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Well maybe not 'arts' ...

But in the baroque era, it was a 'new thing' to write music that was not written for god (although there was a lot of that as well) Remember all that Gregorian chanting? Well for a while there in the medieval era, music could only be gospel in nature.

Classical composers broke all the very strict Baroque conventions.

Romantic composers crashed the Classical guys conventions.

Modern composers broke everything.

And now - we do have a lot of 'art bands' ... i.e. the musical equivalent of Pollock paintings. It's been around since the 60's but maybe popularized a bit later on, and since computers ... well ... it's almost common.

And music and film have undergone the same, globalist total 'de-culturalization' as have other art forms.

To appeal to an ever wider audience, big films have to appeal to the 'global lowest common denominator' which is someone who is barely literate, has almost no education, likes explosions. so we get Transformers = no plot. Just long action sequences stitched together with a few words spoken by non-national, non-ethnic, non-demoninational characters with nothing to say.

And Taylor Swift. :)

... though there is still a ton of good music and cinema created today.
> I had made a verbal deal with the previous CTO in which I would be raised in 6 months time after being hired

> My conclusion: never accept verbal agreements again.

Was the verbal agreement not honored? 2-3% after 6 months is not nothing.

It seems your problem was accepted an offer 20% below what you should.
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The Times has done a number of features that were heavy on audio-visual elements and were very well received, so it's not surprising that they'd be interested in VR.

Here's an example: http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/10/27/south-china-s...
As much as I agree that alert fatigue is a problem this shouldn't trigger it.
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That's actually one of their current VR stories. "The Fight for Falluja": https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/14/magazine/figh...

Personally, I used the cardboard VR thing with my iPhone 6 to watch a short during the election. I was underwhelmed by the experience.
When you make a robot that can push the same buttons I'm pushing, you should definitely replace me. In fact, I'm working on automating as much of my work as possible, on a daily basis. I don't like repetitive, easy-to-mess-up stuff. And once we have AI that can write other AI's, then yes, we'd be obsolete too.

I don't see an "attitude" problem anywhere - we are doing exactly what we've been doing since we were cavemen.
You have this habit of quoting what the data says, without showing a source. Then, when challenged, you reveal some new nuance to the data. I agree that it's not a sustained 30% YoY increase for several years. I would believe double-digit plus at least one year with 30+%. But, as I mentioned earlier, it's hard to get facts.

The data is flawed in a few ways, mentioned earlier, with the flaws depending on the source. There are sources of many types...not just the one you're using. The stats I've looked at hide things, not on purpose, but mostly because businesses aren't dumb...they will find ways to stem the insanity.
VR may still be early (if you're really cynical you could say it still might take 5-10 years for it to achieve mainstream popularity) but it's here.

You either start experimenting and learning and adapt to the new medium or you'll be replaced by someone else who will.
That's interesting because I feel the same but about Photoshop - having learned editing on Gimp. I'm curious to hear from someone who knows both well.
At which point 99% of people would immediately unblock by default and the supposed security would be lost.
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You know what's even worse at trying to surface? When you saved your company millions of dollars! I'm not talking theoretical dollars here, I'm talking about last year X cost $Million, and this year due to my finding out some egregious mistakes and fixing them, that cost was measurably less by seven figures, and no one bothers to tell that story to the higher ups! I just wonder what these people do all day? Darn few managers I have ever worked with seemed able to even tie their shoes properly.

Meanwhile, I had to sit through an all hands meeting where some dingy broad got a 5 figure award for cooking up an Access database that some asshat manager used for like a week!

Franz Kafka could not dream this up!
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A lot of websites that streams TV-series, cartoons or anime also use Google as a backend, typically through a custom player and presumably a lot of scripts that can keep track of, and interact with hundreds if not thousands of Google Drive users and automatically upload videos as drive-users are suspended.

It works really well for end-users. Fewer ads than when hosted on streaming sites that need to recoup data costs, fast, reliable streaming and high resolutions.
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What every blockchain pumper imagines:

Bank: We don't need another database

Accenture: Did I mention it's powered by blockchain

Bank: Shut up and take my money.
I thought it was understood that Op-Eds were written by mostly external contributors with agendas and hence why they should be treated differently than regular articles by the readers.

They also printed this letter by Putin:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-cau...

Doesn't mean they endorse the letter and it's content.

And it seems like it would be wrong for them to be editing the content.
The Times is one of the most successful papers at weathering the digital transition. As more people get their news online it's the handful of mega-papers that profit at the expense of local and regional ones.

If you want to read gloom-and-doom about the newspaper industry there is plenty of that too.
" They are targeted at two different audiences: lobby pass-thrus, vs. art-world critics and gallery-goers."

I'd consider that they are one and the same.

Artists makes 'art' - has a showing, some critics like it, and then he's commissioned to do some installation for a bank which they put in the lobby.
In terms of accuracy, you'd walk away from 2016 far less confused about the world reading Breitbart than the NYT.

I made a fantastic return betting against The Upshot.
One possible outcome is more than one NYT, for the laid off workers to join some other organization and make it better, I suppose. I think it's very possible a few of those who just contribute "low-value line editing" would do much more if they were just given the chance.
An article titled ”What is logic?” with no reference to computing? Does the author still live in the 19th century or what?
> When I read OP's question I was thinking about already-shipped products that became too hard to run and maintain.

I've been mostly in consumer electronics related companies, where a product which ships and then becomes too hard to maintain usually doesn't "fail". It just gets phased out. In a way, this is another way technical debt has an indirect, but large impact on products: obsolescence becomes a necessity. Not so much planned — which implies malice — as simply realizing it's not possible to maintain indefinitely.

> I am curious how long your products/projects were in development for before falling to tech debt? Were these net-new projects?

Usually very quickly, or after far too long.

The better projects know ahead of time that there are Dragons lurking in the code base. But that's effectively saying there are projects which never even got past brainstorming because we knew the technical debt was too high.

On the other hand, there are projects where it only becomes apparent how much debt there is after a lot has already been invested. It's like you'd expect, e.g "There's a performance problem because of a basic primitive this library uses everywhere. And that was originally a workaround for a compiler performance bug. We could fix the compiler bug, but it turns out other libraries relied on it..." and so on. Extra time-to-market makes a product make less and less sense — fashions change, hardware improves, new tech arrives — and so it gets killed. Or worse, shipped.
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Hardly makes the Times unique though; how many businesses don't operate that way now?
If I was Ms. Rometty, I would spend my time playing up the fact that A.I. will lead to a vastly improved quality of life for everyone. Advancements in knowledge always tend to do that and A.I. is a great leap forward in tech knowledge.
Which are the most common mistakes you have seen first time entrepreneurs and founders make?
It was both. The combination of two failures put them beyond the point of recovery.
The 'unemployment rate' is fictional, and it takes a lot of hand waving to get to 5% unemployment rate. Some of which justified, but it's only useful for year to year comparisons not decade to decade as the number keep changing.

Right now there are 121.5 million people working full time in the US. The population is 320 million people and 250 million adults and 200 million adults under 65. So actual employment is around 50% depending on how you slice it.
Investment banks don't use Visa to transfer money and bitcoin isn't replacing electronic trading platforms.
Not online, but SQL Antipatterns is the book that had the largest impact on my thinking:

https://www.amazon.com/SQL-Antipatterns-Programming-Pragmati...

But as you said, you haven't actively learned SQL, so probably need to find some free data sets to work with.

You can probably start with Data is Plural. That will, at least, give you some raw data sets so you can get started on learning how to build up a database from unorganized data first:

https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural

Edit to add: First and foremost, you have to learn normalization. Without that, you aren't doing any SQL.
> I think they might have acquired it, though?

Inbox is homegrown, not an acquisition.

(work at Google)
RE: delivery: You get what the company pays for. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/01/09/delivering-pape...

> “I have found myself so exhausted, literally sitting in someone’s driveway, door open, and I’ll wake up and say, ‘Where the hell am I?’” he said. “I fell asleep right in my car. It might be 30 seconds and it might be 10 minutes.”
To be fair, the only time you hear about someone repurposing a flag is when it has catastrophic effects.
Definitely rooting for the J-core guys. SH4 is a really interesting chip.
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Wow, this website somehow manages to break my middle button scroll which means I'm stuck on the title and pre-content image.

One of the worst possible UX, this website deserves a good rank on http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
GalliumOS is easy to install, on something that's not a Chromebook perhaps. In order to install it, I had to:

> Put the chromebook into 'developer mode', wiping the hard drive

> Physically open the device, breaking the 'warranty void' sticker, in order to remove a write-protect screw

> Change firmware flags to allow booting off of unsigned partitions

> Replace the firmware entirely, risking bricking the device

Apart from that it was easy, and the installation program was faultless. I do use my Chromebook as a dev machine, and I agree with you that the poor performance is more of a help than a hindrance. Code editors don't stress out any remotely modern computer, and if your code runs well on the Chromebook then it should be fine anywhere else; very few machines have worse specs. I think they're fine machines, and GalliumOS is everything one would wish, but I really couldn't count ease of installation amongst their features.
I did something similar to my personal server using rsync.

> cd /mnt/backup

> sudo rsync -a --delete user@remote:some/$dir/ $dir/

Only to see the local machine become pretty much empty when $dir was not set.

Funny to still see Apache etc still running in memory despite any related files missing.
By axioms, maybe I used the wrong word, but what I was referring to is things like the concept of "burden of proof" in reason.
I don't think several orders of magnitude is really true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P73REgj-3UE is slower than a modern house, but not that slow. Further, with just hand tools the Amish where known for raising a barn in one day.
Let's get to the crux, here:

> Unless your "typical load" used for determining TDP does not actually make use of the full number of cores

> If the 4 core actually needs to dissipate 140W under a typical use case, then the 6 core should absolutely need to dissipate more unless the "typical use case" is uselessly applied.

Taken from Intel's own specs for the E5-1650:

"Thermal Design Power (TDP) represents the average power, in watts, the processor dissipates when operating at Base Frequency with all cores active under an Intel-defined, high-complexity workload. Refer to Datasheet for thermal solution requirements."

Immediately notice "Base Frequency", not Max Turbo, "all cores active", and "Intel-defined, high-complexity workload." Until you can perform the same test on both chips, you cannot assume that "these two processors should be dissimilar under any load."

In regard to your car analogy, if the sport version had a management interface to limit speed due to the rating on the tires, then it would be like an Intel CPU. Read this:

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...
It doesn't have to be that way.

All you need is a bit of advance in robotics, coupled with stronger AI.

Perhaps a proper AGI is not even required for that. Just good enough multipurpose ANI combos.
I can't believe this is the first I'm hearing of this, and it's in Hobart. Did they advertise it anywhere?
it's certainly related, but the current political theater to repeal and replace the ACA seems to be an effort to take credit rather than make meaningful improvements. as citizens we shouldn't reward such unproductive behavior with our attention, much less our support.
Honestly, I have all of those type of problems and more on my Mac and Linux desktop systems.

Just today I was working on my Mac Pro and after waking it up for like the fifth time to run my app in Xcode, my USB mouse stopped working. As a matter fact no mouse that I plugged into it would work. Turns out I had to restart the machine and reset the SMC by holding a special keyboard combination.

That's the kind of problem that I constantly get on a Mac. The kind of stuff that doesn't go away, there is no fix for it. All the Windows stuff you mentioned can be fixed one way or another permanently. I won't bore you with a huge list of my own gripes but honestly everything is fixable and I don't know why people single at Windows at all.
I studied business for two years at a community college and switched my major to computer science for a semester before dropping out to learn on my own. I ultimately want to found a startup, but I want to work at a startup to gain experience first.

How does someone young without experience or a degree go about getting a job at a startup? For example, if I cold-email founders of startups I love, how can I convince someone to give me a chance versus the Stanford grads they're looking at? What about trying to work at companies like Uber or Airbnb that are far later stage?
It would help considerably if every business school in the nation wasn't following the exact same idiotic playbook.
What a load of garbage. If you're talking about what I think you are, you're mentioning those half/full page ads that are marked "advertisement" and have slightly different fonts than the normal news. It's hardly a conspiracy theory to allow Trump to buy reporters.
This is amazing. I was using this client all the time until they were not free enough. The price was way too high imo so I stopped using it until today.
Do you have a citation to suggest that that is her motive?

That would be extremely interesting to read.
given the history of creativity in Paris shouldn't it be a mansard instead of garage?
As far as I understand it, both of the above. AMP apparently doesn't work on Firefox and AMP-pages are only linked to by Google.

Obviously, some people might copy the AMP-link themselves and post it somewhere, but if you're not much on social media, it's entirely possible that you just haven't seen that yet.
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A line of thought can only be reasonable if it is logically sound. Reason is built on top of logic.

All of this IIRC.
Costco pays $17/hr. vs. Sam's what? I don't even know. < $15/hr. Maybe $14/hr? Okay, it was in the article, $11.52!
Maybe it will hurt them, but it may not as well.

Tech, for better or worse, is moving so fast that working on the same codebase for 5+ years is likely to greatly reduce your marketability for a new job. While that loyal individual may have been very valuable to his former employer, much of what he learned/specialized in is specific to that company and provides little value to someone else.

One can always blame the individual for not spending his free time staying current, but not everyone is at the life stage where they have the ability/energy to end a 10 hour day at work by coming home and spending another few hours coding.

Personally, I agree with you someone with a string of 18 month jobs would put me off as an employer. However, if you find yourself stagnating in your job, you must move on.
There are a lot of good resources to learn the "how" of SQL, but not the "why".

The first reason is that the relational model is a combination of logic and set theory, which happens to be great for a lot of business applications.

The second reason is that people have adapted SQL surprisingly well to other kinds of data, like JSON. Even if you try to build a database system specialized to JSON, it will still probably come out worse because getting things like storage, replication, administration, etc. right takes a long time.

The third reason is that data has more value when combined seamlessly with other data. So if you have business data (which everyone has) and JSON, you are better off with a single system that is great at business data and OK at JSON, than two specialized systems.

Keeping these things in mind makes it easier to understand SQL in my opinion.
Oh Goodness, please don't suggest the Stanford Database MOOC. They teach in outdated standards.
I found a useful way to deal with start up times and enable fast command line driven scripting. Start up Clojure and create a socket repl server. Write a bash script that passes a string of Clojure code to netcat, which feeds that into the socket repl server. All the Clojure code embedded in the string does is load a path as a clj file and binds any command line arguments to command-line-args. The arguments are pulled by the bash script and inserted in the string of Clojure code. With the bash script in your path, you can now add #!/usr/bin/env name-of-bash-script-in-path at the top of any clj file, make the file executable, and then execute it instantly like any other bash script but now the full power of Clojure.

I found it useful to override the print and prompt method so that they are silent, requiring the script to explicitly print to stdout/stderr if desired. I reuse the socket-repl reader to enable exiting via :repl/quit which is echoed in the bash script after the script is loaded.

The obvious downside is you have to start at "server" before any of this works but I think the main interface limitation was the inability to interact with Clojure from the command-line and with other command-line tools.
Why is it free for Mac and paid for Windows and Linux? I think Mac users are most likely to pay for it.
Yes it does, actually. Not because it leads to any noticeable quality of life improvement, but because at those levels it becomes a pissing contest with other high-earners. Some rich people care a LOT about making more than other rich people in their social/work circle.
Are there any other stories about micropayments? I keep hearing how micropayments are going to change the internet, but here we are years later and no such service seems to be getting notability.
This is an overview post, but the tool (https://www.linkedin.com/salary) lets you drill into specific locations / years of experience.
Well, then I guess its just a happy accident because the separate windows for different tools makes it a lot more convenient for with weirdos like me. So thanks a bunch, even if you didn't mean it!
Thank you. I like most of them, most days:)
That really is correct. It isn't about being better than every other option is it? Its amazing how easy it is to fall back into the global stage competition thinking. I think its just that my inner Richard Stallman still points an accusing finger at me every time I fire up Photoshop:)
If I know I want to found a startup in x amount of time, what should I be doing in that time to prepare to be a founder? How do you turn yourself into the formidable founder that everyone in the startup world aspires to be?
No. Verbal was 6 months: give raise.

Actual was at 6/7 month be told that contingent on performance you would get a raise of 2-3% at 12 months.

Being 20% lower than market rate is definitely the problem and a signal that they don't want to pay appropriately.

Edit: if you don't value your worth appropriately from the get go, why would the employer?
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I remember thinking it was odd that for the last year or so I've been getting bombarded with mail and advertising from ZipRecruiter...and then magically they have a major quote in a NYT piece pre-election around the state of the job market.
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I start from the premise that a computer should not betray its user.

Users often aren't the owners of their computer. Currently that means the computer may act against the interest of its user. I'd rather have a world where users can trust their computers even at the expense of the owners' control.

While a physical ME switch is vulnerable to physical attacks, it does seem like the best approach we have today for minimizing owners' ability to subvert the user.
There's a chapter about it in _I Am a Strange Loop_ (Douglas Hofstadter) which I found very enjoyable and pretty enlightening.
This report started well before the real meat of the recent election and I think it really shows some lack of appreciation of what's become pretty clear in the last few months, is a rather spectacular failure of "the Web" and the ridiculously over-hyped "digital journalism" as means of providing people realistic information about people, events, policies and other things that fall under the umbrella of "news."

As much as many of us have maligned newspapers as "legacy," "dead tree," or "rags," or as people that just don't "get" technology, all we have built, from news perspective, is a world wide network spreading silos of disinformation at the rate of terabytes of nonsense per day.

I think if anything, for me, we have seen that the legacy dead tree rags are far more valuable to an individual, a nation, and really the world, than blog engines and social networks. Newspapers, as with anything, have their faults but are much more preferable to "choose your own propaganda" aggregators or Alex Jones meme factories.

So, please, don't give the "visual storytellers" a "primary role." Let's get to real investigative journalism and journalism itself. It's not the medium; it's the content.
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