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For simple apps, dynamic typing may be OK, but I'm always writing complex apps, and static typing just seems like a minimum required feature for any language I want to use for complex apps.

So I guess I'll stick with TypeScript or C# for writing my cross-platform apps. The ecosystems for both are much more robust anyway.
> ... That, by the way, is why liberal students (and liberals in general) are so bad at defending their own positions. They never have to, so they never learn to.

Yep. The left no longer tries to persuade through reason. (Actually, they haven't for decades.) They've progressed through name-calling (RACIST!) to internet rage mobs, and finally to literal, rampaging violent mobs.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/06/liberal-int...
Glad I wasn't the only one shouting in my own head while reading the article. 100% of the time I want perfect RGB and I'll run the source through the appropriate hardware (like the XRGB stuff) if I want to use a modern monitor.

I'm jealous of your PVM-2530...I tried for years to get these in the late 90s/early 2000s and they just weren't obtainable near me and now they're mostly priced out of orbit in good condition. There are some other options, but they're all reasonably expensive for what they are.

The situation for real arcade monitors is looking even worse with the commonly available new stuff mostly being shit. Soon to be unobtainium, it looks like, and to me that's sad.

For now I have to settle for this tiny old Atari ST monitor...but hey, it'll sync down to 15.7Hz!
Yeah, it's totally relevant to this discussion. It just threw me off.

I happend to be looking at that 17 day old thread earlier to see what people said about the Mulesoft IPO to see if it was worth participating in.
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No, the shares have no voting power. They are Snapchat fun bucks basically.
And the employees are the ones who create the returns for the investors, no?
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Oh I know there are more than a few these days. My point was the majority of startups I'm aware of are still very hesitant to do this. From the conversations I've had its less that the founders of these firms are morally opposed to the idea, but that their VCs really don't like the idea as a global policy.
Even just a little 'context' can help. I had a candidate ask me after the last position I held interviews for "Can you tell me what to improve? I was honestly surprised I didn't get the position, given how well our interviews went".

And he was right, too.

But I broke it down as follows. We received 300+ applications, we filtered down to 100 that were worth even reading in detail. From those we took 50 that we discussed/scored as a group, and came up with 15 people we wanted to interview. Of those we interviewed 10, and of those we interviewed 5 a second time, and 3 a (brief) third time.

"So yes, you did well, and we'd like to keep your name and reach out" (said sincerely). But for him knowing that he didn't screw something up, there was just an even better candidate and he was realistically still in the top 1-2% of applicants was confidence-boosting.
It's a strange road to go down, isn't it, to say I'm not alleging anything, but here's an allegation. Saying you think it's relevant is the allegation, which you both make and deny making.
I never said they know exactly who their employer is. I said they know damn well they're not working for Microsoft.
is the webpage not loading for anyone?
I don't understand what the advantage of companies going public is. If they are public don't they have to essentially "force" profits for their shareholders? Wouldn't a company that has a sustainable income that doesn't want to grow be better off staying private where they can be "themselves?"
> Do you know if those on the autistic spectrum ever date within themselves and how it works out? I know for others diseases, it can turn into a nightmare (only if both haven't developed coping techniques), though not always.

Yes, they date, and it can work out pretty well, as long as they both work through their personal issues (as most autistic people have a host of secondary mental health problems + knowledge deficits in terms of how relationships work). The lack of nonverbal communication pretty much cancels out in such relationship, and mutual understanding of one's peculiar personal preferences and limitations makes life much easier. This is, of course, assuming that both people are aware of their uncommon nature and willing to work on the relationship.

> Can you elaborate on these grim secrets?

Many forms of autism therapy (sic) end up making the child so obedient they don't know how to say say "no" (as the child was never given that option). While making life easier for parents and caretakers, such person becomes extremely gullible in adult life; for young women, this means consenting to all kinds of horrific abuse. The therapy programs too often avoid the issue of relationships and sex altogether or paint an unrealistic picture. I've heard autism professionals refer to sexual behaviors as "undesired"; I've seen those behaviors being suppressed and punished. I've seen parents make great effort to prevent an autistic person from even attempting to date someone of the opposite sex. I've seen psychologists supporting the parents' efforts. The net effect looked more like trying to prevent a dog from breeding than teaching a person how to live an independent, fulfilling life.
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Unemployment has dropped quite a bit in the U.S. since the Great Recession, though how much that applies to affected areas is uncertain.
Artificial cannabinoids are also highly used in homeless populations because of how cheap and powerful they are.

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/synthetic-weed-is-a-scour...
yeah but it isn't as headline worthy. There is a syndicate of investment banks legally propping up the price at $17 for a short time. If selling pressure somehow breaches the syndicate bid, HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM.
Isn't this approach going to end up being expensive all round? It doesn't factor in any of the other incidentals.
Not loading for me.
Woe betide the company that asks for a take home project, especially one that isn't just 50 lines of an algorithm (I'm talking one that I recall that asked for parsing Apache logs from a stream, displaying moving averages for URLs, aggregates, having high water mark "alerts" and resetting when rolling averages dropped below that, some unit tests and docs...

And doesn't bother to respond after you submit. I'm certainly not the world's best coder, but my solution met all those requirements in a reasonably elegant manner, and took several hours (10-20?) to make comprehensive.

That gets you on my shit list, and people I know get to hear about it, too.
Open multiple browsers; multiple IDEs (heavy ones like IntelliJ IDEA and Eclipse); in general the directory explorer I feel it more responsive. Is not that OSX is slow at all, but W10 truly surprised me.
This seems to be the cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:iP072ha...

edit: Also this should probably have a (2015) on the title, it seems to be an introduction to secure computing for a non-technical audience at a libertarian conference.
You mean less violent within the U.S., right? Because believe me that keeping drug prohibition in the U.S. and the bilateral consensus of fighting drug trade militarily is causing quite a violent situation in Mexico, to the tune of 200,000+ dead by official numbers in the last 10 years (>0.2% of national population, and arguably the official numbers are a severe under-estimate).
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I think WordPress, wikis and Google (Docs) would disagree with you about word processing being a solved problem. And they seem to do well enough. They offer a fundamentally different notion of what you're trying to do when you're putting prose down. (Personally I hate these systems like Microsoft Word and Google Docs that force you to think in terms of a page. Especially because they don't give you any tools to actually make things lay out properly. But it's okay, because people have been fundamentally rethinking the issue for years now.)

Now if you do want page layout, I think the people who like to do that use something different — not Word. So I don't think they've really cornered any market, unless the market is people who want to use Word.
This is not meant to be a dig but just an observation for you to think about. Your last two comments are about how it isn't or shouldn't be possible to make money.

It's true that market opportunities are hard to find, but you'll never find one if all you see is the "yes, buts". You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Here, $29: https://www.amazon.com/Authority-Become-Following-Financial-...

I read it in 2013, and it's probably earned me at least $100,000. That's being veeeery conservative.

Not everyone will have that experience, of course. I had an existing book series, and Authority gave me an idea for how to repurpose it into a larger business.

As for the package on his site: he probably wants to avoid support. You get a lot of it with a $20 price point, and as he wrote in the article, he's focussing on converkit. Whereas with the amazon listing, amazon handles all customer support.

(I learned that lesson with my own books. My amazon royalties are smaller than my overall business, but I'm still very glad to get them, because there's basically zero admin work required.)
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We are talking about the exact same distinction and the exact same scenario only from different POVs. To be clear, I'm not at all saying that investors who put up real money for startups shouldn't get preferred stock as compared with employees' common.

What I am saying is that if+when an employee leaves a startup and has say 90 days to buy any accrued options then that employee should utterly pass if they think the company looks at all dicey. If it looks dicey then the distinction between preferred and common is very real and hella pass.

Most startups fail and this employee is leaving that company for some reason. Now if the employee is early and the options are cheap and there's little taxes then maybe it's a lottery ticket. The details are always more complex.

I'm just looking at it from an employee's POV. You're probably looking at it from a VC's POV. Would you voluntarily sign a pay to play agreement late in the game? No. You'd stare cold and hard at the facts on the table. You sure wouldn't throw good money after bad. You should expect the same from a rational employee.
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The U.S. tried very harsh punishment to stop drug use, the War on Drugs. It resulted in massive increases in incarceration; millions of innocent lives ruined (along with their families' lives); massive costs to society for law enforcement, prisons, crime and violence; and not much impact on drug use.
tldr from my pervious experience managing bars: neat idea but it wont fly from what I saw.

First, these robots are WAY too slow. A more efficient mechanism than those arms is sorely needed. A good bartender on a busy night can make ~100 drinks an hour (not at a bar with lots of complicated drinks). There is no way these are going to keep up.

Handling an issue with the machine means at least having someone there to troubleshoot but also likely means having a human bartender on staff anyways. If it breaks somehow you have a large decoration I guess but more likely an angry bartender with no backup.

Also the space these would take up is prohibitive to most restaurants. Bartenders will need space to move back and forth around their bar, stock items, etc. If they are sharing the bar with a robot I hope they aren't pulling from the same stock because they will both want to make cocktails from the same ingredients, which would be entertaining to watch at least. Humans can navigate that blockage more easily: "Hey I need 6 gin and tonics and two rum and cokes" vs a queue where those orders may be mixed up. Knowing how to manage that takes more than simple grouping.

I could write a lot more about
Reminds me of Microsoft, USAID and other similar companies/organizations.
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You could be right, and I also have ADD - but I've read that people with autism spectrum disorders usually have abnormal neurotransmitter activity. In particular dopamine, serotonin and GABA.

They say that serotonin is the "pleasure" transmitter and dopamine is the "excitement" transmitter. Often autistic people are less receptive to activity in either.

As a result of being less receptive to the activity of neurotransmitters, I think it could be argued that addiction is less likely since addiction is caused by increased neurotransmitter activity?

Feel free to correct me if you know more on the topic.
PS: here is a quick and dirty Perl program to do it. I did not bother matching the output format exactly, as I just wanted to get the algorithm right. This should be O(n log n) where n is the number of appointments, assuming that the built-in sort is O(n log n) and that the built-in hash implementation is O(n log n) or better.

my @appt = ([1, 5], [3, 7], [2, 6], [10, 15], [5, 6], [4, 100]);

my %active;
my @endpoints;

for (my $i = 0; $i < @appt; ++$i)
{
my($start, $end) = @{$appt[$i]};
push @endpoints, [$start, 1, $i];
push @endpoints, [$end, 0, $i];
}
@endpoints = sort {$a->[0]*2+$a->[1] <=> $b->[0]*2+$b->[1]} @endpoints;

foreach (@endpoints)
{
my($time, $side, $which) = @$_;
if ($side == 0) {
delete $active{$which};
} else {
print "$which overlaps $_\n" foreach sort {$a <=> $b} keys %active;
$active{$which} = 1;
}
}

Idea behind this: make list of all the appointment endpoints, tagged by whether they are a start or end time and which appointment they came from. Sort this by time, with end times coming ahead of start times if a given time occurs more than once. You can then scan this list, keeping track in a hash which appointments you have seen a start time for without yet seeing the corresponding end time.

When you see an end time, you can delete the appointment from the hash. When you see a start time, the appointment that supplied it overlaps with all the appointments currently in the hash.
In a world where Snapchat just IPO'd, do you really want to ride the high horse on this one.
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Obviously not, there is no memory inside the glass, and bandwidth is limited. LCD screens still scan in.

The difference is LCD keeps picture until told otherwise, whole picture is emitting light. CRT has limited phosphor persistence, there is only one point/pixel being lit at any given time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCHgmCxGEzY
> Had the drug companies been regulated in the first place

Were they given out without prescription? If not, I feel like MDs have to share some blame on this.
Oh glorious day. It can't come soon enough. Imagine buying a new car from the manufacturer and having all the "paperwork" handled on the block chain.
A definition of computer literacy is required. That would probably go a long way in helping to answer the question.
The humanities should get a chance here too. There's a wonderful quote from Peter Berger. Roughly, he said that sociologists had so far escaped public attention in America, except perhaps among the few southern racists sufficiently literate to read the footnotes to Brown vs. Board of Education.
I wouldn't be so sure. Programming has a distinct advantage: people can make money from programming skills. And also, people can save money on programming costs if a book teaches them/their programmer enough knowledge that outside talent isn't required.

So there's a lot more money potential for the average programming book than there is for the average novel. (Bestselling novels make much more, but only a few books get that status)
SNAP inc priced the public offering at $17 a share.
Is a war on drugs a good response? Hyper-aggressive policing? Lock up even minor participants for decades?

Consider why people thought that was a good response when drugs struck other communities.
post C++11, like 14 or 17
Their growth figures look really bad relative to Facebook at the same stage.
Yup. My precarious period was juuuust under three years. It's eerily consistent, from other stories I've heard.
> I wish organizations would talk about what they wanted to do with their data instead.

It may seem like a daft question, but have you tried asking them? They may clam up and refuse to give you anything, but I would imagine most small companies would be willing to talk about what the role involves. It's a bit late at the end of the interview to be asking "So what would I be doing?".

You may find out that they're working on some data which is e.g. image-heavy and you happen to be an image processing expert.
> Instead, hundreds of thousands of patients were subjected to 4 hours of pain a day, and they sought relief with other drugs, including illegal ones. And the epidemic began.

No, I believe the purpose of this scheme was to let the drug wear off before the next dose, in order to reinforce the withdrawal/pain->relief cycle. Oxycodone users typically didn't seek out illegal drugs (heroin) until several years after starting prescription usage.
We spent a bunch of money and time getting this right for cross border options. YMMV.

Might be because foreign options cannot be qualified. IANAL.
Did you read about the lawsuit against Michael Dell after taking Dell private? Essentially he was sued because there was a price differential between the PE firms bid and the "true" market value of Dell, both of which were drastically above Dell's stock price.

Valuations of companies are complex irrational things.
This company isn't offering voting rights nor planning dividends. What's the benefit of owning shares, other than trying to choose the right moment to sell them to other speculators?
> fatalities

If someone dies because of a preventable bug in your software, shouldn't that be considered manslaughter?

Obviously you formed a corporation in order to shield yourself from legal action (among other things). Fine, so you personally don't get charged with manslaughter. But in that case the corporation should be charged, and if convicted should be sentenced to the corporate equivalent of 25 years in jail. That would be a strong enough incentive to care about software. Of course, it never works like that in real life.

Is this as ridiculous as it sounds to me or is my outrage misplaced somehow?
I've had the misfortune to be present for an in-person demo of a verification service nearly a decade ago. It involved those relationship questions ("Which one of the following people have you not lived with in the last 5 years?") that are incredibly creepy.

I was shocked that they had so much data on me -- I have no debt, no credit cards, no house, no car, no bills, and I had always entered informal rent agreements (I was poor) up to that point -- yet the rep was easily able to list all the places I had resided from college to present, along with a host of off-the-books housemates.

"Where the fsck did you get all this?!" I demanded.

"Have you ever ordered a pizza?"

Turns out, some fast food chains do a brisk business in reselling customer data. I had ordered from Domino's once, but that was enough to link my name to a specific location.

This experience has made me extremely sensitive about the information I give while making a purchase. When I lived in the US, I stopped having food delivered, paid in cash, and never signed up for branded credit cards. I rented informally and, whenever possible, tried to just pay the landlord my share of utilities in cash. Anything to keep a lower profile.

Far more companies than you realize are collecting as much data as possible about you, your habits, and your relations. So I'm afraid your search for a canonical list of data sources is ultimately fruitless. In this new economy, you are always the product.
> Snap needs to grow revenues by at least 290% a year every year for the foreseeable future

No they don't, you're exaggerating substantially.

They'll hit near $1 billion in sales for fiscal 2017.

FB's price to sales number as you noted is 14.

For Snapchat to hit that level, they need around $2 billion in sales as of today (that'll soon be even lower I suspect).

They'll need one year of 100% growth after this year. They could easily get near or hit the 14 sales multiple by the end of 2018 in other words, without needing a single year of 290% growth in either 2017 or 2018. Your speculation missed by a mile.

They did $404 million for 2016. 290% growth on that would get them near $1.56 billion. In just five to six quarters of your growth projection, they'd have caught up to the Facebook sales multiple.

Or be conservative about it. They need:

100% growth for 2017 = ~$800m in sales for the year

70% growth for 2018 = ~$1.35b in sales for the year. They'd have a 21 sales multiple there (50% higher multiple, with near 50% faster growth).

50% growth for 2019 = ~$2 billion in sales, which gives them the 14 price to sales multiple on today's market valuation. Based on what kind of sales growth rates have been achieved by the likes of Twitter, these growth numbers are reasonable.

Not even remotely close to requiring 290% per year growth for years into the foreseeable future.
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Not exactly. There's benefit to staying private, but it's more about the time-value of money than the need to grow. Private companies can generally optimize for longer timeframes than public companies. Except for Amazon, whose shareholders seem cool with the idea of plowing all free cash flow into growth. Shareholders are often much more conservative than private owners and won't allow drastic changes. Private owners are more comfortable with variation.

Growth is necessary for all companies, public or private. If you're not growing, you're dying. That's not always true, but it's true enough -- not just in economics, but for all organisms, literal and metaphorical. It's less about absolute growth than relative growth. If your competitor is growing faster, eventually they will crowd you out of the market.
I assume they have been either been bought out to remove them from competition or they are closing it down to merge it into something else - either way it sucks all round but I guess that's business!

I'd hate to be the people scrambling to get the 2FA changed
I'm no startup expert, but I imagine part of it is that the company's owners (founder, VCs, etc) would like to reap some rewards of their successful endeavor and diversify their riches into other businesses. That means finding buyers, which is presumably most easily accomplished by going public. It's great to build a billion dollar business, but it might as well not exist until you sell some of it to someone.

I imagine that going public, simply by creating a lot of new shares, is also an effective way to raise additional capital, which could be used to grow the company more, similar to a private fundraising round but larger in scale.
Surprisingly, Adderall doesn't have a significant physical addiction potential. I suppose you could get psychologically addicted if you used it recreationally but I've never met anyone who had. The XR (extended release) version is even less addictive because it doesn't give you a "kick".
traditionally, this required a linker that understands there is ir in the files.
in practice, i don't believe this has been a problem for many years now (and again, was only a problem in the open source world, so saying it's related to the language is kind of strange.).

Every good production C++ compiler has had some form of link time optimization for many years.

IBM's, for example, has been happily cross-optimizing between C++, java, fortran, PL/IX, etc without any issues, going on at least 15, maybe 25+ years now (I know it's 15 for sure, i suspect it's closer to 25).