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> I have no desire to spend 4x that on a Tesla that is simply overspec'd for a simple commute car

The Model 3 and the Bolt would be similar in costs. Wouldn't it?
in the us debit cards take the money out of your account while credit cards must be paid - dispute or fradludlent transactions don't wipe your savings out, they can stay on and a balance until you clear the situation up with the card company if you use credit
It'll depend a lot on the child.
Thank you for the tip about gitea, which appears to be a fork of gogs:

https://blog.gitea.io/2016/12/welcome-to-gitea/

I'll check that out first I think - I really like the ease of deployment with gogs, so if the project have some features a little more ironed out - it might be just what I need.
In Europe, it's much easier to get debit than credit. You get debit card for any bank account you own, and sometimes it will even be free of charge. Even for accounts in different currency than your local one. Functionally, it's not much different than credit - you can pay on the internet, pay in all the stores, use in ATM. Why bother with applying for credit card, then (for most people)?

It used to be different though, for example 10+ years ago I couldn't pay on the internet with my debit card, it had to be credit card - we called them "convex cards" because of the "raised" numbers on the card instead of just flat-printed card number.
If you use a debit card, the money is taken out of your bank account instantly and getting that money back is a giant pain. In a credit card (in the US), that money taken out is the bank's money and you can always dispute that transaction which leads to the bank losing money, not you.
Sadly true, perhaps many little kids are brought up on intense violence and might not be scared by Pixar films, which is really sad.
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That doesn't sound right.

I think maybe by number of cells we are more gut bacteria than human.
> Aren't the other seven continents the dominant land-mass on a separately defined tectonic plate?

The dominant land mass of the Eurasian plate is Eurasia.
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The blend of Reddit meme and HackerNews fact-based replies is just right in this thread.
Wouldn't a ballista with hollow projectile filled with the stuff work better and be mobile or should I stop giving them ideas?
After few years of skepticism, I got convinced that pure functional programming (ala Haskell) is the right path forward. (What convinced me was that you can do the same things as in Lisp, with type checking, see http://www.haskellforall.com/2012/06/you-could-have-invented... and more recently http://www.haskellforall.com/2016/12/dhall-non-turing-comple... .)

I think having very strong foundations is very comforting, and the separation of side effects (and introducing them into the type system) has important consequences for composability. But it is still hard and work in progress.

One of the more subtle criticism I have of the classic design patterns is that they often rely on interfaces as descriptions of objects (in the general sense). But it is a very weak description, and indeed, the most useful type classes (which is comparable to interface) in Haskell actually also have laws (not expressible in the type system, for better or worse) that describe behavior. This was a point made by Erik Meijer, that really, you want to describe the objects (that your abstractions can work with) with the laws governing them, not interfaces.

So yes, I think the type classes with laws that are commonly used in Haskell (which is actually pretty much application of mathematical concepts) are the way forward, because they are both better defined and more fruitful (thanks to being explicit about laws) than design patterns.

In particular, I suspect the whole field of group theory is still waiting to be discovered by programmers; I had this idea of looking at error handling and recovery, or transactional processing, as a group operations within a certain subgroup (of valid system states). So no operation or empty transaction is a neutral element, and recovery from action or transaction rollback are inverse elements in some group. I am not yet clear whether this is helpful or trivial, and I am not really sure how to proceed with it. But Monoid abstractions are already quite used in Haskell, so why not Group ones?
You forget that the mainstream had no choice. The old centralized authorities fought and fought hard.

As an older user I'm surprised you conceded this point so quickly by calling it copyright infringement. These are the same guys who made CDs cost magically more than cassettes, stood at every juncture against moving society forwards and have constantly pushed American copy right life higher because they can afford the lawyers normal people can't.

People didn't give up anything - they lost something they didn't know they had because media firms beat them.
> it's hard to imagine a more obvious and plain application of "freedom of the press" in the information age than the right to record what one's eyes and ears can see and hear and then publish the same

So there is no more "off the record"? No moral argument against "revenge porn" or broadcasting what you see in the changing rooms at the gym? Privacy is completely torn away - if someone can see it in any setting, it become fodder for the public?

Yes, you should be able to record police conduct in public, just like anything else, but the way you framed your argument is dangerous.
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Credit cards are popular in the UK, though 2.8x more is spent on debit cards. Total spends on credit and debit cards are £174B and £486B, respectively. For some numbers see pg 9 of the UK Card Payments 2016 report here: http://www.theukcardsassociation.org.uk/downloads/index.asp
The “cash back” is getting pulled right out of merchants’ wallets. If you’re patronizing small local businesses, then using such cards is not very neighborly.
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>Mass following and liking, unfollowing and commenting

This shit should be banned for life.
Makes me wonder how a modern catapult or spear thrower would look like and be able to do with our current material science and engineering.
A respected book on this subject is McKee : Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting.

The principle is simple, each atomic item (a moment / a beat etc.) in the story needs to represent a polar change in human values (e.g. Love->Hate, Hope->Despair etc.) - atomic items are grouped into higher levels (scenes), which again have an overarching change in values, and again these levels are grouped into even higher levels (acts etc.) which repeat the same pattern. Finally, at the top level - the story itself from the beginning to end also has the value change idea.

One of the things McKee taught me - if a scene, beat or moment doesn't have a change in values - then it's probably not interesting (filler) and you should think about cutting it.

Hope this helps anyone interested in story structure... I highly recommend reading McKee.
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Maybe for front end a better example would be the difference between a list and a hash map.

And the front end is used for some pretty crazy things these days, eg 3D rendering. Sure if you're making a social network for cats it probably isn't an issue, but then not everyone is.
There's 0 difference between using a "cash back" card and using a non "cash back" card.
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I've had YouTube show me ads at the end of videos. It certainly beats ads during the middle, but it's also often more jarring than ads at the start. Say you put some soft music playing and tab away, then it ends and suddenly you get a loud, fast-paced ad - I usually respond by closing the tab immediately.
> The naïve algorithm in float averages 4.81 µs, Bresenham’s algorithm averages at 1.84 µs, my fixed point variation at 1.74 µs. The Fixed point implementation runs about 5% faster. Which isn’t all that much, but still better than Bresenham’s; and much better than the naïve version using mixed floats and integers.

> The situation is similar on the 64 bits machine, but the advantage of fixed point vanishes. Both methods takes very similar times: fixed point averages at 0.85 µs and Bresenham 0.84 µs, a difference of about 1%. However, the naïve implementation is still very far behind, at 2.96 µs.

When you said "easily beaten" I kind of expected more than just a 1-5% performance improvement.

There is also another (potential) problem with fixed point: it works by adding up rounded numbers:

> The only thing we need, is to compute the slope m as a fixed point number rather than a floating point number.

As a result, the fixed point might create rendering artefacts from adding up a rounded number repeatedly. This makes the whole thing an apples-to-oranges comparison:

- floating point method that does multiply/divide every iteration

- fixed point that adds a rounded fraction

- Bresenham that does unrounded fraction adding by splitting the fraction into an accumulator and divisor (Bresenham is actually really simple primary school math with some geometry on top)

To make a truly fair comparison, we should add a version that precomputes the floating point fraction, and adds that each iteration; I suspect the main slowdown of the naive floating point algorithm is the repeated multiply/divides more than the cast to integer, not the casts.
Ballistas are no more (or less) mobile than catapults, are harder to maintain and have a lower payload if you use them for transport. They have a good precision and piercing power, but much less payload, even if you include the entire bolt.
Wouldnt a Lastensegler drone design be far more efficient?
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I didn't know that was a main reason for using Credit over Debit. I only fly about three times a year, so not sure it would be worth it. I think the main reason I don't use credit cards too much is the idea of debt. I've been in debt before and it is not pleasant, so I try to avoid it as much as possible.

It's probably not a logical thing, but more like people who went through food rationing - who would never leave even a pea on their plate afterwards. On a more macro-level, you can probably see a reluctance to splash cash around for around a decade after each financial collapse.
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I can't remember who pointed it out, but someone said that everyone is missing the point when they talk of bad police being a 'few bad apples' and the rest are fine. The full phrase is 'A few bad apples spoil the whole barrel'.
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> I didn't ask how can a line of credit exist without a credit card, I asked how can a credit card exist without a line of credit.

What makes you think it can't ? Of course a credit card relies on the concept of line of credit.

I am stating the obvious that two things (line of credit and credit card) are different and you are the one asking how one (credit card) can exist without the other one (line of credit) like it implied both are the same or mutually dependent. It's not. There are a lot of countries where you can have a line of credit without a credit card. Hence: line of credit != credit card.

> > Credit card is just lubricant to the economy (or debt making some might say).

> I still don't think that answers the question.

That's because you pick the wrong sentence in my reply and make it an answer to your question in order to fit your argument.

Or maybe you really are arguing that a credit card is actually the same thing as a line of credit ?
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In reality culture fit means "do I like you or not?". To get disqualified on culture fit, all you need is one single interviewer that will not feel %100 comfortable working with you. You can get discriminated on anything really, if you seem smarter than the interviewer, if the interviewer is having a bad day, your voice, the way you look, your laugh, etc. In other words, it's nearly impossible to figure out the exact reason why you'd get disqualified on "culture fit". It's in the interviewer's brain only. He or she will obviously never share the real reason why. Sometimes it's not even explainable on paper, it's just a personal feeling, you haven't connected with the candidate for no particular reason. So you can't write an official feedback based on culture fit. Interviewers will never share their personal tastes because it doesn't seem professional. That's why 'we' use algorithm questions :)

Speaking of "technical" questions - the good news is that there's absolutely no difference between Junior and Senior dev nowadays. Questions are identical so you can learn it once and re-apply for life. Everything you've learned in college is what will get you a job, even 10 years down the road so forget about your professional experience. Majority of interviewers have no skills interviewing candidates. They apply the same evaluation whether you're a tech lead or fresh out of school. If you happen to have 10 years of experience or at least one project on your Resume, they might fill up the blanks by asking you a few questions about your previous projects. But the goal is to jump straight into the basic CS questions (algo) because this leads to a YES or NO answer. That's what interviewers use to make a decision and let you go to the next round or not. You can't fail answering questions like "tell me about your project XYZ, what was difficult, how did you solve it". Though if you can't reverse a linked list because you forgot to google it prior to the interview, you will get disqualified right away since it gives the interviewer a solid feedback to write down that will never get challenged by the hiring manager.

To answer your question - what I just wrote is what frustrates me the most in the recruiting process in the Software world. I've been dealing with this thing for years... as an interviewer and interviewee. Things are getting worse in 2017 because I see 500 applicants per job. You get disqualified on questions like "do you use a new line for curly braces?". The trick is to not answer right away and to return the question back to the interviewer - "good question, what do YOU use?". Then just say "me too"... safe bet.
I believe Musk means it when he says he wants to wean humanity off of fossil fuels. The big fish you talk about are definitely means to this end and not the goal itself.
And then there's a movie like Clerks which has a lot of filler, but ends up being endearing. Most of the dialogue is just people saying funny random stuff.
Pretty sure that Visa et all. charges a fee regardless of debit/credit cards. There is a difference in the amount charged, perhaps. If a business wants to give me a discount for using cash that might make me consider doing so. Supporting small business, which is something I try to do, is still business. Keep that in mind.
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I have it in 5.25" double-density disks (360 KB/disk) and I remember it being awful to play, because it would very often ask for protracted sequences of disks with repetitions (e.g. when going from one screen to another it could ask for disks 2,3,2,3,6,4,1,2,3,1,2,3, or things like that). I had other games that had the same number or even more disks, but they asked less often, for much shorter sequences, and always or almost always without repetitions. Probably the content in those was distributed taking that into account, while in Loom the 5'25" DD version was just an afterthought and they just distributed the content into the diskettes arbitrarily.

This was so frustrating, and felt so gratuitous (because games with way more disks behaved much better) that I didn't get very far in the game and I have always had a negative view of it since then (probably the fact that I have always been a fan of text interfaces and of deaths in adventure games didn't help either, but the disk issue was really a deal-breaker).
I think it's less because they're banks than because they're operating at a huge scale with thin margins and competing on nothing but price. You see the same behavior with mobile phone and insurance companies.
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Thanks for the recommendation, will definitely check that out!
At the same time, some people are just more talented. No matter how much I try, I'll never be that strong compared to other guys. I can barely bench press above body weight ONCE. It took me years to achieve a 210 lbs max. I've taken time off and even after months of working my way back I'm still not back at this strength level yet.

Why can't the same be applied to skills that have a more mental component? Some people just don't get it.
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Pretty much this :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNuu9CpdjIo

I love that film.
In the US a debit card is free and standard for any checking or savings account.

It's functionally the same, yes, in the sense they are just plastic cards that perform transactions, but as I mentioned in my post there's a big difference in the financial impact. I won't pretend to know the rules, regulations, etc in Europe for credit cards, but when I traveled there I used my cards for everything and only had a problem once with CaptaineTrain booking a train ticket.

With one of my cards I get 3% cash back on dining. So while I'm traveling throughout Europe I'm getting 3% off every meal. If you're paying in cash you're still paying full price. Soooo why pay in cash and not get a 3% discount.

I've also noticed recently that Yelp is offering discounts when people link their credit card in their Yelp account. I saw something like 7% off of your meal for doing so at one restaurant. Now I haven't done that yet, I'm still considering the privacy implications, but it is there.

In the US at least, and I suspect Europe, you should use a credit card for every single purchase.
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Nice false dichotomy you built up there friendo :^). It's either waste taxpayer money on a useless expensive wall or have no border oversight at all huh? (you're also showing how ignorant you are about how much security already goes into our border)
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PHP7 was a huge performance leap over 5.x, I saw all the benchmarks and they looked impressive (100% performance, 50-80% reduction in memory usage) and expected the usual "Ok but in the real world I'll get maybe 10-20% because benchmarks" and nope, in production I see exactly what the 5 vs 7 benchmarks show.

The memory reductions when dealing with large arrays (pretty much the only datatype in PHP...) are colossal.
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Rather, common good is an emergent property of personal gain. People are simply aware that the threads that hold society together benefit themselves the most.
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> I suspect the main slowdown of the naive floating point algorithm is the repeated multiply/divides more than the cast to integer, not the casts.

You'd be surprised. Last time I tried it, casting a floating point number to an integer was many times slower than floating point multiply.
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As long as we're sharing anecdotes, I've been watching Pixar movies since I was quite young - Toy Story was the first movie I saw in the theaters, at the age of four - and I have consistently loved them. Toy Story was my favorite movie for years as a child.

There are some mildly scary or tense scenes in many Pixar movies but I think children are more receptive to that kind of experience than you think they are. There is definitely a question of age appropriateness / maturity that you would want to think about before showing one to a very young child, but that's the responsibility of you as the adult, not Pixar. Kids movies aren't one size fits all. And it certainly doesn't feel like a valid criticism of the quality of the storytelling to say that some children are scared by them; tension and investment in the outcome by the viewer are hallmarks of good storytelling, not bad.
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>It's functionally the same, yes

Not even close. Being able to spend money that's not yet hit your account is a tremendous advantage for credit cards.

Oh, and when the hotel front desk screws up their holds you aren't forced to shuffle around money while waiting for the money to be released back to your account.
This issue happens specifically because Samsung is bigger than the government and becoming its own government in itself, you don't see small companies bribing the Korean government
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This really is true. During an interview I gave in college, I was rejected because of 'culture fit', because I tried to explain my solution to the interviewer but he wasn't bothered to understand it. My friend (who later got hired) told me that he said that while I was technically capable, I had 'an attitude problem'. Not saying I wasn't at fault, but it does matter because interviewers are human too, and like working with people they enjoy spending time with.
I'd add a caveat to point 1, it is only a huge saving if you were going to buy whatever it is anyway.

Has anyone done studies on the effects of cashback on consumer behavior?
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Same with train companies. Travel without a ticket and they'll fine you far far more than they will compensate you if they fail to run the train.
My University provides a self-hosted GitLab (via the joint datacenter of the cities universities and research organisations) and it's really, really nice.

I think you can't really ask your students to sign up to anything or use anything that isn't hosted or provided by the university. And even for stuff provided by the university, you shouldn't be forced to use any particular software.
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Agreed. What strikes me as perhaps noteworthy is that I can remember when Hyundai started selling cars in the United States, and it took quite awhile (from memory, until the early 2000s) before anyone was taking them seriously. Meanwhile, Tesla seems to have become entrenched in the mindshare of the American populace much, much more quickly (in the same way that the iPhone did relative to Android).

Tesla may or may not be around to reap the rewards of their popularization of the electric car, but they've definitely made an impact, and done their part to push automotive thinking forward by at least a decade IMO.
My question is: How do you make boring things interesting on the fly.

For example:

If you are asking me - how was your day ? I will tell you: Well, I switched on the computer, did some x and y, ate lunch, continued and switched it off again.

Some coworkers of mine can go you on and on about their day and it stays entertaining. There are some things that they do differently, eg focus on people and emotions. But still I have such a hard time drawing out the banalities of everyday into an exciting adventure.

This skill is super valuable - anyone having similar problems and ideas on how to improve it?