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Bottled water tastes better than tap water; that's why people buy it. Tap water tastes terrible in most localities. A cheaper alternative is RO water which you can buy from dispensers and fill 3 or 5-gallon bottles with cheaply.

Formula One doesn't require consumers to spend anything directly; all the money appears to be in the advertising. Also, F1 is only the epitome of racing in Europe. In the US, most people don't even know what it is, and NASCAR is the epitome of racing. And there too, most of the money comes from advertising.

I think you need a better example of something that's so entirely unnecessary and horrifically overpriced yet so many consumers have been brainwashed into purchasing. I honestly can't think of anything, not even Apple products (ducks). I mean, there's plenty of examples of stupid, overpriced, trendy products (like Beats headphones, Nike Air shoes, various other fashion trends), but none of them come close to comparing in terms of longevity and market penetration. Most fashion trends only affect younger people anyway (esp. teenagers), and only last for a few years at most, and they aren't so massively overpriced or involve an international cartel and horrible environmental and human rights practices. The scope and scale of the diamond scam is simply unprecedented I think.
Sadly "avoid, avoid, avoid, deflect, and when you to absolutely have to deal with them, just keep it polite and transactional, just-the-facts-ma'am, all about the work and the work only. And count the days until the next job comes along and/or I have enough FU money to take a nice, long vacation" often seems to be if not the best, certainly the simples minimum viable solution.

(Combined with, "And BTW, try not to drink too much.")

Yeah sure, there's also "talk to management about it" (which is in fact the first line of defense). And often enough, it actually does work.

The thing is, often enough the issue isn't the co-worker per se, but denial, myopia and/or a sense of paralysis in the management layers who you'd think would be both (1) able to recognize the problem and (2) eager to help out. So sadly, in not infrequently happens that neither (1) or (2) is in the cards. Typically because they think said employee is a rockstar/10xer, always at his desk, always seems to able to answer loudly and confidently about any subject whether he actually knows what he's talking about or not. You know, valued, irreplaceable character traits like that that many organizations cherish and reward with handsome bonuses and promotions.

And so it goes, on and on and on in this work culture of ours.
Python 3, I hope. Right?
AFAICT it's actually a Cigna bug report yeah? Happy to make sure it gets to the right place if I'm wrong.

(/me doesn't work for nava, does work on healthcare.gov)
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How misleading? "Not commenting" is clearly not a refusal. Not necessarily saying "we will do this", but surely not a refusal
Honestly I hope so. Good riddance. SPARC is strange compared to other RISC architectures. I was never a fan of the register windows (and associated overflows) and the global/out/local/in register types. Reading the ASM was nasty in my experience.
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Quaternions model 3d rotations, and Clifford algebras in general model rotations in arbitrary higher dimensions, but it's definitely non-trivial to go from "complex numbers model 2d" to all of that machinery.

What I mean is that the intuition around complex numbers doesn't extend. Certainly not the "i is the square root of -1"-level understanding of complex numbers.

Clifford algebras are better thought of as structures built over the higher-dimension vectors spaces, with little relationship to algebras/fields. They have much more in common with the matrix representation than the algebraic one. The algebraic perspective only supports complex, quaternion, and octonion numbers before breaking down.
The fact that meditative absorptions are a type of Flow experience (very unique one, see below), doesn't mean that any Flow state is meditation. These games may very well induce a flow state (as Flappy Birds can, if you're good at it), but it doesn't make it meditation.

Here's a quote from Culadasa, a neurophysiologist and an adept meditator:

"What sets both Meditative Joy and flow apart from ordinary Joy is that it is an internally generated state of mind, providing its own satisfaction independently of external rewards.

What sets Meditative Joy apart from other forms of flow is that the flow-inducing activity takes place entirely within the mind itself, and the skill being applied is concentration, rather than concentration arising secondary to the focused application of other skills."

The following handout he wrote about flow, meditation and meditative joy may help appreciate the difference (see page 6 for dicussion on Flow):
http://dharmatreasure.org/wp-content/uploads/Meditation%20an...

PS. I don't mean to say that these games are not useful, in fact knowing the feeling of 'external flow' probably helps in learning meditation. Meditation as a skill, however, has a better 'knowledge transfer' factor, meaning that with time you can learn to sustain concentration while immersed in daily life activities.
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Interesting, but do those holes and such survive the 11,000 years we are talking about here (as opposed to 2,000)? That's so much time it's hard to even imagine. Aside from gradual erosion and settling, wouldn't one major earthquake or flood wipe them out?
For getting deep focus, I've found recently returning to the game Bayonetta 2 has been great. Playing on Infinite difficultly forces me to get wrecked, ask questions, and try again, slowly getting better as I go.
Don't understand is there a way to run Zappa or your website built on Zappa somewhere besides Amazon?
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Public schools in the US aren't (primarily) funded by income taxes. They're primarily funded by local property taxes.
They also allow to spread fake information which we are learning that it can be really, really bad.
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Which is a derivative of "Stop trying to make 'fetch' a thing" from Mean Girls.
I'm the primary contributor to one of the tools you mentioned (claudiajs), and I fully expect them to at some point offer something that replaces it. the september 20th release of API Gateway was a huge step towards simplifying APIG + Lambda integration, and we were able to drop a huge amount of code from Claudia as a result. The Serverless Application Model released a few days ago takes care of coordinated deployment of API Gateway, Lambda and DynamoDB resources through CloudFormation, which I assume is the most common case for people using the Serverless Framework (another tool you mentioned).

I think this is perfectly normal and expected. When the platform is immature, small teams especially with opensource tools can move faster than the platform and plug holes in it, but then the platform can catch up and offer a systematic solution to a wider number of customers.

For us, Claudia was a way to get our primary app running in Lambda faster and easier. If they replace our needs with a systematic tool, I can spend more time maintaining my primary product and not patching up the platform. Although it's fun to do opensource tools and get some community support and feedback, the money comes from other places.

For people building startups to patch up platforms, the situation is obviously completely different.
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>The largest diamond in the world still is natural, isn't it?

It's most definitely a natural diamond, and it's also most definitely undiscovered in some incredibly rich diamond deposit.
For sure it gets a lot worse if you have multiple different groups saying different things and you don't know which are the most important or profitable.
Nevermind, I think we found it. Fixing now.
> There's no useful "done" marker.

Well, maybe when there are no more "TODOs" ;)
Would recommend you check out "The entrepreneurs guide to customer development"!

Customer Development is a process that's really meant to be applied to prospective customers. The whole point is to figure out what problems the market needs, and ultimately what kind of solutions there might actually be a market for.

Instead of building something and then going to people and asking if it's useful, find out what a large segment of the market would find useful first.

Get out of the building and talk to actual people - create simple experiments to help you prove whether a market actually exists. Validate your assumptions before building. Follow the Lean Startup methodology :)
Super interesting perspective here :)
Question - in this no-customer scenario what's the downside of trying to solicit feedback from others while you go along?
I really like Go. It's a good language.
Any links to the timeseries modules mentioned in the post? Have found some npm modules that wrap timeseries around the API, I think, but not any modules that are directly integrating with Redis.
But is this because of the academic jobs crisis? As pretentious and/or divisive as public intellectuals can be, I do ultimately agree that high-level public discourse is good to have, and a liberal arts education is not a bad thing. But I'd much rather have lots of people with a broad education who were also working in sustainable jobs than a large class of highly-educated people with no other options than being a public intellectual. The n+1 class is sustained at the whims of a smaller group of funders and spenders, who can exert as much influence over how they publish as an academic body could. It's cool that lots of people are expressing political views, but I think they'd do so publicly (on blogs and such) even without an academic jobs crisis, and damage to academia can have long-term, less positive effects.
Interesting you mention this, as I've reached a similar (albeit very preliminary) conclusion while researching a medication I've been forced on top by the so-called state govt 'chief health officer'.

It has wrecked my life, and I'm fairly convinced it is causing prolonged ketoacidosis. It's also likely that it's exposing me to greatly increased risk of Parkinson's disease, which killed my grandfather and is currently in the process of killing my uncle.

But enough of that sob story. One of the theorised causes of Parkinson's and diseases in the same class is the endogenous formation of persistent prions. Prions are proteins that are 'defective' and fold abnormally.

Your body will likely destroying/metabolise prions in fairly short order; a good thing because newly synthesised proteins (mostly from amino acid metabolism) 'learn' how to fold themselves from other proteins. If they happen to learn from a "prion", one that's likely avoided being metabolised for an abnormally long time, this behaviour can spread and proteins begin to behave abnormally, in some cases forming plaques on vein and arterial structures in the body.

This is obviously bad. It's arguably worse for someone in ketosis, as their brain is burning proteins for fuel door to depleted glyco-something (sorry, the name escapes me, it's the sugar your brain uses for energy). So now some of these prions migrate to various synapses (presumably the most energy hungry ones) and behind to form plaques on these synaptic structures.

In addition, my recent (totally amateur) theory is that ketosis increases the rate of prion occurrence. In ketosis, you're metabolising unusually high levels of amino acids/proteins. So more risk of a bad or incomplete enzymatic reaction. In many cases this metabolism occurs in red blood cells, where amino acids capture, and are broken apart by, hydrogen atoms (ions?).

So now you're entire system is under more oxidative stress, you're burning proteins and synthesising new ones at a high rate, is difficult to stay hydrated due to all these hydrogen atoms going missing, and one of the byproducts of some AA hydrogenation is ultimately acetone (paint striper). Also the metabolites are highly acidic, which unbalances your plasma pH levels and further interferes with normal metabolic processes. Interestingly is not necessarily unbalanced towards 'acid', as one might expect. The reasons are still unclear to me, but I'm guessing it's something like "homeostasis gone mad".

And acetone is what dogs can be trained to detect: to try and rid your body of the excess acetone, you start respiring (exhaling) acetone, with its trademark "over ripe fruit" smell.
ah, I'm aware of those things and have studied them extensively --

My point is, I think it's harmful to say "hey, you - you're trying to solve a problem in 2d space? Have you considered using complex numbers?" When the correct thing to do is "have you considered using the algebra of N-d spaces?" (that is, Clifford/geometric algebra), and leave all the magical complex numbers out of it.
No need to rehash Cynogen Inc's strategy - they already partnered with Microsoft and bundle Office, MS Camera and default to Bing. Which was well-received by the community known for flashing new ROMs onto their phones /s.

And don't get me started about the OEM amateur hour: they inked a deal with OnePlus and shipped as the out-of-the-box OS for the OPO. A lot of people in India bought the phone - win-win-win, right? Then the strategic geniuses signed another agreement with an Indian phone manufacturer with an exclusivity clause that prevented further OTA updates to the OPO phones already in user's hands on the subcontinent.

Never mind dissing their upstream ("Cyanogen is putting a bullet to Google's head" - Cyanogen Inc CEO)
If culture is too expensive for most, everyone pays a price
Yo dawg, I heard you like Ethernet, so I put an Ethernet frame into your Ethernet frame?

Where is this going? Who is trying to turn LAN into WAN and why?
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> fewer critical vulnerabilities per amount of code written

Because nobody uses node.js in serious infrastructure. Show me a serious ISP whose DHCP server is written in node. Know any whose DNS server is written in node?

Your statement is equivalent to: we should build bridges out of legos and not out of concrete because fewer people have been killed by collapsing lego bridges
some screenshot / demo would be helpful
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In fact I think it's a great area where technology can be used to support homeschooling networks. There are some organized by geographic areas, churches, etc, but what if you live in a cabin on a mountain somewhere? Forming a virtual homeschooling network where one parent teaches math, another teaches writing, etc, could be a wonderful solution.
Nah, this is wrong. Management is a discipline in its own right, and teams function better with management. It's not a slight to say that teams need a lead, either. I'm sure that developers can self-organize and use their personal leadership skills to help guide the team, but that isn't optimal. In my experience (as a manager), here's why:

1. First and foremost, it takes time to lead. If I have a 6-8 person dev team, it's far less efficient to spread out the overhead to all of them rather than concentrating it in one person - the lead/manager/whatever.

2. Related to #1, what we really want is to let our best developers... develop. It's my job to keep them out of useless meetings and bureaucracy, and even the smallest of companies have bureaucracy. I deal with the roadblocks, you write code.

3. Management is a discipline in its own right. I have a technical background, but these days I should not ever be the best developer on the team. I have a different set of skills and my job is to use them to enable good devs.

By that same token, I would not expect any developer on my team to be the best manager. The only time I expect that is if the company thinks the best analyst/dev/whatever is logically who shuold be the manager, which is common, and incorrect. The manager is the best leader - if that's also the best dev, then go for it, but it is not automatic that best individual contributor = manager.

4. I've posted this before, but this bleeds into the idea of the "hands on" engineering manager/director. Terrible idea, for all of the reasons above. Pick one role and go with it - if you want a leader and a coach to develop your talent, then get a manager/director. If you want a senior engineer, hire that instead. Or both. But not the same person in both roles.

None of this is to minimize the ability for developers to lead. There are lots of smart developers out there who also have good leadership skills and have made the transition, but none of them are good manager simply because they were good engineers. Consider the reverse, you'd never assume someone can plug in as an engineer simply because they are a good manager, it's absurd. I think it's inefficient to have someone do both, as management and engineering skillsets don't overlap all that much. You need each other, I promise.
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Well enough constructed to be effective. I've worked at two startups that thought they had to spring for Oracle/ATG to build a world class eCommerce website, and both ended up migrating to and being much more successful with Shopify.
Not all of it... there are still extras that come in the production builds of react compared to other frameworks... I'm not talking about the property checking, etc.
This is very true. I'm going to read the NVC book after reading your comment.

Similarly, I've found that users often express all sorts of suggestions for how to accomplish some need they have. While many of their ideas are (from a UX/design standpoint) horrible, the core need is valid and often highlight something important that has been misunderstood or overlooked by the design.

The hardest people to get "needs" information from are intelligent, computer-literate people, who are often unwilling to admit that they find something counter-intuitive, and often frame their feedback in a way that conceals that fact... But who will end up not using something because of the friction that a suboptimal design causes.

I've also found it helpful to let people draw mocks of their solutions with a sharpie and to also share my own impromptu sharpie mocks with them based on their feedback.

At the very least, this process makes them feel respected and lower their guard which can often help them share information that is helpful in designing a product.

The craziest moments are when it turns out after weeks of trying to understand a user's feedback, that the user simply wanted a report view of some information and was trying to give feedback to make an interaction design turn into a report. This is quite common, especially in a feedback group where the highest status person is the manager who does actually need a report but is offering general feedback on general usability.
We just entered a "post-truth" era, where the public at large cares nothing about truth, or anything requiring an attention span.

Can you qualify what that mean? Are you saying that people are isolating themselves into their own filter bubble?
Not sure how that is relevant...Has anyone proposed removing fake news from the internet entirely?
What did your premiums look like before? In my case I just didn't have insurance because there was no functioning market anywhere that would sell you a family health care plan including childbirth, at any price. Now I get health insurance from my employer which isn't affected by ACA so I don't know what the market looks like.
The point is to talk to people to know whether something you want to build is actually going to be great before you go and build it. Most of the time when people go and build what they think is "great" they end up realizing that nobody actually cares. It's a sure-fire way to waste a ton of time of money, which for startups, are the two scarcest resources you have.
There is MASSIVE amounts of doubt. We don't know. That's why ITER is being made in the first place. And the cost and build time has been staggering for a test platform.
I find a couple of the comments to that article posits something interesting - at least to think about:

This site, according to the article, was built by carving these stones, erecting them, then covering them up - the repeating the process on top of the covering, ultimately leading to this "hill". The carvings are of "dangerous creatures". At the bottom of the pits, they found limestone floors (which in the article they speculate it might be a large hunter-gather cemetery). So - why all this effort?

In the comments, a couple of people speculate (and that's all it is - pure speculation with no other reasoning) that this site is a large "do not disturb, do not dig here". These speculation go on to suggest that, much like today we are trying to come up with symbols and/or symbology to denote our burying sites of long-lived radioactive waste - that perhaps something of this nature was done by these ancient people.

Again - pure speculation, with no facts or other understanding to back it up - but the idea is interesting: Is it biological in nature? Some kind of ancient foe entombed to keep it from killing these hunters? Maybe an ancient "natural nuclear reactor" site that killed people with radiation? Cthulhu?

Whatever the truth is (and the truth will likely be very mundane) - the above could easily be interesting fodder for a science fiction or fantasy author!
Insert

127.0.0.1 facebook.com
127.0.0.1 login.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com

into your /etc/hosts file.
Why you should be doing DMARC
Interesting, I am wondering whether Apple listened to its customers or not when they firstly built iPod, iPhone and iPad...
Yeah, most projects have a coding standard and you can run indent(1) to enforce it. I don't think it's high on the list of issues with C though.
The best non-geometric interpretation of complex numbers is algebraic closure, IMO. Basically, mathematicians invent new kinds of numbers when they want to do things and have the result of the operation always be a number. Adding and multiplying natural numbers gets you a natural number. Subtraction on integers yields integers. Division for rational numbers. Infinite series for real numbers. And factoring all polynomials is the raison d'etre for complex numbers.
There is a persistent error message on my 2016 profile on healthcare.gov after that button was clicked (despite it also showing it's active on that side of things). My understanding is that the bug is the integration point between the two. From past issues and what I've been told on this one, is that the only way things get fixed and made right is to have healthcare.gov retransmit the correct data/status. Cigna can't fix it on their own from their side. Thanks for the offer to help, didn't expect any action, just a post out of frustration. I'll shoot you and email.
Wondering if decaf would be as useful as caffeinated for this purpose?