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"the magic is gone"

I first went to work at Apple in January of 1988, at the end of the era that Woz described as making whatever they felt like and throwing it over the fence to ravening crowds who were throwing bales of money over the other direction.

Some time in the first few weeks I was there, my department head convened a staff meeting to explain that they were going to try a new concept that Apple had never tried before. "It's called a 'budget'," she said. "We try to guess ahead of time what our plans are going to actually cost."

At some point someone asked if that meant that regular meetings would no longer be catered. The answer was, "of course not. We have to have some way to get people to show up."
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There needs to be a way to resign I've just had a game where I lost but he just surrounded my base.
I just played with dark green and got chomped by yellow :)
What I don't get, is that for a country that seems to go to absolutes in other areas related to their constitution(e.g 2nd Amendment) where is the NRA equivalent on this one. Something like the National Free Speech Association that advocates for all forms of speech/expression and does not give in on anything that could take from that.
The democratic party can select their candidate any way they like. There's no question about laws there. Just disgruntled members of the party, but what else is new.

As for a foundation receiving money to benefit children and families by providing programs for health and education - shame on you for comparing that to ISIL. That's just low. Its a petty political stunt - "Look at them, helping the poor! They are just like ISIL!" Fooey.

And I'm sure we could go on and on, with soundbyte journalism and smear tactics, like has been the norm for years. Say something often enough and uncritical people will begin to believe it.
That high school drop out story hits close to home.

My advice is to get a low level job at a smaller company that has a department which does interesting or highly technical work. Start talking to their IT/Technical/Whatever staff and let them know you work on x/y/z in your free time.

In my case I did a good deal of free work after hours (100+ hour weeks) before actually moving to a full time programming position (50 hour weeks), but it was worth it considering it completely turned my career prospects around.

Being on the other side of things now, most companies are starving for good people.
Careful, you might get 'Clintons'.
I wrote 1000 words a day for three months and had the rough draft of a novel to show for it. Felt pretty good, it was the combo of "get 1000 on the paper" and "it's ok if it's dog shit" that really helped me get it
Great to see the Investigative, Serious Business arm of Buzzfeed get linked here (I don't visit their site often but know of their growing legit digging). A sensitive, yet salacious type of subject that can use a spotlight in my opinion. Simply put, I hope for improvement.

One of the first films I ever watched with my Dad was "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" partly because it's part of his life history (grew up in Pac Northwest, ran into Ken Kesey a few times) but also because of the amazing life lessons within. The book is even more epic and deep. And, growing up in the US, I know mental health is still not quite up in the priorities as much as, well, look at commercials, there's a glut of dick-pills for sale.

I'm a proponent of using fiction to help re-package heavy, important lessons that journalism brings up. I'd written a short treatment years ago about a serious PhD Psychiatry student discovering most everybody in the "profession" at his Public/Private Treatment Center suffered from their own DSM-diagnosable serious mental illness. From macabre understanding we're all flawed might come enlightenment. Or, you know, just comedy.
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Yes, but this is not the case here. In particular, the author tries to solve the lack of social skills between people sorted in categories (thus by IQ in this case). So it's not that important whether they are 'intelligent' or not (the definition of 'intelligence' is controversial) but their integration into society (very poor so far, as the author shows). That's the problem the article aims to share.
Would this be for running 16 bit programs on 64 bit Windows, or is there another use case I'm not thinking of?
This got into negative territory, but I was being serious.

Define "good." Is quality a thing just defined by code style and properness, or is it defined as fitness for a purpose, connection to human use and usefulness, usability or function, or lack of defects to the end user?

Define "software." Is software just code, or does it also include the experience the code generates for the user? Is software only considered in terms of what developers of software are interested in, or does it include what users need and want?

Of course Linux kernel developers are only interested in narrow definitions of those things, and that's surely part of the problem. It's good to think about what "good software" really means, in my opinion.
Hmmm weird. I think your account was created anyway, can you try to log in?
Right; Mensa demographic is high-IQ non-achievers. Kind of the point - a club where you can feel appreciated even though you don't find that anywhere else.
While I understand it is tricky to properly moderate a forum without stifling dissenting opinions, it isn't impossible. You can censor clear, vulgar, abuse while not censoring challenging opinions.

Trolling, name calling, and abuse are NOT "challenging opinions", and removing them does not stifle discourse. There is no opinion that can't be expressed in a way that doesn't resort to abuse.
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Looking into spideroak, whats the crypto community's idea about it? and Sync ?
Is this any better than scala.js?
I don't disagree it is different. My argument was that a new release of compiler for an obsolete standard doesn't cause the standard not to be obsolete.

I am pretty sure there is theoretical way to run Python 2 code alongside Python 3 code, but they simply decided it's not worth the effort.

Edit: I think historically Python 2/3 divide is more akin to Maclisp/Common Lisp divide, but in the latter, the situation was even more complicated. But I doubt you can just take Maclisp code and run it on Common Lisp implementation, despite that fact that it was meant as a successor.
> They could deprecate the breaking changes - for example Python 2.8 could make print statements needlessly more awkward to write but warn instead of error

Interesting. Now I want to make my own Python 2.8 which is 2.7.latest with the "-3" command line argument hardcoded to always be set.
Call me crazy but why should the kids that got good results from both adults differentiate between either adult. Obviously the kids that received information that did not pan out from one adult would prefer the adult that gave them information that did. The results seem perfectly obvious to me. The kids are not stupid or am I missing something here?
I actually think this is exactly the point. He is talking about how these people are highly intelligent but not successful because society isolates them and doesn't give them the opportunity and motivation to learn those skills in the appropriate window.

This is kind of the opposite of students that are underperforming that don't get the attention to help them keep up. Instead these are students that can overperform, but don't get the challenges, validation, and motivation - the general positive feedback - that will help them grow and succeed. Instead they are meet with disapproval and neglect since teachers both dislike them asking hard questions (thus challenging their authority among already hard to control kids) and don't have time to give them the attention they need (since they are most focused on the largest median group).
Starting to teach helped me immensely. I've learned a lot about how other people relate to the world. Just having an advanced understanding of something is useless in many situations unless you're able to communicate this understanding to other people so they can share it.
Not the GP, but DeaDBeeF is a really good and extendable (by plugins) audio player. I myself switched from foobar2000 years ago and there isn't much that I miss.

I'm not sure whether there is the pattern matching feature (or a plugin), but I think it may be achieved using the Shellexec plugin and some scripting.
$10 says they've already gotten another one with a gag order
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Cannot confirm that. Google denied warranty for my Nexus 7 because I was in Germany and not in the UK until I got EU customer protection authorities involved.

Note: I bought the Nexus 7 while in Germany through the Google Play Store website.
My dad tried to teach me to count using dimes. I had some kind of learning dissabliity. I just couldn't remember how many dimes he would throw on the table, once he would take them away.

He started to get bored with my lack of progress. He then decided to play Magician. He would take a dime and, (Palm it--without me seeing), act like he's putting a dime into his mouth, and then pull it out his navel.

I was floored. He did it about ten times. My dad was truly amazing. "Dad--can I try it."

I can still picture the look of fear/doom on my dad's face when the dime didn't come out my belly button. I just asked him, "Where's the dime?"

I couldn't go to the bathroom without my parents for the next two days. They finally found the coin.

(I'm not passing this along as any warnings. I think parents are a bit too overprotective today. If I had a child I would defiantly use dice to teach counting. It's just a funny story I just recalled.)
If I was your client I'd be pissed that you decided to rewrite my code into a legacy version of Python. Make no mistake: Python 3 is the future of Python. There will be no version 2.8 and there is no going back to 2.7.

Also, I don't know what you mean by "Amazon only supports 2.7" because boto (the main client for Python) has supported Python 3 for 2 years now. Perhaps you mean Lambda?
> there are some python scripts that will run under both Python 2.7 and Python 3.x but produce different output

OK, so it may well be terrific, but it should really have a different name.
Parent comment is talking about being a paying customer of AdSense and still not getting support. The problem transcends the 'you are the product' and goes to "no, their support is terrible even for their paying customers."
Traditionally this role has been played by the ACLU and by major news organizations.
My father stopped playing chess with me once I began consistently beating him
Timer is so useful for me to check out my fitness level or just set a goal. If I can do a 400m lap under 60 sec that means I am good to go. Two minute plank, good to go. Five minute squat good to go. Apart from that timer is good for pomodoro, meditation, measuring heart beat or anything. I know of time when doctors can grab wrist and tell heart beat with so much accuracy. But today I see it going downhill. I don't need Cloud sync or any gimmick. I am sharp enough to keep data in my mind or if it so useful then I can go back and log it in Excel sheet myself. Putting so much emphasis on automation in a smart watch is a big turn off for me.
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I was one of those "gifted left behind" students. Majority of my family never completed high school and no one in my family went to college. High school was the bare minimum requirement to work at the local furniture factory and that is where you were expected to work after graduation (college was out of scope us simple folks).

My high school barely offered any AP courses, didn't prepare students for the SAT (I didn't know what it was) and despite having nearly a 4.0 GPA (unweighted, since I never took any AP courses) the "best" college I was told I could attend was a local nearby liberal arts school. I had no guidance on where to go to college nor any preparation.

I showed talent at an early age but there were simply no resources for me. I ended up going to a community college, had nearly a 4.0 GPA (taking mostly STEM courses) and a guidance consoler recommended I apply for a prestigious university located in the state. I told her I couldn't do that as I knew I wouldn't be accepted, told her the acceptance rate is too low. She tried to push really hard for me apply and said I would get in. I declined. Instead I went to a much lower ranked university (looking back on it I could have gotten into the initial school) and ended up doing research there. The research led to a publication but for one reason or another my GPA dropped and continue to drop each semester (had A+s, As in some courses, Ds in others). I received help from no one and had no support system.

Ended up transferring to a larger school. Started over there, GPA continued to suffer (was dealing with a lot) and graduated. Despite my low GPA I was accepted to a highly ranked graduate school and was offered a fellowship, teaching assistant ship and research assistantship, but I also received a job offer with a much higher starting salary. My family was in such need at this time I had to accept the job over graduate school.

After working in industry I developed a new interest and decided I wanted to go back into academia. At this moment in my life I'm preparing to make the switch. I enrolled in a well-ranked university taking pre-req courses in the new field and currently pulling off a 4.0 GPA. I plan to apply to graduate school shortly.

Most of my friends had more of a straight path into graduate school.
I tried ContrAlto on Mono on a Mac and it died almost immediately. The author said that there are some pretty serious bugs in the OS X version of Mono’s WinForms support that break it, as well as a Mono bug that mangles keystroke mappings so the shift key doesn't work. He recommended I use Windows - ContrAlto worked without problems so I gave up on using Mono.
Multiple VMs cut into that.
Just refresh the tab
Does anyone has recommendation for terminal friendly version of timer app?
May be that you set too many moves and so were going incredibly slowly. Press Q to clear moves and focus on short and effective routes.
I tried to read it but the random bolding of words was too distracting to me.
Is this the game you played: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAUNT

It's written in OPS5, a rule system built on Lisp, so I imagine it would be straightforward to get it running. Source code: http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/source/haunt.ops5
Probably depends on how you define politicized. Take the example of /r/fatpeoplehate... some people think banning it was simply eliminating trolls and abuse, while some people think it was SJW left-wing censorship.
69% of Mensa members make more than $50,000/year, and 47% of them make more than $75,000/year. I'm sure they have some non-achieving members but it doesn't look like their main demographic.
Do you have a source of that? Or are those only the cases you heard about?
Yes, I agree the service was terrible, but if you can afford a $750 phone, you can afford to buy another one, and if you can't then you shouldn't have purchased a $750 phone. I buy my tech (esp. phones) cheap and hold onto it for years.
Reddit's version of "free speech" works fine for me. I almost never see the kind of hateful speech it's allegedly full of, and if I do it's voted down to -20 or something. It seems to me to be preferable to, say, the Guardian comments section which is full of people being rude to each other but heavily moderated for forbidden facts or ideas.
Similar with patagonia - I went to the store to replace my worn out day bag. Worn out mind you - not broken, still functional, just grungy and frayed a bit from years of hard use. The clerk realized I was buying the same bag I was carrying and insisted on processing it as a warranty return. He acknowledged that it was just standard wear and tear, but also that "we have higher standards than that - it should last forever".
To contrast, here's my experience with the Moto G4 I bought from Amazon:

1) Ordered a G4, free 2 day delivery, see that occasionally when it gets hot, it freaks out and registers false taps. RMA'd to amazon. RMA'd to amazon and a replacement arrived in about 2 days.

2) Replacement G4 spontanously reboots every day or two. RMA'd to Amazon and a replacement arrived in about 2 days.

3) New replacement works fine.

I'm honestly a little worried about the fact that the first two devices had defects (they arn't supposed to be refurbished or anything), but given a 1 year warranty and ease of RMA, I'm still a pretty happy customer
Teachers disliked him, because they knew how easily he picked up information.

I'm a teacher, and this is one of the things that frustrates me deeply about our education system. I welcome students like this; they're so much fun to work with. But I usually have to make them feel accepted before I can begin to work with them. I teach in a small alternative high school, and by the time bright students get to me, they're often used to being shut down for picking things up quickly and not having to do homework.

I met a really bright and interesting guy once who told me about his experience in first grade. His teacher gave everyone a math workbook, and he was really excited to be learning math. He finished the workbook in a day or two, and excitedly brought it to his teacher, expecting to be given another workbook. Instead she glared at him and said something along the lines of, "I can't believe you cheated on your math workbook in first grade!" She gave him another copy of the same workbook and told him to do start over, and that she'd be watching him. He thought to himself, "Well that sucked, but she'll watch me do it this time and know I can do it." So he did, but this time she just got mad at him and said something like, "I don't have anything else for you to do, so here's another copy of the workbook. Don't finish this so quickly."

He learned what so many bright kids learn: if you learn things too quickly and speak up, you'll just make the adults around you mad and they'll give you more meaningless work to do. I know there are many teachers who handle bright kids really well, but as a system we fail many kids. These effects last years, and often times decades.
But the answer to that is not to try to suppress the first article, but rather to draw attention to the second.

You're assuming the second exists, but that is outside the control of sites like search engines that are just linking to others' content.

In any case, I don't agree. If the first article is incorrect or misleading, I have no problem with suppressing that article rather than unfairly damaging the person who was described in it. This is not censorship any more than saying you'll arrest someone who shouts "Fire!" in a crowded theatre just to cause a dangerous panic or someone who phones in a false bomb threat just to disrupt a big public event.

Words are powerful things. People who abuse their ability to speak and in doing so cause unjust harm to others need to be treated appropriately by the law. People who propagate or perpetuate those harmful words are contributing to the harm themselves and also need to be treated in some appropriate way by the law.

The point is that France should not be able to censor information outside its own borders.

We agree on the underlying principle here. I wrote a little more about this in my first comment in this HN discussion.
> then we can no longer deny that we live in a corrupt society

I've not heard anyone denying this. The only thing people like to debate is which aspect - as if it were a binary choice.
Armin has backed off of this stance since then. And for good reason.

As someone who works with Python text processing extensively, I can tell you that the Python 2.7 text model is broken and dangerous, due to the silent bytes-unicode coercion and misguided use of ascii instead of UTF-8 as the default text encoding. Many people don't realize this and will argue that it's not broken, because they have never fed non-ascii text through their app to watch it blow up! And once they realize that they have a problem, they then have to deal with a rat's nest of silent bytes-unicode coercions happening implicitly all over their app, sometimes impossible to deal with due to library code outside their control.

There is a good discussion to be had on whether a language should prioritize bytes or unicode strings as the main data type, but there is no excuse for the "ticking timebomb" string data type design that pre-3 Python has with strings and the default encoding.

For this reason alone I'm very happy that 2.7 is starting to lose its grip. Its continued support is a problem, and I have no love for people who are trying to hold on to it.

There are many other features in 3 that I can no longer live without - most of them now available through backports modules - but types and asyncio can't be easily backported either, and people are starting to use them extensively.
Dell makes it easy to tell the phone/chat support person that you know what you're doing but it doesn't matter how technical you are. A Dell contracted tech will come to your house and replace the parts right in front of you within a few business days. A non technical person just has to spend more time going through the troubleshooting checklist.
Very neat. Similar to the iOS game series Galcon, which ate up many hours of my time.
I know at least one of these people (IQ 155).

Here is the fundamental problem she has: lower IQ people will deny the obvious even in front of their eyes.

The combined delusion of all these people literally build our world that for her appears like a cheap stupid fairy tale (specially IQ 110-120 people that try to trick lower IQ people for money (advertisement etc)).

She is surgeon and only deals with children: it keeps a lot of the low IQ people at bay. When she is not fixing children, she is riding horses. Much else is just fake to protect her from low IQ people.

These 2 poor souls physically segregated themselves from low IQ people, she did the same... to a less extreme level (accepted to pretend/lie when needed).

If she had seen a big warning sign saying "high IQ hurts", she would probably have had found help and more people to soften the terrible loneliness she experiences.
Wow, that's beautiful.
Actually, there's also the EU-wide DIRECTIVE 1999/44/EC that provides similar protections.
But that isn't the function of marketing at all. Marketing, in the minds of the marketers, is about making you believe that there is no alternative but theirs.
> No pitches, no ted-lets save the world speaks. Just problems and people who are looking for problems to solve.

What ideas have you come up with to efficiently match up the problems with the solvers? Seems like pitches would still be involved somehow.
Mine does too, I'm on the phone with Verizon ordering a replacement. My problem, the audio just went out all of a sudden with a pop when I was on a call. Now none of the audio works. I started with Support on Google, they were good, then I transferred to Verizon, they were good too.
Those data points don't matter.

A customer service organization that only wastes the time and money of some of its customers, with no escalation path to get a proper resolution, is still horrible. It doesn't matter that it worked for you.
It's those submissions that are now flagged [politics].
Not a lot more to say. Was it skin Ph? Some kind of acid sweat? He apparently didn't sweat a lot or anything. He didn't work in a manual labor job that exposed him to anything - he was a publisher (Garden Way magazine).

The works of the watch would corrode green and that was it.