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Interesting, thanks for taking a serious look at your answers! I have similar takes on those issues, so this is a thought-provoking one for me.

I wonder how you would feel about partial evidence on those points? Like, if someone could show that societies with permissive LGBT rights are consistently (and causatively) less successful, even if they aren't destroyed? I've certainly never seen such evidence, but I'm not sure where on "no harm" to "destroyed like Rome" my tipping point would be. Or - is the abortion point about non-personhood (maybe not applicable at 8.75 months) or bodily autonomy (applicable right up till birth)?

More generally, though: I think those are just places where you save some time by citing a moral basis. It's like arguing contraception with Catholics - you can skip right past AIDS rates and single parenthood by conceding that they think it's a mortal sin, and without changing that they'll never budge. So if someone wants to talk about traditional marriage or fetal pain or whatever else, you can skip ahead with "seriously, address this one issue or I'm going nowhere".
All of that is a result of government action and the government hiring private corporations, not private corporations acting on their own.
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True. When you look at it from a financial point of view, you are absolutely right. Drone is quite a bit cheaper than falcon, so...
Who cares? Dongles cost peanuts (relatively). Just buy more than your shop needs and have spares onhand
Is that a grave issue in other countries which have a history of expeditious deportation for illegal immigrants, say Japan?
I don't think that the imprecision of human song interpretation can be used as evidence that AIs are inaccurate.
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What complete BS.

Someone can certainly enjoy their job--and software development is certainly nothing special--without also wanting to spend their nights and weekends doing the same thing. For that matter, I'd probably take such a narrow set of interests as something of a disqualification.
I can confirm from the employee side. I've worked with 40-60 people total that I at least sort of remember.

Sure, that's not many people and I'm still new to the industry, but I can tell you that of all of these people only one or two have significant public GitHub activity. All the rest have empty GitHub accounts (aside from work).

These are all well employed programmers at startups. They're doing fine. The importance of "side projects" is overrated on the internet.
GH definitely shows private contributions. Maybe you're using a different email for those commits?
> they are going to enjoy it, a lot

Thats true only for very early in the opiate addiction phase. Once dependency sets it, they are usually only doing it to prevent horrific sickness, or at best, just to feel normal.
Your question is disingenuous because it ignores the factual context. Due process is inherently concerned with the particular factual circumstances. It has never meant that you get a full trial in every circumstance. So no, the U.S. government is not entitled to kill a U.S. citizen once he leaves U.S. soil as a categorical rule. But it can do so if it provides process commensurate with the circumstances. Which brings us back to the question: What process is "due" to someone who commits something that is not a crime, but rather is an archetypal act of war, from foreign soil?
I don't care as long as "site:example.org query" still works on google.com

Effectively does the same thing.
It probably wouldn't have survived a charter challenge... But he accepted a $500 fine that saved years of legal battles, and the CBSA doesn't get a precedent set against them.

From what I've read, I'd suggest that the law is unclear at this point. It will probably be decided by the Supreme Court within a decade. But I find the ambiguity frustrating...
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By US Culture my simple definition is the respect of the current laws of the US. The left doesn't respect some laws like immigration, so it's quite logical that they are for the mass influx of others who don't respect them either. That's how cultures change, quickly.

Not sure on "no-go zones", but did you see some jouralists got assaulted [0] when they went to investigate the crazy claims of violent muslim immigrants in Sweden?

[0] http://www.dailywire.com/news/13664/american-journalist-sava...
What are you talking about the entire US political system is corrupt by design. Politicians need to beg large corporations for money meaning the corporations own their ass and your fooling yourself if you think your meagre contribution is going to get you heard.

Realistically speaking the US was never a democracy but over the year it's turned more and more into a corporatocracy where the only way to get heard is if you are rich or a corporation.

If the US government was code I would have scrapped it a long time a go and re-written it but then again don't expect anything to change for the better where it matters since all the interest groups are really good a protecting themselves and as log as they have the money anybody else has no say on the matter.
Exactly. I currently work in financial sector and if my employer found out that I post code to GitHub, I would get fired instantly. Also, I don't like doing for-free programming during my spare time -- I have more in life than crunching code all the time. Yes, I do have some programming related side projects, but I don't feel like posting them publicly as they are not polished to my usual coding standards. If some companies see programmers as some robots that write code 24/7 (even better - for free), I don't mind them skipping my CV as we probably are on different boat anyway.
I guess your idea of US hospitals is what E.R. and George Cloney shows you. Sorry for disappointing you but American hospitals and Mexican hospitals are very similar, you have amazing facilities, but you also have some in terrible shape. (I've been in both including IMSS). Source I'm Mexican.
Even more perfect because 2048 was the open-source clone, and we're not even mentioning Threes, the game on which it was based.
I have been putting a lot of thought into this because I'm going to be traveling out of and then back into the country later this year. I'm seriously considering taking an otherwise pristine device with me and wiping it before I get back to customs.

It's not so much that I have anything to hide, it's the principle of the thing.
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Really? What years?

I guess it'll stay up as long as it generates revenue via ads. Its still someone's homepage I suspect. The elderly still using AOL perhaps?
There is no reason we can't institute work visas like other countries do. Regulate it, have it be based on need and expand it to all applicable countries, not just neighbors.
Simply making a version of X that loads on dialup is itself a market segment. Clone some popular websites but sacrafice everything.

Also I've long wanted an HTTP caching mechanism that permits cross origin caching, so people aren't redownloading the same dependencies. Essentially the server responds with a digest and if the browser has a match from any domain, it forgoes the download.

Is there a hard to trigger collision attack possible? Sure but I don't care.
...when the food is rotting in the fields due to a lack of farm hands, that is when we will see something similar to what is happening with Obamacare and Republican voters right now.

Wait, I'm confused.

I thought there wasn't enough work for everyone, and we needed Basic Income/welfare/etc so that people wouldn't starve. I didn't realize the situation changed, and now we have a shortage of labor and desperately need people to do work or else people will starve.

Now that the situation has reversed, I guess we should end the welfare state and just redirect unemployed/etc people into these agricultural jobs?
Not just gigantic companies... plenty of startup employees have empty profiles as well and are doing fine. Companies that open source are actually pretty rare.
I think its a bit weird to think that Twitch needs to act as the parent of a thirty-five year old man. It's his own judgement in the end.

As an aside, sitting for 24 hours would not kill an otherwise healthy man, there was probably some underlying condition.
> the less likely you are to cause an oxygen-depleted state

I don't know if this is a safe assumption either. What makes you think it would take more than a few minutes of acute exercise to reach an oxygen depleted state?
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They were taken private last summer: https://blog.rackspace.com/why-rackspace-is-becoming-a-priva...
Not working very well in mobile: https://imgur.com/xPn8YLc

A simple table would have worked fine.
You can use the usual BSD socket API (in which case the context switches to/from the kernel for calling read() puts the contemplated workload out of reach) or any number of vendor-specific userland network stacks. There is no need to context switch. (Function calls and function returns are not context switches.)
"All the integers between 1 and n should add up to (n(n+1) / 2) so just iterate over the array keeping a running sum, then at the end subtract from (n(n+1) / 2) to see the integer you are missing. It's constant space and requires just a single sum you track.

But hey you know what, actually, fuck these requirements, they're pretty bad.

This is a stupid and wrong solution and the actual correct way to do it (which is guaranteed to work) is to sort the list in-place (or into a copy, if you need the original), then iterate through from the beginning, making sure it starts with one, that every value is in there, and that it is missing one and only one number. On the second missing number or if after sorting it does not start with 1, or if any value is not an integer, or if any value is repeated, then say that the array does not meet the promises, and you can even error with the exact way in which it fails. This is much better and in-place sort is pretty fast. Quicksort, which I will use, requires pointers and is not actually constant space (despite being an in-space sort) but because it's better and we should use it.

So, with all due respect, fuck the requirements, that is going to be our solution. I realize it misses both your linear time and constant space requirements, but I really feel these requirements are stupid and lead to a brittle solution - this solution is better and is the one I stand by. Sorry. :)"

How'd I do? Would I get the job? (Probably NOT.)
>Breaking a seconds-since-epoch out into year/mo/day/etc. is "simple" math, and shouldn't require a filesystem access.

To do it simply yes, but not correctly. See the "Falsehoods programmers believe about time" series.

http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programm...
http://infiniteundo.com/post/25509354022/more-falsehoods-pro...
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>> The vast majority just don't have much to show, having spent their years working behind walls on closed software.

So how do you handle the minority who have much to show on Github? Do you use the same or different process for this minority? If the same process, then IMHO, it is a one size fits all which does not seem right. Sincerely wish to know your experience/thoughts in the minority context, a Minority Report if we can call that :-)
Where did he imply he was defending it ? He was just pointing out that Peter Thiel gets all the hate while Zuck and the others are praised as technology innovators and saviors of humanity.
The fact that they saved his passwords is pretty ugly. They're free to demand them 100% of the time, so it raises questions of whether they're saving them for some other purpose.

And more simply, it means you have to trust border patrol's password management as well as your own. (Or change them all immediately.)
In my opinion, outsourcing wholesale is one the worst things a startup can possibly do.

Marketing is first and foremost about understanding what your client need and want. This allows you to let your devs know what users are begging for, thus making your product more compelling, and to make your copy using words straight from the horse's mouth - for SEO friendliness, explanations of what your product does in terms of client needs and wants, etc.

If you outsource the thing wholesale, either you de facto outsource your product R&D, or you end up losing touch with what your clients actually want and moving forward in an ivory tower.
Closely related ideas:

"The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor." - Campbell's law (1976)

"It is naive to try to predict the effects of a change in economic policy entirely on the basis of relationships observed in historical data, especially highly aggregated historical data." - Lucas critique (1976)
> Or better yet, I'd rather just use a company that adequately pays its own employees instead of attempting to offload a portion of that cost on its customers.

I also really dislike tipping, but in reality it's not the cost they are offloading onto customers (all the cost is paid by the customers, since costs are paid out of revenues, which come from customers), but rather they are offloading compensation decisions onto customers - since the difference between a tip and having the cost of service built into the price is that you can decide the amount of the tip.
I used to be more into having side projects, and I continue to play with things, but due to employee IP contracts it's not really feasible to release them. My employer owns my brain, and while they can give permission to release things here and there, there are restrictions and processes to go through, and it really inhibits spontaneous contributions.

And I work at a major tech BigCo(tm), with a lot of smart software engineers, the majority of which are under similar restrictions.

Frankly, any potential employer who expected to see said contributions from me and use it to judge me or my coworkers as candidates would be making a poor decision.
These are common mistakes novices to multithreaded programming make, presented and explained well. Very nice.

In my experience another mistake made by novices and journeymen alike (at least occasionally by the latter) is to reach for this tool without careful consideration of whether it's even necessary.
They're attempting to solve the problem that they, as individuals, can solve.

I have no realistic chance of convincing enough of my fellow Americans that the privacy of foreign nationals who wish to enter this country is more important than maintaining the false sense of security we get by violating it to put any pressure on lawmakers or enforcers of policy and get things changed.

What you can do, today, is employ technical measures to prevent the agents at the border from snooping into your private business.
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I usually tip % but I don't go to eat at places with such high bills.

I can understand the logic though of a fixed tip. There are all kinds of situations where a server spends the same amount of time/effort for each table and get different tips based on what the person ate?

Why does that make sense that I would tip more because I got a steak instead of a burger and the server had to just bring it to me in either case?
Uh, CSE is stayin and you can pay to remove ads from CSE. Once you run out of searches they send you a link and you click on it and press 'ok' under business. It uses your stored business card. Its pretty quick and I can't imagine it being an issue for anyone. Google also takes payments for other services like Play Music, Youtube Red, Apps, etc.

I imagine the issue is that GSS hides a lot, (all?) of Google's branding while CSE doesnt as its a page hosted by Google.
The problem is my mom, and non-technical friends are NOT on Telegram, so Whatsapp it is for the foreseeable future.
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It's not strictly tiling, but 9wm, based on Plan9's rio window manager, is a no frills, mouse oriented, window manager for X.
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nonsense. Let's go to libertarian land. There's no government for internal affairs. We live in a town. Are there any police? No police? Really? Of course there are police. The townspeople got tired of all the poors breaking into their houses and shops and whatnot, didn't feel like all individually standing outside holding guard all night, got together to pool their money and hired a police force to handle the issue and built a jail to throw all the poors into. And that police force is easily corruptible by the wealthiest members of the town who decided they don't like you very much.

It's just like software. Any community needs to have some degree of shared resources, and in the absense of government this leads them to "roll your own". You're in the same reinventing the wheel problem except real lives are at stake.
Trump is a lot of things, but he isn't really anti-LGBT.
Storing plaintext, readable by random border patrol staffers? Yeah.

I'm not surprised they have access to a lot of accounts, but that's different from trusting that everyone working the front line at border patrol will use that database securely and ethically.
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Some cities did well with the Olympics because they had viable uses for the larger facilities in place before the game construction started. Atlanta spun off the stadium and dorms without issue.

These events while bid on under the guise of improving the local economy or bringing pride to a host city and nation have for the longest time merely existed as puff pieces for the politicians involved.

Green obviously cannot handle both Winter and Summer but there are countries who could and even a round robin system could be employed. Perhaps vetting should require demonstrating how a major percentage of facilities will be used post Olympics to better the host city and nation?

IOC isn't the only issue, FIFA is just as bad if not worse and that is from abuse issues mostly
Right, that was my point. You have to use time/effort on understanding the compiler workings, time that could be used to focus on your actual problem and features implementation. For firmware I wouldn't.
The opinion represented in the article is based on top of several false assumptions.

1. GitHub represents the major part of software development world.

No. It's a tip of an iceberg. I don't think I have to elaborate this one.

2. Open source software development model is an absolute winner.

No. It's just one model of development which fits some kinds of projects better than the others. Companies tend to open-source tools. Product's code is usually closed source. Obviously there are a lot of developers who spend most of their time on closed source projects. Some of them also have life.

3. Your open source projects contribution helps recruiters to evaluate you performance for any kind of software development project.

Not true. A lot of jobs are either legacy projects work, niche technologies work or both. Some niche technologies are closed source. Some legacy technologies predate open-source culture. The problems you face doing open source projects are very different from those you face doing b2b, b2c projects.

Having said that the author's opinion looks invalid to me.
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Why does it want them back? It really just cares about the social graph. It doesn't need to know what you're saying, just who you're talking to. I've already seen that information used in Instagram: people I chat with more often in WhatsApp have their content (stories and posts) surfaced at the top of my feed.
59% of illegal immigrants are Mexican.

http://immigration.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=0...

There are no European countries in the the top 10 countries (comprising 85% of the total) of origin for illegals.

At most, Europeans could make up 15% of illegal immigrants.
I'm not sure why this is getting downvotes. I think some folks try to leverage this tool because they think it's "more performant" or "an optimization" or whatever and the result is some questionable threading code.

Concurrent programming is hard and complicated, even in languages with superior safety guarantees, especially for non-trivial, non-toy implementations. The harder it is to implement a solution, the more care and consideration for whether it's necessary or some less difficult or complex solution might suffice instead, in my opinion.
Exactly. I work at a very conservative B2B telecom. Nothing we do is open source, and having worked at another B2B telecom in the past that largely avoided open source, I have a feeling the entire industry is like this.

I'm honestly much more comfortable in enterprisey environments than in companies that try to be hip and cool, so if a company cares about my GitHub, they're probably not a company I'd want to work for.
That's a little bit of an oversimplification. Thiel thinks that globalization of development without massive technological advancement will lead to a kind of slow Malthusian catastrophe since current technology (fossil fuel energy systems, slow transit, inefficient power grids, etc.) cannot possibly support the entire human race at a modern developed world standard of living.

I don't agree with everything Peter thinks, but this seems like a flat fact to me. Present-day technology as deployed in the Western world cannot support the entire human race at a Western standard of living and may not even be able to support the Western world at its current standard of living for another hundred years.

Ask yourself what a slow motion Malthusian catastrophe might look like. Maybe you'd have insane levels of pollution (Google "asian brown cloud") as countries with 3X the US population try to achieve US standards of living, massive inflation in the cost of necessities, economic and political turmoil as systems buckle, stagnation and the destruction of the middle class in developed economies, ...?

Edit:

Thiel originally jumped out at me because he was one of the few people who sees something I've considered self-evident for years but that many other people seem unable to see-- that we entered a kind of minor dark age around 1970. Most of what we are doing now is just an incremental refinement of tech that was invented in the 50s and 60s. We stopped inventing.

I don't know if I would agree with Thiel about the causes of this, but I give him credit for actually seeing it.

When I saw SpaceX land a rocket I was filled with an incredible sense of optimism that the 1970s might finally be over.
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Can anyone shed some light as to why companies might choose to spin out a division into a separate entity?
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What do you mean where were the protests? Where have you been?