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Unix, in the sense that we talk about it today, is not an operating system, but a family of operating systems that is based on the original Unix. Linux is Unix in the same way that C is Algol. In the grand scheme of potential languages/operating systems they are very similar, and familiarity with one will transfer well. However, if you consider the ML family of languages (Haskell/Ocaml), or the Prolog family, you will see that Algol/C/Java/Rust are in some sense variations on the same language. In this sense, we have not seen the great variaty of new languages you are referring to.

In the case of OSes, it is beneficial to formalize these similarities into a single API. As long as the operating systems remain conceptually simmilar, there is no point in unnessasarily fragmenting the API. When there is need to deviate from the common Unix system, Unix-like operating systems have no problem doing so. But there is not strong enough reason to through out the massive amount of investment, both in software and human expertise, that has been built up on the common Unix base.
> Ford doesn't have any good ideas for the future

Ford bet $1 billion on Argo.ai to build self-driving cars, and they also acquired Chariot. They are planning on using these to roll out self-driving vans in 2021 to compete with Uber, Lyft, etc.

https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2017...
And Aiken (who made the Harvard Mark I) stated that he got "his education in computers" from Charles Babbage.
That's not how the math works out, according to Nasdaq.com Tesla's P/E was -53.63 for 2016 and estimated -103.48 for 2017.
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You're talking about power, oculusthrift is talking about capacity. Of course big money has the power. But spending that big money in a non-wasteful way is a very hard job. What would you do if you were the head of Ford and had $100B to spend? Build more plants to manufacture more cars? You won't have who to sell them to. Easiest way out is to buy other companies, which is what big money usually do.
And yet they ship 10M+ cars/year.
I probably wouldn't be surprised, having set up hiring processes before. E.g.: http://williampietri.com/writing/2015/slightly-less-awful-hi...

Anybody spending 6 hours per candidate on site can afford to test them on some real work. I'll typically do 2 hours for pair programming, and/or 1 hour for reviewing some existing code. 1-2 hours is also a good amount of time for a joint design session on some real problem.

You're definitely right that we're missing good people. I keep coming across people who didn't get the right job until they invested a bunch of time into learning to beat the Mensa-puzzle interview. So one way to make the numbers better is to find more good people.

I think if we're going to do the math, I also think we need to account for the cost of getting people who are not so good. If we test some thing that we hope correlates with doing the work, we're asking for large downstream costs. The more our interview tests what people actually need for long-term success, the better off we are.
The point of React Native and the like isn't that the native environment isn't "capable", it's that writing and maintaining two codebases is a different type of complexity that isn't always worth the tradeoff.
A counterexample is Celery when used for things such as network IO. You can't scale horizontally because each process creates a database connection, and you'd need a giant database server just to handle a bunch of network IO. The Celery code would probably have to get its parameters from a cache or somewhere that's not the database, but this breaks their suggested use case of accessing the database models when the task actually executes.
If anyone is interested in a good analysis of this plus the Maya and Easter Islanders (among some others), there's a book by Jared Diamond called "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse:_How_Societies_Choose...
Hell, they even tried mercury: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory#Mercury_dela...
On the other hand George Dyson's book "Turing's Cathedral" makes a compelling case that the group at Princeton building the IAS Machine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAS_machine), Von Neumann included, believed they were following Turing's paper quite directly.

p.152:

According to Bigelow, the forty-fold parallel architecture, despite its deviations, was descended directly from the pure-serial Turing Machine. “Turing’s machine does not sound much like a modern computer today, but nevertheless it was,” Bigelow explains. “It was the germinal idea. If you build an apparatus which will obey certain explicit orders in a certain explicit fashion, can you say anything about the kinds of computational or intellectual processes which it can or cannot do?” Bigelow and von Neumann had lengthy discussions about the implications of Gödel’s and Turing’s work. “Von Neumann understood this very deeply,” Bigelow confirms. “So when looking at ENIAC, or some of the early machines which were very inflexible, he saw better than any other man that this was just the first step, and that great improvement would come.”

p.259:

The war had scrambled the origins of new inventions as completely as a message passing through an Enigma machine. Radar, cryptanalysis, antiaircraft fire control, computers, and nuclear weapons were all secret wartime projects that, behind the security barriers, enjoyed the benefit of free exchange of ideas, without concern for individual authorship or peer review. Von Neumann served the role of messenger RNA, helping to convey the best of the ideas—including the powers of Turing’s Universal Machine. Among the bound volumes of the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, on the shelves of the Institute for Advanced Study library, there is one volume whose binding is disintegrated from having been handled so many times: Volume 42, with Turing’s “On Computable Numbers,” on pages 230–65.

(Kindle-reported page numbers.)

Edit: Fixed author: George not Freeman.
Then it's a good thing I didn't suggest spending 100 hours per candidate.
So you're saying we're likely to get more objective coverage from people who are more invested in the community in question? If a local journalist writes an unflattering story about new zoning laws taking place in her city, zoning laws that will send her child to another elementary school where the children do not score as high on standardized tests, would you assume she's more objective? When a local journalist writes positively about a highway extension that's going to level a "bad" neighborhood but make it easier for him to commute back and forth to his office downtown, would you not question his impartiality?

In fact, when reporting on a local story don't national news papers and stations usually defer to the AP or reporters from a local affiliate? Whenever something in my town makes national news, NPR generally has a reporter from our local affiliate on to talk about the issue. I think most of the local/regional news coverage is handled by reporters actually on the ground who live in the areas. I just don't see how local/regional news organizations would be any more or less objective than a national organization by being based in the area.
Speed and Concurrency Matters! Golang has outperformed python in both these areas. If it wasn't for the rich ecosystem for data analysis/ Devops libraries (Scikit, Numpy, Scipy, Ansible) in Python. I would have long moved to Golang.
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Depends on what level of knowledge you need.

If it's a run-of-the-mill social app then it shouldn't be too hard finding someone that knows "enough" to get the job done. I'll say this, though; in general, the types of people that know it "all" would prefer not to work in PHP.
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Yea, I was expecting something on the page for adding a tacking cookie to your site to add your own data.

It's interesting how many people do use their website from within the federal government IP ranges.
I don't disagree with your point. I was mostly thinking of general education and the high school curricula.

On the other hand, I'm not a big fan of the PhD style program. It seems old-fashioned and possibly obsolete to me. I would prefer to see it replaced by something like, in the case you mention, an advanced certification in machine learning. I don't know the field well enough to say what such a certification might entail but maybe testing and some kind of project?
As Android evolves, you need to update drivers to keep in step with new features (pretty much the same as with Windows - you need new drivers for newer Windows usually). But as opposed to Windows, Linux kernel doesn't really have a very stable driver API and the manufacturers love to patch and mess with the kernel itself to get their hardware working. As such, porting closed-source drivers to newer Android OSes is usually impossible without support from the manufacturers.

Qualcomm (by far the most popular hardware vendor for Android devices) doesn't care about supporting their released hardware.
Thats where competition benefits the consumer, its unfortunate that for large areas of the US, there isn't any competition.
You have a good chance of finding a generalist with 1+ years on each of those. None is too exotic or too arcane that you need a specialist.
I'm consistently average for a consultant, with >10 yrs over ~30 options like toolkits, platforms, databases -- I don't do design or architecture. So, I myself don't often choose a new language or variation or toolkit; you show me the entry points and I problem solve from there. I've seen the side effects on maintainability and sometimes security, but never been bothered by escaping to a different language.
Why didn't they make a video calling app and go after Skype? They're a phone company making a video centric, mobile app. Make it open and everywhere with easy no/low cost usage... oh, right, it's Verizon. They have to own it all and monopolize it from hardware to software to network to content to...
Amazon is not making a currency. Did you even click the link or read anything?
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I think you mean American, especially for the measurements, where American measurements are different even from the old British/Commonwealth system.

A pint of beer or cider in Britain is 568mL, in the USA 473mL, but everything else in a British bar is sold in metric units. And today is "the third of April", 3/4/2016.
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Interesting comment. I'd say that the way they are convincing the public is with a very well engineered product line that is also a big fuck-you to big-oil. The only people that like big-oil are the people who work for and profit off big oil. Musks empire is growing in ways ford could only dream of.

People love the machines they make.

Ford can add body stylings all they want, but they can't match tesla or spacex or solar city.

I just don't think they have it in their DNA - I'm actually surprised we haven't heard of any of the big three going all out attempting to acquire tesla.

What would be a very interesting event would be when Tessa builds a long haul delivery truck/trucks in general. There is no way they haven't thought of a general platform chassis which can have modular tops put on them.

Wouldn't it be great if tesla sold a chassis to boutique shops like there were in the 20s...
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If you were running one of those companies, would you sell SUVs that make you 10k in profit each or an equal number of small cars that make 2k in profit each?
Or if it's not clear, you can start testing/tracing/logging to see which assumption isn't valid.
This puts the risk on Amazon, so I'd be curious to see if this would be worth the no-shows. Then again their Lockers already auto-return after a few days, but I think that having "already paid" is likely a commitment device.

I am surprised that they didn't use Amazon Locker as a logical hub for adding cash credit.
Seems like a futile venture.

There are bigger fish to fry.
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Regardless of how you enrich your kids, staying in the house without outside interaction isn't optimal. I just think that transportation is a need, and in suburban sprawl, walking doesn't cut it. When multiple people in the household need transportation, but you have two (or less) drivers, who have responsibilities of their own... I think you see where I'm going.

Also let's not get into the fact that it's "frowned upon" to have kids "wander" by themselves now.
When I say communicating, I mean more of a mix of reasoning precisely and explaining clearly rather than English.
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We've got a great culture, benefits, and products.

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Hi, I am curious, do you do lot's of finance type research, would like to chat if possible to learn more.
P.S. Also really like Matt Levine's postings.
"A company’s most expensive resource is now its employee’s time. Or in other words, you. It’s more important to get stuff done then to make it go fast."

Now take this sentence and apply it to the end user of your software.
He'd led a violent (albeit somewhat pathetic, and suppressed) attempt at a coup---that's why he was in jail. Rough comparison points in recent US history would be the domestic terrorists like McVeigh and Kaczynski, I suppose.
I think the following ( http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2012/09/27/who-gets-credit-c... ) gives voices to many of the competing claims, including Turing with ACE.
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Or you could use Common Lisp, and have productivity and performance.

(I know -- the libraries aren't as good.)
Sorry I guess. I couldn't find Tesla's P/E ratio on Google like I could for the other companies. It is my understanding that they don't report P/E ratios for companies with negative earnings.

And it makes sense: a high P/E ratio indicates high potential. The lower the earnings, the higher the P/E ratio. But if earnings went negative, then the P/E ratio would automatically go negative (since that is how math works, as you say). So if my stock price is $100, and I earn $1, my P/E ratio is 100...so much potential! If I accidentally lost a dollar instead, my P/E ratio automatically becomes -100 even though not much changed in my earnings.
> How do you explain the massive transformation of China from a backward rural basket case.

It's not as if wealth doesn't get redistributed for a variety of reasons (war, theft, taxes, communism, etc.). But the reality is, any economic system left to its own ends will inevitably result in a few gaining manipulating the system to gain the majority of the wealth while the rest fall farther behind. The discrepancy in the West hasn't been noticed because the economic "pie" so-to-speak has simply grown larger. When the pie stops growing, you'll start to see the effects of the inevitable trend start to appear.

> The answer is not to turn back the clock, it's to ride the economic wave and up-skill our labor pool because too many people in the west are being left behind in unskilled jobs, when actually there are plenty of skilled job vacancies available compared the the actual number of unemployed.

I agree, turning back the clock isn't the solution. However, I'm also aware that the situation isn't going to improve for the majority of people in the west. It's easy to say "up our game" but how much? Most people in the US now have bachelors. That was SUPPOSED to get you in the door to business. What happened? The bar went up. Now people are stuck with debt they can't get out of to loan sharks who won't forgive. Even if we erased all that, would that fix the problem? No, because the skill level required for entry is too high. Why? It's not merely because companies couldn't just hire from a number of talented candidates to do the job, it's because companies want to make money, and they're trying to do it by only investing in candidates they believe will bring them money (which means the experts), no investment in training. Every dime they spend towards training candidates is a dime their competitor gains when their newly-trained employees leave. Companies each sit on their own money source, and at the top of the economic chain are the billionaires with investments in all these companies and siphoning out penny after penny until - should time be on their side - they have it all. That won't happen in the long run for the aforementioned reasons (war, taxes, etc.), but you can't deny it would be fantastic to be in a personal financial situation where "money is no object".

Notably, a number of people can't actually meet the bar, esp. the handicapped and those who just don't have a knack for technical things. What are they supposed to do? Their jobs will eventually be replaced by robots, and should we get to that point, even those "middle class Chinese" will eventually start to see their wages reduced from 2 yen to nothing.

So yeah, there are plenty of jobs, but they won't be filled. People (esp. the rich) want people to make them money, not people who don't. Of course, perhaps I've overly simplified all this for the sake of brevity and haven't ironed out the argument to your satisfaction, but I trust you can find some unemployed people - skilled or not - and ask how their job search is going.
By brute force you mean destroy, right? I've simulated keys with much less that what the SSDev guys used. They can be opened without the key, sure.
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On my laptop, where I do all of my development work, I just configured Postfix to send everything to plain files:

http://harold.internal.org/configuring-a-dev-box-mail-server...

I like this a lot better than sending stuff out across the network.
The whole concept of "Lebensraum" seems like insanity today. And the murdering and butchering of innocent humans is/was and will always be insanity. But maybe one should mention the fertilizer crisis.

Back then, fertilizer was something rare, and fields without fertilizer where bad at best.There where wars fought over fertilizer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Pacific and the conclusion the racists pushed was to expand agrarian area. Remember, oil, nuclear power where all far away, all there was was coal - and the synthetic fertilizers had not yet entered the picture as a viable broad-scale alternative.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process
So, in order to avoid comic-villain-evil, and realize everyday-fucked-up-better-you-then-me-and-my-family evil at work, i raise my parent this post for the cheapest, possible toast. Never again!

Hitler was what the gang wanted, a robber-chief-tain, to plunder the neighborhood and traverse on too good times. I bet Mexico and canada wish they had nukes right now.
What's about those software developers who don't have any degree but have many years of relevant experience?

As I understand 12 years of relevant experience is equivalent to US bachelor degree.

Is it still true according to new USCIS policy?