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Alan Kay spoke about it length in many of his talks.

For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTAghAJcO1o

Excellent video. I highly recommend everyone working in or with IT to see it.

I think he is right.

PCs and smartphone are mostly recreating thing from the past, and not the best things either. However, this isn't because we invented everything there is to invent. It has more to do with how research in computing is currently funded and how companies approach invention and innovation.
Maybe because i'm a noob on telephony dev. but what's a "soft phone"...does that mean that the humans who receive the calls don't actually use traditional phones (like landlines or mobile phones), but rather via their web browsers?

Silly question: but if i didn't want my folks to use web browsers, and simply wanted to route a call to whomever is on call (and that person works remote, let's say), I wonder if possible to simply route the calls to that person's mobile phone?
The key feature is abstract iteration, like functional maps, filters and folds, and implicit iteration, where operations "penetrate" to the items of a vector or matrix automatically, rather than explicit iteration like a "for" loop.

Abstract iteration is useful because it results in programs with fewer "moving parts"- no loop induction variables to misplace or mutate in the middle of a loop body. Programs are necessarily expressed in a more rigid manner and some irregular algorithms can be difficult to express.

Summing a vector with an explicit loop in K (very non-idiomatic!):

r:0;i:0; do[#v;r+:v@i;i+:1]; r

The equivalent using the "over" adverb:

+/v

Both examples perform the same calculation. The latter is more concise and easier to reason about.
This is correct. A lot of people don't realize that Amazon actually makes more money from Marketplace (3rd party sellers) than they do with their "Sold by Amazon" products.
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Which automation tools/scripts do you use to save time and feel like a boss?
CSS-in-JS doesn't mean you have to inline everything in the component file..

You can totally create a style library and include pieces of it as mixins for the styles of each component.
And even in areas where this is not the case today, it could be in the future (coal plants are shutting down all the time). There is no chance an IC vehicle can become clean in the future.
what's a not dumb scheme?
I don't think a pay bump is the right prescription for burnout. In fact, it may contribute to it, because the recipient may feel that they need to work harder to justify the additional income. Increased spending may further strain finances despite the raise, also causing a jump in stress.

The best way for a company to keep an employee trapped is to grossly overpay them. People quickly scale their obligations up to meet their income, and that usually means that employees will not have the option to go somewhere else if they are paid well above market.

As the employee seeks a new position on the open market and becomes aware of their predicament, the stress they experience goes up, not down.

"More money, more problems", as they say. This is not to justify wage slavery or underpaid workforces, but only to indicate the solution to every problem is not "throw money at it".

We should recognize that the industrialized working habits are unnatural and not necessarily something that maintains its own homeostasis with humanity. There's no guarantee that we'll be able sustain this lifestyle, on either a personal or social scale.
If it's not doable, no. It's just a nice dream.

If it's doable but the computer can't tell the difference between my attempts to command it and my daydreams, maybe still no.
It makes me think of the red spot on Jupiter. I remember a few years back a hurricane parked itself off of the Eastern US coast and stayed there for a couple of days. It was really weird, but it made me wonder then if there was some sort of stable solution to the equations of meteorology.
Your answer assumes that the cost of preventing burnout exceeds the cost of turnover.
Do you have any facts to back this up? I just don't think the average marijuana user only uses a single joint in a week. I've known a lot of people who smoke and that amount seems off.

And a lot more people than you'd expect are stoned all day. You just can't tell because they're past the giggling munchies phase of smoking.
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Wow. I would love a news media product that covered _exactly_ those topics.

(The closest I've found is MPR, Minnesota's local branch of NPR.)
A battery/renewable energy company.
> it is standard to get an eye exam every year

I'm sure your ophthamologist will be happy to recommend getting exams as often as possible, like your dentist.

I've had the same prescription for 10 years. I had the same glasses for 10 years until I bought new ones for cheap on the internet this year using a 3 year old prescription.
I use Medium as another channel. I usually post a brief summary and then post a link to the full article on my blog.
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> most of the creatures that thrive don't have what we consider intelligence, so it's not that evolutionarily important

I dispute that this is because they don't poses intelligence. Whenever we find an animal displaying some ability we had said required intelligence — language, tool use, self-awareness, solving abstract puzzles, driving a car — we seem to change our definition of intelligence. Just like we have done with A.I., although probably because we want to eat the former and make slave labour of the latter. ;)

(Am vegetarian, please don't eat me, oh robot overlords!)
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Here's an article exploring body image opinions of female tennis players:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/11/sports/tennis/tenniss-top...
Getting rid of the coal plants is mostly a separate battle, though.

I admit I'm not sure how centralized coal burning compares in emission efficiency to internal combustion engines in cars.
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> It's understandable that python is preferred since it's an easy language to get started with

Python is a good choice but R is amazingly good language that doesn't deserve to be pushed back negatively.

It's not easier to learn Python then R. They both have plus and minuses but knowing both if I was to teach someone statistical programming I absolutely would teach R over Python.
Stochastic processes by definition behave differently while doing the same thing.
I guess Elon? He's no spring chicken, but certainly ambitious and an entrepreneur.
I didn't short the stock but I can understand why someone would.

They are expected to generate over 90% of their value after 2020 [0]. There's the expectation that Elon Musk will definitely deliver, that Tesla market share will not be eaten up by other carmakers when they seriously start releasing electric vehicles. The expectation that electric and not another form of energy, such as hydrogen, will dominate, etc.

There's a lot that could go wrong and a lot of unknown variables. Then again everything might turn out fine, the point is that no-one know for sure.

[0] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:UBQtFu...
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There were many advances in chemistry, medicine and biology, materials and manufacturing, but not all of them translated into something that's truly transformative as far as society as a whole is concerned.
After USA got schooled by a bunch of "commies" who were able to make history by putting the first human and satellite in space (among other things), America had to prove to the world that a nation as filthy rich as theirs was not a total waste of space and was still capable of rivaling the dirt poor USSR which only a few decades ago consisted primarily of illiterate, toothless peasants.

US claimed that they did it for mankind, yet they never shared any knowledge, technology, or offered any assistance to other countries to allow them to make the similar advances in an effort to progress our world towards bigger goals. Who knows, maybe mankind could've been on Mars by now if everyone had the know-how. The whole thing was an impressive, yet selfish and ultimately useless, feat.

Well, at least all the American kids can now claim that "they've" been to the moon.
It would have been better for untold millions if Europeans had indeed "just stayed there".
I think "loop-free" just means the language encourages you to think without loops, even if the implementation may or may not use traditional loops under the hood.

This is basically common to all languages with a strong emphasis on functional programming. Instead of looping, you perform operations directly on the arrays/matrices, and in fact APL and J are focused on matrix manipulation.
FB messenger got the feature a couple weeks ago.

In terms of adoption rate amongst people on my friends list, more people began using the Stories on Instagram immediately. Only 2 or 3 people out of 450+ "friends" on my FB have even posted to the story thing in messenger.

The first day Stories was available for Instagram, people were posting either the same things to both Instagram and Snapchat stories, or just regular "snap"-type posts.

If FB messenger adoption in my circle is anything like it is for the majority of regular users, then it won't be very popular.
Unless you're driving more than 200mi you should be charging at home. Both for off-peak rates and because at < 10kW it does take a long time to charge.
But, as a sibling comment suggested, it has the wrong audience: your mother, your coworkers, and your ex.
By building it yourself.
> In fact I find double-free safer because it usually crashes (and in my code I do checks so it almost certainly crashes)

You don't know what an undefined behavior is, do you ? You cannot be sure it crashes since the compiler is allowed to do anything with the assumption it doesn't happen. It's absolutely legit for the compiler to remove all the code you added to check a double-free didn't happen because it is assuming that's dead code.

See this post[1] from the LLVM blog which explains why you can't expect anything when you're triggering an UB.

[1]: http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...
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And then I remembered that the cheapest form of power generation is using coal, which is extremely abundant.

That's not so clear cut when you try and factor in externalized costs (which any proper analysis must)
You offer interpretations of several sentences. These interpretations are guesswork. Even if we take your interpretations as perfectly correct, they don't knit together into any coherent message.

The man is schizophrenic. You are holding him to account for a kind of performance that he is biologically not equipped to provide. He isn't harming anyone and as far as anyone can interpret what he says, many times he uses words like "nigger" he is complaining about things like how we have made computing overcomplicated. I think it's worth it to cut the guy a break.

That doesn't mean we accept racism in general, it means we don't have to pick on people who can't help the way they express themselves. Do we pick on people with Tourette's for saying bad words?
In addition just pushing the pollution somewhere else isn't necessarily a bad thing, there are a lot of cities that would be a lot healthier if emissions were all about 80 miles that-a-way
The conservationist I worked for refer to lawns as urban deserts.

Because of the water retention characteristics? Or for more reasons than that?
They changed their name because they bought Elon's solar company (which was also not a tech company).
Yes, that's the real question. If Tencent obtained a board seat as well, then I could think of all sorts of scenarios that could benefit Tencent in China, but not necessarily Tesla.
I really wish I had better data I could link to you. Just reporting my intuition based on personal experience, and knowing a lot of cannabis users. For obvious reasons, it's not so easy to find good methodically rigorous longitudinal studies of cannabis use.
Article linked from the video description: http://www.karlsims.com/julia.html
I'm arguing that, when it comes to taxi service (and steaks) customers are perfectly capable of protecting themselves from cheating service providers without government help.

We should have as few regulations as we can get away with as regulations almost inevitably get used in unintended ways with negative consequences. Incumbents use them to drive out upstart competition and increase costs for everyone.
Yes and no. Where I come from... Greece more than half of Taxi-meters have been tampered.
I'm pretty sure this means that you shouldn't encrypt users data without their consent, or encrypt existing data. There are plenty of 3rd party apps which have been approved by Amazon which encrypt your data client side. e.g Arq Backup

I know Stablebit Clouddrive (which does client side encryption) have been struggling to get approval from Amazon, but this is due to excessive API requests, not client side encryption.
In the US, about 2/3 of electricity produced is from fossil fuels. In the EU, this number is about about half, and in Slovenia it's lower than 25%. So with all else being equal, you reduce pollution by somewhere between one third and three quarters.

With that out of the way, even just pushing the pollution and noise somewhere else is a big deal, especially in cities. It doesn't matter for global warming, but for quality of life it's much better if fuel burning is happening away from people.
You still haven't pointed out what syntax is problematic exactly. I've never programmed in Rust, but I don't have any trouble reading it coming from a C and C# background.

What exactly is the problem with the example you linked to?
Could also be an additional defense against "Don't build apps that promote illegal peer-to-peer file sharing"

Unlimited cheap storage is probably a magnet for pirated videos. Encrypting (or just obfuscating) them would be an obvious step to avoid detection.
Spiders could theoretically eat every human on Earth in one year
You're being pedantic, and worse than that, you're wrong. It's not a plot of C02.

A full description of the methodology and what exactly is being plotted is available in papers linked to here: http://tntcat.iiasa.ac.at:8787/RcpDb/dsd?Action=htmlpage&pag...
What does this have to do with "cloud"? Seems like confusing messaging.

If I'm not paying by the CPU hour, then it isn't "cloud".
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I agree distribution costs both for print/digital are non negligible (let's face advertising and SEO are forms of distribution in the online world).

But I am not sure digital should be the default way to go for journalism. Local or not.

In digital there are also personnel cost for setting up and maintaining infrastructure costs, and refreshing the front page every X minutes (no, it's not made automatically).

Even if you publish on a third party site (like Facebook) you still have to pay lump sum people to publish, promote, SEO, and A/B test landing pages...

... Is it worth for a 30-50K people audience? probably not unless you are thinking on the long run or you're making "evergreen" content...

... But this audience might be enough for a small newspaper printed in paper... even if the content is not "revived" every year/4 years by search engines.
As mentioned by the other comment, board members get preferential information sharing. I would haphazard to guess that Tencent balked at the purchase price of a seat on the board of directors (eg: 20% stake or something to that effect) or Tesla opposed it on principle. Probably the latter and then Tencent moderated their stake offer.

However, shareholders are afforded access regular updates on the financials of the company, which Tencent may be satisfied with on its own.
Getting parts from the best suppliers does not by itself ensure quality. What kind of tolerances are you speccing from said suppliers? How tight are your build processes and quality assurance testing? How accurate and precise is your tooling?
Based on videogame companies and how they churn through deveopers, this definitely seems to be the case for at least some sectors.

I'd say the cost of turnover is only high for highly specialized roles; a role which software development is rarely considered to be by companies.
> I also remembered that power plants have an expected life span of 50+ years

How much of that infrastructure was built in the post WW2 period so is nearing replacement anyway?
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While I agree with the sentiment, IC vehicles have been getting cleaner for some time, and likely will continue in the future. They will never be completely clean, though.
I don't think it's a question of them being desperate to look 'relevant' as much of them just being afraid to lose market share.

Enough people use Facebook and either don't use Snapchat or use Facebook for other types of communication that SC couldn't really kill FB. But it would definitely hurt.
You quoted a macro definition. The equivalent in C++ would be heavy preprocessor use, which is usually much worse.
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The world is going WWW, so I'd recommend stick to it.
> Not to mention the fact that electricity gets surprisingly expensive at peak rates.

Extremely relevant point. EV penetration will cause huge surges in demand; a 100 KwH Tesla is ~10 days of household electricity usage here in the Netherlands. That's why demand response and load shifting will be critical.

> no energy source is really ever "free".

The sun is pretty close to free on the scale we use energy at. :)
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Venera 7 lasted less than an hour and only transmitted one or two crappy images, along with some sensor data. Granted, humans can't do any better on the surface of Venus due to the temperature and pressure, but humans can do far better than that on the Moon with ~1969 technology, and they did. Humans brought back many kilograms of rock samples, they set up a bunch of experiments, they drove around for hours on a buggy (in the later landings, not Apollo 11); they did FAR more than any lander of the time could possibly have done.
Do you have a specific proposal as to what lifetime syntax should be changed to?
Having read a lot of what he's said, he uses words and phrases in an idiosyncratic way that isn't the same as they would be used by, say, a politician. He may or may not be racist, but he's schizophrenic so we should probably chill out on him and go police someone who isn't schizophrenic instead.
> Even for tech workers, the novelty has worn off,

Watching most of what you build—which often wasn't exciting or very important-seeming to begin with—be discarded in short order, having benefitted few (i.e. not enough to justify the effort) or no people, after all kinds of false or semi-real urgency to get it done, year after year after year, will do that. It's a testament to how much money is sloshing around that we get paid so much to spend huge amounts of time building soon-to-be digital garbage, I guess.

It feels like there's an exceptionally stupid monkey smashing shapes against one of those children's shape-in-the-correct-hole puzzles, but larger, extending forever into the distance, trying to get some of them to fit, which they mostly don't because the monkey's so damn stupid. And we're the shapes.
It is based the increased cost of reducing burnout being born immediately, but the savings in turnover not immediately being of the same magnitude, and that those short term costs have significant market effect.
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That makes the problem regional, but not unsolvable. Consider states like Washington and California, where electricity is highly renewable. Every electric car in those states is a big difference in 'power cleanliness'. True, in other states the gain isn't as big, but I still suspect a coal plant might be cleaner than N small gas engines (and the refineries that support making that gasoline.)

At the very least, it allows for the possibility of changing the power generation under the cars, which current engines don't allow.
This the sort of thing Einstein might have believed when was going through his quantum mechanics denialist phase.

Suffice to say the universe proved him, and fans of the quote, very wrong.
As a business, the onus is on you to provide a service that incentivizes consumers to move up from the free tier. If your free trials are being abused, that's an issue with the way your business is structured, not how people register.

You are well within your rights as a business to decline potential customers over something like this, but you need them more than they need you.
I agree. A lot of the complaints about "fake news" and everything aren't so much directed at actual false information being reported - but rather the selection or emphasis of certain facts over others.

An obvious example was Fox News vs. CNN during the weeks leading up to the election. Neither company outright lied about anything (for the most part), but both published headlines emphasizing an entirely different set of facts. Fox News was constantly blasting headlines about the FBI investigating Hillary's email, while CNN was constantly blasting headlines about Trump's sexual misconduct allegations, etc. Neither were really lying in any sense - but they both painted completely different pictures designed to elicit differing opinions/reactions from their readers.

Of course, if you want real fake news - that exists as well and always has before it became a buzz word. The National Enquirer has been publishing fake news for decades, and nobody cares.
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Almost none of the spending in medicine is analogous to spending on food. The closest would be things like regular checkups. For just about everything else the goal of payers is to minimize usage of the product they sell, not maximize it.

In food, grocers are (roughly speaking, here) analogous to insurers and food is analogous to care utilization. Grocers want to maximize sales of food at the best price possible: they make more money by moving their product. Insurers want to minimize utilization: they make less money by "moving" their product.

In the case of food, the grocers' and buyers' incentives are aligned: people need food, and grocers want to provide it. In the case of medicine, this isn't the case: people need care, and the access providers don't want to provide it.
GHC doesn't either. Rust traits are heavily inspired by Haskell typeclasses… so it's like in your example.
Rather needs to understand how to have a basket of shorts and manage risk as opposed to shorting single names.
What's the issue with that example?
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Some of the best life advice I got from my Grandmother:

You are always working for yourself. You may have an employer, but you are still working for yourself, not them. You're trading your time for money, like any other business. If you don't like the deal, then walk away.
For what it's worth, `lxrun /uninstall /y /full` followed by `lxrun /install /y` will put the WSL environment back to "factory settings".

Then as long as you don't try to look into the WSL side from Windows you'll be fine.
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The +company trick doesn't work everywhere anymore.

I recommend using a personal domain and a mail service that offers catch-all filters. Stuff regex on that and you can also filter all emails of this type into a specific folder.