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NYC just built the most expensive few miles of subway in the upper east side, the next mile or two will be even more expensive. I'm sort of hoping that we get on-demand self-driving buses at some point and add a toll on vehicles driving into lower Manhattan, but I don't know if that will be enough. Bus tunnels also seem interesting, particularly when the buses are self-driving, but I don't know if they'd be any cheaper to build for us.

As much as I do think that streets are too wide and we should almost certainly get rid of on-street parking, and the front yard in front of most Brooklyn brownstones being a huge waste of space; I'm not sure you can really plonk down a new building in the space we could reclaim from roads (on most streets), which means the way you make use of that space is by knocking down old buildings and building further into the street, which is again expensive.

I wonder a little about delivery and construction in these scenarios; if the streets are that small, can you even get a crane in there? How do you do deliveries to businesses if you only have a single lane and you need to stop a truck for 15+ mins to unload? Supposedly people in Barcelona use hand carts for the last few hundred meters to get into the old town/super blocks, but that seems horribly inefficient.

I don't know what the answer is, especially with the legacy infrastructure, but nothing in this space seems super simple even if you're not a fan of cars.
Who has the administration added to the candidate pool that has the necessary skill and qualifications to verify the scientific integrity of the EPA's work? This is really reaching for a rationalization.
I didn't know a many useful "Goisms" at the time, but it was certainly code that didn't need drastic refactoring. I just picked up the language basics in a day, and 3 days later I was effectively writing code that I might certainly write better today, but it was functional, extensible and fault-tolerant.
Do people really want him to get impeached and convicted, with Pence being the successor? Seems like a terrible idea...
Most people associate female/male with sexual organs. You can see this any many metaphors (e.g. google "female electrical outlet" and "male electrical outlet").
fish dev here. We love zsh and anyone pushing on what shells can do!

Here's where I think fish fits in. The main goals of fish are:

1. Thoughtful UI that just works

2. Sane scripting

zsh does more than fish, and we're happy to let it. The tradeoff is that zsh requires substantial configuration to realize that power - and once you get into the weeds, you will learn which options are incompatible with each other. zsh has 21 options controlling history, and fish has none, but you'll probably be happier with fish's defaults.

fish has a smaller feature set, but that feature set just works out of the box: tab completions, syntax highlighting, autosuggestions, etc. Customizations (prompt, colors, etc) can be done with a web UI or a nice command line interface, and not arcane syntax (PS1=...)

The hope is you can be more productive in your shell without needing to invest tons of time configuring and learning it.
Direct quote from Sean Spicer:

> This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in-person and around the globe

If "in-person" doesn't mean "physically at the inauguration" what does it mean then? It is not ambiguous.

Spicer made an unsubstantiated claim, and has since been defensively walking it back to the equally unsubstantiated second part of "around the globe."

"The media" is a very broad category, so I am not going to universally defend or attack them. But the Trump administration has simply been making things up and, as of yet, has not backed up any of these statements with evidence.

The media is a bit more hit or miss. It is true that some media outlets seem determined to make fun of Trump no matter what he does. That doesn't give Trump a free pass to make up shit. Obama had to deal with the same crap.
NPR is one of the worst propaganda outlets. It insulates it's listeners from opposing viewpoints to a degree that I think is unhealthy, I'm often in awe of the sophistication of it. When they have a opposition expert on, it's very rarely someone I consider credible. They misrepresent the viewpoint of the opposition, and it's hard to believe it's not deliberate. I watched them (along with the rest of the MSM to be fair) lead their flocks to war many times now. Like FOX, xNBC, CNN (worse than even NPR) they represent the global government faction. Each plays it's part, but it's not really different. Government should not be funding the media at all.

http://fair.org/extra/psyops-in-the-newsroom/
That book is #1 for classic american literature on Amazon right now.
I don't think it's fair to call a correct statement vacuous. More nuanced than it appears, and easily misinterpreted maybe.

I think it's fair to point out that peer review doesn't determine scientific truth, because that would get the causal relation in reverse.

Consensus has little to do with objective truth, but it is a useful heuristic as you say.
But in less than 30 months following the Apollo 1 accident,
NASA flew five Apollo missions. During the final one of
those five, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the
Moon. Much later, in the last decade of his life, Armstrong
would reflect on what it took to reach the Moon. “The rate
of progress is proportional to the risk encountered,” he
said. “The public at large may well be more risk averse
than the individuals in our business, but to limit the
progress in the name of eliminating risk is no virtue.”

Sadly, Armstrong and his ilk no longer makes the calls at NASA (and haven't for quite some time.) And so we see no progress.
> people seem to be reading far to much into it in any case

Executive orders, cabinet appointments and apparently agency gag orders left right and centre with more, plus SCOTUS nominees, to come. But all my Facebook feed talks about is rain and lawn coverings.
At the protest in NYC people were shouting "CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL"

Very sad that's something we need to be screaming in the streets.
Unsurprisingly, the answer to "would you react the same way if a totally different thing happened in a totally different context?" is: no.
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I and a lot of other progressives take issue with it because it is trans-exclusionary and continues the long tradition of mainstream feminist demonstrations or expressions being explicitly for a white, cisgendered audience. I think OP was being mysoginistic and wasn't thinking this, but there is criticism on the left of the symbol as well.

That said, now is not the time to start infighting with people just starting to become politically aware/active. Most of the marchers have never done anything political before so mistakes/naivety are to be expected
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If the circumstances of the people marching were flipped as well, yes. That requires a much deeper thought experiment though.

I don't know why we need to get all squeamish about female genitalia now, as apposed to when we are talking about what rights women have with theirs and whether you can talk about grabbing them.
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Flux has been such a great tool. I love that Apple is copying that functionality and I hope the Flux team understands that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Did they? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair
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Interestingly, Mozilla is trying to move in the same direction by supporting the same extension APIs as Chrome because they are more maintainable/secure/universal/performant but continue to struggle with adoption because things like the Tree Style Tabs extension are not possible with that api https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-dev...
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Pence has successfully kept it more or less between lanes for the ~17 years he's been a career politician. The guy might have snakes in his head but part of me would rather risk that than what is, to all appearances, an unhinged budding fascist surrounded by sycophants. YMMV.
I use Wine for MP3Tag (best tag editor I've ever used) and foobar2000.

Audacious is an excellent, excellent music player/frontend for whatever GStreamer backend you're using, but it can't handle in_vgm for Genesis/Megadrive files, the PSF plugin, and the ADPCM plugin for playing back Gamecube sound files.

Foobar absorbed all of the collective years of development effort to make Winamp play everything under the sun. That is slowly trickling into the Linux streamers, but they're not all there yet.

Wine is also great for random C# applets that people develop, like a HydrogenAudio tool I use to compare waveforms of FLACs and MP3s to see if the FLAC is a true FLAC or just an already-low-pass-filtered-MP3 converted to a FLAC.
While they would prefer Pence, their base is still enamored with Trump. The legislators are scared, and don't want to endanger their reelection until he is no longer popular.
Adam Curtis bingo!

https://twitter.com/chrisapplegate/status/787751065315840000...
Or is the problem that each incoming administration wants to rejigger the programs? If each president (thinking about Bush and Obama) would just hand the scientists and engineers a few billion dollars and tell them "go do something that'll make America proud," we'd have something to be proud of by now.
I think you have it backwards. The second he is no longer aligned with their agenda, they will clutch their pearls, blow up one of the existing scandals, and away we go.
For reference, the vast majority of Obama's first cabinet had been nominated (and largely confirmed) January 21st (the day after his inauguration). While certainly not always the case, given the pageantry associated with The First 100 Days, most American Presidents have been similarly prompt with their cabinet nominations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmations_of_Barack_Obam...
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Some employees have been working to preserve scientific data offsite and out of the US ahead of the expected purge of both data and scientists.
Fun fact: Mark Zuckerberg is born in 1984 : )
And that's exactly why I love fish, I just install it and go. Thanks!
Why would a march be more significant than the votes of 62 million people?

I agree that an awakening is overdue given that for instance, America’s child poverty levels are worse than in any developed country anywhere, including Greece and only Slovakia, Chile, Mexico and Turkey have worse infant mortality rates. Median adult wealth is 27th out of 27 high-income countries; internet speed and access is 16th out of 34 countries and for people living below the poverty line - US is 36th out of 162 countries, behind Morocco and Albania.

However the US does score a first in its prison population. It comes #1 out of 224 countries. Only China comes close.
Actually I feel for the original engineers who loved being in a tiny company making high quality speakers and audio amplifiers, and now find themselves in a wholly world of massive investment and interest.
Static analysis is, of course, very restricted in what it can give you answers to, although I'd still love to have more advanced tools widely available.

What I really consider a game-changer for concurrent programming are the dynamic checkers integrated into recent versions of GCC and Clang (and the Go compilers, too). Those make it super easy to flag data races and don't have any false positives. Caveats apply, naturally, as they can only flag those races that actually happen during a particular execution of your code.

While Valgrind and similar tools could do that for years, the difference with TSan is speed. It's fast enough that you can use it all the time during development. Same for AddressSanitizer and the undefined behaviour checkers.
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That's the use case I'm most familiar with. I've done this on many different machines for many years and not had anything like a crash once a day. I stand by my belief that your negative experiences are likely caused by a rare collision of variables and not representative of the typical experience among similar use cases. As I said in my post, it's totally legitimate that such an atypical experience may be caused by real bugs, but it's still an unfair generalization to say that Chrome and Firefox crash daily.
Killing our best and brightest after they express concerns about their safety? I hope that's not what it takes.
SQL Server basically uses Drawbridge, which is an NT kernel in userspace.
They did it, but I doubt that they'll sell it.
> "If you put all the current trends together, it seems obvious Silicon Valley will become the most powerful place on earth at the expense of just about everywhere else on earth."

It's not a zero-sum game. Google is collecting huge sums of ad revenue, but in return, it is improving the productivity of virtually all of its users. Just to illustrate what I mean, Kelly, my mechanical engineering friend, used to disappear into the engineering library for days looking up parts in catalogs, calling vendors to confirm specs and availability, placing orders over fax or phone, and waiting, sometimes weeks, for parts to arrive. Today, it's an afternoon's work, mainly on Google, and he has the parts in two or three days.
You probably want to re-read my post, as I said neither of these things.
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You may not know: on Unity you can saturate / desaturate the windows. I set them almost black and white and increase the saturation when I need it (shift + brigthness up / down).

I have no idea if it provide health benefits similar to the "orangy filters" but it's pretty nice on the eyes and, personally, it makes me happy to see the outside world with brighter colors than my screen.
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+1. Responded to the grandparent to say that I mainly use Wine for mp3tag. It's the first donationware software I've ever donated to! I bought him some CDs off his Amazon wishlist. It felt great to give back.
I've heard people say this on a number of occasions. Let me say why I'm not so worried about it. The thing that makes Trump different from almost any other politician I've seen is the control he has over his followers. They don't care if he lies or if any unpleasant fact about him comes to light. They're just transfixed by the guy. I don't believe that Pence or any other current politician has the same power or the same ability to do this. I imagine that, if Pence did have to assume office for some reason, he would just come off to Trump supporters as seeming like a typical politician. He wouldn't be able to drum up the same kind of enthusiasm.
New Relic and AppDynamics are quite similar and best in class. AppDynamics offers not only a cloud version but also on-premise installation. AppDynamics still uses Flash in parts of the UI, and the UI is more old-school but shows more data details. New Relic has a more polished UI, older parts are typical Rails pre-web 2.0 pages, newer parts are AJAX heavy modern. AppDynamics shows a map of all network components, New Relic map is quite new and more like an afterthought. Both use agents for several programming languages. All other alternatives have far worse offerings (either only good for one language, worse detail level, even bigger costs or just very outdated software) - incl two Thoma Bravo owned properties, Dell, MS, CA, etc

AppDynamics would have been one of the first SV IPO in 2017. How many SV tech IPOs will we actually see in 2017?
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Really? My facebook feed is a nonstop stream of political organization, grass-roots advocacy, media takedowns of the day's latest outrage, and the odd picture of someone's dog.
Now that the language is more feature rich the rose tinted glasses have come off a bit. The dev experience can be slow even on a decent MacBook, and the language has its own gotchas if you deeply nest type inferences.

But it still beats Obj C by a longshot.
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The hats were meant more as a symbol of feminine solidarity and to reclaim the word pussy though right? It's not trying to be anatomically correct, and afaict doesn't inheriently exclude trans people any more than it excludes progressive mens issues or the black lives matters movement.
I am honestly asking from a position of near total ignorance.

edit: Is it just that it's more a missed opportunity to pick a more inclusive symbol?
None of what you said will prevent the need for waiting for the majority of numerical algorithms.

No one's disputing Erlang's prowess at parallelism. What the critic in this thread was saying was that you can only get Nx speedup on an N core processor for a limited set of algorithms. Most parallel algorithms will not fall in this category. Amdahl's law is a general truth - it doesn't matter what your architecture/language is. There is nothing special about Erlang that will make any parallel algorithm scale linearly with nodes.
I'm sympathetic to your argument, but the more you harp on about "free" the less sympathetic I get. Most apps aren't free: they ask me to pay with money or data, which I do, or attention, which I prefer not to. Ad supported apps are not literally free — there's an exchange of value from the user to the developer in all cases.

I suspect what lies at the heart of this whole issue is that some developers think that attention is not a cost to the user.
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> For whatever reasons (and I still don't fully understand it, no, check that, I don't understand it at all), the Clintons were an absolute hate-magnet for the Right

It's funny you mention that, since by all metrics Clinton was about the most conservative democrat to gain office recently. A shame we've steadily moved away from middle-of-the-road since then.
Why the line history limit, though?

I do not want that my lines get deleted silently. ever. I would rather prefer that random files on my disk are deleted, before that. Is there any shell without line history limit?
A lot of the author's complaints, especially near the end, are personal preferences which explains by these "improvements" were never added. Not everyone would prefer a move to a significantly more functional style.

Arguably this difference is what caused Coconut to be made in the first place.

There's ample discussion on these topics to simply brush existing decisions off as "Incompetence? Politics? Both? Who knows."

For the fifth point, `list.index` works fine in Python 2 and 3 for me.
That's cool, thanks! I was more asking in terms of case studies and information-sharing. Trevor Blackwell's tool seems like it's more for the idealist/planning stage.
That's only the newest version of Safari, before that it was pretty shit (on par with IE). Can't expect the mind share to change overnight, especially when it has lagged for years.
you are getting downvotes most likely for confusing gender and sex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_gender_distinction

It's unfortunate because I think you were acting in good faith and an explanation would be more productive
It's an interpreted one in the sense that one can continually interact with it during the life time of a program. Many of the popular interpreted languages nowadays do some compilation somewhere (Python, Perl, etc).
I agree. That particular horizon figure is the only one I know off the top of my head, due to reading up on naval ballistics. Hence the remark about sea level.

Anything else requires some napkin math about the circumfrence of the earth and radial offsets for non-sea-level terrain, combine with a bit of triangulation, to estimate skyline impact. Then, heaped on top is the effects of local topography contours and relative relationships with other human structures.
>Has anyone actually done an unbiased comparison? I've seen the picture but there are plenty of possible explanations for that.

What better way to compare attendance of an outdoor event other than photos? There are also DC metro numbers, but they don't seem necessary as we have high-resolution images.

>And people seem to be reading far to much into it in any case.

Seems emblematic of bigger issues. Such as: unwillingness to correct previous mistakes, a penchant for conspiracy theories, ego disrupting day-to-day operations.
Fair enough - but I'll offer this:

+ Any decent developer can read decent code in Java or whatever normal language and get along just fine.

+ Only a few people can deal with Scala - and even fewer if there's a log of specific project Scala weirdness used in a particular program.

So sure - among a narrower set of 'Scala friendly' developers, and possibly within that even narrower set of people familiar with the 'Scala weirdness' of a particular project - those people can 'get along fine'.

The problem is that this can be a pretty narrow set of people.

Scala would have to represent a pretty big advantage to propose it's general weirdness as something to bother with.

I don't think it does - hence the 'de-adoption' of various entities.

My gut tells me it's past the threshold - the 'extra power' offered Scala just isn't quite worth it's weirdness for most things, and so most devs won't learn it ... and so then it becomes less valuable from a business perspective.

It's possible we may have it peak Scala.

We'll see I guess.
I'd like to tell you that stale data will always be a thing in any serious application because light only travels so fast. Therefore, you'll need to have sensible logic in the face of stale data either way, so it's not so bad as you think.

...and while that's true, I'd still like to hear the opinion of someone more knowledgeable because it's an issue that's been bugging me too.
There have been side-by-side comparisons provided many times over by the same parties at the same vantage points, taken at roughly similar times (tens of minutes at most). The Trump pics, during much warmer weather with a bit of a drizzle, are sparsely populated compared to the Obama pics of roughly the same moment in inaugural event time, and a far colder 28 degrees outside, are far more packed. There's nothing fake happening here. There's even an awesome time lapse covering, I believe, a roughly 7-hour period. There's video and photo evidence of the Pres & VP walking along with empty stands behind and beside them. None of the photographic proof has been doctored—which would make it fake. The only thing fake here are the claims of the proof being fake.
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According to [1], it's similar to a Republican bill from the 1990s, but was not a Heritage Foundation proposal.

> More hard-line senators such as Phil Gramm, R-Texas, House Republicans and the Heritage Foundation saw the Chafee bill as an unacceptable compromise.

[1] http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2013/nov/15/...
Don't piss in my pocket and tell me it's raining. We all saw the same video. Her intent was quite clear and was backed during the same interview with a naked threat.
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