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I've found CLI clients built upon Notmuch are quite nice.

Notmuch is an email indexing system. It provides the "full-text search" part. It has an emacs interface and a CLI interface similar to Mutt. If you prefer, it can also integrate with Mutt.

To get emails into your machine, use offlineimap or mbsync, which integrate with the above.

To send emails, use msmtp, which integrates with the above.

This setup has worked well for me for years. Millions of emails can be indexed and searched offline as fast as GMail's search.
Mutt is for Vim users, Gnus is for Emacs users.

"No gnus is bad news"
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I think there's a tradeoff. Smaller cities should be more affordable, but there is less labor mobility, leading to higher economic risk. If a person finds themselves in even a moderately specialized occupation, and loses their job, there might not be another job for them unless they move to another city.

Thus they either have to deal with periodic un- or under-employment, or manage the risk by building a cash cushion, either of which means a less affluent lifestyle.
I really think a big part of this is the QE/low interest rates the Fed used to dig us out of the hole. Everything seems inflated, from stocks to housing prices, because borrowing is so cheap and you can over-leverage yourself quite easily.

Anecdotal story: I live in a decent but not super nice part of Seattle and we had a house a few blocks away sell for 750k, which seems insane as everything else in the area goes for 400-500k and historically has basically been the ghetto. I could not imagine trying to get into this market, I would be living 6 miles down the road.

Will be interesting to see how prices are impacted once the fed raises rates. Borrowing will be more expensive and should have a depressing effect on home prices.
Because extortion is a separate crime.
It's not a single machine. We have a cluster of machines, each of which have several TB of data. The only parameter I clearly remember changing is recordsize=8k, since postgres works with 8k pages.
The world today looks ominously like it did before World War I
Sort of depends but historically "exits" (whether they are by IPO or acquisition) has kept a steady supply of "well qualified buyers" in the market. But the trend lines are pretty linear.
It is not.

Living standards (GDP pr person) are lower in Europe. And developer wages are certainly a lot lower.
That's an explicit goal of pseudocode. It's implied by the fact that it's used by both laypersons and programmers to explore algorithms for any sub-field of CompSci or application in IT. It's the level of detail and symbols they modify when targeting specific groups.
This isn't remotely true. The NYC metro area is massive, with plenty of family friendly neighborhoods with good commute times to midtown. Plenty of places in northern NJ and elsewhere with good schools.
What it boils down to is that we don't censor things, well the reason we don't censor things is because our government does not feel the need to censor things to continue to function. That's because we have methods of dealing with people saying things that we don't want to become common opinion, i.e. we have very sophisticated propaganda tools to sway public opinion that until now were working pretty well. So we don't have to censor. Regimes where they don't have those type of tools have to censor, otherwise they lose power and legitimacy and things become chaotic. You can't control people.

To a Western secularist who basically has a covenant with the State called the Constitution, so it's a religious sort of deal. When the reason is not religious as to why states do this, they don't do it because they are bad or evil people. They do it because they feel that they have no choice and because that's how things in their country with their people.

For the Western States which have destabilized and destroyed many States in the Middle East using this sort of rhetoric, of saving them from a government oppressing its people, they don't have a leg to stand upon. They are not good because they are saving people from an evil dictator that does not follow their covenant. They are in fact at times evil and sociopathic in destroying and destabilizing those states that can not run properly without a dictator.
Huge compared to selling phones? No. That's not the case for the App Store or Google Play. Hell even selling physical media can't compete with what Apple makes in hardware. Just look at Sony.
This is so true. People want another Facebook not another Zynga or Groupon.
Apple is a hardware company... why would they want to be in the software business?
There is a real need for a concise notation for collaborative whiteboarding, so I see this as a good start.

I'd even go so far to say that as a notation for interviews, if the candidates were informed ahead of time, then I can see it working out better than the current approach for both candidate and interviewers.

At the very least, you could see whether the candidate could learn a new notation, and that alone is a pretty valuable signal.
Option 1: get a yoga ball

Option 2: get the cheapest adjustable height desk chair you can find (try garage sales, goodwill, ikea). Keep saving for a better chair. Figure out what you like and dislike about the crappy one, then use that to inform your research when purchasing a pricier one.
There you go then. You can raise a family in NYC.
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> economy of scale and all

As charities get larger, they get more effective at receiving donations. There is no market pressure to make them more effective at utilising donations for their presumed purpose, only the extent to which they can leverage those donations to receive even more donations.
It's brilliant. Though this seems like a very "greedy corporation" move nowadays, this was the secret to Nintendo's success eay on. By keeping a tight control over the platform, it guaranteed high quality games and avoided the shoveware of Atari 2600. One could argue Apple emulated this same model 20 years later with the initial tight control over the App Store, to great effect.
> As for writing Go, isn't cross-compilation pretty good?

Go's cross-compilation is near perfection unless you use cgo which needs to use a C compiler to link against native libraries. Then you need all of the normal tools and libraries for cross-compiling C; Go just puts a decent on it.
Lost me at the first paragraph. I know many very competent (even amazing) developers who THINK they're pond scum. Imposter syndrome is very real. On the flip side, the developers who think they know everything and lack the knowledge to know what they don't know are the scariest.
Pretty Much Exactly That.

Of course, you might want to go further, and ask why this hasn't happened. Why wouldn't some state or locality in the US demand that its teacher-training candidates have a BS in, say, nursing (for primary schoolteachers) or engineering (for highschool math and science) plus an appropriate score on an IQ test like the wonderlic (serving as a sanity check on the required credentials)? They would need these before being hired, even if they had a degree in education.

Then, those teachers could demand higher autonomy (and better wages), and school boards would be inclined to go along. Why aren't parents and the school boards they elect willing or able to do this?

One issue is of course that schools of education in the US are not getting the top cohort of high school graduating classes, and they work with what they get. The young woman (and it is almost all young women) gets a degree, a certificate, and gets to be in charge of your kids for six hours a day, even though when she was in your English class in HS she would copy her answers off of the test of your permanently-stoned buddies.

Who wouldn't want watch her like a hawk?

Next...the union. Some teachers can't teach, but they can for damn sure vote, and pay their union dues to the NEA. The NEA isn't actually opposed to education, but anything that diminishes the political clout of its lobby (no matter how justifiable to parents, students, or even its individual members) will be opposed w/ much firmness.

Finally, there are...legal obstacles. Less said about them, the better...but they do exist.
>> Dunno if you've been to Europe
> I live in Europe right now, thank you.

Then I don't know if you've lived in the US. I've lived and worked both places.

As for 81 FR 13917, you're mis-summarizing your source.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/03/15/2016-05...

Indeed, the previous sentence was:

Finally, railroads have achieved an improving safety record
during a period in which the industry largely employed
two-person train crews.

Maybe when Positive Train Control (which you refer to as a Comedy of Errors) is fully in place, you might be right and train crews could be reduced. Until then, you're essentially saying that 1 person crews are enough because Labor Unions. Calculate how much that labor is costing as a percentage of the train revenue and get back to me. I doubt Warren is looking that far past the decimal point.

Basically, you sound anti-labor and anti-regulation. Just say it.

BTW, outside of Spain's Iberian gauge, I'm not aware of any inter-country freight problems.
Interestingly, exactly how it's done in almost every academic paper or article on software I've read outside some really niche ones. Plus most prototypes in industry that were done as UML, Visual Basic, etc. Python got somewhat popular in this niche as it's quite readable & high-level.

The people downvoting these comments don't represent a majority opinion on pseudocode in any way. Quite the opposite.
You should get some of these LeadCheck swabs and test the dust and painted surfaces in your environment: https://www.amazon.com/3M-717834209102DUPE-LeadCheck-Swabs-8... .
Try rotating your screen 90 degrees.
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That was the initial estimate, when the war just started.

I recall members of the Bush admin telling requesting Congress to fund the war to the tune of $50 billion, that the cost to America wasn't going to be more than that and that because Iraq has oil, the rest of the cost will come from Iraqi oil revenue.

Not too long after that, if I recall correctly, they came back for another $75 billion (?) or so. And that was not the last time.
One of the first sentences on Wikipedia about psuedocode:

> The purpose of using pseudocode is that it is easier for people to understand than conventional programming language code, and [...].

So in common usage, "psuedocode" is supposed to be easily understood. I imagine that that isn't one of the goals of this new notation, though. It looks more useful for internal use (e.g., within your team) than external use (e.g., a whiteboard interview), since it's basically unreadable if you haven't seen it before.
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"At the very least, you could see whether the candidate could learn a new notation, and that alone is a pretty valuable signal."

I could see that as a benefit. Much like how they would have to learn unusual requirements or API's on the job then solve problems with them. A notation like this and basic specs might be a useful filter.
I believe there's another option; make the cities more attractive (and affordable) to live in for the middle class. You can see this across European cities, which is explained really well in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSxPzafO_k

It's easy to say and hard to do, but concerns like a good neighborhood or decent commute when looking for living arrangements in the cities is definitely not as common in Europe as it is in the US.
By definition, Trump was the Republican Party's candidate.
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Interesting and provocative. That may be difficult for folks today.

> 1. Many of us lived through the 1960s and 1970s, when the government and scientists claimed we were heading into an ice age. Didn't happen.

I lived through the 60's and 70's and I do not recall ever hearing this. You're going to have to provide examples of this to bring me into this tent.

> 2. Many of us lived through the late 1970s and 1980s when the media and environmentalists claimed that Earth would be a lifeless rock by the end of the century due to deforestation. Didn't happen.

Again, I just don't recall ever hearing this.

I find 'many of us' to be a problematic phrase. You're making a claim beyond your personal experience using this phrase and it sure doesn't apply to me.

It may be your experience, and that's fine. But I'm not giving you a pass on claiming it was anyone's experience beyond your own.

I am interested in where you encountered these perspectives; I am aware I may be retro-fitting my own memories.

[edit: as per usual fixing mobile autocorrect and formating ]
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The good ol' market timing strategy. ;)
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That's true in my area. While there is plenty of construction, the land is too valuable for entry-level homes. If it's zoned for SFHs, the market will tolerate a 3000sqft+ mini-mansion with a high level of finish. If it's zoned for THs, they'll be 4 stories with an elevator. Condo development caters more to rich retirees than young professionals. The underground parking at the nearest high-rise is full of $100 cars.
"I could be wrong about everything I’ve said about climate science and credibility. But would you feel confident betting against me?"

What kind of egomania is that? How is the prevention of a possible global catastrophe a question of "betting against" a cartoonist?

If the scientific consensus is right, we should do everything to avoid the disaster. And if it's not, we've invested in renewables and saved some single-use fossil fuels for a "rainy day". (These are the only fossil deposits for the lifetime of the planet -- does it make sense to spend them all within 200 years?)

There are no downsides to taking action here. But Adams thinks we should first engage in meta-discussion about "persuasion", so it's not time to do anything yet...? Sigh.

Scott Adams likes to describe himself as smart (as he does in the linked post), and I wouldn't argue with that. But his is the kind of non-constructive smartness that works to find flaws in everything and everybody without actually forming a rigorous holistic view of anything. It's an excellent basis for a three-panel daily comic, but not for global policy.
Russia has cut gas supplies the Ukraine multiple times: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia–Ukraine_gas_disputes
I'm a type 1 diabetic. There is a device by Dexcom known as a continuous glucose monitor that reads my blood sugar via interstitial fluids and then transmits the information via Bluetooth.

When I get unexplained low blood sugars in my sleep, which is believed to be the cause of Dead in Bed Syndrome, it sounds an alarm on the iPhone to wake me up before it's too late.

As for going with the iPhone 6

1) my money would still have gone to Apple

2) I didn't think about what a pain it was until after I bought them

Side notes

1) I have contacted Dexcom regarding an app for Android, but it doesn't seem like it will happen anytime soon.

2) I also tried an open source version for Android, but after purchasing 4 phones in a row that it had varying problems with I decided my life was worth more than being able to stay on Android.

[EDIT]

Diabetes is the number 7 leading cause of death in the United States and low blood sugar is the number one reason for ER visits by Type 1 diabetics.
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How can the rest of the world just pick up China's manufacturing capacity in a few months?
Android is an awful offender in terms of allowing every app under the sun to run in the background however. Does stock Nougat have a system app that allows you to white/black-list which apps can/cannot run in the background?

Samsung's SmartManager allows you to do so and it improved my battery life. Not by 100% but having in mind how notoriously bad Android's standby battery life is, even 2 more hours of SOT is a huge win.

What I am trying to say -- and I don't disagree with all your arguments, please have that in mind -- is that Google can step it up a lot more on the front of the housekeeping, yet they don't.

How long is gonna take for all us techies to realize that the non-tech people hate maintaining tech? Why doesn't Android (and iOS) have mechanisms for never allowing the device's cache to exceed a certain amount, for example?

Again, I don't disagree with you: your arguments are fair, but I believe mine are too.

EDIT: One of the things that seriously alienated me from Google's "vanilla" take on Android is them never allowing mobile Chrome to have content blockers. The amount of trash scripts and popups/popdowns out there on the web is astounding. Actions speak louder than words. I guess they don't want their scripts being blocked as well. That, or they are incompetent.
This is similar to Bill Atkinson's postcard app. [1]

[1] http://www.billatkinson.com/Pages/aboutPhotoCard.html
The term "moral high horse" refers to someone who is elevating themselves above you in effort to show/feel superiority. I did not get that tone from the article at all. If anything, it seems you are trying to "pull him down" in effort to invalidate his noble suggestions.
I support more density, but the relationship between density and personal space isn't side-stepped by building up. You're just adding a vertical commute component.

It's better than yards and boulevards, but a building of three-bedroom apartments to the edge of space will have a different human dynamic from one with mostly one-bedrooms.
This kind of pedantry provide no insight: Trump doesn't represent the small government wing of the party that opposed infrastructure spending
The size vs age problem exists in DC as well. And it's exacerbated by the land value - many of the older, smaller homes are torn down to build mansions, even if the original house is perfectly livable. And it's even worse because the older house frequently has "better bones".
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Where laws exist they tend to be worded around debts only. A store is free to demand payment by any means they wish.
Once again, NYT shoving morality down my throat.
Like everything there is a trade-off with autonomy. On the one hand, not having it is dehumanizing and demotivating causing top performers to work sub-optimally. On the other hand it reduces volatility and variation ensuring the worst performers aren't as bad.

The smaller the organization the easier it is to give autonomy because the natural feedback loop is tighter. In massive organizations (like the education system) there are a lot of cracks to fall through.

Personally I can't work without extreme autonomy - luckily I'm a web engineer where this is basically standard. I'm not sure what the right mix is for all businesses, organizations, cultures, countries, etc.
It all depends on what exactly you mean by the word "city". A lot of the US population is in rural areas or small towns. Their idea of a city is definitely going to be very different from the idea of someone who grew up in NYC, Chicago or San Francisco. Even within those metropolitan areas, ideas may differ between those from the suburbs and those from the city proper.

Personally, I think that a metro/subway system is a good marker of whether or not a place is dense enough to be considered a city. By that metric, the US only has a handful of cities: Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland (?!), DC, Los Angeles, Miami, NYC, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and San Juan Puerto Rico (?!).

If you look at a pure density metric of 10k people per square mile at the center of a metro area you end up with a subset: Boston, Chicago, DC, Los Angeles, Miami, NYC, Philadelphia, San Francisco. The City of LA itself has a density of only 8k per square mile but 27 of the surrounding municipalities have a density above the threshold so I included it in the list. Providence, RI happens to also be particularly dense although just below my arbitrary cut-off. There are a few incorporated places throughout the US which are small enough to meet the density threshold but are part of a larger metropolitan area which do not.

Arguments could be made for Atlanta, Baltimore, Cleveland, or San Juan based on the first criterion. Places like Houston, Austin, Seattle, Dallas, Lousiville, Salt Lake City, etc. might be considered by some to be cities. Based on my time there, I would say that Seattle is on the cusp of becoming a city and that this may apply to a lot of other places throughout the US. If the US was a lot less car-centric it might have a lot more cities (based on both criteria).
Do you apply this logic universally or only to people you have prior reason to dislike?

I certainly hope you don't have any dealings with any noxious entities like the US government, or any large multinational firm, so that I can take your advice seriously.
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“The Illusion of Knowledge” is a very interesting post. The comments there are exhibit A of the exact fallacy Scott Adams describes in his article. One side of the debate celebrating as though they were finally proven right over their opponents.
There are a number of ways to automate text messages. That's how a lot of commercial text notifications work.
Instagram is what will take down Snapchat or at least defend Facebook against Snapchat's offensive. Snapchat refuses, for good reason to its product, to enact discoverability which Instagram (thanks to Facebook's expertise) handles perfectly.

Instagram has also added to Facebook's main product through the autoplay videos, a tech that FB engineers could not get to work until the Instagram acquisition.
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