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Suspend the vm. :)

Try https://chocolatey.org/ , it's kind of apt-get for windows. Still didn't try it myself though.
A big part of it is that going under general anesthesia is more dangerous than not going under general anesthesia.

It's also more expensive than a vial of lidocaine and takes longer.

I had a filling put in last year. Local anesthetic only. No pain. Took about 20 minutes.
Can't you just donate money to the company? Would that entail tax?
> and provoke a general sense of unease/impending doom

Oh shit I thought I was just weird. Do you have any more information on that? I felt that when I was getting a crown put in, it was horrifying, "impending doom" is the perfect description.

It also happened the (one) time I donated blood, though I don't remember being given any injections or anything though; but I felt that EXACT same "impending doom" sensation; at the time I thought basically "well this is the end, they accidentally took too much blood and I'm going to die now". I felt cold to the core and started sweating horribly and spontaneously, just like the time at the dentist.
Hey people, author here.

I've seen a lot of comments about the tone of the article or how this isn't the best approach to take with someone who literally exhibits this behavior. And if you take the post literally and from the point of view of the person being asked advice, you're pretty much right (unless of course we're talking about this strategy as a literal response to Stack Overflow posts).

In truth, this is not my literal approach when people come to me exhibiting this behavior. I'm actually quite a lot nicer in person (believe it or not). Really, this article was written with the hope in mind that it would be read and shared with people who aren't particularly good at exploring the WHY of "does not work". In fact, almost all of my articles are geared toward entry level developers.

Anyway, I'm glad most of you seemed to enjoy it, and pretty much all of you agreed that the overall sentiment of the post is good advice, even if you didn't like the tone (which is perfectly fair).
This is not a general purpose file system, but something purpose built for serving as a docker storage driver. LCFS outperforms existing solutions and does not have any correctness issues.

It is an experimental release at this point. We would like to receive feedback from the community and make it successful for everybody. Our tests so far look very promising.
Is it perhaps more comparable to (new) Battlestar Galactica? I liked how much of the show was just politics.
Yes, I looked it up and found this source quite useful for getting a high-level idea of what the CMU team accomplished.
I incorporated a Limited in the past in Switzerland, Germany and France. Switzerland is a snap, Germany is unnecessary time consuming. France is hell.

Clarification: Setting up a SARL in France is comparable to Germany, but the red tape to run it is hell.
That doesn't seem obviously true. If you operate a service and I operate a service and their loads are out of phase the cloud provider can serve us both with one set of hardware, halving the price. If I own my hardware, and I'm not a cloud computing provider, I pay the full cost 24x7.
Hmm true, I also read about that.

China will turn into Russia then (minus the oil), manufacturing for its domestic market only.
Thank you very much for your reply! It is very informative and useful. Somewhere in back of my head I presumed all of this. But I didn't know that comments can be also down-voted. Anyways thank you for all of these details!
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How do we know whether or not we're properly reproducing whatever they're seeing if we don't know what we're seeing?

I've seen scenarios where a set of reproduction steps actually showed two things wrong. QA was sending it back for one of the things, but they didn't say what was wrong, only that something was wrong and here's how to reproduce it. The developer saw the other problem, and fixed it. The result when shipped back to QA?

"You didn't fix the problem, but I opened a new defect now for the other thing you broke."
> We created higher level languages (Haskell, Go, Java) as a mitigation but they never really succeeded in that domain.

We already had them, but then the industry adopted UNIX as the infrastructure OS, and C came along.

Just like the browsers brought JavaScript along for the ride.
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My guess would be that GA is an order of magnitude more dangerous than most routine dentist procedures like root canals or teeth extraction. Most people would rather suffer through the pain than add extra risk to the operation.
So you risk a kids excruciating pain on the mere promise of a doctor being good with distractions?

And for what?
Surely you realize that perhaps you're taking your bad experience and extrapolating it to the rest of Twitter?

Saying that Twitter is a "giant bullshit factory" "populated by twentysomethings with no real life experience" is a generalization that invalidates everyone who doesn't fall into your stereotype.
> they are incompetent programmers, at least right now

So train them. They will want to be trained and fill those roles if the salary is high.

> I don't believe that everyone can or wants to do software engineering for a living

Why can't they? Offer easy entry, and the promise of a high salary, and more people will want to do these jobs. If everyone got to do what they wanted, we'd have a surplus of firemen and veterinarians, and few accountants and garbage men.
You don't need to have $400 million revenue and do custom data centres to pay less than the published rates for any of the public cloud providers. Heck, you don't need a million in revenue to be able to save on going managed hosting or bare metal colocated.

The key here is: Compared to published rates. They'll not be paying published rates, the same as there's no way Netflix is paying published rates at AWS.

They'll be paying extremely highly discounted rates, assuming they're negotiating team isn't staffed with a bunch of people who failed their business degrees.
Because you'll wind up in the same place. You might start off more detached, but you'll eventually be just as emotionally invested in the responses to whatever you do with that account.
huh, where does your experience come from?

currently running two small swiss it companies (3 and 6 employees), and ran several more in the past. none had a "full-time administrator".

founding costs (notary, fees etc) were always around €2000 for GmbH and €5000 for AG. our yearly expense for an external accounting expert to do our end-of-year accounting and taxes is around 1k to 2k per company (i.e. 1 to 2 man-day).
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US commercial airlines haven't had a fatal accident since 2009. I think that's a better apple than 'traveling by plane'.
The official way to invert intervals is to subtract the range from 9 (3rd becomes 6th, 2nd becomes 7th, etc) and flip the character (major <=> minor, aug <=> dim, octaves and unisons don't change.)

The range is defined by the relationship to the key root, so you need to know the key to do this properly.

You can invert at other intervals, which creates inversion plus transposition. See e.g.

https://www.teoria.com/en/articles/BWV885/
How do you make the solder paste stencil? How do you make the PCB traces?
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If you turn on VoiceOver on iOS (accessibility feature for the blind) and then tap on photos on the Photos app, it will read out whatever it found in that photo
I am proud to say I essentially shun all socia media. I have never had a Twitter or Instagram account. I do have Facebook, but I essentially never use it - I haven't posted anything in years other than "happy birthday" to a few people.

Social media has always been incredibly self-centered and narcissistic. But over the last few years it has become a truly nasty place with all the flame wars and political crap going on. Everyone has something to say. And no one listens to anyone else. I have no use for such a medium in my life.

Twitter is by far the worst of all social media because of the limited message length. No well-reasoned arguments can be expressed in that short limit so we are instead left with a battle for the snarkiest, most sarcastic comments people can muster.

The so-called "discourse" in America (and probably the world) has reached a new pathetic low. I am confident I am not missing out on anything of actual value.
I left Facebook a couple years ago and Twitter a couple weeks ago. I used both somewhat successfully to promote my work for a long time.

I find it remarkable how much better my life feels already. I have so much more focus, energy, and concentration to devote to my work. I don't have the constant nagging at the back of my mind to mindlessly scroll. Left without an easy escape, I find my focus tends to go towards actually creating things. And if I feel the itch to interact with people, it's more of a one-on-one interaction.

I highly recommend trying it.
But even those numbers show that the death rate for kids aged 0-4 is significantly higher[1] than for older kids and young adults. I know that doctors on the whole really try to avoid having to put kids under for just this reason.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2697561/figure/...
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Went into the article assuming it was another anti free speech whine piece. Was pleasantly surprised that it was more generally about social media, MH, and a dependency cycle.

This pervades social media culture and as is noted in the article-- a user knows it is taking a toll but the rush is a driving factor. It is like drug, or any addiction-- captivating and hard to break.

Decent article, nice change of pace from other articles recently.
Thanks!

Naturally I was curious about the big looming question "ok, so what is the cost/page for the new ACM TALG, then"? I surfed the journal's pages (at http://talg.acm.org/index.cfm) for a while but was unable to come up with an answer.

A subcription to just the journal is $360, I assume that's yearly. But the number of issues per year seems to vary, and I failed completely to figure out the page count for a typical issue. I hope it's cheaper than before! :)

Also, I love that the journal has submission rules that limit authors to max one paper regarding P != NP per 24 months:

No author may submit more than one paper to J. ACM, ACM Trans. on Algorithms, ACM Trans. on Computation Theory, or SIAM J. on Computing in any 24 month period, purporting to resolve the P versus NP question or related long-standing questions in complexity theory, except by invitation of the Editor-in-Chief.

I wonder if such limitations are needed/common in other fields, or if it's more of an in-joke. Also, there's a typo in Knuth's address on the Editors page. :)
One thing I think Sun got wrong with Java was being religious against AOT compilation.

Had that option been part of the standard toolchain, instead of only commercial JDKs, I bet there would even be more people adopting it instead of keep using C and C++ for certain classes of user space applications.
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Even without that the house is against you. You can only win about 70% on a bet, but will always lose 100%

That's worse than the roulette.
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I found a ridiculous bug in YouTube and seem unable to successfully report it :(
all legally obtained riches were already taxed as per law at the time of earning it. so this is double taxation, and a massive punishing one.

same as if you sell a thing you already paid VAT for - new buyer then should also pay VAT on selling price, right? foreign person shouldn't be favored better than your own children.
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Okay so my latest issue http2... In C# you have to be running the newest version of Windows to use it. You know how happy my boss was to hear that we needed new server licenses to use http2? Very. Use .NET core? Not ready yet for production yet but probably will be in a few years.

In Java I can run Jetty or Netty on whatever and use http2. Old Os or whatever doesn't matter because the protocol isn't tied to the OS network stack.
> a collection of people with a common culture and ethnicity

google says:

> people united by common descent, history, culture, or language

You added "and ethnicity", are you saying a nation can't be composed of multiple ethnicity?

And does it really matter? America is a country.
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My wisdom teeth happened to come in pretty straight and level. When I was in the Army, the dentist there suggested having them taken out during AIT (primary MOS training school), but it wasn't an order. I nope'd right out of that because I had heard about a dozen stories like yours.
Sales & Marketing expense was $124M, they spent ~$9M on advertising, so ~$115M on sales and marketing, and $183M on R&D (engineering).

So about 61:39, eng:sales, if you were to assume wages were equal, on average.
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Its very good for quick prototyping. I have used it for experimentation and it speeds up your iterations by a significant amount.

From my blog post [1] -
"I explored a whole bunch of options on what platform to use for training ML - Scikit Learn, Tensorflow, AWS Machine Learning and Microsoft Azure. Azure’s ease of use puts it in another league altogether - especially for people who want to just apply existing ML algorithms. Drag and drop, kicking off experiments parallely, easy to construct flows etc. allow you to move really really fast as compared to writing code.

This might become a bottleneck later as we scale or it might become more expensive to run - but the tools they provide save tons of time, especially for prototyping and experimentation. I highly recommend trying out Azure - their free tier gives a good taste of what’s possible on their platform."

[1] http://blog.doctorc.in/post/156115218607/predicting-medical-...
The only time I've been awake for surgery they pumped me so full of drugs that the sterile room was the best thing ever and for about an hour or two afterwards I wanted to go back for more surgery so that I could get more of those awesome drugs.
Wake up at five something, take a piss, shower and dress yourself.

No time for breakfast, throw intra and post-workout shakes into the bag and head to the gym with SO.

After training, we may sit down to eat something in a bakery depending on the time.

Go to work. Upon arriving fetch some decaff and prepare that stupid daily meeting. Middle manager crack.

Lunch break. Walk in the park for one hour while drinking a litre of milk, phoning relatives and listening to podcasts.

I get paid for browsing HN.

After work it's all me and SO time. We love cooking elaborated dinners and gossiping about our colleagues.

Videogames and technical books are the only computer related things I still do. I despise them so much I had to buy a PlayStation for gaming as touching a keyboard makes me anxious.

GitHub is your resume now.
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Not to mention that the best C# IDE is better than any of the Java ones.
How is their banking/financial/legal services compared to countries that have been doing it for decades, e.g. malta, cyprus, ireland?
I think you've actually touched on the precise nature of the problem. It's GREAT as a marketing and PR platform. It SUCKS as an interpersonal communication medium.
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Maybe some sort of waiver would solve that within the context of the H1B? Exceptions based on regional needs or organizational focus?
You can do that - I actually tried it and everyone on my team agreed that it was bloody annoying, so I made it stop blinking (still red, though).
An article much more relevant to that question: https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/slowchat/

It took Instagram Stories two quarters to catch up to Snapchat's total MAU.
Thanks you. The Banner Saga vanished from my radar, but it was on there some time ago. I'll add it to my wishlist and snap it on a sale, it has Linux version on Steam, at least the first part.
I wonder how common these one-on-one are? Apart from bi-yearly reviews, I've never heard of something like this, although the environment I currently work in is particularly toxic in this respect.
> There. A single base-pair change, flipping two bits, is perhaps all you need to turn the current less-deadly H1N1 swine flu virus into a more deadly variant.

Similar idea:
I have a friend in a lab who recently made a synthetic version of a virus (she said she was "resuscitating" the virus). It has a single point mutation. It's normally BSL-4 and causes lethal infection. With the mutation it's supposedly safe to work with and won't enter certain cells.

Apparently the polymerase screwed up and altered some part of that gene, or maybe it wasn't mutated in the first place, or maybe the initial sequencing was incorrect. Regardless, I got a terrified message from her saying the synthetic version was replicating in a cell line that it wasn't supposed to. (Fortunately, she had continued to work with it in a containment lab.) Eventually her lab group scraped the study.

Before this, I wasn't really concerned about this kind of work.
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I really hope Apple squares off the sides of the next iPhone. The current 6-era design is a slippery mess.
This also looks like it's more work in the same direction as the "The Son Also Rises" ( http://amzn.to/2jFnUmZ ).

There are actually a lot of studies of this nature, across Europe, Asia and the Americas. This result is not unique to Florence - you get much the same result everywhere in the world.

Furthermore, this result seems primarily driven by factors intrinsic to the people/families themselves and not to the society they live in. There are a number of invisible subgroups (e.g. "New France", or people with names like Bauchau) which underperform or overperform across the generations. And when people shift from one society to another (e.g. West Bengal to America), the effects persist.
Yea, BSG is probably a more apt comparison than Firefly (that being said I prefer Expanse to BSG). As much as I love Firefly it was essentially a monster of the week show with only a little in the way of larger scale plot building going on.
It gets worse the more familiar you are with open source, because you know how bad you're missing out.

All the guys that live in MS world swear they're not missing out on anything. But these are the same guys that lived in the enterprise version of North Korea until a few years ago.
"status accounts, event updates, and so on are handled really well through Twitter"

But Twitter doesn't even guarantee that your followers will see all of these updates.¹ Wouldn't RSS or email be more reliable?

¹https://lee-phillips.org/tsb009009009/
It's a little click-baity, but it's also a pretty good framing for the article, which discusses both the number of kilobytes encoded in the virus and the number of bits that need changing to make the virus deadlier. Much like with naming poems, they took the first sentence of the post (minus some preamble) and used it as the title. Idk. Seems pretty defensible to me.
Microsoft also helped create the MSX, which not a lot of people in the US know about but was a beloved computer in South America and Japan.
I am now super curious to have a technical understanding of why it's the average strategy that converges and not the strategy itself.
Although I don't know your particularly situation and where you live, if you are US based you might want to consult an attorney or accountant who has worked with startups.

One of the motivations behind bankruptcy (chpt 11 particularly) law was to mitigate the losses that entrepreneurs are likely to encounter given the risk that they take on -- at least this is what I've been told by accountants across the political spectrum. This may also address any personal financial losses that you may have encountered.

Feel free to ignore the political dig but this is smart business apparently: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2016/live-updates/ge...
IMO promises and Bluebird made `async` obsolete.
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I agree with you but FWIW there are both big (Bluebird) and small (pinky-promise) packages to promisify stuff.
I agree it is important to understand the loopholes, but the debate is still important: regardless of which side you fall on, it is important whether society thinks it is just or unjust for wealth to be propegated indefinitely and exactly to one's heirs.

In the US we have a mixed bag of libertarians who think it just and egalitarians who think it unjust. If you ever want to see either the token estate tax ended or the loopholes closed, and not just indefinitely moan over the imperfect world we live in, you have to make your case. Arguing over the estate tax is a reasonable proxy: if you could actually convince people the estate tax was important and necessary, they would also be inclined to believe we should close the loopholes.
Tit for Tat between states for the life of individuals?
I wonder how did you come up to put Bulgaria and Estonia in the same bucket. The two countries have almost nothing in common. I am a Bulgarian native and for my current endeavor I seriously consider creating an Estonian company.
Not having a basic understanding of how internal combustion engines work means not understanding one of the linchpins of our civilization as it is today.

I'm not saying you shouldn't be using third-party services - professional specialization is another linchpin of our civilization. All I'm saying is that people should understand these things, in order to have a chance of comprehending the world they live in.
Very interesting! Bookmarking your blog post for later. I'm still deciding whether I should focus on Scikit/TF/AzureML, or multiples. Any comparisons between them are welcome. Would be nice to see a cost breakdown for each of them either (as in development time and $$ to run it).
Looks far better than Weather.com and accuweather.com
It is not going to get you full Java 5 support either. The project was dead before the OpenJDK even existed and it never got better.