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I don't get this. It seems to me Gopher basically supports a subset of what is available on the web. All the benefits of Gopher (low bandwidth requirements, no flashy design or interactivity, strict hierarchical navigation etc.) can also be achieved with stripped-down web pages. I see no benefit at all to having a separate protocol.

Gopher is cool as a slice of history though.
And before that they used pre-Blink Opera.

Nintendo really has bad luck with picking their browser vendors…
I don't think I've ever read anything so passionate about Gopher.
Is Systemd a nohup equivalent? If it is, then what's the benefit of using one over the other?
The author is quite arrogant himself. What's wrong with looking up solutions for complex problems on StackOverflow? It saves a lot of time and in most cases will end up better than what you come up with on your own, because it has been tested and improved by hundreds of users. And if you manage to find an improvement, share it to make the code better.

Reinventing the wheel every time is stupid and it really seems more like he's the one not able to adapt. When I can do the same things faster and better than you, because I make use of available resources, then I'll be the better choice for most employers, regardless of the age.

Experience is good, but constantly learning and adapting is even more important in this industry and he seems to think he doesn't need to do that.
Is there a java version of this?
*All.
compile a linux desktop to the web (webassembler/jslinux), style your gui to look like your brand, users are logged into x11/wayland as guest by default. logging in looks like you're on a website but in fact you're in a linux session. you code your apps in gtk/kde (whatever) and html/xml (or something more sane) is only used for the layout of those apps.
This is terrifying to cyclists, motorcyclists, and walkers alike, and probably leads to thousands of deaths a year.
That's a no true scotsman argument. What the OP described matches almost every metro area of the US (except maybe Manhattan). So by your definition there are basically no cities in the US, which is pointless for this discussion.
Eh, if you're using TLS it really doesn't matter where you hash. There's a lot of arguments for not doing secure hashing and encryption in JavaScript
It happens to me as well and i decided to do a few things about it:

1. Not switching languages that often anymore. Fullstack? Yeah i could hack around in JS, PHP and whatever but i'm trying to stay in my field java to become really good in it.

2. Not using code comletion much/often. I write often a class file from scratch just to exercise it. I write Classnames out, i sometimes write my own imports.

3. Repeat it: When i forget how to write a for each loop, i do it once, and delete the code the next second and just write it again, than a third time.

No one cares when i need 30 seconds longer to write that one loop and the next time it sits again or much etter than before.
I draw on my window a dashboard with a kind of life's game. I needed 1 million of points to get a price (allow myself to startup another company).

If you've recognised a pain that you solve for people and that could turn in to a viable business, waiting until you completed an arbitrary number of other tasks seems like a pointless exercise.

On the other hand, if you don't have a solution to a pain point, this might be a brilliant way to productively put off starting something you (sub)consciously know is a bad idea.
I still think that iOS is better for an MVP, because it just simply has better animations and you need to support not as many devices
I'm from a similar country (Belgium) but have seen both sides of it, both where age is an advantage as well as a negative factor.

At a startup I worked at, we were considering hiring a developer who was older than us (+20 years older), but in the end did not do it as we felt he might have trouble being managed by people significantly older than him. This was not my decision and I would have been in favor of hiring him - for the experience he could bring to the company.

Anyway, I now work in a team where most people (apart from 2) are older than me, and I consider that a priviledge. I get to learn from them in a great way, and I feel that I can teach them things as well. It goes both ways really.

And I do feel that in general here age is not such an important factor. Though that is just from looking at my colleagues, I am not in a comparable situation yet.

Just out of curiousity btw, does 'ff10' hold any relation to 'fast fingers'?
Aggregate filing statistics for US tax returns 1990-2014:

https://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/bbca48dc#fullscreen

Percentage of all reports filed electronically reached 86% in 2014. Big relief for USPS.
There are also versions of ruby, python, even haskell, ocaml. Basically google any language you like and add compiled to javascript to your search terms.
I would prefer an apprenticeship system. Possibly have several levels. To get to the next level you would have to create an independent project that you submit to the committee. The committee would review it and then interview you. This would culminate in a master-level project at which point you would be allowed to refer to yourself as a "master programmer".

As others have said, there are already engineering societies and you can become a professional/certified engineer but there is not really much demand at the moment. I'd really prefer trying to set up a parallel system that achieves other goals (improving the overall ability of programmers).
yeah but using a hosted service gives you the freedom of not spending time running a webserver
What employees? Uber insists the drivers are contractors.
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This would be a fantastic thing!
There is already a seq2seq in the tree under contrib, is this one different from/replacing it?

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorf...
Actually, Passwords should never be hashed client side. Otherwise, a man in a middle attack could intercept the hash and get your password, allowing them to log in. Instead, the password should be encrypted to the server, and hashed there.
A certification is a not a stamp of quality. It's a social demarcation line.
What causes a chance?
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Jeff Sessions is the current Attorney General of the United States of America.

It was a fairly controversial appointment.

I'm not entirely sure what specifically the poster thought he should have been disbarred for, but a number of his views have made it easy to argue about the quality of service he has given.
About Passwords - https://sites.google.com/site/magyarinformatikus/about-passw...
I started looking at GTD and then just thought, some of these ideas are good, others I don't need, so I just made my own version of it.

So I have the following Cards in a Trello Board;

1. Inbox -> Things I can reasonably expect to complete in a day or less
2. In Progress -> Limited to 5 per day
3. Projects -> Working on an app? Put details in here
4. Reminders/Waiting -> I've sent a form in, waiting a response before next action
5. Some Day -> Things I would like to tackle some day (Good for reviewing long term goals)
6. Complete / Split into smaller tasks
I prefer http://rosettacode.org/
I remember reading how Microsoft had weakened Win8 bitlocker security (compared to Win7) [1]. I don't know what is the status/comparison to Win10. If someone has, please reply.

[1] https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/has-bitlocker-been-w...
Generally these sort of systems are in place to maintain a high price of labor. As demand exceeds supply it's unlikely there is much need for this process in the near future. If there was more supply than need, then people would quickly pine for a certification and start fighting to restrict employment of non-certified programmers.
Thanks -- as an ESL'er, this is one of the more tricky aspects of the language to me.
> I am frustrated by the fact that I have to keep looking up syntax for particular loops or method calls.

Have you ever tried to deliberately memorize the syntax? Just repeating the same action for 10k hours doesn't make you an expert.

It's like how sportsman don't improve by competing constantly. They improve through deliberate practice. Work is like competing, you aren't trying to improve, you are trying to get stuff done.
They are terrible debaters...what are you talking about? They literally use the word "cuck" that shows the level of their thinking...
That's exactly what the next line in the parent comment says.
All Japan needs to do is to raise wages and increase job security. It's the same problem the US has, they've just had it for longer.

Japanese birth rates didn't fall because of some fundamental, immutable law of the universe.
Well..

There seems to be a veritable flood of various kinds of deep learning chip papers and startups at the moment. Seems the common theme is some kind of processor-in-memory (PIM) style architecture in order to reduce the energy cost of memory access, coupled with massive amounts of low-precision arithmetic units, since neural nets seem to be able to get by without the traditional FP64.

I am completely wrong in the above assessment? And what are you doing differently than all the other players? In any case, good luck!
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BulletJournal.com and the companion app that reminds you to reflect and to Think(tm) once in a while.
A professional certificate is not a quality grading tool, it's a pricing mechanism.

Thus the demand for the certification needs to come from the selfish needs of the certified profession.

First requirement is that there is an oversupply of qualified candidates. As the demands for software engineers shows no signs of abating I would claim attaining this first requirement would be quite hard. On the other hand, if supply of eligible candidates exceeded demand we would have a certification program done almost by itself - unless the big tech incumbents fought terribly against it, of course.
As with anything in the real world there is always a "yes but" and "it depends". 10k hours succeeded because it is generally the right idea. It's not a mathematical rule. Some common sense is still required. You can't stop people interpreting it to hear only what they want to hear.
This will also notify if you intentionally shut down the service.

If you want to only see failures, you can use an OnFailure directive.
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I think this is the wrong way around; Plan 9 prevented itself from becoming useful by changing everything so thoroughly that building an actual web browser was pretty much impossible. It was more or less guaranteed that APE (The "ANSI Posix Environment") would die from neglect. This neglect seemed intentional and people seemed happy to run plain white windows with black borders and congratulate themselves that their system neither had nor needed the massive shared libraries that Unixen of the time seemed to need.

The lesson seems to be, rather - don't build an operating system that can't build up enough infrastructure to run a browser. This is maybe less forbidding than, say, being forced to build an operating system that can support an entire Windows subsystem.

I have trouble understanding what it is that people want when they say they want "innovation" in operating systems. It seems like almost anything that was practical to do in the period when I worked with Plan 9 is now eminently practical and far more performant in user space; so why not go build it on top of a minimal Linux kernel and save yourself the trouble of building a gazillion drivers, boot loaders, etc.
The author of this website (Luc Devroye) has been my professor at McGill, and he might be the most impressive professor I've ever met in my student life.

He only does classes at 8:30 and on blackboard, with a lot of humor and history of science stories in the middle. He was supposed to write an algorithm book at some point, if he ever finishs it, it's a must buy !
If a MitM attack can get my hash, what do you think they can get if I send the password to be hashed by the server?
Have you ever thought about the fact that most people don't like innovation and don't need it? They want and need well tested incremental updates to proven technologies.

There is still innovation happening in operating systems, it just doesn't reach mass adoption because most of it doesn't provide real-life benefits to the mass market. Some of the more practical aspects trickle down to mainstream OSes.

We're past the Wild West stage of operating systems. You win some, you lose some.
Particularly for a definition of "modern" that goes as far back as 1937, when Trotsky published "The Revolution Betrayed".
Sounds very sensible - I strongly believe in the benefits of having a diverse work-environment, and that includes diversity of age.

Out of personal interest (my partner lives in Germany. I'm considering moving there in the long term, and I'm your age), how would you describe the German situation when it comes to diversity in general?
If I hash client side the server will never know my password. If the server hashes the password, that is effectively the same as storing the password in cleartext.

/edit: Security wise sending the password, means you trust the server to handle the password correctly. For all we know it stores the plaintext password. If we send the hash, we KNOW that it does not store the password. It's an important distinction to make in real world systems. No matter how much best practices dictates to not reuse passwords, it happens as long as humans are involved.
And i said: "On the phone we have firefox with adblock extensions as well."
nohup just runs a process that will ignore SIGHUP.

systemd can also run processes that ignore SIGHUP. But systemd does a lot of things that nohup doesn't do. Please don't attempt to use nohup as a daemon management system for anything but the noddiest of tasks.

If you're going to use anything, you're probably best choosing from this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system_service_manag...
I like the Materialistic app for browsing HN, it's really nice.
Not that Uber isn't doing this to themselves... but I wonder who has the most to gain from all the bad press Uber is getting this past month.
https://github.com/id-Software/wolf3d

https://github.com/id-Software/Quake

https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-2

https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM
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>no change there really

That's what this whole robot story is about. This is why Ball State University's oft-cited study 'accidentally' mathematically defined outsourcing as the same thing as automation. This tiny elite are trying to redirect the pitchforks at a comparatively pointless target (robots) away from the targets that are actually causing mass unemployment that they want to keep (outsourcing, austerity).

It's a good way to quell incipient union action, too ("if we unionize, they'll only replace us with a robot...").
One thing that comes to mind is job interviews. When you apply to, say, a surgeon opening, certification and previous job experience is enough, no one asks you to perform homework surgery or list all the bones in human body.
I'm sure people were asking that when web portals like go.com were becoming dominant, and they'll be asking it long after facebook is dead.
As per definition "Prayer (from the Latin precari "to ask earnestly, beg, entreat")[1] is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship through deliberate communication." i would say no.

If you talk to yourself/think about your life, i would call it something like 'time for self reflection' or something but not prayer.
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Where do you live in Belgium? ( I'm also from BE ;) )
What you show in Erlang example is just a syntax. The surrounding code or usage or approach may be bad/ugly. It has nothing to do with code quality.
> we were considering hiring a developer who was older than us (+20 years older), but in the end did not do it as we felt he might have trouble being managed by people significantly older than him.

I am curious: Did something give you the impression he'd be bothered by a younger management, or was it just a general concern?

I am only 23, but I imagine I wouldn't have issues being managed by someone my age if I were 33. However, I know that I'd be pretty shit at management right now, and would definitely not want to manage someone older than me. Personally, I'd prefer to be managed by someone older than myself due to them having more experience. Then again, wisdom doesn't come solely from age; one can have more experience and wisdom at 15 than someone at 50.

My conclusion is that there is no conclusion, I guess.
Not OP, but as a person raised in Christianity - personal prayer is talking with God; it's not really about asking for supernatural favours, but about maintaining your personal relationship with the Almighty. Reflecting upon your own life is often a part of such a prayer.
Retrofitting Linear Types in Haskell [pdf]
Very true. I figured it was a low enough fee that if Twitter cut me off/it became irrelevant, it's not the biggest loss for the paying user (obviously sucks, but didn't feel it warranted yearly subscriptions)
Let me introduce you to a wonderful element of human language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
Tax rate above 30% here. Considering I just finished a master degree education that was virtually free, with even living costs heavily subsidized (both stipend and ridiculously low student loan interest), I pay my taxes gladly. I'm not sure I will be a net positive for the government for another decade at least.

I think free higher education is one thing that really help sell higher taxes to high income earners. Free(ish) healthcare is awesome, but you get the feeling that it mostly benefits poorer and older people. Free higher education is comparatively cheap, but it makes our lives simpler and stress free.
I found https://uk.wikibudgets.org/w/united-kingdom-budget-2015 a few days ago.

I had assumed the defense budget was larger, it was a nice way of displaying the information.
I can't speak for him, but I can read his comment. The paragraph structure of his comment suggests to me that, to him, prayer involves self-reflection, not handing the wheel to Jesus.
> Somewhere around 2004 or so, I began seeing many US companies (including many large ones) abandoning analysis and planning and lots of other proven PMBOK type activities in favor of more reactionary methods.

This was corporates adopting their own version of the agile development methodology.

Unfortunately I can tell you large corporations with a lot of inertia and managerial politics don't mesh well with agile, so you end up with poor planning, pants on fire fixing, overworked employees*

* anecdotal evidence
You'd be wise to think that, but I actually use Heroku's "Scheduler" add-on, so they just fire up a one-off dyno once a day and run my script. This script just checks the database for the user's it needs to check (paying && valid email) and fires off Twitter API requests for them. If there's @mentions/DMs that fit in with the frequency the user has selected, the email is fired off through AWS SES. Honestly, the server costs for this will be quite low for quite some time. If it takes off big time, sure, I'll re-evaluate the pricing model.
One intriguing direction we could take is for someone to make a self-hosting browser. Doing that would mean taking all these technology dependencies and moving as many as possible into wasm, until you're just left with the kernel, a "barebones" wasm runtime, and a browser binary. I think that is within the reach of one of the big-leaguers, albeit ambitious and full of "interesting" problems and standards that will have to be broken.
the idea of a web desktop doesn't make sense when we have services like google docs and dropbox that perform the roles of the desktop without the overhead of installing software. The desktop was a forced requirement while content had to be centralised on your PC, why bother with it now that we're freed from that constraint?
You'll understand that "some reason" when you'll want some cool, fancy, useful app and the vendor will have not developed a version for your current mobile OS.
I'm from Sweden, way above 30%, still love to pay taxes. Countries where they avoid to pay taxes at all cost like Greece is usually a reminder of why it is important that the government really enforces tax paying and that the taxes are high.
>But this mode just allows you to trace device via IP geolocation since macbook never had GPS module like iphones do, so this geolocation is not accurate enough and not useful. You will just see the city or district located from ISP.

That's not quite true. IIRC, even without a GPS module, macOS sends a list of nearby WiFi APs to the geolocation API, which usually allows for a pretty accurate response (the same you'd get on an iOS device indoors without GPS reception)
There is no cultural backlash against expertise. That's a comfortable fantasy that a handful of self-proclaimed "experts" who have been consistently wrong are telling themselves, mostly people who attempt to predict the future but are not self-aware enough to understand their own biases.

I have yet to encounter any obvious or recent drop in regard for doctors, geologists, chemical engineers or indeed software developers, probably because none of those job categories make money by attempting to influence government policy via dubious predictions about the future.
Primary and secondary in todays devices arent as different as they once were in "spark plug" configs. These are boosted weapons. A hollow sphere of fission material is collapsed into a point. Hydrogen is inside to add fusion reactions, increasing the efficiency of the fission reaction without the need of a formal secondary.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boosted_fission_weapon

There are also "hourglass" warheads with integrated secondarys that are much smaller than spark plug configs.
> I'm 49 and I feel like I only just hit my peak in coding knowledge and quality. I suspect I will feel the same when I'm 59 ;-)

This is very comforting to hear! I'm 27 and feel the same way. I can only hope that I keep getting better at this whole thing, and that I can keep ahold of the feeling that I am getting better at it, as you appear to have.
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Can I use Link Preload across all browsers today?
There are specially-equipped subfleets of C-17s and C-130s available to the Nuclear Airlift Force but that's all I know. Some of the former were used last year to remove HEU from a facility in Scotland.

In the olden days the USAF used to cart weapons around by the dozen, literally, in C-124 transports nicknamed 'Old Shakey', which shows how resilient these devices are.

During the Cold War the Soviet forces used An-22s and Mi-6s for similar missions. The latter would have deployed weapons to the GRU handlers at air-bases immediately prior to use.
Many organisations push experienced engineers into management roles. Some companies explicitly say they don't want to force this, they don't want to create a ceiling for engineers. But in my experience even those companies still do it, just less consciously. It happens by the design of their function definitions and associated salary ranges. But also by perks and status given to manangement.
No, I'm not afraid of the future and I do have long term goals, but I try to avoid being so bound by them that it precludes me being present.
And yet the server sends you the code to hash your password. Either way, if the server compromised, all bets are off. That said, there are architectures where this may make a difference, but they certainly aren't the usual case.