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Yes, I think they were definitely incompetent in the AF case. It's fair to question if their incompetence is a result of poor training by AF, but not recognizing a stall very squarely falls into "incompetent" IMO.
> The page you linked to also is a bit ambiguous about whether the BC100 follows those restrictions of the City Ticket or not.

Yes, and unfortunately I don't have a BC100 so I can't say anecdotally if it's true or not.

> If what you say is true, that's pretty awesome.

Since the BahnCard 100 is created for people who are traveling quite frequently, I don't see how it would make any sense unless it also included free local transit. However this is Bahn, so it may well be nonsense!
What does arr[(1,2,3)] have to do with what I asked for? The code that I write for my personal scientific stuff (numerical hydrodynamics) needs loop jamming/fusion and splitting, SIMD without having to use any special notation, and other stuff which is typically provided by compiler LNO. I happen to have interchanged loops in my code, but if I goofed that up, it'd be nice for the compiler to do it for me.

No array slices needed. Plain Fortran 77 notation provides what I need.
The dev had a giveaway of lifetime licenses then changed his mind because of fallen revenue and set those licenses to expire after a year. Nothing was taken from customers who bought the app. I rather did see this happening then service shutting down or implementing a subscription fee instead.

Lifetime license otherwise costs 3$ for up to 5 active devices at the same time, so it's quite cheap. I bought it 4 years ago and used in on about 5 different Android phones, you can remove older unused devices to keep the limit down.

The main difference between this and other solutions or Android Device Manager is functionality to control the device over SMS commands. Because ADM is useless when the device doesn't have internet connectivity. Even when someone takes out your SIM and inserts another, Cerberus notifies you about the new SIM and sends you the number of it, so you can control the device over the new number.
Really difficult to know. Employees are about the most difficult investment there is.
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> So if the cost of a developer who does negative work is so high, how do they get hired? Part of it can be explained by an interview process that needs improvement, but a less talked about part is the temptation to lower hiring standards.

I've seen plenty of people who can reverse binary trees or fizzbang etc who are terrible additions to teams and do "negative work". That's because having a grasp of CS fundamentals and know how to contribute to a team are totally different skills.

The way to overcome this is not smarter and/or more challenging interview questions, but by hiring engineers that come recommended by other engineers. This is by far the greatest indicator of a successful engineer I've ever seen. Nothing comes close to it. As far as I care, if someone I work with and respect recommends someone else that's enough for me to give them a try without even needing to whiteboard.
Not sure! We are using it in (non-academic) CFD work.
Really? I found it quite refreshing. I'm tired of reading articles about people's experiences at so-and-so company for so-and-so years. Anyone working there for 10+ years can write about that.

It's awesome that Neil did something he's proud of and shared it on his personal blog. Good for him.
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Background on this : https://www.nextplatform.com/2015/06/05/an-old-platform-find...
put SQL on the "null" team as well
There is neither professional prestige nor financial benefit associated with trying to bootstrap a new spoken language.
Re: Smalltalk, Alan Kay borrowed nil from Lisp.

Matz (ruby) also borrowed nil from Lisp. (He was also inspired by Smalltalk.)
That doesn't square with Shawn Starr's statement. He worked at Platform Computing before the IBM acquisition. Part of their code was packaged for Linux and relicensed as GPLv2 in partnership with RedHat. All OpenLava work as been based on that GPL'd code and developed in the open.

Unless you're claiming the Platform Computing partnership with RedHat was unauthorized and somehow concluded without management approval it would appear IBM doesn't have a leg to stand on. The history of OpenLAVA used to be available for everyone to see, though thanks to Ilardi's team that is no longer true.
Also..

Nil: Lua

Null: PHP
They didn't impersonate letsencrypt so that doesn't apply.
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I couldn't disagree more strongly. DSLs are at the heart of efficient programming because they encourage separation of concerns; that's why the Unix shell is so powerful, fundamentally it's a collection of different programming languages with well-defined interfaces for communication.

Secondly, personally speaking I've never had much difficulty understanding programming languages I'm unfamiliar with provided their syntax is sufficiently similar to those I use. For example, I've never much worked in Ruby but glancing at Crystal there's nothing really confusing about its syntax. Yes, we see new languages popping up here almost weekly, but we don't see new paradigms: usually most of the stuff here is procedural and on occasion it's functional. Furthermore, having seen the remarkable benefits the introduction of different paradigms has had for the community at large (think about a world without LISP for a moment) I for one believe we should encourage the development of new and strange ideas; most of them will fail, but every so often we might get a new world.
It was my job for a while to work with scientists and their spaghetti Fortran codebases. One esteemed fellow still stuck to the FORTRAN IV of his youth (the original pasta language). It was amazing how much they could do with such old technology. The overriding impression ultimately was: "Never keep intellectual property just in code"
> I can't help but long for a common tongue.

Me too. That's why I'm building – you guessed it – another language ;-)
Why language differ syntactically? I understand different platform, runtime, optimisation needs etc. But why syntax ? C is sufficient for most logical implementations, at most we will need hierarchy of implementations but why parallel indecipherable syntax?
Someone wrote this deleted comment, which I started replying to:

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I'm having trouble envisioning what sort of SAAS startup's only operating cost is the price of their domain.

I understand that "operating costs" (also development costs) are deducted only from net, not gross profit?

In other words, if I buy a nail from a wholesaler for $0.25 and sell it to you for $1.00 I've made gross profit of $0.75 (because I subtract what I bought it for.) I thought my operating expenses weren't involved?

By that metric, if I buy a license to resell a "wholesaler's" ebook (proxy product) or software license for $1 and sell it to you for $5, that implies gross profit of $4 (or 80%).

On the other hand, if i had written the ebook or software myself and it costs me $0 to email it to you / email a license, I would make $5 gross profit ($5 from you plus $0 to generate a license key which I can do for free), yielding 100% gross profit.

Isn't that what these words mean?

btw since the comment had read "I'm having trouble imagining" and then got deleted, perhaps they did imagine some examples - could that poster share?
I understands your point but it's wrong because UNIX is system, not a single component. UNIX was generic name until it trademarked. See books, see complete code: http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl . As you can see, BSD UNIX still contains lot of code from BSD UNIX.
They are both LLVM languages. But I remember reading that Swift was just barely slower because of the reference pointing or something. Obviously I'm not a reliable source for performance metrics.
> C is sufficient for most logical implementations

How do you know this to be true? You don't - it's just an opinion. And that's why we have different syntaxes - because they're driven by different opinions. If you could prove that one syntax was more effective than all the others - for every purpose that people needed - then you could ask why everyone wasn't doing it that one way.
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"That doesn't square with Shawn Starr's statement."
It actually does, because there is nothing anywhere, that gives enough detail to say anything really.

There are a lot of claims, but not a lot of facts.
Shawn says he was authorized to package something under the GPLv2. The rest is just opinion. For example, you have no idea what any of the IP agreements involved said.

Seriously.
IBM is generally too meticulous, and not stupid enough, to be in a situation where they have no leg to stand on.

They were the ones who went through hundreds of thousands of pages of documents to prove SCO didn't own the copyright.

I think it's a bit naive to, based on a statement from one guy who did some packaging work, that IBM has no leg to stand on.

In fact, a bit of Googling turns up a counterpoint:
http://www.law360.com/articles/850910/ibm-sues-startup-for-a...

Note: IBM claims some IBMers stole code when they left IBM, and then illegally incorporated it later into the open source project. Not that the original code was not GPLv2'd validly.

Note also: David, the person making the claim here, works/worked (it's a bit hard to tell if he is still employed there) for the company IBM is suing.
this has been true in my own testing (with plain SSL/TLS, not even SPDY/HTTP2/QUIC), but you can read another analysis that reaches the same conclusion here: https://thethemefoundry.com/blog/why-we-dont-use-a-cdn-spdy-...

another important reason i personally don't use CDNs is the privacy of my users.
https://thethemefoundry.com/blog/why-we-dont-use-a-cdn-spdy-...
> Speaking from personal experience, if a 3 or 4 year old is displaying symptoms of depression, there's shit happening at home

That isn't always true. Some people are depressed without an external cause.

It's easier if there is an external cause: Fix the cause, fix the depression.
> the American expectation that there has to be a constant stream of smalltalk (or inane blather, from a Finnish POV) is notably missing.

After returning from an international travel experience, coming back to the States this was very noticeable culture difference.
As an inhabitant of Raleigh-Durham, I can testify that its "brain gain" goes beyond the three major universities in the area (NC State, UNC, and Duke). The "Research Triangle Park" which sits snugly on the border between Raleigh and Durham has offices for a great deal of major companies (typically R&D offices), but Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary, and Morrisville proper all have plenty of businesses to offer, too (e.g., Epic Games and SAS in Cary, RedHat in downtown Raleigh, Cognitect (of Clojure and Datomic fame) in Durham, etc.).

The culture in the area is great, and there's no better place for a craft beer enthusiast to live. Couple the excellent job market with the low cost of living, and it's a hell of a nice place to live. Of all the places I've lived, it's by far my favorite.
see also (more points, made it to the front page): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13209474
Depending on the sql variant, null could be more like nil.
> NITI Aayog is a government mouthpiece and not any kind of credible source on this topic.

I don't think you can brush aside broadly like that. You may have your own reasons not to believe them. Can't say can't believe them. Have to wait and watch

> And I'm pretty sure GP said "everything" will be back to normal in 30 days, not just the cash crunch.

I admit my interpretation was different and may be wrong what OP said. Only he can confirm what he meant :-).
I still can't quite come to terms with it, but I've worked with someone who managed to be at both ends of the spectrum at once. Insisted on using some newfangled thing for a major part of the product, and in doing it their way – and then, nobody was allowed to change it.

Mercifully, their work has generated so many bugs that they've been maintaining that product for the last year and haven't had time to touch anything else.
As I understand the current system, medical institutions negotiate different prices with every insurance company. They start high and the size of the insurance company's patient pool helps them get better price per service.

It seems weird, because it is weird. I can not think of another industry that works like this, where prices can be unknown until it goes to billing. Forcing them to fix a price and publish it to a government registry could possibly allow market forces to drive lower prices than even the largest insurance companies can negotiate.
Can we get this changed to a less salacious title? The original thread is called "OpenLava under IBM attack".
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give the guy his credit, though. he has been pretty active and blunt on funding related questions/topics, and to his credit, he started companies and successfully sold them. His sentences, and so on, are sometimes broken, but what he's trying to tell i think is somewhat solid.

See what he's trying to say, not how he's trying to say.

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Natural languages and programming languages are not good analogues. The switching cost to learn a new programming language is trivial compared to that of learning a new spoken tongue.

The proliferation of new languages is a symptom of the growth of programming as an occupation (paid or otherwise). The larger the pool of potential developers, the more it makes sense to develop languages that each excel at a specific niche.

IOW, the number of active users that a language needs to create a self-sustaining community is mostly an absolute threshold. If the pool of developers is small, then a language that appeals to only 1% of developers may not become self-sustaining. If the pool is large, a language that appeals to only 1% of developers may have 100,000 users or more, which is more than enough to create a vibrant ecosystem and adequate tooling to remain relevant.

That doesn't mean that a crunch won't eventually happen (possibly precipitated by a slowing growth rate) where the industry largely settles on a handful of common languages, but I bet that even then the niches will continue to be populated by special-purpose tools, even if their hype has long-since evaporated by then.
What would it need to be a good embedded system or distributed system language?
Here's where IBM sued Teraproc for what they claim is incorporating stolen code into OpenLava;
http://www.law360.com/articles/850910/ibm-sues-startup-for-a...

(AFAICT, they make no claim that openlava was not GPLv2'd validly, only that people later illegally put stolen IBM-owned code into it)
I am confused, i checked most of the HITs and most of them are paying less than 1$ , is that true? will i work for 1 hour for 0.04$?
You're overgeneralizing on how society deals with depression. Just because the OP said it does not mean you and I agree with him/her.
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The line between languages is very blurry. Almost all languages support meta programming techniques like macros, code generation, decorators, annotations, etc. Advanced libraries are essentially new languages themselves, built upon the shoulders of their hosting language.

I think the distinction with human language is that programming languages don't just describe what is happening, they describe what they themselves are doing. The description is "complected" with the action being described, so changes in one may (and often do) affect the other. I often find this philosophically fascinating...
Huh, this is in interesting feature: https://crystal-lang.org/docs/syntax_and_semantics/union_typ...

If you have code paths that set a particular variable to different types, it promotes the type of the variable to a union. I'm not convinced that's a good idea, but then I don't usually use dynamically typed languages; perhaps this is the most natural way to do static typing for people who come from languages like Ruby.
> If you don’t take an amazing VP intro I give you. I’m out.

Um, MY personnel get to choose who comes into the company that they work at. Thanks.

This alone throws huge red flags about this investor.

I may have a million good reasons for rejecting your "stable boy". Number 1 is: he's a "stable boy". I have NEVER seen a "stable boy" cause anything but problems.

A truly amazing VP is probably already employed somewhere else and I have to crack him loose rather than worry about rejecting him.
Artifactory is a great alternative

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Actually many customers let the CA generate the private key and copy it onto their servers, but that's not the point.

It's a trust problem because of the pattern of this particular CA. Whether you call that a security problem or not is semantics. If not for the existing pattern of behavior, people would be a little more willing to look charitably on this as an honest mistake or trying to help, but given the history the assumption of good faith has been considerably weakened.
Crystal use something they call shards. They are extremely basic though and are really waiting for someone to write a more full-featured package manager.
> My favorite developers ever all do badly in your typical stringent Silicon Valley interview...

My life story, sniff.
If it varies from NULL then its not SQL compliant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_compliance
So it sounds like you're somewhat like the folks I'm talking about, even if the other users of this code are not... but have you had a lot of turnover of your coders, like grad students and postdocs that turn over every 2-4 years? Because that was the full nature of my complaint: science not-computer-scientists over several maintainers doing better in Fortran.
jQuery was a poor example in the original comment. You almost 100% have jQuery cached if you're getting it from CDN. But this only works for extremely widely used libraries (jQuery, Bootstrap, etc.). It drives me nuts when I see tiny little libraries in Github bragging about being on a CDN. They just don't have the usage for it to be efficient.
The server is taking a long time to render the response. In the first link, 650ms or so. Open the network tab in your browser developer tools to see the details.
> I'm a man an being recently made more aware of how some females friend perceive some so called "un-harmful cheesy jokes" I often advocate to my boss or college that they shouldn't make such jokes because you can never now how they are perceived.

Dafuq? So nobody is allowed to make jokes?
I've been using and contributing to Crystal since 2015 and i can easily say that it's really great potential. It's simple, fast and productive from day 1.

I wrote a web framework (http://kemalcr.com/) and it's in production without any problem for more than 1 year on a big scale app. You can check my slides for some interesting graphs (http://www.slideshare.net/sdogruyol/kemal-rubyconfbrasil-201...)

Also be sure to check out http://crystalshards.xyz/ to discover Crystal projects(shards).
> What does arr[(1,2,3)] have to do with what I asked for

"has pretty syntax", was just showing what the syntax would look like in Rust.

LLVM autovectorizes, and does many loop optimizations. I suspect LNO exists, but if it doesn't there's nothing preventing it from being added afaict.

Was mostly explaining what the status of this in Rust is. It's not awesome, but not horrible either.
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Unless the are in a junior/graduate position then they are probably not on a fast growth curve.
It looks like the point still stands.

First google result: http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Crystal_Shard
True, I guess open source projects are also not obligated to host on such a provider.

I'm assuming there are more details forthcoming. Have to wait and see.
He said it was a dealbreaker to not take the intro to a recommended VP. He didn't say anything about hiring.
My personal reaction when I first read about the revelations of the scope of private email and chat, "every keystroke, know what you are thinking before you do" collection by spy agencies was: wow. This shitstorm is like Mount Vesuvius and the world's mails are Pompeii.

As everyone knows, Pompeii was a thriving Roman city that was instantly buried under volcanic ash by Mt. Vesuvius, in a very dramatic natural disaster. But it is also a fertile and excellent historical snapshot of people's lives at that time - historians got to see people frozen in time doing their daily activities. Juvenile graffiti in classrooms and on the city walls. Everything. It is sooooo useful historically, despite being a fatal natural disaster.

Likewise I thought that the public revelations of how much state agencies collected from unsuspecting email users was like a natural disaster, that removed people's trust.

But I also thought that it would be sooooo cool if in 2000 years historians got that record. (I think it would be cool for various reasons that I don't want to get into.)

While perhaps it is good if these collections stop, I hope that future generations will have complete access to that data store (for example, that it is not deleted or made inaccessible, like the Library of Alexandria.)

On the much shorter term, one or two decades, though, you are right - it is very unlikely for, say, Google to release the archived emails of someone who died 20 or 30 years ago... And of course it is literally state agencies' job to say they don't even have it. (And they should act like that in every way, it literally shouldn't make any difference to anyone whether they write privately or speak in person, etc. Nobody wants to live in a surveillance state.)

Still, Google does have that information and I am sure their EULA says they can do whatever they want with it (they're still doing the don't be evil thing, right?) so it's just a question of whether they would/should do things like release some part of famous dead people's emails (perhaps to historians, who can be sensitive to their legacies.)
I totally see UB as a blessing in disguise for optimizer.
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