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I did. It is just raw elitism.

The ironic thing is that in 1997 there were many more, what they consider, "professional" programmers. Today most programmers are targeting the web, and therefore wouldn't gain anything from ultra minimalism.

Frankly arguing for a enviroment so minimalist that it wouldn't contain a web browser is a non-starter for almost all professional programming jobs in 2016. And even for the few non-web development jobs that still exist (e.g. game development), you're still dependant on platform libraries in MacOS/Windows/Linux (e.g. OpenGL).

Ultimately people can continue this course, but the world has already decided their argument is wrong since this environment doesn't actually exist and it has been almost twenty years. I personally don't know a single development job that would work in such a cut down environment.
Well not really. Freedom of speech is meant to protect all views, including those other people might find wrong, abhorrent or against social norms. This can easily be both a 'good' (in the case of say, a pro gays right campaigner in a conservative theocracy) or 'bad' (in the case of a Neo Nazi in Germany) thing.

But your view kind of sums up in a nutshell why freedom of speech is a hard battle. Because it's all too easy to only see 'horrible' people and views benefiting due to them being the type of views people would want to ban if freedom of speech didn't exist.

It's the same kind of problem Tor advocates have when arguing that privacy and anonymity are rights people should have. Because people only see the drugs, crime and illegal porn and think that privacy is only something 'bad' people need.

Either way, both freedom of speech and privacy benefit everywhere, yet get a bad rep due to people only seeing the negatives they allow rather than the people and rights they may save.
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I'd like to think i'm one of those windows devs.

All the servers I work with are linux based, I wouldn't know the first thing about managing a windows system, but i'm significantly more productive in windows than I am on a linux workstation.

I just can't seem to find a stable well-working linux workstation after years of trying. I end up spending more time fixing my display manager or messing with config files broken in an update, or farting around with driver issues and running the multiple screens than I do actually getting shit done.

I'm now using windows 10. It works great. I have my 3 monitors, beefy hardware, and just about everything I use is cross-platform or web based anyway, so it all works great. Throw in git-for-windows so I have a linux-ish environment (at least a handful of the GNU tools and most of bash), and i'm happy as a pig in shit. (Yeah, I do know about the bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows thing, but it's not quite ready for me yet)
I have seen it happen with new macs. Sometimes spotlight indexing is running and it slows down. But it goes away after a day of use for me.
No, I don't think so. We'll inch closer, but I doubt we're anywhere near AGI on the path of software and algorithms running on traditional networked computing architectures.

That isn't to say the resources don't exist to create AGI. It's possible they were available a long time ago. If you were to ask some omnipotent future superintelligence for a way humans could have bootstrapped AGI in the year 2005 using the available technology of the day, it could probably come up with an answer. Maybe even further back than that, or maybe even present day wouldn't suffice—who knows.

Trying to emulate biological architectures on silicon can be grossly inefficient, and may actually be harder from a design perspective. It is the attempt to formalize and adapt something created by an optimization process that spanned millions of years, a process that had zero regard for how easy its creation would be to understand or otherwise reverse engineer.

At the same time, algorithms vastly more efficient than the human brain's remain a possibility. They need not include the large amounts of evolutionary baggage that humans have.

Approaching AGI as a raw optimization problem may yield better results. However, not formally specifying or understanding the underlying mechanisms is a massive safety issue in the long run.

By the same token, ditching silicon entirely may be a vastly quicker path. Throwing ethics out the window and experimenting with large quantities of lab-grown neural tissue might be one way. Creating a synthetic biological computing substrate another. It's not hard to imagine something like copying human neural tissue's design, but using materials capable of latencies an order of magnitude lower, or significantly higher degrees of interconnectivity.

Looking at the problem from the perspective of strictly space, it's funny to think that we're unable to recreate the functionality of some tissue contained within a space that's less than one cubic foot-even though we have seemingly endless acres of computing power to do it with—that's excluding the brains of the thousands of scientists and engineers working on AI. Even if you stacked up just the microprocessors in question, they would occupy a cubic volume far, far greater than a single human brain—each containing billions of transistors, and each operating at latencies far lower than the brain. Despite all this, the human brain requires far lower amounts of energy.

The reason we don't have AGI yet is that it simply takes a lot of time and effort to invent, regardless if it's ultimately possible with today's technology. Of course, as other commenters have suggested, ruling out the possibility that the human brain somehow has seemingly magical quantum properties that render its recreation an impossibility (on silicon at least) may be unwise.
Eric S Raymond, author of some important and influential software related books (Cathedral and Bazaar, for example), but also a mysogynistic, homophobic, conspiracy theorist

It's hard to pick one example because there are so many, but read what he says about the Catholic abuse scandal:
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=26

There are so many errors scattered through that piece that there's no point rebutting them. It's best to just flag anything (not related to computing) about ESR.
I'm really surprised by how shocked people seem to be at Google's response here... Did they really think the company with near 0 non-automated support for their non-paying customers (and even those paying the Android development fee) would be a bastion of user response?

Google is like those companies that only respond to tweets these days, except they're so large your tweet has to go viral and spawn at least a few articles in major publications to even get a semblance of a response (maybe)

And to add, Android development issues are the same. No one meaningfully responds to tickets for years until one day you see a footnote about a fix in a new release, if you're fortunate.
The argument for inflation is simple. You are giving goods and services to people, who then also self consume their own labour. So they get paid twice in real terms.

If they worked for a living they would get paid once, and their output would return to the social pool.

Since the social pool ends up less than the counterfactual, and there is more money chasing it you have inflation. Those working get fed up with that and agitate to have the scheme ended,

And that is why income guarantee schemes fail. They never appreciate that money and stuff are two totally separate circuits that only have an inductive connection.
Do they ever use anything besides air freight? The fact that slower methods get a lot of business suggests a lot of people are thinking about cost over time.
I mentioned this in another post, but the issue with updates isn't that they're immediate, it's they they're forced.

My wife needs her system to be stable during certain points in the yearly business calendar, and an unavoidable, potentially-breaking update is a serious concern.

But why Windows 10 rather than Windows 8? Both will receive security updates for a long time, and (AFAIK) Windows 8 doesn't have the issue of unavoidable pushed updates.

The only real downside I know of to Windows 8 is its bad UI, but I'm told there are 3rd-party shell replacements which approximate the Windows 7 interface.
As far as I can make out from looking at the EULA:

https://www.unrealengine.com/eula

the Unreal Engine is not Open Source. Not least because you can't share the source code without restriction.

As I understand it, the difference between free and Open Source is a difference in philosophy rather than a difference in licensing. For Free Software people the importance lies in freedom, but for Open Source people the importance is that it's a better way to develop software.

For example, a Free Software person would always use free software even if was inferior to a proprietary alternative, because they wouldn't want to give up their freedoms. An Open Source person would use whichever is superior, regardless of licensing. I'm in both camps but I tend to use the term Open Source because Free is confusing because it means both 'no charge' and 'liberty'.
It happens surprisingly often. This incident is from last month: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/08/cops-gagged...
Does it always have to be about the speed? How about native USB 3.1 support (which would make a lot of sense since they went all in with USB Type-C)? New 200 series chipset (Union Point) anyone? This is not an exhaustive list of new features, just the ones that I care about.
Most of you are well paid software developers? Or have been living under your means and saving some money? If you are willing to make improvements and "get your hands dirty" buying a foreclosed home (probably not too many left) or other homes on a short-sale is the way to go. I think as long as you can pay as close to or fair market value for a home (less would be ideal obviously but nobody is going to give away a home for cheap unless it's a bank that's just wanting to cut their losses) you'll be ok AND within your budget. Don't go bankrupt buying too much home to find ou there's a huge problem with it or you bought in an area where people won't want to rent it.
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I actually liked this concept very much! I bookmarked it.

Would be nice to have an overview of what tables there is and their relations.
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> I don't see how it cannot
> be termed a success

Has it actually cut corruption?

If not, the last few days of pounding payment in Jodhpur trying to find working ATMs, and being stuck for 30m in queues when they finally got their money delivered all seems in vain. That, and, you know, the 100 deaths.
> My workstation is my IDE. Or as close to it as I can make it.

This is a point I have been making too: everyone has a "DE". Whether you integrate it yourself by tiling a text editor and a shell or two, or if emacs or Xcode does it for you doesn't matter.

What matters is that when you are in your development environment - it's free of distractions and promotes your workflow.

When I launch an IDE, the IDE is now my window manager. I never need to leave it. Just like your OS is your development environment, the equivalent is that my IDE is my "OS" for doing work. And by the analogy that you don't want unrelated crap in your OS - an IDE is often created only as a tool for professional development.

So that's why I don't care if my OS looks cluttered behind my IDE, or if it comes with 100 apps I don't need.

It's exactly as if your development OS was a VM running inside any other OS. When you are developing, you would not care what the host OS was.
That mobile revolution still relies largely on cloud compute platforms, I feel that this is more like building better destinations for automobiles to go to.
If you are not sure whether the index is in bounds or not, you could use `slice::get`, which returns an `Option<&T>`. Sure, it's a little more typing compared to `[i]`, but how would one solve this in any language?

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.slice.html#method.ge...
I don't know if it was due to manual ad reviewers being on holiday or what, but i was getting a bunch of ad hijacking or malvertisements over the weekend from legit websites. If even legit sites can't keep up with this then no wonder everyone is running ad blockers just to keep safe from legit sites.
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This is a very good point. Using real names doesn't 'reduce anonymity'. It 'reduces anonymity' for people with rare names and leaves those with common names nearly as anonymous as before.
Dutch is also probably one of the easiest languages for a native English speaker to learn. It's one of the closest living related languages to English.

If I recall correctly, I believe Faroese might be the closest (depending on how you classify Scots).
We used this incredibly fast/compact library for Hustle DB indexes. Anyone needing a good Python interface to it could pry it out of the dependencies: https://github.com/tspurway/hustle/tree/master/deps/libebset
I haven't heard of lacona until you just mentioned it, but it does look nice. They also have plugins written in node, but offer a more "natural language" search, which Zazu doesn't. Zazu is also completely open source, but they have a paid version. Zazu is all cross platform, but Lacona only offers mac builds.
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>>Still, the embrace by millions of American voters of a billionaire authoritarian who argues that the “system” has been rigged to serve a cosmopolitan ruling class against the interests of ordinary people does suggest that American democracy has a unique credibility problem.

Just goes to show people are willing to appeal all the way past the legal/political system to the foundations of our country due to losing a vote.

If his words had any practical influence or any accountability for the implications of such a statement I'd be more likely to take him seriously.
Soon it will all be clear. Many of these new folks have zero idea how to manage the world's largest economy from the inside, and I fear that trying to change too many things all at once will whack the whole economy in ways we have never seen before. Like writing software, you can't change everything all at once and hope to wind up with something that works.
Yes you're right, but also the richer a country is the more resources it needs. So I think there should be some limits in population growth for certain countries and areas. Also, we have to note that it's not that we're overpopulated but we're living in just a few places of our planet, that's why we have issues I believe
Interesting. I found him through a different obit. Worst way to find out about someone like that.
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Do people really pay a percentage to other invoicing tools? I've been very happy with QuickBooks at £15/month and that's much more than an invoice generator. Even the smallest, £6/month one gets you invoicing as well as expense management.
Attribution tends to be terrible on display ads. Platforms proudly cookie bomb impressions and if you're not really careful, you end up falsely attributing sales.

I'd guess most of the big brands doing advertising look at it more from a brand building standpoint than a direct performance standpoint. You certainly can't compare it apples-to-apples against something like search advertising.
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The majority of scientific and technical papers are delivered by the PDF file for portable presentation. However, it difficult to read the PDF paper on small screen devices, such as tablets and eBook readers.

So I wrote PDFlower to reflow PDF papers for small-screen reading.

Compared with plain-text extraction based tools, PDFlower reconstructs the object level - columns, formulas, tables and figures - layout using some smart heuristics, and then renders them for new page size.
Electron is a webbrowser-as-a-backend on which JS+HTML5 apps run. Photoshop is written in C++, or at least large parts of it. Plus its millions of lines of code. Adobe (or any company really) will never go to the effort (think ten-thousands of man hours) of completely rewriting Photoshop (let alone their entire Creative Suite) just so its on Electron and Linux geeks can run it. Plus, its JS- it will run like hog-shit compared to C++.

And even if you hypothetically did get it somewhat performant - we need to get rid of feeling the need to run everything on Electron. Atom runs on Electron. GitKraken runs on Electron. So does WhatsApp. I don't want to spawn 5 Electron instances just to run some apps. Its just horribly inefficient. WhatsApp on OS X, a chat client, uses 500Mb memory(!). Safari with 5 tabs open uses 550Mb. Telegram, which basically does the same as WhatsApp uses 125Mb, because its written natively.

What would be best is a unified repo that solely contains Flatpaks. Flatpaks contain all the libraries the application needs to work, so no more issues supporting 20 different distros. However, that will never happen: 2/3+ of Linux users are on Ubuntu and Canonical will always want control (and they want to force their own standard- Snappy packages), and the other 1/3 does not want to bend to Canonical and their weird contributor license.

I've already voiced it elsewhere but (mainline) Linux could be as solid as OS X, if only there was more consistency. If almost all distros were purely Wayland+Gnome+Flatpak (and mostly on the same versions) then most companies would feel comfortable targeting that instead of the constant moving multi-target that Linux is now.
Ther's a faq item about this issue: https://inkscape.org/en/learn/faq/#copypaste-rasterizes-obje...
Ok, this is another argument for inflation depending on the reduction of work incentives after basic income. So lower amount of output is distributed among same number of people causing inflation.

But for making this argument, you will have to explain why increasing wages doesnt have the same effect as supplementing labour income with an extra stipend. After all, we are talking about basic income, ie a low amount. In this case it is even more modest (my guess is around 50$ or so a month).

To make this argument in general, you would need some idea of how large this work disincentive effect is. Remember there are many positive effects as well - the security of income means that someone doesnt need to do drastic stuff like selling off capital(for instance, cutting short training and taking up a job immediately) in bad times or becoming indebted due to basic necessities.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean when you say there's no currying in common lisp? If you write functions that are curried then you'll have currying. Am I missing something?
Exactly! The people you work with are far more important than the tech.
> It's one of the closest living related languages to English.

One the closest indeed, although Frisian is technically even closer. If I'm not mistaken it's really quite close to old English, but a modern English speaker wouldn't be able to understand it at all ;)
Don't the piwik team have a copyright on the name? Surely they can prevent them using the name if they have.
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Mac is overpriced and hyperbole. All the innovation happens in Linux these days. Except for overpaid fanboys which can brag around how cool they are, Macs make no sense from a developer perspective.
features are concerns too, now you have files related to your feature separated by not only file but folders and drives.

maybe there should be a file editor that's feature aware but also separates those file for you.
FN is polling at 25% right?

That makes the probability of France leaving the EU large than that of other european countries, though obviously still super small.

But we've had already a couple surprising voting results in the world stage recently right? So better be wary.
South Korea already has many sites require your 'Resident Registration Number' to be entered for you to sign up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_registration_number

In some ways, I guess that would be a sort of real version of the 'real name verification being mandatory' idea.
> GTK easily solves that

But I'd have to develop with GTK on windows to support that, which is a worse experience now than using e.g. XAML/WPF on Windows (which is declarative, has better HiDpi support etc). So I would hesitate to make a windows desktop app cross platform at that cost, unless the linux user base was large.
Hain is a great project, they launched a few months after I started working on Zazu!

For comparison:

- Zazu has a github based package manager

- A dotfile for configuration (for backup!)

- Very fast fuzzy matching of file and program names

- Cross platform notifications (toast on windows!)

- An HTML-based preview pane

- Cross platform!
I was ready to be impressed about seeing an AI that could consistently beat the game's own AI, with blue turtle shells and all. Oh well, still pretty impressive to be able to drive on the easiest course without opponents.
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Your metric for success seems to be "not enough people died relative to previous such moves, hence its a success", which is rather morbid.

Also your point about "major move that directly affected the entire country but did not end in large scale riots" is vague in its definition of "major move". During the partition, people were forced to leave their homes, belongings, ALL material wealth in the name of religion/politics/whatever and move to a different location in fear for their lives and the lives of their loved ones.

Does demonetization compare to this?

During demonetization, among other things, all the honest Indian had to do was wait in long queues to exchange cash (which is not convenient by all means - its very very harrowing), and the dishonest Indian figured out how to convert their cash to the new currency through the black market.

We can debate about the pros and (many many more) cons about demonetization, but thats another topic. Overall, India today is very different from the India 70 years ago when the partition took place, so I disagree with your comparison as well as your metric for success.
The ironic thing is, these jobs tend to pay the best.
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