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Thanks! It seems that the key here is "creators, actors and all other participants must be amateurs".

So can you ever ship two Star Trek fan productions? Or does the first production render you sufficiently experienced to no longer qualify as an amateur? ;)
Artists vs Developers.
strcpy() in a kernel module. This is quite horrifying.
> But I believe that people who enjoy being around other people are far more 'present' than those who do not.

You may believe it, but that's not what the body of psychology research says.
I agree that would be a very real risk in lots of organizations. Luckily it was me he was offering the entertainment to on this occasion! I tend to be a bit more canny with these people, but he rather pushed me too far when he said, 'I'm not sure you understand the difference between hosted solutions and true cloud products', like I was making a huge mistake. It is a bad ploy with me to tell me I am wrong in not buying his product, because I don't have the mental capacity to recognize its advantages.

For balance I told a MS NAV partner who was pushing the 'nobody gets fired for buying MS' angle, that I wouldn't even let MS on my home PC, so he better concentrate on what the product does. I'm in a curious position in my current role of being across finance and tech, and you are correct this may not be a good ploy for others in more conventional roles.
It is an inevitability that bad loans get written off. It's just a question when the loss is recognized. You either recognize it up front and write off the loan, or you don't, in which case you keep on losing money into perpetuity, as the person/company misses payments and you have to keep on rolling their debt over or restructuring it, in the hope that you'll be made whole eventually. Over time, the money lost would become equal to the cost of just writing off the loan at the start. But the losses keep carrying on, as you've rolled over their debt, so you'll have to write the loan off eventually, but at greater expense than if you'd have done it earlier.
Nothing about a free market requires all power dynamics to be equal among all participants - that would be impossible without regulation, and a free market must by definition be free of any regulatory influence.
>It does not require a great deal of imagination to understand that a large corporation and single prospective employee are not equal parties. If you fail to get a job, you will starve. If Comcast fails to hire you, they most clearly will not face an existential crisis.

Is Comcast the only company hiring people? If you don't get a job with Comcast you get a job with a different company. That is a market, many sellers of labor, many buyers of labor. The buyers look for the best labor and the sellers look for the best price.
It's easy to say that you're happier alone. It's much more difficult to admit to yourself that you have social anxiety that keeps you from making relationships. A human that does the first will decay over time. A human that does the second can be anything he/she wants to be.

There is enormous supporting evidence that quantity and quality of relationships are directly correlated to happiness
When you have a task that touches the code in question its generally acceptable to rewrite parts of it. That said the rewrite should respect the original abstractions unless they are incompatible with the new requirements.

Generally it's best to avoid rewriting something because it wasn't pretty or written well.
Is there some website or technical article that compares Oracle DB to Postgres and explains the advantages of Postgres?
I know the data required for the comparison is out there, but if it's already nicely written somewhere I'd find it handy.
Almost relevant: I wrote a parser generator in and for awk (called 'yawk' even though it did LL(1) instead of LR grammars), even older than this. But at some point I lost it, and it was never released online.
The antidote to this has been known since time immemorial and it. I'm not claiming that it is easy to achieve, but it is simple: Critical thinking, self awareness, and a healthy dose of skepticism.

Even with those tools, the flaw ultimately lies within us humans as a species. The results of the Stanford Prison experiment and the Millgrim experiments show that humans have a natural tendency to obey perceived authority figures, even if it means going against our own ideals.

It's sad, but that's why history repeats itself. We are the same species as we were 70,000 years ago. It is our institutions, modern luxuries, and collective knowledge which make us civilized. Take that away we will probably act more savagely than people in dystopic, post-apocalyptic fiction. The bestial nature of humanity slightly reveals itself int he wilds of LA traffic. People will call you the worst things and hope that all the bad things in life happen to you for simply driving slowly because you are in an unfamiliar area.
I'm not seeing any sort of 'contract'... what happens if there were network errors, how do you discover failed jobs, etc?

When things go pear-shaped, how do you recover?
Any suggestions on a good primer for what shaders are and how they work? For years I've always thought "shaders" are just effects you can layer onto a rendered scene. Say, to get an 80s effect, or bloom, or a cel shading effect, etc. I never really thought of it as a way to actually do the base scene rendering.
Good points all around. I think that there are also non-technical people who remember when devices would last a very very long time. That is something tangible that consumers have lost to some extent.
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It's only illegal if they can prove that you discriminated based on their age. This is why companies never tell a prospective hire why they've declined to hire them, instead they just tell them that it's a poor culture fit. Poor culture fits aren't illegal, so you can feel safe not hiring based on culture.

Especially if the part of their culture that doesn't fit is a protected class.
Burrell Smith was pulled out of Apple's service department by Bill Atkinson, not Steve Jobs.
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Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
To someone with an uncommon interest (a "nerd", in other words, though nerdy interests tend to require higher-than-average intelligence to possess), people with that interest are hard to find.

Once you finally meet someone sharing that interest, and it turns out that they act like a prick, you have a difficult choice (if you value sociable behavior over the opportunity to be social at all; willingly choosing isolation is frequently not a tenable position).

The cost and stakes for confrontation (and exclusion) are higher than it is in a "nerdier" group than for people with more common interests, simply because of the lack of people who are capable of the interest in the first place. So, more bad behaviors are tolerated.
It's also worth noting that "bad" covers both "weird" and "malicious", which is also why groups with these interests tend to be much more accepting of people with other interests outside of those standard for the surrounding society.

The feedback loop is as such less; personality quirks don't get as rounded-off as they would in a less-exclusive group, so any conversions from asshole -> non-asshole in a small community will take longer if they even happen at all.

So, it should be no surprise that individuals more aware than most of the fact that "good people are hard to find" are willing to make certain sacrifices to retain them. For individuals whose interests and abilities involve a larger cross-section of the population, however, people are much more interchangeable, so excluding weird/malicious behavior is much easier.

As an example, consider the tech community's recent trend of attempting to exclude speakers with non-standard political views from conferences. The arguments for doing so come from people with the mindset that technology experts are interchangeable (which is valid in some areas), the arguments against it come from those who see technology experts as an unusually scarce resource (which is valid everywhere else in the world).
They do. When Fox was asked why they lie, their answer was basically free speech.
[Edit: if a potential employer asked my previous salary] I would have zero qualms (zero) saying any number I wanted. If I was asked for paystubs I would say I'll get them later and add that the number may not have been exact, it could be off substantially I want to be upfront about that. If I have to put a number in a form and sign that I swear it is accurate, I would put an asterisk and explain that it is indicative of what I want them to think.

I don't see ethical problems with this behavior. It is practically what I actually would do.

If HR absolutely cannot start without my notarized sworn copy of pay stubs then I would not work there, and their loss. For anyone else, HR's job is to find qualified people, they are not going to kick you out once they've started onboarding you.

You don't have to lie, but you don't have to answer their questions any more than they have to ask yours about their company - HR doesn't work far from payroll, if as part of your interviews you asked to know the CEO's salary, would they tell you? Or the ratio between then lowest and highest salary at the company? (2.5x, 3x, 5x, 10x, 50x, 100x)

Things don't have to be hard and fast. If they don't like how I roll they can hire someone else. If I don't like their level of transparency I can refuse their offer.

Plus they're free to fire me if they don't like me.

You should answer illegal questions the same way. e.g. in an interview, how old are you. Say whatever you want, just add "I don't like to give am exact age just use that". If they're surprised that a 55 year old shows up too bad for them. Fire you if they don't like it. You're not paid to be 25 and you're not paid to have a certain salary history. You're paid to do a certain job - everything else is just friction.

Say whatever you want, as long as you can do the job. Don't lie about degrees or credentials.

Don't practice law or perform surgery without a license.
That isn't speech, that's trespassing. Or would you like people to be able to freely visit your home without your "interference"?

On the other hand, union representatives are free to speak to employees outside the workplace; that's speech. (And freedom of association, for that matter.)
Steve Jobs would never have allowed this to happen. R.I.P. :(
Silver gave Trump 2% chance of winning the primary. He also wheeled out this doozie a day before the election when it was pretty clear that Trump knew he would win. You don't do 5 rallies a day if you know you're losing.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/
Again, its only an issue for bad companies, with bad employment practices. The rest of us will be unaffected by the restriction
I personally know of a case where someone got rejected because they asked for too much compared to his previous salary, even though the person who got hired was offered more money(but it was a smaller increase percentage wise over his previous job).
Basically guy was brilliant in the interview, engineering team said they want him, but HR rejected him because he said he wants 80k, while he was making 60k previously(he worked outside of London before). HR instead hired a guy who interviewed much worse, but he only asked for an increase of 5k(from 90k to 95k).
The assumptions we make, the more performance goes down in tasks like machine translation, and that includes the assumption that parts of speech matter to machines.
Most compile-to-Javascript systems I've used have a "watch" mode which recompiles every time any source file changes. The initial build of a large project may take 30+ seconds, but after that, a rebuild when a source file changes takes a few seconds at most. And with some systems, you can even do live edits that apply immediately to running code, so you don't even have to refresh your browser, making development actually faster than not using any build process. (Good examples of this are hot module replacement for Browserify[1] and Webpack, and Figwheel for Clojurescript.)

[1] https://github.com/AgentME/browserify-hmr/, a Browserify plugin made by me.
And Tina Turner head-butted Ike's fist, right?
> It's only illegal if they can prove that you discriminated based on their age.

If at any time during the interview the employer asks the candidate's age (or any other protected information), the candidate will have a much easier time making a case for that.
> Take this simple example: “I love flying planes.”

> Do I enjoy participating in the act of piloting an aircraft? Or am I expressing an appreciation for man-made vehicles engaged in movement through the air on wings

Clearly the latter, as the former begets the infinitive, "I love to fly ...".

Maybe I am wrong, going by the American usage of the gerund I clearly am, but then "I want going flying" sounds ridiculous in any case. Maybe I am missing the difference, so as a second language speaker, I'd love to be corrected.
I'd really be interested to know about the foul play angle, but firms like these buy drone and satellite data, surely they have some information advantage?
I think that's just sloppy error handling, which is lame and unprofessional, but that's like saying you dislike Python because of all the stack traces.
Good conferences may do peer review for free and act as gatekeepers for sneaking in as an independent influencer.
Cancer is not really a disease, it's not a virus or a bacteria. It's just a collection of cells with broken apoptosis (cell death).

While you could theoretically make cells do anything (within the limits of biology), stem cells is what you should be thinking of. Or nanobots.
It's a single binary, that's a lot less pain than having to set up tons of dependencies, no need to patronise.
No, a free market is not defined by absence of regulation!

Even fervent laissez-faire economists admit the necessity of appropriate regulations: contract enforcement rules, avoidance of monopolies, a system of law and order for handling disputes, etc.

A free market is defined as an exchange where both sides have access to the same information.
Peleton is a word referring to the main group in a bicycle endurance race, so it's not the same as calling your software "Wal-Mart." In this case it seems like the fact they are in completely different markets would be sufficient.
I think you're missing the point. "Being racist" is pretty easy to nip in the bud. Telling someone not to be mean to someone else just because they're insert non-white race is easy. Telling someone "when you say X, that doesn't even occur to you might be offensive, it upsets other people". Now repeat that for a thousand different social interactions, and tell me how easy it is.

"Don't be an asshole" is what? "Being an asshole" means different things to different people. THAT is the core of the issue.

For instance: I've got coworkers, who if they screw something up, I can just straight up say - that was wrong, do it this way next time, then we won't have an issue. For other coworkers that direct interaction would be the absolute end of the world. And instead you have to tap dance around until you eventually get to a state where you're fairly certain they know not to do what they did again.

Would it make me an asshole for not knowing one person can handle direct feedback, and others can't? Is it "being an asshole" for telling someone factual information without sugar coating? I don't think so, plenty of people out in the real world do, however.

And, quite frankly, most of the people who want direct feedback consider people who tapdance assholes because so much effort is wasted on getting to the point.
Thanks for the detailed reply, that was kinda what I was interested in.
kube-lego for kubernetes is just awesome!
Comcast is simply the example here. Yes you can look for another employer, but if they are doing the same thing -- requiring disclosure of salary history -- then in aggregate this will put more negotiating power in the hands of employers and thus reduce workers' incomes.
Breaking headline: Organization works to grow its role and responsibility, news at 11:00.
thanks for the link; that looks nice & clean.
He screwed up in the primaries, and admitted as much.

Did you intend to link to something else? That "doozie" is just the final projection for the 2016 results whose numbers I referred to above.
I'm not certain this was at all unintentional.

It would have been unforgivable for the Republicans to actually cooperate with Obama on the ACA, given the vindictive and antagonistic attitude they showed him while in office. Better to sabotage the program, then run on the promise of repealing it when it's caused enough suffering. And, if that was the plan, the plan worked. The public's dissatisfaction with the ACA is what helped them take over the government.

And as always, their base wants the ACA burned to the ground, and the ground salted so nothing resembling a nationalized healthcare program can ever take root in the soil of American politics again. The Republicans pay lip service to "replace" after "repeal" because despite their efforts, it turns out there are parts of the program people do like, but I don't believe for a moment that there was, or is, any intention to replace the ACA with anything comprehensive.
Your top post shows that you can't see shades of gray. Every list of examples is proof that the examples are all equal. You follow it up with equating a smear campaign based on sensationalism and spearheaded by a charlatan, with journalism demonstrating the value of whistleblowing. Just like our president, you are allergic to blame, even when it's spelled out in plain English. I have no illusions that you will deny the wetness of water, if it stands between you and being "right".
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I think this is unlikely to be possible, and acknowledging that I don't have any postgres projects in production, but this may help.

1) except in extreme edge cases it is likely that either would be a technically capable DB for a large project.

2) Cost is a huge factor. Take your Oracle licensing costs for the life of the project. The cost of specialised hardware, and the uncertainty of its future. The cost of hosting is also a part of that. Look at the cost and availability of DBA's in your area. Now apply a discounted cash flow analysis to that, and it is not likely to beat 'free'

3) The Oracle ecosystem is looking uncertain. I can imagine the SPARC hardware you buy now not getting great support, maybe you will have to move platforms? Conversely it seems probably that you could run Postgres/Linux on any x86 VM's you want for the next decade or so!
Between step 1 and 2, you need to SSH to your Ubuntu server before running those commands.
I like overly generic code when I refactor. The more generic, the fewer edge cases possible!
It's not that the authority of statistics is lost on me. What I don't trust is the reporting of statistical information without transparent access to the data and actual published results from knowledgeable statisticians.

I think the solution is to push calculus off the K-12 agenda and up to the college/university level and replace it with probability and statistics instead. Most people understand averages, but they have no clue what standard deviation is. In fact (sad to say) many software developers don't even know what SD is!

Until the general public are able to understand the power of numbers and their pragmatic use, people who know how to manipulate the masses will continue to do so.
It doesn't really matter how you want to split it. The internet for the majority of people is Facebook. That's where the mass gets their news. Reddit/HN and other websites may use different algorithms, but they represent just a tiny fraction. Think of them as privately operated radio channels - they do exist, but their role in the world is negligible.
Troll much? Again you're equating two non-equatable things.

I'm not sure what your point is as you're starting to not make sense. Where is the binary? You've not pointed it out. Saying that all things are equatable is just silly. Sure you can do it, just like you can mix metaphors, but it makes no sense to do so. Trying to defend the equation of unlawful government abuses and lawful behavior with your bizarre statements is just a prime example of twisted, frothing, hate, with no regard for reasonable discourse.
That's pretty sad, especially for an agency that must have a certain amount of technical competence for their day-to-day.

This could be easily solved by releasing all documents and a list of their hashes simultaneously.
> With quantum computing there are also no real signs that a quantum computer will beat a "classical" computer at anything any time soon. It always was and still is very difficult to get quantum systems to scale and you need a large enough system to make a difference and it may be impossible to do so. Again a lot of this is more of an engineering problem though admittedly the line between physics and engineering can be blurry since it's not always clear whether something can't be done because you've reached a fundamental limitation vs. having a clever enough design.

The mentioning of quantum computers is very interesting in the following sense: If one were able to build a sufficiently large quantum computer, this would provide strong evidence that the (at the moment rather hypothetical) theory whether quantum mechanics is rather an emergent phenomen by a deterministic process (cellular automaton)

> https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.1548

which the Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft worked on for the last years is probably wrong. To quote p. 79-80:

"Such scaled classical computers can of course not be built, so that this quantum computer
will still be allowed to perform computational miracles, but factoring a number with
millions of digits into its prime factors will not be possible – unless fundamentally improved
classical algorithms turn out to exist. If engineers ever succeed in making such quantum
computers, it seems to me that the CAT is falsified; no classical theory can explain
quantum mechanics."

On the other hand, if we seriously get into trouble building a sufficiently large quantum computer (despite our best efforts), this would at least to me provide evidence that 't Hooft is on something - since that this is a prediction that his Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics provides.
Title should probably be "Nearley - parser toolkit for JavaScript".
Clickbait title misstates the article's own data.

"And, because the legislation wouldn’t undo certain payment cuts created by the ACA, hospitals would lose an additional $102.9 billion"

Without ObamaCare, with ACA repeal legislation from last year as is: $165 billion "loss"

With ObamaCare as is: $103 billion "loss" anyway
Andy Pavlo always tries to spice things up and his lectures and presentations are a treat.

He is on a list of people of mine that fits on 10 fingers. James Mickens is in there.

His work on H-Store was great. I spent 6 years working on VoltDB which is a commercial spinoff of H-store and it was a formative experience for me.
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Interesting and concerning. Thanks.