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There is a difference between China and North Korea's internet access. North Korea works on a "whitelist" basis, whereas China operates on a "blacklist" basis. The Chinese people have access to the majority of the internet but, for cultural and language reasons, are not interested in most Western websites. Yes, many western social media and news sites are blocked but they are not "the internet" and if you consider them as such then the west has exactly the same problem as the one you have just described.
I meant the electorate that bothered to vote. Not the entire UK. Shamefully not the young people.
How many are still at that stage?
also, the photo is taken inside the back of a truck. Hence the webbing and blankets. Just how credulous are people?
Can you really call these "ads"??
That is not true https://stackshare.io/posts/how-algolia-built-their-realtime...
The propaganda contains a false assumption. That for people in China to not be totally poor the working/middle class in the US need to regress economically. Note the very wealthy got wealthier at the same time incomes stagnated for everyone else. And economic security declined.

It's propaganda.
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Getting drugs in Iceland is laughably easy there are facebook groups (many!) Where dealers post pictures of products, the product range and a list of prices and a phone number where you can reach them.

Drugs are expensive compared to elsewhere but you get free delivery. Any local would be able to access amphetamines, cocaine, weed, etc. Within an hour at almost any time of day.

The police monitors these groups but beyond that is rather ineffective.
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I studied in the UK

When was this?
The accommodation in The Young Ones [1] isn't too far a cry from the sorts of student accommodation you'd find in the 80s and 90s, and a disused brothel would fit right into that picture.

It seems to me (anecdata), that shortly after tuition fees were introduced (1998/1999), the trend for better (and correspondingly more expensive) student accommodation began, kicking off development of purpose-build accommodation.

There's some interesting numbers in a real-estate report from GVA [2], which shows a reduction in university-owned student halls, and an increase in privately-owned purpose-built student halls.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Ones_(TV_series)

[2] http://www.gva.co.uk/research/student-housing-market-overvie... [PDF]
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> I'll happily pay £10+ per month when someone makes the Spotify of video, but unfortunately at the moment Google + illegal is better.

The situation is worse than not being able to stream: You can't even _buy_ DRM-less movies. Very much in contrast to music.

I buy lots of lossless, digital music that I truly own and can play anywhere I want. I'd love to do the same with movies, but it's just not possible. Buying a movie from a service that may or may not be around in a few years is not an option for me.
Do you know where some VC's money comes from? Wall street invests in VCs using pension funds, 401k money. So if SV falls apart, the effect will be more than outside SV. Follow the money.
Turbo Pascal sparked my true interest in programming. Prior to that I experimented with BASIC but never found it appealing though I did get to play with it around with some people who could truly work magic with the language.

Dabbled in Modula-2 (stonybrook) and Turbo C. However I never really got into Delphi as I wasn't that interested in OOP or Windows. Worse Borland did their best to break my interest with the near constant upgrades that required buying the product all over again and worse in bundles that exaggerated the price.

Turbo Pascal or similar would be a cool way to write web pages if it could be extended that way without getting silly complex
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Thanks for that link, I was instantly transported back to 2002. I miss the internet of old.
> I couldn't imagine ...

Reminds me of Rob Pike's post:
https://commandcenter.blogspot.fr/2011/12/esmereldas-imagina...
> you will receive no security/bug fixes.

Or you'd better be prepared to write your own.
Absolutely, C25K was the best thing I ever did - Run 2x5Ks a week at lunch and a 10K at the weekend. Worked up to 10Ks about 3 or 4 weeks after first 30 minute run. It makes it pretty easy and I lost around 13 lbs from this alone.
Absolutely, C2K was the best thing I ever did - Run 2x5Ks a week at lunch and a 10K at the weekend. Worked up to 10Ks about 3 or 4 weeks after first 30 minute run. It makes it pretty easy and I lost around 13 lbs from this alone.
Seriously? The entire change to "unsupport" the majority of Python code is a mass delete of from __future__ import unicode_literals and utf-8 encoding? Is that really the extent of the "too difficult to maintain" code? There will be a split.
> (1) GDP measures production. If debtors are incentived to produce more, GDP rises.

Production is dependent on demand of consumables in the U.S.

2 & 3 are the similar (the same?) point. The poorer one is, or the earlier in life they are (students) the greater % of their income is spent on consumables. I don't think money sloshing around financial services has as direct an impact on the things that most impact production.
I am data scientist who uses both pythons and the only lib I had issues with was the first release of tensorflow (and that was fixed very soon). Otherwise I find it hard to believe that there exist any maintained libraries that do not support both versions.
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That is, by definition, breaking backwards compatibility. I.e., the code that I wrote against version X will not run against version X + n. They just give a warning about it in version X + (n - 1). Backwards compatibility means that my code will run against X + n for all values of n >= 0 without modifications.
Until now I didn't realize Mozilla changed their logo. Now I've seen it the typographer in me cries… The whole purpose of text is to _unambigously_ convey information. So either Mozilla now rebrands themself as

moz-colon-slash-slash

or they now live with a significant portion of typography-anal nerds who dislike that logo.
You used the word "many"...
Yes, this.
It takes practice.
Advanced chess players presented with an unfamiliar arrangement of pieces on a board can reliably distinguish between actual/plausible mid-game states and semi-random "impossible" positions. There's a progression from rules and mechanics to openings and tactics to strategy and style. Same goes for music, programming, sports... really any skill or body of knowledge I can think of.
Instead of writing an IRC bot, I have written an IRC client in Rust here: https://github.com/FreeFull/ircclient . Beware, I haven't put much effort into making the code clean or well documented. Writing an IRC bot would be easier than a client, because you wouldn't have to deal with reading from stdin, and you'd be able to keep everything single-threaded. The IRC library I use doesn't have any tokio support yet.
One white guy told me his buddies used the word "nigger," and why was this such a big deal? Another person started off saying "I can't ask you anything illegal, so let me ask you this," took a long pause, which was then followed up by a programming puzzle about monkeys. None of these questions were flat out illegal to ask, but from other software engineering interviews I've been in they're certainly not standard questions.
I mean when it comes down to it choosing a neurosurgeon over an entry level software developer makes a lot of sense.

What is wrong with wanting to prioritise people who have lots of experience and skill?
Purely speculative, just a hunch I have.
>1. People send a like/sticker as a conversation starter

I do that! When you open a conversation with a bot sometimes you don't know what the bot expects you to do to start a conversation, so instead of writing gibberish and expect a help text, I tap "like" because it's only one tap.
Hi Patrick, I appreciate you taking your time to object to blurbs that aren't thought through.

I suppose what I'm trying to say is that I'd really like simple code to look simple, and that it's an explcit design goal that code look as simple as possible. Perhaps I'm spoiled by languages that hide memory complexity with a pervasive GC (I am) but I still think there has to be room for improvement (and to be honest there probably are tons of already created issues with possible lifetime elision or coercions that reduce the need for Boxes inside Rc's inside boxes...).

Keep up the good work.
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So ... this was what made the Nazis lucky initially in the War?
I don't understand what these protests hope to achieve.

Having said that, you are questioning things that have been public knowledge for a while.
Moderation in all things, I built my own standing desk because I wanted a huge work space and it to be higher than the usual.

I sit/stand about 50/50 (30 minutes before switching), I use a panel timer (xfce) to remind me to switch and it works great.
I agree with this. It clearly says "Checkout the world's most popular apps rebuilt on CloudBoost".

It would rather be a disservice to users if they obscured these projects by getting rid of those icons.
What I miss are 4GL. 90% of bussiness systems are some form of CRUD, or record keeping software. With Clipper/DBase III, etc you had systems up in no time, fast and with little non-functional bugs. And on the UI side you had keyboard shortcuts and forms that worked 100% of the time. Maybe some kind of browser based shell for running Harbour[1] apps.

[1] https://harbour.github.io/
The quality of the discussion ends up a lot lower because most people don't read the article?
My feeling is that you want to be using dependencies that are actively being maintained. These probably already support py3 - or there's a newer / maintained alternative available.

What's annoying is discovering that it's a struggle to upgrade to a newer OS because you're using some old python dependency that has some C component linking to some library that you're going to spend a week getting working (and then have to continue to maintain).

It sounds like you might not have too much trouble upgrading anyway. The strings and missing libs are the places most people get caught out and it sounds like you're already handling the worst of those.

If I were you, I'd try switching to python3 and see what breaks. When I did it, it took about a day to get up and running again on a reasonably complex project (numpy, scipy etc). One of the main things I ran into was places where python3 had swapped lists to generators etc (eg, some_dict.keys()[0] no longer works).
At least with sports, football in particular, there's something interesting happening here in europe: DAZN is a legal streaming service that allows you to watch Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1 and a bunch of other sports live and on demand for 10 €. All officially licensed.
Of course I still need my Sky subscription for Bundesliga and Champions League but Sky is slowly running out of arguments.
You talk as if Python 3 were a dialect of Lisp. It's still Python, looks like Python and feels like Python. In fact, I think most of my Python 3 code runs on Python 2.
Doesn't anybody have a problem that the nature of their approach is first and foremost prohibition?
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> That for people in China to not be totally poor the working/middle class in the US need to regress economically.

I clearly, explicitly stated that I don't think that's the case.

I don't think the rise of China has really cost much in the way of working/middle class incomes. I think that's largely due to increasing automation, but rising inequality is certainly part of the equation.
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Python 3 is the evolution of Python 2.
"without Google proprietary code on your phone"
I could see myself not Googling very thoroughly if I were trying to find an excuse to write a Turbo Pascal compiler. :)

Maybe the author was in a similar situation, whether conscious or not.
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It could also very well be that those participants in the study who didn't "exercise" were lonely, were more or less alone or single, had no one to go take a walk with, have lost their closest relatives, have lost their significant other, etc. All those could factor in as much if not more than the "exercise". (and hence spend much more time indoors, probably watching the telly, and then things go from bad to worse in old age as health problems cascade)

And I quote "exercise" because it's not clear from the article if it's something like gymnastics, or the participant reported 30 min of daily walking and other activities like cycling. Point being, you could be unhappy and exercise a little bit every day and still be worse off than someone who's happy and loves to sit and watch the bird sings. Who knows.

I'd wager these days the quality of our food, and the bonds we have with people around us is far more incidental on our lifespan.

Here I am thinking of the less explored perspective:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/14/age-of...

Quoting

> "One of the tragic outcomes of loneliness is that people turn to their televisions for consolation: two-fifths of older people report that the one-eyed god is their principal company."
Hopefully far enough to illustrate that "altering brain structure changes personality" isn't the same as "different personalities have to have a basis in brain structure."
If you haven't seen Mikey Dickerson's presentation at last fall's Velocity Conference it's worth a quick watch: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LGSAyU2RZDo

Watching that video will make you understand why someone like Matt would feel the call to service he clearly does. USDS is a true example of everything that is right about civil service and has nothing to do with partisan politics despite being part of the Whitehouse.
And have a confusing set of different and incompatible languages with the same name?

People are complaining about Python 3 being named Python because some code breaks under it. That would be hell.
There are a lot of reasons to upgrade! There is so much more useful stuff in python 3!

Even if you think you would not use those features, other libraries you may use might benefit a lot from it.

A few features: async/await, lists (and others) use iterators, no var leaking in list comprehensions, super().my_method() instead of super(MyClass, self).my_method(), class MyClass: instead of class MyClass(object):, improved exception handling, required arguments, ", ".join(["etc"]* 1000)

Besides that: a much improved standard library, although that technically not is language design.
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> probably the worst piece of software ever created

Worse than Adobe Acrobat? Ouch.

There are problems with Apple's Windows software:

- many are "damned if you do, damned if you don't" problems

- some are just ubiquitous Windows problems (there are very few things on a Windows box that antivirus software can't break)

- some crept in, as the software bloated (QTP, like iTunes wasn't born bad, but became bad). That's Apple's fault

It doesn't make much sense to me to judge Apple by their Windows software, since half of the problems there are unavoidable given the requirements.

Eg:

- you have Airport,iTunes,Safari,and Quicktime software. What happens if you don't "trick users" into installing it all at once? Well, then you have a new, equally bad, set of support issues.

- you need hardware support for iPhones, you need network support for mDNS. Okay, now you have to install drivers, and your software is open to all the problems that any other Windows driver has (antivirus software + drivers == pain)

- You can follow Microsoft's UI guidelines, or use Apple's HIG. If you don't use Apple's, you once again have support problems, on top of criticism from some users that the design is uglier on Windows, and also added difficulties maintaining two very different versions of the software

The only really great cross-platform software anybody writes is written from the start to be that way, and there are trade-offs. If you instead choose a single platform, and want to make your software as good as it can be, then your ports to other platforms will suffer. Since Apple chose to optimize for the Mac, it's a given the Windows version would have problems. Apple handled cross-platform software as well as can be expected.
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Business Visa applicants are a minority in any country. For a typical work visa, it's actually unusually simply to immigrate to Japan (all you need is a degree and a job offer). See how easy it is to immigrate to your country with just a degree and a job offer.

Japan just doesn't have a road for unskilled immigration (compared to the US with the green card lottery and all the illegal immigration, EU with all the refugee immigration). They had a program for nurse internship but apparently botched/sabotaged it.
It's 10% of discretionary income, which is the amount that excess 150% of the federal poverty level. Nonetheless, the law also allows for hardship forbearances that allow people to stop paying without defaulting. Personally, I think the law is a backdoor subsidy done in the worst way. It increases stress on families who can't afford the tuition for 20 years to give a subsidy to the university. It incentivizes high tuition and keeping students on the treadmill, with no concern for quality. I don't particularly mind if tax money helps pay for an esoteric major, but I expect it to produce a capable scholar in that field.
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I've had similar issues with most GUI libraries.

Seriously: if you can, try building your thing with tkinter. It's the standard lib, and will "work"
Google+rolls+out+new+YouTube+sharing+feature+to+Canada
Now that is much better :)
Of which the improved exception handling is my favourite.

You could do ", ".join(["etc"]* 1000) in python2 - what am I missing?
I disagree about the revenue concerns.

Many new ideas for medical technologies are founded on academic work that is often fraudulent. When I hear that a startup is going to start the ball rolling on FDA approval, that often means that the technology is more likely to work.
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Py2 or PyClassic. They don't own those, and they sure could link to python to py2/PyClassic for people who want to install it. They don't own the letters py.
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Facebook messenger had built in apps

it's mostly because WeChat has gov protected monopoly over China, while Western chat apps operate in fragmented environment so it's really difficult to convince user to switch to them for payment if half of your contacts can't receive your payment and same goes for other functionality and building this features require critical mass of users which is just not possible in open market (well it's not possible on Android since Google seem to be suicidal regarding chat, is perfectly possible with iMessage)
For anyone looking for a super easy to follow 2 day program, try Stronglifts 5x5. It's only big compounds movements (Squat, Deadlift, Bench Press, Overhead Press and Barbell Row).

You squat every workout which I find amazing. The first time I tried jumping to reach something high up after doing the program for 6 months, I almost lost my balance in the air because I wasn't expecting to go that high! It really builds up your base stats and then you can switch over to any program you like or keep building strength.
Not really related, but I greatly prefer VK's design and features over Facebook. Wish it was more popular outside of Eastern Europe.
And it was still a period of transition from other interfaces to USB. And there was still a lot of proprietary charging cables/connectors for mobile devices. And USB-A didn't work reliably a decent chunk of the time.

USB was a great improvement for attaching many peripherals to computers but it really wasn't a golden age.
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At my University they spun off their accommodation, which is perfectly adequate, into a separate company. Then the private sector came in and built slightly better accommodation and charge slightly more. The town is filling up with student accommodation and we're entering the Pork Cycle [1] as rooms go unfilled. The spun-off housing suffering worst of all, and without money to invest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_cycle
The definition of AI these days is "any activity performed on or near a computer"...
>The "in-line method" mentioned in this [FastCompany] article about the change is my preferred method:
My gripe doesn't stem from rooms being too cluttered, it stems from if there are 4 people talking at once and I'm in two different conversations chains with them, I'd like to explicitly reply to a specific message and carry on the convo. not hide it in a comment thread.

It's fascinating that the preferences for "flat view vs thread view" get revisited in newer software. Fyi, Jeff Atwood blogged about this 10 years ago in 2006.[1]

Thank you for linking that FastCompany article because it emphasizes that Slack's distinguishing rationale was to visually place threads in a different area of the screen. Whether that proves to be the best tradeoff between flat-vs-thread remains to be seen in the marketplace of ideas.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/discussions-flat-or-threaded/
You're fairly certain, but with Python 3 you can be completely certain. That's the magic of it.

Python 2 will allow this to sometimes work, Python 3 will make sure this never works, because there's a bytes/text mismatch. It's nice to rule out entire classes of bugs like this

from sys import argv
import json
with open(argv[1], 'rb') as f:
json.loads(f.read())

Porting is still difficult. But when we ported from Py2 to Py3, we found a couple issues like this (despite dealing with weird encodings all the time).