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You're right but the author isn't totally incorrect.[0]

>But with the note shortage in India, cash is precious and the queue-jumping jugaad has a dark side. As banks quickly run out of cash, many have to go hungry if they cannot make it to the front of the line. Others have to take days off work to wait in line. One man, standing in the queue at the bank, who does odd jobs for a launderette, says he will phone his boss when he reaches the front, so that he can come and make a cash deposit. “Every man, whether he’s rich or poor, has a mouth to feed. But somehow, only ordinary folks like us end up standing in line,” he says.

[0] - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/28/india-bank-lin...
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You are a web developer, correct?

How do you parse known data formats from free text strings? (regular expressions, string manipulation)
How do you parse a cookie? (string manipulation)
How do your apps http requests end up in their respective handlers? (main method socket listener)

If your answer to each of these questions is that you use a library that's cool and all, but just because you didn't have to write it yourself doesn't mean it doesn't exist in "real life". Someone wrote that code for you, and you can call it "bad code" if you want - just know your app is built on it.
Talking about pragmatic human rights: Fiat money exists as legal tender in many countries in one form or another. No shop keeper can turn you down for wanting to pay with Dollars. With Bitcoin that's a different story.

While I wholeheartedly agree with all the benefits a currency like Bitcoin can offer, I think we're a long way from being able to use Bitcoin as an embodiment of basic human right.
Those "anti-intellectual slogans" I think you mean can also be seen as arguments for a return to enlightenment values instead of an entrenched, elitist dogmatism.

Behind those slogans is the idea that intellectual life doesn't belong to a chosen few, but to everyone who's interested and willing to engage their capacity for independent thought and critical thinking, and those who are willing and eager to engage with other people with different opinions.
I do have polkit installed, there is an use flag "systemd" that I have disabled and so far I had no problems, it keeps systemd away from my system, and everything works.
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How is the database stability of this program?

The last password program I used had often, very often a corrupted database.
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zero-bama?
That more or less what I said, it is not incompatible as you can use the Java stream API if you target Java 8. But yes, it is a pain when you see you have to use the Java Stream API instead of the kotlin Stream API.

Not incompatible but an issue. And they seem to have resolved it. Look at last comment. What you are quoting is from December 14th, before even the initial 1.0 release of kotlin.
Kind of sad when people make such suggestions, not because it's alright if the government interferes with ones wealth, but because they thereby implicitly water down the concept of human rights.

Basic human rights are being treated as an equal to other human beings and with human dignity, being allowed to live, prohibition of slavery, being treated equal in front of the law and getting due process, and not being tortured. Everybody should be able to agree on them.

Yes, maybe controlling your own wealth should a right. But please don't put it on a par with basic human rights.
MetaFilter is one example, where users pay a small upfront join fee, $5 I think.
That comment floored me as well. I spent almost a third of last year traveling for both business and pleasure, in both the US and overseas and maybe took an Uber four or five times. I can't begin to imagine a mindset that would lead me to plan trips around Uber availability.
I'm not well versed in the entire (phone) network space. Ericson switch uptime (powered by Erlang) is always cited and admittedly initially drew me to the whole ecosystem. Well mostly the "it's used in a network that has basically worked all these years so it must be rather robust one way or another" line of thinking.

However what I'm wondering is...there's other vendors and Ericson isn't powering the entire network. What software stacks are used by other vendors? I'm assuming it's mostly C-ish stuff with some ASM sprinkles like in Cisco IOS?
Will take a look, but 'history-search-backward' fills most of my needs in that regard.
And Trump did not cause that.
> $10 per 50 GB

Wow, that's disgusting.

Back when I was on cheap and cheerful, capped internet - if you went over the (paltry 100GB, although this was the best part of a decade ago now...) cap, I'd pay an extra £6 on my bill and that was it, regardless of how much I went over by.

Ironically, the price to remove the data cap as part of your package was more expensive than the over-cap charge.
Because sometimes you have to use other language and other times you have a boss which takes the decisions.

All my side projects are kotlin now.
Chrome is cheating. It runs as a service and starts when you boot the computer. Then it's loaded from memory.

Startup times are only comparable when you start Firefox for the second time and at least for me, Firefox is faster then. Rendering and the developer tools however seem to be slower in Firefox indeed, sometimes significantly.
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"The Web Field" is a pretty big group but if you mean "Front end web" then people with a background in graphic design or content creation (writing/video) are probably not going to have much formal CS history.

There _are_ people who are good at both visual design and computer science, but not as many as designers who learned enough to code what they needed to.
The JVM has tons of concurrency tools, it's absolutely designed with concurrency in mind. You can write code in the channels style if you want too.
Twitter accounts belonging to government agencies represent the government, not individuals. Individuals and the press are the ones whose free speech is protected.
When did he say he was gifting all profits from foreign ventures to the US Treasury? Last I read about it, his pledge only related to profits from foreign governments for his hotels and similar businesses. The WaPo addressed the shortcomings of that pledge in [1].

Since it is a pledge, it also supposes that his word has any value. Anyone who looked at his business or charity dealings knows that his promises are worthless.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-plan-to-donate...
"Overdose injuries" is a ridiculous umbrella classification that covers both fatal and non-fatal incidents. By this definition, the average college student experiences at least one alcohol related overdose injury a week but, oh lord, think of the children!

That said, we've come a long way from the era of Hearst, Anslinger, and the racist "degenerates" rhetoric.
Every blog post of Scott Adams:

"Trump is a master persuader and everything he does is on purpose. I know because I'm a master persuader, too.

Here's proof for his flawless persuasion technique (an anecdote follows).

Here's more proof, because one proof isn't enough (another anecdote).

Because I understand Trump and predicted his election, this is proof that I am really a master persuader.

So now go ahead and buy my book and my app."

I read quite a bit of Scott Adams blog and truth is: He didn't predict anything. He is a comedian. He could've spinned every outcome of the election in any direction in hindsight. He is in for maximum outrage and controversy, because that drives traffic and clicks and comments and ultimately, he makes money off it.

In his book, he even says that he did some pranks that lasted for years and he only did it for the lulz. This is exactly the same. If you think Scott Adams explains it all, you're being played.
For completeness:

https://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/q-scala-q-golang.html
You could not uninstall IE, but at least you could install Firefox on Windows.

You can't use any truly different browser than Safari on iOS, so until that's possible, I'm hating on it as much on iOS as I hated on IE on Windows.

Even if it's lagging behind less than IE did, I still strongly dislike being at Apple's mercy rather than the users'.
Awesome! I'm currently using Racket for a large end-user application. Apart from a few system integration issues the only downside so far is its long application startup time. I'll have to live with that.

Edit: One feature they should really consider adding is an online documentation for functions that is displayed in a status line while you type. I've found this incredibly helpful in other IDEs.
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Have you considered that overdosing could lead to injury but not death.
Still not supported by IE, I'm afraid :(
Note that redshift currently does not work under GNOME3 when Gnome is running as a Wayland compositor. There is a feature request[1] for integrating this functionality into GNOME 3 (and even a nice mockup[2]).

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741224

[2] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mo...
Maybe not from our point of view, but from the POV of the photon the water is moving with c_0 through the photon, so certainly relativistic effects apply.
Technically it's still not a lie. But you would be delusional. I don't know what is worse in a president.
Sorry for the late response. If it wasn't for user dkyc below, I wouldn't have figured out how to find this post. I just presumed no one responded as people in general don't like to talk to whining people haha. Which I understand you'd rather see success stories where people are then like "Oh good job man!" or "How can I do what you did?" I understand that, no one wants to be around depressing people.

Anyway I find it hard to value myself. What I like about building this current project is the things I'm learning and freedom to build it as I please.

Anyway I appreciate your response. I haven't used a contract before. I in general do milestone-based pricing although I'm finding that this doesn't make sense. Yesterday I worked on a scraper that rebuilt the dom of a page and it's like that kind of work compared to CSS or something how are those two equal in price?

I was given another $100.00 thanks to my complaining but I felt bad receiving the money. It's kind of funny because this one client I spent a month working on this scroll-triggered animation for their product and I was having problems with asyncrhonous processes eg. things ending before something else begins and the thing I built was problematic. I ended up refunding them their money which was $100.00 that feeling sucks.

Yes I am an idiot to continue building this site. But it is impressive in its own regard. To put that under my profile.

I will also set this guy up with a VPS LAMP server to run the site with OVH.

Your post gives me hope but I have to work on the business aspect. I feel that I just rambled and didn't really respond to your comment. Thanks for your time and the link.

edit: I watched that video before on the "F* you pay me" it's recommended by a lot of people.
I don't own a car and usually walk or cycle everywhere I need to go. This has been my lifestyle for practically all of my life. And none of what you say rings true to me. It's very easy to me to carry to go to the supermarket and walk out carrying an absurd amount of calories.

I actually eat worse when I go out walking, because I am more likely to stop at dairies (convenience stores). In a car I am I tend to go out of my way slightly to get some better food.
IMHO, in some cases, cells can be converted into stem cells, repaired in lab conditions, and then delivered back into damaged organ or area.
> So why have three or more specialized constructs when one will do?

Because having three specialized functions for three specialized operations makes it easier to see what a given piece of code is doing. One function per function.
Wine is a great project. This brings me back to the early days of Linux!
It is absolutely reasonable to question good faith on the internet. SPAM, bots, and paid shills have been here almost from day 1. The entirety of web2.0 was jumpstarted by services creating fake accounts to create the illusion of an already existing community.

It is a very interesting question how to fight this fact, and we need to discuss it, not silence any discussion of it.
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>People should NOT trust free VPN services at all

People should NOT trust free services at all

FTFU.
The US already had a ban against paying for international abortions. This is a ban of funding organisations that even talk about abortions, even if the US funding isn't related to abortions.

(I also disagree with your point from an ethical point of view, but that's not relevant here.)
Bitcoin or any "cryptocurrency" has nothing to do with "human rights". You can keep it, but you also can choose not to. Human right is something you cannot easily revoke. For example, slavery was historically recently prohibited in the UK. Since then, you cannot sell yourself as a slave even if you are willing to.
They did but now they took the "spinner" part out of the url

Edit: Nevermind, already fixed
Wow, Lightspeed Ventures absolutely crushed it. $5 million series A is projected to be worth $300 million now. That's the kind of return that funds their entire VC firm for the next 10 years.
They did when they ran PHP. Now they compile their PHP to C++ so it'll run faster and with less CPU and cooling requirements.

Also, writing PHP is easier than C++ so it's beneficial in that they get a wider pool of developers to use, and they can pay less.

Genius really.

So, now their server farms must be a cover-up, or they're using an old version of MySQL that kept a lot of its clustering data in RAM and are afraid it'll bomb out :-)
Okay sure, I made a bad generalisation. Some true statements can be uninteresting. The point I was trying to make was more that the parent commenter was making a true statement about epistemology that is relevant and useful to the discussion.

Maybe it could have been better elaborated, but I don't think it deserves being down-voted and replies of what seems like moral disgust.
Actually, I missed this point. Thank you for pointing out ;-)

I think that's why more and more open source tools (scripts or automation {cook,play}books, etc.} have been made available to enable people to self serve and build their own VPN service ;-)
Isn't it a bit too late to read 1984? I'd say it is too late get into cyberpunk too, because most if not all of those "warnings" came and passed largely unnoticed. It is quite pitiful "waking up to the corporate state" just because "not-our-candidate" won, while living in one for past 2-3 decades.
But it would mean Trump would be serving at the mercy of Congress, and at the mercy of maintaining a Republican majority, which could have substantial effects on policy in itself even if he's never impeached.
That was probably a theological opinion, for what it's worth. People forget MLK was a pastor.
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I think what the careful reader of 1984 will realize is that the book is perfectly good at explaining not just Trump but most other politicians.
Photoshop used to have a Unix (not Linux) version. A PITY that killed that (and didn't port it to Linux too).
What! There are no downsides to the language! I jest

I love catching errors at compile time, not runtime :-)

Plus, it runs faster
I feel that it should actually be raised to over 9000.
Jetbrains uses Kotlin for their own projects, including Intellij Idea. So you can be sure, that its support will be reasonably good, they use it themselves after all.
Safari 10.1 hasn't actually been released yet, so the documentation hasn't been updated yet.
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Tail recursion is fully supported in Scala. The problem lies in more general recursion, i.e. two functions that call each other recursively will grow and eventually blow the stack.

BTW, there is a Scala compiler annotation that helps you check whether a function is tail-recursion optimized.
Isn't it the same situation with Chrome on Android?
the log 2 comes from Shannon coding, because information (tm) encoding is modeled on a bit string of discrete energetic states (something quantum, too, I guess). And there is a transformation to the frequency domain (ie via discrete fourier transform). Entropy is always messured in Watt, doesn't. make sense to equate psychologic information content with physiologic enthropic consumption.
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> The inconvenience was around the logistics of getting new news into circulation (which was indeed managed badly in many parts)

86% of the currency in the market was wiped out to target 6% of unaccounted income in cash. There is no way to even justify such a policy forget manage it.
Very short-sightedly written. It sounds like the author just wants a language with a different philosophy, and instead of realizing this goes on to call the differences "obvious flaws in design" that aren't improved because of "Incompetence? Politics? Who knows." This is especially bad given that Python (in my opinion) has a very well thought-out and transparent change process, with PEPs that usually consider most alternative solutions to a problem brought up, and being held to a high standard in order for the BFDL to approve them.

Especially regarding some of the points near the end, it seems that the author just doesn't understand Python. Python doesn't have or want a strong typing system, and it mostly wants an imperative style keeping lines short.

> Well... what's worse, having a slightly goofy looking inline "def", or having a gimped language?

Why is it such a problem to move your closure to its own line and give it a name?
> As Erlang requires message passing overhead by design

That's Erlang's main weakness. For parallel code, structurally shared data is immensely useful for processes running in the same address space. With Erlang, you have to give that up.

OTOH, not having this possibility makes distributing processes to other nodes a lot simpler.
However counterproductive India's change might have been, I don't think you can call statements like "it also wiped out a large percentage of the wealth of the poorest people" and "One could argue that the Indian government recalling bank notes had a positive impact on citizens (more tax revenue for education, roads, etc). Yet it also harmed millions by eroding their wealth" anything other than a misrepresentation of what the Indian government actually did.

I don't think it serves the Bitcoin ecosystem well when CEOs of some of its most trustworthy platforms make such flatly wrong statements on basic finanical issues. More generally, it's a counterproductive line of rhetoric to take when the average person in the developed world is several orders of magnitude more likely to suffer significant wealth loss through BTC volatility, platform malfeasance or government crackdown on domestic bitcoin use than hyperinflation or generalised currency seizures by Western goverments.
I wonder if anyone has estimated the impact of "simple" engineering changes on the progress of electric cars.

I have seen things that extrapolate out battery progress, so if batteries become cheaper/lighter/more powerful in a similar way they have in the past then that has a big impact on EVs, dropping their price and/or increasing their range.

But a lot of things seem fairly simple, if not obvious except with hindsight e.g. heated steering wheels and seats instead of air heating, heat pumps rather than resistive heating, puncture resistant tyres rather than carry a spare, led lighting, replacing side mirrors with cameras for lower drag etc. How much can straightforward, no new tech, improvements in all these areas actually help if you add them up?
Is there any evidence for Night Shift/f.lux having impact on sleep? Last time I attempted a review I found plenty of explanations but no evidence.

A PNAS article about the use of e-Readers is often cited [0]. However, this compares a light emitting device to a book, and it's not clear how applicable it is to Night Shift vs. not Night Shift.

There is some research about the affects of light at different wavelengths on the human sleep cycle but I'm wary about using that as evidence for the efficacy of something like f.lux or Night Shift without specific studies done on their use in practice.

[0] http://www.pnas.org/content/112/4/1232.full.html
> Now how about tackling fake reviews?

From apples point of view, why?

If an app gets fake positive reviews, it will sell more, and give Apple higher income.

If an app gets fake negative reviews, the developer will just bump the version, the reviews will be forgotten, and there will be no negative effect to Apple.

Like the old SNL sketch, Apple doesn't care. They don't have to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHgUN_95UAw
The Liu Xiaobo case shows that (some) other countries see the Nobel committee as an unofficial extension of the Norwegian government. If China thought that the Nobel prize was handed out by 6 random dudes in some private club then the Nobel prize probably wouldn't have had such an impact on the relations between the Chinese and Norwegian governments.
It's not an instruction manual...
Really interesting, thanks!
Are you saying poor black and white people are too naive to vote for themselves? Should they vote the way we tell them to? Is principled politics a luxury of the privileged?

I'm not a fan of this meme.
Yes, but not substantially. They raised a little under $300 million. Even if all of the money raised had a (high) 2x liquidity preference, that still leaves $3.1B to be distributed among the stock holders.
> Racket runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Develop on one; deploy to all three.

It's a pity that iOS and Android are still missing.
Always good to hear H2 has cutting edge featuresets :-) (I'm one of the devs)
I will be very happy to see a blight-resistant chestnut in the US as a result of some genetic engineering. I am even ready to donate for such a good cause if this effort will ever be crowdfunded by known biologists in the field. Heck, I am even ready to get the US visa just to take part in planting them back, once they get saplings. Guys, do it!