarily chooses do do being hard is not an excuse to do it poorly or in a way that places inappropriate burdens on others.
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