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Helping Gimp
It's amazing how his suggestions are pretty much exactly what they changed with Breath of the Wild!
Some…yeah, where some is the 1.7 million cubic yards of rubble now clogging up the Thermalito Diversion Pool. [1]

When you look at photos or drone videos of the erosion near the main spillway, it's clear that an immense amount of rock has been eroded away (the color changes from brown to gray). [2]

Juan Browne discusses the type and strength of the rock in one of his excellent videos about the Oroville crisis. [3] (Note that he demonstrates the weakness of the rock where he is standing, which is across the river from the spillway and might not be the same rock.)

[1] http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/03/spoil-sites-for-orovil...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpXtMZwpDqs

[3] https://youtu.be/ilkU_ivYTqQ?t=679
for ps4 and xbox one thats not the case at all. You are talking about much older generations.
^ this! Though I would argue not all top schools make it easy to change majors also the in major matriculation rate (people who start and dont transfer/change majors) vs school matriculation rate (do they graduate) is very important especially with the current focus on mental health at many universities.
This is a very nice article!
There's however a bug in the code, where it will "finish" when the last worker is done:

if(msg.data.offset + msg.data.length === buffer.byteLength)

While you most likely want to wait for all workers to be done before showing the results. In this code however, the last worker will always finish last because it has more work to do (higher numbers).

It's often cheaper to scale horizontally, by spreading the work between physical machines, then to add more cores to a shared memory. So it's not such a big deal to have a single threaded program, and single threaded code is easier to reason about.
SharedArrayBuffer will however be nice in JavaScript because it allows optimization is games and such, allowing you to have parallel for loops.
Yeah I heard of something similar regarding turning light bulbs on/off versus just keeping them consistently on.

It is pretty crazy how we just expect electricity to work, one day when everything is destroyed and we're back to the stone ages how long would it take to get back to where we are now I wonder haha. An offline version of wikipedia on how to turn ore into a generator. Oh well I guess we'll figure it out hopefully.
Uber uses 'secret program' Greyball to hide from regulators
What I understand is that desert and beach sand tends to be old/heavily weathered sand that is too fine with rounded edges. And is physically weak. Sea sand also tends to have chlorides which causes problems.

The foundation of the house I'm living in was probably made with beach sand (1908 construction). One wall that gets wet frequently is turning to dust.
You could have bought Bitcoin 5 years ago with $15k and be worth $3.8m right now.
Sorry in what field? I would argue the number of these (as a %) on average are much lower (metric: top tier publications)

Also if you're looking at Asian univs, Tsinghua, Peking, SNU, NUS, KAIST and (CUHK/HKUST) should be there too ;)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13785564
I read somewhere too that the protein is different from a meat-source versus plant source.

I don't know, it's odd to do the "is it right?" thing regarding killing other animals for food when that is how nature operates. Still with the way technology is progressing, I suppose one day you could just build "meat" directly without an "animal". (not a new idea) I don't know I heard some interesting stuff regarding that.

Crazy to think so many people before me were able to conceive so I'm alive today haha. It's my turn, helloooo ladiesss....
There is actually a term used in the field by engineers and scientists: "delta v." You might have heard Musk mention it a few times in his talks.

It's a measure of change in velocity (hence the delta… v…, and in mathematical terms is literally written with the symbol delta) required to reach or escape x orbit.

For example you need a delta v of approx 9.3 km/s to go from Earth to LEO. From LEO to GEO you'd need a delta v of roughly half of that. Engineers in this sense would talk about a total delta v budget of ~13 km/s and some change to achieve Earth to GEO.

The question is then how do you design a rocket that can produce those numbers? Higher delta v requirements means higher mass requirements. You'd need more propellant to produce that thrust, and more structure to house it and hardware to control it. At some point it simply doesn't work anymore because it becomes counter intuitive to keep adding more mass.

Enter the concept of staging. Staging allows you to discard your useless mass after it's done it's job. For example you might need 9.3 km/s to achieve LEO, but you might also know it's not a linear relationship so that you need more of that upfront and less of it later. In that case, rocket engineers simply designed around that and created heavy first lift stages to produce the bulk of that delta v, and then discarding the heavy structure and hardware after the propellant has been exhausted.
ZeMarmot is an animation movie made with free software, like Gimp. The artist Jehan Pagès is the second contributor[1] to Gimp. Helping him to fund his movie is helping fund Gimp.

Since the funding is not very successful at the moment, Jehan may be forced to withdraw from Gimp from the next year in order to earn a living. So Gimp may loose one of his biggest contributor.

[1] https://www.gimp.org/news/2016/07/13/gimp-2-9-4-released/
AngularBeans: A fresh new take on AngularJS and JavaEE
In most of Europe, taxi companies had mobile applications for some time now. Uber is much less innovative than it may seem in America.
Reducing Slacks memory footprint
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(as someone who went to a CS target school) I would disagree with this, I would argue what you did also matters and who you're trying to impress
Look up "uber driver incentives". They are clearly working on it, just without going all "second commandment" to protect their "not an employer" status.
I was "instantly" denied by Hired hahaha. I was curious why every option was "... engineer" like "Full stack engineer" "Front end engineer". Not bad mouthing Hired. I am still quite a novice and not an expert in fields. I suppose it's good not to burn bridges. Just scream out loud "I QUIT!!!" and then have to return the next day so...

I'm just lucky I'm working for some people but man I do feel behind with things like Docker/Containers, Go, web workers, etc... Things I hear/read about and I'm not using. Of course I'm not dealing with "25,000 requests per second" or anything crazy like that.

It does suck when you become dependable and one day you might have to be like "I have to go." Still I am in a highly-expendable position as a dishwasher.

Thanks
There are plenty taxi of companies worldwide that utilize mobile applications without also showing a disregard for law. The two things don't have to go together. From outside-US perspective, Uber is much less innovative than you'd think. They look simply like assholes with lot of VC money to burn on lawyers.
There are lots of schools named directly or indirectly after saints that aren't also in cities named after saints.
Some aliases to help automate Gitignores by pulling from GitHub's defaults
I suspect it would still render to 900, then downscale to 720
What's gateway?
I expect the board are the ones that said exactly that phrase to him. Seemingly he remembered.
> I'll ignore the ad hominem

Insulting someone's intelligence is not an example of the ad hominem fallacy.
Even looking for a "professional position" in web dev, I don't know. I would rather build a service/product and multiply my time. Doing the whole hourly thing doesn't seem like the right way to go.

Yeah definitely about the savings part, I don't and I have a big debt to deal with (student loans). It does suck when you get paid quite a lot relatively and then it's gone and you're like "Oh crap... I am still broke."
Many people find it uncomfortable to listen to accent. Interviewer feels uncomfortable around you, so he is less likely to hire you. It has nothing to do with ability to do the job.
Experience our first conversational article
Yeah it's an awkward experience in the future when you run into someone that you "did wrong by". Like "Oh... hello... how are you?..." that awkward feeling.
Sorry I have a bunch of questions (biased heavily for CS + STEM fields)

1) Do you know anyone from the West who would go to Japan for a professorship? I just asked around my univ (which is top 3 publication-wise) and it seems like if you go there, you basically drop off the face of intl-quality CS work

2) What is the funding model generally (e.g. Gov Grants vs Industry partnerships/grants vs Nonprofits/External Sources like the Wellcombe Institute or Knight Foundation in the US)

3) What is the hierachy like in terms of research group? One thing I currently appreciate is in (at least the US univs I've been to), there tend to be many professors that will let you act as a senior-phd if you can prove skill rather than be subordinate / help other phd's gradute)

4) How important is advisor/field and what is their relationship? (In the US it's ok to go to a mediocre overall univ frequently if your advisor is "big" in that field -- is this similar?) From my understanding pulling something like this in China (i.e. Tsinghua, Peking, Shanghai Jiao Tong vs the rest) isn't really possible.

5) Is there funding and interest to go abroad for conferences? I would argue many conferences (in CS and Bio at least) tend to be North Americas-Euro Centric based? Also could you explain the large aversion to project failure? Research has failures by definition - only slight increments in progress isnt really a top tier paper or generally a best-paper/honorable mention award?
> Certainly they believe that
> weather exists

This administration does not appear to reward such assumptions.
I don't care about social change. Fortunes are not made and lost on the backs of people's feelings.
When NHS tweeted live from bowel cancer surgery
Come on. They didn't fought for your better taxi experience. They fought for your money!

While your point could stand in theory, could work with a different company, it's Uber we're talking about! Those guys who keep showing, since day one, that they don't give a flying fuck about people beyond the money they get for them! The company painted itself a pretty consistent image over the years, and it's the image of a smart asshole with too much money to spend.
I'd love a laptop like that but all of Lenovo's spyware scandals and backdoors have made me wary. Also their trackpad doesn't look anywhere near as fancy as a Dell 9560, which I just spec'd to half the price with double the SSD (though which maxes out at 32GB).
No. No it is not. Not at all.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Creation_Resea...
Corda – distributed ledger for  legal agreements built in Kotlin
"I have two factor authentication on my password manager, and the second factor is this phone which I can't unlock as the password is a random string stored only on a USB stick in my house"

(Or 2nd factor itself is at home)
Personally, I tend to slot Inferno closer to Java than to Plan9, even though I'm clear about the lineage. In that sense, the line of "real" operating systems ended at Plan9.
Five Leadership Hacks (2016)
A 'you got to work on that burnout of yours, jeff overcame his way faster' article. It had potential for a awesome parody- you need a Kan-board, some charts to watch your burn-out rate, and you got to go all in - mocking the produces of burnouts trying to use the tools with which they cause burnout on people who are to devoted. Finally, a reference to Meta-Burnout, getting a burnout on your burnout while you solve it with these tools, and a reference to the article to solve these problem by recursion.
Be careful: that is a framework, not a language feature.
I don't know how to describe this in a single word or phrase appropriately, but I think it is a "genius problem" to exist. Not a genius solution. I feel that the problem itself is impressive and rich in layers of human nature, local culture etc - but once you have such a problem any average person could come up with a similar solution, because it is obvious.

It's still mind blowing and very amusing that this is a thing in our world!
> Qualcomm, the first chipset manufacturer we were working with, would not license their firmware and device drivers to us directly, it had to be through a carrier or OEM. This meant that we legally couldn’t ship complete builds

What? Why are chipset manufacturers not permitted to sell to anybody?
A few of your remarks are solid in an ideological sense, but sadly the bulk of your comment comes across as "white dude mansplaining to an indian dude why he doesn't have to worry about racism".

Racism is alive and well, and a real problem that people have to deal with. Advice like "embrace your proud geek culture and be your own person learning and pursuing the things that interest you" is generic feel good woowoo that is just not relevant here.

"11) Don't take advice from people who don't have experience with what they are giving advice on. Like the post above in some cases."

Or like yours, as someone "born and raised in North America, [who] speaks perfect english"

Sorry man, but sometimes you have to accept that you don't have much to bring to a conversation, no matter how strongly you feel about it.

tl;dr: the post you replied to is linking freaking research papers to support what it says and your reply is "don't worry just think positive and everything will be fine"
There was previously observed damage to the primary spillway noted in 2005. A $100m repair was requested of state and federal (FERC) authorities, during the GOP-lead Bush and Schwarzenneger (national and state) administrations, but was rejected.

Present damages now exceed $100m, and repairs are likely to be several times the initial estimates.
I use a Razer mouse at work, and it's still going strong after five years of heavy usage. So, like anything, YMMV.

To be honest, even if they only ever lasted a couple of years, I'd still buy Razer mice. All non-gaming mice nowadays seem to be awful, cheap crap, and most gaming mice are over-decorated contraptions. Razer mice seem to be the only one they combine good, simple ergonomics with high precision and a quality feel.
What happens if I just change the password immediately afterwards?
I guess they won't check every single account, but if they check mine would they assume I told them the wrong password?
Below ring 0 and in addition to ME you have the less known "ring -2".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Mode

There is also microcode, and many patches are issued through microcode.
If we got rid of all laws that occasionally inconvenience corporations, they would certainly do have the power.

You think of Microsoft's former ability to push nonstandard browser features, I think of the East India Company's former ability to subjugate entire societies.
If you hate your current job get away there as fast as you can. Maybe it's a good start to get interviewed for one of the other roles as you said? Why not?
"You also have to be able to sell yourself as the perfect fit." - i hate this one most. I don't give a rat's ass about marketing - I'm a developer and not a salesman. 9 of 10 companies are doing this.
"And if you ever actually need someone in the higher level role you have someone who can do it."

Assuming that person stays long enough. I would expect either high turnover or low morale in such workplace. Partly because people resent being lied to and this is apparent, partly because the company is full of people on positions they did not wanted to do.
Cool.

How does it work? What's under hood?
Exeq (Techstars `17) is hiring Elixir and React Native devs
You mentioned about 4 companies - Are you in Indian Outsourced companies? Now you trying to join startups? If so,sorry to say, there is wide spread perception, most Indian outsourced managers are not technically good. I agree with them too.

If you are one of those rare exception and technically sound person, then you need to keep trying to overcome the general perception created by fellow Indian managers. Good luck.
Salt and vi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI4AC50n6cU
Definitely agree with the above.

Some thoughts.. I'm Indian-bodied but was born and raised in the states. When I was in my early 20s I lived on and off in India for about 5 years (about 6 months at a time). So I've had a decent amount of exposure to Indians of all types (Indian and American born). I've also worked with a fair amount of Indians over the course of the last few years.

These may not be the case with you, but as someone who has had a fair amount of exposure to Indians form India, and as someone who has coached and interviewed a fair amount of Indians for a variety of roles, the following may help:

+A lot of it boils down to personality. I've noticed a very wide spectrum of attitudes coming from Indians. I think a fair amount of introspection and awareness about how you are coming across to the other side is a really powerful tool to employ. I've seen a lot of ego and general lack of sophistication and at times class from some Indians that I've met, and I'm certainly not saying that this may be the case with you, but it may be worth considering if there's something about your mannerism / tone that maybe rubbing people the wrong way.

+Being a FOB language skills can be a natural weakness but judging by your post this doesn't seem to be the case. I think being yourself and honing your personality will have more impact, but taking a little extra care in how you communicate can really work wonders.

+You say you're in a product management role, there's generally an axis of management skill vs. technical ability. Some companies may be looking for one or the other, and in the interview you may or may not be emphasizing the one they're looking for.

+And finally there's leadership ability, particularly important in management roles. Have you led your teams to success in your career? Reflect about what got you to that point, and try and channel that into your interviews.

+Above all, stay the course if you can. If you're convinced you're on the path you want to go, then persist. If you want something else and have the runway to pursue it, then a change of environment is a great first step towards finding your next step into something that motivates you.

No offense intended in any of the above, and best of luck to you!
The specific mechanisms of those is pretty fascinating: During glaciation periods, ice dams would form, creating massive headwaters. The dams themselves would fail, as Hemming way, gradually, then suddenly: water would first start trickling through, then both erode and melt the dam, until its integrity was compromised and the entire face would fail.

Fascinating geology and scarily impressive traces. Makes me wonder what will happen on Greenland or Antarctica.
What does one call a conspiracy that you agree with? A campaign?
Amen.

There are very strong racial stereotypes. They also vary by who holds them.

I'm a 40+ yo Russian system programmer, moved to States when I was 25, worked in a bunch of places from smaller startups to Fortune-500 shops. Here are my stereotypes:

* Russians are frustrated know-it-alls with strong NIH syndrom wanting to redo everything from scratch. The language barrier often makes it hard for them to clearly express their grand ideas, hence the frustration. They will solve things backwards because it's more interesting that way.

* Chinese will cut corners to fit deadlines. They can write beautiful code, but more often than not they don't bother and go with absolute minimal something that fits the spec.

* Swedes, Finns, Germans and Brits are very much OK. Easily the best in terms of working together.

* Canadians and Australians are solid if a bit slow.

* Eastern Europeans are immensely productive hacks, opinionated as hell, but very good for rapid prototyping.

* Indians ...

Now, Indians are arrogant know-it-alls that _lust_ for respect and power. Frequently the source of pointless drama in the workplace. They are very smart, write good code, but they also have very hard time admitting their mistakes. This often makes it hard to work with them as colleagues.

Stereotypes are VERY important to keep in mind, because that's the starting point for every candidate assessment. The best the OP can do is to throw the interviewers off their footing. Say something like I'm Indian, but I was born in Argentina - and, bam, they can't sort you in a default bucket, so they are forced to actually start assessing you from scratch. The same goes for dyeing your hair, fixing the accent, changing the name - it's all for trying to separate yourself from a stereotype and make them view you as an individual.
A lot of people who don't believe that Uber's business strategies have a place in a civilized society - so that's a third group for you.
I'm not talking about boot time - I'm talking opening the lid of a suspended-state laptop. Which is something a highschool student has to do at least 5 (but probably more) times a day. Windows is better now (my shiny new Windows laptop takes around 5 or 10 seconds) but Mac is pretty much instant.
These modeling are base statistic which takes into account random errors.

Just cause you did computer modeling doesn't grant you magic power to understand machine learning or the vast swarth of area in statistic, mathematical modeling, etc...

And it certainly doesn't give you power over the dozen of experts in different fields that spend their whole lives in it and saying global warming is a thing.

If you're so skeptic about "computer modeling", then why google, apple, and many other are banking on Machine Learnin such as Neural Network?

The foundation of data science, some argue, is computational statistic. Which falls under this so call computer modeling you're bringing up.
"Back to the Future" posited flying cars for 2015, Uber had Ghost Cars.
In Australia at least, truck diesel nozzles are in fact larger than car diesel, and won't fit. I know from having tried to make one fit :(
Who are we preparing for war with?

Our own citizens, of course.
Not today it isn't, but it's not a very far leap for the law to make if it becomes a widespread problem.

Apparently "gold laundering" is a thing in some jurisdictions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_laundering
Slightly off topic: I was about to ask, in this day and age of responsive web design, why do Facebook, Wikipedia and others still have m. -prefix websites? On further reflection I can only assume it's in order to provide a bandwidth constrained alternative, rather than just a visual change. Still, these look like crap on a desktop, and it's a frustrating leak of implementation details when someone posts a link to Wikipedia from their phone, and suddenly I'm looking at a weird design on desktop. They're so good at detecting when people are on a small screen and redirecting to .m - couldn't they please do the reverse too and redirect from .m to the normal version for desktop clients?

And if someone needs a bandwidth constrained version on desktop (developing countries and people trying to avoid data roaming fees come to mind), then maybe we could come up with a better way for clients to tell this when requesting pages, rather than try to infer it from screen size?
I'm seeing most stations attempting to have a single directional flow. Doesn't stop people going against it, mind you, but the intention is there.